Re: [9fans] Any ANTS Users?

2013-09-12 Thread Pete Elmore
'addsources' is just an rc script. If you open it up, you'll notice it just mounts the sources fs from Bell Labs, and binds some of it over /bin, which is why it takes a minute. It's there mostly for fun, use it sparingly. :) I recommend going through his tutorials, which explain everything a

[9fans] device names in venti conf

2013-09-12 Thread Yaroslav
Can we avoid explicit device names in venti conf? Changes in device names on new hardware cause unnecessary delays during FS recovery.

Re: [9fans] incompatible type signature

2013-09-12 Thread Jens Staal
On Thursday 12 September 2013 01:21:38 erik quanstrom wrote: > > i believe all the type signature problems in 9atom's ape have been sorted > out. if you find something that does not work, it will be fixed. > > - erik On 9atom 1 out of two type signature conflicts got resolved when I tried to b

[9fans] xen3: fresh build 9xenpccpuf dies on boot

2013-09-12 Thread Yaroslav
Re-build of 9xenpccpuf, the PV Xen guest kernel built from sources at /n/sources/xen/xen3/9), with latest changes in sys/src/9/port/, sys/src/libc/ and others - resulted in non-functional kernel: it dies on boot with attached diagnostics. I haven't looked further yet. <>

Re: [9fans] xen3: fresh build 9xenpccpuf dies on boot

2013-09-12 Thread Richard Miller
The crash seems to be in init, not the kernel. Are you sure your file system image is good?

[9fans] NFD and p9p acme on OSX

2013-09-12 Thread Mark van Atten
Running p9p on OSX, I find it useful to put this in my rc profile: fn ls { builtin ls $* | iconv -f UTF8-MAC -t UTF-8 } fn lc { builtin lc $* | iconv -f UTF8-MAC -t UTF-8 } so as to deal with the NFD used by the OSX file system and list names containing non-ascii characters correctly. But this

Re: [9fans] incompatible type signature

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Sep 12 02:27:31 EDT 2013, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > it appears that there are mistakes in ntohl and ntohs. > > The problem with _sock_findrock() is that in > > /sys/src/ape/lib/bsd/connect.c > > the > > #include > > is missing. Took me a while to figure that

Re: [9fans] xen3: fresh build 9xenpccpuf dies on boot

2013-09-12 Thread Yaroslav
> The crash seems to be in init, not the kernel. Are you sure > your file system image is good? it doesn't get far enough for "root from:", so it seems to fail somewhere in the initcode blob

Re: [9fans] xen3: fresh build 9xenpccpuf dies on boot

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Sep 12 09:49:19 EDT 2013, yari...@gmail.com wrote: > > The crash seems to be in init, not the kernel. Are you sure > > your file system image is good? > > it doesn't get far enough for "root from:", so it seems to fail > somewhere in the initcode blob this may be related to the change put

Re: [9fans] NFD and p9p acme on OSX

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Sep 12 05:41:19 EDT 2013, vanattenm...@gmail.com wrote: > Running p9p on OSX, I find it useful to put this in my rc profile: > > fn ls { > builtin ls $* | iconv -f UTF8-MAC -t UTF-8 > } > > fn lc { > builtin lc $* | iconv -f UTF8-MAC -t UTF-8 > } > > so as to deal with the NFD used by the

[9fans] CVS 1.11.23

2013-09-12 Thread lucio
Should anyone find it useful, I have repaired CVS where it insisted in creating files (on import and add/commit, seemingly) with empty permissions. The expression in src/import.c:1444,1448 mode = (sb.st_mode | (sb.st_mode & S_IRWXU) >> 3 | (sb.st_mode & S_IRWXU) >> 6)

Re: [9fans] incompatible type signature

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> On 9atom 1 out of two type signature conflicts got resolved when I tried to > build GNU nano (using FGB's PDcurses, rebuilt on 9atom to avoid that > character > width or something might be an issue). > > The resolved issue was some sort of internal conflict in libbsd bind. The > remaining is

[9fans] iwp9

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
hey guys, the indigo hotel is about to sell our reserved rooms off to other folks. if you're interested in staying at indigo, i would suggest doing so soon. also, please don't forget to register, or send in your papers or works-in-progress. - erik

[9fans] loongson (spim) port

2013-09-12 Thread cherry
Hello Fans, In case any one is interested, recently I am trying to port Plan 9 to loongson 2E machine (fuloong 2E minicomputer from Lemote, mips le). Well, the 2F machines are way more popular than the 2E, but I have only the 2E in hand... The current status is that, the kernel is booted up, but t

Re: [9fans] loongson (spim) port

2013-09-12 Thread lucio
> I would like to share it and I am asking for a contrib directory. I'd love to see what you've done, so maybe I can help twist Geoff's arm (not that I've ever known Bell Labs to be reluctant with contrib space on sources). I have a Yeeloong 8089 A I bought specially for this purpose, so please c

[9fans] iwp9.org outage

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
i have lost pppoe on the line that serves this site. hopefully this won't last but a few hrs. i just can't easily roust the helpdesk at 2am. ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org outage

2013-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Sep 13 02:32:12 EDT 2013, quans...@labs.coraid.com wrote: > i have lost pppoe on the line that serves this site. hopefully this > won't last but a few hrs. i just can't easily roust the helpdesk at 2am. ☺ we're back online. i guess it was easier than you'd think. - erik