Re: xinit unable to connect to X server

Hi, On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:25:31PM -0500, Nathan Gray wrote: > I believe I am experiencing the same problem as is outlined in this > thread: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-hurd@lists.debian.org/msg19397.html Oh, I hadn't realized there was already a thread about this once... In a

Re: Notice of Receipt of E-Mail Message

Hi, On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:13:34PM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > Anyone got ANY idea what this very curious response is for. Probably someone sent spam to that person with the list address as (forged) sender -- not exactly unusual... -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ.

Re: Re: Panic: bad magic number

Hi, On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:41:00AM +0200, Bruno Minotti wrote: > hda8 is a logical partition... is maybe the problem (should i use a > primary partition?)? No, logical partitions work fine. Most likely it doesn't like large disks (probably >128 GiB) -- few people try that; and actually I th

Re: Panic: bad magic number

Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:21:56PM +0200, Bruno Minotti wrote: >> Most likely it doesn't like large disks (probably >128 GiB) > at the moment it works on a ca. 12Gb primary partition in a 300Gb Disk > (I'm sorry, I said 320 Gb in older mail). I should get a 20Gb hd in > the next time and I'

Re: Running fold...@home

Hi, On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:49:54AM -0400, David Hiran Watson wrote: > using either the Linux/BSD client, or the Win client with WINE, would > it be possible for me to run f...@h on Hurd? We have no binary emulation for Linux executables. As for Wine, I don't see any fundamental reason why it

Re: Hurd CDs

Hi, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:10:24PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > I have taken some preliminary steps in developing a new method of > producing Debian GNU/HURD installation discs. Great news! :-) > Before I make a major time commitment, I would like to be certain that > installation discs h

Re: Hurd CDs

Hi, On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:43:07PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > IIRC, modern Linux gzip can gzip and ungzip Hurd partitions. I'm not sure what you mean here exactly... Of course it's possible to zip up a partition image -- but that's not terribly useful for an installer. Or do you actuall

Re: Hurd CDs

Hi, On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:26:56PM +0100, Ivan Malone wrote: > I'm betting my Business on Hurd. May I ask what exactly you are doing with the Hurd there? :-) -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

Hi, On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:14:33PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > Title GNU/Hued (IDE 1st partition - hd0s1 multi-user) Typo ^ -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: L1 DVD and mini iso

Hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:23:21AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > The network configured using -fg settrans /servers/socket/2 > /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 ... note -fg NOT -fgap which fails with that > error I reported. Without the -ap, only the passive translator is set, not the active one, i.e

Re: L1 mini iso

Hi, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:43:56AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > > > About four weeks ago the network would not configure, 10-15 days > > > ago it would configure, now it will not even without the -4. > > > > What is the error message or similar y

What to do with it (was: installation report)

Hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:19:04PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > i tried to install the hurd and finally succeeded to some point (now i > don't know what to do with it!), Good question actually :-) If you want to contribute to Hurd development, there is a guide on http://www.gnu.org/sof

Re: Packaging Hurd translators for Debian

Hi, On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:36:16AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:56:30AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > (Assuming the packages get installed by default.) > > Debian's Suggests or Recommends mechanism ought to be used for that. Suggests don't get pul

Re: xorg-server_1.6.3.901-1+hurd.1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED

Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I've just uploaded a fixed version of xorg-server: stupid fix, just > exchaning two function parameters... > > It seems to work for me in qemu with the cirrus driver. Could people > check it out? (Note: version 1.6.3.901-1+hu

Re: xorg-server_1.6.3.901-1+hurd.1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sun 15 Nov 2009 00:10:37 +0100, a écrit : > > (EE) MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. No such device or address > > (1073741830) > > Are you using the debian gnumach? (which has the iopl device) Yes. (Well

Bug#556522: hurd - using the login shell is insecure

Hi, On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:27:45PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hurd uses a login shell by default on the ttys. This is a security > problem as it allows access with other permissions to all ressources. This is not exactly true: actually the access of the login shell is controlled by the "u

Re: [debian-hurd-Patches][305130] native backend for hal

Hi, > hal 0.5.13-4 now compiles and runs again on the Hurd. Thus changing > this tracker for further work on a native backend for the Hurd. I think it can be safely closed: HAL is deprecated anyways; any serious work on it would be pointless. -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-r

