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Re: Tonight make world failed at isdnmonitor...

1999-05-12 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis

Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
I've put an initial version of my hack for debugging FreeBSD user threads with gdb up on http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/uthread.diff. Comments would be appreciated. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-12 Thread Carlos C. Tapang
The binary is now available by anonymous ftp at ftp.genericwindows.com in the pub directory. If you have problems, please email me directly. Carlos C. Tapang http://www.genericwindows.com -Original Message- From: Max Khon To: Carlos C. Tapang Cc: Jordan K. Hubbard ; freebsd-current@FreeB

Re: de driver problem

1999-05-12 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Wilko Bulte wrote ... > As Doug Rabson wrote ... > > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Yeah. That must be why my 164lx won't netboot. > > > > > > Could well be. My Aspen Alpine refused to with a DE500. A DE435 (10mbit > > > only) worked just dandy. > > > > That remi

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Doug Rabson wrote: > I've put an initial version of my hack for debugging FreeBSD user threads > with gdb up on http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/uthread.diff. Comments would be > appreciated. Is the uniqueid really necessary when the address of the thread structure is already unique within the process

simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I don't have time just now to attend this particular detail, which manifests itself by swapinfo/pstat -p showing "/dev/(null)" for device name. The problem in short is that libkvm:kvm_getswapinfo.c has it's fingers in the kernels memory and pulls out a dev_t without knowing how to (and it shouldn

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > I've put an initial version of my hack for debugging FreeBSD user threads > > with gdb up on http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/uthread.diff. Comments would be > > appreciated. > > Is the uniqueid really necessary when the address of the

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Doug Rabson wrote: > I didn't want to use the address since it might cause confusion if a > thread was freed and then the memory was re-allocated to create a new > thread. Good reason. > I thought about the versioning but I don't think it will be a problem in > practice since both uthread and gdb

Re: the new config and booting

1999-05-12 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Mike Smith writes: >> I switched to the new config(8) today, where the ``config kernel root on..'' >> line is no longer tolerated in the config file. >> >> I now have to ``boot -r'' to avoid a `can't mount root' panic. This wasn't >> necessary before. >> >> I know I can probably put something int

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > I didn't want to use the address since it might cause confusion if a > > thread was freed and then the memory was re-allocated to create a new > > thread. > > Good reason. > > > I thought about the versioning but I don't think it

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Doug Rabson wrote: > Other gdb thread debugging systems tend to export a set of variables from > the thread library which describe the important offsets in the thread > structure e.g. _debug_pthread_status_offset, _debug_pthread_foo_offset > etc. > > If you think there will be a real problem, I co

Re: the new config and booting

1999-05-12 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >In message <199905111939.vaa02...@peedub.muc.de>, Gary Jennejohn writes: >>I switched to the new config(8) today, where the ``config kernel root on..'' >>line is no longer tolerated in the config file. >> >>I now have to ``boot -r'' to avoid a `can't mount root' panic. Th

Re: simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread Robert Garrett
On Wed, 12 May 1999 at 10:04:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I don't have time just now to attend this particular detail, which > manifests itself by swapinfo/pstat -p showing "/dev/(null)" for > device name. > > The problem in short is that libkvm:kvm_getswapinfo.c has it's > fingers in t

Re: simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <19990512033344.e21...@phc.igs.net>, Robert Garrett writes: >On Wed, 12 May 1999 at 10:04:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> I don't have time just now to attend this particular detail, which >> manifests itself by swapinfo/pstat -p showing "/dev/(null)" for >> device name. >> >>

Re: the new config and booting

1999-05-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 11 May 1999 21:39:42 +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > I switched to the new config(8) today, where the ``config kernel root on..'' > line is no longer tolerated in the config file. As a workaround, try the following, taken directly from LINT options ROOTDEVNAME=\"da0s2e\" Ciao,

Re: simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread Robert Garrett
On Wed, 12 May 1999 at 10:38:41 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <19990512033344.e21...@phc.igs.net>, Robert Garrett writes: > >On Wed, 12 May 1999 at 10:04:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> > >> I don't have time just now to attend this particular detail, which > >> manifests it

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > Other gdb thread debugging systems tend to export a set of variables from > > the thread library which describe the important offsets in the thread > > structure e.g. _debug_pthread_status_offset, _debug_pthread_foo_offset > > etc.

