Re: Emacs segfaults when in X

2006-01-17 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was told that somebody has the solution for this issue but I could not find it so, I ask it here. Emacs (as shipped with Debian) works when launched under the hurd console but when it is done in a X window session, the system goes crazy and finally, the only

Re: console, xkb

2005-09-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Andreas B. Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: all translators are started correctly, but it looks as if the keymap is responsible for the lost ability to switch between ttys. Whenever I use --keymap=de I can't switch, for --keymap=en_US or --keymap=fr it works. This is the same for automatic

Re: console, xkb

2005-09-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Andreas B. Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, the problem with xkb has been solved: It seems to be related to the version of xlibs. Downgrading from xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-7_all.deb to xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_all.deb solved it. But if I use the automatic start at bootup compared to my shell

Re: Not accessing network after apparently succesful settrans of the /hurd/pfinet

2005-08-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However after performing ping dhcp_server_ip the console just hangs forever. In case ping was not working properly I also tried apt-get update, and it also hangs forever. I looked at the card leds, and although it's powered, it

Console client argument ordering

2005-08-19 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, The console client has a hard to reproduce bug. Some people get a black screen when using the console client. This problem is solved when changing the order of the drivers. The problem was introduced after I committed the mouse driver and is most likely a part of that mouse driver.

Re: Very Annoying

2005-08-01 Thread Marco Gerards
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, 3 unsubscribe attempts using all 3 of my email address's and I'm still getting mail from this list. I notice that others seem to be experiencing a similar problem. If there is an admin/moderator reading this can you _please_ sort this issue out? In every

Re: Very Annoying

2005-08-01 Thread Marco Gerards
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just follow these instructions. It says that in case of problems you have to send an email to the above address. Not to the mailinglist. I can imagine you are annoyed because you receive just some emails you do not like. You should know a lot of people who can't

Re: MC on Hurd

2005-06-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Halturin Taras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some body ported MC (midnight commander) to Hurd? It works, although it does not support the Hurd specific features yet. It would be nice if people could add such features. -- Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: MC on Hurd

2005-06-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Halturin Taras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What features you mean? In GNU/Hurd you can set translators. I think it should be possible with mc, just like you can create and edit symlinks. Same for the fourth set of rwx-bits. Perhaps there are more Hurdish features that can be implemented... --

Re: blank screen after executing console command...

2005-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:10:53PM -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: Tried that, and got the same thing... Weird thing is not getting errors after going back to mach console... I looked for a verbose switch, but dind find any... Interesting,

Re: unstripped mozilla packages available for debugging

2005-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, while I can navigate through the pull-down menus and edit the URL bar, I can neither activate anything, nor does the URL bar react on enter. Maybe a XUL issue with our mouse driver or something else. If there is an issue with the mouse driver,

Re: blank screen after executing console command...

2005-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are subtle issues with loading the mouse driver which make it blank-freeze the console on startup on some machines (addings some printfs in the code made them vanish). Not sure whether they pertain to the mouse repeater specifically or the

Re: blank screen after executing console command...

2005-05-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After tic execution I logged on as single user mode. My mistake, but I still needed to do the tic command... Not if you use Debian, AFAIK. Any ways, I tried modifications over /libexec/runsystem.gnu, adding /etc/default/hurd-console and

Re: libgtop2

2005-05-12 Thread Marco Gerards
Manuel Menal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know what IP accounting is. Well, it's what you get with ifconfig (or /proc/net/dev) in Linux. Like, the number of received/sent packets/bytes, errors, collissions, things like that. Drivers keep count of them already (rx_errors, rx_bytes,

Re: libgtop2

2005-05-12 Thread Marco Gerards
Manuel Menal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't you get it with ifconfig or netstat on GNU/Hurd? With ifconfig you can't (it only shows what you can get with the basic ioctls, that is MTU, address, netmask, broadcast, flags, ...). I didn't know of any port of netstat for GNU/Hurd. I assumed it

Re: tcpdump-3.8.3

2005-05-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Barry, If built tcpdump-3.8.3 tonight with the following lame patch: Did you get tcpdump to work on GNU/Hurd? I seriously doubt that it would work, because I expect that there is no way to access the NIC directly. -- Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Xserver cannot open keyboard

2005-05-03 Thread Marco Gerards
Antonio Vinci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=kbd -d pc_mouse --repeat=mouse \ -d generic_speaker -c /dev/vcs Well I tried the above one. But X still won't run. I think I am going to eat some faq about xfree and hurd... Right, you must also make these

