Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Peter Baumgarten
Hey everyone, I'm trying to be a hurd developer by jumping straight in and trying to tackle a bug. This may not be a hurd bug, but I only see it with the hurd version of sudo. I am trying to figure out why I get this message "visudo: /etc/sudoers busy, try again later" when I run visudo as root. I

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Peter Baumgarten, le Tue 11 Mar 2014 02:44:36 -0500, a écrit : > I'm trying to be a hurd developer by jumping straight in and trying to > tackle a bug. Good! > This may not be a hurd bug, but I only see it with the > hurd version of sudo. It is a hurd bug. > I am trying to figure out wh

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
I forgot to answer the other question: no, there is no support for lsof on the Hurd yet. Samuel

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Braun
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:44:36AM -0500, Peter Baumgarten wrote: > I'm trying to be a hurd developer by jumping straight in and trying to > tackle a bug. This may not be a hurd bug, but I only see it with the > hurd version of sudo. I am trying to figure out why I get this message > "visudo: /etc/

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:44:36 -0500, Peter Baumgarten wrote: > I'm trying to be a hurd developer by jumping straight in and trying to > tackle a bug. So, welcome to the team! :-) > This may not be a hurd bug, but I only see it with the > hurd version of sudo. I am trying to figure out why

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > Here is a simple roadmap explaing what is there to be done. > > 1) Successfully cross-build the hurd's glibc > 2) Make the appropriate changes to cross-base.scm so the toolchain will > use the new glibc when hurd is targeted with "guix build --target=i686-gnu

Re: New installation CDs and qemu image

2014-03-11 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Gabriele Giacone (2014-03-11 01:31:01) > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > Justus Winter wrote: > >> % showtrans /proc > >> /hurd/procfs -c > > > > it is unset, showtrans returns nothing. > > Can I set it with settrans? how, exactly? > > settrans -c /proc /hur

Re: New installation CDs and qemu image

2014-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, le Tue 11 Mar 2014 13:04:40 +0100, a écrit : > Quoting Gabriele Giacone (2014-03-11 01:31:01) > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Riccardo Mottola > > wrote: > > > Justus Winter wrote: > > >> % showtrans /proc > > >> /hurd/procfs -c > > > > > > it is unset, showtrans returns nothin

[GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-11 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello Guix , Hello Hurd Most of you already know me from the irc ,lurking around as phant0mas and that I am working towards porting Guix to GNU/Hurd. In order to be able to do that I have already packaged mach headers ,hurd headers and mig and I am currently working on packaging and cross-buildin

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Peter Baumgarten
On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 10:29 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > You don't happen to be a student willing to do this as a Google Summer of > Code project? :-) Yes I am a student hoping to get involved with hurd development through Google Summer of Code. I saw on the application that I should have subm

Re: Trying to solve file lock problem with /etc/sudoers

2014-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Peter Baumgarten, le Tue 11 Mar 2014 16:04:04 -0500, a écrit : > I looked through the > bugzilla list and did not know which bug I should tackle, but I was > annoyed that I could not shutdown as a normal user because of the visudo > problem, so I thought why not tackle that bug? That's exa