Re: G1 CD images

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:22:22AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: Is it reasonable to expect that I can produce a base functioning system from the 1st ISO? If yes, it might be nice to say that in the README. I'm going to try an install from the CD

Re: (failed) packages

Paul Emsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK then, does one conditionalise on (e.g.) MAXHOSTNAMELEN: #ifdef MAXHOSTNAMELEN /* do it the traditional way */ #else /* do it the Hurd way, typically using realloc() */ #endif for each occurance of MAXHOSTNAMELEN

Re: termios in lpr, beav.

Paul Emsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't know what to do about the following undeclareds: XCASE, OCRNL, ONLRET, ONOCR (which AFAICS provide various text translations) so I give up with that. The Hurd doesn't provide those text translations. I don't have any

Ext2 Partition size limit

Hello, I'm in the midst of trying to install the Hurd to an Ext2 partition, and I was wondering if the 1 GB limit to partition still applies. The installation manual I read states that the system can't handle more than a gigabyte on the Ext2 partition. Thanks! - Josh

Re: Ext2 Partition size limit

I'm in the midst of trying to install the Hurd to an Ext2 partition, and I was wondering if the 1 GB limit to partition still applies. The installation manual I read states that the system can't handle more than a gigabyte on the Ext2 partition. The manual is up to date in this respect.

Re: Ext2 Partition size limit

Thanks for the info. What's the prospective on overcoming this limitation? -Josh

X11 question

I was wondering if X has improved in the G1 release. I use F1 on my laptop and I had a tough time getting it configured even with Debian Linux's config file on the other partition. I got the ol grey screen with ps2 mouse movement but no window manager. -- Matt Grant I.T. Systems

Re: Will the hurd go into woody ?

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:55AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:10:11PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: sorry if it was already said here, but I would like to know if the hurd port will be released in woody. And if not, why not (bootfloppy problem ?). Nope - we

Re: X11 question

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:31:35AM -0400, Matt Grant wrote: I was wondering if X has improved in the G1 release. I use F1 on my laptop and I had a tough time getting it configured even with Debian Linux's config file on the other partition. I got the ol grey screen with ps2 mouse movement but

ssh as user: setrlimit failed

Hi, I have recently installed ssh. If I want to use it as user I get this error message: bash-2.04$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] setrlimit failed: Function not implemented As root it works perfectly. I installed the package ssh_2.5.2p2-3_hurd-i386.deb (with all other dependend pkg). Thanks in

Re: ssh as user: setrlimit failed

Please use gdb to find the setrlimit call that fails and see what its parameters are. Also note all the setrlimit or getrlimit calls that happen before the failing one, and show us the complete list. Thanks, Roland

Re: ssh as user: setrlimit failed

--- Raimund Huemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed this problem with any installed version of ssh. However, if you compile it yourself and use that compiled and not installed copy it will work. I don't know what causes this. Hi, I have recently installed ssh. If I want to use it as

Re: ssh as user: setrlimit failed

I have found the offending piece of code. original_real_uid = getuid(); original_effective_uid = geteuid(); #ifdef HAVE_SETRLIMIT /* If we are installed setuid root be careful to not drop core. */ if (original_real_uid != original_effective_uid) {

Re: Will the hurd go into woody ?

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Which is not the main reason to release or not at all. I am much more worried about developing the boot floppies and ensuring functionality of the packages than about package counts (for the release). I can see a number of advantages in having

Re: Will the hurd go into woody ?

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:47:46PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: I can see a number of advantages in having separate release dates, version numbers and names for the Hurd releases. There is a big fat disadvantage, and that is that we share 99.99% of the packages, and it's old Debian tradition to

Re: Average age

On Don, 2001-10-04 at 07:33, Ramakrishnan M wrote: James Morrison wrote: Occationally hearing ages of people on irc or finding on webpages I'm wondering what the average age of GNU/Hurd users and developers is. I started using a comp when I was 17. Now I am 25, so my average age is