device figlet for the kernel

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
Those of you who waste large amounts of time on IRC, esp. on The Channel Which Shall Rename Nameless will appreciate this: figlet is this nifty little ASCII art tool that Alfred likes to use a lot. He has since gotten several other people hooked on using it, and a sort of running joke has been t

Is any patch to situation with bad linking library on -CURRENT?

2002-02-22 Thread Vladimir G. Drobyshevsky
Have a nice day! I'm sorry for possible beginning of flame, but is there exist real solution for bad linking library problem on -CURRENT? I was noticed about this problem about two or three weeks ago, and don't see nothing except discussions about new binutils. May be I was inattentive

Re: device figlet for the kernel

2002-02-22 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ John Baldwin ]-- | Those of you who waste large amounts of time on IRC, esp. on The Channel Which | Shall Rename Nameless will appreciate this: [snip] So the truth finally comes out. Now we discover the real reason -current was delayed for 12 months d8) -- Totally

Re: device figlet for the kernel

2002-02-22 Thread Jonathan Perkin
On Fri Feb 22, 2002 at 05:17:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > So who's going to do subr_jive.c next? :) subr_cowsay.c first :) -- Jonathan Perkin - BBC Internet Services - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of th

Re: Is any patch to situation with bad linking library on -CURRENT?

2002-02-22 Thread John Hay
> > I'm sorry for possible beginning of flame, but is there exist real > solution for bad linking library problem on -CURRENT? I was noticed > about this problem about two or three weeks ago, and don't see nothing > except discussions about new binutils. It looks like the import for binu

Re: Patch to improve mutex collision performance

2002-02-22 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:00:29PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I'd love to see subversion beefed up. It looks like the most > promising of the replacements for cvs on the horizon. > > One thing that it doesn't appear to have, that would be useful to the > BSD community, is the ability to cons

Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread Glenn Gombert
I have tried to re-cvsup and a clean rebuild the alst couple of days, and I keep getting this error when I try and do an 'installworld' ..after a clean build...does anyone know what might be causing this?? ... mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var -p /var mtree: line 67: unknown user

Re: Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:33:01 -0500 >From: Glenn Gombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have tried to re-cvsup and a clean rebuild the alst couple of days, and I >keep getting this error when I try and do an 'installworld' ..after a clean >build...does anyone know what might be causing this?? >... >.

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2002-02-22 Thread mailnull
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Re: Proposed patch for "/bin/sh: Argument list too long" when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020221 16:19] wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i think Al's solution (make -V ... | xargs .. ) > > > wins both in terms of simplicity and efficiency > > > > Ah, of course! now why didn't I think of that?

ports problem: where to start

2002-02-22 Thread Peter Schultz
I just upgraded everything on my system and I'm still having trouble with vim, AbiWord, and open-motif-devel. The problem with vim is one I can fix by changing the install.sh script it comes with by forcing it to link against the X11 library. For some reason it does not pick up that it's req

Re: Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Feb-02 David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:33:01 -0500 >>From: Glenn Gombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I have tried to re-cvsup and a clean rebuild the alst couple of days, and I >>keep getting this error when I try and do an 'installworld' ..after a clean >>build...does anyon

Build Failure (libkvm)

2002-02-22 Thread Beech Rintoul
Last night's build for -current failed with the following: mkdep -f .depend -a-DLIBC_SCCS -I/usr/src/lib/libkvm /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm.c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_i386.c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_file.c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_getloadavg.c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c /usr/src/lib/l

Re: Build Failure (libkvm)

2002-02-22 Thread David Wolfskill
>From: Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:28 -0900 >Last night's build for -current failed with the following: I got -CURRENT built today without problem. Recent CVSup history: freebeast(5.0-C)[1] tail /var/log/cvsup-history.log CVSup begin from cvsup14.freebsd.org

Re: Build Failure (libkvm)

2002-02-22 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 22 February 2002 08:14 am, David Wolfskill wrote: > From: Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:28 -0900 > > > >Last night's build for -current failed with the following: > > I got -CURRENT built today without problem. Recent CVSup history: > (snip history)

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > The use of an MFS /var should also be settable. Otherwise installing > ports(packages) is just a total PITA. I had issues with the MFS /var and /tmp[0] a couple days ago and changed the code to move the "mount -a" up before /var an