Re: Xserver cannot open keyboard

2005-05-03 Thread Marco Gerards
Antonio Vinci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Il giorno lun, 02/05/2005 alle 22.21 +0200, Michael Banck ha scritto: On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Antonio Vinci wrote: Trying to startup my X server it says cannot open keyboard Now Xfree can find the keyboard... /dev/cons was a file

Re: [md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)] Re: Required firewall support

2005-03-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:54:28PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Here's one fellow's interpretation of that requirement. Marco has advocated dropping 'doorstop architectures' from Debian for years and he is in no way authorative on this matter.

Re: [md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)] Re: Required firewall support

2005-03-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But doing this because the bureaucracy wants it seems like a silly reason to me. I am considering writing a new pfinet from scratch because the current one really sucks, in my opinion. If we want

Re: heads up

2005-03-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I agree with most of what you wrote, I don't think progress can be made within Debian, but what will happen is that things won't go broken. And that is a good thing. How about attracting new developers, porting packages, having something

Re: heads up

2005-03-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about attracting new developers, porting packages, having something useful to work with for Hurd developers, etc? That hasn't happened in the several years I have been around here. People start hacking on the Hurd for other reasons. And

Re: heads up

2005-03-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Morey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would very like to see the HURD more widely used, and may have an interest in getting involved as a developer. Is there something you would like to work on? Thanks, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: FHS compliance

2005-03-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scribit Thomas Bushnell BSG dies 16/03/2005 hora 09:45: What is with /lib/hurd or /lib/servers? GNU/Linux has it modules in /lib/modules/$kernel-version, so why you do not the same for Hurd? They are not libraries. Nor are the kernel modules in

Re: heads up

2005-03-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You really need to lighten up! (a proper response might have been along the lines Alfred, what have you done lateley huh? When will you send those patches that you have in your tree?, etc.) At least I gave up on asking you. ;-P -- Marco -- To

Re: FHS compliance

2005-03-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nota bene: no need to CC me, as I'm a subscriber of this list. No one will bother to check if you are subscribed or not. Personally I won't respond to emails in which people ask not to send a CC (this is just an exception). AFAIK CC'ing is normal

Re: putty-0.56

2005-02-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, after patching glibc to add the weak aliases for setresgid and setresuid, putty-0.56 builds fine. Debs are here as usual but probably won't do you any good without patching glibc. Cool! Do you have a patched glibc package? Thanks, Marco -- To

Re: alioth patch tracker and task manager enabled

2005-02-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillem and I have enabled the patch tracker for Alioth's pkg-hurd project. This means that we now have a centralized place to collect porting patches for other packages. Likewise, we have enabled the task manager, which will hopefully cut down on

Re: Some packages that compiled fine for hurd-i386

2005-01-24 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've actually tried to send the patch not gzipped but it didn't get through, so I thought I was hitting a size limit and gzipped it. gzipping a file over email is silly since it gets encoded using base64. Take the following example:

Re: console translator set without encoding

2005-01-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Danilo Segan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are you going to do when you come across a filesystem where you have two files with such names which only differ in normalisation form used (i.e. fully decomposed or fully composed)? Yeah, you can ensure that no filesystem created via GNU/Hurd is

Re: how can i join in the community..

2005-01-07 Thread Marco Gerards
sathish kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please help me, how to start like what books and topics i have to study before i join, and how to contribute.. i'm new to this community contributions. Just hang around. Make sure you are subscribed to all mailing lists and follow what is going on. It

Re: K8 CDs etc

2004-12-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know it is a bad time of the year, but the K8 CD iso's are being uploaded to gnuab.org at the moment. The first image 70% on its way. All four should have been uploaded in about 40 hours. 16 KB/s upload Ahhg... Cool! Main features. The 2GB

Re: How I got X working

2004-12-28 Thread Marco Gerards
Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed your xfce4 packages today at work and everything worked great. The only thing I had to do was create a .xsession file with the following line: Exec /usr/bin/startxfce4 || exec xterm Though I still can't move/resize windows but

Re: HURD wont booting after dist-upgrade

2004-12-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Pierre Gillmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so after the last dist-upgrade (which contained hurd_20040508-5) my GNU/Hurd system is not able to boot. The message I get: start /hurd/ext2fs.static: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: panic: disk_cache_init: Block size 1024 != vm_page_size 4096 This is

Re: Hello a quick questions ...

2004-12-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Jim Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ooops ... I meant that i would compile the hurd ... not just the kernel :-) So thats really cool I can actually lend a hand despite the only small amounts of time ... I am pretty excited ... I suppose the best thing I can do is compile the the hurd ... and

Re: RFP: sharity-light -- Portable, userland implementation of SMBFS

2004-12-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: sharity-light Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Christian Starkjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/index.html * License : GPL

Re: Memory leak in console-client

2004-12-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Gianluca Guida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Following patch fixes this. Thanks a lot for your patch! I will make sure this will get fixed before the repeater patch is checked into (upstream) CVS. -- Marco

Re: Mouse repeater breaks console

2004-10-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Johannes Rohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ognyan Kulev schrieb: Johannes Rohr wrote: I simpled typed the stanza that I found in the GNU/Hurd wiki: console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=kbd -d generic_speaker \ -d pc_mouse --repeat=mouse --protocol=ps/2 -c /dev/cons /dev/vcs Just to be sure:

Re: Mouse repeater breaks console

2004-10-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Johannes Rohr wrote: I tried with and without them. Anyway, I understand, those are needed for running X only. Their presense or absense should not affect the virtual consoles, right? Yes, the symbolic links don't affect virtual consoles. I've re-read

Re: Mouse repeater breaks console

2004-10-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:29:56PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: However, I'm having trouble with the pc_mouse driver. If I use the full command line as suggested by the HurdConsole and XFree86 sections of the GNU/Hurd Wiki, the screen blanks and I

Re: Mouse repeater breaks console

2004-10-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Johannes Rohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco Gerards schrieb: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Good to know that you have nailed it down to pc_mouse. I agree :/ If someone can provide me more information, I will debug this problem and fix it. So is there anything I can do

Re: Mouse repeater breaks console

2004-10-07 Thread Marco Gerards
Johannes Rohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I'm having trouble with the pc_mouse driver. If I use the full command line as suggested by the HurdConsole and XFree86 sections of the GNU/Hurd Wiki, the screen blanks and I doesn't even respond to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. If I leave out the '-d

Re: Help required on disabling interrupts

2004-09-22 Thread Marco Gerards
SivaramaKrishnan Nageswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed the GNU-HURD and when I tried to boot using GRUB (0.92), the system hangs. I was asked to disable the interrupts. Can somebody tell me the procedure for disabling the interrupts and also how to cross-compile the GNU-Mach kernel

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 07:32 +, Marco Gerards wrote: Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philip Charles wrote: Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse How is /dev

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more secure in the Hurd package, IMHO. Please don't bring up that old tired thread, good entropy or no entropy. Why not? It is something that just needs to be discussed. Do you

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philip Charles wrote: Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse (To Hurd console developers:) Is this the recommended way, or all (like X) should refer to /dev/cons/{kbd,mouse}?

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There used to be /dev/urandom where some entropy could be copied to enable ssh to generate its keys. What is needed to be done to provide entropy for ssh now? What I do is: cp $RANDOM_BINARY /dev/urandom for example: cp /bin/bash /dev/urandom But

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:32:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 I had problems with these. My mouse was not working correctly with Emulate3Buttons

Re: On starting the Hurd console by default

2004-09-20 Thread Marco Gerards
John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 13:57 +1200, John Williams wrote: Marco wrote to this list today with a couple of option. In general, your above line should suffice though. Thanks. Hmmm. /dev/cons does not exist. And when, in /dev, I issue the command

Re: On starting the Hurd console by default

2004-09-20 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (CCing debian-hurd, hope you don't mind) On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:45:10AM +1200, John Williams wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 17:38 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: I think now is the time to think about how we want to go about starting the Hurd console

Re: New xattr-hurd tarball

2004-09-19 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M. Gerards wrote: When -d pc_mouse, --device=.. should always be used instead of -d, I guess. What do you mean with that? Just imagine its use: console ... -d pc_mouse -d com0 -d generic_speaker ... Oh, right. Of course that is not possible. I

Re: Problems with LAN card

2004-08-19 Thread Marco Gerards
Antonio Regidor García [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I have shared IRQ's. I will try to recompile GNU Mach. Recompiling won't fix it if shared IRQs are the problem. Depending on which IRQs are shared, it won't ever work. Which IRQs are shared? Can you change some things so they are not

Re: gnumach nic update compile still error

2004-08-16 Thread Marco Gerards
arief# [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried your suggestions on not doing cross-compilation, so [...] export MIG=/usr/bin/i386-gnu-mig; ./configure --enable-kmsg --enable-lpr --enable-floppy --enable-ide --enable-eexpresspro100 --prefix=/gnu --host=i386-gnu This looks like

Re: 24 lines terminal

2004-08-16 Thread Marco Gerards
David Gascón [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I start Hurd ; the terminal comes with a 24 lines configuration; I would like to change this value. I know that I can use the command terminal --lines=xx in my GRUB menu.lst file; but It just works with other boots such as Debian ones. How does

Re: gnumach nic update compile error (was: K7 Disc)

2004-08-15 Thread Marco Gerards
arief# [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no need to use a crosscompiler, so please don't do that. I see. Why not? (I'm compiling from by Debian GNU/Linux). There is no need to use a crosscompiler when my patch is installed. This is my configure command: ./configure --enable-kmsg

Re: gnumach nic update compile error (was: K7 Disc)

2004-08-13 Thread Marco Gerards
arief# [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: using i386-gnu-gcc. configure:1881: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:1884: i386-gnu-gccconftest.c 5 /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status As I said, it

Re: I think I want to help

2004-08-11 Thread Marco Gerards
pietro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco Gerards said: Soon I will try to make Mach work on my mac using open firmware... isn't it easier to use apple's version of mach? it has better driver support (via IOKit) and support for kernel modules (i think they call it kernel extensions). I am

Re: Trying out HURD

2004-08-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to install from a CD now, use K5. If you want to install the latest version wait about ten days for K7. Goody! So ten days well wait then. I hope the release would be announced on this list right? Or just use K6 and use apt-get to

Re: Trying out HURD

2004-08-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the reason I am not trying K6 even. From what I see, that too has to be installed primarily over the net right? (As in, one downloads the ~30MB ISO file, and the rest has to happen through the net?) (Not too clear on that though, this is

Re: Trying out HURD

2004-08-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Yaakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wonderful, i just got K5 CDs... how severe is the change between K5 and K7 that if I code something in K5, will it decently work on K7 or will it be like a foreign language? No need to worry about that. What do you want to code, btw? -- Marco

Re: I think I want to help

2004-08-09 Thread Marco Gerards
arief# [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I help to make GNU/Hurd reached 1.0 release ASAP? (I know, a little bit of over-optimism ;-)) Start hacking. :) I don't have a clear clue of what is GNU/Hurd current status is. I've checked hurd.gnu.org, debian-hurd page, hurd.gnufans.org, but all I

Re: I think I want to help

2004-08-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:38:17PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: ... OSKIT-Mach is not used by most people. The port to L4 is not done yet. If a person (a novice, no one reading this should assume there will one day be any useful result from my intention

Re: I think I want to help

2004-08-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter uses OSF Mach. I think the easiest thing to do is adding the GNU Mach linux gluecode support. Is this the code in linux/dev/glue in gnumach-1-branch? So you mean taking that code and using it with OSF Mach? Exactly. I wonder how easy it will be

Re: K7 discs

2004-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Arnaud Fontaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it should be very interesting to add the arief NIC patch for gnumach. As a matter of fact, this kind of NIC (Intel Pro 100) is used by a lot of vendors of laptops nowadays. Is it possible ? What I would prefer to do is adding Alfred's patch.

Re: Bug#256669: e2fsprogs: FTBFS(hurd-i386): uses undefined struct sockaddr_dl

2004-08-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Göran Weinholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This seems to be because the hurd defines AF_LINK without defining struck sockaddr_dl. The sockaddr_dl/AF_LINK code was added to support grabbing the local MAC of an local ethernet interface for MacOS/Darwin. Apparently the Hurd doesn't provide

Re: adsl

2004-07-30 Thread Marco Gerards
João Júlio Salvatti Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how I could configure one link ADSL in the Debian Gnu/Hurd? I think you can not do PPP under GNU/Hurd. I am using a gateway for ADSL. My speedtouch modem does have NAT support and I just configure it as the default gateway under GNU/Hurd.

