Re: Latest Tarball Problems

[Neal H Walfield <neal@walfield.org>]

Hi,

No need to cross post, 95% (guess) of those on help-help are also on
debian-help

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:13:54PM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote:
> Oh, of course.  I forgot to execute native-install.  I completely reinstalled my
> hurd partition from the Mar 1 tarball and executed native-install.  That seemed to
> fix the problem.  However, I did notice a few things:
> 
> 1.  Despite installing the GCC package, I couldn't actually compile anything until
gcc has a lot of dependencies, don't just use force-depends (you could
always use dselect in ftp mode).

> I copied over a handful of /lib/*.o files from the old 72Mb tarball.
> 
> 2.  I can't get networking to work.  Previously, I used the command
> 
> settrans /servers/socket/inet /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=10.1.6.1
> --netmask=255.255.0.0
Try:
settrans -fg /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=10.1.6.1
--netmask=255.255.0.0 --gateway=w.x.y.z

> 
> to configure the machine's IP address.  This worked great in previous versions,
> but in this latest release, nothing ever happens.  I don't see the /hurd/pfinet
> after a "ps -ax" like I used to.  Also, I noticed something peculiar about the
> /servers/socket directory.  There are four entries:  1, 2, inet, and local.  In
> previous versions, doing a "ls -l" on this directory would result in something
> like:
> 
> 2: operation not supported
> inet: operation not supported
> crwxr-xr-x     ...        1
> crwxr-xr-x     ...        local
> 
> Note the character to the left of the RWX bits is a "c".  I assume this denotes a
> character device.  After installing the latest version, I get three files that
> show, and it looks more like this:
> 
> 2:  operation not supported
> crwxr-xr-x     ...        1
> lrwxr-xr-x      ...        inet
> lrwxr-xr-x      ...        local
These are the correct settings. local is a symlink to 1; inet is a symlink 
to 2; 3 is the original arpanet so you might have arpa pointing to 3 etc.

> 
> This time, the inet and local entries show up as symbolic links.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Kevin Musick
> kmusick@teldar.com
> 

-Neal

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