On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:51:28PM +0200, Andreas W?st wrote:
> Hi
>
> >> Maybe I did not not correctly explain myself, but I meant a list
> >> corresponding to the debian releases (potato, woody, future releases) in
> >> the first place, sitting on the debian ports page, although
> >
> > well th
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:12, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> During the woody dist-upgrade, the Defoma package 0.4.12 config script
> spills the same error (Use of unitialized value in string eq at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm line 303) thousands of times.
> Doing the reconfigure works fi
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 21:00, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > Try again, http.us.debian.org is several machines which tend to be out
> > of sync. If you get tired of trying again, use a better mirror. :)
>
> Why isn't the package sync cycle done first, followed by a
Hi jtv
, On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:13:20PM +0100, John Lord wrote:
>>
>> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
>> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
> /bin/startx? That's an odd place for it... I suspect that ought to be
> /usr/bin/X11/start
Hi Chris
, On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
>> Can someone let me know what the following errors mean, and how to fix them
>> please?
>> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
>> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
> You would probably get more help on this over in debian-user.
Hi Michael
, On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
>> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
>> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
> Please run file and ldd on these files.
ldd -d -r -v /usr/bin/X11/startx
not a dynamic executable
Regards
--
John
Success is like a fart - on
Hi!
Got Debian "woody" up and running on my iMac, works great!
Except that when I had downloaded and configured an X and desktop
environment using tasksel and then restarted, I can't log in as root...
:-( Reinstalled everything and it happened again!
And I noticed on thing: with the install
On 4 Nov 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Try again, http.us.debian.org is several machines which tend to be out
> of sync. If you get tired of trying again, use a better mirror. :)
Why isn't the package sync cycle done first, followed by a package catalog
update? A friend of mine, one of the SourgeF
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
FWIW, I don't think recent PowerBooks even have a PRAM battery; I think
they only have the main battery. Older ones (my PB500 comes to mind) had
a small watch-style battery for clock and nvram backup.
well i
>> Please remember e.g. the mail of Joseph Fannin ("gcc in woody?") who asked:
>>
>>Um, is it just me, or is there no compiler in woody?
>>
>>Until I found this list, I was beginning to think the powerpc port was
>> no longer maintained. It sounds like people are running woody, tho
>>
Thanks Michel. It came out after a dozen times. Note to myself: I need to be
more patient next time...
Another heads up:
During the woody dist-upgrade, the Defoma package 0.4.12 config script
spills the same error (Use of unitialized value in string eq at
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.p
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 18:51, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> Please remember e.g. the mail of Joseph Fannin ("gcc in woody?") who asked:
>
> > Um, is it just me, or is there no compiler in woody?
> >
> > Until I found this list, I was beginning to think the powerpc port was
> > no longer maintain
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:01, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> A fresh and failing dist-upgrade as this morning (Sun 11/4 11am) reveals
> that the package:
>
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gqview/gqview_0.12.0-1_powerpc.
> deb
>
> is missing. Please advise.
Try again, http.us.debian.or
A fresh and failing dist-upgrade as this morning (Sun 11/4 11am) reveals
that the package:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gqview/gqview_0.12.0-1_powerpc.
deb
is missing. Please advise.
TIA,
LdS
Hi
>> Maybe I did not not correctly explain myself, but I meant a list
>> corresponding to the debian releases (potato, woody, future releases) in
>> the first place, sitting on the debian ports page, although
>
> well this is easy, put the list in sgml format into the boot-floppies
> source tree
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:42:11PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:32:15PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Anyhow, 'MPC 8xx' isn't
> > prep, it's 8xx, and is a CPU identifier. Just like MPC 7xx, 7xx, 6xx
> > and 7xxx (Motorola's "official" way of saying 74xx). Debian doesn't
>
> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
Please run file and ldd on these files.
Michael
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:03:44PM +0100, sisi wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled
>
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:28:54PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> CONFIG_PPC_RTC requires adb support? are you sure?
You're right -- on the Cube it needs CONFIG_ADB_PMU (the config help
text refers only to Powerbooks, which confused me) but not CONFIG_ADB.
--
Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u
Hi,
Ethan Benson wrote:
> then look at in a text editor, its full of control character
> sequences, but not double text like that.
These are backspace characters, so that a printer would print them twice
(or with an underscore). less emulates that behaviour.
bye, Roman
Hello,
Can someone let me know what the following errors mean, and how to fix them
please?
/bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
/bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
I have updated some files over the net and can't quite work out what has
happened. I am a relative newbie t
Ok,
none of my emails to the list seem to go through...
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:03:44PM +0100, sisi wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
When I found that a few months ag
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:03:44PM +0100, sisi wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > >
> > > When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled letters
> > > were supposed to com
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:10:47PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> > as for getting a link on the ports page, i suppose you have to talk to
> > debian-www about that, getting debian pages updated seems to have been
> > a somewhat slow process at the very least,
>
> No possibility to speed up the proc
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
>
> FWIW, I don't think recent PowerBooks even have a PRAM battery; I think
> they only have the main battery. Older ones (my PB500 comes to mind) had
> a small watch-style battery for clock and nvram backup.
well i think nvram setti
On 31 Oct, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> 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 a
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> >
> > When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled letters
> > were supposed to come out bold.
>
> u, since when could you have bold and othe
Hi
>> This to help newbies/potentials who are interested in Debian and are
>> looking for information about their model. I think it would be the wrong
>> way to just point them to the install-manual (which of course is great, and
>> does also have to have up-to-date model information), so model re
"Jean-Francois Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guess it boils down to: It Works For Me(tm), It Doesn't For You(tm).
> Since this thread seems to be going nowhere, I'll just advice everyone
> on the list to stress test their environment before storing important
> data on (possibly horribly b0
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled letters
> were supposed to come out bold.
u, since when could you have bold and other such attributes in
plain ascii text?
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:30:25AM -0500, sloopy malibu wrote:
> well i looked into this this even... and it seems i will need ALOT
> of nails to nail this jelly to the tree... it seems almost all old
> world machines have unique gestalt id's which is fine but all
> new world machines use the SAME
on 11/3/01 2:35 PM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this
message
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:16:24AM -0500, sloopy malibu wrote:
>>
>> i have an idea on this... how about a small Mac OS application that you
>> could d/l and run and it would read the gestalt id and report weather the
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