Re: several RH 8.0 questions....

"Jason" <monty19@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:46:48 -0400

Title: RE: several RH 8.0 questions....

Man pages appear fine for me when I am on my 
system locally.  However, when I SSH into the system using putty.exe all 
the dashes appear as ā.  I'm learning vietnamese on the weekend (long 
story) and thought I had done something to my system in my sleep for 
awhile.  Changing the translation setting in putty from "ISO-8859-15:1999 
(Latin-9, "euro")" to "UTF-8" caused them all to turn into ‐ characters... Not 
sure what is going on, but I think that it is font/locale related.  When I 
do 'man rpm' I see one dash near the top then all other dashes look as a block 
as I said.  Dashes on the command line look fine so it looks strictly 
related to the (formatting of) man pages...  I am completely ignorant when 
it comes to font/locale type stuff so I'm not equipped to say what might be the 
problem.  I'm usually just happy that all my dashes slashes alphas and 
numerics appear as they should....  unfortunately at this time they are not 
quite...

Jason
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Cochran Robert L (NO) 
  To: 'psyche-list@redhat.com' 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:16 
  PM
  Subject: RE: several RH 8.0 
  questions....

  What language(s) did you install on the machine with the 
  strange man page characters? 
  Up2date was a little slow for me, too, but I simply waited 
  patiently and I was able to update my fetchmail package. Heavy server loading 
  can make it seem to "not launch" or "hang". 
  Were you the root user when you attempted upgrading Mozilla? 
  You must be root when using rpm. 
  How did you get the Mozilla packages? 
  What were the exact RPM incantations you used for Mozilla? For 
  example: 
  rpm -Fvh mozilla*rpm 
  You are not really giving much detail, we need more.  
  Next time consider copying the messages from rpm and pasting them into your 
  post.
  Thanks 

Robert L. Cochran 
  -----Original Message----- 
From: Wade 
  Hampton [mailto:wade.hampton@nsc1.net] 

Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:23 AM 
To: psyche-list@redhat.com 
Subject: several RH 
  8.0 questions.... 

  I love RedHat 8.0 and have installed it on 2 laptops 
  (updates) 
and one desktop (fresh install).  
  However, it's not without its 
glitches.  I have 
  several questions for the list: 
  1.  Man pages have strange characters in them.  

    After doing an install of 8.0, man (e.g., man 
  man) 
  displays the man page with occasional a^ 
  (^ over the a) 
  symbols and the "-"s are 
  missing.  Is this a LOCALE issue? 
  I do not 
  see this problem on my laptop (RH 7.3 updated to 8.0). 
  2.   Can't launch up2date. 
    On my laptop, while logged in as a user, I tried to 
  launch up2date. 
  I got the prompt for the root 
  PW, entered it then nothing happened. 
  I tried 
  to launch it from an xterm, logged in as root; up2date seems 
  to hang.  From the root login, up2date-nox seemed to hang 
  as well. 
  3.  RPM hung for all operations until reboot. 
    Yesterday on a desktop, I tried loading mozilla 
  1.1.  The RPM hung. 
  I killed it.  I 
  tried doing queries, installs, --rebuilddb, etc.  Each 
program 
  hung.  I finally tried the 
  **Windows (C)(R) Microsoft ** solution of 

  reboot and upon login, rpm worked fine and I could update Mozilla. 
  A reply with suggestions/fixes would be most welcomed. 

-- 
Wade Hampton 

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