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<gnucode>morning hurd people

<gnucode>ummmm...

<gnucode>it's been about 3 or 4 months since I have updated my hurd install.

<gnucode>I did "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" (Apparently this is not the recommended upgrade procedure...

<gnucode>anyway, "which halt" and "which poweroff" are not working.

<gnucode>sudo halt-hurd is also failing

<gnucode>sudo apt full-upgrade give me this gem of an error

<gnucode>malloc(): invalid size (unsorted)

<gnucode>Aborted

<gnucode>actually most commands give me that error

<gnucode>I would rather not have to hard shutdown via holding the power button, but I do not see how I can turn off my machine at present.

<gnucode>Did Samuel mention something on bug-hurd about needing to run some command after a recent upgrade to fix some packages?

<gnucode>also I am kind of excited that I am using the Emacs version 29. That's pretty cool!

<gnucode>I am also somewhat starting to think that apt may be a better package manager than guix for the Hurd. Guix has to download a zillion files to update the tiniest stuff. I feel like the Hurd's network stack a little slow for that. But I am using really old hardware. What do I know...

<gnucode>well while I while I wait, I guess I could check if magit still works on this newer version of emacs...

<gnucode>well, it appears to work. That's good news

<gnucode>ok interesting!

<gnucode>sudo seems to be the problem

<gnucode>so i can run "su"

<gnucode>then apt full-upgrade seems to work

<gnucode>but halt-hurd and reboot-hurd does nothing.

<dsmith>I'm curious why sudo would be a problem. Because environment or path no set properly?

<gnucode>dsmith: I really do not know. I did just do a massive upgrade.

<gnucode>maybe that broke some things

<gnucode>but also why would "halt" and "reboot" may disappeared?

<gnucode>I have used sudo before just fine on this machine.

<gnucode>ok, interesting

<gnucode>I just did a su

<gnucode># cd /usr/sbin;

<gnucode># ls | grep halt-hurd

<gnucode>halt-hurd

<gnucode>so I can manually run that command apparently.

<gnucode>I guess that I will give that a try.

<gnucode>if i leave this irc session then it probably worked.

<gnucode>hey hey! That totally worked!

<gnucode>and X is working just fine.

<dsmith>Yey

<gnucode>and it's pretty awesome that I'm running Emacs 29!

<gnucode>interestingly, "sudo apt" is giving me the same issue

<gnucode>malloc(): invalid size (unsorted)

<gnucode>Aborted

<gnucode>that is rather odd!

<dsmith>Sounds kind of like a C lib issue. Like not using the right onw.

<gnucode>I guess I could try updating again.

<gnucode>I probably don't quite have enough time for that now.

<gnucode>also netsurf is no longer installed.

<gnucode>I should really actually port that program at some point.

<gnucode>anyway, thanks for the encouragement dsmith. I'm going to head out to work a little early.

<gnucode>I hope the ARM port works out swell. I think my pinephone (and graphene OS) are my only ARM devices.

<gnucode>anyway, I need to head to work.

<gnucode>talk to ya'll later

<gnucode>howdy friends!

<gnucode>hello friends

<gnucode>well sudo apt still is not working

<gnucode>also git somehow got uninstalled.

<gnucode>and apt install hit fails

<gnucode>git*

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