Re: Hurd logs

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:04:05 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 13 Jul 2012 12:57:17 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > -- and what I also notice is that the Hurd console
> > > > doesn't start up automatically anymore, which might very well be 
> > > > related.
> > > > (Didn't try starting it manually.)
> > > 
> > > Please make sure you have xkb-data installed.  I have forgotten the
> > > dependency and have not had the time to upload the fixed package yet.
> > 
> > That fixes it -- so this seems to be an easy bug for someone to fix in
> > the console's XKB support.
> 
> You mean letting the console start even without keyboard layout support?
> That can be better, yes, but a warning has to go through somewhere.

No, I meant the invalid port deallocation when the data files are not
present.


> Actually, more generally, we need more logging. netdde for instance,
> does not log anywhere, and that makes it cumbersome to check.  We could
> embed that into the translator record, but that seems ugly to me,
> perhaps we should have a /var/log/translators.log ?

<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/translator_stdout_stderr.html>.
I should dig out what Neal had written about this topic.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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