Re: simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <19990512034529.a5...@phc.igs.net>, Robert Garrett writes: >> There is a dev_t passed out to pstat -s in a datastructure. > >Right and thats where it comes from kvm_proc.c is responsible for >dealing with pstat at least the way I read that file pstat >-s< is what we're talking about ri

Re: Nt source licenses...

1999-05-12 Thread Ustimenko Semen
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > maybe i am the last one in the world to know, but were you guys aware > of this: > > http://research.microsoft.com/programs/NTSrcLicInfo.htm > > Microsoft makes Windows NT source code available to universities > and other "not-for-prof

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Doug Rabson wrote: > That would work. I think I only need uniqueid, sig_saved, > saved_sigcontext, saved_jmpbuf, state and nxt. If those guys were lumped > up at the start of struct pthread (possibly in another struct so that gdb > doesn't need to know sizeof(struct pthread)) and marked appropriate

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1999-05-12 Thread Ilya Naumov
running FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i have encountered the following problems: 1. something is wrong with psm0 driver. my Genius NewScroll PS/2 mouse works well, but in random moment when i touch the mouse kernel starts to write to the system log the following. Apr 29 11:55:58 camel /kernel: psmintr:

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > That would work. I think I only need uniqueid, sig_saved, > > saved_sigcontext, saved_jmpbuf, state and nxt. If those guys were lumped > > up at the start of struct pthread (possibly in another struct so that gdb > > doesn't need to

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Noriyuki Soda
NOTE: Please Cc: s...@sra.co.jp, I am not subscribing this mailing list, because I am a NetBSD user. :-) > > It depends on old-config, so poor mechanism. newconfig already > > implimented best match probe/attach. > > And a very useful mechanism it is. Which is why I implemented priority

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Doug Rabson wrote: > Ok, I'll see about updating my patch along these lines and I'll post up > another one in a day or two. One more thing... the states are subject to change, probably with new states being added. It is important to check that the state number is within the range that gdb was comp

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > Ok, I'll see about updating my patch along these lines and I'll post up > > another one in a day or two. > > One more thing... the states are subject to change, probably with new > states being added. It is important to check that

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Doug Rabson wrote: > I think the only state which I need to know about is PS_DEAD. If we marked > dead threads in the public struct it might simplify things. You use PS_RUNNING too. We could just tie down those two as PS_DEAD = 0 and PS_RUNNING = 1. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@f

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Noriyuki Soda wrote: > NOTE: Please Cc: s...@sra.co.jp, I am not subscribing this mailing > list, because I am a NetBSD user. :-) > > > > It depends on old-config, so poor mechanism. newconfig already > > > implimented best match probe/attach. > > > > And a very useful

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Noriyuki Soda
> > BTW, there are many fundamental design flaws in new-bus, so I don't > > think new-bus is comparable with newconfig, yet, even if priority > > probe is implemented. For example: > > I'm not going to reply to these points as I suspect it will lead to a > pointless flame thread. I would prefer to

has the 3.2 branch happened?

1999-05-12 Thread Joe Abley
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Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet?

1999-05-12 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:23:15PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Isn't it more appropriate to ask where he didn't learn to read ? :-) > Ok. ok. thanks for the abuse :) > > > >> > tcp_extensions="NO" # Disallow RFC1323 extensions (or YES). > > So we're agreed that this is co

RE:

1999-05-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 12-May-99 Ilya Naumov wrote: > > running FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i have encountered the following > problems: > > 1. something is wrong with psm0 driver. my Genius NewScroll PS/2 > mouse works > well, but in random moment when i touch the mouse kernel starts to > write to the > system log the fo

Re: simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread vortexia
Hrmmm have any commits been made on this one yet? The reason Im asking is that as of about 2am my time last night I cvsupped to 4.0-CURRENT and I cant build, it dies on libkvm. It claims the error exists in /usr/src/sys/sys/vnode.h, exact error message as follows: In file included from /usr/src/

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Daniel Eischen
John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > Other gdb thread debugging systems tend to export a set of variables from > > the thread library which describe the important offsets in the thread > > structure e.g. _debug_pthread_status_offset, _debug_pthread_foo_offset > > etc. > > > If you think the

Re: simple (but important) task for junior kernel hacker

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Yes, I fixed that a few hours ago. In message , v ortexia writes: >Hrmmm have any commits been made on this one yet? The reason Im asking is >that as of about 2am my time last night I cvsupped to 4.0-CURRENT and I >cant build, it dies on libkvm. > >It claims the error exists in /usr/src/sys/sys/

