Re: Java in Hurd

2009-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Sat 03 Jan 2009 14:33:38 +, a écrit : Can we use Java in Hurd now? Bootstraping a java environment is a pain. I had succeeded to build some gcj at some point, but there were some bugs and then a new release came, breaking other things, etc. So it should be possible, but it's

Re: Java in Hurd

2009-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Praveen A, le Sat 03 Jan 2009 17:51:28 -0800, a écrit : 2009/1/3 Da Zheng : It's bad to hear that. but are there any other Java compiler we can use? jikes is an alternative, but it seems not to support all features required by classpath while the virtual machine, kaffe, seems to require

Bug#432079: speedy-cgi-perl: shouldn't build-dep on procps on hurd-i386

2009-01-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
hurd-i386 got a /proc procfs filesystem and procps now compiles with a few patch, which thus solves the issue. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Java in Hurd

2009-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Praveen A, le Sat 03 Jan 2009 17:51:28 -0800, a écrit : 2009/1/3 Da Zheng : It's bad to hear that. but are there any other Java compiler we can use? jikes is an alternative, but it seems not to support all features required by classpath while the virtual machine, kaffe, seems to

Re: libgcc_s symlink missing

2009-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 22 Apr 2009 08:55:03 +0200, a écrit : ... and indeed: tschwi...@flubber:~ $ ls -l /usr/lib/gcc/i486-gnu/4.3.3/libgcc_s.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 01:14 /usr/lib/gcc/i486-gnu/4.3.3/libgcc_s.so I remember something that Michael or Samuel fixed this

wireless-tools-gnumach libiw?

2009-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Where is wireless-tools-gnumach maintained? Ideally, that package should provide an implementation of the libiw library, used by network-manager, used by libproxy, used by libsoup2.4, used by gvfs, used by libgnome2.4, needed for all the gnome stuff. Else we can ask for dropping the

Re: bad magic number

2009-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
mino...@brunitika.ch, le Fri 01 May 2009 08:49:22 -0600, a écrit : I had exactly the bad magic number error with a partition up to 128 Gb. 2^28 * 2^9 = 2^37 = 2^7 * 2^30, that's the LBA28 limit. To overcome that we need to implement LBA48 in Mach. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

oss-libsalsa package

2009-05-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, libasound-dev/libasound2-dev build-deps are painful. Fortunately, OSS (opensound.com) provides libsalsa, a compatibility layer between OSS and ALSA: it is ABI-compatible with libasound (actually using alsa's headers), and just makes OSS ioctls. I've prepared a package that builds it, and

Re: oss-libsalsa package

2009-05-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sat 16 May 2009 21:17:18 +0200, a écrit : On Saturday, 16. May 2009 15:24:04 Samuel Thibault wrote: libasound-dev/libasound2-dev build-deps are painful. Fortunately, OSS (opensound.com) provides libsalsa, a compatibility layer between OSS and ALSA: it is ABI

Re: oss-libsalsa package

2009-05-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Sat 16 May 2009 16:55:30 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org (16/05/2009): If people think it's a good idea, maybe we can setup some VCS somewhere to work on it? (where/in which Alioth project?) Sounds nice. I for one would use collab-maint Oh

Bug#529081: ITP: oss-libsalsa -- Libsalsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org * Package name: oss-libsalsa Version : 4.1-build1052b Upstream Author : 4Front Technologies www.4front-tech.com * URL : http://developer.opensound.com/sources/ * License : BSD

libusb PATH_MAX

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, A lot of packages depend on libusb, and more and more do. It seems to me illusory to try to make them all include [!hurd-i386] conditionals, it'd be easier to just manage to compile libusb, even if it's only to always report that no device is available. Now the problem is that PATH_MAX

Re: libusb PATH_MAX

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Sun 17 May 2009 21:18:57 +0200, a écrit : Would this field even be used at runtime given that we don't have any devices? Not used for now, but the code still needs to be compiled. In that case we could just remove the PATH_MAX. That'd prevent from actually providing

