Re: [PATCH 02/14] add basic user-space tests with qemu

2023-12-29 Thread Michael Banck via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd
Hi, On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 02:51:31PM +0100, Luca Dariz wrote: > > > +$ gdb gnuamch > > > > Typo ;) > > What would be a better command? This is actually how I start gdb from the > build directory, You probably start gnumach though, and not gnuamch? Michael

Re: It runs!

2023-05-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 09:30:34PM +0300, Sergey Bugaev wrote: > Hello everyone, I've got some exciting news :) > > /bin/sh runs!!! > > Things start up all the way -- exec, proc, auth, all that. Then > /hurd/startup exec's /libexec/console-run; I placed a little shell > script there. The shell

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-14 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 02:19:12PM +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Michael Banck writes: > > > I don't mind that, but I also think the Hurd is not a tactical FSF asset > > anymore that needs to be kept under tight control. The FSF has enough > > copyright

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:18:20PM +1000, Damien Zammit wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:01 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > It would be interesting to consider dropping the copyright assignment > > requirement for Hurd/Mach/MiG. For what remains primarily a hobby > > project, this looks to me like a

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:34:48PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Riccardo Mottola, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 23:32:05 +0100, a ecrit: > > One question: is the issue because the cards are behind PCMCIA/CardBus > > and we don't support that? > > We have some support for this in the

Re: fosdem talk?

2016-01-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 01:57:10AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > That's when I miss the nice quarterly reports we used to have: what's > new since last FOSDEM? > > For now I have only noted: > > Fixed native fakeroot > Various optimizations > - Node cache > - Lockless reference

Re: HURD and a Laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 06:34:44PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: There are wireless tools on debian-ports. I don't know the details. I guess they are about 10 years old by now. Even back then, they did not work very well, as I recall. Michael

Re: Problem with reinstallation, bootloader

2014-11-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:37:21AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: How can I get from HURD something similar to DMESG or lspci? Right now I don't have any other OSs, thus I can easily list all hardware Richard B. asked for! Otherwise I'll burn some kind of LiveCD. IMO, it's generally a good

Re: chroot in its own ext2fs?

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:22:01AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Does anybody remember precisely why chroots should have their own ext2fs? I can build packages fine from inside a chroot which doesn't have its own ext2fs, for instance. I don't recall why we did that, maybe it was purely

Re: GNU/Hurd DDE talk at FOSDEM

2014-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On January 31, 2014 6:35:44 PM CET, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, le Fri 31 Jan 2014 12:31:39 +0100, a écrit : What's the status quo of driver support in the Hurd without DDE (very few linux old 2.0 drivers...) You mean other than network boards? That's a

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:33:27AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*. At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:30:12PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project The Debian GNU/Hurd port and the GNU Hurd project are not exactly the same, even though the member overlap is significant. Just pointing this out here as I am not sure the

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Frese, Thomas Schwinge, Richard It's

Re: Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

2011-11-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: In package uptimed-0.3.16 the following function is defined: BTW, I had a look at uptimed before, and the main problem I faced (IIRC), was making it crash safe. uptimed is writing the current uptime into a file, and even on

Re: XKB's keymaps for the Hurd console

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:06:40PM -0500, Oz wrote: awsome sounds like i'll be playing some quake 3 mods in the near future on the hurd. I suggest you wait for Duke Nukem Forever. Michael

Re: ED error code

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:30:28AM +0100, Manuel Menal wrote: On 02/11/2010 11:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: Manuel Menal, le Tue 02 Nov 2010 11:20:27 +0100, a écrit : “Macros that begin with E and a digit or E and an uppercase letter may be added to the declarations in the errno.h header.”

Re: [tschwinge+n...@gnu.org: Duke Nukem Forever Returns, Will Really Be Released in 2011]

2010-09-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 04:33:22PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: So, there's no escape anymore: we'll have to release next year, 2011. Finally. As far as I know, *everyone* is expecting Duke Nukem Forever and the GNU Hurd to appear at the same time, yet to be bundeled (see

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Bring console-driver-xkb up to date

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:03:19AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Diego Nieto Cid, le Wed 04 Aug 2010 04:19:58 -0300, a écrit : The past couple of weeks I've been packaging Marco's input driver for Arch Hurd and I've found that some changes were necesary to make it work again.

