RE: Hurd freezes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:55 PM
> To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Hurd freezes
>
>
> I've tried a couple of times to install the Hurd on a clean
> drive. I've
> experienced several hard freezes, requiring the power to be cycled.
>
> I expected the Hurd to be more resilient against such lockups, but
> before I assume it's not, I thought I'd better wait and see
> if I'm just
> too inexperienced to know the ways around problems.
>
> I never quite get finished with the installation, as problems
> arise (see
> http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_In
> stall_the_Hurd.html
> for details). At one point I typed "mount" to see what drives were
> mounted, and the system froze. I couldn't switch to a
> different VT, or
> telnet/ssh in (no network yet), etc. Can I assume that once
> the system
> is properly running I would have been able to switch to a
> different VT
> or ssh in and kill the offending "mount" process?
>
> Can I also assume this is just part of the "alpha" quality of
> this stage
> of development, and in the future I'll see more stability
> from the Hurd?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Kent
>
Kent,
I have seen several postings about the mount freeze issue so you may want to
google on that. However, don't use mount, you need to use settrans.
Barry deFreese
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