Re: libusb PATH_MAX

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Sun 17 May 2009 21:48:01 +0200, a écrit : On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:23:38PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Sun 17 May 2009 21:18:57 +0200, a écrit : In that case we could just remove the PATH_MAX. That'd prevent from actually providing USB

Re: libusb PATH_MAX

2009-05-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 18 May 2009 15:07:49 +0200, a écrit : Hi, On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:57:26PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Sun 17 May 2009 21:48:01 +0200, a écrit : On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:23:38PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Carl Fredrik Hammar

Re: libusb PATH_MAX

2009-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 22 May 2009 14:43:39 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:19:10AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Mon 18 May 2009 15:07:49 +0200, a écrit : A similar problem happens when defining LIBUSB_PATH_MAX, but apps will only break when

Re: libusb PATH_MAX

2009-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 22 May 2009 15:55:06 +0200, a écrit : Well, it seems my two cents are all used up. It will be interesting to see which solution you finally go for. I'll go the pointer way, as it permits to avoid recompiling applications whenever we implement some usb support. We

Re: Potential Patch for consolekit?

2009-05-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Barry deFreese, le Sat 23 May 2009 00:01:17 -0400, a écrit : @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ const char *s; uid_t uid; charbuf[256]; -charttybuf[PATH_MAX]; +char*ttybuf; DBusError error; dbus_bool_t

Re: Bug#529081: ITP: oss-libsalsa -- Libsalsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS

2009-05-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc-André Lureau, le Tue 26 May 2009 00:19:19 +0300, a écrit : On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote:  Description     : Libsalsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS It's unfortunate, but libsalsa is also the name of the tiny ALSA

Re: Potential Patch for vala

2009-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barry deFreese, le Mon 25 May 2009 22:47:42 -0400, a écrit : +#ifdef (__GLIBC__) || _POSIX_VERSION = 200809L #if defined(__GLIBC__) || _POSIX_VERSION = 200809L Else, should be fine. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: X window manager does not load

2009-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nathan Gray, le Wed 27 May 2009 14:11:57 -0400, a écrit : Warning: xrdb command not found; X resources not merged Mmm, not having the x11-xserver-utils package installed leads to a lot of kinds of problems, yes. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: zsh-beta

2009-05-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barry deFreese, le Wed 27 May 2009 23:09:29 -0400, a écrit : This block of code in Src/cond.c seems to be the initial issue with zsh-beta: Yes it is. #if defined(GET_ST_MTIME_NSEC) defined(GET_ST_ATIME_NSEC) if (!(st = getstat(left))) return 1;

Re: zsh-beta

2009-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barry deFreese, le Thu 28 May 2009 11:18:03 -0400, a écrit : _GNU_SOURCE is defined but I don't think that brings in __USE_MISC, right? It should, see features.h: _GNU_SOURCE makes _SVID_SOURCE defined to 1, which makes __USE_MISC defined to 1. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: X window manager does not load

2009-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nathan Gray, le Wed 27 May 2009 20:08:40 -0400, a écrit : On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nathan Gray, le Wed 27 May 2009 14:11:57 -0400, a écrit : Warning: xrdb command not found; X resources not merged Mmm, not having the x11-xserver-utils package

Re: X window manager does not load

2009-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nathan Gray, le Sat 30 May 2009 10:46:53 -0400, a écrit : On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Do you have the debian-ports repository in your sources. I just realize that a critical libxcb fix is there and not (yet) in the main archive. I do have an entry

Re: Crosshurd and RAM

2009-06-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ok, making the zalloc area bigger needs more virtual memory, the attached patch should fix it. Samuel Index: b/i386/i386at/model_dep.c === --- a/i386/i386at/model_dep.c 10 Nov 2008 15:18:47 - 1.9.2.19 +++

Re: Latest diff package (2.8.1-13) borked

2009-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 16 Jun 2009 14:15:55 +0200, a écrit : tschwi...@flubber:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/cmp /usr/bin/diff /usr/bin/diff3 /usr/bin/sdiff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18692 May 30 01:34 /usr/bin/cmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64284 May 30 01:34 /usr/bin/diff -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: qt4-x11 without 80_hurd_max_path.diff

