[xavier.bestel@free.fr: Xv lost ?]

2001-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Can someone help this gentleman to file a proper bug report? (X server output, what version of the package is it, etc etc etc) -- G. Branden Robinson| "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > Ideally we could have a terminal type that allows the server to say "local > echo all characters, buffer them and flush the buffer on '\n', '\t', (and any > other interesting characters)". That would allow the above command to be

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:11:58PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or rather not > using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess it does to improve > responsiveness). What you propose will break situations where you have to t

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:18:35 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting > my final year project some time next > year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development > ideally kernel / module based or a port >

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:11, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Ideally we could have a terminal type that ALLOWS THE SERVER TO SAY > > "local echo all characters, buffer them and flush the buffer on '\n', > > '\t', (and ANY OTHER INTERESTING CHARA

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or rather > > not using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess it does to > > improve responsiveness). What you propose will break situations where you >

[Debian-devel]Compiling Kernel on SPARC 2.2(potato)) -> 2.4.9

2001-09-09 Thread marc herren
Hi, I've got the following problem when compiling a new Kernel on my SPARC20 workstation. make vmlinux -> ... make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:36, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or > > > rather not using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess > > > it does to improve responsiveness

Bug#111764: general: Apache-perl installs in 5.6.0 dir instead of 5.6.1

2001-09-09 Thread Debian User
Package: general Version: 20010909 Severity: grave -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux tarjei 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i586 unknown The error is as following: I installed the apachepackage as normal. Then when I tried to install

Re: Netwinder debussy.debian.org upgraded

2001-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm happy to announce that the Netwinder debussy.debian.org is upgraded >and again available for every Debian developer. The upgrade took >longer than expected, but it's finally done. % ssh debussy.debian.org Creating hom

Re: library build problems

2001-09-09 Thread Martin Albert
On Sunday 02 September 2001 21:12, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > ../libtool: test: =: unary operator expected > ../libtool: test: =: unary operator expected > > and it just bombs out later with: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `' svgalib4libggi had a non-numeric version info (th

Re: Cruft update

2001-09-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:54:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:04:37PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: > >At first sight it would seem logical to simply send a bug report > > against cruft with all the updates but I think it would actually make > > much more sense to

kswapd eating CPU power ... any ideas why?

2001-09-09 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, I'm working on a little project putting Debian on a CD. (Works great so far, have X up and running, most likely just a kernel recompile away from getting network etc. up too... (using tmpfs for rw directories, and some symlinks). A friend is figuring out RedHat... we will publish what we've

Re: kswapd eating CPU power ... any ideas why?

2001-09-09 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:19:01PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a little project putting Debian on a CD. (Works great so > far, have X up and running, most likely just a kernel recompile away > from getting network etc. up too... (using tmpfs for rw directories, and

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:21:30 -0500, "Vince Mulhollon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >References? Just curious what the huge problems are. It fundamentally >seems to work, or at least I've not yet run into any road blocks. - symlinks - file owners - file modes These three are show stoppers for the m

Re: kswapd eating CPU power ... any ideas why?

2001-09-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: [see subject] > isn't it trying to swap to the CD? :-) > what does /proc/swap say? And what does "free" say? It could be that there's not enough free memory anymore, which results in plain and simple problems ;-) -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot b

build dependency alternatives sequencing

2001-09-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
Fellow Debian folk. Those of us who run autobuilders have started seeing more cases of a new class of problem showing up in our buildd email that we'd like your help resolving. It is possible in the Build-Depends specification of a package to give alternatives using syntax like: libltdl

Processed: this is not a 'general' bug

2001-09-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 111764 apache-perl Bug#111764: general: Apache-perl installs in 5.6.0 dir instead of 5.6.1 Bug reassigned from package `general' to `apache-perl'. > merge 111764 98555 Bug#98555: policy violation causes apache-perl to be just plain broken with

NMU upload but I'm the maintainer! (was: Fixed in NMU of sparc-utils 1.8-2)

