On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Steve King wrote: > Sorry in advance for the troll, > > I am trying to get to grips with the hurd. It seems to me like it > has gone backwards since I last dipped my toe in a couple of years > ago. Have I just got the wrong set up? > > I installed using crosshurd, so it should be up-to-date, but > it seems highly broken. > vi dumps a core
Try nano. Works great. > telnet dumps a core Not tried it recently. Try slogin. > I can't get the nfs translator to work Not tried it recently either, so I can't say about this. > there is no ftp client Try installing inetutils-ftp. > sshd dumps a core Not for me. I got segfaults from dpkg trying to upgrade it from a previous version. I wrote a dummy start-stop-daemon which did nothing, like this: "#!/bin/sh", put it in /local/bin, and managed to upgrade it. After this it has always worked flawlessly. > inetd dumps a core > > I get a linking error trying to build gnu mach > strpcpy. > > It took me a day of instant reboots to realise that > it didn't like the fact that I had too much memory (I went from > 1GBbyte to 512Mbytes) I also had this problem, and fixed it by adding this: uppermem 786432 to GRUB's menu.lst. > I would really love to do some work on the hurd, but the only > way I can copy files is by booting into sid. And that is > just not realistic. Life is too short. > > So please, should I use an older version? How can I believe > that the hurd is a good thing if it is impossible to use? Try using the old tarball from Marcus, which is still available here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/attic/gnu-20020816.tar.gz My system, which does not crash so often, is based on this tarball (plus "apt-get upgrade" to current packages). The main difference, perhaps, is that I'm still using the monolithic inetutils which contained everything (because apt-get upgrade does not upgrade to the current inetutils-* packages). I don't think this is the reason for your core dumps, but who knows?
