Re: util-linux upgrade problem

2001-10-31 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Russell Hires wrote: > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/clock.8.gz', which is also in > package powerpc-utils > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.11l-3_powerpc.deb This is fixed in version 2.11l-4 which is in sid. If y

Re: util-linux upgrade problem

2001-10-31 Thread Laurent de Segur
See my other post, I wrote just a few mins while you were writing yours. I removed the conflicting packages (util-linux-locales and powerpc-utils) then ran apt-get dist-upgrade to install the rest then did apt-get install util-linux-locales. I can live without powerpc-utils for a while. Laurent >

util-linux-locales and powerpc-utils installation conflict under woody

2001-10-31 Thread Laurent de Segur
Running an apt-get dist-upgrade as for tonight on woody reports the following error: .../... Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using .../util-linux_2.11l-3_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement util-linux ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.11l-3_powerpc.deb (-

util-linux upgrade problem

2001-10-31 Thread Russell Hires
Hello everyone, I'm running woody on my PMac G3/266 and... I did my normal apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and this is what I get: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 71396 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using .../util-li

Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:14:22PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > You might want to read my horror story in the archives before trusting > any data to ReiserFS. indeed. > > Are there issues with making Reiser filesystems on Debian PPC? > > I don't know if the current Debian reiserfsprogs have

Re: Lombard: Woody: lost virtual terminals

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:15:52PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 13:54, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I'd be grateful to know how to restore the ability to move between > > virtual terminals on woody. On potato I pushed Apple-fn-(F1|F2|Fn) to > > move between terminals on log

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:17:59PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > > > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does

Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-10-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 18:07, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Sorry for flooding the list this week. I've taken the week off from work > to do some databasing and to try and get Debian running on my Lombard. > Sad, isn't it! > > I came across ppckernel.org and noted that the latest build of Debian's >

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I've run through more of the log and managed to get gimp 1.0.4-3.1, gimp-python 1.2-1, xmorph 1:20011010, and cfengine 1.6.3-7 to build from source, perhaps these need to be requeued. I'm using pbuilder with sid from Oct. 31, 2001. For those of you interested in the other bugs I filed. asis:

Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-10-31 Thread Sven
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:07:49PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Sorry for flooding the list this week. I've taken the week off from work > to do some databasing and to try and get Debian running on my Lombard. > Sad, isn't it! > > I came across ppckernel.org and noted that the latest build

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Oct 31, John Goerzen wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you > > will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils? > >

Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-10-31 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Sorry for flooding the list this week. I've taken the week off from work to do some databasing and to try and get Debian running on my Lombard. Sad, isn't it! I came across ppckernel.org and noted that the latest build of Debian's 2.4 kernel for PPC is 2.4.13-pre1, which is a modified version of t

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:20:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is this a PReP box you're talking about? What kernel are you running > > and did you set a date on the box from PPCBUG to start with? hwclock is > > quite happy on mine, and PRePs don't hav

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread John Goerzen
Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this a PReP box you're talking about? What kernel are you running > and did you set a date on the box from PPCBUG to start with? hwclock is > quite happy on mine, and PRePs don't have ADB anyhow so the evil clock > hack program can't do anything. It's a

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:58:13AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you > > will remove the clock program

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:12:49PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > That happens to me when I have a bad crash or similar, are you sure it > happens for you when hwclock is run? Even if yes, hwclock uses /dev/rtc > so the problem is likely there. this problem is not specific to linux, macos has th

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:58:13AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you > > will remove the clock program

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 14:58, John Goerzen wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you > > will remove the clock program from powerpc-

Re: Lombard: Woody: lost virtual terminals

2001-10-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 13:54, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'd be grateful to know how to restore the ability to move between > virtual terminals on woody. On potato I pushed Apple-fn-(F1|F2|Fn) to > move between terminals on login (not X). I seem to have lost this > ability. Use alt/option instead

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not > > mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody > > (or later releases) will be when it becomes stabl

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread John Goerzen
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you > will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils? I'm not so sure this is true. I've had terrible tr

Lombard: Woody: lost virtual terminals

2001-10-31 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd be grateful to know how to restore the ability to move between virtual terminals on woody. On potato I pushed Apple-fn-(F1|F2|Fn) to move between terminals on login (not X). I seem to have lost this ability. Thanks for help Rory

Re: Emacs on MacOS

2001-10-31 Thread Charles Sebold
On 14 Cheshvan 5762, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I find a version of Emacs for MacOS 9 ? This is offtopic for this list. Having said that, look here: http://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/ -- Charles Sebold14th of Cheshvan, 5762

Re: Emacs on MacOS

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:44:01PM +0100, raphaello wrote: > Where can I find a version of Emacs for MacOS 9 ? install a ssh client and ssh to a unix box with emacs installed. or better yet erase MacOS and install Debian. iow i seriously doubt such a thing exists. -- Ethan Benson http://www.al

Emacs on MacOS

2001-10-31 Thread raphaello
Where can I find a version of Emacs for MacOS 9 ?

Re: X on Lombard: progress but still no cigar

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I'm using append="keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1" in yaboot.conf. > Should I have some other video settings in there for my Lombard TFT? > > I dumped Michael Schmitz's XFree86 config file in /etc/X11 as my machine at > no stage ran an X11 setup program. Thanks Michael! The hsync and vsync rang

Re: CUPS and Netscape Communicator

2001-10-31 Thread Mathias Jansson
Roland Wegmann writes: > Hello all, > > Is it true, that Netscape is only available for the intel-architecture. I > found this hint on the Debian Hompage with regard to potato. At the moment I > have installed woody. I tried an apt-get install ..., but it failed. Apt-get > couldn't find

X on Lombard: progress but still no cigar

2001-10-31 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Synopsis: I'd like to get Blackbox, or some other nice efficient window manager running on my Lombard. I've upgraded to woody on my lombard in the mistaken belief (!) that I could get X running easily. What I have got is an apt-get conflict with powerpc-utils and hwclock (part of util-linux); and

Re: Freezing up on Powerbase 180 - brand new install

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:44:21PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > So I started witha brand new set of partitions, freshly initialized, and did > a new install with b-f 3.0.16. It went very smoothly, although still waiting > 1/2 hour with the extracting whiptail dialog on the screen. I used taskse

Re: Screen litter

2001-10-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stuart Lamble wrote: > In debian.powerpc, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it. > >There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it > >anyway. > > Hmm. Last time I disabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, it r

Freezing up on Powerbase 180 - brand new install

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Tillman
I did a fresh install on my oldworld tonight, because I had been having problems since I upgraded it to woody a week or two ago. It had been locking up on me when I started dselect, it had done this 4 or 5 times. It locks up completely, no disk activity, no keyboard response, etc. Usually this was