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Hurd-console on reboot (xbd vs kbd)



Hi all, I was able to set up the hurd console to run on system start-ups/reboots according to http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install. However, along the way, I noticed some issues when trying xbd or pc_kbd as the keyboard option. I don’t know if it’s a bug, or not, but I figured I’ll share my experience:

 

The two options I considered and changed in /etc/default/hurd-console were: KBD && KBD_REPEAT

 

1)      KBD=’-d pc_kbd’ &&  KBD_REPEAT=’—repeat=kbd’

- worked fine; upon reboot the hurd console started up automatically

 

2)      KBD=’-d xkb’ &&  KBD_REPEAT=’—repeat=xkb’

- the hurd console did not start, and the last kernel boot message I got before the mach console login line was “task 2009678 deallocation an invalid port 6, most probably a bug.”

 

3)      KBD=’-d xkb’ &&  KBD_REPEAT=’—repeat=kbd’

- the hurd console did not start, and the last kernel boot message I got before the mach console login line was “task 2009678 deallocation an invalid port 6, most probably a bug.”

 

4)      KBD=’-d xkb’ &&  no KBD_REPEAT (line commented out)

- the hurd console did not start, and the last kernel boot message I got before the mach console login line was “task 2009670 deallocation an invalid port 6, most probably a bug.”

 

5)      KBD=’-d pc_kbd’ &&  KBD_REPEAT=’—repeat=xkb’

- worked fine; upon reboot the hurd console started up automatically

 

 

So it seems like the hurd console starts on reboot only when KBD=’-d pc_kbd’, regardless of the KBD_REPEAT option.

 

God bless

 

David Hiran Watson

e: hiranwatson@gmail.com

 


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