Re: stange console problem

2001-01-29 Thread Chad David
In reply to my own post (which nobody has replied to, perhaps because I never actually phrased a question :-) )... I have found that if the kernel config file is named GENERIC, it will boot just fine; otherwise, I loose the console. I have done a cvsup tonight as well as a make world and many di

Re: -CURRENT and -STABLE against XFree86 4.0.2 problem

2001-01-29 Thread Andrew Hesford
Thank god other people are having trouble with XFree86 4.0.2 and the i810 chipset, I was beginning to think I was going crazy. Even the guys in #freebsd (irc.openprojects.net) think I'm an idiot because I can't get it working =) The problem is actually worse than a simple lockup. The server crash

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 30 January 2001 at 8:37:56 +0600, Boris Popov wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >>> You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. > >> > >> What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know > >> whether the system i

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
Boris Popov wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. > > > > What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know > > whether the system is running DEVFS or not? > > I don't see any good reason why this

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Boris Popov writes: >On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. >> >> What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know >> whether the system is running DEVFS or not? > > I don't see a

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Lehey writes: >> You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. > >What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know >whether the system is running DEVFS or not? The reson for not creating device nodes is that you don't have all the in

-CURRENT and -STABLE against XFree86 4.0.2 problem

2001-01-29 Thread John Indra
Hi... Forgive me if I'm being such a nuisance. I wish I can help but I don't have the strength to :( I have seen many responses that prove that there is something WRONG with agp support both in -CURRENT and -STABLE if used against XFree86 4.0.2. Here is another one: - Forwarded message from

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Sean O'Connell
Mike Meyer stated: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: : > At 29 Jan 2001 11:49:36 +0100, : > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > > No. Mergemaster doesn't care about the contents of the file, only : > > about its $FreeBSD$ tag. As long as this stays the same, it'll leave : > > the file alon

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] types: > At 29 Jan 2001 11:49:36 +0100, > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. Mergemaster doesn't care about the contents of the file, only > > about its $FreeBSD$ tag. As long as this stays the same, it'll leave > > the file alone. If you remove the $FreeBSD$

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 January 2001 at 8:37:56 +0600, Boris Popov wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. >> >> What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know >> whether the system is running DEVFS or not? > > I

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread sig
At 29 Jan 2001 11:49:36 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. Mergemaster doesn't care about the contents of the file, only > about its $FreeBSD$ tag. As long as this stays the same, it'll leave > the file alone. If you remove the $FreeBSD$ tag in the installed file > or some

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. > > What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know > whether the system is running DEVFS or not? I don't see any good reason why this can't be supported. We may talk abou

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 29 January 2001 at 16:10:24 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Ames writes: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should

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Re: libc_r broken

2001-01-29 Thread Manfred Antar
At 02:02 PM 1/29/2001 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Manfred Antar wrote: >> libc_r won't compile since changes made last night. >> (libc_r)504}make >> cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/../libc/include >-DPTHREAD_KERNEL -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/src/lib/li

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:31:32 -0500 (EST) Garrett Wollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GW> I would rather have a single file, located in a directory intended for GW> configuration files. Perhaps we could call it ``/etc/shells'' which GW> seems to be popular. As you wish. I have no axe to g

Re: libc_r broken

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Manfred Antar wrote: > libc_r won't compile since changes made last night. > (libc_r)504}make > cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/../libc/include >-DPTHREAD_KERNEL -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread >-I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/../../include -D_L

just reporting.....fallout from DEVFS...

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
Just reporting farrago.feral.com > root vinum mkdir: /dev/vinum: Operation not supported mkdir: /dev/vinum: Operation not supported mkdir: /dev/vinum: Operation not supported mkdir: /dev/vinum: Operation not supported an't create /dev/vinum/Control: No such file or directory Can't create /

Re: config(8) broken

2001-01-29 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > *groan* I'm having trouble believing that *config* of all things is now > dependent on time to avoid bugs... This is *one* for the books Yep. That's why I disabled it and will replace it with something more robust. In hindsight it was Not A Good Thing. > On Mon, 29

libc_r broken

2001-01-29 Thread Manfred Antar
libc_r won't compile since changes made last night. (libc_r)504}make cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/../libc/include -DPTHREAD_KERNEL -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread -I/usr/src/lib/libc_r/../../include -D_LOCK_DEBUG -D_PTHREADS_INVARIANTS -c /usr/src/lib/

No Subject

2001-01-29 Thread eVIPlist.com
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Re: config(8) broken

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
*groan* I'm having trouble believing that *config* of all things is now dependent on time to avoid bugs... This is *one* for the books On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Config now rem

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:31:32AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > I would rather that a separate configuration file be read, for example, > > with a list of shells(5) format files to consult. > > I would rather have a single file, located in a directory intended for > configuration f

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > I would rather that a separate configuration file be read, for example, > with a list of shells(5) format files to consult. I would rather have a single file, located in a directory intended for configuration files. Perhaps we could call it ``/etc/shells'' which seems to be popular.

Re: config(8) broken

2001-01-29 Thread Peter Wemm
Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > Config now removes almost all headers: > > > ... > > > This is starting from compile directory populated by a previous version > > > of config. Starting from scratch, config seems to work for the first > >

Re: config(8) broken

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > Config now removes almost all headers: > > ... > > This is starting from compile directory populated by a previous version > > of config. Starting from scratch, config seems to work for the first > > run. The second run complains a

Re: config(8) broken

2001-01-29 Thread Peter Wemm
Bruce Evans wrote: > Config now removes almost all headers: > > Removing stale header: apm.h > Removing stale header: opt_userconfig.h > Removing stale header: opt_syscons.h > Removing stale header: opt_cpu.h > Removing stale header: opt_clock.h > ... > make: don't know how to make opt_global.h(c

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Ames writes: >On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: >> > 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do? >> >> Nothing. With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own

Re: DEVFS newbie...

2001-01-29 Thread Steve Ames
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: > > 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do? > > Nothing. With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own > entries automatically, so MAKEDEV isn't used. Hrm...

Re: Fixed: LyX 1.1.5.2 dumping core

2001-01-29 Thread Patrick Hartling
Alex Zepeda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: } On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:28:03PM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote: } } > ldd was telling me that it had both libc.so.3 and libc.so.5 which seemed } > very bad to me. When I recomipled LyX to see if that would fix things, } > I noticed that ld was giving a

config(8) broken

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce Evans
Config now removes almost all headers: Removing stale header: apm.h Removing stale header: opt_userconfig.h Removing stale header: opt_syscons.h Removing stale header: opt_cpu.h Removing stale header: opt_clock.h ... make: don't know how to make opt_global.h(continuing) make: don't know how to ma

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Vadim Belman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:50PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a single file with a list of allowable > > shells. > It does if you think of mergemaster, for example. With any upgrade > it consider /etc/she

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Vadim Belman
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:50PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > Does this capability really need to exist (e.g., supporting many files)? It > would seem like the additional complexity would be not what you want for what's > essentially a security policy mechansim. Who gets to own these incl