Reasonable Browser Support in Debian hurd

2017-06-19 Thread Matthias.L2
After Seamonkey was removed from Debian some time ago, i wonder if maybe one of the developers of debian hurd have some Information about if and when we can expect Firefox support in debian hurd. Thank you for your efforts.

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Matthias.L2
Thank you developers for your constant hard work on Debian Hurd!

iso_not_recognised

2017-06-19 Thread Justwalking
Hello team Over the last 2 years. 3 times I have tried to install Debian-Hurd and failed because I make an installation DVD and then my computer does not even see the DVD-1 in the DVD drive, although it sees all Linux bootable isos and the Haiku iso when a disk is put in the hard drive. So the

Re: Reasonable Browser Support in Debian hurd

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
matthias...@web.de, on lun. 19 juin 2017 17:35:14 +0200, wrote: > After Seamonkey was removed from Debian some time ago, i wonder if maybe one > of > the developers of debian hurd have some Information about if and when we can > expect Firefox support in debian hurd. There's a version on debian-p

Still Failing: g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372

2017-06-19 Thread jenkins
See https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372/ and https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372//console and https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372//artifact/results/ if there are an

Why are the 2017 DVD ISOs so small ?

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the DVD images 1 to 3 in http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/ are listed with sizes 1.6G, 1.7G, and 1.7G respectively. At least DVD-1 really has only 1,680,308,224 bytes (and is not truncated or rolled over). Is the small size intentional ? A normal DVD ha

Re: Why are the 2017 DVD ISOs so small ?

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, on lun. 19 juin 2017 20:43:48 +0200, wrote: > the DVD images 1 to 3 in > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/ > are listed with sizes 1.6G, 1.7G, and 1.7G respectively. At least DVD-1 > really has only 1,680,308,224 bytes (and is not truncated or

Re: iso_not_recognised

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Graham Cunnington wrote: > my computer does not even > see the DVD-1 in the DVD drive, although it sees all Linux bootable isos and > the Haiku iso when a disk is put in the hard drive. Most GNU/Linux Installation- or Live-ISOs are prepared for booting via BIOS and EFI firmware. The Debian GN

Re: iso_not_recognised

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Justwalking, on lun. 19 juin 2017 16:36:27 +0100, wrote: > Over the last 2 years. 3 times I have tried to install Debian-Hurd and > failed because I make an installation DVD and then my computer does not even > see the DVD-1 in the DVD drive, How is the DVD drive connected? SATA? I'm not

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thomas Schmitt, on dim. 18 juin 2017 11:07:36 +0200, wrote: > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/debian-hurd-2017-i386-NETINST-1.iso > > i see a quite insane MBR partition table: That's not surprising by nowadays' """ISO""" image standard: they are

Re: Enable PIE by default in GCC?

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pino Toscano, on dim. 18 juin 2017 21:33:53 +0200, wrote: > as $subj asks, should we ask for GCC with PIE enabled by default, like > is done in the majority of the other archs (i.e. [1])? Ideally, yes. In practice, it works but gdb is lost with PIE executables, so that has to be fixed firs

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > i see a quite insane MBR partition table: Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's not surprising by nowadays' """ISO""" image standard: they are > both valid as CD image, usb stick image, etc. Sure. But normally the MBR has a valid partition table. Not only the ISOLINUX MBR of Debian x8

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 00:05:01 +0200, wrote: > > Ask grub people then :) > > I would need to know how the MBR and the subsequent data blocks > are produced. The build log is available on https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-cd.log xorriso

Unintentional spam report

2017-06-19 Thread pxntl
Good morning. Please, don't consider the spam report come some minutes ago from the page: https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2017/06/msg00017.html; I unintentionally clicked the mouse on the "report as spam" button cause of a sleep blow. I appreciate the great job of all You. Thanks for Your a

root password is not empty on new hurd image

2017-06-19 Thread Eric Noble
Hi, I looked at this page https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README and it says the root password is empty. So why is it I enter root as the user and hit enter at password prompt it says "Invalid password?" -- Eric

Re: root password is not empty on new hurd image

2017-06-19 Thread Eric Noble
Nevermind false alarm. On 06/19/2017 10:30 PM, Eric Noble wrote: Hi, I looked at this page https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README and it says the root password is empty. So why is it I enter root as the user and hit enter at password prompt it says "Invalid password?" -- Eric

Re: Enable PIE by default in GCC?

2017-06-19 Thread James Clarke
On 19 Jun 2017, at 22:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Pino Toscano, on dim. 18 juin 2017 21:33:53 +0200, wrote: >> as $subj asks, should we ask for GCC with PIE enabled by default, like >> is done in the majority of the other archs (i.e. [1])? > > Ideally, yes. In practice, it works but gdb is lost

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > I would need to know how the MBR and the subsequent data blocks > > are produced. Samuel Thibault wrote: > The build log is available on > https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-cd.log This mentions grub_embed two times when xorriso gets i