What is bpbkar?

2002-07-26 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Hey all, Does anyone have any idea what the process "1820 bpbkar" is??? Got the infamous page fault trap 12 indicating this is current process. I cannot find bpbkar ANYWHERE, on my system or searching the FreeBSD site. We are screwing around with the ISO family capabilities rather strongly so I

Re: What is bpbkar?

2002-07-26 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
me about 2 years worth of work! (not the) Mike Smith Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jul 26), PSI, Mike Smith said: > > Hey all, > > > > Does anyone have any idea what the process "1820 bpbkar" is??? > > > > Got the infamous page fault trap

PnP OS Problem

2002-05-01 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
I just noticed that someone else ran into a problem with the solution "Disable PNP OS in the BIOS". I too ran into that some time back for a very different problem. If it weren't for the great help from this list, I would probably still be chasing that one down. Now I haven't installed FreeBSD fo

mount -u strangeness

2002-04-16 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Hey all, Made a mistake and ran across what may be a bug in mount but am not sure. Now this happened on FreeBSD 3.2 (no comments please, I've already given the powers that be plenty of comments about this). Our password files became corrupted so we entered single user mode to try to repair the s

Kernel after halt issued

2002-02-14 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
I just heard someone say that they believed that the kernel was still running after a halt is issued, but just cannot (won't?) create any processes. So while I realize this person may not know what they are talking about (and am showing my own ignorance for even listening), the question is... Is

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
> > Ancient google archives might be better on chat@ not hackers@ , however, > You may want to look at > http://www.vintage.org & http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest > http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, Old people don't do chat. Don't worry. Most of us can

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not WEARING them might appreciate this. At the Smithsonian they have an exhibit on the history of computers. They have all of the old, and I use the term loosely, systems on display, most still working. What's pathetic is that my wif

Re: Tell gcc I have a i686

2002-01-04 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
If you do this, then I beg of you, for the sake of your successor's sanity... Comment your makefile ad nauseum and even put in a few echoes to inform builder what nastiness you enforced. I spend a lot of my time finding such optimizations in legacy code, well they were optimizations 5 years ago,

Tracking down system freeze

2001-12-05 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Hi all. Does anyone have ANY suggestions on how to determine where the kernel/program is when the system freezes??? Even hardware solutions, such as the infamous paperclip across two pins will do. I am trying to track down what appears to be a kernel freeze problem, but alas, debuggers, et.al. a

Re: help

2001-11-27 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Take it easy on the poor guy! There have been many an occasion when all I could say was "help"...actually "help m plse". Of course never when dealing with FreeBSD! (not the) Mike Smith Geoff Mohler wrote: > > Uhh..with what? > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andrey Pugachev wrote:

_init execs in middle of code

2001-11-15 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Does anyone know exactly what _init is? An "nm" of my executable lists: 080486a8 ? _init It is the lowest numeric address (before _start and main) so I would assume it is some sort of program initialization code. But when trying to determine the cause of a kernel freeze (caused by my user app),

Mea Culpa on C++ and ISO Sockets

2001-11-13 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Sorry - I'm not looking for someone to debug my code (I am actually a fairly experienced C++ programmer on *gasp* SVR4 which means I create errors only God can figure out). I apologize if my earlier request appeared that way (got a few choice comments from some hackers). All I want to know is if

C++ and ISO sockets

2001-11-13 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Have a tricky problem. I am developing code to transfer data over AF_ISO family sockets. Standard stuff, socket, bind, etc. Nothing tricky. Being a good little boy I am using C++ (gpp delivered with OS) for transportability (read make sure everyone else faces the same stupid problems I did). Alas

Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new machines, I envision making a duplication station, where I would add a "new" disk as a