Re: Bug#556522: hurd - using the login shell is insecure

Hi, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:20:33AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 17 Nov 2009 01:23:02 +0100, a écrit : > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:27:45PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > actually the access of the login shell is controlled by the > > "unknown" permissions

Re: Bug#556522: hurd - using the login shell is insecure

Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:20:10AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Not only that, but also burning CPU, allocating memory, etc. Yeah, that's what I was referring to when I said that it's not possible to really make this safe with the current state of affairs. -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [debian-hurd-Patches][305130] native backend for hal

Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:39:00PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:51:07 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > We'll have to fix things like udev instead :/... > > I don't think udev upstream would accept patches to support anything > non-Linux. > > AFAIU upstream for the

Re: initrd support?

Hi, On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06:05AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I'm having a look at things that we're still missing for the Debian > installer. [...] > At least one thing that we don't have is initrd support. Is there > anybody who has already thought/done anything for that? Is it feasi

Re: initrd support?

Hi, On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:10:48PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Wed 23 Dec 2009 17:18:14 +0100, a écrit : > Or maybe just introduce a "rd0" device? > > grub.cfg could look like > > module /hurd/ext2fs.static ext2fs --multibootblabla > module /lib/ld.so.1 exec

Re: FOSDEM 2010

Hi, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:01:41AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > FOSDEM 2010 is slowly approaching. > > A few Hurd types have shown interest in meeting there, so I created > > for coordination. Beware tha

Re: Gnu hurd installation nativ-install fails.

Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:33:27PM +0100, Enaut Waldmeier wrote: > sudo crosshurd [...] > symlink to usr This is probably responsible for some of the problems: The symlink is not really supported anymore in Debian. I thought the option was dropped from crosshurd a while back. What versi

Re: Gnu hurd installation nativ-install fails.

Hi, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:49:30AM +0100, Enaut Waldmeier wrote: > 2010/2/26 > Ok might be that there are additional problems with the symlink Yeah, You will encounter them when trying do build Debian packages that create libraries for example; but also on installation/upgrade of certain pa

Re: Gnu hurd installation nativ-install fails.

Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:04:42PM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > I had a similar problem related to low memory, but in my case the > installation hung at ./native-install, and then at the same place as > you on reboot. I used a virtual machine and could just up the memory > from 256M t

Re: Debian-installer on Debian GNU/Hurd as a GSoC project

Hi, On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:15:15AM +0100, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > I intend to apply as a GSoC student for porting debian-installer to > the Hurd. [...] > One question I have is about what organization I should submit my > application to. Both Debian and GNU have been accepted by Google as > m

Re: Debian-installer on Debian GNU/Hurd as a GSoC project

Hi, On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 03:38:09AM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > I just wanted to mention that I have posted my proposal on the wiki: > http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig > > Of course I would glad to discuss it with anyone interested and would > welco

device numbering (was: GRUB usb stick for booting Debian/Hurd available)

Hi, On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 02:45:29AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > Grub 0.94 (0,0) Grub 0.97 (1,0) Grub 2 (0,1) I doubt there was actually a fundamental change in how 0.97 numbers disks. Probably just something on you machine makes 0.97 detect some other drive before the harddisk. -antrik-

Re: Error when running native-install

Hi, On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:56:50PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > Before that I got the system installed with the L1 mini-iso (except the > partitioning which I did with another Debian GNU/Linux iso because the > Hurd one would take forever). Ah, that's probably the reason for you trouble: I

Re: Error when running native-install

Hi, On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:17:44PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > [...] I had to boot another GNU/Linux installation disc to create the > partition table and the partition itself (mkfs.ext2 -o GNU /dev/hda1). Err... Did you really use "-o GNU"? Ouch... I'm surprised that mke2fs just silently

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

Hi, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:46:11AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > > I was preparing an up to date Debian GNU/Hurd qemu image. Based on > > existing debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img, only boot this image and did > > several upgrades til aptitude

Re: Error when running native-install

Hi, On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:27:45PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 03:56 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > Ah, that's probably the reason for you trouble: I guess you haven't > > passed -o hurd to mke2fs... The errors you are seeing sound very much > > like it. (It

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation discs

Hi, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:04:59PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > I am considering retiring from producing the CD & DVD images found at > http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/ > > I have been producing these images since 2000, the latest series being > L1 > > I have the impression that the