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Daniel Eischen wrote: > Why don't we make a libc_r_db and provide the necessary interfaces to > gdb from that instead of having gdb know about uthread internals? It would still mean that gdb would be linked to the uthread internals which may not match the version of libc_r that the 3rd party progr

Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current

1999-05-12 Thread Stefan Bethke
Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> It's interesting that the ANSI emulation in loader(8) is good enough to >> do full-screen displays. It still seems to make sense to move >> userconfig-like functionality into the pre-kernel stages including >> moving config(8)'

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Daniel Eischen
John Birrell wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Why don't we make a libc_r_db and provide the necessary interfaces to > > gdb from that instead of having gdb know about uthread internals? > > It would still mean that gdb would be linked to the uthread internals > which may not match the version of

RE: problem with NewScroll Mouse, etc

1999-05-12 Thread Ilya Naumov
We , 12 may 1999, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > 1. something is wrong with psm0 driver. my Genius NewScroll PS/2 > > mouse works > > well, but in random moment when i touch the mouse kernel starts to > > write to the > > system log the following. > > > > Apr 29 11:55:58 camel /kernel: psmintr:

Today's kernel crashes on starting X

1999-05-12 Thread Geoff Rehmet
I'm currently running into a problem, that when I start my system, it spontaneously reboots when starting X. Has anyone else run into this? -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: geo...@is.co.za URL: http

Re: Nt source licenses...

1999-05-12 Thread erik
On 12-May-99 Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > source code a lot... > > P.S. What's happening with MS? > They have got a virus. I think they're calling it Open Source... They're fighting really hard to get rid of it, but these things can h

vinum broken??

1999-05-12 Thread Christian Carstensen
Hi, Does anyone else experience problems with the current kernel release and vinum? I've compiled a new kernel along with a make world today. After rebooting vinum did not start: "/dev/vinum/Control: invalid operation..." Any suggestions? regards, Christian To Unsubscribe: send mail to ma

DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I have a brand new 10 GB IBM UltrStar (DTTA-371010) which is causing me some pains. If I boot with flags 0x80ff, everything works fine: wdc0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa0 wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 9641MB (19746720 sectors), 19590 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Noriyuki Soda
> On Wed, 12 May 1999 09:35:36 -0400, "Rick Whitesel" said: > In general I believe that dynamic configuration of the system is > extremely useful to both the development community and the user > community. The development community has a much easier time if they > can load / unload dr

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Rick Whitesel
Hi: While I confess to not having the whole picture here, I do, of course, have an opinion. In general I believe that dynamic configuration of the system is extremely useful to both the development community and the user community. The development community has a much easier time if they can lo

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I just got a 18GB "22GXP" model from IBM and saw the same thing on my -stable box. >start_init: trying /sbin/init >wd0: DMA failure, DMA status 5 >wd0: DMA failure, DMA status 5 >wd0: DMA failure, DMA status 5 >wd0: DMA failure, DMA status 5 -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam memb

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I have a brand new 10 GB IBM UltrStar (DTTA-371010) which is causing > me some pains. If I boot with flags 0x80ff, everything works fine: Hmm, I have one of those, it works wonderfully with my ata driver... So try to use that instead, it should work then... -

Re: Today's kernel crashes on starting X

1999-05-12 Thread Manfred Antar
At 02:35 PM 5/12/99 +0200, Geoff Rehmet wrote: I'm currently running into a problem, that when I start my system, it spontaneously reboots when starting X. Has anyone else run into this? I had the same thing happen last night, after building a new kernel and rebooting. I had to go back to a ke

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199905121351.paa51...@freebsd.dk>, Soren Schmidt writes: >It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> I have a brand new 10 GB IBM UltrStar (DTTA-371010) which is causing >> me some pains. If I boot with flags 0x80ff, everything works fine: > >Hmm, I have one of those, it works wonderfully w

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Soren Schmidt writes: > Hmm, I have one of those, it works wonderfully with my ata driver... > So try to use that instead, it should work then... I'll try that. OBTW, the following comment in LINT is a little weird: # You only need one "controller ata0" for it to find all # PCI devices on moder

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > Try disabling "ultra DMA" in the BIOS, that seems to have worked for > me on my IBM-DJNA-371800 drive. Thanks, I'll try that if the ata driver doesn't work. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscrib

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: > John Birrell wrote: > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > Why don't we make a libc_r_db and provide the necessary interfaces to > > > gdb from that instead of having gdb know about uthread internals? > > > > It would still mean that gdb would be linked to the

Re: Debugging uthreads

1999-05-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > I think the only state which I need to know about is PS_DEAD. If we marked > > dead threads in the public struct it might simplify things. > > You use PS_RUNNING too. We could just tie down those two as PS_DEAD = 0 > and PS_RUNNING

panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
After make world this morning I received this panic : Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x14 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0155ca4 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc6864d64 frame pointer = 0x10:0xc6864d78 code segment = base

Re: Today's kernel crashes on starting X

1999-05-12 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 12/05/99, Manfred Antar wrote: >At 02:35 PM 5/12/99 +0200, Geoff Rehmet wrote: >>I'm currently running into a problem, that when I start my system, >>it spontaneously reboots when starting X. Has anyone else run into >>this? >I had the same thing happen last night, after building a new kernel a

Sometimes again SCSI don't finish to boot

1999-05-12 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
In 4.0-current sometimes the box will froze again after the : "Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" then nothing happens. It was a thing happened also in early 1999, before the branch in 4.0-current and 3.1 stable, if I remember well. Any others experience such behaviour ? Here is again

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Rick Whitesel
Hi: Since newconfig appears technically superior, what are the issues that are hindering its acceptance? Rick Whitesel - Original Message - From: Noriyuki Soda To: Rick Whitesel Cc: Noriyuki Soda ; Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 9:41 AM Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisuppor

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Luoqi Chen
> After make world this morning I received this panic : > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0x14 > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0155ca4 > stack pointer = 0x10:0xc6864d64 > frame pointer = 0x10:0xc6864d78 > co

Re: Scanners

1999-05-12 Thread Edwin Culp
Tomer Weller wrote: > i got a new UMAX Atrsa 1220P scanner, i have no idea how to configure this in > FreeBSD or Linux (or if i even can), im on 4.0-CURRENT. > == > Tomer Weller > s...@i.am > well...@netvision.net.il > "Drugs are good, and if you do'em > p

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 12/05/99, you wrote: >> >Could you show us the symbols around the faulting instruction at 0xc0155ca4? >It would be even better if you have a crash dump and the gdb backtrace. Pardon, but I am not be able to figure by myself what you asked to me... If you can explain me step by step in a newbi

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <003001be9c88$2669b620$d3e4b...@xyplex.com>, "Rick Whitesel" writes : >Hi: >Since newconfig appears technically superior, what are the issues that >are hindering its acceptance? That we want to have no "config" at all. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@f

mbuf starvation

1999-05-12 Thread Pierre Beyssac
I'm trying to plug some of the holes not checking for mbuf shortage. In particular, there are the following unchecked calls to MGET and friends in /sys/kern/uipc_socket.c:sosend() (see patches below). Would anyone mind if I commit these? I won't be able to commit these before next Sunday evening,

Re: Sometimes again SCSI don't finish to boot

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
> ahc0: irq 14 at device 6.0 on pci0 > ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > [...] > Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > changing root device to da0s1a >

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Tomoaki NISHIYAMA
From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:17:49 +0200 Message-ID: <5598.926522...@critter.freebsd.dk> phk> In message <003001be9c88$2669b620$d3e4b...@xyplex.com>, "Rick Whitesel" writes phk> : phk> >Hi: phk> >Since newconfig appears

Re: mbuf starvation

1999-05-12 Thread Stefan Bethke
Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Another big problem is that there's a check in m_retry and friends > that panics when falling short of mbufs! I really believe this does > more harm than good, because it prevents correct calling code > (checking for NULL mbuf pointers) from exiting gracefully with > ENO

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>phk> >Since newconfig appears technically superior, what are the issues >that >phk> >are hindering its acceptance? >phk> >phk> That we want to have no "config" at all. > >That is too short an answer. No, it is complete and to the point. >What is the definition of "config"? config

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Luoqi Chen writes : I'm trying to get a crash dump myself, but the kernel I have right now, is screwing up my keyboard, and I cannot even log in! I will try again. Geoff. > > After make world this morning I received this panic : > > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > > fault vi

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
At least put DDB in your kernel, type "trace" when it panics and tell us what it says. In message <19990512154854.78032.qm...@rucus.ru.ac.za>, "Geoff Rehmet" writes: >Luoqi Chen writes : > >I'm trying to get a crash dump myself, but the kernel I have >right now, is screwing up my keyboard, and I

