Re: startx

1999-06-22 Thread sballard
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Chris Flipse wrote: > Is there a way to set up startx so that it will open on a specified tty > (say, tty 13) instead of the next available one? I know it can be done > with the various x login apps, but I've had some bad experiences with > xdm and wdm locking up my box, and

Possible bug report - confirmation anyone?

1999-06-12 Thread sballard
I recently ended up with a package that refused to either install or remove with dpkg or apt-get. The package was bplay; the version is 0.96-7, which is current in slink. It refused to run either the postinst or the prerm script, erroring out of each with "install-mime: command not found". Today, a

Re: Apt still not working

1999-05-09 Thread sballard
Curiouser and curiouser - the files http.us.debian.org_debian_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages http.us.debian.org_debian_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages in /var/state/apt/lists are identical (and contain what non-free should contain). I can delete the files and run apt-get update, and the sam

Apt still not working

1999-05-08 Thread sballard
Okay, this is getting frustrating :( Please, if anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate them. I now have two computers installed from the same set of "official" slink CDs (burned from the official images). I must be doing something *really* stupid, because they are both misbehaving in exac