> For some reason, now that Hurd boots up with only a disk driver error (and
> it claims that hd12 won't respond to I/O...not surprising, since there is
> no hd12), pipes refuse to work. Three examples:
>
> ./MAKEDEV: cannot make pipes for command substitution: Protocol
> family not supported
> /sbin/e2os: cannot make pipes for command substitution: Protocol
> family not supported
> dpkg-deb: failed to create pipe: Protocol family not supported
>
> I assume this is an error in my Hurd installation, but I have no idea how
> to correct it.
This is a faq. Did you run native-install? That happens when
/servers/socket/1 is not set up properly. Fix it with:
# settrans -c /servers/socket/1 /hurd/pflocal
