Re: Have any difficulties arisen with the Lua scripting languaje into Hurd?

Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:41:38 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.hurd.bugs,gmane.linux.debian.ports.hurd,gmane.os.hurd.general
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El Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:23:17 +0100
Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le mar. 10 févr. 2026 15:37:08 +0100, a
> ecrit:
> > How is it possible that at the end of last year, from one
> > day to the next, the two best web browsers available on GNU/Hurd,
> > Luakit and Surf, which are very similar and based on the same
> > scripting language, Lua, went from working very satisfactorily to
> > instantly terminating when launched, with the brief output ‘abort’?
> >  
> 
> Because of a bug? The abort message would probably be very
> informative. Or a gdb backtrace, etc.
> 
> > Is it possible to investigate why this happened?.  
> 
> Sure. For a simple start, you can check what package got upgraded
> in between, and then try to downgrade/upgrade to verify which exact
> package pose problems. But also simply actually pasting the abortion
> message would provide the list with *way* more information than just
> "terminates".
> 
> Samuel

Hi Samuel, and thanks.

I don't know how to get a "register" of the upgrades realized at that
time (it was last week of 2025, i'm sure of it).

In the attached screenshot it's collected the proccess of typing 'surf'
and 'luakit' in the command line. If i can help in this investigation
in any way, let my know, cos i'm eager to help.

Regards.
Jose Luis.

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