Re: 2.4.0-test5 bug: invalid "shmid_kernel" passed to "shm_nopage_core"

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Kevin, On 19 Dec 2000, Kevin Buhr wrote: > The code in Enlightenment did a complete > shmget/shmat/shmctl(RMID)/shmdt cycle, so that segment *was* being > constantly deleted. The Mozilla ones stuck around. The particular > address that was being reference in the shm_nopage_core call > corres

Re: test13-pre3 woes

2000-12-19 Thread J Sloan
The saga continues into test13-pre3-ac3: (last good tdfx.o was from test12) # uname -a Linux jyro.mirai.cx 2.4.0-test13pre3-ac3 #1 Tue Dec 19 21:26:36 PST 2000 i586 unknown # lsmod Module Size Used by iptable_filter 1872 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_nat_ftp

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter locking)

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Leete
"David S. Miller" wrote: > This is basically what is in my tree right now. However, there was > one reporter who claimed that after this kind of change he still was > able to lockup/OOPS his machine by logging into X as a user who had > his home directory over NFS. This was with netfilter enable

TCP/IP kernel modification

2000-12-19 Thread TongEng Chiah
Hi, currently i'm experimenting with some routing protocols. I need to modify the action taken by the kernel after it fails to find a matching route in the routing cache and the FIB. i.e after the kernel calls ip_route_output() and ip_route_output_slow() and fails to find a match, i need t

Purging the Buffer Cache

2000-12-19 Thread Al Peat
Is there any way to completely purge the buffer cache -- not just the write requests (ala 'sync' or 'update'), but the whole thing? Can I just call invalidate_buffers() or destroy_buffers()? I know, why in the world would a person do such a thing? Research. It'd be easier for me to write a

Re: Presentation Layer in TCP/IP linux implementation

2000-12-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Hello Linux World, > Is there a way to add a generic and transparent presenation layer in the > path of TCP/IP packets. I am speaking about something probably in the > path between the user space mechanims (send/recv/read/write) and the > actual sock_se

Re: gettimeofday() non-monotonic on uniprocessor system with ntp turned off?

2000-12-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christopher Friesen writes: > I am having a little bit of a problem. I'm on a single processor G4 system > running 2.2.17 and I do not have ntp turned on. However, successive calls to > gettimeofday() occasionally return results that make it look as though time was > running backwards. Looki

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Even if you were able to predict all entropy sources, to predict the generated > random numbers you would need to invert the cryptographic hash used there. If you can predict ALL input in the pool, including the initial boot state you can just rerun the

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by > feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact > not random at all. That's why feeding randomness is a priveledgedoperation. Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe f

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread ferret
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip of Petr's system info] > Okay. Mine, as far as I can tell, only depends on the L2 cache being set > to '64MB' instead of '512MB' in the field 'L2 Cache Cacheable Size' under > 'Chipset Features Setup' on my BIOS. This is unfortunately the lates

Re: kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux/include/linux/nfs_fs.h:167! -reproducible

2000-12-19 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Monday December 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > " " == M H VanLeeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Trond, Neil I don't know if this is a loopback bug or an NFS > > > > bug but since nfs_fs.h

Re: [PATCH] e820 memory detection fix for ThinkPad

2000-12-19 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:16:40PM -0500, Marc Joosen wrote: > > > Hi Alan, lkml-readers, > > This is a tiny patch to make the int15/e820 memory mapping work on IBM > ThinkPads. Until now, I have had to give lilo a mem= option with one meg > of RAM less than I actually have, so ACPI events

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter

2000-12-19 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Woops, my bad. These finally exams are getting to me. Sorry. "David S. Miller" wrote: > Alexey is talking about test12/netfilter + our ip_fragment.c fix, > not vanilla test12. -- = Mohammad A. Haque

DC390/tmscsim-2.0f SCSI driver released

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, I finally finished to fix bugs WRT kernel 2.4 of the Tekram DC390 / AM53C974 / tmscsim SCSI driver. Therefore, I released the version 2.0f, which you may find on http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/garloff/linux/dc390/ The driver should work better than eve

RE: [Acpi] 2.4.0-test13pre3 acpi circular dependency

2000-12-19 Thread Grover, Andrew
I'm thinking arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c should just go away, yes? Its purpose is probably better served by an ifdef, like you mentioned. Regards -- Andy > -Original Message- > From: Adam J. Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter

2000-12-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:45:14 -0500 From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> how is this meaningless? This just confirms what I and others have found in test12 wrt to the netfilter issue. Alexey is talking about test12/netfilter + our ip_fragment.c fix, not vanilla test12.