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Hi Justus, On Monday 12 July 2010 15:40:07 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Do you have an idea why it breaks here? Are you still there? Maybe try assigning more RAM to KVM if you assigned much less than 512MB.

Re: Article - GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise

2010-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:44:37PM +0200, Jure Repinc wrote: I've just seen a new article about GNU Hurd: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost- promise-1030942.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474941 is an interesting (from a historical/FSF POV)

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-04-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:16:11PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 16:00:37 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Hi, On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:03:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie,

Re: Generalizing mobility for the Hurd

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:53:04PM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: For now it is available from my personal web page provided by my uni: http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf but I don't know how long that will last since I'm no longer enrolled. I guess I'll

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:46:20PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: I tried crosshurd. It doesn't work. Anyone maintains crosshurd? Yes. Michael

Re: FOSDEM 2010

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:37:12AM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: 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

Re: Months of the Hurd 2009-12

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:25:44AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: I prepared the news about this months. If something is missing (or wrong), please tell me! There was lots of porting activity as well, mostly by Pino Toscano and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort. Maybe asking them for some

Re: learning curve

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Banck
This is ridiculous. I am going to unsubscribe from bug-hurd the next time I see such an off-topic thread again. Michael On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:24:21AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. November 2009 22:38:39 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: The problem with learning

Re: learning curve

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:16:07PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: I spent some time thinking whether to send this reply to the list or only to Olaf, but I decided to send it to the list, because the learning curve also applies to documentation of the Hurd - the Hurd also offers concepts

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:57:22PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: @Samuel: Do you have contact with the fvwm people? If yes: Could you send them a link with the status page? I don't think fvwm working is news. Michael

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 13:02:39 schrieb Michael Banck: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:57:22PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: @Samuel: Do you have contact with the fvwm people? If yes: Could you send them

Re: Mercurial vs. git

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:38:57PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Well, there's Photoshop - and it doesn't yet have a real competitor in free software. Though Gimp is almost as powerful, it is much harder to use for newcomers. Give Photoshop to a newbie, and you'll see him/her

Re: blubber and grubber down

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Hello! On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:45:39AM +0100, I wrote: I think I'll reinstall them later today (preserving /home/, of course). Sergiu rightfully so reminded me that I had forgotten to do that. blubber is again up

Re: News 2009-10-31

2009-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:58:57PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Montag, 2. November 2009 15:29:47 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: - http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/news/2009-10-31/ A lot of people will just ignore this monster thread; so if you plan to actually have people read those,

Re: Hurd build fails on my box

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 09:32:25PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: I'd like to remark, though, that (on my box) the set of patches I get from apt-get and from svn is different... More exactly, the apt-get version misses (at least) the ``series'' file and a number of patches (like the

Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:22:45PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This is the Roadmap I dreamt of: Sorry, but this is a wishlist, not a roadmap. Michael

Re: Does the cross toolchain really work?

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:58:56AM +0800, newper wrote: But when I restart the computer it still hang at Hurd sever bhootstrap: ext2fs.static[device:hd0s2]exec You tell me to enable-kdb when compiling gnumach,but I don't know how to use it. When you --enable-kdb, Mach will drop you into the

Re: Report in Swedish, English or both?

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:38:48PM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: I'm slightly torn however, partly because I'm more proficient in Swedish. And partly because Swedish is in such a poor state when it comes to computer science. Often terminology is borrowed form English even though

Re: Niche for Hurd - discussion - the power of translators

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:58:39AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what it would take to get this into Debian as default... Uhm, how about starting with a whishlist bug first? Michael

Re: Niche for the Hurd - summary 2 - niches sorted according to necessary work

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:42:49PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: I think to make it *the* GNU system we'd need it in a state where I can just start any desktop on it and work with it just like in a GNU/Linux, because else people would just shrug and say This is GNU then, I think I'll

Re: Fwd: Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo Forums

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 07:08:30AM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: However, do you mean that I can download the sources of emacs22 and they will build successfully on Hurd? Two weeks ago, that was the case:

