Re: Easy Guide / new tarball

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

> D'oh!  That was what I wanted to see!  Which other messages were filling up
> the screen?

Only the ones about set_hyper.  Can you build me a version without
this output?

> In general, you will have a better chance to see the right messages if you
> reduce and simplify the active processes depending on the filesystem that
> is going to crash.  For example, use a couple of telnet/rlogins only, and
> punt the xterms.  You are much less likely to incur extra attempts to use
> the dying filesystem if you don't have random expose and focus events
> waking up processes on your hurd.

OK, but the "wrong" messages in this case seemed to depend only on
whether any writable ext2fs's existed other than / .  I'd like to get
that out of the way and try again.