Hi Chris,
I finally got my system reinstalled. It turned out
that it was just my disklabel that was screwed up. In
anycase, I got X running, but did run into a problem.
KDE is not starting up. I did an rsync not too long
ago, so it's the current packages for KDE. The problem
is that the symlinks for the kde libs and for the qt
libs are not there. I looked in /var/adm/scripts and
found that only the kdebase package had a setup
script. So.. all of the other packages are not
creating the required symlinks for example:
/opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.3 -> libkdecore.so.3.0.0
I also noticed, that enlightenment does not start up.
I've tried switching to it through GNOME and from the
xwmconfig util, no go.
Also, I noticed that in the menu installation, after I
select the packages to install in any subset, it will
ask me if I want to install each package as it goes
through the list. Is that the normal behaviour?
This time, all of the package descriptions showed up
during the install, so that bug is gone;)
Well, I'm going to try and finish my list of packages
that I've tested.
I am still looking at the nfs install bug. I might
have a fix. I'll play with it some more before sending
it.
-Octave
--- Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> wrote:
> > I see that you fixed that already:) I've
> > tested out installing from NFS, since I ran out of
> > space on my 4gig disk in the miata. So I'm
> rsyncing to
> > my Tru64 box and sharing the directory out. Setup
> asks
> > all of the questions, and I'm able to type in all
> of
> > the requested info. It mounts the directory,
> however
> > there is a problem in the script that I'm working
> on
> > tracking down. When it goes to the command line to
> > show any errors that may happen during the NFS
> > startup, it freezes at the "yes/no" question as to
> if
> > there were any errors and if you want to redo
> this. I
> > have to Crtl-C out of it.. which seems to break
> the
> > shell.
>
> I've noticed this as well, and it's quite annoying.
> Interestingly, if you
> switch over to another terminal and restart setup,
> the NFS install will
> work fine. So there must be something going wrong
> on the first try that
> gets fixed before the second one.
>
> > I've tried out the full, menu, and expert
> > install. They all work fine, no problems;)
>
> Excellent. I'll keep that in mind. I've only done
> full installs. And I
> haven't put too much work into the maketag scripts,
> so they are probably
> going to be all sorts of broken. But knowing that
> other install methods
> works is good.
>
> > The only
> > package that I saw that had nothing in it's
> > description was the texinfo package.
>
> I know a few things that cause that problem. It
> should be fixed by now,
> though. Let me know if it persists.
>
> > As for what to demo, everyone has already said the
> > blender, KDE, xfract, mpegs, and other flashing
> stuff.
> > The only other thing I could think of is to have
> some
> > POV-ray examples to render. Another good thing is
> > seti@home. All of those should grab peoples
> attention.
> > Remember to have a slackware logo background..
> that
> > says something like "Slackware Linux AXP"... that
> > should turn some heads as well. If you want, I can
> > draw something out for a background in the gimp.
>
> I'm going to spend next week looking into setting
> things up on the demo
> machine and making it look all shiny. That's not
> going to be a whole lot
> of fun, but it's something that needs to be worked
> on. I'll have
> Slackware logos all around... I've already got a
> plate logo on the
> machine.
>
> > As soon as I have things working again I'll try to
> > track down that bug in the NFS install portion of
> > setup. I'll also try to finish the list of tested
> > packages to you tonight.
>
> Excellent. Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>
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> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place
> random string here')),"\n";
>
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