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter

2000-12-19 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
how is this meaningless? This just confirms what I and others have found in test12 wrt to the netfilter issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello! > > > able to lockup/OOPS his machine by logging into X as a user who had > > his home directory over NFS. > > I believe this report is to be igno

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Tim Wright wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:11:16PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > [...] > > I'm curious, is my method of avoiding the deadlock race the same as > > yours? My solution is to keep a count of tasks that 'intend' to take > > the down(): > > > > atomic_inc(

2.4.0 test12 ipchains doesn't work as module

2000-12-19 Thread John Covici
I configured 2.4.0 test12 to use the ipchains compatability option as a module and I did a modprobe on all the other modules in that section of such as iptable_filter, etc. When I tried to do the modprobe on ip_nf_compat_ipchains (if I have the name correct) it said device or resource busy. When

2.4.0-test13pre3 acpi circular dependency

2000-12-19 Thread Adam J. Richter
Although the stock linux-2.4.0-test13pre3 does not allow one to build the acpi interpreter as a loadable module, I had tweaked the Makefiles in previous kernels to do this (the supporting code is there and it seemed to work, at least for shutting off the power after a shutdown). Unfortuna

Wireless Extension update

2000-12-19 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Linus and Alan, This is a totally trivial update of the Wireless Extensions definition. It just adds a few more #define, so no troubles or pain expected. The patch attached applies cleanly to *both* 2.4.0-test12 and 2.2.18 (tested), and I would suggest including it in b

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.23 is available

2000-12-19 Thread Keith Owens
modutils 2.3.23 has a bug with empty MODULE_GENERIC_STRING entries, depmod loops. Index: 23.11/depmod/depmod.c --- 23.11/depmod/depmod.c Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:18:04 +1100 kaos (modutils-2.3/b/43_depmod.c 1.39 644) +++ 23.11(w)/depmod/depmod.c Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:13:18 +1100 kaos +(modutils-2.3/b/

[PATCH] 2.2 - ultrastor: spurious restore_flags

2000-12-19 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Please consider applying - Arnaldo --- linux-2.2.19-2/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c Sat Apr 11 15:13:25 1998 +++ linux-2.2.19-2.acme/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.cTue Dec 19 20:45:55 2000 @@ -882,9 +882,8 @@ (inb(SYS_DOORBELL_INTR(config.doorbell_address)) & 1))

Re: Platform string wrong for AlphaServer 400 4/233

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
Take it up with Compaq. The platform string value is that which is set in the HWRPB constructed with SRM. > > Hi, > > This is a minor issue, but I thought I'd report it anyway. > > When I do a > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > on my AlphaServer 400 4/233 I get the following (IMHO wrong) output:

[PATCH] 2.2 - cs89x0 - unchecked kmalloc

2000-12-19 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Please consider applying - Arnaldo --- linux-2.2.19-2/drivers/net/cs89x0.c Mon Aug 9 16:05:05 1999 +++ linux-2.2.19-2.acme/drivers/net/cs89x0.cTue Dec 19 20:25:12 2000 @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ : is running from all accounts. A

Platform string wrong for AlphaServer 400 4/233

2000-12-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, This is a minor issue, but I thought I'd report it anyway. When I do a # cat /proc/cpuinfo on my AlphaServer 400 4/233 I get the following (IMHO wrong) output: cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV45 cpu variation : 7 cpu revision: 0 cpu seri

[PATCH] e820 memory detection fix for ThinkPad

2000-12-19 Thread Marc Joosen
Hi Alan, lkml-readers, This is a tiny patch to make the int15/e820 memory mapping work on IBM ThinkPads. Until now, I have had to give lilo a mem= option with one meg of RAM less than I actually have, so ACPI events don't overwrite any data. The only alternative was to use one of the patche

