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<damo22>rsmarples: do you mean hurd i386 has problems on your emulator?

<damo22>sneek: later tell youpi: sorry, i submitted v3 for smbfs without testing, so there is a 7th one-liner patch to fix it up, i did test that

<sneek>Okay.

<rsmarples>damo22: yes, people here said it was too slow hence the timeout

<rsmarples>my observation is that while yes it's slow, other OS have no problem booting

<azeem>rsmarples: but you are running an uptodate x86-64 machine as host, this is just regarding a 32bit guest, right?

<rsmarples>azeem: amd 3900x 32Gb running NetBSD-11 ish - this is just trying to run hurd reliably :)

<azeem>ok, maybe should've lead with that

<azeem>do you need the 32bit guest to reproduce some bugs? In general I guess 64bit runs better these days

<rsmarples>i was advised to use 32bit as the 64bit locks up under network load

<rsmarples>debian 64 doesn't run, gentoo 64 does but I can't upgrade it as it locks up downloading libc sources

<rsmarples>no 32 images run

<rsmarples>netbsd-11 ish host runs a lot of OS's just fine ... but equally there could be bugs only exposed by hurd

<azeem>yeah, I am not sure a lot of people use netbsd-11 as host

<rsmarples>for hosting hurd that's probably correct

<azeem>12:04 < azeem> what is the error message?

<azeem>14:43 < azeem> rsmarples: I meant when it did not boot accelerated

<rsmarples>let me boot an installer, few minutes please

<azeem>(there a Debian live images that might be easier to run)

<Alicia>rsmarples: do you have some acceleration akin to kvm on netbsd?

<Alicia>and are you disabling the hurd console in /etc/defaults/hurd-console?

<diegonc>damo22, this is the timeout rsmarples talks about: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2026-03/msg00227.html

<diegonc>it causes the keyboard and mouse queues to be filled because there's no console-client alive (which normally takes events from those queues)

<diegonc>and it's fixed either by increasing the timeout (although I'm not sure the patch landed on a release) or just disabling the hurd console as Alicia said

<diegonc>one would probably prefer to use SSH anyway :)

<rsmarples>Alicia: yes, i have nvmm acceleration.

<rsmarples>huh, the installer has been going for an hour now without error ... currently partitioning disks

<rsmarples>Starting partitioner .... at 52% for 10 mins or so

<rsmarples>mouse works on console still

<rsmarples>still stuck at 52%. is there a way to see the console for any error?

<azeem>this is the Debian installer?

<rsmarples>azeem: yes

<rsmarples>and it's still at 52%

<azert>rsmarples: installer stuck at that point is issues with the swap partition

<azert>try without swap, or use a more updated installer

<azert>if i recall correctly, that has been fixed

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