Package: hurd Version: 1:0.8.git20160826-1 Severity: normal The hurd package makes /etc/hurd/runsystem a symlink that is managed with the alternatives system. The default is runsystem.sysv, and runsystem.gnu is also available.
However, if I use 'update-alternatives --config runsystem' to select runsystem.gnu, then the system fails to boot, because /etc/hurd/runsystem.gnu runs /hurd/init, which requires /etc/hurd/runsystem.hurd, which does not exist. I tried to fix this by installing daemons/runsystem.hurd from the Debian Hurd source tree to /etc/hurd/runsystem.hurd and making it executable. That helped but there were still several problems: 1. runsystem.hurd runs /libexec/rc, which does not exist. /etc/hurd/rc should be used instead. 2. runsystem.hurd runs /libexec/runttys, which does not exist. /sbin/runttys should be used instead. 3. runsystem.hurd sets PATH=/bin:/sbin, which omits /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. The login shell apparently inherits that that setting and uses it for some startup script, causing errors: -bash: id: command not found -bash: [: : integer expression expected 4. The file systems listed in /etc/fstab were not automatically mounted. I suppose I could work around this by setting them as passive translators, but then it would be more difficult to ensure that a user won't cause the file-system translator to start while root is running fsck on the store. 5. dhclient did not start automatically. I suppose I could set a fixed IP address instead, or edit some startup script. Please make the hurd package install runsystem.hurd to /etc/hurd/, and patch it to fix problems 1 to 3. That way, runsystem.gnu will at least work well enough to let root log in and either switch back to runsystem.sysv or fix problems 4 and 5 locally. Alternatively, runsystem.gnu could be removed from the package and unregistered from the alternatives system. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: hurd-i386 (i686-AT386) Kernel: GNU-Mach 1.7+git20160809-486-dbg/Hurd-0.8 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages hurd depends on: ii hurd-libs0.3 1:0.8.git20160826-1 ii libblkid1 2.28.1-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc0.3 2.23-5 ii libdaemon0 0.14-6 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160625-1+b1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160625-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1+b1 ii netdde 0.0.20150828-3 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59.8 ii xkb-data 2.17-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2 Versions of packages hurd recommends: pn bf-utf-source <none> Versions of packages hurd suggests: pn hurd-doc <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/hurd-console changed: ENABLE='false' DISPLAY='-d vga' KBD='-d pc_kbd' if [ -f /etc/default/keyboard ] then . /etc/default/keyboard fi [ -z "$XKBLAYOUT" ] || KBD="$KBD --keymap $XKBLAYOUT" KBD_REPEAT='--repeat=kbd' MOUSE='-d pc_mouse --protocol=ps/2' MOUSE_REPEAT='--repeat=mouse' -- no debconf information