Re: Recent USB problems

2002-02-22 Thread Thomas E. Zander
On Sun, 17. Feb 2002, at 9:53 +0100, Michael Class wrote according to [Recent USB problems]: > usb1: on uhci1 > usb1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > > The system is a dual PIII Gigabyte system with

Re: Build Failure (libkvm)

2002-02-22 Thread John Hay
> > > > >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:28 -0900 > > > > > >Last night's build for -current failed with the following: > > > > I got -CURRENT built today without problem. Recent CVSup history: > > > (snip history) > > > > Might try updating again > > Already did that. The update was about 15

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > The use of an MFS /var should also be settable. Otherwise installing > > ports(packages) is just a total PITA. > > I had issues with the MFS /var and /tmp[0] a couple days ago and chang

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:23:12PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > One of the problems I have with a similar configuration is that the file > system checker never runs for local filesystems mounted on writable disks. > I tend to mount everything nfs and mfs, except for a scratch drive and > swap

Re: Recent USB problems

2002-02-22 Thread Alexander Kabaev
> > Sorry, no hint by my side, but I can report exactly the same problem > on an Athlon-C System equipped with a VIA-KT133A chipset. > (actually it has the same USB controller, so it was expectable) > > Riggs I am seeing the same symptoms while using Microsoft USB mouse with KT133A-based comp

Re: Recent USB problems

2002-02-22 Thread Michael Class
Hello, with current of yesterday everything seems to be ok for me again. But I do not see any reason for this (code has not changed inbetween). Michael Alexander Kabaev wrote: >>Sorry, no hint by my side, but I can report exactly the same problem >>on an Athlon-C System equipped with a VIA-K

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Jake Burkholder
Apparently, On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien said words to the effect of; > The existing very bazaar and local policy in rc.diskless1 is Just Wrong; > and looks like no other Unix diskless configuration I've ever seen. I > plan on committing this patch to negate th

Re: Recent USB problems

2002-02-22 Thread Alexander Kabaev
I had no problem with kernel from February 14, but failed ums probes are happening very consistently with kernel from Feb 18. Kernels from dates earlier than Feb 14 failed to attach USB mouse most of the time but sometimes misteriously managed to work. No configuration was changing between success

Re: Build Failure (libkvm)

2002-02-22 Thread Julian Elischer
the probkem is that phk didn't test a buildworld before making the following change to proc.h: revision 1.204 date: 2002/02/22 13:32:01; author: phk; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Convert p->p_runtime and PCPU(switchtime) to bintime format.

Re: Build Failure (libkvm)

2002-02-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, John Hay wrote: > > > > > > >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:09:28 -0900 > > > > > > > >Last night's build for -current failed with the following: > > > > > > I got -CURRENT built today without problem. Recent CVSup history: > > > > > (snip history) > > > > > > Might try updatin

TWiki as promised...

2002-02-22 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
Hi Folks, In an attempt to help out with coordination on projects I've put up a TWiki (see www.twiki.org for info on TWiki) site on my web server. As a guest you can read but not update, you have to register to update content. There is a Freebsd web and it has 1 topic which is the SMP p

Re: TWiki as promised...

2002-02-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Hmm cute I added a comment as an experiment.. really quite easy to use after the first 5 minute learning curve. On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: > 2) What do I have to do to use this? > > To read the stuff just go to: > > http://www.neville-neil.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebH

Re: TWiki as promised...

2002-02-22 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
> Hmm cute > > I added a comment as an experiment.. > really quite easy to use after the first 5 minute learning curve. > Well, you're the only one to use it thus far so let's see what others think as well. Thanks for checking it out though. Later, George -- George V. Neville-Neil

Re: Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread Glenn Gombert
All I did was to add a 'smmsp' user in via the sysisntall utility, ran 'installworld/mergemaster' again and things worked fine, adding a not to the Updating file might be a good idea for others thought :) At 11:35 AM 2/22/2002 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >On 22-Feb-02 David Wolfskill wrote: >>

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Glenn Gombert
The rc.diskless1/2 scripts *do* need some work, I finally got my diskless kernel booting (with help from Matt and Robert Watson) but it was a lot of 'trial and error' to do so"...but well worthwhile to boot diskless (test/experimental) kernels for developmental purposes . At 08:00 PM 2/21/20