2001-09-09 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello, my last upload is tagged as NMU in the BTS but I'm the real maintainer of this package. I uploaded 2 other packages last week without any trouble, so I don't understand why I'm not considered the real maintainer this time (moreover, the Maintainer and Changed-By fields of the .changes fil

Re: NMU upload but I'm the maintainer! (was: Fixed in NMU of sparc-utils 1.8-2)

2001-09-09 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hello! > Maintainer: Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: Eric delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^ These are not the same, note the case... Cheers, -- Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8] pgpzmOMLrgPk3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NMU upload but I'm the maintainer! (was: Fixed in NMU of sparc-utils 1.8-2)

2001-09-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010909 22:22]: > my last upload is tagged as NMU in the BTS but I'm the real > maintainer of this package. katie thinks it was an NMU because the Changed-By and Maintainer fields didn't match. > (moreover, the Maintainer and

need help in resolving the Apache-Expat-XML::Parser conflict

2001-09-09 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Hi, One of the packages I maintain is AxKit (an XML Application Server for Apache). It depends for a part of its functionality on the latest version of Expat (via XML::Parser). Unfortunately, the version of Apache currently in sid is build with its own (older!) version of Expat. This results in

Re: need help in resolving the Apache-Expat-XML::Parser conflict

2001-09-09 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:51:05PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: [AxKit not working due to Apache expat linkage] > I've no problem NMU'ing apache, but that might break other packages > (which?). There are two ways to NMU: > > 1. leave out expat: this is the simplest way since it only requ

extra feature for debchange

2001-09-09 Thread Brandon L. Griffith
One thing I find myself doing quite alot is reading the Debian changelog of freshly installed packages, and to cut down the manual typing of `zless /usr/doc//Debian.changelog.gz' every time I wanted to read one I decided to add the feature to debchange (dch). dch -r package || debchange --read pac

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-09 Thread Jason Thomas
take a look at apt-listchanges On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:05:25PM -0400, Brandon L. Griffith wrote: > One thing I find myself doing quite alot is reading the Debian changelog of > freshly installed packages, and to cut down the manual typing of > `zless /usr/doc//Debian.changelog.gz' every time I

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-09 Thread Brandon L. Griffith
* Jason Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > take a look at apt-listchanges aha I knew it, yet another apt-* or dpkg-* utility I haven't heard of. I need to keep more up to date on these things, or these utilities need to be more well ducumented. Is there a list, anywhere, of all these obscure? uti

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-09 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Monday 10 Sep 2001 1:20 am, Brandon L. Griffith wrote: > * Jason Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > take a look at apt-listchanges > > aha I knew it, yet another apt-* or dpkg-* utility I haven't heard > of. I need to keep more up to date on these things, or these > utilities need to be more

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:20:27PM -0400, Brandon L. Griffith wrote: > * Jason Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > take a look at apt-listchanges > > aha I knew it, yet another apt-* or dpkg-* utility I haven't heard of. I > need to keep more up to date on these things, or these utilities need

Bug#111826: ITP: w3cam -- a simple CGI to retrieve images from a so called video4linux device.

2001-09-09 Thread Takuo KITAME
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist w3cam is a simple CGI to retrieve images from a so called video4linux device. In other words this program will only run on Linux machines which support a video4linux-device. w3cam supports a plain mode and a gui mode. In the gui mode a html with a form is supplied

debconf in a chroot

2001-09-09 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, How can I get debconf to run right in a chroot? The problem I have to deal with is: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Text debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) I am considering, either trying the experimental web front end if that is still available, or the X front e

Re: build dependency alternatives sequencing

2001-09-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > It is possible in the Build-Depends specification of a package to give > alternatives using syntax like: > > libltdl0-dev | libltdl3-dev I am starting to believe that an "|" in builld depends is evil. When something is really required

Re: debconf in a chroot

2001-09-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > How can I get debconf to run right in a chroot? The problem I have to > deal with is: > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Text > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) How are you doing it? I really haven't met thi