Debian bug report logs - #762 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#762: Comments about and bugs in 0.93R5 base system Reply-To: rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Richard Kettlewell), iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 16:48:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sat, 08 Apr 1995 16:48:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 040816432415573; Sat, 08 Apr 1995 16:43:25 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0rxdaU-0005o7C; Sat, 8 Apr 95 09:42 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA24734 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:42:08 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #30) id m0rxdaI-000BzfC; Sat, 8 Apr 95 17:42 BST Received: by chiark id m0rxbP3-0000YjZ (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.30); Sat, 8 Apr 95 15:22 BST Message-Id: Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 15:22 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Cc: rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Richard Kettlewell) Package: base Version: 0.93R5 ** Host/domain name Perhaps there should be some advice about what to do about domain names for machines not connected to the net. I follow something similar to the Dave Holland convention... ** Boot disk When making a bootdisk, IMO an option should be offered to do run fdformat; currently one must have a formatted disk to hand. ** During installation *** Mount/unmount In the mount/unmount menu after booting with the bootdisk/rootdisk pair, I see the message: /sbin/dinstall: 361648: no such file or directory Everything seems to work as expected otherwise, however. [ I've reported this already, I believe. - iwj ] ** Booting Up *** root password, user account /root/.bash_profile~ did not appear to exist, which caused a rather irritating loop when setting initial passwords, etc. I don't know if it was my fault that it did not exist (though I strongly believe that it wasn't). As a consequence of this -- or at least of my botched fix to it -- /sbin was not in root's PATH when I came to configure installed packages; and when dpkg tried to configure the libc package, it couldn't find ldconfig and left the libc.so.4 link stale (ditto libm). All binaries requiring it failed to run. However, after I fixed things and added /sbin to root's path, libc installed without any problems. [ I've reported this already, I believe. - iwj ] (This bug is reported to me by Richard Kettlewell, rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk. He doesn't have email connectivity at the moment as it's out of term now and he's at home.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Richard Kettlewell), iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#762: Acknowledgement (was: Comments about and bugs in 0.93R5 base system) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#762" or "Re: Bug#762" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Bug#762: marked as done (was: Comments about and bugs in 0.93R5 base system) Your message dated Wed, 11 Oct 95 14:34 EST with message-id and subject line Bug#762: has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. It is your now responsibility to ensure that the bug report is dealt with. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 040816432415573; Sat, 08 Apr 1995 16:43:25 GMT From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Sat Apr 8 09:42:20 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0rxdaU-0005o7C; Sat, 8 Apr 95 09:42 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA24734 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:42:08 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #30) id m0rxdaI-000BzfC; Sat, 8 Apr 95 17:42 BST Received: by chiark id m0rxbP3-0000YjZ (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.30); Sat, 8 Apr 95 15:22 BST Message-Id: Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 15:22 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Cc: rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Richard Kettlewell) Reply-To: rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Richard Kettlewell), iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Comments about and bugs in 0.93R5 base system Package: base Version: 0.93R5 ** Host/domain name Perhaps there should be some advice about what to do about domain names for machines not connected to the net. I follow something similar to the Dave Holland convention... ** Boot disk When making a bootdisk, IMO an option should be offered to do run fdformat; currently one must have a formatted disk to hand. ** During installation *** Mount/unmount In the mount/unmount menu after booting with the bootdisk/rootdisk pair, I see the message: /sbin/dinstall: 361648: no such file or directory Everything seems to work as expected otherwise, however. [ I've reported this already, I believe. - iwj ] ** Booting Up *** root password, user account /root/.bash_profile~ did not appear to exist, which caused a rather irritating loop when setting initial passwords, etc. I don't know if it was my fault that it did not exist (though I strongly believe that it wasn't). As a consequence of this -- or at least of my botched fix to it -- /sbin was not in root's PATH when I came to configure installed packages; and when dpkg tried to configure the libc package, it couldn't find ldconfig and left the libc.so.4 link stale (ditto libm). All binaries requiring it failed to run. However, after I fixed things and added /sbin to root's path, libc installed without any problems. [ I've reported this already, I believe. - iwj ] (This bug is reported to me by Richard Kettlewell, rjk1002@hermes.cam.ac.uk. He doesn't have email connectivity at the moment as it's out of term now and he's at home.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell), iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#762 acknowledged by developer (was: Comments about and bugs in 0.93R5 base system) References: In-Reply-To: This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report. Responsibility for it has been taken by one of the developers, namely imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock). You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly, if you have not already done so. If not, please contact them directly, or email debian-bugs@pixar.com or myself. 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