RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread Bill Bland
Hello all, I just read an interview with RMS on http://www.lwn.net/ and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to debug the file system while the system is running--thread-specific breakpoints allow you to..." Now I'm still very much a Hurd newbie, but I'm sure I rea

Re: Hurd T-Shirts - anyone?

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Bland
On 26 Mar 2002, Richard Watson wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How about: > > GNU - Haven't you Hurd? That gets my vote. Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question: X not working (more problems).

2002-03-16 Thread Bill Bland
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Oystein Viggen wrote: > * [Bill Bland] > > > bit further. It switches to graphical mode, but then drops back into text > > mode. The error log is at the end of this email. Clearly the problem is > > that /dev/psaux doesn't exist. Unfortuna

Re: Newbie question: X not working (more problems).

2002-03-16 Thread Bill Bland
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, lode leroy wrote: > > Running xftcache in Speedo font directory...xftcache: error while loading > > shared libraries: libXft.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such > > file or directory > > do the following: > # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib > # apt-get (o

Re: Newbie question: X not working.

2002-03-14 Thread Bill Bland
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Philip Charles wrote: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Bill Bland wrote: > > > Hi Phil, > > Thanks for the advice but it dowsn't look like that's quite > > it. It looks (to my naive newbie eye) like I'm missing another > > library

Re: Newbie question: X not working.

2002-03-13 Thread Bill Bland
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Philip Charles wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Bill Bland wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I installed the hurd from the H3 CDs and everything appeared to go > > ok. I did /cdrom/upgrade/initial.sh and /cdrom/upgrade/gui.sh but > > now start

Newbie question: X not working.

2002-03-12 Thread Bill Bland
Hello all, I installed the hurd from the H3 CDs and everything appeared to go ok. I did /cdrom/upgrade/initial.sh and /cdrom/upgrade/gui.sh but now startx complains that it can't find libXmuu.so.1. I was ready to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I can't find it either! Does anyone have any ide

Possibly silly question from a wide-eyed newbie ;-)

2002-01-09 Thread Bill Bland
Hello, I have just installed the Hurd from the Debian H2 CDs (it was quite easy - well done for the good CDs and documentation). I've been reading a bit about translators and was really impressed with the idea of "mounting" a remote ftp server on the local filesystem. I was wondering: has