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Re: Quarter of the Hurd 2011-q4
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: Quarter of the Hurd 2011-q4 |
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Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:21:55 +0100 |
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Hi!
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:44:18 +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
wrote:
> → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next/
Thanks! I intend to publish this later today.
I did a bunch of changes; some comments/explanation here:
> Also Richard Braun added Exodar (exodar.debian.net), a new porter box. It is
> faster and more reliable, which facilitates testing and bug hunting.
2011-q3.
> Additionally [[documentation_of_the_I/O_Path|hurd/io_path/]] was improved
2011-q3.
> And there are now social network sites for GNU Hurd on
> [Google+](https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227#114942488385711891227/posts)
> and the AGPL licensed [identi.ca](http://identi.ca/group/hurd), to make it
> easier to stay in touch.
identi.ca is not new.
> As a final note, we want to share a story about real-life debugging with the
> Hurd:
>
> <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd
> <youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing
> <youpi> I had a volume that was keeping making ext2fs crash
> <youpi> with a reproductible scenario
> <youpi> could easily work out it was i_translator, then add a
> check to e2fsck, run it, which indeed fixed, them, and voilà,
> ext2fs was working again
> <youpi> all that on the same machine with *no* system reboot
> <youpi> just ext2fs restart :)
This is for 2012-q1; I will leave it in moth_next when I move the current
one to news/2011-q4.
Well, in fact, let's admit that it's no longer a MotH but a QotH; I
updated the instructions.
Grüße,
Thomas
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