Re: [Sheflug] Open Office

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> I would lay a fair bet it's not the kernel nor glibc, I reckon it's
> something dodgy on your system. You're not a Debian user, are you? I know
> Debian has 'issues' with kernels, glibc, etc. in certain circumstances... if
> you're relying on some pre-packaged version, that's probably the problem.
> Get the source and compile it from scratch, if you haven't already. Not
> hard. Just make sure you have a copy of ash lying around. (& running ;))

RedHat, and I compiled glibc from RedHat source packages (and the kernel
from a fresh smelling (pine) tree). Mysteriously it buggers up printing
and v4l devices behave "oddly". I suspect kernel, but I can't dredge
anything from the list archive.


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