No network on GNU/Hurd, not even localhost

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Akib Azmain Turja
Joshua Branson

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Akib Azmain Turja wrote on 8 Sep 2021 15:12

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I've downloaded latest QEMU image from build servers (build details:

https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/618573/details). Then I booted it with

libvirtd on my Guix System on GNU/Linux. It booted and the login shell

appeared. I logined as root without password and tried to install GNU

Hello (just to make sure everything is working). It failed due to

network problems, although my host machine was connected to the

internet. Then I tried to ping GNU server:

root@guixygnu ~# ping gnu.org

But no output appeared, not even an error message! I checked the return

status immediately:

root@guixygnu ~# echo $?

Then I tried ping localhost, but again it returned 1 without any output.

Then tried to see the available interfaces, but this too failed:

root@guixygnu ~# ifconfig

ifconfig: could not get list of interfaces

Then I booted again with QEMU directly with:

$ qemu-system-i386 -m 512 -snapshot -hda <path/to/image.qcow2>

Again, I face the same problem. However, this time I noticed a message

from settrans saying "settrans: /servers/socket/1: Device or resource

busy", a message saying the disk is mounted as read-only, (probably) an

error message from fsck showing it's usage, some warnings from Guile

saying "WARNING: (guile-user): imported module (guix build utils)

overrides core binding `delete'", the following messages during boot:

failed to start service: loopback

failed to start service: networking

failed to start service: ssh-daemon

failed to start service: ssh

failed to start service: sshd

Followed by an incomplete backtrace:

Backtrace:

3 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/n9glgyqlb30wjxia0zcx71x9zw9?")

In shepherd.scm:

I saw many other messages, but I didn't get the time to read and copy

it.

Then I tried to check the status of loopback service:

root@guixygnu ~# herd status loopback

error: connect: /var/run/shepherd/socket: Connection refused

Can someone help me with this issue? The QEMU image is almost unusable

without networking.

Note: all commands and their outputs are copied by hand.

Akib Azmain Turja

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Joshua Branson wrote on 8 Sep 2021 19:26

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Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

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> I've downloaded latest QEMU image from build servers (build details:

> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/618573/details). Then I booted it with

> libvirtd on my Guix System on GNU/Linux. It booted and the login shell

Is this the same as booting it with qemu? I know I've had issues with

no internet access with the Hurd too, but I'm not a very technical user,

so it's most likely operator error.

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> Can someone help me with this issue? The QEMU image is almost unusable

> without networking.

> Note: all commands and their outputs are copied by hand.

I wish I had more knowledge to help you out.  

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Akib Azmain Turja wrote on 9 Sep 2021 06:40

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Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:

Toggle quote (17 lines)> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> I've downloaded latest QEMU image from build servers (build details:
>> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/618573/details).  Then I booted it with
>> libvirtd on my Guix System on GNU/Linux.  It booted and the login shell
>
> Is this the same as booting it with qemu?  I know I've had issues with
> no internet access with the Hurd too, but I'm not a very technical user,
> so it's most likely operator error.
>
>> Can someone help me with this issue?  The QEMU image is almost unusable
>> without networking.
>>
>> Note: all commands and their outputs are copied by hand.
>
> I wish I had more knowledge to help you out.

QEMU has the same issue, I've described that in my first message. And

Hurd has networking. It works out of the box on Debian GNU/Hurd

2019, and it's 2021.

I booted again with fresh copy of the image without the "-snapshot"

parameter, and herd was working. But there was again no network and

after reboot herd stopped working too.