Strange warnings about .modinfo when compiling 2.2.18 on Alpha

2000-12-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, I just compiled 2.2.18 for my AlphaServer 400 4/233, and noticed a lot of messages like the following during the compile, they all contain the 'Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo' part: {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:7: Warning: Ignoring changed secti

[PATCH] 2.2 - wanxl unchecked copy_to_user

2000-12-19 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying, there must well be other things to do on this failure, please check. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.2.19-2/drivers/net/wanxl.c Wed Jun 7 18:26:43 2000 +++ linux-2.2.19-2.acme/drivers/net/wanxl.c Tue Dec 19 20:05:53 2000 @@ -1088,7 +1088

Re: ATAPI: audio CD still stops on >> (fast forward, 2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-19 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Jens Axboe wrote (Mon Dec 18 2000, 18:56:13 GMT): > On Mon, Dec 18 2000, Norbert Warmuth wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > But problem with >> (fast forward playng of short samples) still remains > > > > on some audio CD's. > > > > Dec 15 12:17:25 utx kernel: "47 00 00 00

[patch] get_binfmt/put_binfmt macros

2000-12-19 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi this patch replaces the binfmt module handling parts with macro calls which do the same thing similar do the get/put_exec_domain macros. Also changes an internal function name in fs/exec.c (put_binfmt) which does almost the same thing as put_binfmt (one check less) to avoid compilatio

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:51:14PM -0800, David Hinds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:41:29PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > On a related topic, the 3c575_cb driver on an IBM Thinkpad 765D is getting > > tx errors on the 2.2.18 kernel with PCMCIA services 3.1.22. > > > > Card is a 3Com

[ PATCH ] against 2.4.0-test13-pre3 - fixes builds for ALPHA

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
Hmm. Gotta build setup-*.c somehow. Alpha Config defines ALPHA_FOO (Generic or specific model #) but not vanilla alpha. --- linux.orig/arch/alpha/config.in Tue Dec 19 14:54:14 2000 +++ linux/arch/alpha/config.in Tue Dec 19 14:53:05 2000 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ # define_bool CONFIG_UID16 n +def

pci.c question [recent changes undone]

2000-12-19 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi I'm curios what was that change & undo about in test12 and test13pre3ac3 regarding the disabling of PCI IO and MM access while writing to the config registers in pci_read_bases(). These lines were cut from test 12 and now they are back. /* Disable IO and memory w

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-19 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > Oliver Xymoron writes: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > > > So, why don't we update the hours and be done with it? We would have to > > > play the same game with the days of the month vs hours. Also, we don't > > > know if the CMOS clock

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-19 Thread Russell King
Oliver Xymoron writes: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > > So, why don't we update the hours and be done with it? We would have to > > play the same game with the days of the month vs hours. Also, we don't > > know if the CMOS clock is programmed for UTC time or not (the kernel's > >

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Tue, Dec 19 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:05:30PM +0100, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > > > You should release the irq when the adapter is closed, not removed, > > unless there's some special case that can't be handled if you take > > ints during init. > > You seem to

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:05:30PM +0100, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > You should release the irq when the adapter is closed, not removed, > unless there's some special case that can't be handled if you take > ints during init. You seem to be right. I have moved the free_irq to the close function

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:41:29PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > On a related topic, the 3c575_cb driver on an IBM Thinkpad 765D is getting > tx errors on the 2.2.18 kernel with PCMCIA services 3.1.22. > > Card is a 3Com 3CCFE575BT Cyclone Cardbus Adapter. > > Error is: > > eth0: transmit

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:46:14AM -0800, David Hinds wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:52:30PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > Socket 1: > > product info: "PCMCIA", "V.90 Communications Device ", "", "" > > manfid: 0x018a, 0x0001 > > Now I have another report of this card not working

Re: 2.2.18 question (fh_lock_parent)

2000-12-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been getting tonnes of these since I installed 2.2.18. Is this a > problem? Should I even worry about this? If I don't need to worry about > it, is there a way to stop displaying this message? > > fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA14279 parent

