Re: Enable PIE by default in GCC?

2017-06-19 Thread James Clarke
On 19 Jun 2017, at 22:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Pino Toscano, on dim. 18 juin 2017 21:33:53 +0200, wrote: >> as $subj asks, should we ask for GCC with PIE enabled by default, like >> is done in the majority of the other archs (i.e. [1])? > > Ideally, yes. In practice, it

Re: root password is not empty on new hurd image

2017-06-19 Thread Eric Noble
Nevermind false alarm. On 06/19/2017 10:30 PM, Eric Noble wrote: Hi, I looked at this page https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README and it says the root password is empty. So why is it I enter root as the user and hit enter at password prompt it says "Invalid password?" -- Eric

root password is not empty on new hurd image

2017-06-19 Thread Eric Noble
Hi, I looked at this page https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README and it says the root password is empty. So why is it I enter root as the user and hit enter at password prompt it says "Invalid password?" -- Eric

Unintentional spam report

2017-06-19 Thread pxntl
Good morning. Please, don't consider the spam report come some minutes ago from the page: https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2017/06/msg00017.html; I unintentionally clicked the mouse on the "report as spam" button cause of a sleep blow. I appreciate the great job of all You. Thanks for Your

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 00:05:01 +0200, wrote: > > Ask grub people then :) > > I would need to know how the MBR and the subsequent data blocks > are produced. The build log is available on https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-cd.log

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > i see a quite insane MBR partition table: Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's not surprising by nowadays' """ISO""" image standard: they are > both valid as CD image, usb stick image, etc. Sure. But normally the MBR has a valid partition table. Not only the ISOLINUX MBR of Debian

Re: Enable PIE by default in GCC?

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pino Toscano, on dim. 18 juin 2017 21:33:53 +0200, wrote: > as $subj asks, should we ask for GCC with PIE enabled by default, like > is done in the majority of the other archs (i.e. [1])? Ideally, yes. In practice, it works but gdb is lost with PIE executables, so that has to be fixed

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thomas Schmitt, on dim. 18 juin 2017 11:07:36 +0200, wrote: > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/debian-hurd-2017-i386-NETINST-1.iso > > i see a quite insane MBR partition table: That's not surprising by nowadays' """ISO""" image standard: they

Re: iso_not_recognised

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Justwalking, on lun. 19 juin 2017 16:36:27 +0100, wrote: > Over the last 2 years. 3 times I have tried to install Debian-Hurd and > failed because I make an installation DVD and then my computer does not even > see the DVD-1 in the DVD drive, How is the DVD drive connected? SATA? I'm

Re: iso_not_recognised

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Graham Cunnington wrote: > my computer does not even > see the DVD-1 in the DVD drive, although it sees all Linux bootable isos and > the Haiku iso when a disk is put in the hard drive. Most GNU/Linux Installation- or Live-ISOs are prepared for booting via BIOS and EFI firmware. The Debian

Re: Why are the 2017 DVD ISOs so small ?

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schmitt, on lun. 19 juin 2017 20:43:48 +0200, wrote: > the DVD images 1 to 3 in > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/ > are listed with sizes 1.6G, 1.7G, and 1.7G respectively. At least DVD-1 > really has only 1,680,308,224 bytes (and is not truncated

Why are the 2017 DVD ISOs so small ?

2017-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the DVD images 1 to 3 in http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/ are listed with sizes 1.6G, 1.7G, and 1.7G respectively. At least DVD-1 really has only 1,680,308,224 bytes (and is not truncated or rolled over). Is the small size intentional ? A normal DVD

Still Failing: g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372

2017-06-19 Thread jenkins
See https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372/ and https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372//console and https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_hurd_lxde/372//artifact/results/ if there are

Re: Reasonable Browser Support in Debian hurd

2017-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
matthias...@web.de, on lun. 19 juin 2017 17:35:14 +0200, wrote: > After Seamonkey was removed from Debian some time ago, i wonder if maybe one > of > the developers of debian hurd have some Information about if and when we can > expect Firefox support in debian hurd. There's a version on

iso_not_recognised

2017-06-19 Thread Justwalking
Hello team Over the last 2 years. 3 times I have tried to install Debian-Hurd and failed because I make an installation DVD and then my computer does not even see the DVD-1 in the DVD drive, although it sees all Linux bootable isos and the Haiku iso when a disk is put in the hard drive. So

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

2017-06-19 Thread Matthias.L2
Thank you developers for your constant hard work on Debian Hurd!

Reasonable Browser Support in Debian hurd

2017-06-19 Thread Matthias.L2
After Seamonkey was removed from Debian some time ago, i wonder if maybe one of the developers of debian hurd have some Information about if and when we can expect Firefox support in debian hurd. Thank you for your efforts.