Re: which star office 5.0 works with -current

1999-02-05 Thread David O'Brien
> I had checked ftp.stardiv.com and found that there are several star office 5.0 > under the directory /pub/so5. I would like to know which one works with > -current. The different "versions" are really different languages. "01" is English. Others are German, French, and __. -- -- David

Re: ifq_maxlen problem...

1999-02-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Conrad Sabatier writes: > >On 04-Feb-99 Jaroslaw Bazydlo wrote: >> After yesterdays 'make world' I am having such warnings: >> >> FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Feb 4 17:19:09 GMT 1999 >> jar...@ent.freebsd.org.pl:/usr/src/sys/compile/ENT >> [...] >> ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa

Re: Overview of the FreeBSD boot process, 3.1 and later

1999-02-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > > 2) Update it for the last changes in /boot/loader by Daniel Sobral. > IIRC: @, # and - are gone. BTW: If variables were identified by > a $ sign, and the $ sign is now an "echo on execute" command, how will > variables be identified now ? Or have I misunderstoo

Re: swapper BIG problems

1999-02-05 Thread Brian Feldman
On 5 Feb 1999, John Saunders wrote: > In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: > > It succeeds as per allocating the memory until the swap is full. But, when > > Malloc's don't cause swap space allocation. Theoretically a process can > malloc all of it's virtual address space so long as it doesn't

Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-02-05 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > You need to: > > 1) Upgrade your source tree to Jan 28 or later for 3.X or Jan 26 > or later for 4.0 current, and "make world" and config and remake > and install a new kernel, > > or > > 2) Take your existing source and add -DCOMPAT_LINUX_

i don't have a /mnt and "/mnt: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME" message appeared.

1999-02-05 Thread notso
just curious... anything i could look at? i'm almost done with make-release and this message popped up: Feb 5 11:07:55 bright /kernel: /mnt: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME i know what that means, however: ~ % mount /dev/wd0s1a on / (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 3 async 15144) /

StarOffice 5.0

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
Is it correct to assume that StarOffice 5.0 works with current now? -- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 05-Feb-99 / Time: 08:40:59 FreeBSD 4.0 -Current -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: locale errors

1999-02-05 Thread D. Rock
> > My locale is set do de_DE.ISO_8859-1, not de_DE.ASCII > > If I type 2 characters ss, I mean 2 characters ss. If I type ß I > > mean the single character ß. > > This sorting behaviour is just wrong. Not every apperence of "ss" > > even in pure ASCII does mean "ß". > > I suggest you set LC_COLL

Re: i don't have a /mnt and "/mnt: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME" message appeared.

1999-02-05 Thread John Polstra
In article , notso wrote: > > just curious... > > anything i could look at? > > i'm almost done with make-release and this message popped up: > > Feb 5 11:07:55 bright /kernel: /mnt: optimization changed from SPACE to > TIME > > i know what that means, however: > > ~ % mount > /dev/wd0s1a

Re: swapper BIG problems

1999-02-05 Thread John Saunders
In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: > If you looked at the "prgram" (term used loosely) it touches every bit of > memory it allocates. I seemed to have overlooked the bit where you wrote deadbeef. I took a closer look. What I think is happening is that as the blocks are allocated and then tou

Re: make port and bsd.port.mk

1999-02-05 Thread David O'Brien
> It was rather annoying to update my 2.2.8-STABLE machine a day or two > after being told that cvsuping ports on a 2.2 machine might cause > breakage (re: the no more 2.2 support announcement) to find that *not* Generally, you shouldn't be CVSup'ing in that case. Rather visit www.freebsd.org/por

More on Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
Here's more. I seem to be getting stale NFS handle replies on the NFS-V3 commits and writes. I am guessing that the problem is due, somehow, to install's writing or renaming over of the original file, probably after stat'ing the original file. doing a mount -u -o acdirmin

Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is very odd. This is the approximate backtrace that I get when I throw my test machine into DDB: --- interrupt, ... nfs_* routines cluster_wbuild vfs_bio_awrite flushdirtybuffers bdwrite nfs_write vn_write write syscall What is happeni

STAROFFICE 5.0

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
I ubderstand that StarOffice 5.0 now works with FreeBSD 4.0-current. Where would I find the instructions for implementing this? -- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 05-Feb-99 / Time: 11:19:15 FreeBSD 4.0 -Current -- To Unsubscribe: send m

test............

