Re: You forgot to set the filesystem owner to 'hurd'

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

pe 2.5.2025 klo 11.16 João Pedro Malhado (phlogiston@sapo.pt) kirjoitti:
> On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 04:44:26PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > In the process of testing a patch for migrating crosshurd to deb822, I
> > tried an install on a different i386 host.  This one found a LOT of
> > ACPI features, but ./native-install fails with "Setting up
> > translators. If this fails, you forgot to set the filesystem owner to
> > 'hurd'" followed by an ext2fs crash.
> >
> > I never encountered that one on the previous host.
> >
> > How do I fix this via my Linux partition?
>
> I imagine the filesystem owner message is about creating the filesystem with
> mke2fs -o hurd /dev/DEVICE
> I presume you did that?

Sure enough, I had mistyped the option.

Anyhow, that text doesn't tell anything useful to the user. I just
placed an MR on Salsa to address that.

Martin-Éric

PS: I also sent Thibault a larger patch to migrate crosshurd to
deb822, since I have no idea how to push an MR to Salsa via CLI.