Re: status

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
Arne, On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:26:24AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: If Viengoos fullfills the hopes I have in it since I read the paper from Neal, then it's likely that the GNU/Hurd will be ported to it. You can have your hopes however you want, but it is not very productive to

Re: Fwd: Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo Forums

2008-11-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 08:23:41AM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: I see... Well, I hope I'll have some time to port emacs to Hurd, because, frankly speaking, it's uncomfortable for me to realize that *GNU* Emacs does not run on *GNU* Hurd... Maybe you're doing something wrong then, because GNU

Re: Hurd does not want to build

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:33:30PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: cd hurd/; make which dies with the following error message: ar: creating libshouldbeinlibc.a libshouldbeinlibc.a make[1]: libshouldbeinlibc.a: Command not found make[1]: *** [libshouldbeinlibc.a] Error 127

Re: kvm with hurd-k16.img

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
reassign 498940 linux-2.6 retitle 498940 [patch] linux-2.6.26 KVM fails to boot Mach severity 498940 important tags 498940 +patch tags 498940 +fixed-upstream thanks On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:28:53AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Michael Banck, le Mon 03 Nov 2008 11:09:08 +0100, a écrit

Re: e2os

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 06:51:18PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: It's safe, it just sets a bit somewhere. It'd be nice if it was part of e2fsprogs or something; it's more useful on GNU/Linux than on GNU/Hurd anyway usually. Did somebody try to get it integrated there at some point? Michael

current CVS libpthread makes trivial programs linked to it hang

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, if you compile a trivial program and link it to libpthread from current CVS, it hangs. I bisected it mostly to the following change: 2008-06-22 Neal H. Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] * sysdeps/generic/pt-mutex-timedlock.c (__pthread_mutex_timedlock_internal) [! NDEBUG]: Set

dbus porting required

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, now that we have a working /proc tree, we discovered that the dbus daemon is not starting up correctly: Setting up dbus (1.2.1-3) ... The system user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting. Starting system message bus: dbusFailed to start message bus: Failed to bind socket

Re: Xen - exec hanging

2008-09-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:10:55PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Should have checked. Anyways, it booted fine. The console response is quite good! I put some documentation here: http://www.shakthimaan.com/installs/hurd-xen.html Pretty please, with sugar on top, don't make up more

Re: [META] Replying to messages, again

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:34:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but no. The list-reply feature of Mutt is there to be used, and I'm going to use it. Personally, I try to hit 'g' if the person I reply to is unknown to me and it a new message (not in the middle of a thread), otherwise

Re: Current state of Xorg on Hurd?

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:10:35AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Dienstag 16 September 2008 17:07:15 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: date: 2003-11-09 20:13:47 +0100; author: tomhart; state: Exp; lines: OK, then it's clear why it doesn't work :) 5 years is a hell of a lot of

[bug #24278] bad number magic 0 (should be 0xef53)

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Banck
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #24278 (project hurd): start (hd0,0)/hurd/ext2fs.static: ext2fs: device:hd0s0 hd0s0 is not a valid device name. Fix your grub config. Michael ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24278

Re: Code Bounty

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:10:56PM +1200, Gregory Plummer wrote: Hi all, I would like to offer a small cash incentive for tasks needing to be completed. It would be great if the Hurd could support file systems greater than 2 GB in size. How would I go about sponsoring this feature? Some input

Re: Current state of Xorg on Hurd?

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:31:24PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Dienstag 02 September 2008 11:43:39 schrieb Neal H. Walfield: At Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:15:41 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: * For Desktops: Are pthreads fully implemented, now? Can I get KDE or similar

Re: New Newsitem for Savannah

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:18:58PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: The newsitem just says: News are on the main website (link) and in the wiki (link). Should I activate it myself? That doesn't sound urgent, so we can wait till Thomas Schwinge has time I guess, he's doing most of

Re: RPC implementation - Help me please

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:23:36AM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote: apt-get source glibc and dpkg-buildpackage -uc -B fails for some weird compilation errors in bsd files. I forgot to log the errors. Is this a known bug or is it necessary to give the build logs to find out what it is? Luckily,

[patch #6088] Entropy Patch

2008-07-18 Thread Michael Banck
Additional Item Attachment, patch #6088 (project hurd): File name: entropy_patch.diff Size:28 KB ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6088 ___ Message

[patch #6088] Entropy Patch

2008-07-18 Thread Michael Banck
Follow-up Comment #1, patch #6088 (project hurd): Comments on the 2007/08/28 version of the patch by Samuel Thibault: Index: device/blkio.c @@ -149,6 +151,10 @@ do { prev = next; next = prev-io_next; +#ifdef MACH_ENTROPY + /* Let's grab the cylinder

Re: Revision control

2008-06-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:11:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No powerful tool can be properly used without understanding it. The point is: The Hurd doesn't need a powerful source control tool, it just needs something which is much better than CVS and usable by all possible contributors.

Re: Revision control

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:34:41PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: I like the idea. It would lower the barrier to begin coding on the hurd (I think), and it would be a good opportunity to clean up the cvs chaos a bit (so newcomers don't get completely lost in the different

Re: Python Script to Retrieve the Uptime

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:50:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Just to make sure: you know that there is already a tarfs lying around? (I can't remember where) It's on hurdextras, see http://sv.gnu.org/p/hurdextras and http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/tarfs/?root=hurdextras Michael

Re: Release notes (was: GSoC application deadline passed)

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:59:47PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: Clearly, documentation is a problem with the Hurd. It's incomplete, scattered and stale. Working on it is helpful, if done appropriately. In any case, IMHO the most useful documentation improvements would be in the Hurd manual and

Re: Debian Hurd package dependencies [Was: GSoC application deadline passed]

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Banck
Please follow-up to debian-hurd, this is really off-topic on bug-hurd. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:07:12PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: Would setting up more buildds help with this issue? With current boom of virtualization setting up an obsolete system becomes quite easy ;-) Plus you get the

Re: Spreading the word (was: GSoC application deadline passed)

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:39:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:48:50AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: What is to be done now is waiting to see whether I^Hwe get accepted. We've been. [...] Is there someone to write a short note to be installed as a news

Package installability and testing (was: Re: GSoC application deadline passed)

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Banck
(CCing debian-hurd as this is really Debian-specific now) On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:15:27PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 18/03/2008, Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Suchanek, le Mon 17 Mar 2008 16:34:42 +0100, a écrit : On 17/03/2008, Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GSoC application deadline passed

2008-03-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:16:31PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 14 Mar 2008 15:08:31 +0100, a écrit : Now to a real issue. While there's nothing wrong with the project as such (in fact it's quite a good idea), I think most of the project is more in the domain

Re: GSoC application deadline passed

2008-03-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:58:33PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: * Setup a blog and write your commit messages in there. If there is a git (or mercurial) repository, also add a link to its web frontend on the website. People must see, that the Hurd is active. A developer blog (i.e.

Re: GSoC application deadline passed

2008-03-14 Thread Michael Banck
Forgot to reply to this part. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:58:33PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: El Friday, 14 de March de 2008 15:08:31 Carl Fredrik Hammar escribió: Now to a real issue. While there's nothing wrong with the project as such (in fact it's quite a good idea), I think most

Re: FOSDEM 2008

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:27:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is always some uncertainty in such matters. But I have little doubt we could get a reasonable number of people together *if* somebody would actually take up organising it. It's all about taking initiative. However it

Re: L4-Hurd or Debian/Hurd

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:59:08PM +, Ashish Gokhale wrote: There seem to be two ports of Hurd emerging, one is Debian/Hurd running on Gnu Mach kernel another Gnu/Hurd running on top of L4 microkernel. 1. Which flavor of Hurd does this mailing list belong? 2. Which is more complete

Re: What after cross_gnu?

