Re: Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error > message I'm getting from dpkg: > > libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( <<5.4.33-7 ) > version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed > > I have been unable to find libc5_5.4.33-7 -- I can only find u

Re: Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error > message I'm getting from dpkg: > > libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( <<5.4.33-7 ) > version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed > > I have been unable to find li

Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Chris R. Martin
I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error message I'm getting from dpkg: libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( <<5.4.33-7 ) version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed I have been unable to find libc5_5.4.33-7 -- I can only find up to revision 6 in stable. Where can I get the version of l

Re: upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kendrick Myatt wrote: > > I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm > directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a > test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best > route for something like this? My personal opinion is not

Re: upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: > I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm > directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a > test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best > route for something like this? I have simulate

upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-11 Thread Kendrick Myatt
I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best route for something like this? Which brings me to another question... what do I use in dselect for

Re: after upgrading to hamm, ppp problems

1998-05-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rich Hartman wrote: > > Hello everyone: > > After many trials and tribulations, I have finally upgraded to > hamm... First, I installed Debian 1.3 from CD, then immediately wrote > my ppp script required to login to my server - worked great. > Immediately upgraded to latest stable version, THEN i

Re: after upgrading to hamm, ppp problems

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Make sure that your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file contains: noauth This option tells pppd not to expect your ISP to authenticate itself to you. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

after upgrading to hamm, ppp problems

1998-05-28 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello everyone: After many trials and tribulations, I have finally upgraded to hamm... First, I installed Debian 1.3 from CD, then immediately wrote my ppp script required to login to my server - worked great. Immediately upgraded to latest stable version, THEN immediately upgraded to hamm usi

Re: Bad/Counterfeit memory? [Was: Upgrading to hamm]

1998-04-18 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> FWIW, >> >> I took the suggestion to try 2.0.32, and my system still acts up with >> 128M in it. 64M is fine. I think it's the new SIMMs. They don't fail >> memtest86, but gcc and dselect won't work... >> >> I haven't tried to test *just* the new SIMMs yet, but I'm suspicious of >> them sim

Re: Bad/Counterfeit memory? [Was: Upgrading to hamm]

1998-04-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
FWIW, I took the suggestion to try 2.0.32, and my system still acts up with 128M in it. 64M is fine. I think it's the new SIMMs. They don't fail memtest86, but gcc and dselect won't work... I haven't tried to test *just* the new SIMMs yet, but I'm suspicious of them simply because they have a

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:16:57PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> I have 2.0.33 running on an ABIT IT5H 2.0, K6-233 w/ 64 megs of RAM. > > I think that motherboard is based on the TX chipset, which does not cache > any memory over 64mb. So adding more than that is most propably worse. It's b

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:29:39AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: >> > There are some rather severe problems with memory corruption. Generally, >> > you will only see them on busy systems. Other problems include memory >> > leaks, filesystem problems and system hangs. There are also networking >>

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Alex Romosan
>> >> And some 2.0.33 systems (mine at least) are quite stable with hamm. >> >> Bob >> > >Quite possible if it only runs a few hours/day or is lightly loaded. I >would consider it a ticking timebomb, though. One particular system of > we have quite a few systems running 2.0.33 up 24/7 with ple

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Wow thanx It turns out that MY CPU has a metal heat sink with a fan attached but no heat sink grease (I will add some) as fo r the memory About a month back my memory went bad (2 days after a pwer failure...I runa UPS now -- 1.5 KVA..its nice) and I grabbed 32 MB out of an old Pentium

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Jeff Noxon wrote: > to 2.0.32 or 34pre? My K6 is one of the ">32M bug free" ones. > You have me a bit worried I posted last night (througha friend) and a littlwe while ago about a major hardware problem When I replaced my motherboard I also got some more RAM... my new motherboard has 1

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 10:39:40AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > I have 2.0.33 running on an ABIT IT5H 2.0, K6-233 w/ 64 megs of RAM. > > It's rock solid, but when I add another 64 megs, things start to segfault > > all over the place. Is that a sympto

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > I am, however, conserned about stablility... > > > > Does anyone know of any major problems with a hamm system? > > > > Chris > > Only on systems that have run 2.0.33. All systems running 2.0.32 are > fi

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:29:39AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > There are some rather severe problems with memory corruption. Generally, > you will only see them on busy systems. Other problems include memory > leaks, filesystem problems and system hangs. There are also networking > issues. 2.0.3

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
I was in the same position as you as of yesterday. I upgraded, although, i had to use the upgrade script three times (well just to make sure, I only needed to do it twice) for dependencies. However, I could not figure out how to reexecute the script installation after the first time, so I

RE: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Erik A Nelson
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: > > Only on systems that have run 2.0.33. All systems running 2.0.32 are > > fine. There are none of the problems that Red Hat has been having with > > its 5.0 release. > > I'd like more info about kernel 2.0.33. We have a linux box running 2.0.

