Hello! On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:02:20PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 05:44, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:57:15PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > Now I've rebuilt gnumach with --enable-kdb and got slightly different > results. Instead of a reboot, the sytem halts with a visible error > message:
That's why I suggested that. > Starting MTA: Panic: zalloc: zone ipc ports exhausted > Kernel Breakpoint trap, eip 0x1179d7 > Stopped at 0x1179d6: int $3 > > Next I rebooted on the working Debian gnumach and set the MTA not to > start. This time I got a similar crash message when inetd tried to > start. > > Hurd seems to be crashing at the point when anything that uses the > network starts up. What is your installed version of the Debian hurd package? ``apt-cache policy hurd'' will tell. > Possibly because TCP/IP isn't working in my gnumach? The networking stack is implemented purely as a user space server. GNU Mach (roughly) only provides the interface to the hardware. > I've downloaded the Debian gnumach source package and noticed they have > at least one patch in there that might affect networking. You're thinking about the `12_sis900.patch' one? That's only for supporting this particular NIC. What NIC are you using, by the way? > I hadn't tried that before but in single user mode, everything seems to > boot up with no problems. It only crashes in multiuser mode. That makes > sense with the new information above, since it's only crashing when the > network is accessed. Correct. When you run ``devprobe eth0'' in single user mode, what happens? > > Do you have `/etc/defaults/hurd' configured for the Hurd console to be > > started? If yes, then please remove that temporarily and retry. > > Hmmm... if I disable the Hurd console, will I still be able to get to > some sort of a prompt where I can re-enable it later? Pietro already answered here. If you didn't change the default, you're already using the Mach console and not the Hurd one. Regards, Thomas
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