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:27:20PM +, Ashish Gokhale wrote: Thanks to thomas for the cross_gnu_env cross_gnu. I have been able to run both. Now I have cross-build environment. How do i proceed to have a running Hurd System? any links? Install the Hurd, either natively or as a qemu

Re: gcc/toolchain Hurd maintenance

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:20:14PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: I would like to hear some pointers to get started on how binutils, GCC, glibc, Hurd servers, etc. are collaborating in a Hurd system? ('toolchain maintenance') Binutils and GCC do not work much differently than on GNU/Linux,

pfinet segfaults (was: Re: Making DHCP renew work in pfinet)

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:03:49PM +0200, Christian Dietrich wrote: * Stefan Siegl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Oct 15 2007 23:57] wrote: The whitespaces beetween -a and the ip are missing because -a, -g, -m, -p, -A, -G have only optional arguments. If the argument is no passed the value will be

Re: Making DHCP renew work in pfinet

2007-11-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:03:49PM +0200, Christian Dietrich wrote: * Stefan Siegl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Oct 15 2007 23:57] wrote: But now, when the /etc/dhclient-script calls fsysopts it will override all other device informations, e.g. ipv6 addresses, gateways on other devices. So i

Re: Build Hurd toolchain

2007-10-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:05:20AM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: - On 10/30/07, Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | As building a proper cross compiler is not trivial (as you are | experiencing), may I ask why you need to build one? \-- So that I can compile (or cross-compile)

Re: Build Hurd toolchain

2007-10-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:10:02PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:55:42PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: azeem referred this documentation on IRC: http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/unsorted/BuildingTheHurd/index.html I shall give it a try. I removed it from the

Re: git for Debian GNU/Hurd (was: Setting ones's priorities)

2007-08-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:58:02AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Michael, again, please apply these two attached patches to the Debian `git' package, build and upload. Thanks, I've uploaded it to gnuab. I didn't test it though. Michael ___

Re: switching to SVN ?

2007-08-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: You may question: ``Who needs five checkouts of the same source code?'' I do. I have five of the Hurd's HEAD, fourteen of GNU Mach's gnumach-1-branch, four of glibc. Every one with different patches and changes. Switching

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: It would be a good idea to have SVN running on the Hurd before switching. It is running, at least svn+ssh:// works fine for me. I have also just uploaded subversion packages to ftp.debian.org, they should be available to

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:49:12PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: Maybe it would help to lower entry barriers for the project. A distributed version control helps technically. What I think is most important is that people can easily locally branch/merge the master (CVS) repository with their

New VFS being developped for glib/Gnome

2007-07-20 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, just wanted to point out this presentation done by Alexander Larsson (RedHat) this week at GUADEC on GVFS: http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/presentations/guadec2007-gvfs.odp (temporary PDF version: http://oussik.com/guadec2007-gvfs.pdf ) The code is at http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/git/gvfs.git/

Re: New VFS being developped for glib/Gnome

2007-07-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:02:09PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote: For those of us who are familiar with the other stored resource methods for storing code, such as subversion, and CVS, but not very familiar with GIT, please elaborate on how to retrieve the files stored there. It's not like I'm

Re: New Hurd wiki?

2007-07-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:46:16PM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: The Hurd wiki at hurd.gnufangs.org no longer is updated It's getting updated sporadically, at least from me. Michael ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org

Re: [bug #17644] glibc: support for TLS

2007-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 02:09:13PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Here are updated patches, ext2fs.static now works. mach-defpager doesn't, however. I get Assertion `ports-ip_srights 0' failed in file ../ipc/ipc_right.c, line 1411 when I run your hurd/libc0.3 packages in qemu, see the attached

Re: [bug #17644] glibc: support for TLS

2007-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 06:22:05PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Hello! On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:59PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 02:09:13PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Here are updated patches, ext2fs.static now works. mach-defpager doesn't, however

Analysis of build failures in Debian GNU/Hurd

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, this mail is a summary of the different kinds of build failures the Debian GNU/Hurd autobuilder has encountered while building through the Debian archive. I've CC'd it to bug-hurd as this should be of general interest to the GNU Hurd as well. I also skipped over most of the non C/C++

Re: Analysis of build failures in Debian GNU/Hurd

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 11:41:53PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: - PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP: 4 Actually fixed in hurd's CVS head. - SOUND_MIXER_*: 4 Mmm, should be fixed with the soundcard.h we now ship in debian. Ah, OK. It's odd we don't have it. IIRC we have a stack

Re: bind() broken for AF_UNIX in chroots

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:30:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:00:54AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: The following program works fine in a real installation, but fails with EADDRNOTAVAIL if run in a chroot: I think I get the same effect: Running

poll() return value problems according to POSIX(?)

