Re: kdelibs3 upgrade problem

2001-11-20 Thread Russell Hires
> What if you try upgrading all these together? > Why did the dist-upgrade fail in the first place? I did try at one point. Kept getting stuck at the point where there was some conflict over what .png files would be overwritten by kdebase vs. kdelibs3. I think that there is something wrong with

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:19:19PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > What you'd need is some way to add information to the build database, not > the logs (such as number of bug filed, so Dan can immediately see if a > particular package bug has been fixed by an upload so it makes sense to > try tha

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:20:47PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > | Build-Depends: tk8.2, debhelper > > | Warning: > > | The following central src deps are (probably) missing: > > | wish > > This is a warning only. wish is provided by tk8.2. > > > | Checking for already installed s

Re: sane for ppc

2001-11-20 Thread Colin Walters
Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to find SANE in debian. On home-page's package-search > sane-1.0.5-3 should be in sid and *-1.0.4-1 in woody. When trying > to install them dselect and apt-cache search failed to find them. > > With e.g. libsane-1.0.4-2 (in woody) the SANE-backend

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Mark Brown writes: > > perhaps mol-modules-source should also provide "mol-modules"? > I'd question having the dependancy in the first place, though - > nothing else with similar needs (lm-sensors for example) does that > and it is unhelpful if one doesn't wish to use kernel-package. You ha

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:02:33PM +0100, Nik wrote: > perhaps mol-modules-source should also provide "mol-modules"? Have you taken a look at the result of using mol-modules-source? The package produced is what's needed to satisfy the dependancy, not the sources for the modules. I'd question h

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Nik writes: > i consider it a bug that mol depends on mol-modules, This does make sense to me. mol is not functional without its modules. > and the packages which provide this are modules for 2.2.18 + 2.2.19 > kernels Actually, I narrowed this down to 2.2.19 only. It only makes sense to

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Nik
> > failing that, download the source, and compile everything.. ,. > > Please. If a Debian package fails in any way, you should file a bug > against it, so the maintainer (in the case of mol, yours truly) can > fix it. ok, sure. thanks for the reminder :) in this case, i consider it a bug that m

Re: ppp mystery

2001-11-20 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 02:12, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > * Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On 18 Sep, this message from Bruce McIntyre echoed through cyberspace: > > > > Pinging anything aside from localhost results in 100% packet loss. >

Re: [SID] Keymap under X

2001-11-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 19:50, Veit Waltemath wrote: > I have a G3 bw with the small usb-keyboard and german layout. > My XF86Config-4 has following entries for the kboard: > > "XkbRules" "xfree86" > "XkbModel" "macintosh" > "XkbLayout" "de" > > I'am missing the alt

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Nik writes: > > I'm wanting to install Mac-On-Linux on my potato system > doesnt this work -> > apt-get install mol No, this doesn't work. mol is in sid and woody, but not in potato. I'm not running a powerpc system with potato, so a backport would be a major effort. > failing that, down

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > doesnt this work -> > apt-get install mol Not for potato, I think. Michael

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> | Build-Depends: tk8.2, debhelper > | Warning: > | The following central src deps are (probably) missing: > | wish This is a warning only. wish is provided by tk8.2. > | Checking for already installed source dependencies... > | tk8.2: missing > | debhelper: already installed > | Che

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Did you set something up to coordinate load sharing WRT the logs? Is that > > > even necessary these days? > > > > It doesn't seem to be. I need help with investigating and bug-filing > > on failure logs, which people like Steven have been doing a wonderful Great. I'm keeping myself busy wi

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Nik
> I'm wanting to install Mac-On-Linux on my potato system at work. The > problem is, the downloads are in RPM format. I tried using alien to > convert them to .deb, but I get an error message saying that the major > number must be <= 3, or something like that. doesnt this work -> apt-get install

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > I'm wanting to install Mac-On-Linux on my potato system at work. The > problem is, the downloads are in RPM format. I tried using alien to > convert them to .deb, but I get an error message saying that the major > number must be <= 3, or something like

[SID] Keymap under X

2001-11-20 Thread Veit Waltemath
Hi List, i'm new to the powerpc arch, i own such a box now for a few weeks and installed for æ few days my favorite OS. Installation went smoothly, but i have trouble with the keymaps. First with console too, but after recognising that debconf told my something about put an append = keyboard_sends

Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Paul F. Pearson
I hope this isn't a newbie question. I've looked around for a while and just can't find the answer. I'm wanting to install Mac-On-Linux on my potato system at work. The problem is, the downloads are in RPM format. I tried using alien to convert them to .deb, but I get an error message saying that

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I don't quite understand this one: scsitools build-depnds on tk8.2 which provides wish8.2. The alternatives then get set to point wish to wish8.2. At least, this is how it seems to work on my machine. Here's an excerpt from the failed build log on voltaire. | Build-Depends: tk8.2, debhelper |

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:45:06AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:05:20AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Did you set something up to coordinate load sharing WRT the logs? Is that > > even necessary these days? > > It doesn't seem to be. I need help with investiga

Re: mingetty respawing too fast

2001-11-20 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:36:30PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > On 2.4.12 and up, I get a lot of "respawing too fast" for id 2-6, "disabling > for 5 mins" messages. I looked in my /etc/inittab and the process for these > ids was assigned to mingetty. Switching to getty for those solved the > p

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:05:20AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Should we try requeueing it? > > > > > > Any hint on why gnome-font-install.1 wasn't generated? > > > > The pile of SGML errors right above that in the build log. First is: > > nsgmls:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/4.1/dbpool.mo

Re: gdb

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:28:05PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > Hi Everyone- > > > > I'd like to get gdb set up on my machine but it's giving me some > > problems. I'm running testing on G4 briq from Total Impact. When I try > > to run a program in a gdb session it

Re: kdelibs3 upgrade problem

2001-11-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 05:23, Russell Hires wrote: > No dice. I tried to add a few other things that seemed to be dependent, but > still nothing. Now this is what I've got: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > kdebase-libs: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3

Re: Bug#119081: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Is there a list I could take this too now, or someone who would be > > > interested? > > > > linuxppc-dev, but BenH is listening on debian-powerpc as well. > > > > Well video=atyfb was no joy on this problem. It still crashed in the > same place. It gets a few more letters put on the screen b

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Should we try requeueing it? > > > > Any hint on why gnome-font-install.1 wasn't generated? > > The pile of SGML errors right above that in the build log. First is: > nsgmls:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/4.1/dbpool.mod:171:2:E: literal is > missing closing delimiter Figures. SGML - my favorit

mingetty respawing too fast

2001-11-20 Thread Laurent de Segur
Hi, On 2.4.12 and up, I get a lot of "respawing too fast" for id 2-6, "disabling for 5 mins" messages. I looked in my /etc/inittab and the process for these ids was assigned to mingetty. Switching to getty for those solved the problem (I don't see these spurious messages on the console), but I wa