Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if

Re: Alpha Server Supported

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > For slink (stable): > > > I'm not sure for potato (frozen).. anyone know where the pre-release > copies are? Good question. Basically, any Alpha supported by Linu

Re: Compiling egcs from Debian source pkg

Yes, you can either comment out a few lines in debian/rules (anything referring to with_check) or install expect and dejagnu. C On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shaun Cloherty wrote: > I'm running Debian (slink) on an Alpha, and attempting to recompile the egcs > compiler suite from the Debian source pack

Re: GnomeICU dies

On 25 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > gnomeicu was working up to about two weeks ago then this started. > Actually now that I think about it, gnomeicu didn't work a few months > back and then all of a sudden it started working (for about one month) > then to where it is now... I know. It's twist

Re: GnomeICU dies

On 24 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > FYI licq also dies with: > > X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 > Major opcode: 134 > Aborted > > I'm running potato (updated today, 2000-01-24) and they both still die. Argh. Another case for debugging and/or removing. Somethi

Re: GnomeICU dies

On 23 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > I'm running potato (updated 2000-01-22) and GnomeICU has been dying with > this error for *several* weeks: > > Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) > serial 9 error_code 9 request_code 134 minor_code 1 > > Sometimes it runs for 1

nfsroot (fwd)

Got this message from a user...I'm unsure since I've never exported root via NFS to diskless clients. If anyone can help him, please reply directly to him rather than to me :-) Thanks! C -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 03:30:23 +0100 From: Herman Tamas <[EMAIL PR

Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

On 22 Oct 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: > I dont understand why the Debian Alpha maintainers want to act as if > Alpha users dont exist. We are constantly ignored when asking for > installation instructions and constantly ignored when making FAQ > suggestions. > They seem to want to talk over our

Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, David E. Scott wrote: > I'm a new subscriber to debian-user list and I found this recent > snippet there attributed to you. If you are not monitoring debian-user > list, then to what list are you referring when you say: "*THIS* list" > below? (There is nothing in the hea