Re: please test -- gnu-19991015.tar.gz

[John Tobey <spam@john-edwin-tobey.org>]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 03:51:37PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > >     mkdir /slowfox
> > >     settrans /slowfox /hurd/nfs slowfox:/home
> > >     cd /slowfox
> > > 
> > > ... and the system hangs.  The hang is interruptible (with Ctrl-C),
> > > though.
> > > 
> > You might need inetutils installed for these to function...
> 
> Is inetutils missing in the tar file? Goddamn.

Hey, keep your hat on.  :)  I don't think it's missing, maybe it just
needs a postinst or something after settrans /servers/socket/2.  As I
reported earlier, dpkg mentioned that it was replacing inetutils x.y.z
with the same version, but after installing (which should have been a
no-op) my network was functional.

Also, I remember having to struggle to unset the original translator.
Is this line in native-install really needed:

    /bin/settrans -c /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=192.168.0.1

?  I think I was getting "Device or resource busy" running

    settrans /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=10.0.0.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0

or  settrans /servers/socket/2

though I may have done some installation steps out of order.