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
test. -- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 05-Feb-99 / Time: 11:48:00 FreeBSD 4.0 -Current -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Cyrillic is broken in XFree86 3.3.3.1?

1999-02-05 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! I've recently fetched and built XFree86 3.3.3.1, and some programs (most notably xterm and xemacs 20.4, built from ports also) fails to input Russian letters, using either locale or .xmodmap method. What should I set up? I've tried config file from my (_working_) XFree 3.3.3, but it did

Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt"

1999-02-05 Thread David Malone
We're getting lots of negative reference counts for 3.0-STABLE. We've been getting them since long before Christmas. We have 3 SMP machines, all heavy NFS clients, which are dieing about 1 per day with this panic. Several of these hangs have been provoked by me logging out - you can see the ^D in

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread N
Quoth Matt Dillon: [make world over nfs breakage] > It is very odd. I don't suppose very many people try to make install > over NFS ( it works, you just have to chflags -R noschg the destination > on the NFS server before you run make install on the NFS client ). Actually, I did, thi

Heads up on new sysinstall changes.

1999-02-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
1. Userconfig parameter saving should work again, albeit somewhat differently than before. Rather than having a program (dset) pound bits directly into your kernel, a /boot/kernel.conf file is written out by sysinstall, along with a set of /boot/loader.rc file entries to make use of it

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> on the NFS server before you run make install on the NFS client ). : :Actually, I did, this broke somewhere at the end of January in 3.0-STABLE. :Unfortunately I first built a kernel, rebooted with that, and tried to :build the world, but /usr/bin/ps was the wrong version so I couldn't :eas

Re: More on Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think I've found the general area where the problem is occuring. It appears to some sort of weird write()/remove() interaction. In the make install, the problem appears to only occurs when install -s ( install and strip binary ) is used. This causes an NFS file to be writt

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread D. Rock
Matt wrote: > This is very odd. This is the approximate backtrace that I get > when I throw my test machine into DDB: [..] > What is happening is that I am doing a 'make installworld' on my > test machine with / and /usr NFS V3 mounted R+W. I also have come to the conclusion tha

Re: SKIP on 3.0 ? lkm vs kld = SOL ?

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 5 Feb 1999 17:19:44 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote: > >I was trying to install SKIP on a 3.0 STABLE box and I am having problems >getting it to boot up. The port compliles cleanly, but when I reboot, I >get the following > >ruby# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/skip.sh > skipld: /kernel: ma

Reboot and Message Logging Problems

1999-02-05 Thread Thomas Dean
Sorry for the long lines, I want to show garbled/split messages. I am running an SMP kernel, -current as of last night. I can look through logs back to early April, 1998, if necessary. If I use reboot or shutdown -r, the top part of dmesg does not appear in /var/log/messages. The amount of dmes

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, I think I found the problem. I believe what is going on is that dirty buffers are being held across an nfs_rename() call under NFS V3. Under NFS V2, most such buffers are written synchronously. Under NFS V3, however, it appears to work differently. One of the follo

Problem with "top" on current ?

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
Running 4.0 -Current build as of a few miniutesd ago, I go to run top and I get. top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address top: cannot read blmeta_t: kvm_read: Bad address Floating point exception -- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 05-Feb-99 / Time

Re: Problem with "top" on current ?

1999-02-05 Thread Brian Feldman
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, William Woods wrote: > Running 4.0 -Current build as of a few miniutesd ago, I go to run top and I > get. > > top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address > top: cannot read blmeta_t: kvm_read: Bad address > Floating point exception Try "kvm_mkdb" yet? > >

Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
To go along with my other message about the top problem, When I try to run top in a current box, compiled a few moments ago I get: top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address top: cannot read blmeta_t: kvm_read: Bad address Floating point exception And, in /var/log/messages I see: Feb

Re: Problem with "top" on current ?

