Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system Off topic general encouragement

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
I was investigating a bit, under Ubuntu, but I suspect this is quite similar in Debian... will verify a bit more tomorrow. paul@jacko:/etc/menu$ dpkg -L twm /. [...] /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc-menu /etc/menu-methods /etc/menu-methods/twm /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/twm [...] /usr/lib/X11/tw

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system Off topic general encouragement

2021-01-27 Thread jbranso
Hey Paul! Thanks for reporting! Every little bit helps! January 27, 2021 5:00 PM, "Paul Dufresne" mailto:dufres...@zoho.com?to=%22Paul%20Dufresne%22%20)> wrote: Oh, I should probably mention the following warning from QEMU: qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: C

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
Oh, I should probably mention the following warning from QEMU: qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.8001H:ECX.svm [bit 2] I did not investigate much... don't know what kind of problem it can cause me.

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
Trying to summarize  what I have found. Default X resolution with QEMU is too big, I set it to the minimum size: 1024x768 with: root@debian:/home/paul# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/paul.conf Section "Device"   Identifier "mydev" EndSection Section "Monitor"   Identifier "mymon" EndSection

Re: Xorg, dbus not starting because /dev/urandom does not exist

2021-01-27 Thread dufresnep--- via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd
Le mer., 27 janv. 2021 13:04:08 -0500 Samuel Thibault écrit > Paul Dufresne, le mer. 27 janv. 2021 13:01:14 -0500, a ecrit: > > So we have /dev/random... but not /dev/urandom > > That's not expected. Normally /dev/urandom is a mere symlink to random > > Samuel Indeed, a

Re: Xorg, dbus not starting because /dev/urandom does not exist

2021-01-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Dufresne, le mer. 27 janv. 2021 13:01:14 -0500, a ecrit: > So we have /dev/random... but not /dev/urandom That's not expected. Normally /dev/urandom is a mere symlink to random Samuel

Xorg, dbus not starting because /dev/urandom does not exist

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
I get some of those in my .xsession-errors file: localuser:paul being added to access control list dbus[823]: Failed to start message bus: Failed to generate UUID: Could not open /dev/urandom: No such file or directory EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon dbus-update-activation

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system

2021-01-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Dufresne, le mer. 27 janv. 2021 12:12:16 -0500, a ecrit: > And I tried to find fdwalk in bahs-5.1 directory with: > paul@debian:~/bash-5.1$ grep -rn . -e 'fdwalk' alternatively, you can use codesearch: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=fdwalk&hl=en I guess it's coming from libreadline.

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system

2021-01-27 Thread dufresnep--- via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd
I have xterm (and lxterm) working in Xorg now, but I did not figure out why... yet. First, trying to do a program with fdwalk, I have come to the conclusion fdwalk does not exist in Debian sid. My program: paul@debian:~$ cat fdwalk.c #include #include #include struct rlimit rl;

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Off Topic Praise

2021-01-27 Thread jbranso--- via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd
I love Samuel's positivity. He's probably one of the most positive people I know. I read recently that 80% of your success is mental and only 20% is technical skill. For example Gregor Mendel failed his teachers' exams three times, but he still spent 10 years cross breeding 21,000 plants to

Re: bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system

2021-01-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Dufresne, le mer. 27 janv. 2021 10:00:46 -0500, a ecrit: > I guess I should write a function in C to use fdwalk, and see if I can get it > to run in normal console, than in Xorg... but it feels hard work to me. All of us started with banging their head to the walls over such kinds of exercice

Re: problems with daily images

2021-01-27 Thread Almudena Garcia
Thinkpad X220 and X230 probably are too much modern for Hurd. In my case, I use Thinkpad T60 (and similar models, like R60e) and T410. These models have good compatibility with Hurd El mié, 27 ene 2021 a las 15:52, Joshua Branson () escribió: > Damien Zammit writes: > > > On 26/1/21 4:00 pm, Da

bash in X: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
First, thanks for informing about "su -" needed for /sbin commands to be used rather than just "su", indeed it fixed my problem. So after installing the daily image,tasksel, selected "Debian Desktop environment", "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common xserver-xorg-legacy" as described in https://www.de

Re: problems with daily images

2021-01-27 Thread Joshua Branson
Damien Zammit writes: > On 26/1/21 4:00 pm, Damien Zammit wrote: >> I burnt the cd to physical media and tried to install natively on X220 >> thinkpad. > > I also tried the same image on a physical X230 thinkpad, this time the disk > was detected by gnumach, > but it failed to detect the CD ROM