On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> Well, pushing <4s on the power button will turn the computer off (in fact
> it's more of a "hard" power off IIRC).
Depends on the BIOS. It is often settable.
David, who finds most ATX stuff annoying because it hasn't got a 25 pin
serial port.
To
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> panic: lockmgr: pid 3344, not exclusive lock holder 3341 unlocking
>
It might be if you supplied some additional information, like what
sources your kernel was built from, as a minimum. UP or SMP? What
was the box doing when it paniced? If you
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>
> Curious why are you cvsupping every couple of minutes ?
I think you have a language problem here. I think he meant it normally
takes a couple of minutes, not that he cvsups every couple of minutes.
David
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ressed crashdumps?
(Other than no one haveing ever written the the code, of course.) In
other words, if I wrote this would it get committed?
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p, even if I have to analyze
it somewhere else.
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Peter Holm wrote:
> >
> > Kirk seems to be out of touch :-), so I created PR kern/12869.
>
> I seem to recall a message from him last week saying he was going on
> a six weeks vacation. Well, he *did* said he was going on vacation,
> it's the "last
[moved to -chat]
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> Hmm. "I submitted a PR to FreeBSD, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
Wouldn't we rather have "I fixed a PR in FreeBSD..."?
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ave tried. (FreeBSD, Linux, ScumOS, HP/UX, spit NT) I
would buy an external one, as they generate quite a lot of heat.
>
> Is there any support for IDE CD writers or are they not worth bothering with
> on FreeBSD.
There is support, but I don't think they are worth bothering
Of course,
> if it is option 1, I'm keen to know what's wrong with the current driver!
I have survived a number of power loss crashes, with no problems. I tend to
suspect the SCSI driver did something bad.
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > Where do I look for new man pages? I would like to read those for the
> > new ata driver and for ntpd. They were not created during a build
> > world some 5 days ago. And I cannot find them in
> > /usr/src/share/man/ma
e COMPAT_LINUX entirely.
I use COMPAT_LINUX because I make kernels more frequently then I make world
or modules. I get fewer panics that way.
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of full-blown FS?
This is something like HP-UX's ioscan(1M)? This would be very handy, even
it only gave info on the hardware the kernel knows about, as opposed to
actually rescanning the busses.
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > > I too notice these problems of mpg123 skipping during disk activity or X
> > > graphics ops but I have always had these problems, both with -STABLE and
> > > -CURRENT. I notice this with xmms too. So this is nothing new.
> >
> > Isn't this simply a ty
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes:
> : I did a make world on my PDP-11 yesterday. It took less than a day.
> : But that's 2.11BSD.
>
> Turns out that 12MB + 30MB of swap isn't enough to build world. I ran
> out of swap and the machine re
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Donn Miller wrote:
> All these makefiles would go inside of audio. To do the building each
> port, we can have the "work" be done inside the user's home
> directory. This would eliminate the need to log in as root in order
> to do the actual building. The benefits of havin
I just cvsuped an hour ago, my buildworld fails with this:
===> lib/libc
"/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/sys/Makefile.inc", line 9: Could not find
/usr/src/lib/libc/../../sys/sys/syscall.mk
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/lib.
*** Error code 1
Stop
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> I just cvsuped an hour ago, my buildworld fails with this:
I removed my /usr/src and checkedout of my local repository, and now the
build gets past this. I don't do anything on this /usr/src/ except build
from it, so I have no idea ho
es are variable speed. You will see
much greater performance from the outer edge as from the inside edge. You
are correct that the begining of the CD is in the center. dd the whole disk
and use iostat to see what your transfer rates are. They will go up as the
disk reaches the end.
David
Yesterday's -current fails to find my soundcard. It's an Opti chipset thing
that worked fine (for a $12 soundcard...) with the old driver. What is
decent soundcard that works with the new driver?pnpinfo and dmesg snippet
for the thing:
Checking for Plug-n-Play devices...