RE: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Only one problem with that - screen and keyboard are not responding when it panics. I'm hoping that I will be able to get a dump which I can look at post mortem. I'm going to try again though. The kernel I have at the moment is totally messing up my keyboard, and I cannot even get a single user

Re: mbuf starvation

1999-05-12 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 05:43:27PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > I've discussed this with Garett back in September. The reason is quite > simple: unless all cases of not checking for a NULL pointer returned are > fixed (or instrumented with a panic), it is better to fail with a panic > than with s

Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current

1999-05-12 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Any pointer on Forth literature/web pages would be appreciated, especially > if it's not the ANSI standard (I've looked at it, and it is that: a > standard, not a reference manual or a tutorial). My Forth knowledge is > rather rusty, I realised... last

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Tomoaki NISHIYAMA
From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:45:45 +0200 Message-ID: <5756.926523...@critter.freebsd.dk> phk> phk> >phk> >Since newconfig appears technically superior, what are the issues that phk> >phk> >are hindering its acceptance?

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Noriyuki Soda
> On Wed, 12 May 1999 17:45:45 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp said: >> What is the definition of "config"? > config(8) >> Why do you want to remove it? > Why should we, as a 3rd millenium OS need a static config tool ? For example, - To specify the drivers which is linked statica

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 12/05/99, you wrote: > >At least put DDB in your kernel, type "trace" when it >panics and tell us what it says. Ok... it's a bit long ... (Tell me there isn't a command to write the trace output on a disk :-) After the panic make by "screen" ... >trace Stopped at ttyflush+0x48: movl 0x14(%eax)

Re: panic ! panic ! panic !

1999-05-12 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 12/05/99, you wrote: >Ok, what I'd like you to do is, run this command, > nm -n /kernel | more >the output is the list of symbols in the kernel sorted by their addresses >(the left-most column), page through the output, find symbols around the >address 0xc0155ca4, and send me those symbol

mbuf starvation

1999-05-12 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Another big problem is that there's a check in m_retry and friends > that panics when falling short of mbufs! I really believe this does > more harm than good, because it prevents correct calling code > (checking for NULL mbuf pointers) from exiting gracefully with > ENOBUFS... I think

Re: Scanners

1999-05-12 Thread David O'Brien
> > i got a new UMAX Atrsa 1220P scanner, i have no idea how to configure > > this in FreeBSD or Linux (or if i even can), im on 4.0-CURRENT. ..snip.. > Have you tried /usr/ports/graphics/sane? It doesn't build under 4.0-CURRENT. -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To U

Re: Today's kernel crashes on starting X

1999-05-12 Thread Ilya Naumov
Hello Geoff, Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 4:35:54 PM, you wrote: GR> I'm currently running into a problem, that when I start my system, GR> it spontaneously reboots when starting X. Has anyone else run into GR> this? yes, i'm experiencing the same problem with today's (May, 12) kernels. Best rega

Re: has the 3.2 branch happened?

1999-05-12 Thread Archie Cobbs
Joe Abley writes: > (he asked :) As I understand it, 3.2 is simply a release tag on the already existing branch called RELENG_3 (aka 3.1-stable). So there will be no additional branch for 3.2, just a release tag: RELENG_3_2_0 or somesuch. -Archie _

Re: mbuf starvation

1999-05-12 Thread Archie Cobbs
Pierre Beyssac writes: > if (resid >= MINCLSIZE) { > MCLGET(m, M_WAIT); > + if (m == 0) { > + error = ENOBUFS; > + goto release; > +

Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet?

1999-05-12 Thread Alan Cox
I bought two of the cards in order to decide whether or not I wanted to use them in my research group's PII cluster. Right now, they're plugged into a 233MHz Pentium Pro and a 400Mhz K6-2 (using an Aladdin V-based board). I did a bunch of NFS testing over the gigabit link last week and didn't see

RE: dots in usernames?

1999-05-12 Thread Bob K
Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is defined as follows: ::= "@" ::= | ::= | "." ^^^ ! ::= | ::= """ """ ::= "\" | "\" | | ::= | "\" ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters, but not any or ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters (no exce

Re: Scanners

1999-05-12 Thread Jeremy Lea
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:28:45AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > i got a new UMAX Atrsa 1220P scanner, i have no idea how to configure > > > this in FreeBSD or Linux (or if i even can), im on 4.0-CURRENT. > ..snip.. > > > Have you tried /usr/ports/graphics/sane? > > It doesn't build under 4.0

RE: dots in usernames?

