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<gnucode>hey hurd people! I really borked my Hurd laptop today.

<gnucode>I was updating the machine, when the X lock screen turned on. When I tried to log back in...the system seemed to freeze. I assumed that the Hurd was still updating in the background, but I could not log in.

<gnucode>I waited for about 10 minutes or so, gave up, and hard shut off the machine.

<gnucode>When I rebooted, I was unable to fsck the filesystem. the normal boot was interupted by "filesystem not mounted cleanly. enter the root password or C-D to continue." I entered the root password, and tried to fsck.ext2 /dev/hd0s1.

<gnucode>Well, I wasn't even able to do that! Basically, "ls" failed to work. Then delete failed to work.

<gnucode>Then when I was typing, weird utf8 symbols started appearing. Things got weird! :)

<gnucode>Basically the T43's root filesystem was soo garbled that I couldn't fix it.

<gnucode>But then I had a genius idea! I booted the Hurd installer, and fsck-ed the root filesystem via the rescue option, which I am glad to say worked!

<kilobug>you could try to boot an installer or live image (of GNU/Hurd or GNU/Linux) and to fsck the filesystem from it, but if it's deeply corrupted, I fear that won't be enough

<gnucode>I am actually typing this on the fixed T43!

<kilobug>oh, you already did :) good :)

<gnucode>kilobug: actually, apt saved my bacon.

<gnucode>Once the filesystem was fixed, I tried to perform the upgrade in the console...there's no lock screen to cause issues there.

<gnucode>apt gave me a weird error message like, "Something really wrong Jim. try apt --configure -y to fix."

<kilobug>I usually do all my upgrades instead GNU screen, so in case I loss the GUI during the upgrade, I can still ssh to the box from another box and reattach the screen from it

<gnucode>I forget what the command was, but it re-installed all the basic stuff that I needed to get it all working again.

<gnucode>kilobug: do you know how to disable the X lock screen on Debian GNU/Hurd ?

<gnucode>that would probably help me out a lot, because I have gotten stock on that lock screen before.

<kilobug>that probably depends of the desktop envrionment you are using

<gnucode>Feel free to respond, but I really need to go to bed. I'll be sure to check the logs for anyone's answer. Also I'm probably going to send out the Q3 qoth soon for review.

<gnucode>I'm using i3

<kilobug>i3 itself doesn't have any lock screen, so it's probably GNOME's or Mate's or whatever that is called from it, it would depend on your config...

<kilobug>but good night !

<gnucode>hmmm.

<gnucode>I'm using startx

<ThinkT510>does wayland work on the hurd yet?

<gnucode>I may have just found it. night.

<gnucode>ThinkT510: solid_black got it working, but it's very experimental.

<gnucode>wayland needs an OpenGL implementation to work? (I could be wrong on that).

<gnucode>It needs DRM I think as well to work well...

<gnucode>I don't think there are any Hurd developers that are actively working on porting the Hurd to wayland. It's possible, but we are not there yet.

<gnucode>sweet, I was able to disable the X lock screen. Hopefully I'll have less X issues.

<gnucode>hey friends! My T400 replacement DVD drive just arrived in the mail. I should be able to try booting the Hurd installer on the T400 and giving it a spin this weekend!

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