Card assigned CS
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
>
> > Yesterday's -current fails to find my soundcard. It's an Opti chipset thing
> > that worked fine (for a $12 soundcard...) with the old driver. What is
> > decent soundc
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
> % xmix
> Error opening mixer device /dev/mixer: Device not configured
>
> and similar whinging. xmix worked before the change.
Did you remake your snd0 devices?
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do. The
way disk prices are going though, I don't know that this will stay that way.
[I haven't looked at the patches, and don't really feel qualified to pass
judgement on them.]
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ou or anyone else knows of a particular card which uses this chip,
> however, then I'd be happy to pick one up.
I have a friend with one of these. I will find out what it is, and let you
know.
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rom clock granularity being 3 times better.
What sort of tests would you like done before and after?
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x27;t have access to the
machine at the moment, so I cannot tell you much more than that. I will
take a look at the machine when I get home, and see what else I might have
done. I don't run xdm, which might be an issue.
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their way to avoid the block device
> and use the raw interface. Does anyone on this list know of any
> programs that need/want the block interface? If there are none, or
It doesn't run on FreeBSD, but Sybase uses block devices for its dedicated
disk devices. There may be other RDBMSe
stock PII system (weirdest hardware is a ZIP drive :), which
> I'm trying to upgrade from a -current from Sep 17. (install new kernel
> first, make world after, etc)
>
Sounds like your modules are out of date? That bit me.
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reeze for a
> couple of seconds, then it reboots.
Is your linux emulation module out of date? I got bit by this the other
day. It will causee quite a nice panic. Fixed that (options COMPAT_LINUX).
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ist manager written in C with automatic bounce
> handling (among other things).
It also builds almost out of the box on FreeBSD. You have to define BSDMOD,
build it, install it, and add a listar user. I have a port that is nearly
finished, pending acquistion of a round tuit.
>
>
ode though; are you using IDE
> disks with the ATA or old WD driver, or are you using SCSI disks ?
I have both IDE and SCSI disks, I am dumping to an ide disk controlled by
the ATA driver.
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>
> What is your memory size? what is your swap device size?
256MB. 512MB.
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Khetan Gajjar wrote:
>
> Looks like we have our problem; it's the ATA driver. I don't recall
> seeing this error when using the wd driver.
Yup. When I force a panic from DDB, I get
panic: timeout table full
and a message about "Dump already in progress, bailing". I hav
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> I've never let my horses commit anything. Well, I won't admit it,
> anyway.
>
> But I still think their birthdays belong in the list :-)
>
Can't remember 1 January?
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ptimization flag to -O?
It makes it work properly, so yes it would. None of the kernel code is
tested beyond -O. Much of it works, but if it doesn't you aren't going to
get any support from anyone, except to tell you to turn the optimization
down.
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here, too. Can someone with a machine to spare try the following:
>
Working on this now. I presume I can just build a kernel, since the machine
I am trying to upgrade form -STABLE to CURRENT does this.
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's this commit to i386/machdep.c:
Good call! A tree checked out with -D 1999-11-21 14:47 won't run netscape.
A kernel built with the same sources, except for 1.376 of i386/machdep.c
will.
David Scheidt
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&g
e %expect stuff
is blowing up. I haven't yet tried to see if building yacc and bison
manually fixes things or not. I will tomorrow, when I have access to the
box, assuming my workload doesn't try to kill me first. (I hadn't reported
it, because I haven't had time to investiga
Seeing this trying to build world, cvsup'd earlier today.
cc -O -pipe -static -DSETPROCTITLE -DSKEY -DLOGIN_CAP -DVIRTUAL_HOSTING
-Wall -I/usr/src/libexec/ftpd/../../contrib-crypto/telnet -DINTERNAL_LS
-Dmain=ls_main -I/usr/src/libexec/ftpd/../../bin/ls
-I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -o ftp
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> "
> > I see no needs of this change. I have -current dumpon/savecore work with
> > old entrly like /dev/wd0...
