A couple weeks ago, I ran into all kinds of problems with modules and unresolved symbols and such. This happened with every possible comvination of speakup-enabled bootdisks and self-compiled kernels module loads from Deb 3.0 CD's both 2.2 and 2.4.18. I got through the basic install but none of my modules would load so I had no network access. Since I could never resolve the unresolved symbols at modprobe time, I gave up on Debian and put slackware 8.1 and had things up and running within a couple hours. Of course I have experience with slackware previous versions so that was probably a good help. But I really wanted to give a good hard look at debian due to its package selections and the upgrade facilities it has to offer. On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:06:42PM +0000, igueths at 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! > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