OpenPAM

2002-02-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
OpenPAM Cantaloupe is now available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45677> along with an integration patch for FreeBSD-CURRENT. Since the two previous releases have solicited absolutely no feedback other than to point out a broken link on the project's web page, I ass

Re: Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Glenn Gombert wrote: > All I did was to add a 'smmsp' user in via the sysisntall utility, ran > 'installworld/mergemaster' again and things worked fine, adding a not to > the Updating file might be a good idea for others thought :) Section 19.4.3 of the FreeBSD handbook doe

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:13:22PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > echo "+++ mount_md of /var" > > -mount_md ${varsize:=65536} /var 1 > > +mount_md ${varsize:=32m} /var 1 > > One problem with making the mds so big is that it uses type malloc > which afaict uses malloc(9) to get the backing sto

Re: Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like a botched (or not run) "mergemaster" execution: No - mergemaster will croak because it runs mtree to build its temp directory, so if you're trying to update a pre-smmsp system you have to add the smmsp user and group manually. DES -- Dag

Re: Install World fails in -Current

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Feb-02 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sounds like a botched (or not run) "mergemaster" execution: > > No - mergemaster will croak because it runs mtree to build its temp > directory, so if you're trying to update a pre-smmsp system you have > to

First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
I'm currently testing the following patch whcih is a subset of the td_ucred changes. It involves no API changes, but only contains 2 basic changes: 1) We still need Giant when doing the crhold() to set td_ucred in cred_update_thread(). This is an old bug that is my fault. I knew that PRO

Re: device figlet for the kernel

2002-02-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:17:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > Currently figlet isn't a kernel module, but one could make it so without too > much additional work. To play with this, first download and apply the patch at > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/figlet.patch I think this should

Re: device figlet for the kernel

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Feb-02 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:17:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Currently figlet isn't a kernel module, but one could make it so without too >> much additional work. To play with this, first download and apply the patch >> at >> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/

RE: First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Feb-02 John Baldwin wrote: > I'm currently testing the following patch whcih is a subset of the td_ucred > changes. It involves no API changes, but only contains 2 basic changes: > > 1) We still need Giant when doing the crhold() to set td_ucred in >cred_update_thread(). This is an o

Re: RE: First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> I'm currently testing the following patch whcih is a subset of the td_ucred :> changes. It involves no API changes, but only contains 2 basic changes: :> :> 1) We still need Giant when doing the crhold() to set td_ucred in :>cred_update_thread(). This is an old bug that is my fault. I k

HEADS UP: ACPI CA updated

2002-02-22 Thread Mike Smith
I've finally updated the ACPI CA codebase with Intel's 20020214 drop (yes, I tagged it 0217, my bad). This is the first drop that Intel haven't asked me not to commit since the 20011120 version, so there are a large number of changes and bugfixes. See Intel's logs at http://developer.intel.com

Re: RE: First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Feb-02 Matthew Dillon wrote: >:> I'm currently testing the following patch whcih is a subset of the td_ucred >:> changes. It involves no API changes, but only contains 2 basic changes: >:> >:> 1) We still need Giant when doing the crhold() to set td_ucred in >:>cred_update_thread().

Re: RE: First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> as found in getgroups(). Some of these changes, for example return()ing :> in the middle of a procedure, are highly dependant on the removal of :> Giant. goto's are questionable but replacing them with return()s in :> the middle of a procedure isn't too hot an idea either. : :

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CA updated

2002-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020222 21:56] wrote: > > I've finally updated the ACPI CA codebase with Intel's 20020214 drop > (yes, I tagged it 0217, my bad). Woo! Go Mike! -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-c

Re: First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread Julian Elischer
please feel free to commit. If you break something so be it. I've been watching your P4 commits, and have not seen any obvious problems I assume that your "easy" changes are those you;ve been doing on P4. On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > I'm currently testing the following patch whci

RE: First (easy) td_ucred patch

2002-02-22 Thread Julian Elischer
I can't look at it till tomorrow. But I've been watching. I'd be surprised if anything broke with what I've seen. I'll look at it then if you haven;t commited by then. On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 23-Feb-02 John Baldwin wrote: > > I'm currently testing the following patch w