> > savecore understand both character and old block devices now.
> >
>
> While I see your commit in cvsweb to savecore, I still run into
I am having the following panic, with a -CURRENT system as fo CTM
cvs-cur.5868. I *think* the panic was induced by running mpg123 with a not
an mp3 file. I've had two (maybe three, something happened to the box over
night.) of these panics, but hte first was with no dump device configured.
I
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Michael Chin-Yuan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Please try this tutorial when you move from -stable to -current
> >
> > www.external.org/freebsd/current.html
>
> I think you're missing the recent block device obsolescence
> change.
I had
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 6 December 1999 at 15:07:21 -0500, Kelvin Farmer wrote:
> >
> > Problem: Computer _sometimes_ stops after the "Mounting root from
> > ufs:/dev/ad0s2a" line.
> > Running Current, built world yesterday. (Problem appeared fairly
> > recently (as in
ady a well-known tool by that name. See
> <http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/>.
>
> --
Stoat then?
http://home.capu.net/~kwelch/pp/predators/mammals.html
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:
>
> I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init
> and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep
> important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, sysl
e a very oldfashioned way to think about things, I don't
> want to have one big button which is called "NETWORKING ON/OFF".
runlevels let you do more than just run gettys, control networking, and run
/sbin/rc?.d scripts. We do.
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made
> >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well..
> >_ALL_. *shrug*
>
> What do you define
esting a
bunch of applications.
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> Umm- doubt it, but I'll check. This system has been fine for the last 18
> months and runs everything else just peachy.
>
Sudden SIGSEGVs are almost always the result of failed memory. The fact
that the machine worked fine for 18 months doesn't me
License for free. This roughly cuts in half the cost of the disks for
someone not covered under a orginizaitonal souce code license.
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> Out of da blue David Scheidt aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> >
> > Not incidently, SCO have waived the $100 license application fee, which
> > means that you can get your own official Ancient UNIX(TM) Source Code
> > License f
ces might not. I don't think it would be a good
idea for FreeBSD to do things that make it harder to produce commerical
software.
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Bush Doctor wrote:
>
> > Out of da blue David Scheidt aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> > >
> > > Not incidently, SCO have waived the $100 license application fee, which
> > > means that you
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Well, in my case it happens without any such things going on. More to
> the point, it *never* works entirely right, from the moment I boot the
> machine to the moment I turn it off. The mouse is always jumpy now,
> and it's the same mouse I've bee
s. "#" is rubout in some shells.
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On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote:
:Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled...
:>
:> Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more
:> than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response
:> and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memor
I start to use it again, and I often don't notice,
because I have to move my hand from the mouse back to hte keyboard. I'm
probably not a typical user, of course.
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
:>
:> Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
:>
:> j/k
:
:I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
:that direction.
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather useful, but that may be
because I have boxes that ta
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mike Meyer wrote:
:Daniel C. Sobral writes:
:> Mike Meyer wrote:
:> The multiple levels are there to deal with changes in state. In BSD, for
:> instance, we have single user/multi-user. A number of other variations
:> can exist, both in heavy duty servers where you might want
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
:
:
:On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:19:48 +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
:
:> > 2711:
:> >If you used to get your crypto files from internat, AND you
:> >used cvsup to get cvs' ,v files, then the latest changes
:> >to the source collections will impact
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote:
:
:Sure; we neet to be appropriately paranoid about that, but let's not
:get ridiculous. The seed file could certainly use some decent protection,
:but unfortunately, PC architectures don't come with SIMcards or the like.
:
Is it possible to combine the st
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jos Backus wrote:
:[This is with yesterdays' -current and today's kernel, and Xfree86 4.0.1 using
:the ati driver module.]
:
:Something I noticed today: switch to text console from X using C-A-F1; upon
:return, the mouse cursor is frozen. moused appears to still work because
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Mike Muir wrote:
:Stephen Hocking wrote:
:>
:> About a week ago, I complained of mysterious Sig 11s during a make world.
