Using ftp.debian.org and ftp.gnuab.org as sources, I dist-upgraded my Hurd installation.
Neato! I thought ... Now, whenever I try to use a net tool (apt-get, ping) I simply get the response "Killed" at the bash prompt. (Note the capital "k".) The pfinet process is alive and well, and showtrans shows all the expected information. Other tools (e.g. contents of fileutils, coreutils) work fine. Everything works fine except net connectivity. I noticed (on this list IIRC) that some kfreeBSD packages had infiltrated the Hurd on Debian. I grepped dpkg -l and found a sysvinit from kfreeBSD. In attempting to remove this I have run into a dependency-hell issue. On this list I read that sysvinit, sysv-rc and initscripts are unneeded by the Hurd. But the hurd deb requires sysc-rc (IIRC). What's going on here? So I suppose I have two questions: (1) Any clues about the "Killed" response to attempts to use ping? (2) Does the sysv trio (initscripts, rc and sysvinit) need to be installed or not? TIA John -- ICQ: 261810463 AIM: johnfrombluff AOL: johnfrombluff MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: JohnFromBluff Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
