Re: ping: socket: translator died

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

Hi,


> settrans -fg /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interfaces=eth0
You mean interface of course (ie without the `s').

> --address=192.168.1.3 --gateway=192.168.1.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0
> 
> When i run this command it takes me directly back to the command prompt,
> no message to say if it did or didnt do anything, when i do a ps aux
> there is mention of /hurd/pflocal, but no mention of /hurd pfinet,
> should there be ?

Try settrans -fgap ...

This will force it to startup immediately so that you can see errors.

> I get the occasional lockup as well, often when using dselect, is this
> normal ?

Are you using swap?  This is _very_ important.

> Is debconf 0.3.53 supposed to work? it wont install on my system, fails
> --configure.

It worked on mine once I got several of the packages from alpha.gnu.org.

> On the bright side i had a go at compiling busybox (used by
> boot-floppies, busybox.lineo.com) i think most of them will work without
> much effort at all.

Thanks, sounds good.

Best regards,
-Neal

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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu