On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:59:37AM +0100, Farid Hajji wrote: > 1. gnumach from CVS can't do color display (that's okay, but > I'd like to know how the freeX gnumach.gz was generated!).
>From the debian source package (see the debian ftp archive). > 2. passwords are displayed on screen; every command is > also echoed after being submitted. > 3. commands can be used as usual (e.g. ls works etc...), > but as soon as non-dumb screen capabilities are needed > (including pipes!), I get the following error message: > > bash [36: 1] tcsetattr: (ipc/mig) server type check failure That means the message that was send by the user is rejected by the mig generated code on the server side. This seems to point to a broken cross-mig or something like that. Make sure everything is allright with your cross mig (build it from current CVS), and the *.defs files in the include/hurd directory of the build tree are allright. Then recompile glibc and the Hurd or so. > The error is not only from bash, but from other programs as well, > e.g. vi: > > ex/vi: Error: tcsetattr: (ipc/mig) server type check failure You will get this from all ncurses using binaries, and probably more. > Every time this error occurs, the program is stopped by bash > and resuming it with 'fg' results in the same error again. I have seen this recently, but only with a very hacked glibc I tried locally. So I know what you see, but don't know what happens in your case. > I tried to set TERM from mach-color to dumb, but the error > remains. This has nothing to do with the TERM variable. The TIOCSETA ioctl is failing, because the generated message (sysdepds/mach/hurd/ioctl.c) is rejected by the Hurd term server. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
