BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
panic: lockmgr: locking against myself Debugger("panic") Stopped at Debugger+0x37: movl$0,in_Debugger db> trace Debugger(c024333b) at Debugger+0x37 panic(c0242560,c3337df8,c32f4ed8,c76bd2c0,14d) at panic+0x74 lockmgr(c3337e20,12,c029f320,c6c90a20) at lockmgr+0x20b cluster_wbuild(c76bd2c0

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list. Hopefully Kirk will pick up on it soon. Ah well.. someone else gets to be the brunt of it for a change :-). Kirk doesn't have an SMP box so he didn't see the bug. I have tentitively tracked the problem do

Re: General feeling on merging APIs...

1999-06-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990627 09:02]: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Justin T. Gibbs" writes: > : The hope is to provide a consistent interface across > : all *BSDs which is why I've addressed this to all of the *BSD projects. > > More generally, I'd like to identify areas where th

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list. > Hopefully Kirk will pick up on it soon. Ah well.. someone else gets to b e > the brunt of it for a change :-). Kirk doesn't have an SMP box so he > didn't see the bug. > > I

Re: USB project status

1999-06-27 Thread Nick Hibma
/usr/src/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT or http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb Nick On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Vince Gonzalez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > Project status of the USB project: > > Is a list of currently supported devices av

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Wemm writes: >Speaking of SMP and simple locks, I'd like to turn on the debugging >simplelocks that keep a reference count and check before switching to make >sure that a process doesn't sleep holding a lock. This is a pretty >fundamental sanity check and wo

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list. > Hopefully Kirk will pick up on it soon. Ah well.. someone else gets to b e > the brunt of it for a change :-). Kirk doesn't have an SMP box so he > didn't see the bug. > > I

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list. > > Hopefully Kirk will pick up on it soon. Ah well.. someone else gets to b > e > > the brunt of it for a change :-). Kirk doesn't have an S

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list . > > > Hopefully Kirk will pick up on it soon. Ah well.. someone else gets to b > > e > > > the brunt of i

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list > . > > > > Hopefully Kirk will pick up on it soon. Ah well.. someone

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > Ah, yes, some of us were just discussing this in a small mailing list > > . > > > > > Hopefully Kirk wi

Re: Suspend/resume hooks

1999-06-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990627 09:02]: [Excuse my posting this to multiple lists, but I cannot let this go unnoticed] > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Allen Briggs writes: > : Ideally, there should be no more unnecessary divergence of the APIs--it > : would also be nice to work toward

Re: Changing the semantics of splsoftclock()

1999-06-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Peter Wemm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990627 09:02]: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > >>Why have splr semantics? That is, it raises to splsoftclock if current > > >>priority is lower, else doesn't fiddle with it. > > > > splsoftclock() has always had spllower() semantics, and its main users > > (kern_clock.c

lockmgr panics

1999-06-27 Thread Nick Hibma
Kirk, It seems that the recent changes made by Kirk McKusick to the locking mechanism in many files had some side effects. A kernel as of this afternoon kept giving the following panic when compiling a kernel, with the compile and source dir NFS mounted: lockmgr: pid , not exclusive lock holde

Re: lockmgr panics

1999-06-27 Thread Seigo Tanimura
From: Nick Hibma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: lockmgr panics Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hibma> lockmgr: pid , not exclusive lock holder -2 unlocking Did you really get that message? if the unlocking process is pid -2(LK_KERNPROC), we can unlock,

Re: lockmgr panics

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Seigo Tanimura wrote: > From: Nick Hibma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: lockmgr panics > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:15:06 +0200 (CEST) > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > hibma> lockmgr: pid , not exclusive lock holder -2 unlocking > > > Did you really get that message? if the unlocking proces

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:It seems to me the main problem (so far) is the buftimelock.. : :simple_lock(&buftimelock); :bp->b_lock.lk_wmesg = buf_wmesg; :bp->b_lock.lk_prio = PRIBIO + 4; :bp->b_lock.lk_timo = 0; :return (lockmgr(&(bp)->b_lock, locktype, &buftimelock, curproc)); : :

Re: lockmgr panics (fwd)

1999-06-27 Thread Nick Hibma
> Did you really get that message? if the unlocking process is > pid -2(LK_KERNPROC), we can unlock, as in: > lockmgr: pid -2, not exclusive lock holder 48 unlocking This looks like it, yes. Must have made a typo. Nick -- e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In the long term, we probably need an spl-aware simplelock or maybe the :cunning no-cost interrupt thread scheme which BSDi are using. : :-- :Doug RabsonMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 I really like the idea

HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default

1999-06-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I've just committed a change to inetd that will effectively turn TCP Wrapping off for anyone who has an installed /etc/rc.conf that specifies an inetd_flags value, as well as anyone who makes world without running mergemaster to update /etc/defaults/rc.conf . This will not be a proble

Re: place of logfile for cron (PR 7682) - move it?

1999-06-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:57:17 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I'd, probably, put a symlink from the old location to the new one... That's something you could do on your own machines, but I sincerely hope we _don't_ do that to installworld and future releases. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: s

Re: Ports problems

1999-06-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 22:50:31 +0200, FreeBSD mailing lists wrote: > Hi, I just wondered if it was a problem with my installation or in > general, but is anyone else here having problems with ports being > dependant on glib12.2 and ports installing glib12.3 instead? Try mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdb no longer works?

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 11:35:04PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: > I've tried numerous times (updating the kernel, buildworld, etc) to get > gdb to work, but so far it seems like ELF coredumps are broken (course > this could be a C++ issue too): It was fixed several weeks ago, at least in 4.0. --

/etc/defaults (Was: Re: Out of file descriptors ??)

