Re: hurd-i386 images

2017-01-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I can't stop thanking you. This new build has so much better I/O performance, in comparison to previous Hurd builds. It is so much more usable now. Thanks. On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 15:32 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Thanks a lot Samuel. > > On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 19:29 +0100, Samuel

Re: hurd-i386 images

2017-01-16 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Thanks a lot Samuel. On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 19:29 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Since an RC1 of the Stretch installer was released, I also published new > hurd-i386 installer and qemu images. > > Samuel > > -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC

Re: Bug#826043: apt: gpg validation fails on hurd

2016-06-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 01:13 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > On Hurd, getting $PWD from the 700 directory fails, and find thus aborts > immediately, without emitting any output, and thus no keyring is found. > > So, to summarize, the issue is that since apt-get update runs find as a > non-root

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
mu-kvm: /usr/bin/kvm 2016-02-09 / 18:43:50 ♒♒♒  ☺ rrs@learner:/var/tmp/hurd$ cat `which kvm` #! /bin/sh exec qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm "$@" 2016-02-09 / 18:44:00 ♒♒♒  ☺     -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of inventi

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
t point, when it is in boot-up, I do not have a (emergency) shell. The login program just loops and respawns. So, I've not found a way to debug these problems. My only option is to revert back to my good working snapshot. So do you have any advise on how to root cause these ? --

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
ess to the hurd console? Nope. And when I say "couldn't terminate", I mean the shutdown init scripts. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
cesses which are blocked (maybe of CPU) are in Deep Uninterruptible State. A state that even the Linux kernel is often not able to kill the process, if in. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
e login program just loops > indefinitely. To fix it, and avoid reverting to a snapshot, I simply > mount the qemu image as a regular partition on the host system and > then fsck it. This allows me to boot the Hurd again without any > issues. Thank you Flavio. Yes. I'll try that next time I

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
t; refresh its output? The way it gets information from procfs may not > be > so efficient. What do you think about the memory consumption ? It is low, around 35%. I think this is turning out to be a /usr/bin/kvm vs libvirt issue. But I need to nail that first, to make that stateme

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 18:12 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 13:22 +0100, Flávio Cruz wrote: > > > Upon reset, as expected, I ran into file system inconsistency > > > issue. So > > > now I had an install that was not bootable. > > >  &

Re: virtio support

2016-02-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 15:32 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf, on Tue 09 Feb 2016 18:44:29 +0530, wrote: > > When you say plain kvm, I'm assuming you're on the same as I am. > >  > > rrs@learner:/var/tmp/hurd$ dpkg -S `which kvm` > > qemu-kvm: /usr/bin/kv

virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello, Does the current state of Debian GNU/HUrd support virtio drivers ? I haven't tracked Hurd status and just wanted to check here first. -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 23:24 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > In today's upgrade, 2 observations I have that I'd like to share. > > 1) I'm using the rtl8139 network driver emulated with qemu. I fetched > some data (around 200 MiB) over the network from the host (Linux) > machi

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 16:54 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf, on Mon 08 Feb 2016 19:09:49 +0530, wrote: > > Does the current state of Debian GNU/HUrd support virtio drivers ? > > No, the emulated devices work fine for now, we haven't taken the time > to >

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
he=writeback Libvirt and virt-manager have a nice reporting interface. It can also regularly graph the Guest CPU consumption. So what I reported you was about the Guest OS. So on my setup, Hurd is problematic in performance. I guess I need to be sure of "KVM is enabled" or not. -- Ri

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 23:59 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Libvirt and virt-manager have a nice reporting interface. It can also > regularly graph the Guest CPU consumption. So what I reported you was > about the Guest OS. So on my setup, Hurd is problematic in > performance. &g

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 19:32 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf, on Mon 08 Feb 2016 23:54:15 +0530, wrote: > > Since you asked about memory, I've now increased it to 2048. I > think > > for historical reasons, I had kept it to 1048 till now. > > 1024 should

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
d it to kvm32. /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name Hurd -S -machine pc-i440fx- 2.4,accel=tcg,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu kvm32 -m 1024 Since you asked about memory, I've now increased it to 2048. I think for historical reasons, I had kept it to 1048 till now. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.de

Re: virtio support

2016-02-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 00:13 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name Hurd -S -machine pc-i440fx- > 2.4,accel=tcg,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu kvm32 -m 2048 > > > It is almost the same as before, just the important addition of "- > enable-kvm"

Re: Bug#714222: libstoragemgmt: FTBFS on non-Linux: 'WEXITED' undeclared

2013-07-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thursday 27 June 2013 01:48 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2013 04:19 AM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Builds of libstoragemgmt on the Hurd and kFreeBSD have been failing because WEXITED is evidently Linux-specific: CC lsm_daemon.o lsm_daemon.c: In function

Bug#674735: hurd: first invocaton of recursive delete fails on an nfs share

2012-05-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: hurd Version: 20120520-1 Severity: normal Please re-assign it to the appropriate package. But the bug is seen specifically on Hurd debian-hurd:/tmp/sg3-utils-1.33# cd /var/tmp/nfs/ debian-hurd:/var/tmp/nfs# ls 51c443dc-85dc-e874-1a91-e184b43bedeb sg3-utils_1.33-1.debian.tar.gz

SCSI for Hurd

2012-05-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, I see no scsi headers present in hurd. The only package that provides it is hurd-dev (20120520-1). Is this usable? It seems to be shipping the development files from linux. It installs them under a non-standard location, /usr/share/libdde_linux26/build/include/linux-headers/ A quick search

Bug#674731: hurd: nfs translator fails when trying to clone a git repo

2012-05-26 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: hurd Version: 20110319-2 Severity: normal Please assign it to the right package. I was not sure against whom to file the bug. I have an NFS share and am tring to clone a git repository on it. It fails with: debian-hurd:/var/tmp/nfs# git clone

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-05-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Samuel Thibault wrote: Ritesh Raj Sarraf, le Sat 01 May 2010 20:58:14 +0530, a écrit : BTW, Does anyone know what is the max RAM limit on Hurd ? The usual 32bit limitation. That is, with kernel/user separation, a compromise which is currently configured to 1GB. Earlier when I was trying

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-05-01 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Thank you to all of you. I had been struggling recently with installing L1 as my Guest VM (The disk image seemed to be dead always during installation). The images you guys have prepared has turned out to work nice. The only difference I can see from my previous encounter with Hurd (Don't

output of sys.platform changed

2007-01-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
if the platform is a GNU/Hurd box ? Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. The great are those who achieve the impossible, the petty are those who cannot

Re: output of sys.platform changed

2007-01-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Ritesh Raj Sarraf, le Mon 22 Jan 2007 14:09:15 +0530, a écrit : I noticed that on GNU/Hurd, the output of sys.paltform has changed from gnukfreebsd5 to gnukfreebsd6. Mmm, on my GNU/Hurd, this is gnu0 Are you really using GNU/Hurd and not GNU/kfreeBSD ? How

Re: upgrade hurd package

2006-07-13 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
to -7, I can use the backup image. Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. The great are those who achieve the impossible, the petty are those who

upgrade hurd package

2006-07-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, I remember the hurd package creating problems. Is it safe to upgrade now ? Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. The great are those who achieve