Hello, Any updates ?? Are people satisfied with my work ?? 1 line summary of the entire mail conversation is gpart does build on Gnu/Hurd, but does not work in the manner expected.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:16 PM, harish badrinath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I cant seem to upload to debian as of this moment, mainly because i am > behind a http_proxy and dupload/dput does not seem to work. Excuse the > verbose mail with a lot of attachments. > > On hurd gparted behaves as follows > root@debian:~/gparted/gpart-0.1h# mount / > mount: /dev/hd0s1 already mounted > $PWD/debian/gpart/sbin/gpart /dev/hd0s1 > > Begin scan... > Floating point exception > root@debian:~/gparted/gpart-0.1h# gdb --args > $PWD/debian/gpart/sbin/gpart /dev/hd0s1 > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3-debian > .. <snipped> .. > Reading symbols from /root/gparted/gpart-0.1h/debian/gpart/sbin/gpart...done. > (gdb) run > Starting program: /root/gparted/gpart-0.1h/debian/gpart/sbin/gpart /dev/hd0s1 > .. <snipped> .. > Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. > 0x0804bf34 in fillin_dos_chs (p=0x80540b0, d=<optimized out>, > offset=<optimized out>) at gpart.c:489 > warning: Source file is more recent than executable. > 489 p->p_ssect = (n % d->d_dg.d_s) + 1; > > $PWD/debian/gpart/sbin/gpart /dev/null > > Begin scan... > End scan. > > Checking partitions... > Ok. > > Guessed primary partition table: > Primary partition(1) > type: 000(0x00)(unused) > size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) > chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r > > Primary partition(2) > type: 000(0x00)(unused) > size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) > chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r > > Primary partition(3) > type: 000(0x00)(unused) > size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) > chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r > > Primary partition(4) > type: 000(0x00)(unused) > size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) > chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r > > On Linux, gpart behaves as described > > gpart-0.1h/debian/gpart/sbin/gpart /dev/null > > ** Error: ioctl(HDIO_GETGEO) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device. > > *** Fatal error: ioctl(HDIO_GETGEO) failed: Could not read disk > geomentry, may be retry either with the -C or the -g option. [0] > > > > I did run ./gpart /dev/sda on my computer for about 2 minutes before > deciding against it :). > > Attached are all the files in my debian/patches/ directory [1]. > > > Regards, > Harish Badrinath > > > Note[0]: The second line is added by a patch i added/modified. > Note[1]: AMD64 patch should probably be renamed to, POSIX patch or > something similar :). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFUoqbf_ZDjFQC+zTS5Csc_Ksz8QfoLa5U7Fr4MM-8oì[email protected]

