> > > Is there a list I could take this too now, or someone who would be
> > > interested?
> >
> > linuxppc-dev, but BenH is listening on debian-powerpc as well.
> >
>
> Well video=atyfb was no joy on this problem. It still crashed in the
> same place. It gets a few more letters put on the screen b
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:36:26AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > That gives me an idea. I tried to put Linux on a 9500 I have, but the
> > > root floppy disk kept giving errors. I have another Power Computing
> > > machine on the 'scrap heap' as you say, I think I'll try it on there.
> >
> >
> In that message, dan says there can be problems when the va_list
> points to a char, since only promoted types are legal. I'm certainly
> wet behind the ears when it comes to this stuff, but could someone
> look at these to see if that's what's going on here?
>
> int statusq(int tabs, shortcut s[
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:02:47AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > Ok, tell me if you can still reproduce. The ftp server thing tells me
> > there's something wrong with that box :\
I've got a suspicion of a possible problem. I was
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:31:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> Oh, is *that* what that little recessed button next to the AV output
> jack on my iBook USB is?
yes, but apparently its not quite a real NMI, apple just calls it that...
> The icon next to it is a left-pointing equilateral tri
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:31:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:03:10PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > yes, all powermacs have had a NMI switch, its usually labeled
> > something like:
> >
> > (\/)
> >
> > however newwer machines don't seem to have this as its own b
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:03:10PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> yes, all powermacs have had a NMI switch, its usually labeled
> something like:
>
> (\/)
>
> however newwer machines don't seem to have this as its own button,
> instead its triggered via command power, but im not sure that works
> u
> There is but it's not a real NMI, it is masked by cli().
That qualifies as 'not a NMI' then :-) Can we make cli() mask all but that
int (is there a concept like IPL in the PowerPC programming model)?
> I've been thinking about implementing a soft-disable mecanism based
> on the OpenPIC interrup
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:30:05PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Re: lot of rebooting with manual fsck and the like: Been there, done that
> while debugging XFree86 4.0 on the Lombard. I'd try to get emergency sync
> going with SysRq, failing that I'd try to get as much info out of the
> crash by
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I searched Google trying to find buildd logs, but could only find the most
> recent month. I probably don't have the right link. I did suspect some
> kind of compilation issue too.
>
Although on second thought, I was compiling it ri
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:58:42PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > I also tried logging in thru ftp from the other computer as I was completing
> > commands. I was able to fetch the trace file at each step until hitting the
> > Return key, then the ftp command hung also (remote server has closed
>Re: lot of rebooting with manual fsck and the like: Been there, done that
>while debugging XFree86 4.0 on the Lombard. I'd try to get emergency sync
>going with SysRq, failing that I'd try to get as much info out of the
>crash by using serial console and hooking a panic() workalike to some
>trigge
> > you get a panic message, and what did it say?). Further, it would help
> > tremendously if you could pinpoint the exact ioctl or other syscall
> > causing the hang using strace. If there's no panic my best guess is you
> > cause a deadlock by one particular ioctl or a particular sequence of
> >
> > Rather post debug information from your kernel if available (as in: did
> > you get a panic message, and what did it say?).
>
> No, it's an immediate hard lockup. It occurs right after a file writefile,
> and the file that's supposed to have been written does not get written.
Are you sure it's
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:49:04PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Rather post debug information from your kernel if available (as in: did
> you get a panic message, and what did it say?). Further, it would help
> tremendously if you could pinpoint the exact ioctl or other syscall
> causing the han
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:49:04PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The crash occurs mainly when nano is trying to display help. I also
> > had it crash once when pushing a character clear out to
> > the end of a line, then selecting page-down.
> >
> > The patch just uses wredrawln to claim that t
> The crash occurs mainly when nano is trying to display help. I also
> had it crash once when pushing a character clear out to
> the end of a line, then selecting page-down.
>
> The patch just uses wredrawln to claim that the 2 help lines are
> corrupt and asks for them to be completely redrawn ra
This problem doesn't occur on my newworld powerpc, but it is
reliably repeatable on my oldworld. I don't know why that
would be. I suspect it has something to do with some recent
change in the ncurses library. I run the testing distribution,
and often do brand-new installs to help test boot-flop
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