2009-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Tue 16 Jun 2009 22:51:19 +0200, a écrit : a member of the Debian Qt/KDE packaging team asked me about the 80_hurd_max_path.diff patch in qt4-x11 today. It looks like it is obsolete these days due to Alfredo Beaumont's work. Indeed, the code doesn't use PATH_MAX when

Re: openjdk-6 rules diff

2009-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Barry deFreese, le Tue 26 May 2009 10:47:47 -0400, a écrit : I can't seem to get anywhere with openjdk-6 at the moment. But if someone with lots of memory/swap space wants to try it, attached are the changes I made to debian/rules. You probably have also changed autoconf stuff,

Re: Latest diff package (2.8.1-13) borked

2009-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 19 Jun 2009 18:04:32 +0200, a écrit : I guess that this may be a bug with fakeroot, I've seen bugs with it from times to times. But not something that is reliably reproducible, I guess? Well, it happend a second time now, I don't know. Samuel -- To

Re: Could I install Hurd for debian distribution on Virtualbox?

2009-06-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Xueqian Zhao, le Mon 22 Jun 2009 22:28:58 +0800, a écrit : Which arch should I choose if any? The simplest (read: oldest) possible, starting from the 386 with 16MB RAM. PCI could still be a better idea. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

fakeroot: chmod race

2009-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: fakeroot Version: 1.12.2 Severity: important Hello, We're getting FTBFSs on hurd-i386 because of /usr/bin/diff getting 644 instead of 755. This is apparently due to a race in fakeroot-tcp triggered by install -s, which does the following: - copy the target file, which is now 600 -

Re: Latest diff package (2.8.1-13) borked

2009-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
sthiba...@debian.org, le Fri 26 Jun 2009 13:28:45 +0200, a écrit : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64140 Jun 23 21:18 /usr/bin/diff ?! Pff... I'll see when I have some time. Ok, you've probably seen my bug against fakeroot. I've added a sleep in install -s as a hack to fix it. +b3 is OK now (really

Re: hurd_20090404-1_hurd-i386.changes REJECTED

2009-06-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Archive Administrator, le Mon 29 Jun 2009 16:32:13 +, a écrit : Rejected: hurd_20090404-1.dsc: syntax error on line 25. Rejected: hurd_20090404-1.dsc: no Files: field. Graaah. Ok, never mind, let's rebuild from start... Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: installation debian gnu/hurd

2009-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bruno Minotti, le Wed 08 Jul 2009 12:35:11 +0200, a écrit : To boot with more than 768Mb RAM after install with crosshurd you have to change the virtual memory of mach. To do this Samuel Thibauld wrote a patch to apply on gnumach: This is pending for next upload of gnumach. Samuel -- To

Re: Running fold...@home

2009-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Mon 17 Aug 2009 07:47:19 +0200, a écrit : As for Wine, I don't see any fundamental reason why it couldn't work on the Hurd -- probably just needs some fixing here and there... Yep, IIRC the buildd currently fails on a PATH_MAX issue. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Autotools macro to test for pthreads fails with Resource lost on hurd

2009-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 18 Aug 2009 22:20:54 +0200, a écrit : Or is the glibc code already supposed to handle that correctly? It does, else kill(getpid(), 0) would fail too. See _hurd_internal_post_signal's if (signo == 0) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFC: Patch for kazehakase

2009-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Yavor Doganov, le Sun 23 Aug 2009 10:57:14 +0300, a écrit : I prepared a patch, and I kindly ask you to confirm if it is sane. It looks sane, yes, thanks for taking care of it :) +OS_CPPFLAGS += -DPATH_MAX=1024 -DMAXPATHLEN=1024 Is this a proper way to solve the problem? Nope.

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 13:14:33 +1200, a écrit : Are these still the entries for menu.lst for booting the Hurd? Yes, but avoid newlines between lines, else the \ won't manage to join them. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few weeks let me know how they did it. I usually just use crosshurd. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 23:16:56 +1200, a écrit : On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few weeks let me know how they did it. I usually just

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 23:16:56 +1200, a écrit : On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few weeks let me know how they did it. I usually just

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 14:51:00 +0200, a écrit : Does debootstrap work for the cross-strap use-case (i.e., running it on GNU/Linux to produce a GNU/Hurd chroot)? I thought #498731 needed to be fixed first, Ah, possibly yes. As a matter of fact I only used it for chroots, where

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Mon 21 Sep 2009 01:36:43 +1200, a écrit : On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. Playing catchup and making progress. Problem, what is the root password for a new installation. I guess an empty pasword should be fine

Re: any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 19:58:22 +0200, a écrit : I'm not sure about Java, which show some regressions compared to 4.3. Otoh it's not amymore the default java compiler for all architectures except hurd(?) I haven't explicitely tested but I don't know any issue with gcj-4.4 on

Re: Locked out of Hurd installation

2009-09-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bruno Minotti, le Mon 21 Sep 2009 17:52:15 +0200, a écrit : Philip Charles wrote: I cannot find a password that will enable me to log into my new Hurd installation. Installed using crosshurd. Any ideas? I had the same problem and I solved mounting the Hurd Partition on GNU/Linux and

Re: Locked out of Hurd installation

2009-09-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Mon 21 Sep 2009 20:59:55 +0200, a écrit : On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:08:21PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: apparently crosshurd sets x in the passwd field and doesn't build a shadow file indeed. Well, AFAICT it copies over /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master

Re: The /usr . sysmlink

2009-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 18:00:25 +1200, a écrit : Is the /usr . symlink still the standard on Debian GNU/Hurd systems? Nope, it poses too many issues that we can't necessarily fix. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: FTBFS: on hurd because of undeclared PATH_MAX in rdev.c

2009-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 19:23:15 +0900, a écrit : Your package fails to build from source on hurd. Attached is a patch which fixes the issue. Better just disable rdev build in the Makefile, that's what we got commited upstream some time ago (but apparently it got lost at

Re: login failure

2009-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 23:33:41 +1200, a écrit : Good progress except for the above. The new tarball build is based on crosshurd. From start to mini iso ready to burn, 40 seconds. I will prepare a report in a day or so. Cool! :) I am sticking with grub legacy in the

Re: The /usr . sysmlink

2009-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
മഹേഷ് മുകുന്ദന് | Mahesh M, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 11:35:39 -0100, a écrit : What is the status of grub in hurd? Hasn't changed. Can anybody please fix it if it has not yet been. It's in TODO lists since a long time, yes. I think i was told that only little more has to be done. But the little

Re: FTBFS: on hurd because of undeclared PATH_MAX in rdev.c

2009-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 22:17:57 +0900, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 19:23:15 +0900, a écrit : Your package fails to build from source on hurd. Attached is a patch which fixes the issue. Better just disable rdev build in the Makefile

os-prober, grub2 and hurd-i386

2009-09-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I've just tried the upgrade to grub2, and although os-prober find my hurd partition, update-grub2 says GNU/Hurd is not yet supported by grub-mkconfig. could someone work on it? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: libdb4.7 missing

2009-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Sat 26 Sep 2009 11:55:48 +0200, a écrit : It now got reuploaded and should be back over the next few days, hopefully. As db4.* always fails in the testsuite due to locking problems, manual intervention is needed here. I'm doing it. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: libdb4.7 missing

2009-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sat 26 Sep 2009 12:23:48 +1200, a écrit : We have libdb4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, in the archive, but no 4.7 Rebuilt and uploaded, should be available in next mirror push. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#533782: hurd: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.2)

2009-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have found the bug (asm memory clobber...) which was making us use gcc-4.2, it will be fixed in next upload. Thanks, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: xorg-server_1.6.3.901-1+hurd.1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED

2009-09-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I've just uploaded a fixed version of xorg-server: stupid fix, just exchaning two function parameters... It seems to work for me in qemu with the cirrus driver. Could people check it out? (Note: version 1.6.3.901-1+hurd.1, should be available within a few hours, not just 1.6.3.901-1)

Re: Moving hurd back to buildd.debian.org

2009-09-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Kurt Roeckx, le Sun 27 Sep 2009 17:07:35 +0200, a écrit : I think at some point in time there was a request to move hurd back to buildd.debian.org? What happened to this? Do you still want to move there? That'd be a good thing yes, at least to expose build logs more clearly. If you

Re: Moving hurd back to buildd.debian.org

2009-09-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 27 Sep 2009 17:45:12 +0200, a écrit : I don't know for beethoven (it is down atm) Michael thinks beethoven can be left out for the moment. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Moving hurd back to buildd.debian.org

2009-09-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Here it is again, signed. Samuel Thibault, le Sun 27 Sep 2009 17:45:12 +0200, a écrit : 192.33.98.55 for rossini 80.87.129.151 for both bach mozart (they are Xen domains) ssh-dss B3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAOp+ROMyuV/cJp5abowxGStdasV5cvi6rAc/ft1AVHkIBxIKEqUB3dWLRX3+wCuCNPNofR6KkEAcoiGL1zUMlzb

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-09-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Philip Charles, le Mon 28 Sep 2009 10:37:48 +1300, a écrit : Almost complete. Cool! Login problem. Bruno Minotti's /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master works. This can be implemented during the build process. This should be seen as a temporary measure. Someone needs to check why

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-09-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Mon 28 Sep 2009 00:08:45 +0200, a écrit : On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:44:59PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: netbase configuration awaiting resolution. Should just be a matter of fixing the init.d headers. Anybody? That doesn't look Hurd-specific though, yet I do

Re: any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Matthias Klose, le Wed 23 Sep 2009 00:39:52 +0200, a écrit : On 20.09.2009 22:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: Matthias Klose, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 19:58:22 +0200, a écrit : I'm not sure about Java, which show some regressions compared to 4.3. Otoh it's not amymore the default java compiler

Re: any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Matthias Klose, le Wed 23 Sep 2009 00:39:52 +0200, a écrit : Then try to build packages natively (ecj, gjdoc), install the corresponding -gcj packages und make sure that the natively compiled code is picked up at runtime and things still work. It seems to be working yes. finally we

Re: L1 iso's - progress to date.

2009-10-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sat 03 Oct 2009 21:19:12 +1300, a écrit : The Hurd cannot access files toward the end of a DVD. How far to the end? It may just be the 2GB or 4GB limit. BTW, the Makedev fix is already in both the upstream source and the debian repository. Thanks! Samuel -- To

Re: Moving hurd back to buildd.debian.org

2009-10-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, mozart and bach are back online, I could generate rsa keys for them, here they are, could you install them for buildd_hurd-i...@buildd.debian.org ? ssh-rsa

Re: pfinet, random (was: L1 mini iso)

2009-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 13 Oct 2009 10:16:15 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:50:58PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Philip Charles, le Mon 12 Oct 2009 23:52:32 +1300, a écrit : 1. Does entropy still have to be copied to /dev/urandom

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Tue 13 Oct 2009 20:50:58 +1300, a écrit : 2. Configuring the network ten days ago settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 \ -a 192.168.1.10 -g 192.168.1.4 -m 255.255.255.0 -4 worked nicely, now it is broken. pfinet --usage says that it should be

Re: pfinet, random (was: L1 mini iso)

2009-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Tue 13 Oct 2009 23:20:50 +1300, a écrit : OK I will still provide entropy. Is /dev/random needed? Yes. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 00:43:56 +1300, a écrit : Maybe you have the old version (2.14~rc2-0) of the package from debian-ports? The current unstable version (2.16.1-3) has the /sbin/fsck file according to http://packages.debian.org/sid/hurd-i386/util-linux/filelist fsck

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 15:29:40 +1300, a écrit : The only available util-linux is in unreleased, 2.14~rc2-0+hurd.1 dated 2 Oct 2008. Is there another version hiding somewhere? It's not hiding: $ apt-cache policy util-linux util-linux: Installed: 2.16.1-4 Candidate:

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 00:41:33 +1300, a écrit : New problem when configuring initscripts. 'Can't exec insserv No such file or directory at /usr/bin/update-rc.d line 387' insserv has not been configured and is not listed as a dependency of initscripts - is this the cause of the

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 10:00:56 +1300, a écrit : The problem is that insserv is not configured before sysv-rc which means that update-rc.d cannot find insserv. Mmm, I don't understand: there's not much to be configured for insserv, it just needs to be unpacked and /sbin/insserv

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 10:50:17 +1300, a écrit : On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 10:00:56 +1300, a écrit : The problem is that insserv is not configured before sysv-rc which means that update-rc.d cannot find insserv. Mmm, I

Re: FTBFS aegis

2009-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Walter Franzini, le Fri 16 Oct 2009 09:48:03 +0200, a écrit : It seems to me that the build is run under gid 1005 but a matching entry is missing in /etc/group. Ah, yes, I had propagated passwd only, not group. I have fixed it and requeued Thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: FTBFS aegis

2009-10-16 Thread samuel . thibault
An updated log is available on buildd.debian.org/aegis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: FTBFS aegis

2009-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Walter Franzini, le Fri 16 Oct 2009 17:31:10 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: Walter Franzini, le Fri 16 Oct 2009 09:48:03 +0200, a écrit : It seems to me that the build is run under gid 1005 but a matching entry is missing in /etc/group. Ah, yes, I had

Re: FTBFS aegis

2009-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Walter Franzini, le Fri 16 Oct 2009 23:31:35 +0200, a écrit : The code contains the following fragment: #ifdef __hurd__ #define WHOLE_FILE_LOCKS_ONLY #endif

Re: Autotools macro to test for pthreads fails with Resource lost on hurd

2009-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Daniel Moerner, le Tue 18 Aug 2009 11:42:20 -0700, a écrit : Both upstream and I are mystified by this 16392 Resource lost clause. That will be fixed in hurd_20090404-3. What was happening is that libpthread doesn't handle the sig==0 case and blindly uses sigaddset, which thus overflows

Re: Autotools macro to test for pthreads fails with Resource lost on hurd

2009-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sun 18 Oct 2009 12:53:33 +0200, a écrit : I also enhanced libpthread's test-16.c with respect to that -- does that look alright? http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/libpthread.git/log/?h=master-test It seems so. Maybe it could be useful to also try pthread_kill on

Re: L1 DVD and mini iso

2009-10-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Philip Charles, le Mon 19 Oct 2009 00:23:21 +1300, a écrit : I want to have a break from the Hurd iso's so I am proposing to upload the two images as is with some modification of Cook-book. Or would people prefer to wait two or three weeks when I will have time to polish up the

Re: installation report

2009-10-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Sun 25 Oct 2009 11:20:20 +0100, a écrit : The outdated packages now got removed. I am keeping unreleased pinned over unstable right now, because the last important package from debian-ports for a debootstrap is dhcp-client, which is an empty transitional package to

Re: os-prober, grub2 and hurd-i386

2009-10-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
I've submitted patch in various places to fix booting gnumach from grub2. The git version of gnumach should be bootable by grub 1.97 in all circumstances (even a lot of memory etc.). The current Debian gnumach should be bootable if given less than 800MiB memory (else grub2 may put the modules

Re: L1 DVD and mini iso

2009-10-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Tue 20 Oct 2009 00:13:14 +1300, a écrit : On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: I'm fixing a bug that arises with grub2 and which could also happen with grub on machines with a lot of memory. Maybe we'd rather wait for the fix to be included in Debian. I

Re: XZ utils fails to build from source on hurd/x86

2009-10-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jonathan Nieder, le Mon 19 Oct 2009 16:09:22 -0500, a écrit : I am no expert in these things, but it looks as though the assembly code checks for Mach-O format with __MACH__, but Hurd, which uses ELF, defines that symbol to convey it uses the Mach microkernel. If this is right, what

Re: Can somebody test compilation of OpenTTD?

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Matthijs Kooijman, le Tue 03 Nov 2009 16:57:44 +0100, a écrit : in the hopes that there would be a hurd buildd for experimental, but apparently there is none. Actually there is but with the move to buildd.debian.org and the current ftp-master mess, it's currently down :/ Can anyone

Re: Can somebody test compilation of OpenTTD?

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthijs Kooijman, le Tue 03 Nov 2009 18:13:51 +0100, a écrit : It fails very early: detecting OS... none detected D'oh! I've added a patch, but forgot to add it to the 00list file... Would you be so kind as to try the updated version I've attached? 04-compile-on-hurd doesn't apply due

Re: Torrent download

2009-11-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
hari krishnan, le Sun 08 Nov 2009 16:00:30 +0530, a écrit : Is there any active torrent for downloading the latest debian-hurd. Well, I don't think such torrent would be very active, but who knows... I am unable to download from ftp servers due to bandwidth problems(frequent disconnection).

Re: Qemu boot problem

2009-11-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
gordev, le Mon 09 Nov 2009 21:50:58 +0200, a écrit : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/GNU_002fHurd.html#GNU_002fHurd That's very outdated. , but in /boot/ directory only two files gnumach.gz and servers.boot. And thus it can't be used, servers.boot is _not_ the same as

Re: Bug#551094: FTBFS aegis

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Walter Franzini, le Fri 16 Oct 2009 17:31:10 +0200, a écrit : The error is now more interesting: aegis: fcntl(/tmp/5465/lib/lockfile, F_SETLK, {type = F_WRLCK, whence = SEEK_SET, start = 1, len = 1, pid = 0}): Not

Re: xorg-server_1.6.3.901-1+hurd.1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED

2009-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sun 15 Nov 2009 00:10:37 +0100, a écrit : (EE) MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. No such device or address (1073741830) Are you using the debian gnumach? (which has the iopl device) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#556522: hurd - using the login shell is insecure

2009-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bastian Blank, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 15:27:45 +0100, a écrit : Hurd uses a login shell by default on the ttys. This is a security problem as it allows access with other permissions to all ressources. Note: to do so we simply need to create a login account with default shell set to /bin/loginpr and

Bug#556550: hurd - should support Unix98 ptys

2009-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bastian Blank, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 19:02:12 +0100, a écrit : hurd should support Unix98 style ptys, aka /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts. This could be implemented as a special filesystem on /dev/pts and a link from /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx, like current Linux is using in a special mode. IIRC a

Re: xorg-server_1.6.3.901-1+hurd.1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED

2009-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 23:52:24 +0100, a écrit : On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sun 15 Nov 2009 00:10:37 +0100, a écrit : (EE) MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. No such device or address (1073741830

Re: Bug#556522: hurd - using the login shell is insecure

2009-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 17 Nov 2009 01:23:02 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:27:45PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Hurd uses a login shell by default on the ttys. This is a security problem as it allows access with other permissions to all ressources. This is not exactly

Re: [debian-hurd-Patches][305130] native backend for hal

2009-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 17 Nov 2009 23:12:47 +0100, a écrit : hal 0.5.13-4 now compiles and runs again on the Hurd. Thus changing this tracker for further work on a native backend for the Hurd. I think it can be safely closed: HAL is deprecated anyways; Ugh, I didn't know that. Fun

Re: Bug#556522: hurd - using the login shell is insecure

2009-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:06:21 +0100, a écrit : On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:20:33AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 17 Nov 2009 01:23:02 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:27:45PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: actually the access

Bug#557417: crosshurd: Shouldn't propose x86_64 for hurd-i386

2009-11-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
no packages. -- no debconf information -- Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@fnac.net $ du temp.iso 2,0Ttemp.iso $ ls temp.iso -l -r-xr-xr-x1 samy thibault 16E 2003-03-22 14:44 temp.iso* -+- je vous dirai pas la marque de mon disque dur, na :p -+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#557418: crosshurd: The usr-. symlink is deprecated

2009-11-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
for manipulating filesys crosshurd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@fnac.net $ du temp.iso 2,0Ttemp.iso $ ls temp.iso -l -r-xr-xr-x1 samy thibault 16E 2003-03-22 14:44 temp.iso* -+- je vous dirai pas la marque de mon disque dur, na :p

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