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-19 Thread Mathias Wiklander
It didn't help me with this patch. The aic7xxx driver (module or kernelcompiled) just put this 4 rows: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 cha

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 02.12.00 in <90cs2v$6u6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Again, that's wrong even when you replace /dev/random with something > else. After all, you could be getting EINTR at any time, too, or get > interrupted by a signal in the middle (in which case you'd get

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-19 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > Matthew Dharm writes: > > Ahh... I think I see. While the math says "if the diference between the > > real time and the cmos time is less than 30 min", it doesn't recognize that > > the time difference between 2:59 and 3:00 is only 1 min. > > Which is i

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Tue, Dec 19 2000, Francois Romieu wrote: [deleted] > > - if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) > > - break; > > - pci_set_master(pdev); > > + unregister_netdev(dev); > > + iounmap((void *)dev->base_addr); > > +free_irq(dev->irq, dev); > > I'd rather inhibit irq first then re

Re: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12 w/ new_writepage

2000-12-19 Thread Steven Cole
For Linux-2.4.0-test12 : Reiserfs-3.6.23 ftp://ftp.reiserfs.org/pub/2.4/linux-2.4.0-test12-reiserfs-3.6.23-patch.gz See the archived message regarding this release here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=97722705425882&w=2 For Linux-2.4.0-test13-preX, the following Makefile patch is al

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread ferret
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 18 Dec 00 at 21:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Pardon me for not fully groking the issues here and possibly coming to a > > wrong conclusion, but this has to do with SMP systems crashing at APIC > > init time, just before penguin display (w

Re: User based routing?

2000-12-19 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +, Ian Stirling wrote: > > Are there any patches floating around? > > Basically to allow for example a server to dial out to ISP's on behalf > > of users, and give them full control over that interface. > > I know about UML, and it's not quite suited. >

Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12 w/ new_writepage

2000-12-19 Thread Carlos E. Gorges
Testers are welcome :-) diff -Nur --exclude=Documentation linux-vanila/fs/buffer.c linux-reiser/fs/buffer.c --- linux-vanila/fs/buffer.cTue Dec 19 17:59:32 2000 +++ linux-reiser/fs/buffer.cTue Dec 19 16:26:55 2000 @@ -827,6 +827,10 @@ return; } +void set_buffer_async_io(struct

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 19 Dec 00 at 19:30, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > When I replaced address with 0xC01B8000 (some cachable memory), it worked > > fine. When replaced with 0xC00C8000 (supposedly unused address, but maybe > > it is just set as cacheable in chipset), it works too. > > Hmm, a read from an uncached

NFS Locking problems

2000-12-19 Thread Ari Pollak
Is there a problem with NFS locking in 2.4.0-test12 and/or 2.2.18? I'm using nfs-utils 0.2.1 and NFS v2, connected to a NFS v2 server running Linux 2.2.18. Whenever mutt tried to place a lock on a file on an NFS share, I get the following messages in syslog (I get the same message for each time mu

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread David Hinds
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:52:30PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > Socket 1: > product info: "PCMCIA", "V.90 Communications Device ", "", "" > manfid: 0x018a, 0x0001 Now I have another report of this card not working, under 2.2. Perhaps it is a Winmodem? -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this

success with test13-pre3

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Aloni
I'm glad to report that 2.4.0-test13-pre3 fixes the lockup (and odd Oops messages) problems I had from test12 til test13-pre2. I've been running it on both of my computers for a day and a half and everything is OK. At first, we thought it had something to do with the modules I was using, but I w

[PATCH] remove warnings from drivers/net/eepro.c (240-test12-pre7)(fwd)

2000-12-19 Thread aris
hi, as my patches for eepro are getting late, here is a patch from Rasmus that i would apply with mine, please apply -- Aris --- Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > > > Stephen,

Sparse cores for 2.2

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, Here is a backport of the sparse core writing for 2.2. It never made any problems on 2.[34] and makes live much easier for us. Could you apply this to 2.2.19? Greetings Christoph diff -uNr 2.2.18/fs/binfmt_elf.c c/fs/binfmt_elf.c --- 2.2.18/fs/binfmt_elf.c Mon Dec

