Re: funny message while installing xfree86 4 from .debs

from Hugo Haas <[email protected]>, Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:32:47 -0400

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> I just got this message while upgrading my X server from some
> unofficial debian packages:
[..]

Talking about Debian unstable stuff, I have decided to go back to stable
after:
1/ breaking my JDK (well, at least that's what I thought).
2/ killing my Alpha with a buggy version of nscd (the magic SysRq keys
saved me from a major fsck).

So I downgraded my laptop from woody to potato. Of course, all the tools have
been developed for upgrading, not downgrading, so it was painful:
- I installed the essential packages (libc6, ldso, etc) with dpkg.
- then I removed with dpkg all the packages newer than the potato
version.
- I finally apt-get'ed those packages.

After a few libc problems and a couple of oopses, and also a few hours
of work, I now have what appears to be a potato laptop.

The interesting part is that Xalan still does not work (I wonder how I
got it working at some point - I think I had a mix of stable and old
unstable packages), and for some reason mozilla and smpeg-plaympeg no
worky either (those ones work on a potato freshly installed yesterday,
so there is probably something wrong in my system). I might have to go
through a complete reinstallation...

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Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is,
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Re: funny message while installing xfree86 4 from .debs

from Hugo Haas <[email protected]>, Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:51:52 -0500

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hugo

I am doing a follow-up on this because I solved all my problems.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000, Hugo Haas wrote:
> Talking about Debian unstable stuff, I have decided to go back to stable
> after:
> 1/ breaking my JDK (well, at least that's what I thought).

I am not convinced that it was really broken now.

[..]
> The interesting part is that Xalan still does not work (I wonder how I
> got it working at some point - I think I had a mix of stable and old
> unstable packages),

I am less and less convinced that my Xalan was ever broken, and I now
think that my XSL/XML stuff was wrong. What I don't understand is why it
worked at some point...

> and for some reason mozilla

This is a funny bug: when you install mozilla, the first time you run it
it generates a bunch of files, and if it can't create them, it
segfaults. Since I had installed it as root and I was running it as
myself, boom!

> and smpeg-plaympeg no worky either
[..]

I was using a 24-bit display, and a few applications don't like that,
including this particular version of smpeg-plaympeg. I now use a 16-bit
one and everything's fine

> I might have to go through a complete reinstallation...

I didn't need a complete reinstallation. This downgrade was somewhat
painful, but everything works fine.

And I must say that I am pretty happy about using potato now because I
don't have to worry about whether my next upgrade will break everything
or not anymore. And I like that a lot. :-)

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Hey, did you hear that? Sounds like a giraffe is dying over there.