I should have mentioned that I indeed was careful to update both hurd and gnumach together. I have made several attempts to downgrade (in which case /servers/socket/2 was always restored OK) and then upgrade. I just tried again, downgrading to the previous versions and then doing "apt-get install gnumach hurd" and then rebooting. The problem persists.
My machine comes from running the current qemu (qemu-0.8.2) with no special options like kqemu so I have, e.g., emulated NE2000 card by default. I will read more hurd info and play around with bochs, etc. to try to figure it out. Thanks for the quick replies! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]