:> After some experimentation, a PC100 DIMM was found to be better suited for a
:> 66MHz memory bus in another machine, who obligingly donated a DIMM in re
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David
:Scheidt writes:
:: convince people that their memory is bad. The only reliable way to test
:: memory is with a hardware testor, or swapping known good memory in.
:
:Yes. while (1) do ; make world; done is a
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Donn Miller wrote:
:This is on a recently-built -current box. When I try to move ftp from
:port 21 to port 2121 in /etc/services, I get a "Connection
:refused" message when I try to login to anonymous ftp sites. Should ftp
:be this dependent on /etc/services? What if you _
Current as of yesterday afternoon hangs trying to boot on my box with an
OPTi931 soundcard installed. It prints the probe, and then hangs. With
boot -v, the messages are
pcm0: at port 0x5
34-0x537,0x380-0x38b,0x220-0x22f,0xe0c-0xe0f irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0
mss_init: opti_offset=2
Yanking the c
On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Wolfskill wrote:
:>From: John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
:>Hmm, that's odd, I did have soft updates on on /usr and /var before the crash.
:>It seems to be off now. :(
:
:That also happened to me. I thought it odd at the time, but forgot to
:mention it At least
On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Wolfskill wrote:
:(I see it does want the file system clean when soft updates is enabled,
:but doesn't check for that for a disable request.)
:
Right. fsck(8) can make assumptions about the state of the filesystem if it
knows that softupdates were in use. (There's a
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I'm having strange problems with one of local dial-up providers: without
:any visible reasons from time to time I can't establish PPP connection
:during 20-30 minutes. Shortly after going into `Network' mode ppp(8)
:complains about `Unrecognised C
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Bob Bishop wrote:
:Hi,
:
:su appears to be asking for a password when invoked by root, eg:
:
:# su bin -c "pwd"
:Password:
:
:Broken, surely?
What /etc/pam.conf do you have? I had this problem after my last world
update until I mergemastered.
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Dan Nelson wrote:
:In the last episode (Jul 05), Benjamin P. Grubin said:
:> As of a month ago or so, there was some discussion that concluded it
:> was unsafe to enable softupdates on a root partition. Is it safe to
:> go back in the water there, now?
:
:The 2 drawbacks with
My SMP box, running current from about 24 hours ago, panics on a cold boot,
but only if I don't touch a key. If I use the keyboard to do anything,
whether to skip the loader twiddler, or to skip the BIOS disk probing, or
just to bang my head against it, it boots fine. It will reboot fine once
it
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
:
:
:On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:06:49 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
:
:> Yeah, that's the weird part... I thought adding a DDB_UNATTENDED
:> as a option would atleast make it reboot or something...
:
:For the record, DDB_UNATTENDED is mostly pointless. It ju
fault behavior for a production
machine, it is damn silly.
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th or so
old. I am now running -CURRENT as of cvs-cur-5352, which is from sunday 23
May. I haven't seen anything in the commit logs that would indicate
anything has changed that would break this. If it happens again, I shall
see if I can get a better look at what happens.
David Sch
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> It is a PS/2 mouse or a serial mouse? What model is it?
>
Sorry. It is a three button PS/2 mouse, an AT&T 320. I think it is really
a Logitech mouse in Deathstar clothing. From dmesg:
May 24 13:59:31 rally3 /kernel: psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0
May 2
isolated from the master server for an
> extended period of time. In that case, you'd randomly get a _big_
> step backwards in time.
>
> John
Can't the supfile be made to ignore updates into the past?
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> Why are many of the build lines in bsd.lib.mk hidden with leading @'s,
> so that they don't display in the build? This is useless, it hides
> things that go wrong, and hardly belongs here, it seems to me.
>
How often do your calls to ld, mv and rm fail?
There was a problem that sometimes
switching from one machine to another would cause a break. Someone
wired it slightly different, and included a push button on the
switch box to send a break.
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