Hi, Quoting Samuel Thibault (2026-06-02 01:37:03) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le lun. 01 juin 2026 10:26:13 +0200, a > ecrit: > > I have not yet figured out how to auto-login the root user in GNU/Hurd. The > > agetty line which works on Linux errors out with "getty[585]: Bad syntax" > > and > > according to Samuel Thibault it may just be that this feature isn't > > implemented > > yet in hurd. > > Do you know the syntax that is used for that? It can as well just be > implemented.
this is what debvm does for sysvinit: https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/debvm/-/blob/main/share/debvm/customize-autologin.sh?ref_type=heads#L64 C0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -8 --noclear --keep-baud -a root console 115200,38400,9600 $TERM The magic switch to getty is -a or --autologin which automatically logs in the given user (in this case, root). When I try that on Hurd I get: getty[621]: Bad syntax > > I also do not yet know how to set up networking inside the QEMU guest. The > > /etc/network/interfaces which works on Linux does not seem to give me any > > network inside the Hurd QEMU guest. > > It should be working. > > Which kind of configuration are you using? This is the /etc/network/interfaces that debvm creates: https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/debvm/-/blob/main/share/debvm/customize-ifupdown.sh?ref_type=heads#L15 auto /enp*=eth iface eth inet dhcp > The inet dhcp method should > be just working. The static configuration probably needs to make sure > that /servers/socket/2 is translated as > > /hurd/pfinet -i /dev/eth0 -6 /servers/socket/26 > > and /servers/socket/26 as > > /hurd/pfinet -i /dev/eth0 -4 /servers/socket/2 > > as I guess ifupdown hasn't yet bet taught to do it. These translators exist because mmdebstrap created them: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap/src/branch/main/mmdebstrap#L1107 What else could I investigate to debug whit is going on? For example in Linux I can just run "ip link" to check which devices are even there. What do I do on GNU/Hurd? Thanks! cheers, josch
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