package troubleshooting

This page reports known Hurd-specific bugs, quirks and corresponding solutions and workarounds with Debian GNU/Hurd package installation and working.

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Dpkg wants external programs?

It may be that dpkg wants external GNU/Linux-specific programs that it can't found or that just don't exist on the Hurd. You can trick dpkg by copying and running this script as root:

#!/bin/bash
ln -s /sbin/ldconfig /bin/ldconfig
ln -s /bin/true /bin/update-rc.d
ln -s /bin/true /bin/start-stop-daemon
ln -s /bin/true /bin/install-info
ln -s /bin/true /bin/update-alternatives

SSH not working

You must set up the random device first.

An X package hangs at startup without error messages

Observed with GTK programs like xchat, synaptic, inkscape. It is an issue with libpthread that (as of 04 Feb 2007) is still unresolved. Sorry.

Borked fonts on GTK app

This is related to issues in Pango.

Install pango-dev package
Run as root:

pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules

Installing a package seems to hang forever

There are various reasons for this.

If interrupting the process with ctrl-c gives a line like that:

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 723, in urandom bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes)) KeyboardInterrupt

it is the random device fault. Follow the random guide. If you already did, try anyway to detach and reattach the translators.

Cannot compile even trivial C programs

Check to have installed the following: