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  22     <h3>Entries from February 2014.</h3>
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  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_home_and_release_1_0_for_netgroup_and_innetgr__aka_ng_utils_.html">New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils)</a>
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  29         22nd February 2014
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  32         <p>Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and
  33 innetgr tools, because I needed them in
  34 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>.  I called the project
  35 ng-utils, and it has served me well.  I placed the project under the
  36 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">Hungry Programmer</a> umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS
  37 repository.  But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost,
  38 not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a
  39 proper home since then.</p>
  40
  41 <p>Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release
  42 fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in
  43 a proper source control system.  I applied for a project on
  44 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a>, but did not have time
  45 to follow up on it.  Until today. :)</p>
  46
  47 <p>After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project
  48 now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the
  49 history of the project.  I published all release tarballs and imported
  50 them into the git repository.  As the project is really stable and not
  51 expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new
  52 release and call it 1.0.  Visit the new project home on
  53 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/">https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/</a>
  54 if you want to check it out.  The new version is also uploaded into
  55 Debian Unstable.</p>
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  61         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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  70         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html">Testing sysvinit from experimental in Debian Hurd</a>
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  73          3rd February 2014
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  76         <p>A few days ago I decided to try to help the Hurd people to get
  77 their changes into sysvinit, to allow them to use the normal sysvinit
  78 boot system instead of their old one.  This follow up on the
  79 <a href="https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de//categories/gsoc.html">great
  80 Google Summer of Code work</a> done last summer by Justus Winter to
  81 get Debian on Hurd working more like Debian on Linux.  To get started,
  82 I downloaded a prebuilt hard disk image from
  83 <a href="http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz">http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz</a>,
  84 and started it using virt-manager.</p>
  85
  86 <p>The first think I had to do after logging in (root without any
  87 password) was to get the network operational.  I followed
  88 <a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">the
  89 instructions on the Debian GNU/Hurd ports page</a> and ran these
  90 commands as root to get the machine to accept a IP address from the
  91 kvm internal DHCP server:</p>
  92
  93 <p><blockquote><pre>
  94 settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde
  95 kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[p]finet/ { print $2}')
  96 kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[d]evnode/ { print $2}')
  97 dhclient /dev/eth0
  98 </pre></blockquote></p>
  99
 100 <p>After this, the machine had internet connectivity, and I could
 101 upgrade it and install the sysvinit packages from experimental and
 102 enable it as the default boot system in Hurd.</p>
 103
 104 <p>But before I did that, I set a password on the root user, as ssh is
 105 running on the machine it for ssh login to work a password need to be
 106 set.  Also, note that a bug somewhere in openssh on Hurd block
 107 compression from working.  Remember to turn that off on the client
 108 side.</p>
 109
 110 <p>Run these commands as root to upgrade and test the new sysvinit
 111 stuff:</p>
 112
 113 <p><blockquote><pre>
 114 cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list &lt;&lt;EOF
 115 deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental main
 116 EOF
 117 apt-get update
 118 apt-get dist-upgrade
 119 apt-get install -t experimental initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit \
 120     sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
 121 update-alternatives --config runsystem
 122 </pre></blockquote></p>
 123
 124 <p>To reboot after switching boot system, you have to use
 125 <tt>reboot-hurd</tt> instead of just <tt>reboot</tt>, as there is not
 126 yet a sysvinit process able to receive the signals from the normal
 127 'reboot' command.  After switching to sysvinit as the boot system,
 128 upgrading every package and rebooting, the network come up with DHCP
 129 after boot as it should, and the settrans/pkill hack mentioned at the
 130 start is no longer needed.  But for some strange reason, there are no
 131 longer any login prompt in the virtual console, so I logged in using
 132 ssh instead.
 133
 134 <p>Note that there are some race conditions in Hurd making the boot
 135 fail some times.  No idea what the cause is, but hope the Hurd porters
 136 figure it out.  At least Justus said on IRC (#debian-hurd on
 137 irc.debian.org) that they are aware of the problem.  A way to reduce
 138 the impact is to upgrade to the Hurd packages built by Justus by
 139 adding this repository to the machine:</p>
 140
 141 <p><blockquote><pre>
 142 cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hurd-ci.list &lt;&lt;EOF
 143 deb http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/hurd-ci/ sid main
 144 EOF
 145 </pre></blockquote></p>
 146
 147 <p>At the moment the prebuilt virtual machine get some packages from
 148 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian, because some of the packages in
 149 unstable do not yet include the required patches that are lingering in
 150 BTS.  This is the completely list of "unofficial" packages installed:</p>
 151
 152 <p><blockquote><pre>
 153 # aptitude search '?narrow(?version(CURRENT),?origin(Debian Ports))'
 154 i   emacs                   - GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
 155 i   gdb                     - GNU Debugger
 156 i   hurd-recommended        - Miscellaneous translators
 157 i   isc-dhcp-client         - ISC DHCP client
 158 i   isc-dhcp-common         - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
 159 i   libc-bin                - Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries
 160 i   libc-dev-bin            - Embedded GNU C Library: Development binaries
 161 i   libc0.3                 - Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
 162 i A libc0.3-dbg             - Embedded GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
 163 i   libc0.3-dev             - Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
 164 i   multiarch-support       - Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibilit
 165 i A x11-common              - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
 166 i   xorg                    - X.Org X Window System
 167 i A xserver-xorg            - X.Org X server
 168 i A xserver-xorg-input-all  - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
 169 #
 170 </pre></blockquote></p>
 171
 172 <p>All in all, testing hurd has been an interesting experience. :)
 173 X.org did not work out of the box and I never took the time to follow
 174 the porters instructions to fix it.  This time I was interested in the
 175 command line stuff.<p>
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 193 <h2>Archive</h2>
 194 <ul>
 195
 196 <li>2014
 197 <ul>
 198
 199 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 200
 201 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/02/">February (2)</a></li>
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 203 </ul></li>
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 205 <li>2013
 206 <ul>
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 208 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
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 210 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
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 212 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
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 214 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
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 216 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 218 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
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 224 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
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 237 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
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 353 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
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