Re: Failed base upgrade to bash 2.02

1999-04-17 Thread Matt Porter
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > >> When I upgraded all of my base packages, bash broke. libc6 went from > >> 2.1->2.1.1 and the current bash binary is dependent on 2.1. It segfaulted > >> with the new library when attempting to

Re: Failed base upgrade to bash 2.02

1999-04-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Matt Porter wrote: >I probably mistated the problem. I was concerned that in upgrading from >bash 2.01 (from the base2_2.tgz tarball I used to populate my system) that >there is a dependency problem. You may not see it on 2.02. >In my case, apt updated libc6 2.1 to libc 2.1

Re: Failed base upgrade to bash 2.02

1999-04-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: >ah... the infamous bash problem. I am looking at it right now. >I just hope I will not have to reinstall my system to find the bug. >I'll keep in touch. ok, anyone has the previous bash/readline debs, so tha

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, Apr 8, 1999, Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, for one I did not use apt to install bash/readline nor dselect, I >just did dpkg -i. From what I remember I installed readline first, and >then bash. I really don't remember any problem occuring. As far as >apt/dselect

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >One of my servers here crashed, and instead of using linuxppc R4 again, I >tried debian. took me half of the night to get it up and running. I >started a big dselect download for the rest of the night in order

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999, Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, since you have a shell open, I suggest you do the following. >Manually install the readline debs > >libreadlineg2-dbg_2.1-13.2_powerpc.deb >libreadlineg2-dev_2.1-13.2_powerpc.deb >libreadlineg2_2.1-13.2_powerpc.deb

Boot disks for PowerPC

1999-04-17 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I have access to an IBM PowerPC and would like to try installing Debian on it and helping out the porting effort. Is there a source package for creating the boot disks for the PowerPC? Regards, Jor-el

Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

1999-04-17 Thread Rob Clark
Is there a recommended way to recover? I have been poking around on my root filesystem by passing init=... args to the kernel (ie init=/bin/ls -F /bin /sbin) and have come the the conclusion that bash is the only shell on the root fs. (There is /bin/csh which is a symlink to a symlink to /usr/bi

known problems with libgtk1.2?

1999-04-17 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Currently many packages on my system segfault when called. This is with almost all packages that depend on libgtk1.2 - any known current instabilities with these? Packages like gtksee, gentoo, xchat (just to name a few) all segfault when called. Any idea where to search for solutions? bye, Ge

Re: Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

1999-04-17 Thread Mr. Christopher F. Miller
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:44:14PM -0800, Rob Clark wrote: I found the easiest way was to untar a new base2.tgz onto a zip, boot on that zip and then mount my hosed system at /mnt. Took a little futzing with fstab. But I could fdisk, mke2fs, untar and edit on another machine. > Is there a rec

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-17 Thread christian mock
--- Begin Message --- hi, > Anyway, since you have a shell open, I suggest you do the following. > Manually install the readline debs [...] didn't help. what helped was dpkg -x /path/to/bash-2.02*deb /path/to/tmpdir mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.borken cp /path/to/tmpdir/bin/bash /bin HTH, cm. --