Re: GNU/Hurd on VirtualBox

Hi, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:07:57PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > On 19/05/10 22:52, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > >> I'm tired of Qemu, it's enough slow now, [...] > Does it work on qemu-kvm? > > This is just pretty subjective: I've run other OS's on virtualbox > (paravirtualization

Arbitrary Limits (was: Help in testing a patch for efax-gtk FTBFS on hurd)

Hi, On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:05:41PM +0100, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 23:52 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > On 08/06/10 23:41, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 23:37 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > >> Not really. The point is that the

Re: Bug#599565: Hurd's storeio depends on libparted / libuuid

Hi, On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > # /hurd/storeio --help > /hurd/storeio: error while loading shared libraries: libparted.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Aha! > > diff -ru ./etc/crosshurd/packages/gnu /etc/cross

Re: Bug#599565: Hurd's storeio depends on libparted / libuuid

Hi, On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:49:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Mon 11 Oct 2010 09:13:05 +0200, a écrit : > > I wonder, is it possible to make libparted and libuuid "essential" > > for hurd-i386, without changing the priority for other > > architectures?... > >

Re: Questions on /dev/{u}random on qemu

Hi, On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:00:26PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > [...] trying to ls /dev/random gives the error translator died! You can try to run it as an active translator, using settrans -a /dev/random `showtrans /dev/random` This should hopefully give some error message indicatin

Re: Re: Build of emacs_23.2+1-7

Hi, On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:41:10PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Fri 21 Jan 2011 17:30:38 +0100, a écrit : > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 02:17 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Svante Signell, le Wed 19 Jan 2011 14:10:09 +0100, a écrit : > > > > Starting emacs under X compl

Re: GSoC 2011

Hi, On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Based on the successful contributions last year for GNU/Hurd, > especially Arch Hurd, the Debian installer and the DDE driver > framework, will there be a continuation this year? Under the umbrellas > of GNU and or Debian or el

Re: GSoC 2011

Hi, On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 06:33:46PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > - fix dhcp3 > - get the few packages still on debian-ports needed for basic install > into the the archive > - generate all kinds of CD flavors > - use genext2fs or a local /hurd/ext2fs mount to get translators > recorded

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:56:36PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:10:25AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > * get rid of hurd (or discuss this) > > > > Why? GNU/Hurd has made vast improvements during last year. Even the > >

Re: Installing Debian hurd/amd64

Hi, On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:05:44AM +, David Hiran Watson wrote: > I plan to reinstall VirtualBox. [...] > Also would Debian Hurd benefit from hardware virtualization turned on > (AMD-V)? That doesn't depend on the guest system, but on the virtualisation solution you use. AFAIK VirtualBox

Re: Help needed for mesa

Hi, On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:37:07PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > -#if defined(PIPE_OS_LINUX) || defined(PIPE_OS_BSD) || > defined(PIPE_OS_SOLARIS) || defined(PIPE_OS_APPLE) || defined(PIPE_OS_HAIKU) > || defined(PIPE_OS_CYGWIN) > +#if defined(PIPE_OS_LINUX) || defined(PIPE_OS_BSD) || > defi

Re: Need advice if changes to file_5.04-6 enabling build on GNU/Hurd are OK?

Hi, On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:18:59AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > The pattern I used for the patch was > +#ifdef __GLIBC__ > + char * subfn; > +#else > + char subfn[MAXPATHLEN]; > +#endif > + char **filearr = NULL, *mfn; > > +#ifdef __GLIBC__ > + (void)asprin

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:24:20AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:41:25AM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > What's so bad about someone speaking up? They keep bringing this up. > > If nobody reacts, it's a sure sign nobody cares, and they are free > > to dr

Re: GSoC 2011

Hi, On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:10:40AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > My concern is thus that apart from the CD images, tasks are either very > small, or quite difficult. I see. The "difficult" class still might be a source of good projects -- some students like a challenging task :-) (Only i

Re: GSoC 2011

Hi, On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:15:49AM -0600, Oz wrote: > when will gnu/hurd be easy to install for a noob like me That question is rather beside the point -- if you are a self-pronounced "noob", you won't get happy with the Hurd anyways in the forseeable future :-) -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Partitioning for a Hurd install

Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:02:29PM -, m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: > As you are putting the Hurd in VirtualBox then I'd suggest accepting > the defaults for Linux (other) and either no swap partition or at most > 0.5GB. You can always increase the memory if you need it and the > virtual

Re: Partitioning for a Hurd install

Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:20:08PM +, David Hiran Watson wrote: > How should I partition for an install? I'm doing this using > VirtualBox, but I have plenty of space. I have 4GB ram on host, which > is Win7. > > So how much ram should I give the vm? 768 MiB (or something thereabouts) i

Re: GSoC 2011

Hi, On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:58:59AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Ping! > > February 28: 19:00 UTC Mentoring organizations can begin submitting > applications to Google. > > March 11: 23:00 UTC Mentoring organization application deadline. As I said, we will participate under the GNU umbrel

Re: libstdc++6 and apt

Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:05:34PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > - If you install a package which pulls the new libstdc++6 without > pulling apt, then apt will start crashing. Surely this could be expressed by appropriate package dependencies?... -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Package renaming

Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:35:43PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > - yes, 486, because we don't actually support 386, and compiling a 686 > won't bring much performance improvement as is the case with Linux > which does assembly optimizations Err... Conditional moves are a *huge* benefit (in

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:02:52AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > kfreebsd seems to have gained momentum within Debian, but not Hurd. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD uses a kernel that is very stable and has been used in production environments for ages. The only really experimental part about it is the

Re: outdated leaf packages

Hi, On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:12:49PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > So should I request removal of all those packages? Anything we'd like > to keep (somebody using it regularly, e.g.)? Well, traceroute at least seems rather important. Personally I also consider debfoster pretty fundamental --

Re: Problems: Questions on mini-20110308.iso

Hi, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:21:06PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html > (qemu-specific, not up to date in my opinion) Please fix that -- it's a wiki :-) -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Problems: Questions on mini-20110308.iso

Hi, On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:09:16AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Fri 18 Mar 2011 22:21:06 +0100, a écrit : > > Yes, I know about this page. However, that page is not > > qemu-specific, and that's what I'm aiming for. > > Ok, but duplicating information is never a good ide

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:47:19PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > If the hurd-i386 port manages to release with wheezy as a technology > preview, it stays in. If not, it will be removed from ftp.debian.org > to debian-ports (or elsewhere). Now that we have D-I, is there actually anything tha

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:46:36AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Wed 23 Mar 2011 10:27:31 +0100, a écrit : > > Note: add -no-kvm-irqchip if you have problems with kvm. > > It's not really "if", it is "you will have problems if you don't add > it" ... unless running an o

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:27:31AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Attached is the first draft on how to install and run Debian GNU/Hurd > using the Debian Installer. Great, thanks! :-) Will have to be turned into markdown though to add it to the wiki... > Enable VTx and VTd Actually, VTd

wiki (was: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft))

Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15:21AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > I don't even know what a .mdwn page is. "markdown" is one of the (several) simple text formats for writing documents with hyperlinks and basic markup. > Why not plain .html? HTML was never meant to be writte by hand. Also, t

Re: New hurd package version

Hi, On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, le Tue 22 Mar 2011 21:52:13 +, a écrit : > > On 22/03/11 01:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > It seems apt-get fails to show the NEWS entry, I don't know why, I > > > thought it was systematic. Anywa

Re: Ethernet drivers for GNU Mach

Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:30:05AM +1100, Steven McDonald wrote: > Thanks. I've decided to try setting up Debian GNU/Hurd with DDE by > means of a debootstrap onto a physical partition from a virtual > machine. If I get a working installation, I'll publish a howto for > anyone else who'd like

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 06:52:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The archive coverage may be a concern: possibly getting from 68% to > 85% won't come by just fixing a few depended-on packages... I once did a rough estimation based on percantage of failing vs. build-dep packages and applyin

website update (was: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft))

Hi, > That said -- I'll do it shortly, as we need to update the GSoC page > now that the student application period has begun. Err... The old page was still displayed over the past couple of days? Ouch. Should have linked to the wiki instead, as I already suggested in the past years... -antrik-

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:30:13AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 18:17 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:27:31AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > Also note that using the "screen" program on Mach console is also a > > pretty good choic

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:41:36AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > I have the feeling that we'll need a structured approach to avoid bad > surprises. Basic time management, defining goals, working on them, > checking them, and all that. :-) Gosh, you have a way of scaring people... ;-) -a

