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