Been following potato, and have downloaded the latest 5.1a version, bombs out here also using kernel 2.2.13pre14. Guess ill keep trying things :)
Brad wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Brad wrote: > > > > > 2) Are you _sure_ is wasn't the problem with threaded system(3) calls in > > > one of the 2.1.2 prereleases? Given the information you give below, it > > > distinctly sounds like you ran into this bug and not a bug in SO 5.1. > > > > > > Especially since i have SO 5.1 from StarDivision before Sun bought > > > them, and it works fine (although it is a memory hog...) > > > > I don't know the details about the system(3) call problem. Your last > > sentence here is very different from my experience. See below. > > Check the debian-user mailing list archives, as well as bug report number > 43549 <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/43/43549.html>. Basically, using the > system(3) call [man 3 system, if you have manpages-dev installed] was > doing something non-thread-safe in version glibc 2.1.2-0pre10. This caused > any threaded program that used that call to fail. > > > > > The first version I downloaded from the Star Division web site failed > > > > after an upgrade of glibc2.1 of the potato distribution. I made an > > > > attempt to have both glibc2.07 and glibc2.1 on the system to get SO to > > > > work, but the instructions failed for me. For me the solution was > > > > "solved" (not exactly sure) when I downloaded the new SO tarball > > > > (so51a_lnx_01.tar, note the "a") from Sun's website (stardivision.com > > > > will now redirect to sun.com). This one worked without problems with > > > > glibc2.1.x. There were however later upgrades to glibc in that time, > > > > but I think it wasn't glibc, they did something with the new version > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > Why? Circumstances point more towards the glibc problem mentioned above. > > > > > > Ok, let me try to explain my experience. I've been upgrading against > > potato since its beginning. When glibc was 2.0.x I downloaded SO5.1 > > from stardivision.com (before Sun). > > This is impossible, since 5.1 was released only after potato was into 2.1. > Are you SURE you're not confusing 5.01 and 5.1 (BTW, that is the stupidest > numbering system i've ever seen. Who at StarDivision came up with it? ... > Then again, Netscape has 4.05 and 4.5 as well...) > > The reason i know this is because of the intense discussion and > workaround-hunting that went on during that period, for version 5.01. Just > after a fully functional solution was found, StarDivision released 5.1 > which worked with glibc 2.1. You can check the debian-user archives (try > around May 1999, which is when 5.1 was released IIRC) for more > information. > > > I installed it and it worked. As the weeks went by I upgraded my > > potato sys several times a week. When the glibc version went to > > 2.1.x, SO broke. A message on deb.usr gave a list of instructions to > > try, but the instructions failed for me. I left SO broke, waiting for > > a solution, either an update to glibc (2.1), or a message on deb.usr > > explaining how to fix it. No message showed up, and after several > > subsequent upgrades of glibc2.1.x, SO remained broke. > > The directions posted to the list worked flawlessly for me (as well as a > few others i was in contact with at the time), and 5.1 when it was > released it worked without any modification. > > > At this point Sun had taken Stardivision over, and put SO > > (so51a_lnx_01.tar) up on sun.com for download. I thought this may be > > an updated version (same name as early version but with the addition > > of the "a"). I downloaded it, installed it, and it worked. > > i'm not debating that this works, just that the earlier version worked > too. Is "a" less of a memory hog than previous versions? > > - -- > finger for PGP public key. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBN/mOsL7M/9WKZLW5AQFSmQQAlxU0JnnGqcX8gXiTCh6m341dy8z9N0Zk > VJpG/velm3dNabp15wOyMO1BdwoyZEYllEP+iz9iLBqisCHEeR3W/m89q3Za7al7 > KUjfDLBA/2+I6pSrdnQGRMu4GA37Vamn/uSo8izcxZzKduHBFrZX/ZoGIq6AWUGe > U07q2ntNNJo= > =VPCG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
