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On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 00:40, Trinity wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I do wish to apologise in advance for posting to both lists. I had |
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> posed this question on gentoo-user but received no response. So, I |
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> shall ask again, here, with hope for better feedback. During bootup, |
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> at depscan.sh step, I get the error which looks like: depscan.sh: awk: |
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> command not found. I was wondering if this is subtly dangerous or not, |
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> and what the fix to this might be. |
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It is a 'awk' command outside a function in /etc/init.d/xdm |
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that is causing this. |
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Copy /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/files/4.2.0-r6/xdm.start to |
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/etc/init.d/xdm and it should be fixed. |
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> The second issue concerns mc/mcedit. I have mcedit set up as my editor |
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> in mutt. But, when I save a message I get the following, everytime: |
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> load_client_codepage: filename /usr/lib/codepages/codepage.850 does not |
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> exist. |
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> Again, I do not know what this is all about. While we are on the |
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> subject of mail. I have installed postfix, and set it up, per the |
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> website's instruction guide, to use /var/spool/mail. I sent mail to |
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> myself, but I am unable to delete that mail, because the mailbox is |
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> readonly, for some reason. Also, I am having some trouble sending |
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> mail. |
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> The biggest issue of concern today, though, is glibc2.2.5. I tried to |
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> emerge it earlier today, and towards the end of the install process I |
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> got an error which repeated itself hundreds of times that libdl.so.2 |
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> was missing. It is, in fact, not missing. Anyway, my box was left |
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> useless, and I ultimately had to unpack a slack.tgz for glibc-2.2.3 |
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> onto the root of my gentoo partitions (followed by ldconfig -r -- I |
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> have a feeling that I may not have needed to unpack the tgz, come to |
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> think of it). That allowed me to boot, and then I tried to emerge |
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> again. Same error. Eventually, I simply emerged 2.2.4 back on here, |
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> and things seem to be in order. Funny thing is that Matthew Kennedy, |
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> one of the gentoo ebuild contributors emerged 2.2.5 with no hitches |
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> whatsoever, and we are running almost identical systems. Any ideas why |
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> my system did not like it? Also, why is ssmtp part of emerge --world |
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> update? I already have postfix installed as my mta.. |
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> Thanks so much for all your time, and my apologies again for posting to |
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> both lists -- I do realise I am being somewhat rude in doing that. My |
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> intention is not to spam, but rather to get some help, which my |
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> spamming may not aid, because some people may get annoyed --- I am |
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> getting dizzy with this line of thinking... |
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> Anyway, thanks, |
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> Seemant |
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> PS. My congratulations to Mr. Robbins and the developers - Gentoo is |
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> what I have been looking for in a distribution. Thank you for |
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> providing it. |
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> ===== |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |