Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on bochs

2004-02-29 Thread PUYDT Julien
On dim, 2004-02-29 at 05:35, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Create the filesystem with parted (mkfs 1 ext2). This is however a > Linux owned filesystem, but we need the Hurd owner to be able to set > translators. It will also have the filetype feature set, which we > don't use on the Hurd. So I mang

Re: GNU/Hurd in severe need for documentation.

2004-01-28 Thread PUYDT Julien
On mer, 2004-01-28 at 16:57, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > - Is there a current (ie working with bochs 2) detailed howto for running > GNU/Hurd with bochs ? Are there Hurd images for Bochs somewhere ? The crosshurd package has some documentation, and should be helpful! Snark on freenode

Re: Inquiry Into Japanese-English Translation Opportunities

2003-09-12 Thread PUYDT Julien
On ven, 2003-09-12 at 04:11, Jens Seidel wrote: > I'm not sure whether you know it, but "the Hurd" is a free software project. > I don't know a firm related to the Hurd or the coming GNU OS. I'm not sure whether you know it, but it was spam! JP

Re: Hurd Advocacy?

2003-08-19 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 18/08/2003 à 15:57, Marcus Brinkmann a écrit : > L4 does not have any device drivers. Some people are working on a new > device driver infrastructure for GNU Hurd/L4, and drivers for that > infrastructure. It's a huge task, but it is also an interesting challenge. > Device drivers will be

Re: can't install emacs21 and german keymap?

2003-07-15 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 15/07/2003 à 06:06, Michael Banck a écrit : > AFAIK, LD_PRELOAD gets ignored by suid programs as well. That would indeed be pretty logical :-) Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr

Re: can't install emacs21 and german keymap?

2003-07-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 14/07/2003 à 22:04, Bjoern Schiessle a écrit : > Hello, > i have two problems with GNU/Hurd. > > 1. I have tried to install emacs21 with apt-get, but i get always this > error message: > > emacs21: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No s

Re: configure the network card

2003-07-07 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 07/07/2003 à 20:21, Bjoern Schiessle a écrit : > but i get always this message: > /hurd/pfinet: eth0: (os/device) no such device > settrans: /hurd/pfinet: Translator died Your network card wasn't detected by mach. Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr

Re: which order should i take?

2003-06-17 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 17/06/2003 à 07:50, hong jun a écrit : > so this time ,i have a new question:i don't know which package is the > first one i need. i have no idea about the order of installing these > packages. Just "apt-get install the-name-of-the-package-you-want"; apt-get will take care of the depend

Re: Unsubscribe

2003-06-10 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 10/06/2003 à 16:54, Frank H Mechler a écrit : > Nice try... but failed! Please read the lines that will end this mail, those may be helpful! Good luck, Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr

Re: x-window-system

2003-05-20 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 20/05/2003 à 08:32, Dmitry V. Zhulanov a écrit : > Thanks for advice. I think about X as convenient way to multitasking. I wish > to programming under GNU OS, and I like to fast switching between consoles. > But now only two consoles have short key sequences. > > Well, I think I have to wa

Re: RE:

2003-05-15 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 15/05/2003 à 01:06, deFreese, Barry a écrit : > My time. I have offered to do grunt labor, documentation, you name it. I > have written a man page for printtool for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. > I would love to do more documentation but I am a little insecure of my own > abilities

Re: Hurd Installation (panic)

2003-05-05 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le dim 04/05/2003 à 21:41, Ashish Gokhale a écrit : > # For booting GNU/Hurd > title GNU/Hurd + Mach > root (hd0,3) > # Primary Master & 4th partition. > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s4 > module /boot/serverboot.gz > boot This doesn't look like a reasonable GNU entry: title GNU root (hd0,0) ke

Re: bochs problem

2003-03-21 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le ven 21/03/2003 à 01:22, Robert Murray a écrit : > 00145683430p[VGA ] >>PANIC<< io read from address 03c0, len=2 This is a vga probe; ask bochs to continue anyway. The same error will happen a second time, continue again. This is not a real problem: if you have one, that can't be that. Sn

Re: bochs problem

2003-03-20 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 20/03/2003 à 18:05, Robert Murray a écrit : > I am trying to get the hurd installed in bochs. I am following the > instructions at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2003/debian-hurd-200303/msg00065.html Ah! That mail has been useful to someone! :-) > The tarball I'm using is gnu-20020

How to setup a hurd in bochs

2003-03-09 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, here is an explanation of how to get the hurd running in bochs (using the debian packages of bochs), from a snapshot tarball. Feel free to comment and tell me how much better I could have done it. 1. Creating a disk image (can be done as normal user) Use bximage, choose a hd, say of 900Mb, na

bonobo-activation: ok

2003-03-06 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, this is just to let you know the bonobo-activation-2.2.1 source package builds without any problem nor patch, giving nice binary packages: bonobo-activation_2.2.1-2_hurd-i386.deb libbonobo-activation-dev_2.2.1-2_hurd-i386.deb libbonobo-activation4_2.2.1-2_hurd-i386.deb if there's some place y

Re: request for help

2003-02-21 Thread PUYDT Julien
You may find useful information there: http://hurd.gnufans.org Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr

Re: old GNU tarball

2003-01-26 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le dim 26/01/2003 à 19:42, Marcus Brinkmann a écrit : > It doesn'tmatter how much the one command does. If it fails, and there are > dozens of ways dpkg could fail, you want to see the error. I rather have a > couple of confused users ask for clarification than bug reports that lack > information

Re: Emacs21 in X

2002-12-23 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le dim 22/12/2002 à 23:33, Johannes Rohr a écrit : > Hello, > > has anyone of you managed to launch the One True Editor under X in > current GNU/Hurd, i.e. without "-nw"? > > When I try, it gives me a "fatal error (11)" and dumps core. I've > filed a bug against emacs21 some months ago. So far th

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?

2002-12-21 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le sam 21/12/2002 à 02:54, Budi Rahardjo a écrit : > At the risk of being silly, I put our GNU/Hurd box on the Internet. >http://hurd.indocisc.com > > Please don't hurd it. :) > > If the system is unreachable, it could be that the machine is down. > (Lately it has been acting up, dropping int

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 15:44, Emile van Bergen a écrit : > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:26:13PM +0100, PUYDT Julien wrote: > > > Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 15:18, Daniel Burrows a écrit : > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:17:23AM +0100, PUYDT Julien <[EMAIL >

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 15:18, Daniel Burrows a écrit : > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:17:23AM +0100, PUYDT Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Le mer 18/12/2002 à 18:45, Niels Möller a écrit : > > > use some other construction that is secure eve

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 10:56, Marcus Brinkmann a écrit : > There is still quantum cryptography. It's provable secure because if you > sniff the message is destroyed. > > However, it's not really something you can use today, although I think they > already managed to bridge a couple of meters over th

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mer 18/12/2002 à 18:45, Niels Möller a écrit : > use some other construction that is secure even if the enemy has infinite > computational power I'm pretty sure it isn't possible: 1) you always want someone to read your message; hence no cryptalgo can be infinitely secure, there must be some ke

Re: kernel / system header files

2002-10-29 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 29/10/2002 à 01:33, Axel Christiansen a écrit : > No, i never used debian before. I am aware of the apt packet > system, could not figure out how to "list all available > packages" and doing a install "without dependence check". You probably don't want to list all available packages (too lo

Re: Howto compile qt-x11 on the Hurd / testers needed

2002-10-16 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 15/10/2002 à 01:18, Marcus Brinkmann a écrit : > does this mean you will port KDE next? :) No, because for one thing I don't know much about KDE, and because I already had just enough disk space to compile qt... But if you have a spare 50To disk, I may change my mind ;-) > That's easy wi

GNU texmacs on the Hurd

2002-10-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, this is just to inform that the segfaults I was "enjoying" running texmacs on the Hurd were due to it being compiled with gcc 3.2 and -O2. If you want to run texmacs on the Hurd, grab the sources, and modify debian/rules to replace the CXXFLAGS with "" (removing the -O2)(yes, the Hurd has DEB

Howto compile qt-x11 on the Hurd / testers needed

2002-10-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, Prerequisite: * cd /bin ; ln -s g++-3.2 g++ (this enables not to change all conffiles from g++ to g++-3.2); * export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib (qt compiles execs, then runs them); * all build-dependancies (for example, libmng1 version 1.0.4-2 is now compilable on the Hurd); * sources unpac

Re: pam patch

2002-10-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, I'm not a good programmer, but seeing what you did, I would say doing things like #ifndef PATHMAX #else #endif is bad: the dynamic way should be the only piece of code... And it would be much more readable. I think ideally, grep -r . -e PATH_MAX should only show the changelog entry tellin

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 30/09/2002 à 18:32, Jeff Bailey a écrit : > "And the poor sysadmin is probably sitting there wondering why his > connection is slow, pulls up slashdot for some light reading and > screams in anguish as he realises he has about 10 seconds left of > usable net connection..." I remembered tha

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 30/09/2002 à 17:43, Jeff Bailey a écrit : > Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. By the way, I remember some years ago on that same front page the news about somebody running a www server (apache?) under the Hurd. His connection was dead in minutes... Who was

Re: [PATCH] Porting filmgimp-0.1-1.0.4 to GNU/Hurd

2002-08-25 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le dim 25/08/2002 à 11:43, Marcus Brinkmann a écrit : > In the way the code seems to be written, you MUST make this static and > do an "if (!filename) {...} return filename;" where ... contains most of the > code. > You are leaking memory at each invocation here. Alternatively, all callers > of gi

Re: [PATCH] Porting filmgimp-0.1-1.0.4 to GNU/Hurd

2002-08-25 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le dim 25/08/2002 à 10:43, Niels Möller a écrit : > One also needs to free the string somewhere (unless gimp uses > automatic gc?). Sometimes it's more convenient to use alloca + sprintf > than asprintf. The original variable was a static char [MAXPATHLEN]; I use a dynamically allocated string, o

Re: permissions. ACLs? groups?

2002-08-25 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le dim 25/08/2002 à 06:19, Niklas =?iso-8859-1?q?H=F6glund=22?= @club-internet.fr a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:20:38 +, Tom Hart wrote: > > On my university's network, for example, students can't even change > > their backgrounds (except by using "set as wallpaper" from within a web > >

Re: Permission systems with ACLs (was RE: About the login shell)

2002-08-22 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 22/08/2002 à 08:37, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : > Why the hell have you created "Untrusted Students" in the first place? > If you have created that group, you already think in a "Deny ACE" > way. If, at group creation time, you keep in mind that a group is used > only to give additional ri

Re: Libc upgrade

2002-08-19 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 19/08/2002 à 11:36, Michal Suchanek a écrit : > Is there any place I can read something about these issues or can you > give other advice? Did you read Marcus Brinkmann's recent mail (and the following answers) about "Upgrading Debian GNU/Hurd"? Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr PS: lists.debian.

Re: Pratical questions

2002-08-15 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le jeu 15/08/2002 à 15:43, vanuxem gregory a écrit : > - Xfree (from alpha.gnu.org) dosen't work for user, > if I use in Xwrapper.config 'allowed_users=console'. > But if I use 'anybody', => in the log, I find > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: error while loading shared libraries: > libXext.so.6:

[PATCH] Porting filmgimp-0.1-1.0.4 to GNU/Hurd

2002-08-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, since I already wrote a (very) little patch to enable gimp to compile/run on the Hurd, I thought it could be easy to port filmgimp too. It was, and you'll find the patch included below. Cordially, JP (Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr on irc.openprojects.net) PS: here is the patch: diff -ur filmgimp

Re: texmacs package => how to debug an app problem under the hurd?

2002-07-30 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le mar 30/07/2002 à 13:06, Paul Emsley a écrit : > There are several discussions of using gdb with the Hurd in the > archives. Here is one: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/debian-hurd-22/msg00191.html Well, maybe I wasn't clear enough (at least the subject was misleading): only

Re: texmacs package => how to debug a hurd problem?

