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diff --git a/faq/dev-init.mdwn b/faq/dev-init.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1b6693fa --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/dev-init.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2025 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 faq/running]] + +[[!meta title="Fails to boot, hangs at auth."]] + +Perhaps your `/dev/` got hurt. You can mount by hand (e.g. on `/target`) +your root filesystem from a Hurd installation CD and run + + chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure hurd + +or + + chroot /target /usr/lib/hurd/setup-translators -k -p + +or even completely by hand: + + settrans -fg /target/dev/console /hurd/term /dev/console device console + settrans -fg /target/dev/null /hurd/null + settrans -fg /target/servers/socket/1 /hurd/pflocal + settrans -fg /target/dev/urandom /hurd/random --seed-file /var/lib/random-seed --fast + +to restore it or at least the basic parts. + +You can also try to fix some entries from a Linux system (mounting it as ext4) with: + + touch /target/dev/console + setfattr -n gnu.translator -v "/hurd/term\0/dev/console\0device\0console\0" /target/dev/console + setfattr -n gnu.translator -v "/hurd/null\0" /target/dev/null + setfattr -n gnu.translator -v "/hurd/pflocal\0" /target/servers/socket/1 + setfattr -n gnu.translator -v "/hurd/random\0--seed-file\0/var/lib/random-seed\0--fast\0" /target/dev/urandom |