[9fans] Running 9vx.OSX on full plan 9 distribution

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@gnu.org>]

I'm having several problems with 9vx, following the instructions here:

   http://9fans.net/archive/2008/07/118

If I boot with:

   $ ./9vx.OSX -u glenda

9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile.

If I try:

   $ replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network

I get a 'unable to set uid/gid' error on every file that is pulled.

After some advice on IRC, I though perhaps both were related to
permission problems having 9vx run as glenda over a plan9.tar.gz
unpacked by user gary.

However, I also created a new 'glenda' user in OSX.  But even logged
in as glenda and everything reinstalled by 'glenda' in her home
directory...   both bugs are still present: upas/fs hangs and prevents
rio starting up, and when I comment that line out and try replica/pull
I *still* get uid/gid errors.

What is the best way to run 9vx on a mac, and have it behave well?

Or failing that, what is the best way to run plan 9 on mac os x?

Cheers,
	Gary
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