Bug#1509: error 139 with jgraph/core dump

1995-09-29 Thread Bill Mitchell
> So I tried manually > $ jgraph < cube.jgr > cube.eps > Segmentation fault (core dumped) I wonder if someone with better and/or more recent low level debugging skills than I could take a quick look at this. Jgraph appears to be getting a segfault before reaching main(). It looks like either I'm

Re: Bug#1508: Segmentation fault while installing...

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Karl Ferguson writes ("Bug#1508: Segmentation fault while installing..."): > [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:/pub/linux/debian/debian-0.93/binary/base] dpkg -i > adduser- > 1.94-1.deb > (Reading database ... 6380 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace adduser (using adduser

Re: FTP archive

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael E. Deisher writes ("Re: FTP archive"): > On Thu, 28 Sep 95 19:20 EST, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >auto-pgp is not pgp. It is still under GPL. Please move it back > > into the distribution. Ian Jackson is the author. You can ask him > > yourself if you are in doubt. :-)

Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
David Brinks writes ("Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org"): > Give your cron a shot again, Ian. [...] It succeeded some time earlier today, but I've only just got around to answering my mail. Thanks for getting it fixed. The new trn, dpkg and texinfo packages are now available in project/In

Bug#1505: setterm is missing

1995-09-29 Thread Raul Miller
For what it's worth: I've been pretty strung out lately (illness, deadlines, lack of sleep). Please take anything I mailed out yesterday with at least a grain of salt. [Not that you shouldn't in any event, but especially for Sep 28 95]. Sorry about that. -- Raul

Bug#1512: sendmail man pages missing.

1995-09-29 Thread Rob Browning
Package: sendmail Version: sendmail-8.6.12-7.deb "dpkg --listfiles sendmail" shows no man pages in the latest binary package. And in fact, when I install the package, "man sendmail" doesn't work. --Rob.

Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability

1995-09-29 Thread Bill Mitchell
PACKAGE: dpkg (and the ftp site) The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos compatible filenames. Depending on the tools used, manipulating these files on, MSDOS filesystems can be a problem. I suggest that these files be renamed to "packages" and "packages.gz", respectively. the

Re: diald for Debian

1995-09-29 Thread Bruce Perens
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/private/project/Incoming seems to be OK now. Also, there is a copy of the "dchanges" package in it. Thanks Bruce -- -- Attention Radio Amateurs: For information on "Linux for Hams", -- read the WWW page http://www.hams.com/LinuxForHams, -- or e-mail t

Bug#1505: setterm is missing

1995-09-29 Thread Bruce Perens
Hm. There seems to be some confusion about who the author is. Unfortunately, we can't be _too_ careful about copyrights. For the CD-ROM distributiors, there is a significant risk of getting sued (and losing the lawsuit) if we haven't verified that we have the right to distribute these programs. Th

Re: FTP archive

1995-09-29 Thread Michael E. Deisher
On Thu, 28 Sep 95 19:20 EST, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >auto-pgp is not pgp. It is still under GPL. Please move it back > into the distribution. Ian Jackson is the author. You can ask him > yourself if you are in doubt. :-) > Actually, Ian asked me to move it to non-free until

Bug#1509: error 139 with jgraph/core dump

1995-09-29 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: jgraph Version: 83-5 Libc: libc.so.4.6.27 Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486 Reporter: repair 0.1 Subject: Error 139 with jgraph I wanted to test jgraph with the examples which came with it and did the following: $ cp /usr/doc/examples/jgraph/* . $ gzip -d *

Bug#1510: prermission denied /usr/doc

1995-09-29 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: several packages Version: ? Libc: libc.so.4.6.27 Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486 Reporter: repair 0.1 Subject: accessing /usr/doc/subdirs Following command showed this, indicating that these subdirectory's don't have the correct permissions set. $ ls /usr

Sizes and Packages in dselect

1995-09-29 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Hello developers, * diskspace requirements (displayed/registered) I was wondering what happens when someone is running dpkg / dselect to install some packages and is running out of diskspace. Perhaps it is usefull to add a system able to calculate/display the required diskspace for the selected p

Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org

1995-09-29 Thread David Brinks
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > Hmm. Unfortunately I'm trying to use rcp, which doesn't seem to be > able to cope. > [..] > > I suppose that taking the machine down to fix the underlying fs is > probably not advisable. > Give your cron a shot again, Ian. I had to fix a few things an

Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org

1995-09-29 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I suppose that taking the machine down to fix the underlying fs is > probably not advisable. > Already been done. > Also, the /debian.org directory (rather than the mountpoint) ought not > to be world-writeable, really ... Well we were tring to figure

Bug#1505: setterm is missing

1995-09-29 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Bruce Perens: > I think there was a copyright problem with "setterm" that caused us to > remove it from the distribution a long time ago. If I recall correctly, > it didn't allow distribution for a fee, which is of course essential to > our CD-ROM redistributors. Hmm, setterm is distributed on cou

Bug#1508: Segmentation fault while installing...

1995-09-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: dpkg Version: 0.93.77 Hi... I installed dpkg 77 fine (before the R6 release) and installed a few packages no problem... Now, my mirror script deleted all the files on my hard drive and is re-mirroring debian again because the files have been moved to the dir debian-0.93 (but that's a di

Re: ghostview and xxgdb

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Murdock
From: Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:24:49 +0100 (MET) > Did anyone volunteer to update ghostview and xxgdb before the release? > These are the last two packages that use the old "R6" naming scheme > for X11 packages. I'd like to update these packages be

Re: diald for Debian

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: diald for Debian "): > I haven't been able to upload diald yet. I see the server is back, but > I see no Incoming directory (this is where the other Ian suggested I > upload the package). Also, he mentioned using dchanges ... but I can > see no dchanges in binary/misc

Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org"): > I noticed this today, too, but I forgot about it until now. > Basically, after logging in and noticing "Permission denied", I did > a "cd /", and then a "cd", and everything appeared to work normally > after that. > > It shouldn't be

Re: virtual packages and X11 vs. X11R

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: virtual packages and X11 vs. X11R"): > Well, the X11R5 and X11R6 libraries weren't compatible, and it is > likely the X11R6 and X11R7 libraries won't be, either. In this > case, the packages will have to be updated. We don't want people > thinking they can use an X11R6 pa

Re: ghostview and xxgdb

1995-09-29 Thread Helmut Geyer
> > Did anyone volunteer to update ghostview and xxgdb before the release? > These are the last two packages that use the old "R6" naming scheme > for X11 packages. I'd like to update these packages before release. > > If nobody wants to do this, I will, but I already have too much to do. > I'd

Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Murdock writes ("Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP"): >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST >From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very, >> very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped

Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org

1995-09-29 Thread Bruce Perens
I think it's an old BSD bug. The directory /debian.org, before anything else is mounted on it, has odd permissions. You have to unmount what's on top of it to see that, but I bet that's it. Bruce