Re: Problems with the console

[Alex]

> > tty6    "/libexec/getty 38400"        hurd        on    secure trusted
> > console
> > Are the lines wrapped like this or only because your mail client
> > wrapped them?
> >    
my mail client wrapped them

> For my feeling everything is correct.  I assume you used the newest
> Hurd package and rebooted the system after configuring the console
> server.
>  
In fact, i have this problem since i have installed debian hurd with 
debian cross installation. The console never worked. Recently i have 
only update all packages hoping it will work now : apt-get 
upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade

> IIRC you said both the vga and ncursesw consoles did not work.  In
> that case I guess something is wrong with the console server or
> something around there.  You could have a look at the PIDs of the
> servers and see if they don't change (=die).
>
> Can you access the console server using ls?  For example:
> ls /dev/vcs/1
>
> Does that show all nodes (console, display, input)?
>  
ls /dev/vcs/1
   console display input

Seems correct :/

Here are my processus list: i am running single user mode for now
ps -A

USER       PID TT STAT     TIME COMMAND
root         0  ? R<mo  0:00.00 /hurd/proc
root         1  - Sslo  0:00.00 /hurd/init /boot/gnumach.gz -s 
root=device:hd0s
-            2  ? D<p   0:00.04 /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=device:hd0s8
root         3  - So    0:00.15 /hurd/ext2fs.static 
--multiboot-command-line=/b
root         4  - So    0:00.00 /hurd/exec
root         5  - So    0:00.01 /hurd/auth
root         6  - Sslow 0:00.00 /bin/bash /libexec/runsystem 
/boot/gnumach.gz -
root         7  - So    0:00.04 /hurd/term /dev/console device console
root         8  - So    0:00.00 /hurd/magic tty
root         9  - Sw    0:00.00 /bin/sh
root        13  - S     0:00.00 ps -A