1999-05-12 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT) >From: Bob K >People on -current: Just to recap, adduser (and rmuser) disallow .'s in >usernames on FreeBSD-stable; passwd(5) cites that some mailers have >problems with dots in usernames. However, they are becoming more common, >and are a legal part

Re: de driver problem

1999-05-12 Thread Mark Murray
Wilko Bulte wrote: > PERL_SRC=/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl > Writing Makefile for DynaLoader > ==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <== > ==> Please rerun the make command. <== > false > false: not found > *** Error code 1 I periodically see this one reported, and It is always repaired b

Re: dots in usernames?

1999-05-12 Thread Mark Murray
Bob K wrote: > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is defined > as follows: Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.ca

RE: dots in usernames?

1999-05-12 Thread Bob K
On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Bob K > > >People on -current: Just to recap, adduser (and rmuser) disallow .'s in > >usernames on FreeBSD-stable; passwd(5) cites that some mailers have > >problems with dots in usernames. Howe

Re: dots in usernames?

1999-05-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 12), Mark Murray said: > Bob K wrote: > > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is > > defined as follows: > > Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having > an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK.

Re: dots in usernames?

1999-05-12 Thread Bob K
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > Bob K wrote: > > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is defined > > as follows: > > Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having > an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK. Sigh.

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa writes: > > mechanism was unacceptable -- else we would have used it years ago. > It is not formal core decision. On whose authority do you say that? Garrett is a core team member. > > Our policy in all areas has been that we'd rather do the Right Thing > > than follow the cro

X crashing under current

1999-05-12 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I also am experiencing a kernel panic whenever I start X using today's kernel. Thanks Kenneth Culver Computer Science Major at the University of Maryland, College Park. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c

1999-05-12 Thread Julian Elischer
My personal opinion is that static configuration is a subset of dynamic configuration. The eventual aim is to have a kernel which is a very sparse skelaton, with very few services and drivers loaded (in fact possibly none). At boot time, the needed drivers and services are loaded and configured (

Re: Scanners

1999-05-12 Thread Tomer Weller
i tried it, i belive it's only for SCSI scanners, my UMAX 1220P is for the parallel port. On Wed, 12 May 1999, Edwin Culp wrote: > Have you tried /usr/ports/graphics/sane? > > ed -- == Tomer Weller s...@i.am well...@netvision.net.il "Drugs are good, and if

Re: Nt source licenses...

1999-05-12 Thread Dean Lombardo
Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Hi, > > maybe i am the last one in the world to know, but were you guys aware > > of this: > > > > http://research.microsoft.com/programs/NTSrcLicInfo.htm > > > > Microsoft makes Windows NT source code available

Re: Sometimes again SCSI don't finish to boot

1999-05-12 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote ... > > In 4.0-current sometimes the box will froze again after the : > "Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" > then nothing happens. > It was a thing happened also in early 1999, before the branch in > 4.0-current and 3.1 stable, if I remember well. > > An

Re: Nt source licenses...

1999-05-12 Thread Wilko Bulte
As e...@habatech.no wrote ... > > On 12-May-99 Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > > source code a lot... > > > > P.S. What's happening with MS? > > > They have got a virus. I think they're calling it Open Source... Na... it's called US

Re: mbuf starvation

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I think we need to think a bit more about the right semantics before :making such a change. M_WAIT is supposed to mean `I am in process :context and don't mind sleeping in order to get an mbuf, but there is :too much locking going on inside the network stack to be able to :safely sleep without se

Someone blew up the handbook again.

1999-05-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
/usr/local/bin/jade -V html-manifest -ioutput.html -c /usr/doc/share/sgml/catal og -c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sg ml/docbook/3.0/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalog -d /usr/doc/share/ sgml/freebsd.dsl -t sgml handbook.sgml /usr/local/bin/ja

Re: de driver problem

1999-05-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Wilko Bulte wrote: > > PERL_SRC=/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl > > Writing Makefile for DynaLoader > > ==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <== > > ==> Please rerun the make command. <== > > false > > false: not found > > *** Error code 1 > > I periodically see this one reported, and It

Re: problem with dev_t changes and pageout..

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
Maybe whoever committed the supposedly innocuous dev_t changes should back it out. Just a thought. -Matt Matthew Dillon : :It looks like something has come unstuck

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