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu/kvm using the Debian Installer (first draft)

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 29 Mar 2011 18:17:34 +0200, a écrit : > > Note that the Hurd console also has a number of drawbacks. (One of which > > you actually mention later on: not seeing kernel messages. But there are >

Re: Hurd stabilty: compiling ghc6

Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:13:40AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Many problems do come from kvm actually. That's one of the reasons why > I prefer to use Xen. VirtualBox is also a good option. It's not as fast as Xen or KVM, but much faster than plain QEMU; it doesn't have the stability pr

Mount problem (was: Ethernet drivers for GNU Mach)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:28:46PM +1100, Steven McDonald wrote: > # settrans -ag / /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd0s5 > > It gives me the error "device too small for superblock (0 bytes)". Ouch... That can't work. To make the partition writable, use: fsysopts / -w (The root filesystem won't go a

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi, On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:25:02PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:52:36 Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Xorg + gnome/kde + some webbrowser working. > How about Xorg + GNUstep with a browser? We already had that last > year. I'm pretty sure the idea here was to h

OT: HTML as source format (was: wiki)

Hi, On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:55:57AM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15:21AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > >> Why not plain .html? > > > > HTML was never meant to be writte by hand. > > Never? Right. I'm not sure where exactl

Re: Problems with crosshurd

Hi, On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 11:24:21PM +1000, Steven McDonald wrote: > * /dev is empty except for MAKEDEV, which returns 'Pipe call failed' > on line 10 if I try to run it > * trying to run /native-install fails at trying to write to > /etc/passwd, saying it's on a read-only filesystem These tw

Re: website update

Hi, On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Of course I already had updated the pages after you and I had done our > this year's updates. I misread your message: you mentioned "weeks", and somehow I read it as "it hasn't been updated for weeks"... Sorry. -antrik- --

Re: Problems with crosshurd

Hi, On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:56:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 05 Apr 2011 20:40:32 +0200, a écrit : > >fsysopts / -w > > Unfortunately, for some yet uninvestigated reason, it does not work. Oh, ouch... Always worked for me so far. -antrik- -- To

Re: [debian-hurd-Patches][303155] #355891: [HurdFR] FTBFS cxref

Hi, On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 01:33:29PM +, debian-hurd-patc...@alioth.debian.org wrote: > >Status: Deleted Err... Was that on purpose? -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: df command on the hurd

Hi, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:11:37PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > But it would be a nice feature to add. Each filesystem could report the > filesystems mounted on it, and df could walk that tree. Yes, we have a proposal for that: http://www.gnu.org/s/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ide

Re: Patch to fix FTBFS of pvm on GNU/Hurd

Hi, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 01:08 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > On 15/04/11 00:10, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Svante Signell, le Thu 14 Apr 2011 23:18:32 +0200, a écrit : > > And I wouldn't do #ifdef #else #endif, since

Re: Hurd-console on reboot (xbd vs kbd)

Hi, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:51:52AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Hiran Watson, le Fri 15 Apr 2011 05:39:51 -0400, a écrit : > > 2) KBD=???-d xkb??? && KBD_REPEAT=??repeat=xkb??? > > > > - the hurd console did not start, > > > 3) KBD=???-d xkb??? && KBD_REPEAT=??r

Re: Patch to fix FTBFS of pvm on GNU/Hurd

Hi, On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:30:23AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 18:56 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 01:08 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > > > On 15/04/11 00:

Patches and Upstream (was: Patch to fix FTBFS of pvm on GNU/Hurd)

Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:43:58AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > One problem so far is how to write the patches to please the DMs. The > comments you get varies. Sometimes it is easier to communicate with > upstream. Indeed, if an active upstream exists, and the best approach to take is not

Real Men own Real Hardware (was: Debian Installer)

Hi, On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:32:43PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Nice to see that you are running Debian GNU/Hurd on real HW. Maybe I > should take some old box out of the storage area and try too. I totally recommend that! It just feels more... Real! ;-) On a more serious note, I think it

Re: Unifiying porting guidelines

Hi, On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:13:34PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > We have several porting guidelines with sometimes similar or duplicate > information. We were discussing this the other day on the #hurd IRC > channel, and I think, and people seemed to agree there, that to help > the majority o

chroot sockets (was: Introducing the hardening-wrapper package)

Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:35:32AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You just need another partition, run debootstrap in it, and chroot > into it. You'll need to firmlink servers/socket/{1,2} from the root to > get named pipes and network sockets working. Err... What's the use of sharing the p

Re: Kernel newbie involvement

Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11:05PM -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > I would like to involve a CS students in this project. Great :-) We are always happy about new people getting involved in the project. > The idea is to use gNewSense (which is the FSF approved version based > on Debian). I'

Re: CD set

Hi, On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 05:32:40PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I've only built the 3 first CDs and the first DVD of the lengthy > series of 42 CDs. I don't know if there's real use for the whole > series. I don't know whether I can afford hosting them on people, we'd > have to ask for deb

Re: chroot sockets

Hi, On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:49:02PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Cheroot isn't supposed to change the namespace of Unix domain sockets > in the case where the chroot shares a file with the main system. OK, that makes sense... I wonder though whether that's relevant in the use case at

Re: chroot sockets

Hi, On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:40:03AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 02 Jun 2011 04:13:34 +0200, a écrit : > > Err... What's the use of sharing the pipe server between chroot and > > main system? > > So that named pipes can actually work. Why wouldn't they work

Re: chroot sockets

Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 03:46:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Fri 17 Jun 2011 23:19:15 +0200, a écrit : > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:40:03AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 02 Jun 2011 04:13:34 +0200, a écrit : > > > > Err

Re: Issuing "halt" locks up computer and working graphical browser (dillo)

Hi, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:56:36AM +0200, pe...@kahn.nu wrote: > First of all, if anyone is interested, dillo 0.8.6 compiles fine on > debian hurd. Yeah, someone already reported working Dillo a couple of years ago. Good to know that it's still true ;-) BTW, I wonder whether you are aware t

Re: [PATCH] avoid assuming MAXPATHLEN in config(8)

Hi, On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:33:53AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > - (void)snprintf(fname, sizeof fname, "../../conf/options.%s", > + (void)asprintf(&fname, "../../conf/options.%s", > machinename); Ignoring the return value of asprintf() is not a good idea, as it can indicate

Re: Issuing "halt" locks up computer and working graphical browser (dillo)

Hi, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:24:24PM +0200, pe...@kahn.nu wrote: > I'm using real hardware. No use in using emulators, i want the real > experience. :) That's the spirit! ;-) > But it still feels "wrong" to hard reset the computer every time. I avoid that by running "reboot" instead of "halt

Re: Issuing "halt" locks up computer and working graphical browser (dillo)

Hi, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > It is also advisable to have a separate partition for $HOME/ etc. Most importantly, I have a separate partition for /src, where I do all big compilations... (My /home is also separate, as it's NFS-mounted from another box.)

Re: gdb source and binary for experimental?

Hi, On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:14:02PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > This works: apt-get source gdb=7.3.50~cvs20110627-2 -t experimental You don't need the -t if you explicitly name a version. -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: libpcap2?

Hi, On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:10:51PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Any chances of porting libpcap2 to GNU/{hurd,kfreebsd-*}? Or should > build dependencies for these archs avoid it? Consequences? Note that there is a GSoC task about libcap. -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd

Re: random translator

Hi, On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:00:57AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > /dev/u?random translators are required for e.g. proper ssh and opengpg. > ATM hurd depends on random-egd, which poses problem since it depends on > a module which is provided by perl, which does not have the "required" > prior

Re: random translator

Hi, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 01:08:37AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > -Provides: makedev, login > > > -Replaces: makedev, login > > > -Conflicts: makedev, login > > > +Provides: makedev, login, random-egd > > > +Replaces: makedev, login, random-egd > > > +Conflicts: makedev, login, random-eg

installation experiences (was: Testers wanted: New installation method)

Hi, I have recently installed hurd from Debian GNU/Linux using the described method, and (on special request ;-) ) want to share my experiences here. First I compiled an xattr-hurd enabled kernel: wget http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/kernel-patch-xattr-hurd_20040302-4_all.deb (N

Re: installation experiences (was: Testers wanted: New installation method)

Hi, I've done another GNU/Hurd installation using the xattr Linux patch (still using the older http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/kernel-patch-xattr-hurd_20040302-4_all.deb , not the more recent http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/kernel-patch-xattr-hurd_20040302-5_all.deb ), and

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