RE: new tarfile
Hello,
the keyboard problem occured directly after running native-install.
I don't know whether I called any command before native-install,
but I know I did not call any (apart from rreebboooott) after it.
The environment variable OSTYPE has the value "linux-gnu" in single
and multi user mode. This is surprising for a Hurd system, isn't it?
(I am quite sure that it is The Hurd, not Linux :-). Older tar files
had set OSTYPE=gnu.
Regards,
Stefan
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Brinkmann [mailto:Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 4:03 PM
To: Weil, Stefan 3732 EPE-24
Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: new tarfile
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:11:40AM +0100, Weil, Stefan 3732 EPE-24 wrote:
> here are my experiences with gnu-19991025.tar.gz.
Great, thanks for letting us know about them.
> With one, the
> keyboard problem occured (shell sees only every second character)
> as you write in the installation script.
Occured it directly after running native-install? Or did you enter some
commands before rebooting, apart from native-install?
> Great: reboot unmounts the root filesystem cleanly, so fsck
> is no longer needed after a reboot.
Yeah, it's wonderful.
> 2. Problems.
> The grub program which is part of gnu-19991025.tar.gz fails.
> Maybe it was linked with the wrong ncurses library?
Almost certainly so. Thanks for letting me know!
> So does
> in.telnetd (not part of the tar file).
Ouch! I STILL didn't recompile inetutils! I am very sorry. I will do it
later today (when I am at home).
> /root/.profile calls mesg which is not in the tar file.
> This is not a big problem, but it might be fixed some day?
Yes, certainly :) [you didn want me to make any promises, did you :)]
mesg is in sysvinit, which is under way. Unfortunately, I have to rework my
extensive patches. In the meantime, get the one at
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/sysvinit_2.67-5_hurd-i386.deb
> OSTYPE=linux-gnu. I think somebody else already mentioned this.
In which context? Can you elaborate?
> After saving a file, the editor (called with "editor /etc/hosts")
> says "failed to write ...". I had this message with several files.
> In every case, all my changes were written!
I am not sure. ae is not a great editor anyway. Get vim or jed.
I don't remember if I see the message or not. Care to debug this for us?
Seems you have come a long way Stefan! Have fun,
Marcus
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