Re: RFC: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Jessie

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On 31/01/2014 22:44, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> 1. Some application-level software is growing hard dependencies on SystemD >> or other Linux-specific components (e.g. X->udev, gdm3->systemd). > > X->udev is utterly wrong. Ehm, sorry. Bad choice of words. What I meant to say is that X moved from HA

Call for testers: X with devd backend

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
This patch makes X use devd for keyboard/mouse detection instead of HAL. It is based on code obtained from FreeBSD Ports collection, with some bugfixes. -- Robert Millan diff -x Makefile.in -Nur xorg-server-1.14.5.old/debian/control xorg-server-1.14.5/debian/control --- xorg-server-1.14.5.old/d

Re: USB keyboard returns EBUSY

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On 31/01/2014 21:08, Robert Millan wrote: > > Any idea why this happens? > > $ LANG=C sudo cat /dev/ukbd0 > cat: /dev/ukbd0: Device or resource busy Never mind, I just realized syscons holds exclusive access to it, and readers are supposed to use either /dev/console or /dev/ttyv*. -- Robert M

Re: RFC: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Jessie

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 31/01/14 21:33, Robert Millan wrote: > 1. Some application-level software is growing hard dependencies on SystemD > or other Linux-specific components (e.g. X->udev, gdm3->systemd). At least some good news here about X: http://lists.debian.org/86eh3p0x35@miki.keithp.com "X is most definitel

Re: RFC: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Jessie

2014-01-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Millan (2014-01-31): > -release asked us to discuss a possible solution among ourselves so we can > propose it to them. But the problem is not clearly defined yet. So I thought > maybe we can do some progress by discussing what the problem is. > > Here's what I think of as a problems that

RFC: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Jessie

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
-release asked us to discuss a possible solution among ourselves so we can propose it to them. But the problem is not clearly defined yet. So I thought maybe we can do some progress by discussing what the problem is. Here's what I think of as a problems that may need to be fixed by reaching an ag

Re: Bug#737183: pu: package kfreebsd-8/8.3-6+deb7u1

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 31/01/14 19:44, Robert Millan wrote: > On 31/01/2014 18:07, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Please could you upload for me the kfreebsd-8/8.3-6+deb7u1 upload which >> is staged at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/glibc-bsd/branches/wheezy/kfreebsd-8 >> as r5405? > > Building as we speak. Have you tested i

USB keyboard returns EBUSY

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
Any idea why this happens? $ LANG=C sudo cat /dev/ukbd0 cat: /dev/ukbd0: Device or resource busy -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52

Re: Bug#737183: pu: package kfreebsd-8/8.3-6+deb7u1

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On 31/01/2014 18:07, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Please could you upload for me the kfreebsd-8/8.3-6+deb7u1 upload which > is staged at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/glibc-bsd/branches/wheezy/kfreebsd-8 > as r5405? Building as we speak. Have you tested it? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#737183: pu: package kfreebsd-8/8.3-6+deb7u1

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Robert, Please could you upload for me the kfreebsd-8/8.3-6+deb7u1 upload which is staged at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/glibc-bsd/branches/wheezy/kfreebsd-8 as r5405? Thanks. - Forwarded message from "Adam D. Barratt" - Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:42:44 + From: "Adam D. Barratt" To:

Re: Seeking help to diagnose a PAM issue of GNU/kFreeBSD.

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 31/01/14 13:16, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >/lib/security/pam_selinux.se: cannot open shared object file > > the system looking for the module at an incorrect location. FWIW still seeing this in pam/1.1.8-1 after fixing the FTBFS. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- T

Re: Bug#737035: pam: FTBFS on !linux-any

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
severity 737035 serious tags 737035 + patch user debian-bsd@lists.debian.org usertags 737035 kfreebsd thanks Hi, I tested a patch identical to Svante's on GNU/kFreeBSD which fixes the build there too. RC severity because kfreebsd is a release arch and so this is blocking pam's testing migration.

Re: Seeking help to diagnose a PAM issue of GNU/kFreeBSD.

2014-01-31 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
måndag den 27 januari 2014 klockan 16:35 skrev Robert Millan detta: > >> > >>$ tail -2 /var/log/auth.log > >>.. thule ftpd[1234]: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_unix): \ > >>/lib/security/pam_unix: cannot open shared object file: \ > >>No such file or directory > >>.. thule ftpd[1234]

Re: [draft] Debian/Hurd porters position in the default init system debate

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 31/01/14 10:57, Justus Winter wrote: > 1. Up to this day, Debian/Hurd has never used the current default init > system (sysvinit) but has relied on its own init and rc system. We > are prepared to use a non-default init system in the future. This will become increasingly difficult when SysV in