Re: Everything's broken (was: Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 released!)

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Sergey Bugaev, le mer. 14 juin 2023 15:12:22 +0300, a ecrit:
> Unfortunately the released installation ISO is very broken :( , which
> spoils the whole thing.
> 
> Once you install it and try to boot for the first time, you are greeted
> with a wall of errors about /dev//tty1

?? I'm not getting such a result at all of course. How did you run the
installation *exactly*?

As a reminder, the really recommended way to avoid issues is to just run
the pre-installed image inside qemu (and README files are actually meant
to be read).

> I've seen people on a certain online forum report this,
> and draw a rather negative conclusion about the state of the Hurd.

As usual, we see a lot of people grumble about things, much less people
actually report things, and even less people actually have a look at
fixing things...

And most people just forgetting that it's just the same with *any*
OS that doesn't have a huge testing team. Any departure from what is
actually tested will get issues, very obviously. One just can't test the
whole world of virtualfoo etc.

> # ls /dev/tty1
> ls: cannot access '/dev/tty1': No such file or directory
> 
> # ls /dev
> ls: reading directory '/dev': Input/output error

This looks like filesystem corruption. Did you try to fsck it?

> I can't debug this properly myself because of the issue with GDB and
> debuginfo I was talking about earlier: GDB (I've tried GDB 13.1 from
> Fedora and 10.1 from Debian bullseye) just doesn't "see" the (DWARF?)
> debuginfo in the .debug files extracted from the dbgsym debs.

Are you running a Linux gdb for a Hurd binary? I don't know if that's
supposed to work.

Samuel