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author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 10:36:54 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 11:11:01 +0200 |
commit | 38cfa89677eabc85fc23e31e24cee85fb1ecfa54 (patch) | |
tree | 45822eb14eb11bdf7e96f0b8f3c5c7f0b9f81b88 /faq/running | |
parent | d8ba0864d2cc74397960060b79a8c9154bb16d34 (diff) |
Rework FAQ machinery to be based on tags instead of filenames.
Diffstat (limited to 'faq/running')
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/df.mdwn | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/hurd_console.mdwn | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/kernel_logs.mdwn | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/off.mdwn | 23 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/ps_hangs.mdwn | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/serial_console.mdwn | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn | 45 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | faq/running/xserver-common.mdwn | 20 |
9 files changed, 0 insertions, 189 deletions
diff --git a/faq/running/df.mdwn b/faq/running/df.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 9987a373..00000000 --- a/faq/running/df.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Why df doesn't work?"]] - -There is no `/etc/mtab` (due to dynamic translator startup, its content is hard -to define actually, see -[[the mtab GSoC project idea|community/gsoc/project_ideas/mtab]]), -so just running `df` will yield the following error. - - df: cannot read table of mounted file systems - -Pass `df` a path like `df /` or `df ./` to see the disk usage of that particular -file system. diff --git a/faq/running/hurd_console.mdwn b/faq/running/hurd_console.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f55e30d2..00000000 --- a/faq/running/hurd_console.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="How about the virtual console?"]] - -Edit `/etc/default/hurd-console` to configure the Hurd console. -See [[hurd/console]] for further information about the Hurd console. diff --git a/faq/running/kernel_logs.mdwn b/faq/running/kernel_logs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 0c9e05a0..00000000 --- a/faq/running/kernel_logs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="dmesg, kernel logs"]] - -There is no `dmesg` command, since the kernel does not keep a buffer of its -messages. syslog however dumps them into `/var/log/dmesg`, so you can simply cat -that. diff --git a/faq/running/off.mdwn b/faq/running/off.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index eb2a6d1c..00000000 --- a/faq/running/off.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="shutdown does not work, how am I supposed to shut my Hurd system down?"]] - -The GNU/Hurd does not use SYSV runlevels, so commands like - - # shutdown -h now - -will not work. Simply use the equivalent shortcuts - - # halt - # reboot - -to respectively shutdown and reboot Hurd, provided natively, -instead of from SYSV runlevels. diff --git a/faq/running/ps_hangs.mdwn b/faq/running/ps_hangs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b58a3308..00000000 --- a/faq/running/ps_hangs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -If `ps` hangs, try `ps -M` which should still work by not getting detailed -information from processes. diff --git a/faq/running/serial_console.mdwn b/faq/running/serial_console.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 44453ac5..00000000 --- a/faq/running/serial_console.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, -2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="How do I initialize a serial console on the Hurd?"]] - - * You can try out the Serial Howto at <http://www.nongnu.org/thug/serial-howto.txt> - * For kernel messages, you can append `console=com0` to the kernel command line. diff --git a/faq/running/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn b/faq/running/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index e7d7776a..00000000 --- a/faq/running/slash_usr_symlink.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013 Free -Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Why is `/usr' a symbolic link to `.'?"]] - -The distinction between `/` and `/usr` has historical reasons. Back when [[Unix]] -systems were booted from two tapes, a small root tape and a big user tape. -Today, we like to use different partitions for these two spaces. The Hurd -throws this historical garbage away. We think that we have found a more -flexible solution called union filesystems, which allow to create virtual -filesystems which are the union of several other filesystems. However, support -for union filesystems is [[still in early development|hurd/translator/unionfs]]. diff --git a/faq/running/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn b/faq/running/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 219e14e4..00000000 --- a/faq/running/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!tag open_issue_documentation]] - - -# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-01 - - <marcusb> I remember the time when we had a /usr symlink. Now fedora 17 - will move / to /usr and have /foo symlinks. :) - <marcusb> braunr: - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge - <marcusb> braunr: fedora and others are merging /bin, /sbin and some other - into /usr - <marcusb> braunr: back in 1998 we tried for two years or so to have /usr -> - .. in Debian GNU/Hurd, but eventually we gave up on it, because it broke - some stuff - <gnu_srs> marcusb: Hi, which one is better (in your opinion): / or /usr? - <marcusb> gnu_srs: fedora says that using /usr allows better separation of - distribution files and machine-local files - <braunr> marcusb: won't it break remote /usr ? - <marcusb> so you can atomically mount the OS files to /usr - <marcusb> gnu_srs: but in the end, it's a wash - <marcusb> personally, I think every package should get its own directory - <braunr> marcusb: what PATH then ? - <marcusb> braunr: well, I guess you'd want to assemble a union filesystem - for a POSIX shell - <braunr> marcusb: i don't see what you mean :/ - <braunr> ah this comes from Lennart Poettering - <marcusb> braunr: check out for example how http://nixos.org/ does it - <manuel> braunr: something like, union /package1/bin /package2/bin - /package3/bin for /bin, /package1/lib /package2/lib /package3/lib for - /lib, etc. I guess - <braunr> manuel: would that scale well ? - <marcusb> the idea that there is only one correct binary for each program - with the name foo is noble, but a complete illusion that hides the - complexity of the actual configuration management task - <braunr> marcusb: right diff --git a/faq/running/xserver-common.mdwn b/faq/running/xserver-common.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 68058641..00000000 --- a/faq/running/xserver-common.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Normal users can't start X"]] - -This happens because currently there is no way to detect console users. - -On Debian GNU/Hurd systems, you need to run - - # dpkg-reconfigure x11-common - -and select `Anybody` for starting X. |