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   Vince Coen to Andrew Leary   
   Stripping zone seenbys or not   
   31 Dec 16 22:06:35   
   
   Hello Andrew!   
      
   Friday December 30 2016 09:15, you wrote to me:   
      
   Am using Mag v5 as v6 is very much so still in Alpha testing.   
      
   With the issues regarding new users not able to allocate a password so I have   
   had to kill telnet it is a bit of a pain so would like to find a replacement   
   distro that will run KDE by choice and Gnome if I have to in a rpm type format   
   for packages etc.   
      
   V5 is very old and I do not have a real problem with that as I do like   
   stability over cutting edge any day of the week but I also use GPT drives as I   
   utilise many partitions if not only for multi boot areas for testing distros.   
      
   So far had a quick look at Fedora v25 as a live system but do not like the gui   
   which may well be a temp faciltiy with live.   
      
   Another option is RHEL enterprise which I have a copy for testing but have not   
   loaded it up yet.   
      
   They all seem to home one problem or another according to some but regardless   
   will want to keep away fro Ubuntu and variations as not suitable for a server   
   and development system.   
      
   My kit is on 24/7 for bbs, web & file servers and linking to IBM m/f so has to   
   be stable AND work with all software including GCC compilation systems, mysql,   
   oracle, DB2, GnuCobol to name the major products running 24/7.   
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
      
      
    > 30 Dec 16 00:27, you wrote to me:   
      
    VC>> Just in case I downloaded the current sources from git at SF.  I   
    VC>> might be worth building a new version and put it into the file   
    VC>> section.   
      
    > I'm planning on that for the 1.0.7 release, as soon as I can finish   
    > fixing Binkp NR mode.   
      
    VC>> Anyway So I compiled it or tried to and got some errors then as a   
    VC>> check did the same for the current in use build and it produced   
    VC>> the same errors.   
      
    VC>> Around 9 months back I had a major problem with my boot drive and   
    VC>> had to restore a fair number of directories using rsync and that   
    VC>> backup was some months old.   
      
    VC>> It is possible that the system had updates since (the back up)   
    VC>> and something is no longer correctly installed but cannot for the   
    VC>> life of me work out the package that contains libiconv   which I   
    VC>> assume is the one causing the problems although I can see the   
    VC>> library and some of the includes.   
      
    > I suspect that is exactly what your problem is.  I have no other   
    > reports of such problems compiling MBSE.  I suggest backing up your   
    > MBSE home directory, reinstalling Mageia (maybe a good time to upgrade   
    > to the latest), and restoring MBSE.  You'll need to either run the   
    > SETUP.sh again, or manually create the users and groups.  For your BBS   
    > users, you can lookup their unix names and passwords in the BBS   
    > userfile.   
      
    > Andrew   
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
   --- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715   
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)   

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