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
Ahhh...not sure what you mean here... On 06-Feb-99 Brian Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, William Woods wrote: > >> Running 4.0 -Current build as of a few miniutesd ago, I go to run top and I >> get. >> >> top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address >> top: cannot read blm

Re: Problem with "top" on current ?

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Ahhh...not sure what you mean here... : :On 06-Feb-99 Brian Feldman wrote: :> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, William Woods wrote: :>> Floating point exception :... :> :> Try "kvm_mkdb" yet? :> :-- :E-Mail: William Woods Try this: cd /usr/src/lib/libk

Re: Problem with "top" on current ?

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
Just tried that, same error. On 06-Feb-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > >: >:Ahhh...not sure what you mean here... >: >:On 06-Feb-99 Brian Feldman wrote: >:> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, William Woods wrote: >:>> Floating point exception >:... >:> >:> Try "kvm_mkdb" yet? >:> >:-

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>When I try to run top in a current box, compiled a few moments ago I get: > >top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address >top: cannot read blmeta_t: kvm_read: Bad address >Floating point exception kvm_getswapinfo() is broken when there is no swap. It falls into its own compatibility cruf

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
Hmmm...I have a swap, although it is mounted /tmp as mfs, here is my fstab: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/wd0s1b /tmpmfs rw 0 0 #/dev/wd0s1bnoneswapsw 0

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:>When I try to run top in a current box, compiled a few moments ago I get: :> :>top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address :>top: cannot read blmeta_t: kvm_read: Bad address :>Floating point exception : :kvm_getswapinfo() is broken when there is no swap. It falls into its :own compatibi

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
And the fix is. On 06-Feb-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > >:>When I try to run top in a current box, compiled a few moments ago I get: >:> >:>top: cannot read *swapblist: kvm_read: Bad address >:>top: cannot read blmeta_t: kvm_read: Bad address >:>Floating point exception >: >:kvm_getswapinfo() i

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:And the fix is. : :On 06-Feb-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :>: :>:Bruce :> :> Ahhh. Easy to fix. :> : This this patch to /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c. Then recompile libkvm and try top and pstat -s again. -Matt

Re: SKIP on 3.0 ? lkm vs kld = SOL ?

1999-02-05 Thread Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
#define quoting(Mike Tancsa) // Are there any other options for VPN on the 3.0 branch ? SKIP wasnt/isnt // the greatest, but I had decent luck with it on the 2.2 branch of things... Have you tried the ssh+ppp combo ? IIRC, there's a small example in the file /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample.

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread William Woods
Ahh.and exactly how do I use this? On 06-Feb-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: >:And the fix is. >: >:On 06-Feb-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: >:> >:>: >:>:Bruce >:> >:> Ahhh. Easy to fix. >:> >: > > This this patch to /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c. Then > recompile lib

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>Hmmm...I have a swap, although it is mounted /tmp as mfs, here is my fstab: You have swap commented out. mfs isn't swap. > ># DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# >/dev/wd0s1b /tmpmfs rw 0 0 >#/dev/wd0s1b

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>This this patch to /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c. Then >recompile libkvm and try top and pstat -s again. >Index: kvm_getswapinfo.c >=== >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c,v >retrieving revision 1.

Re: Top not working in -Current??

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
Yah yah. I had to get a machine up without any configured swap, it took a little while. Fixes have been comitted. SWIF_DUMP_TREE is not used for error reporting. It's used to dump the radix tree. While one could argue that printf()'s should not exist in libkvm, I am not

Re: SKIP on 3.0 ? lkm vs kld = SOL ?

1999-02-05 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Mike Tancsa once stated: =Are there any other options for VPN on the 3.0 branch ? SKIP wasnt/isnt =the greatest, but I had decent luck with it on the 2.2 branch of things... User ppp over ssh pipe? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

nfs hack to nfs_rename() committed

1999-02-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well, I was able to successfully 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld' on an NFS-V3 mounted / and /usr with this patch in place, so I am going to commit it to -4.x in liu of an NFS hacker figuring out what exactly was going on with delayed-write buffers. I think it's prett