Hi all, I just came from installing the hurd and I thought I'd report my progress. I formatted some partitions, one for /, /boot, /var and /home, mounted them under linux and untarred gnu-20020816.tar.gz. I booted single user and ran native-install without any problems, rebooted, set the translators for the extra partitions and ran native-install again. dpkg threw up lots of warnings/errors but it got through it. I got a message
"WOAH! We're in deep trouble. The Hurd package did not
update the link in /libexec/runsystem. For now, I am making a link
manually, but please report this."
After that finished, I ran 'dpkg --configure -a' and it configured a
number of packages, including hurd. Rebooting into multi-user mode
worked fine. There were some problems with dpkg; namely debconf not
having any frontends available. It complained about a lack of
Term/Readline.pm. I installed dialog and it used that fine.
I then tried to install X but, for some strange reason, xbase-clients
(at least Mr Nilsson's version) depends on cpp and apt didn't know
anything about the required version so I installed the dependencies by
hand (from a K2 CD) and eventually got X on there. After a lot of
toiling with XF86Config-4, I eventually got the X server to come up but
it wouldn't run as a user, reporting
"X: user not authorized to run the x server, aborting."
I editted /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to change the allowed_users setting
from "console" to "anybody" and this fixed it. I can run startx as a
user now and it will bring up twm or fvwm or whatever. Unfortunately,
I've been unable to get rxvt to run from an editted twm menu or an
example fvwm2rc. I created a script, /usr/bin/terminal:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DISPLAY=:0.0
export TERM=mach-color
export PATH=/bin:/X11R6/bin:/local/bin
/usr/bin/rxvt
and tried to run that from the twm menu, but still to no avail. This is
where I'm up to now. Can anybody shed some light on how I can get a
terminal running in X?
Cheers,
Bob
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