Various problems with 1.1
I've successfully upgraded my system to 1.1 using the Dale method(TM)
and most things seem to be working fine. I have a few niggling
problems though -- maybe someone out there can help?
1. On boot, I get messages like
No dependency information for module /lib/modules/current/fs/nfs.o
What does this mean, and how can I fix it?
2. The console seems to be configured for a US rather than a UK
keyboard. The only script in init.d which runs the kdb program is
`console', so I can fix the problem by changing us.map to gb.map
and running the console script. However I assume it's meant to be
run at boot time, but as far as I can tell, it's not.
3. I've had to install XFree3.1.2D to support my Mach64 card. The
a.out version worked fine with 9.3R6, but this time I installed the
ELF version. Works fine, except xterm won't run -- can't find
libtermcap.so.2. I've got libtermcap.a and libtermcap.sa, so why
doesn't it work? Where (what package) can I get libtermcap.so.2?
ldconfig doesn't fix the problem.
4. Dselect keeps on complaining about dpkg (currently 1.1.5aout),
because (I think) it depends on the a.out C libraries which
conflict with other stuff. I've put it on hold to avoid the
problem, but shouldn't there be an ELF version of dpkg available?
5. Somehow I seemed to end up with a fairly corrupted filesystem (fsck
had to make about 8 fixes on my /usr partition), despite having a
clean shutdown every time. fsck seems to have fixed this problem
though.
6. Is it possible to have more than one version of a package installed
at once? I'd like to have 1.2.13 and 1.3.64 of `source' installed
at once, but updating to 1.3.64 removed 1.2.13. (Incidentally,
when it tried to remove 1.2.13, it left all the .o files behind;
shouldn't the remove script to a `make clean' first?)
Any help greatly appreciated,
# Dave
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David M. Smith, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University
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