Re: [9fans] trace device paper from aki&john&ron now available

2008-09-23 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:03 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't yet have any kind of P9 system, so no access to sources. Can I get a > copy of the ps file? > If you have a 32-bit machine, you have vx32, and can boot plan 9 in about 2 seconds (literally). Take a look, it's great! ron

Re: [9fans] Init hangs

2008-09-23 Thread Ralph Moritz
Rodolfo kix García kix.es> writes: > Hi! > > I am not sure, and my reply can be stupid ... > > Try to disconect the CD-Rom in vmware, and boot plan9 Hi Rodolfo, I tried this but init still hangs... I'd like to try Eric's patch, but I need a little hand-holding. What are the steps to mount

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

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
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 ui

[9fans] iwp9 registration open

2008-09-23 Thread spyros lalis
The registration for iwp9 is now OPEN! http://iwp9.inf.uth.gr/ Note that the registration deadline has been changed to Oct 5th! And that the workshop will NOT take place UNLESS we have at least 15 participants. So (a) those people interested should register ASAP, but (b) please do not finalize

[9fans] Teleporting Mouse in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
I've been trying to install the plan9.iso into VMWare Fusion on my mac. I see from the list archives that other people have been experiencing the odd mouse pointer teleportation issue I've been suffering. Does anyone know what is causing this, or how to fix it? I suspect the vmware driver

[9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release, but things are even worse. If I boot from the iso, and select option '2' for the livecd option and taking the defaults of ps2 mouse, 640x480x8 resolution and xga monitor, I get the following error messages: aux/vga:

Re: [9fans] Teleporting Mouse in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3

2008-09-23 Thread andrey mirtchovski
if you moved the mouse during rio startup you may cause rio to be out of sync with the values from the mouse driver. there is a reset command in the driver which causes this behaviour to stop. if you have a window open "echo reset > /dev/mousectl" sometimes helps. rebooting and keeping the hands of

Re: [9fans] Teleporting Mouse in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Andrey, Thanks for the response! On 24 Sep 2008, at 00:09, andrey mirtchovski wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to install the plan9.iso into VMWare Fusion on my mac. I see from the list archives that other people have been

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

2008-09-23 Thread André Günther
Make sure you have a volume with case sensitive files. Download current plan9.iso. Mount it. copy over: ./9vx.OSX -u glenda -r /Volume/thevolume On 23.09.2008, at 17:07, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I'm having several problems with 9vx, following the instructions here: http://9fans.net/archive/

Re: [9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

2008-09-23 Thread Federico G. Benavento
try "vesa" for monitor and play with different resolutions "aux/vga -m vesa -p" should give you some info. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release, but > things are even worse. > > If I boot

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

2008-09-23 Thread a
// 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. This is a known bug, although last i heard the cause was still a bit of a mystery. Locally, I run upas/fs -n in my termrc, and then open mailboxes I want explicitly down the road (since, from my 9vx terminal, they're all IMAP for m

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

2008-09-23 Thread Fazlul Shahriar
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > // 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. > > This is a known bug, although last i heard the cause was still a bit > of a mystery. Locally, I run upas/fs -n in my termrc, and then open > mailboxes I want explici

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

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 24 Sep 2008, at 08:27, Fazlul Shahriar wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. This is a known bug, although last i heard the cause was still a bit of a mystery. Locally, I run upas/fs -n in my ter

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

2008-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I do: upas/fs > Haven't investigated why it's reading stdin. > > Yep, that fixes it for me too. Tx. > > I'll try to find some time towards the end of the week to investigate > why it is doing that. upas/fs does not read from fd 0. the reason it hangs must be that upas/fs doesn't close fd

Re: [9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Frederico, Thanks for the response! On 24 Sep 2008, at 02:03, Federico G. Benavento wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release, but things are even worse. If I boot from the iso,

Re: [9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

2008-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> Using "vesa" for monitor along with all of the resolutions I tried > actually > hangs (i.e. I don't even get a text-mode term% prompt), as does "aux/ > vga -m vesa -p" > if I type it at the text mode prompt. ah! vmware seems to be doing a much better job these days of emulating real live har

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

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Anthony, On 24 Sep 2008, at 07:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: // 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. This is a known bug, although last i heard the cause was still a bit of a mystery. Locally, I run upas/fs -n in my termrc, and then open mailboxes I want explicitly

[9fans] ape/psh can't exec in 9vx

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Was just starting to settle in to 9vx, but this is a real showstopper: term% ls -ld /bin/ape d-rwxr-xr-x Z 1 gary gary 578 Sep 23 11:28 /bin/ape term% ls -l /bin/ape/sh --rwxr-xr-x Z 1 gary gary 482209 Sep 23 11:28 /bin/ape/sh term% /bin/ape/uname -a Plan9 vx32 4 0 i386 term% ape/p

Re: [9fans] ape/psh can't exec in 9vx

2008-09-23 Thread andrey mirtchovski
i couldn't find out what the bug was but it was in the library's interaction with the VM environment and not in SH: for example, pcc also crashed when attempting to exec ape's 'diff'. acid's truss wasn't useful since it immediately faulted with: "invalid opcode 8c 24 d0 at eip 000130c3" anyway, if