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Banck
(sorry if that is a FAQ, but google didn't find prior discussion) Hi, python2.5 introduced a configure check for a broken poll(), which is positive on GNU/Hurd (thus HAVE_BROKEN_POLL is defined), but not Linux. The code of the check is as follows: #include poll.h int main (void) {

bind() broken for AF_UNIX in chroots

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, (The use-case here being that for some funky reason dbus needs to get started in order to build core parts of Gnome in Debian, thus Gnome is broken in Debian GNU/Hurd until this is fixed, or we decide to build Gnome completely manually from now on) The following program works fine in a real

Re: fatfs: slot_status COMPRESS

2007-06-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:31:33AM +0200, christian nastasi wrote: Just an other one? Could somebody help me with the problem I had had to compile the translator on the gnubber.bddebian.com machine as reported in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-06/msg00029.html ? Did you

Re: Putting a random translator into the Hurd directly?

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:23:05PM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: I've recently started hacking on Hurd again, and I'm curious why a random translator isn't included by default in the Hurd. Looking at the wiki, there are at least two different translators; we should have one of these

Re: Putting a random translator into the Hurd directly?

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:51:48AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: That makes sense, but why don't we still include a random module in the source itself so people who are working on one at least can work from a common starting point, but make it so it isn't compiled in by default. I

Re: develop hurd on virtual machine

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 02:58:51PM +0200, christian nastasi wrote: Ok, some new questions. For the previous I understand on my own what can I do (or this is what I believe). - For the emulator I will use the bochs, because I see that there's an hurd image working with such emulator.

[bug #17646] glibc: ``-z relro''

2007-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17646 (project hurd): If I'm not wrong 2.5 got released a couple of days before this change, my glibc-2.5 tarball doesn't seem to have the change Thomas referenced in comment #1. Did you try with glibc-2.6 from experimental instead (though more work is probably needed

Re: ``No symbol table info available.'' (was: glibc 2.5 on GNU/Hurd with GCC 4.1: `EXC_BAD_ACCESS' in glibc nss code)

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: $ sudo gdb /hurd/password 328 GNU gdb 6.5-debian [...] (gdb) bt full #0 0x011408f0 in _nss_files_parse_grent () from /lib/libc.so.0.3 No symbol table info available. [...] #v- Why is ``no symbol table info available'' for

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: gnumach ChangeLog config.status.dep.patch [gnumach-1-branch]]

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:50:55PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: 12:22:41 up 6 days, 6:00, 20 users, load average: 145.63, 71.19, 28.72 Does somebody want to try that on a GNU/Hurd system? ;-) I tried that when I built the Debian gcc-4.1 package from experimental it had something like

Re: autoreconf -i breaks

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:05:20PM +0100, Ashish Gokhale wrote: I have Debian Linux Kernel 3.1, autoconf-2.59, automake-1.6.3. As Thomas said, user automake1.9. Michael ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org

[bug #19426] GNU Mach: panic: zalloc: zone kalloc.8192 exhausted

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Banck
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19426 Summary: GNU Mach: panic: zalloc: zone kalloc.8192 exhausted Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: mbanck Submitted on: Tuesday 03/27/07 at 14:44 Category: GNU Mach

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:15:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why doesn't it install a boot loader? I think this probably because it uses an obsolete code base which never did install Grub when installing GNU/Linux, either. Adding this feature would still be welcome, but probably not

Re: Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:44:00PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Are we talking Debian specific stuff or no? This is about the FSF's GSoC project, so I don't think Debian-specific stuff would be appropriate. There still the Debian installer afair. Yes, but after last year's fiasco, I'm

Re: python 2.4: os.urandom() hangs if /dev/random, /dev/urandom are not reconnected to a translator

2007-01-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:16:22PM +, massimo s. wrote: I thought that for os.urandom(): - a timeout could be useful on any platform without a reliable random device (I don't think Hurd is alone in this). I'll ask to the python mailing list. /dev/urandom does not provide reliable random

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