Re: Doubt

2004-07-29 Thread Marco Gerards
João Júlio Salvatti Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I know that kernel of hurd is the mach, but what he would be hurd? They could give an example to me? The Hurd is the set of userspace servers. Mach does have drivers in kernel space. But there are a lot of things not implemented in

Re: Problems with LAN card

2004-07-28 Thread Marco Gerards
Antonio Regidor García [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Debian Hurd and when booting the computer freezes. The last part of the error message I get is: rtl8139.c:v0.99B 4/7/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd400, IRQ

Re: eepro100 detection fail? (and a success story :-))

2004-07-27 Thread Marco Gerards
Patrick Strasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All your components share IRQ 5 or IRQ 11. Even worse, your NIC and your Radeon share IRQ 11. You cant try to disable some components in BIOS. You can also try to change the PCI-settings to let them use different interrupts. If it can not be done in

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Marco Gerards
rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read in a mail list that hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is this true? It is partially true. Big partitions are supported, but big filesystems are not.

Re: /hurd/kbd missing or deprecated?

2004-07-18 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:22:13PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Not yet, but I will have a look at the problem. Does this only happen with the VESA driver? Well, I can only speak for myself. I experienced this on VESA (as seems everybody else has

Re: /hurd/kbd missing or deprecated?

2004-07-08 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:22:13PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Not yet, but I will have a look at the problem. Does this only happen with the VESA driver? Well, I can only speak for myself. I experienced this on VESA (as seems everybody else has

Re: /hurd/kbd missing or deprecated?

2004-07-07 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, I got it working. I was wonder if you (or someone else on the list :) knows why when I logout of X the console is full of /'s? It still works but it isn't very usable (I'm using the vesa driver in case that helps) Yeah, this is a known problem

Re: Partitionsize 2GB

2004-07-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Mark Trompell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Mark, ist there still a limitation of partitions size at ~ 2GB? Yes, the limit is still there. But there are some alpha quality patches available to fix this problem. Hopefully this problem will be fixed in the debian package as soon as possible.

Re: upgrading Debian-GNU-Hurd

2004-06-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Thierry Lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It works after upgrading with apt-get. After I make and make install the hurd (which I get from cvs) the console command responds Try 'console --help' or 'console --usage' for more information. It seems that the problem comes from the --repeat

Problems with the tarball

2004-06-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, On #hurd there was someone with the `./native-install: cannot make pipe for command substitution: Protocol family not supported' problem. That means the `/hurd/pflocal' translator was not set on `/servers/socket/1'. He was using The

Re: upgrading Debian-GNU-Hurd

2004-06-27 Thread Marco Gerards
Thierry Lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a fresh install, I use http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/keymap.tar.gz. I guess it does not work with the Hurd console ; correct? 2) My PS/2 mouse doesn't work (it works after a fresh install from the K5 iso cd) What is the output of `showtrans

Re: upgrading Debian-GNU-Hurd

2004-06-27 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having this problem as well when I try to restart X. I always have to reboot in order start X a second time. I think that is because the mouse translator malfunctions. Could you test this after disabling the mouse? Thanks, Marco

Re: crosshurd

2004-06-18 Thread Marco Gerards
Dan Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed the latest (unstable) version of crosshurd and was able to boot and run native-install twice, but my ethernet adapter (RTL8139) was not recognized. Do I have to recompile Mach from source with the driver active? This driver is enabled. The

Re: apt-get

2004-06-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Thierry LACOSTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: apt-get update works fine but apt-get dist-upgrade ends up with dependency problems. I had a similar problem with apt-get upgrade libc0.3. After that my system is in an inconsistent state. Did somebody succeed in upgrading the distribution ? What

Re: newbie trying to get network to work

2004-06-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Bertrik Sikken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now make tells me it misses 'mig'. So I got mig1.3 and tried to compile it. This gives me a missing mach/message.h file (make is trying to execute gcc -S -x c -o cpu.symo cpu.symc), same with the CVS version of mig. Sorry for possibly asking a

Re: newbie trying to get network to work

2004-06-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco, get of your darn ass and get this applied?! :) That's not up to me. Bother Roland, Marcus, Thomas or Jeff. -- Marco

Re: sysvinit and hurd

2004-06-12 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GNU/Hurd absolutely needs sysvinit, it is really important to us. Bollocks, it isn't important to GNU/Hurd nor does it _need_ it, since it doesn't follow the philosophy of GNU. It might be important to Debian GNU/Hurd, but if you meant that then