Re: [PATCH] fix emu10k1 init breakage in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Mikael Pettersson wrote: > 2.2.18 broke the emu10k1 driver when compiled into the kernel. > The problem is that 2.2.18 now implements 2.4-style module_init, > so emu10k1 ended up being initialised twice when built non-modular, > which rendered it dysfunctional. The fix is to remove the now >

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Uh. It took couple of hours to find it. Just place > > { int i; volatile unsigned short* p = 0xC00B8000; for (i = 0; i < 6553600; >i++) { *p; } }(**) > > instead of udelay(300) and this loop does not f

Re: Time problem

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 19 Dec 00 at 10:37, Timothy A. DeWees wrote: > > I am having a weird time problem when mounting Novell 5.1 volumes with > ncpmount. The Novell server is located in a different timezone, and once I > mount the volume my system time gets set back 5 hours (to match the Novell > server). Y

IPC_RMID should not block the key

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, here is a patch against 2.2.18 to resemble the same behaviour for 2.2 as we have in 2.4. This is what everybody else does and the 2.2 behaviour leads to some really bad situations. Greetings Christoph diff -uNr 2.2.18/ipc/shm.c c/ipc/shm.c --- 2.2.18/ipc/shm.cWed Ju

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Cox
> > In the case where it boots does it also report mismatched MTRRs ?? > > Yes, it complains. But BIOS correctly reports x1/x2 depending on > number of CPUs I plug into motherboard, so I believe that it did > some initialization before it start loading OS. That may explain the hangs. Intel docs

Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:46:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Dnia Wto 19. Grudzie? 2000 18:45, Andries Brouwer napisa?: > > But what if you just replace the "unknown partition table" > > by "no recognized partition table" > > What about the more correct. > hdd: no partition table > > There

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Rival
This is just to let everyone know that, thanks to Craig Ruff, I now have qlogicfc working under 2.4.11 on my ES40 and GS80. The secret is to set CONNECTION_PREFERENCE to P2P_ONLY instead of LOOP_ONLY, and to build it in to the kernel instead of as a module. My problem now is that the GS80 oo

Re: 2.4.0-test5 bug: invalid "shmid_kernel" passed to "shm_nopage_core"

2000-12-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Christoph Rohland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am just running a stress test on 2.4.0-test13-pre3 + appended patch > without problems. Is the shm segment deleted sometimes or is it always > the same segment? IIRC, in my particular crash case, the Enlightenment window manager was using the X

Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Martin Dalecki
Dnia Wto 19. Grudzie? 2000 18:45, Andries Brouwer napisa?: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:14:04AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > I always disliked the unknown partition table messages you get when you > > mke2fs a whole disk and don't bother with a table at all, so I fixed it. > > Output before/af

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 18 Dec 00 at 21:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Pardon me for not fully groking the issues here and possibly coming to a > wrong conclusion, but this has to do with SMP systems crashing at APIC > init time, just before penguin display (with fbcon at least)? If so, I > have a board that does t

Re: old binary works not with 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread John O'Donnell
kees wrote: > > Hello, > > Yep, *After* I build a new kernel I _always_ build a new iBCS module. > > I have an old utility 'hd' (hexdump) from SCO3.2v4.2 that also needs iBCS > but has a slightly different format, *that* works under 2.2.18 > > Kees Kudos!!! I use the same utility but from 5.

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
It does, but 2.4 alpha hasn't quite worked for me (the latest matrix of support for LINUX is below- and I haven't passed Michael Declerck's testing yet). I'll be checking the latest alpha bits this week some time and I still also need to finish the kernel thread work that will allow loop events t

Time problem

2000-12-19 Thread Timothy A. DeWees
Hello, I am having a weird time problem when mounting Novell 5.1 volumes with ncpmount. The Novell server is located in a different timezone, and once I mount the volume my system time gets set back 5 hours (to match the Novell server). I am also loosing my mounts periodically. The system

Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:14:04AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > I always disliked the unknown partition table messages you get when you > mke2fs a whole disk and don't bother with a table at all, so I fixed it. > Output before/after shown below: > > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 > - hdd

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > Note that writing to /dev/random does *not* update the entropy estimate, > > for this very reason. The assumption is that inputs to the entropy > > estimator have to be trusted, and since /dev/random is typically > > wor

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> I think the semantics of the filesystem specific ->flush and ->writepage >> are not the same. >> >> Is ok for filesystem specific writepage() code to sync other "physically >> contiguous" dirty pages with reference to the one requested by >> writepage(

Sound problem with AC97 module

2000-12-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hello! I have a Dell precision 220 at work with an built-in sound card. The problem I have is that I continiously get these error messages in my logs: Dec 14 18:21:02 shookay kernel: DMA overrun on send Dec 14 18:21:02 shookay kernel: i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout? I have joined

unexpected IO-APIC

2000-12-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hello! I have a Dell Precision 220 at work and got this message every time I boot up linux. I use kernel 2.4.0-test12. I have included lspci output (the chipset is a i820) and dmesg output. If I can provide any help, please let me know. Regards, Mathieu. Dmesg output

X 4.0.1 -> pci memory overlap

2000-12-19 Thread Leslie Donaldson
Hello, I know this isn't quite the right place but... very few people have actually but 2 pci video cards in an alpha an they are actually from different chipset manufactures. Well X reports an overlap bug and I was wondering if anyone has a good idea where to start looking for the problem. [root

Krn. 2.4.0-12 Scsi failure(oops) under Alpha Linux aic7xxx driver

2000-12-19 Thread Leslie Donaldson
I finally hand typed in most of the oops enjoy.. After the oops is my ststem information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (scsi1:0:0:0) Data overrun detected in Data-Out phase, tag 5; Have seen Data Phase. Length =0,NUM SGS=0. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 003ffc006000 bzip2(

Re: old binary works not with 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread kees
Hello, Yep, *After* I build a new kernel I _always_ build a new iBCS module. I have an old utility 'hd' (hexdump) from SCO3.2v4.2 that also needs iBCS but has a slightly different format, *that* works under 2.2.18 Kees On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, John O'Donnell wrote: > kees wrote: > > > Hi, > >

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 18 Dec 00 at 23:51, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yeah. Just do not read video memory when another CPU starts. I'll try > > disabling cache on both CPUs, maybe it will make some difference, as > > secondary CPU should start with caches disabled. But maybe that it is > > just broken AGP bus, and nothing

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:49:48 +0100 From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Note that writing to /dev/random does *not* update the entropy estimate, > for this very reason. The assumption is that inputs to the en

Re: 2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meissner
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:52:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:53:50PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > GCC will complain the absence of a statement after `out1:out2:`, but not > > two complains for `out1' and `out2', because they form a single entity. > > I u

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > Stephen, > > > > > > The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Robert Read
The driver loads for me on 2.4 on Intel, but I don't have access to an Alpha right now. Have you tried Mathew Jacob's driver? It looks like it supports Alpha. http://www.feral.com/isp.html robert On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:24:38PM -0500, Peter Rival wrote: > Hi, > >I was just lent a QLog

Re: 2.2.18aa2 weird problem

2000-12-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:08:27AM -0500, Mike Black wrote: > Rebooting this machine to 2.2.17-RAID works just fine Which RAID patch are you using against 2.2.17 exactly? Also make sure you're using exactly the same kernel configuration of 2.2.17-RAID. > Might there be a problem with RAID5 as ro

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Tim Wright
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:11:16PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: [...] > I'm curious, is my method of avoiding the deadlock race the same as > yours? My solution is to keep a count of tasks that 'intend' to take > the down(): > > atomic_inc(&bdflush_waiters); > up(&bdf

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > Stephen, > > > > The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing a bit) would be very > > useful now (mainl

2.2.18 question (fh_lock_parent)

2000-12-19 Thread Michael J. Dikkema
I've been getting tonnes of these since I installed 2.2.18. Is this a problem? Should I even worry about this? If I don't need to worry about it, is there a way to stop displaying this message? fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA14279 parent changed or child unhashed fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA16413 p

Re: generic sleeping locks?

