mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-24 Thread Tony Finch
I have been experimenting with union mounts today with a recent -stable (cvsupped yesterday), and I haven't had much luck. Because cvsup likes to obliterate local changes, I thought it would be convenient to keep the altered files on a separate filesystem and use a union mount to overlay them on t

HEADS UP: struct proc changing

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Newton
While everyone is hob-nobbing at USENIX I thought I'd take the opportunity to make a gratuitous change to the proc structure. I'll be adding a pointer to the end of it which can be used by emulators for storing process-related emulator-specific information. It'll initially be used for storing inf

Re: Filesystem deadlock

1999-02-24 Thread Luoqi Chen
> Luoqi Chen said: > > > > > Do you still have that piece of code? Does it handle the case involves more > > than one process? For example, process 1 mmaps file B and reads file A into > > the mmapped region, while process 2 mmaps file A and reads file B, this > > could > > also result in a deadl

Re: kernel build failure at nfs_serv.c

1999-02-24 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > Hi folks, > > Updating at Mar 23 f?v 1999 22:52:33 CET, > > cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual > -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I

Re: NFS Problems

1999-02-24 Thread Doug Rabson
On 23 Feb 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > >> This reminds me; do we have a utility to reference wmesg strings back > >> to the code that sets them, a la TAGS? Would this be useful? > > No, and yes respectively. > > I have the scanner mostly written; there is one bug yet to fix (This > time for s

Re: sh(1) -- exec vs. fork

1999-02-24 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <199902191644.laa08...@misha.cisco.com>, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I just finished going through a couple of crontabs prepending the > command-lines with ``exec'', when it hit me. > > Can shell itself recognize, there will be no more commands and just > proceed to exec without forking? What wou

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should wor

Strange routing to www.freebsd.org ;)

1999-02-24 Thread Maxim Sobolev
I'm today discovered strange routing to www.freebsd.org sh$ traceroute www.freebsd.org [...] 15? T1-CDROM-00-EX.US.CRL.NET (165.113.118.2)? 698.413 ms? 608.198 ms? 578.823 m s 16? R-CRL-SFO-01-EX.US.CRL.NET (165.113.118.1)? 609.090 ms? 598.030 ms? 599.085 ms 17? T1-CDROM-00-EX.US.CRL.NET (165.113.

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but f

Staroffice 5.01?

1999-02-24 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Has anyone gotten SO501 to run on -current? Thx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: panic: zone: entry not free

1999-02-24 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 12:09:03PM +0300, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > You could add -DINVARIANTS to CFLAGS in sys/module/msdosfs/Makefile. OK, did that, no more panics. Thanks! > Dima Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Reliability means never

IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-02-24 Thread Pierre Beyssac
I've been having problems with an IDE controller on my motherboard. I can't seem to be able to get it to recognize a CDROM drive (it's the only device plugged on the second IDE controller). The kernel seems to timeout on that second controller during the probe phase. Maybe that's one of the infamou

Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-02-24 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:51:17 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Here's an excerpt from my kernel config. Did I miss something obvious? > > controller wdc0[...] > diskwd0 at wdc0 drive 0 > diskwd1 at wdc0 drive 1 > > controller wdc1[...] > disk

Re: CVS and Y2K

1999-02-24 Thread Jake
> > Does FreeBSD still ship with CVS version 1.9.26? If so it needs to be > > upgraded within the next 9 months or so. 1.9.26 can't parse dates > > past 1999-12-31. > > Have you verified this? from http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/info-y2k.html: Do not plan to continue to use CVS 1.9 or older beyond

Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-02-24 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > controller wdc1[...] > > diskwd2 at wdc1 drive 0 > > diskwd3 at wdc1 drive 1 > > Um... Do you really have 4 wd devices plugged in? Uh, well, no, just 2 (on the first IDE controller). > Ass

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > >Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the "do it by hand" code in >there and recommend removing the BIOS :( Are there any plans to support the Promise Fast Trak IDE RAID controller ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdt

RE: Staroffice 5.01?

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 24-Feb-99 Alok K. Dhir wrote: > Has anyone gotten SO501 to run on -current? I have and its quite good, but it hangs occasionally.. The actual 'officey' stuff is quite good tho (ie WP, spreadsheet etc..) What problems are you having? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genes

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread John S. Dyson
Martin Cracauer said: > In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but from lookin

panic: aha0 Invalid CCB or SG list

1999-02-24 Thread Palle Girgensohn
(Sorry for the crosspost, but I'd like to now if this is fixed in -current) Hi! I've seen three crashes in the last couple of weeks, with a server box that's been running stable as a rock for two years, at least. It has an adaptec 2940UW with six disks, and an adaptec 1542CP that's connected to a

Re: listproc problem?

1999-02-24 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:42:37 -0600 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Pre

Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 1:04:48 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >>> controller wdc1[...] >>> diskwd2 at wdc1 drive 0 >>> diskwd3 at wdc1 drive 1 >> >> Um... Do you really have 4 wd devic

Re: NFS Problems

1999-02-24 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
>> This reminds me; do we have a utility to reference wmesg strings back >> to the code that sets them, a la TAGS? Would this be useful? > No, and yes respectively. Okay, I've got an early version written. It's got some fairly substantial TODO's, and needs a fair bit of cleanup. I would appreci

Re: Missing files/directories

1999-02-24 Thread Tom Torrance at home
Hi Brian, It was a good thought, but we can't put the blame on bad hardware. These tests were done on the RELENG_3 system cvsup'd as of Feb 22 @ 20:00 EST. All tests were run internal to the same machine. So that I don't remain the only guy in the world to see these test results, Control files a

RE: Staroffice 5.01?

1999-02-24 Thread Alok K. Dhir
I was unable to install it. It complains about not being able to copy 'setup.zip' to '/tmp/sv001.tmp' and keeps bombing out. This is after pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a place with glibc2, etc. Did you have any trouble installing? Al On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > On 24-F

Re: Missing files/directories

1999-02-24 Thread Tom Torrance at home
I forgot to mention to those following this thread, files and directories were definitely removed from /root that were not scheduled for writing under ANY circumstances, on the RELENG_3 machine. In fact, on the RELENG_3 machine all files and directories (except ALL the .x files) were removed

RE: Staroffice 5.01?

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25-Feb-99 Alok K. Dhir wrote: > I was unable to install it. It complains about not being able to copy > 'setup.zip' to '/tmp/sv001.tmp' and keeps bombing out. This is after > pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a place with glibc2, etc. > > Did you have any trouble installing? What I did was th

Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-02-24 Thread Bruce Evans
>I've been having problems with an IDE controller on my motherboard. >I can't seem to be able to get it to recognize a CDROM drive (it's >the only device plugged on the second IDE controller). The kernel >seems to timeout on that second controller during the probe phase. >Maybe that's one of the in

Re: Staroffice 5.01?

1999-02-24 Thread Christopher M. Giordano
"Alok K. Dhir" wrote: > > Has anyone gotten SO501 to run on -current? Yes, it runs fairly well "out of the box", without the registration problems of the previous version. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-24 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a non-responding server, it hangs root logins. Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B to

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. : :In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And :in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a :non-responding server, it hangs root logins. : :Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machin