RE: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
> Only on systems that have run 2.0.33. All systems running 2.0.32 are > fine. There are none of the problems that Red Hat has been having with > its 5.0 release. I'd like more info about kernel 2.0.33. We have a linux box running 2.0.33 and nearly all packets from hamm, and I afraid... -- To

Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Chris
Hi, I am currently running a debian bo system, and I am considering upgrading (or more to the point - re-installing) to a hamm system. I am, however, conserned about stablility... Does anyone know of any major problems with a hamm system? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Problem with UTMP file upgrading to hamm

1998-04-10 Thread Matt Porter
I took my up to date bo distribution (always bleeding edge from ftp updates) and used the latest hamm distribution autoup.sh script and appropriate packages to update libc5-libc6. I then used dselect to suck down all the important packages and had them updated. When completed, I had a system with

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-02-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, if you installed the specially compiled for bo bash 2.01 package > be CERTAIN that you look back through the recent archives (this month) > for note about the upgrade process -- the upgrade WILL fail. Specifically, check http://www.debian.org/Lists-A

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-02-23 Thread Bill Leach
Currently the best way to do what you want to do _IS_ to upgrade as opposed to do a reinstall. You want to use the 'autoup.sh' script file to start the process. Note that the 'mountable' access method might still have some problems intitially when you use dselect (after the autoup.sh has complete

Upgrading to hamm

1998-02-23 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; I am running Debian 1.3.1 currently. I am considering upgrading to hamm (yes I know its still "unstable"). Can anyone recommend, if I should start from scratch (reinstall the whole system) or should I upgrade my current system. If your advice is to do the latter, is there a

Re: My trials upgrading to hamm/Bad bash 2.01-5 for bo

1998-02-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Well, I went and used the autoup script for upgrading bo -> hamm. > I ran into some problems, which, I suspect, were caused by my > custom-compiled bash 2.01 package. As I know that some people on this > list used that package, since I made it

My trials upgrading to hamm/Bad bash 2.01-5 for bo

1998-02-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, I went and used the autoup script for upgrading bo -> hamm. I ran into some problems, which, I suspect, were caused by my custom-compiled bash 2.01 package. As I know that some people on this list used that package, since I made it publicly available, I'm putting this warning out to people:

Upgrading to Hamm OK but I have questions

1998-02-01 Thread Andrew
I downloaded hamm at University and our computer dude kindly wrote it onto a CD for me. The directory system was a bit of a mess, and the CD was vanilla iso9660 (no Rockridge extensions or anything, eight dot three filenames), but after installing the first package (I think it was dpgk-perl) dsele

Re: Upgrading to Hamm

1998-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
the short answer is "maybe yes, maybe no". read on if you want the long answer :-) On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Kirstin S. Reese wrote: > Is it worthwhile to upgrade to hamm now, or should I wait till it is > released? that depends entirely on how well you deal with dselect/dpkg problems. on the whol

Upgrading to Hamm

1998-01-30 Thread Kirstin S. Reese
Is it worthwhile to upgrade to hamm now, or should I wait till it is released? It would be very useful to have the latest netscape package, and the latest xemacs package, but I don't need a broken system. Should I just continue to bid my time? When is debian 2.0 due? thanks, kirstin -- Take w

notes on upgrading to hamm

1998-01-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I started with an up to date bo distribution, and used the 'upgrade' script (version 0.11) that was posted to the list a few days ago. It mostly worked, but there were three problems. After running the upgrade script, any new bashes that i start dont work with vi keybindings, even if i ru

Re: Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: : : Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that : I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple : questions/comments. : : The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second packag

Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Christopher Jason Morrone writes: > > Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that > I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple > questions/comments. > > The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second package, > libc6_2.

Re: Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-06 Thread bleach
So of those not so easily confused as the rest of us may well correct this. I also have done the force on libc6 but think that it has something to do with just exactly which 'old' libc5 is on your system. _If_ I remember correctly, you can not install the libc5 from hamm first because it _definat

Re: Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that > I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple > questions/comments. > > The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second pack

Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple questions/comments. The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second package, libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 . It conflicted with the pthreads package. N

Segmentfaults in post-inst scripts when upgrading to hamm

1997-07-18 Thread Paul Miller
most of the important programs/libs are having segmentfaults when I try to install them in the post-inst script. libc6, libreadlineg2, bash2.01, etc.. what can I do? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: installing/upgrading to hamm

1997-07-18 Thread Douglas Bates
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I install hamm from scratch (I just installed 1.3.1 > yesterday)? I downloaded ncurses3.4-*.deb, is there anything else I > need which isn't where is should be (unstable dirs)? I apologize for bringing up what I expect is an old thread but I have

installing/upgrading to hamm

1997-07-17 Thread Paul Miller
this is crazy! everything depends on everything else which depends on libc5! How can I install hamm from scratch (I just installed 1.3.1 a yesterday)? I downloaded ncurses3.4-*.deb, is there anything else I need which isn't where is should be (unstable dirs)? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS