looking into the amd64 arch problems

[Constantine Kousoulos]

Hello all,

I tried installing Hurd on my Turion powered notebook from a 
Debian K14 GNU/Hurd cd and these are the results.

The system boots without problems the first time! :-O

The problems start after the commands

#export TERM=mach
#./native-install

Although 'native-install' "completes" and prompts for a reboot, 
there are enough errors to prevent the second 'native-install' 
from completing after the reboot. I have attached the stderr 
output from the first 'native-install'.

I manually executed the commands from 'native-install' and found 
out the following:

1) If either of pflocal or pfinet passive translators are set up, 
all the other translators fail to set up. If neither of them are 
set up, all the other translators are set up without problems.

2) libc0.3 fails to be configured (see the attached file for info)

3) The biggest problem is that the 'chown' command does not work. 
This recursively affects many other things. As you can see from 
the stderr output, the system does not recognise the user as root. 
Is this an io_stat() malfunction? Do you think this is a libdiskfs 
problem or the rabbit goes deeper down the hole?

I know that the amd64 arch is a big problem. Maybe with a little 
help i could pinpoint some bugs and, maybe, fix them.

Thanks,
Constantine


./native-install: line 138:    16 Killed                  /bin/settrans -c 
/servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet
./native-install: line 138:    18 Killed                  /bin/settrans -c 
/servers/crash-suspend /hurd/crash --suspend
./native-install: line 138:    20 Killed                  /bin/settrans -c 
/servers/password /hurd/password
./native-install: line 138:    22 Killed                  /bin/settrans -c 
/servers/crash-dump-core /hurd/crash --dump-core
./native-install: line 138:    24 Killed                  /bin/ln -s 1 
/servers/socket/local
./native-install: line 138:    26 Killed                  cp 
/usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master /etc/passwd
./native-install: line 138:    28 Killed                  /bin/sh ./MAKEDEV -v 
fd
dpkg: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version>

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) [*].

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc0.3.postinst: line 20:    33 Killed                  
update-rc.d "$@" >/dev/null
dpkg: error processing libc0.3 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 137
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc0.3
dpkg: bsdutils: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request:
 bsdutils depends on libc0.3 (>= 2.3.5-1); however:
  Package libc0.3 is not configured yet.
./MAKEDEV: line 56:    39 Killed                  settrans -cg console
chown: `root': invalid user
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./MAKEDEV: line 56:   231 Killed                  settrans -cg ttypj
chown: `root': invalid user
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./MAKEDEV: line 56:   321 Killed                  chown root ptypv
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chown: `root': invalid user
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./MAKEDEV: line 56:   412 Killed                  settrans -cg ttyqa
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