Thanks for the input. I will try repartitioning and sudo once i get home on monday. And good spotted with the iso9660 fs!
/Peter > Hi! > > Svante, thanks for answering -- you basically gave the same answers I > would have given. :-) I only have a few additional recommendations and > questions. > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:22:15 +0200, Svante Signell > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 00:56 +0200, [email protected] wrote: >> > I have never been able to make a clean shutdown with hurd. And the >> system >> > freezes on me every time. > > Given your original text, you're running X. The system will -- as far as > I know -- not switch back to the text console/Mach console if reboot or > halt are invoked. Thus, you won't see the shutdown/reboot messages. > First stop X, then stop the Hurd console, then reboot/halt to see what's > happening. > >> > I wouldn't really care if i didn't risk >> > destroying my filesystem in the process. As you know it takes a while >> to >> > set everything up and once i have got it running i would like to be >> able >> > to keep it so for at least a couple of months. > > It is also advisable to have a separate partition for $HOME/ etc. > > Can we have the Debian Install do this automatically? (I always do > partitioning manually, so I don't know if it's already doing that.) > Apparently, I forgot to take notes after my last installation, whether I > manually had to setup the translator and /etc/fstab entries for the > second ext2fs instance. > > And do backups, of course. Which is especially easy if you're using QEMU > (or similar), as you can just copy the whole disk image (when the system > is not running). > >> Are you using qemu/kvm or real hardware? For hopefully a good shutdown, >> use syncfs --synchronous /, before shutting down with halt (not >> shutdown), see >> http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem/ > > Correct. > >> > Regarding cd reading errors i have had them too even though the >> checksum >> > on my disc is okey. I used it to install on qemu and didn't come >> across >> > the same errors. I solved the problems by using the online installer. > > No idea on that. > >> > Finally, is the ext2fs program eating all your cpu as well or is it >> just >> > on my system? > > ext2fs is known to be a resource hog. Separating the root filesystem > with /usr etc. from /home does help, in my opinion; also for system > stability. > >> > I hope it doesn't sound like i'm complaining. I have got fvwm2 running >> and >> > i'm as happy as ever! Yes its slower than running linux. But twice the >> > fun! > > :-) > >> > Oh, yes, forgot to mention that sudo just locks the console when i try >> to >> > issue commands through it. It asks for my password and after it is >> > accepted nothing happens. Just thought you should know. > > Is it really that it doesn't do anything, or is it rather that it > stops/hangs *after* doing its task? > >> Currently sudo locks up after command completion. According to Samuel >> Thibault this is due to: the sudo bug is select() not being able to get >> interrupted by signals, see >> http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/open_issues/select_vs_signals/ > > Correct. > >> For the moment su - is recommended (or log in as root) > > Or, what I do, use ``sudo -i'' in a shell, and leave it running. > > > GrüÃe, > Thomas > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
