Re: hurd haning on boot (virtual box)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Justus Winter wrote:
> If I should guess I'd say your root filesystem got corrupted and the
> root translator just crashes.  /hurd/startup should notice that but
> doesn't for some reason.  Or it ran out of space and thus crashed.
> Try to break into the kernel debugger using ctrl-alt-d, and enter
> `show all threads'.
>
> As always, fsck early and fsck often.
You were right. Even if fsck wasn't being run, in recovery mode I forced 
a fsck and then the machine booted!
I didn't do it at first, because the first boot into recovery did run 
fsck, so I thought that was enough.

installing the gnumach dbg right ow, one never knows!


Riccardo