Re: apt-get error

To: Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@chello.se>, debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get error
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:22:52 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020716182251.GD603@212.23.136.22>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] nnznwrhofg.fsf@fafner.lysator.liu.se>
References: <[🔎] 20020710114334.26c94d8a.niklas.soderlund@chello.se> <[🔎] nnznwrhofg.fsf@fafner.lysator.liu.se>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:01:23PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> On the Hurd, buying the farm means that some essential server, like
> exec or proc, have died and that there's basically no hope to recover
> except by rebooting the machine.

Actually, no.  It means that a protocol violation happened.  It is our cop
out error value if we have nothing useful to say instead.

If a translator dies, you get "Translator died".  If a critical translator
bites the dust, init should notice and shutdown the system and reboot.

Thanks,
Marcus

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