On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:32:49PM -0300, L e a n d r o S a l e s wrote: >Hi! > I'm using Debian woody(unstable version) and I'm trying to install XFree86 >4.3. I downloaded Xinstall.sh and run: > # sh Xinstall sh -check > Checking which OS you're running... > uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.18', architecture 'i686' > Object format is 'ELF'. libc version is '6.3.2' (6.3). > > Binary distribution name is 'Linux-ix86-glibc23' > If you don't ... > > So, I downloaded all "http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.3.0/binaries/Linux- >ix86-glibc23/" files. After this, I did: > > # sh Xinstall.sh > the Xinstall.sh script prompted some questions and asked if I want to >continue: > > Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y > > Checking which OS you're running... > uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.18', architecture 'i686' > Object format is 'ELF'. libc version is '6.3.2' (6.3). > > Xinstall.sh: line 1050: 1852 Segmentation fault $TAR xzf $VERSTARBALL >$VERSIONFILE > Warning: can't detect the bindist version > > ... > ... > > argh!!!!!! I don't know what happened! :( I run this same installation other >times and everything was successfull. > I think that is some problem with extract command. So, if I run, 4 exemple: > > # chmod +x extract > # ./extract Xdoc.tgz (or any other tgz file I got:) > == Extracting Xdoc.tgz == > Segmentation Fault > > So, I try to do a shell script with something like this: > > #!/bin/bash > tar zxf $1 > > I named it 'extract' and did 'chmod +x extract', but it didn't work! :( The >Xinstall.sh script said that extract command was bad, rename it to extract.bad >and re-create extract file. > > Does someone can help me? All pointers/suggestions gratefully accepted. > Thank you. This is the second report in two days. It seems that the statically linked extract binary isn't as portable as was hoped. I've replaced it with a dynamically linked version. It was built on a glibc22 system (RH 7.2), but it should work on more recent systems. If you still have problems with this one, let us know. If all else fails, you can download the source for extract and build your own. It's in the utils-1.1.0.tgz file in <ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.3.0/source/>. David -- David Dawes X-Oz Technologies www.XFree86.org/~dawes www.x-oz.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