1999-06-27 Thread Doug
Mike Smith wrote: > Someone else wrote: > > I am not fond of the new defaults/rc.conf system. Used to be when I > > wanted to modify something in rc.conf, I opened it up and changed the > > value. Now I have to extract a line from defaults/rc.conf, put it in > > rc.conf, and change it -- unless

Re: /etc/defaults (Was: Re: Out of file descriptors ??)

1999-06-27 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
A nice semi-solution to this problem of having to copy lines from defaults/rc.conf would be a good curses-based rc.conf configuration tool. It could read in a definition file (or this information could be embedded into comments in defaults/rc.conf), present a list of configuration knobs and thei

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :But that doesn't fix the UP problem where cluster_wbuild() tries to :recursively re-lock a buf that the current process already owns. I have a :few ideas about that one though, I just don't understand the clustering :well enough yet to fix it. Ok, I just hit this testing the lockmgr chang

Re: /etc/defaults (Was: Re: Out of file descriptors ??)

1999-06-27 Thread Doug
"Brian W. Buchanan" wrote: > > A nice semi-solution to this problem of having to copy lines from > defaults/rc.conf would be a good curses-based rc.conf configuration tool. Yes, this would be an excellent idea. However to save you time, I'll expound the 3 different areas of argument that

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :But that doesn't fix the UP problem where cluster_wbuild() tries to > :recursively re-lock a buf that the current process already owns. I have a > :few ideas about that one though, I just don't understand the clustering > :well enough yet to fix it. > > Ok, I jus

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Doug
Please forgive me if this is a naive question, but could this problem also relate to why starting netscape now panic's my system? I have a UP celeron 300a system and with the most recent -current I can boot fine, startx fine, but as soon as I try to start netscape the system locks and rebo

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug wrote: > Please forgive me if this is a naive question, but could this problem a lso > relate to why starting netscape now panic's my system? I have a UP celeron > 300a system and with the most recent -current I can boot fine, startx fine, > but as soon as I try to start netscape th

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Doug
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Doug wrote: > > Please forgive me if this is a naive question, but could this problem a > lso > > relate to why starting netscape now panic's my system? I have a UP celeron > > 300a system and with the most recent -current I can boot fine, startx fine, > > but as s

Re: Who leads networking?

1999-06-27 Thread Brian Somers
> Hey Folks, > > I'm new to contributing to FreeBSD but not to working with kernels > etc. I'm thinking of adding a new framing type to PPP which is described in > the latest Transactions on Networking. Who do I talk to about this kind > of stuff? Me I guess - if you're thinking of addin

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Doug wrote: > *nod* I will just hang out in windows for a while and check my commit > mail. If it doesn't get fixed by the time I am ready to go back to beating > on my serial console project, I'll do just that. Hah, well some of us aren't quite that lucky :) I manage

Fw: libstdc++.so.2

1999-06-27 Thread Chris Moody
- Original Message - From: Chris Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Questions FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 6:14 PM Subject: libstdc++.so.2 > Hello everyone, > > I spent several hours last night installing the Current version of FreeBSD > over the internet, for some

Re: HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default

1999-06-27 Thread Doug
This is going to sound like I'm attacking sheldon, but I'm not since he's already stated that the got approval for this change from Jordan. Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Inetd now takes command-line options to enable wrapping. This was a > decision taken with the approval of our release engine

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Doug wrote: > > Please forgive me if this is a naive question, but could this problem a > lso > > relate to why starting netscape now panic's my system? I have a UP celeron > > 300a system and with the most recent -current I can boot fine, startx f

Lockmgr panic out of nfs_bwrite in latest -CURRENT

1999-06-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I'm getting the following repeatable panic since the introduction of the changed lockmgr code: (kgdb) bt #0 Debugger (msg=0xc025d4fb "panic") at ../../i386/i386/db_interface.c:324 #1 0xc0153268 in panic (fmt=0xc0265de0 "nfs_strategy: buffer %p not locked") at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:450 #2

ctm

1999-06-27 Thread Chuck Robey
As most of you know by now, ctm is back, but ftp of ctm is temporarily still broken. If you want something, tell me and I'll stick it in http://www.freebsd.org/~chuckr. It's short of room there too, so don't ask for what you don't need. Thanks, I'll try not to post about ctm on current anymore.

Re: BUF_LOCK() related panic..

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Yep, I was aware of this before, but I didn't rip it out since I didn't :know what Kirk's intentions were. I'm assuming he's got his experience :with making the BSD/OS vfs reentrant in mind, so I don't want to break :anything that gets closer to that. A seperate test and then lock would :not be

**HEADS UP** newsyslog.conf syntax change

1999-06-27 Thread David O'Brien
On your next ``make world'', you will need to change any "user.group" specifications in /etc/newsyslog.conf to "user:group". -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

boot -c causes pagefault in userconfig.c:savelist+18

1999-06-27 Thread Anonymous
This in current as of Saturday. The attached patch to i386/i386/userconfig.c fixes the problem.: Regards -- Peter Holm | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://login.dknet.dk/~pho/ -[ Member of the BSD-Dk User Group / http://www.bsd-dk.dk/ ] - *** userconfig.c~ Sun Jun 27 18:39:23 1999 ---

Re: Fw: libstdc++.so.2

1999-06-27 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Chris Moody wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Chris Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Questions FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 6:14 PM > Subject: libstdc++.so.2 > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I spent several hours last night installing the Current version of Fr