2002-07-30 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 22/07/2002 à 17:18, PUYDT Julien a écrit : > Hi, > > just to say that the current debian package can be built and used under > the hurd. No patch needed. Well, after further tests, it seems the "can be used under the hurd" isn't that sure; it hangs after a whil

texmacs package

2002-07-22 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, just to say that the current debian package can be built and used under the hurd. No patch needed. Upstream's gonna change their source-build system, but I tested it too; unless the packager makes crazy things (and I don't think he will), it will work just as good. Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr

Re: porting nethack-3.4.0 to the Hurd: partial results

2002-06-15 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.14 17:34, Wolfgang Jährling a écrit : mach_msg_type_number_t eu_cnt = 0, au_cnt = 0, eg_cnt = 0, ag_cnt = Does that mean it depends on the Hurd running on top of Mach? If it is the case, then I'll make it into an int. Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Missing depends

2002-06-15 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.15 03:19, Jordi Mallach a écrit : If Julien was using wmaker_0.80.0-4_hurd-i386.deb, then it was probably my fault: Version: 0.80.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I always build pack

Re: porting nethack-3.4.0 to the Hurd: partial results

2002-06-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.14 22:06, James Morrison a écrit : This would of couse be the wrong(tm) solution. Eventually we are hoping to the get X11 libs into /lib, but for now you should set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /lib/X11R6 and /local/lib set?id programs forget LD_LIBRARY_PATH... so I had to make symlink

Re: porting nethack-3.4.0 to the Hurd: partial results

2002-06-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.14 17:34, Wolfgang Jährling a écrit : PUYDT Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a beginner, I would be happy to have some advice/comment... To make the getresuid () function behave like the according Linux system call (and make it slightly more robost), it should be done

porting nethack-3.4.0 to the Hurd: partial results

2002-06-14 Thread PUYDT Julien
Salut, I have tried to port that _wonderful_ game to the Hurd. There are three build targets in the debian package; I have got two of them to succeed: build-x11 and build-gnome. The third, build-qt, depends on libqt-dev, unavailable (and that I don't feel like porting myself). You will find attache

Re: Compiling ghostscript

2002-06-13 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.11 10:53, Roland McGrath a écrit : Change it to use sysconf(_SC_PIPE_BUF) #ifndef PIPE_BUF. I was told on #hurdfr (by Neal) that it was _SC_PIPE. But gs depends on pthreads, so that won't lead to a new package. Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Compiling ghostscript

2002-06-13 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.11 10:53, Roland McGrath a écrit : Change it to use sysconf(_SC_PIPE_BUF) #ifndef PIPE_BUF. I was told on #hurdfr (by Neal) that it was _SC_PIPE. But gs depends on pthreads, so that won't lead to a new package. Snark on #hurd, #hurdfr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

gimp1.2 porting (relative) success

2002-06-11 Thread PUYDT Julien
Salut, I tried to port an app to the hurd, to see how difficult/easy it could be. I chose: gimp1.2 (1.2.3-2). You will find attached the diff of the only file I had to modify. What works: - make -f debian/rules build; - make -f debian/rules binary; What fails: - gimp1.2-perl doesn't install (de

Missing depends

2002-06-08 Thread PUYDT Julien
Salut, I have had dependancy problems with the following packages: * wmaker: the package should depend on hermes1 and libungif4g; I submitted as a bug to the bts, and the maintainer answered it was certainly a hurd build problem; * ssh: should depend on libpam-modules; I don't know exactly where

Re: Newbie feedback

2002-06-05 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.05 06:10, Kapil Hari Paranjape a écrit : I found that the problem disappeared after I remade the partition with mke2fs -o hurd -b 4096 This sets the block size to 4096 while the default is 1024. Is that the correct diagnosis? Tried 3 times with the -b 4096, succeeded 3 times (had

Newbie feedback

2002-06-04 Thread PUYDT Julien
Hi, I made the great jump today, and installed hurd on a spare partition. That box already used grub, so it was easy to add an entry in the menu.lst for grub beforehand on my debian/linux install. I followed Neal's famous install guide, and advice from #hurd. The preparation of the partition (mk