On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > without success and further help, I just attempted a clean reinstall > .As a note, I add that the machine I am using worked with hurd for > years, until its hard-disk trashed. > > The installer went fine (it is quite slow, CD-ROM access seems quite > painful) through all the steps, up to the last one where it says > "unmounting volumes". After 10 minutes it was still there without > any disk activity, I shut down the machine. At boot, I do run fsck, > as expected. > > At the next boot, I'm in the same situation as before. fsck says it > can't check a mounted partition, my /proc is empty as is /var/run > > I will, as I did before, reconfigure the "hurd" package. > > But what can I do vor /var/run? and generally the problem? something > else that could benefit of being reconfigured?
Honestly, I'm not sure you'll get help for such a specific problem. The failed reinstall, though, is more troubling (and then interesting). I suggest you reattempt to reinstall, and use the other virtual terminals to check the status of the system if reinstallation fails again. -- Richard Braun