2000-12-19 Thread Eli Carter
Rusty Russell wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > Are there blocking lock primitives already defined somewhere in the > > > > kernel? > > > > > > down and up are normally appropriate for this > > > > Ungh. Forest. Trees. *sigh* Sorry for the

[PATCH] Bug in date converting functions DOS<=>UNIX in FAT and SMBFS drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Few weeks ago I have sent the following letter: > Hello! > > I have found a bug in drivers of file systems which use a DOS-like format > of date (16 bit: years since 1980 - 7 bits, month - 4 bits, day - 5 bits). > > There are two problems: > 1) It is unable to convert UNIX-like dates before 1980

2.2.18aa2 weird problem

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Black
I've got three machines -- two are identical motherboards. I've been using the same kernel binary on all three machines for over a year thru all the upgrades since 2.2.15 (16, 17, and now 18aa2). Now that I've compiled 2.2.18aa2 it only works on two of the machines. Both of these use RAID1/IDE

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter

2000-12-19 Thread kuznet
Hello! > able to lockup/OOPS his machine by logging into X as a user who had > his home directory over NFS. I believe this report is to be ignored. It is fully meaningless. X has nothing to do with NFS, NFS is with X, and defragmenter is at least with one of them. Alexey - To unsubscribe from

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter locking)

2000-12-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:55:35 -0500 From: Tom Leete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The patch only deals with the ip_defrag_queue path. I have not seen the alternate one happen. It's only been up an hour, I'll put some more time on it. --- linux/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c~Tue Dec 12 06:5

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter locking)

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Leete
Harald Welte wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:11:14AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > >From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:15:52 +1100 > > > >Alexey is right, locking is screwed (explains some reports of > >occasional failure during rmmod). >

Re: system freeze on 2.4.0-test10 or greater

2000-12-19 Thread Patrizio Bruno
I found that removing modules 'r128' and 'agpgart' my machine doesn't freeze. P. - Patrizio Bruno DADA spa / Ed-IT Development Staff Borgo degli Albizi 37/r 50122 Firenze Italy tel +39 05520351 fax +39 0552478143 PGP PublicKey available at

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Tim Wright wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > This patch illustrates an alternative approach to waking and waiting on > > daemons using semaphores instead of direct operations on wait queues. > > The idea of using semaphores to regulate the cycling of

Re: emu10k1 broken in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Cox
> want to try that. For this reason I also don't believe the problem is the > any of the emu10k1 I dont think its the emu10k1 itself. Nor does it seem to be the init function not being called (folks report seeing the init messages in both cases). I need to trace the init order some time - To uns

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kurt Garloff] > It should not be world-writeable, IMHO. So the only one who can feed > entropy there is root, who should know aht (s)he's doing ... No, it is *good* to allow users to add entropy to the RNG pool, but it is *bad* to assume that it is in fact entropy. The beauty of cryptographic

Presentation Layer in TCP/IP linux implementation

2000-12-19 Thread khaled
Hello Linux World, Is there a way to add a generic and transparent presenation layer in the path of TCP/IP packets. I am speaking about something probably in the path between the user space mechanims (send/recv/read/write) and the actual sock_sendmsg/sock_recvmsg (and their proto counterparts).

Oops with 2.4.0-test13pre3 - swapoff

2000-12-19 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Hi This is oops I've got when rebooting after some heavy disk activity on my SMP system: Written by hand: kernel BUG swap_state.c:78! -- invalid operand: EIP: 0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Stack: c0206c16 c0206e2f 004e Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [

Linux Quality Database Project

2000-12-19 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Last may I posted a message to the list with the subject "Organized Linux QA?" asking if there'd be any interest in building a web database to collect bug reports in linux kernel test versions and to make it easier to search for bugs (and success reports) based on things like hardware configuratio

[PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Paul Gortmaker
I always disliked the unknown partition table messages you get when you mke2fs a whole disk and don't bother with a table at all, so I fixed it. Output before/after shown below: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 - hdd: unknown partition table + hdd: whole disk EXT2-fs, revision 1.0, 1k blocks, s

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