Re: newbie trying to get network to work

2004-06-12 Thread Marco Gerards
Bertrik Sikken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I just installed the debian K6 hurd mini ISO by following the Debian GNU/Hurd installation guide. Installation was pretty smooth up to the point where I configure the network. As per the guide, I typed settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2

Re: sysvinit and hurd

2004-06-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't use sysvinit, just depending on libc0.3 seems like a good enough solution I think, or just not listing libc0.3 at all (as it is now AFAIK). Wait, the Hurd doesn't use sysvinit at all ? I do get regular bugreports

Re: need help

2004-06-08 Thread Marco Gerards
Thierry LACOSTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed Debian-GNU/Hurd but was unable to compile gnumach-1.3 due to lots of missing [...] Could you please tell me how to proceed ? Just use the GNU Mach 1 branch of GNU Mach (the branch is named `gnumach-1-branch'). Make sure to touch

Re: Bug#133640: some issues still left

2004-06-06 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: start-stop-daemon.c:775: error: 'for' loop intial declaration used outside C99 mode --- ../cvs/dpkg-1.10.21/utils/Makefile.in +++ dpkg-1.10.21.ogi.2/utils/Makefile.in @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ endif $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)/$(man1dir)

Re: piping problems

2004-06-03 Thread Marco Gerards
Julien Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my hurd *seems* to boot up properly; I get the prompt. But then, running ./native-install fails with hundreds of warnings like this cannot create pipe. So is there something special to know about? I think I'm using the most recent versions. This

Re: hurd installation via iso

2004-05-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Ron Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a localhostsip -g gatewaysip -m mask it says no such dir /hurd/pfinet Did you accidently set a translator on top of /hurd/pfinet? You can check this with: showtrans /hurd/pfinet Or is it possible

Re: hurd installation via iso

2004-05-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 16 May 2004 01:35, you wrote: Ron Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a localhostsip -g gatewaysip -m mask it says no such dir /hurd/pfinet Did you accidently set a translator on top of

Re: Device Drivers

2004-05-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Isaac Gelado [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to develop a driver for my SiS 900 network card. I have read the source code of other drivers and now I have some questions. Do you want to write the driver from scratch? I think it would be easier to port the linux driver. For hurd-l4

Re: Device Drivers

2004-05-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone see if the hurd-l4 project can be removed, or atleast add to the README saying that it isn't the Hurd/L4 project? Or some such... I have contacted Ian about this, but I have not received a reply. -- Marco

Re: X-free libraries

2004-05-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:50:09PM +0200, M. Gerards wrote: Quoting Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem I am facing at the moment is that I will need to do some major butchery to the main archive before the earlier version of XFree will

Re: glibc_2.3.2.ds1-12 packages up for testing

2004-05-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +define kernel_check +true +endef I know close to nothing about m4, but this looks like a typo to me. -- Marco

Re: [Fwd: ext2fs patch for large stores, RC1+20040304]

2004-03-10 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco Gerards wrote: Currently I am (stress) testing it, and it seems to work quite fine. Of course I will keep testing it and let you know if something goes wrong. Great! Then I'll schedule preparation of RC2 with all the changes we've pointed

Re: [Fwd: ext2fs patch for large stores, RC1+20040304]

2004-03-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This fixes what Andrew Mitchell reported to me on 2003-10-28. I'm not 100% sure if what Marco Gerards reported is fixed by this change. Marco, would you do some tests again? Currently I am (stress) testing it, and it seems to work quite fine. Of course

Re: Updated (unoffical) hurd packages/ ext2fs (2GB) patch

2004-02-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:51:08AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: Unfortunately, I found out that a couple of important files were missing in these packages. I've rebuilt the packages and they are once again available at

Re: Emacs problems on Hurd still present in emacs21?

2004-02-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, could someone please check whether #122097 Emacs freezes under X (GNU/Hurd) is still present in emacs21? The problem is still present, although it does not hang here. I get a segfault: Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault Possibly some people

Re: K6 images, X-4.3 (xlibs split up)

2004-02-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been keeping an eye on the X-4.3 situation and libice6 etc are still needed. Any chance of these libraries being built for GNU? I do not want to build the K6 images until these are ready. And what about the newest glibc package Jeff built?

Re: Problems with native-install

2004-02-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, following the instructions at w.d.o/ports/hurd/hurd-install, I can't seem to get native-install running properly. Whenever I try, dpkg keeps telling me that it failed to create pipe: Protocol family not supported. I get similar rerors trying

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