I've uploaded jgraph-83-6, which should fix this.
I earlier asked that the broken jgraph package be removed from
the distribution. This replacement should go back in.
The problem apparently was spurious -g flags in the makefile which
didn't cause a problem with earlier build tools but did with c
Package: base
Rebooting my system from the 9/27 boot/root menu gets some dismaying
messages and invariably cause a kernel error. I think it's an OOPS ---
I'm not 100% clear on the difference between an OOPS and a PANIC.
8<
_setutent: Can't open utmp file: no such file or directory
_setu
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems"):
> Marek> - trying to start accounting again when it is already running gives
> Marek> a message "Process accounting not available on this system", which
> Marek> is a bit confusing (I suggest not to redirect stderr from accton to
Yesterday, I did my first debian install from the 27 Sep
boot disks. That initial install and a session or two
went fine. Last night, I was unable to reboot it from
the boot floppy. I don't recall whether or not I had
more than one successful boot on it.
This morning I reinstalled. Please bea
The screensaver times out during the dselect install processing
done after initial 0.93R6 install. I forget how to twiddle it,
but perhaps it'd be useful for the initial install script to
disable the screensaver during the initial dselect run, and
reinstate it afterwords. It'd probably be even b
0.93r5 prompted for a non-root admin account name. 0.93r6 has
dropped this. I just thought I'd comment on this. smail is
one of the default packages and, though it allows postmaster
mail to be set up to go to root, the postinst processing clearly
considers this abnormal (even though users won't
Bill Mitchell writes ("dselect install times out screensaver"):
> The screensaver times out during the dselect install processing
> done after initial 0.93R6 install. I forget how to twiddle it,
> but perhaps it'd be useful for the initial install script to
> disable the screensaver during the ini
Bill Mitchell writes ("0.93r6 sysadmin user account prompt (and smail config)"):
> 0.93r5 prompted for a non-root admin account name. 0.93r6 has
> dropped this. I just thought I'd comment on this. smail is
> one of the default packages and, though it allows postmaster
> mail to be set up to go t
Ian J. said:
> I have no idea how to do this, and I'm unconvinced that it would be a
> good idea.
Me neither. Also possibly me too. I dimly recall a SlackWare utility
to massage the screensaver, but some "man -k"ing and grepping around
didn't turn up anything on my debian system.
I was thinki
It sounds as if most of these problems are with the old root disk.
Please get the new root disk from Ian and test that.
Thanks
Bruce
Oops. I think this is what we need "Setterm" for.
Bruce
PACKAGE: smail
VERSION: 3.1.29.1-13
In the smail postinst prompting after initial 0.93r6 install, I
selected "local only" (option 4?) and postmaster to root ("none"?).
I didn't have smail send a test message, but later used mailx to
send a message to root. After doing this, "mailx" said "No mai
I think "Setterm" was able to set the screen blanker timeout, or turn it off.
We could do it in the setup.sh if we wanted to and had a copy of setterm that
we could distribute without copyright hassles. I suppose this can wait
for the next release, though.
Bruce
I understand the arguments against it. Even so, I miss the option
to skip badblock checking when formatting linux partitions during
setup processing (and reprocessing, and re-reprocessing for multiple
installs).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
We're aware of this one, and hopefully it will be repaired today. I think
we really only need to provide another flag to "halt" to keep it from
happening.
Thanks
Bruce
PACKAGE: perl
VERSION: 5.001-3
I noticed that the perl postinst complains about not finding
/usr/local/include on intital 0.93r6 install. The postinst contains:
#!/bin/sh -
set -e
PHDIR=/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux
makeheaders () {
echo "Creating Perl header files. This may take a whil
> I think "Setterm" was able to set the screen blanker timeout, or turn it off.
Yes, setterm can do it. However, all it takes is sending an escape
sequence to the console. The sequence is "\033[9;n]", where n is the
desired interval in minutes. This can esily be done from a shell
script without
The system allowing you to boot an unconfigured root is my error.
/sbin/unconfigured.sh was the wrong mode. I'll get this into new
base floppies today.
Bruce
I think my fsstnd copy may be outdated. I have two:
v2.0 dated July 20 94, and Interim Release 1.1 dated Oct 9 94.
Despite the version numbering, 1.1 seems later, so I refer to
that one.
Required files for /bin lists ed and setserial, which we don't
have there. I'm the ed maintainer -- should I
Setserial belongs in the base system. Ian, can you move it into
the /base directory? Please move "ed" as required
by the FSSTD. I don't think we have to move "ae".
Thanks
Bruce
I've found a few boo-boos in the floppy_merge program and will be uploading
a new one. This one will pause and ask for an ENTER after error messages.
Bruce
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PACKAGE: miscutils
VERSION: 1.3-2
Several problems. Some major. Some have been reported previously.
1. mkboot won't make a boot disk on 0.93r6. It tries to
dd /boot/vmlinuz to the floppy, and that file does not exist
in 0.93r6.
2. It looks like it'd likely make an unusable boot dis
Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#1518: smail setup(?) problem on 0.93r6 install
(fwd)"):
> In the smail postinst prompting after initial 0.93r6 install, I
> selected "local only" (option 4?) and postmaster to root ("none"?).
>
> I didn't have smail send a test message, but later used mailx to
> send a m
On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> What version of the 0.93R6 disks were you using ?
The 27 Sept version, downloaded from pre-release on 30 Sept.
I don't really like mkboot at all. I guess I could put something that
creates a syslinux or LILO boot disk in its place, so that the user
could at least have a boot command line.
Bruce
I fixed the host.conf, am now adding the mail spool directory, and the
spurious-dot problem is on Ian's root disk.
Bruce
Package: minicom
Version: 1.6
I know this one isn't likely to get fixed before the drop-dead, but for
the record, minicom depends on ncurses-runtime.
If the original maintainer has abandoned this package (and it seems he
has), I'm willing to take it over, though there's no chance I'll get it
don
Actually, mkboot did try to rdev the floppy, but it wrote the floppy to fd0
and ran rdev on fd1. I'll fix that, and the pathnames.
Bruce
Package: miscutils
The /sbin/installkernel that is in the miscutils package on the September
30 basedisks makes a reference to "./mkboot". This is a problem since
mkboot now resides in /usr/sbin.
Mike.
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OK, I'll upload a fix for that in an hour or so.
Bruce
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 10:47:21 -0700
From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We're aware of this one, and hopefully it will be repaired today. I
think we really only need to provide another flag to "halt" to keep
it from happening.
It's fixed, and I'm uploading a new rootdisk as I
There are new copies of the basedisks and rootdisk in
/debian/private/project/pre-release. Please try them.
If they appear to be stable, I'll probably move them into public view
sometime tomorrow. Also, the absolute deadline for inclusion in this
release will probably be sometime tomorrow, so pl
Now that there is a new version of bison, should I remove the
bison-parsers package?
Or does the older bison-parsers package work with the newer bison?
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