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Subject: On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install
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>Number:         20866
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 26 11:00:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 29 01:34:46 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 29 01:40:01 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Paul Smith
>Release:        4.0 Intel
>Organization:
Heredity Choice
>Environment:
>Description:
On a new installation following the defaults, packages requiring a.out fail to install.
>How-To-Repeat:
Do a new installation following the defaults and try installing KDE.
>Fix:
After Compat22 is installed and before any package requiring a.out is installed, shut down and reboot.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 28 02:52:00 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Could you describe what actually happens?  You sau that packages 
requiring a.out fail to install.  It would be helpful to know 
exactly what text you see. 

This isn't a known issue described in the release notes for 
4.0-RELEASE.  I do know, however, that I had problems when 
I did not install the compat22 distribution. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20866 

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "stork" <stork@qnet.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/20866: On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install 
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:40:24 +0200

 On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:19:06 MST, "stork" wrote:
 
 > On Alt-F2 there was a message that Compat22 was needed, even though I had
 > installed it. Clearly Compat22 when installed is not seen by the OS until
 > the system reboots.
 > 
 > It might be a good idea to recompile for ELF some of the popular packages
 > like KDE, so most people will not need Compat22.
 
 Can you not send exact text messages?  Without them, this is difficult
 to diagnose.
 
 Also, there's not much inclination to diagnose your claims, because I
 know that I managed to set up my wife's 4.0-RELEASE workstation with KDE
 without any such problem.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/20866: On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install 
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:21:50 +0200

 On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:16:50 CST, Steve Passe wrote:
 
 > If memory serves, I have seen this failure when attempting to install 4.0
 > with netscape.  I had selected all the compat libs as part of the install,
 > along with netscape.  I can't remember if the problem was that netscape was
 > "installed" before the compat libs, or if ldconfig wasn't run after installing
 > the compat libs, but it definately failed for lack of the a.out libc.  Re-
 > running sysinstall/pkgs after the basic install (and most likely a reboot)
 > properly installed netscape from the same media.
 
 Thanks, but what we really need now is concrete stuff.  Both your input
 and the originator's input have been pretty vague.  Since some of us
 have managed to get this working without a problem, what we need now is
 to be shown exactly how to make it "not work". :-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 

From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To: sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: stork@qnet.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/20866: On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install 
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:04:31 +1100

 I think this is the same problem I reported in conf/19509 which has a more 
 detailed repeat-by.
 
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 29 01:34:46 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Duplicate of conf/19509. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20866 

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc: stork@qnet.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/20866: On new installation packages depending on Compat22 do not install 
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:34:30 +0200

 On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:04:31 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
 
 > I think this is the same problem I reported in conf/19509 which has a more 
 > detailed repeat-by.
 
 I think so too.  I don't remember installing netscape in the beginning,
 or maybe I installed the linux-netscape, which obviously doesn't need
 aout support.
 
 This additional detail helps a lot.  Now we need to check whether the
 problem persists in 4.1-RELEASE. :-)
 
 Paul, I'm going to close this PR as a duplicate of conf/19509, now that
 we know exactly what the problem is.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 
>Unformatted:
