Broken Upgrade to Sid

2001-03-01 Thread Steven Downing
After finally getting all the packages downloaded to my machine, I did the actual 'dist-upgrade', a script of which is posted here: http://gonzo_united.tripod.com/sid.html (approx 200K) I tried to clean up the script output as much as possible, although I left some of the 'line noise' around

Re:Apt cache file corrupt??

2001-02-28 Thread Steven Downing
Firstly sorry about the threading etc, as I'm trying to monitor through the digest version and hotmail... Anyway, on with the show.. I sucked down Sid the other night, and along the way one file failed to download, I was using 'apt-get -d' so I could monitor the update later. So I grabbed this

Apt cache file corrupt??

2001-02-27 Thread Steven Downing
I sucked down Sid the other night, and along the way one file failed to download, I was using 'apt-get -d' so I could monitor the update later. So I grabbed this file, and a couple of others on a 'doze box at work and put them on a floppy, with the intention of using 'apt-cache add'. But when I

RE: MP3 and Floating Point exceptions

2000-11-07 Thread Steven Downing
Do you mean emulate math coprocessor turned on? No I don't. The Gimp works fine, as does everything else, bzflag, svgalib quake, and anything else I threw at it. apt-cache show tells me that the only other package they all rely on is libc6 (currently ver. 2.1.3-10 on my machine) Only other clue

MP3 and Floating Point exceptions

2000-11-06 Thread Steven Downing
Recently I installed Debian 'potato', on a 6x86 cyrix with ALS-100 soundcard. Sound support is from the kernel sb module. My problem is that when I run XMMS, freeamp, mp3blaster they all die after a random time, EsD and all other sound stuff seems fine AFAIK. Strace showed they were being kill