From: Rob Lembree <lembree@sgi.com>
To: Alex deVries <adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca>
Cc: Leon Verrall <leon@reading.sgi.com>,
SGI Linux <linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Success at last...
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 17:21:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35F59FCD.F7A6E459@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96.980904130745.26347A-100000@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca
Alex deVries wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Leon Verrall wrote:
> >
> > FInally got rid of the "Warning, unable to open console" message. I think I
> > managed it by not letting IRIX anywhere near the tarball of hard hat.
> > Downloaded and extracted entirely on Debian Linux.
>
> This is really weird. Can you explain in greater detail what you changed
> to make sure that it worked?
I found that IRIX's tar wasn't very careful with modification dates,
which I don't think is a problem, but the major and minor IDs of the
dev files were all zero -- clearly broken. I haven't experimented,
but I believe this to be the failure.
-r
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-08 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-04 16:03 Success at last Leon Verrall
1998-09-04 17:09 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-08 15:52 ` Leon Verrall
1998-09-08 21:21 ` Rob Lembree [this message]
1998-09-09 14:03 ` ralf
1998-09-10 14:56 ` Alex deVries
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