Hi Neal, [Sorry for crossposting, Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .]
Sorry for this ridiculously late reply; I've been quite busy (see below
on doing what... ;-)
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:12:38PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > > Running dselect or apt-get very often gets my hurd box on it's knees.
> > > When it's 'Reading Package Lists...' , the system hangs, after giving:
> > >
> > > ext2fs.static: ../../ext2fs/pager.c:396: file_pager_write_page:
> > > Assertion `block' failed.
>
> Can you send us the output of `tune2fs -l /dev/PART' where part is the
> partition with the package files?
here it is:
root@stegun-hurd ~# tune2fs -l /dev/hd0s6
tune2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 423a23a2-b3d7-4279-b545-ac0fa1753573
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: sparse_super
Filesystem state: not clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: GNU/Hurd
Inode count: 130560
Block count: 522049
Reserved block count: 26102
Free blocks: 221293
Free inodes: 102876
First block: 1
Block size: 1024
Fragment size: 1024
Blocks per group: 8192
Fragments per group: 8192
Inodes per group: 2040
Inode blocks per group: 255
Last mount time: Thu Jan 2 23:24:26 1997
Last write time: Tue Apr 2 00:34:11 2002
Mount count: 0
Maximum mount count: 25
Last checked: Tue Apr 2 00:34:11 2002
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Sun Sep 29 00:34:11 2002
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Hmm.. I suffer from clock skewness...
> I think that this patch will solve your problem:
>
> Index: pager.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/hurd/hurd/ext2fs/pager.c,v
<snip>
> This code is only run in the case of partial pages, i.e. where disk
> blocks are less than the size of virtual memory pages. This is not
> the normal case; most users will have partitions >512MB and disk
> blocks of size 4k (ext2fs selects the default disk block size based on
> the size of the partition: if it is >512MB, the disk block size is set
> to 4k). Thus, this code is rarely exercised.
Indeed, the partition on my system has 1k blocks.
> Can you try this out and tell me if you get the error any more.
I applied the patch to the hurd_20020103-2 Debian source package. (I
prefer to install from Debian packages.) I ran
joostvb@stegun-hurd /usr/local/src/hurd/hurd-20020103$ ./debian/rules binary
After entering hurd-20020103/build/libports, the build failed:
mig -cc cat - /dev/null -subrprefix __ -prefix ports_ \
-sheader interrupt_S.h -server interruptServer.c \
-user /dev/null -header /dev/null < interrupt.sdefsi
cat: invalid option -- d
Try `cat --help' for more information.
mig: fatal: no SubSystem declaration
make[2]: *** [interruptServer.c] Error 1
Changing
cppflags=-undef
into
cppflags=
in /bin/mig, as I did before (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2001/debian-hurd-200111/msg00163.html)
works around this (what is the "right" way to do this? Am I missing
something here?), the build succeeded. (Well, it kept me busy for about
5 days: the machine is low on cpu, low on memory and low on diskspace.
And it occasionally crashes. O well.)
I did
root@stegun-hurd /usr/local/src/hurd/hurd-20020103# dpkg -i
../hurd_20020103-2_hurd-i386.deb
root@stegun-hurd /usr/local/src/hurd/hurd-20020103# reboot
The system booted, sshd started, console login prompt appeared. However,
login> login root
Password:
just hangs. One _can_ run ps as the not-logged-in user, which gives pretty
convincing output. catting files works fine too, as does writing files
in /tmp/ .
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:47:38PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> You need the second patch that I posted on bug-hurd. The error that I
> fixed exposed another.
OK, I guess that's
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-April/007388.html . I saw
it in CVS too.
Problem is: I no longer have a hurd build system now :( (And I've heard
people stating crosscompiling the hurd is a major pita.) It would be
cool if anybody could build a snapshot hurd Debian binary package for
me. I guess I could install it from within the GNU/Linux system running
on the box, using dpkg's --root=/gnu flag, or, even better, running
dpkg-deb --extract hurd_foo.deb /gnu/
to prevent the postinst script to fail. I only want to reinstall the
hurd if _really_ _everything_ else fails.
> Thanks.
Thank *you* !
Bye,
Joost
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