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From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: upgrade problems
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:32:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020813183238.GA1644@potpal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020813170643.GLZK19356.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58>

Hi.  I haven't had any of the problems you are having with upgrading to Woody.
Everything is working fine.

          Kenny
	  On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:06:42PM +0000, igueths@attbi.com wrote:
> Hi all. I upgraded to Woody about three days ago, and 
> have since been experiencing many problems. In my 
> opinion, the thing's not even close to being ready for 
> stable distribution (unlike potato). Is anyone currently 
> experiencing problems with modutils, where modprobe 
> says "invalid line 81 in modules.conf?" Considering the 
> fact that nothing has been changed in modules.conf for a 
> considerably long time, because I have always been 
> loading my modules manually via scripts. Also has anyone 
> experienced a status 10 in fetchmail because connection 
> to localhost failed? The most probable cause for this is 
> an early termination by exim (This was in my syslog 
> output). Another thing that has been happening to me is 
> that whenever I download a file in Lynx, and go back to 
> the previous page, Dectalk seases responding to 
> keystrokes. This means that possibly setserial is 
> attempting to change port configuration and preventing 
> data from being passed to the serial device (the Dectalk 
> express). Also at boot time, when I am trying to review 
> the screen with the 5 and 6 keys on the numpad, they 
> don't work when the hd is being probed for example. They 
> only work starting at the login prompt. To fix this 
> problem, I am going to get the keymap that I was using 
> in potato and revert back to it. In terms of the 
> problems with the packages, I am going to replace the 
> Woody version with the potato version of setserial, and 
> possibly getting the latest version of Exim. Or if that 
> doesn't work, I'm going to use the Potato version. And 
> in terms of modutils, its going to have to get scrapped 
> for the earlier version as well. So far, I know of one 
> person who has or is experiencing the problems mentioned 
> above. Is there anyone else? I am considering submitting 
> a series of bug reports when this whole thing gets 
> resolved (if nobody else has done so already). Thanks in 
> advance for any input!
> 
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 igueths
 ` Kenny Hitt [this message]
   ` Cheryl Homiak
 ` Scott Howell
 ` Steve Holmes
 igueths
 ` Kenny Hitt
   ` Steve Holmes
 igueths
 ` Cheryl Homiak

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