Re: [PATCHv2,Hurd] Fix deallocation after proc_getprocinfo call

[Joel Brobecker]

 2014-10-02  Samuel Thibault  samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org
 
   * gdb/gnu-nat.c (inf_validate_procinfo): Multiply the number of
   elements pi_len by the size of the elements before calling
   vm_deallocate.
   (inf_validate_task_sc): Likewise, and properly deallocate the
   noise array.

Thank you, Samuel. The patch has now been pushed.

-- 
Joel

Re: reinstallation with host machine - no success

[Riccardo Mottola]

Svante Signell wrote:

Which image did you use? And if using the latest image did you enable
network or not? I think you should use a known working image and install
without upgrading (i.e. no network) intil the install is completed. It
can happen that the latest sid version is broken (happened to me a few
times)

I used:
https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/netinst.iso

which would be may 2014. I don't think there were network problems. As 
said, by using this second PC I had no troubles during installation.


It is very strange that on the original PC I get this continuous 
reboot.. as if GRUB was causing a problem?


Anyway today I tried again on the host pc. I got an fsck warning, fsck 
executed and I got to a root prompt! Cool!


Then I reboot... and my BIOS says that my setup is gone. BINGO!

Did you remember perhaps that I was signalling this problem with my old 
PC? if a a successful multi-user boot succeeded, my BIOS was botched.


Fine. Very fine. this can be reproduced on a different PC, different 
manufacturer, different CPU and much newer. Darn.


Riccardo