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Re: Latest Tarball Problems



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
> I copied over a handful of /lib/*.o files from the old 72Mb tarball.

The tarballs haven't included the development environment in the past.  
It's easiest generally to just pull down the .debs and keep them on a 
spare partition.

> 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

Here's what I use:

settrans -fg /servers/socket/2 \ 
    /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=24.113.102.239 \ 
    --gateway=24.113.100.1 --netmask= 255.255.252.0

> 
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote:
> > > I've been using the Hurd successfully for some time, but I recently
> > > installed the latest tarball (March 3 I believe) and am now having
> > > problems using GCC.  It gives me the following error:
> > >
> > > ld: /lib/libc.so.0.2: _del_sysdep_start: invalid version 6 (max 5)
> > > /lib/libc.so.0.2: could not read symbols: Bad value
> > >
> > > If I check my GCC version using "gcc -v" I get:
> > >
> > > Reading specs from /lib/gcc-lib/i486-gnu/2.7.2.2/specs
> > > gcc version 2.7.2.2
> >
> > Well, seems the gcc272 package is broken. Don't worry, you shouldn't use it
> > anyway.
> >
> > > I downloaded the gcc_2.91.66-1.2.deb package, but when I attempt to
> > > install it using "dpkg -i" I get the following:
> > >
> > > Preparing to replace gcc 2.91.66-1.2
> > >    gcc depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.0); however,
> > >         libc.0.2 is not configured
> >
> > So why is libc0.2 not configured? Your installation is not 100% ok.
> > I don't believe native-install (did you run it?) run without errors.
> >
> > > I get similar messages that cpp (>=2.91.66) is not configured, and
> > > binutils (>= 2.9.1) is not configured.  It seems by these messages that
> > > dpkg thinks the version I'm running is already the newer version.  I
> > > next tried to install libc0.2_2.1.2-10.deb, but then I get:
> > >
> > > Preparing to replace libc0.2 2.1.2-10
> > > Version of dpkg with working epoch support not yet configured.
> > >    Please use dpkg --configure dpkg
> >
> > This is definitely wrong. The dpkg in the archive (and tar file) is a bit
> > oldish but has epoch support. (Lack of epoch support predates even the hurd
> > :)
> >
> > > Hmmm.  Am I getting these problems because I use the tarball install
> > > method?  I've NEVER been able to get the debian package manager to
> > > install anything.
> >
> > Did you run native-install? What output did it produce? It will configure
> > the packages, only THEN the installation is complete.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marcus
> >
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> 

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