Hello, the keyboard problem occured directly after running native-install. I don't know whether I called any command before native-install, but I know I did not call any (apart from rreebboooott) after it.
The environment variable OSTYPE has the value "linux-gnu" in single and multi user mode. This is surprising for a Hurd system, isn't it? (I am quite sure that it is The Hurd, not Linux :-). Older tar files had set OSTYPE=gnu. Regards, Stefan -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Brinkmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 4:03 PM To: Weil, Stefan 3732 EPE-24 Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: new tarfile On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:11:40AM +0100, Weil, Stefan 3732 EPE-24 wrote: > here are my experiences with gnu-19991025.tar.gz. Great, thanks for letting us know about them. > With one, the > keyboard problem occured (shell sees only every second character) > as you write in the installation script. Occured it directly after running native-install? Or did you enter some commands before rebooting, apart from native-install? > Great: reboot unmounts the root filesystem cleanly, so fsck > is no longer needed after a reboot. Yeah, it's wonderful. > 2. Problems. > The grub program which is part of gnu-19991025.tar.gz fails. > Maybe it was linked with the wrong ncurses library? Almost certainly so. Thanks for letting me know! > So does > in.telnetd (not part of the tar file). Ouch! I STILL didn't recompile inetutils! I am very sorry. I will do it later today (when I am at home). > /root/.profile calls mesg which is not in the tar file. > This is not a big problem, but it might be fixed some day? Yes, certainly :) [you didn want me to make any promises, did you :)] mesg is in sysvinit, which is under way. Unfortunately, I have to rework my extensive patches. In the meantime, get the one at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/sysvinit_2.67-5_hurd-i386.deb > OSTYPE=linux-gnu. I think somebody else already mentioned this. In which context? Can you elaborate? > After saving a file, the editor (called with "editor /etc/hosts") > says "failed to write ...". I had this message with several files. > In every case, all my changes were written! I am not sure. ae is not a great editor anyway. Get vim or jed. I don't remember if I see the message or not. Care to debug this for us? Seems you have come a long way Stefan! Have fun, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
