On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM +0200, Andres wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> the link to the easy guide is broken in many pages, because > the original site doesn't seem to respond. do you think you could fix it > in your debian page? it used to be mirrored on the gnu pages here, where > it's still kept: > http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/easy.html I think it is fixed by now but I will consider adding the other link, too. > * i've got 64 megs of ram, and since i don't use X (don't know how to > get it to work anyways) i thought that would be enough, so i didn't > bother with swap space, and i kept running into "(default pager): > dropping data_request because of previous paging errors". could you add > something explaining that this message means "ADD SOME MEMORY, YOU > STUPID HUMAN" to some faq or doc ? I will add this to the page when I have the time to include FAQ'ish questions and answers. Thanks for pointing out. You should always add swap. Even with lots of memory. > * once i'd figured out what the cause was, i tried to make the hurd swap > on my freebsd swap partition. it worked, but rebooting into freebsd > showed me that the hurd had swaped ON my disklabel, so i spent the rest > of my night trying to recall what the sizes of the partitions were. Argh :) I hope Roland can find a fix for this. Which partition names did you use? > quite fun indeed :-). i've got 2 questions about this point: does anyone > have a clue to what might have happened? and since i don't want to > rewrite my disklabel on every reboot, and considering the fact that i > don't have any partitions left, is there a way to make hurd swap to a > file? (i don't fully understand translators, so there might be an easy > way to achieve this that i missed) Yes, you can simply create an empty file of the needed size ("dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024k count=128" and then put this into boot/servers.boot: /dev/hd0s2/swapfile $(add-paging-file) Or whereever it is. You can't add swap files with swapon. > * sometimes (say, when i try ftpfs or ls -l into /dev) i get an error > that beats me: something like a "Gratuitous error" or something. That's when you access /dev/fd, it's harmless. > i don't > have the exact message in mind, i'll try to grab it if there's interest. > what troubles me is that i can't find the word "Gratuitous" that was > printf'ed or something in any file inside gnumach-1.1.92-5/ or > hurd-19990616/, so i wonder which entity is returning that to me. the error message comes from glibc, the error number is EGRATUITOUS. > is it > ls or cd, or something else ? i'm a freebsder, not used to the debian > way yet, so i don't know where to fetch the sources for these programs. > any pointers ? This happens when trying to get certain info from /dev/fd, for example "ls -l /dev/fd" will show this error, too. > * similarly, i once had the message "rm: cannot unlink `somefile`: > Computer bought the farm". actually quite funny, but i didn't get the > meaning yet. i suspect it's rm who's sending that back to me, but since > i don't know where to fetch the rm sources ... Computer bought the farm is EIEIO :) This error shouldn't occure, some problem with the file system server. Maybe related to memory shortage. > * i sometimes get something like an error (sorry for the vagueness) > about not having fd/4 or the such. i recall having seen this on some > doc, but can't recall where. could you please point me to the right > place to look ? Maybe your translator for pipes (/servers/socket/1) isn't set up. It may also be that a script ("#!/foo/bar") tries to load a program foo/bar that doesn't exist. > * one last thing i wanted to report is that the netcat package seems to > build and work right, following the dpkg-source -x thing.dsc and > dpkg-buildpackage -B procedure i saw in one of the lists archive. as i > said, i'm not used to the debian way, so i might have missed some > errors, don't take my word for the thing being right :-) Thanks, I wrote this down for the autobuilder. If it compiled, and you could install it and do a few tests, it is likely to be okay. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
