[OPPS] 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-29 Thread James Stevenson
ksymoops 2.3.7 on i686 2.4.5-ac15 Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac15 (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.5-ac15 (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume tha

[OPPS]

2001-06-29 Thread James Stevenson
ksymoops 2.3.7 on i686 2.4.5-ac15 Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac15 (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.5-ac15 (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume tha

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-25 Thread James Stevenson
Hi again i have a stack now an #0 schedule () at sched.c:536 #1 0x1002f932 in __wait_on_buffer (bh=0x50eb16e4) at buffer.c:157 #2 0x10036f46 in block_read (filp=0x5009787c, buf=0x80c08f0 "ยค\201", count=8192, ppos=0x5009789c) at /home/mistral/dev/kernel/linux-2.4.5-um9/includ

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-25 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i have been looking at it a lot over the past few days i seem to be the person who can trigger it easyest. over the past couple of days i have been running with the #define WAITQUEUE_DEBUG 1 no problems seem to have appeared there though and the bug still triggers. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Jeff

Re: Two nfsd bugs in 2.4.x

2001-06-23 Thread James Stevenson
>Since I switched to the kernel nfsd I have troubles exporting my >filesystems. I think in kernel 2.2.x there was no problem, neither was >it with the userspace nfsd. Currently I run kernel 2.4.5pre1 on the >server. i have also had a few problems with nfsd when i have moved to 2.4.x (2.4.5-ac15 c

[OPPS] 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-23 Thread James Stevenson
Hi when using eject to eject a cd from an atapi cd writer that had the tray locked by cdreored (which had messed up) i got the following opps on 2.4.5-ac15 Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01 Type: CD-ROM

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-13 Thread James Stevenson
Hi >-- a simpler, cleaner kernel will also be of more use in an academic >environment. >i386, i486 >The Pentium processor has been around since 1995. Support for these older >processors should go so we can focus on optimizations for the pentium and >better processors. >ISA bus, MCA bus, EISA b

[OPPS] 2.4.6-pre2

2001-06-13 Thread James Stevenson
Hi this happens every time during boot on 2.4.6-pre2 ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.6-pre1. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.6-pre1/ (default) -m P200-2.4.6-pre2/System.map (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping obj

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread James Stevenson
Hi yes i can Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 6). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe83f]. CPU0 0: 17921979 XT-PIC timer 1: 82047 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0

2.4.4 parport compile error

2001-05-03 Thread James Stevenson
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mistral/data/kernels/SX/drivers/parport' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/mistral/data/kernels/SX/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i486-c -o parport_pc.o parport_pc.c parport_pc.c: In function `parport_pc_f

Re: Common GUI Config for All Users

2001-04-30 Thread James Stevenson
ize. > > I did not pass along the crap I got from the 'bad attitudes', like Jasper Jans, Mark >Hahn, & Paul Dunne. All grief, no guidance nor respect. Tough to be a newbie. > -- > C. > > The best way out is always through. > - Robert Frost A Servant

2.4.3-ac4 ? pgd entry c0b610fc: 0000000000000000

2001-04-11 Thread James Stevenson
Hi my mail programs stoped working fetchmail / procmail and a perl script and i found this in the logs Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0fff72bc printing eip: c0123dbc pgd entry c0b610fc: pmd entry c0b610fc: ... pmd not present! Oops:

[OPPS] 2.2.19

2001-04-08 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i woke up to these this morning :( ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.2.19. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.2.19/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping objects Unable to handle kernel pa

Re: 2.2.15 kernel bug report

2001-04-03 Thread James Stevenson
Hi this was a bug in 2.2.15 you could do while(1) { connect() } and it would crash the kernel it was fixed by 2.2.16 In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote: >I am enclosing a section of code that crashes the 2.2.15 kernel >repeatedly. My system is a 266 Intel P2 with 128Mb ram. The >crash is

question on /dev/tap0

2001-03-25 Thread James Stevenson
Hi would somebody be able to explain to me when you try to open /dev/tap0 which is a character device file which has the permissions File: "tap0" Size: 0Filetype: Character Device Mode: (0666/crw-rw-rw-) when tried to open [mistral@linux /dev]$ cat tap0 cat: tap0: Operation not pe

OPPS 2.2.18

2001-03-20 Thread James Stevenson
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.2.18. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.2.18/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume that the lo

VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

2001-03-13 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i had a small problem with a program i was running which got stuck in a loop allocing memory by the time i found out it was doing it these were appearing VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd.

unix_ioctl ?

2001-02-26 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i notcied in unix_ioctl at the start of most of its functions is it possible for the sock->sk to be NULL ? static int unix_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct sock *sk = sock->sk; as there is no test to see if its null it just jumps in and uses i

[OPPS] 2.2.18 + Scheduling in interrupt

2001-02-23 Thread James Stevenson
Hi this is the first opps i got from several i have attached the rest in a gzip file these were the messages i got Aiee, killing interrupt handler alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c016468f eth0: Tx request while isr active. Scheduling in interrupt first opps Unable to handle ker

/dev/netlink/tap0

2001-02-20 Thread James Stevenson
Hi if i have a valid tap0 device i should be able to read write to /dev/netlink/tap0 but for some reson only as root should it be like this ? eg i would think that is the file permissions are like crw-rw-rw- /dev/netlink/tap0 anyone should be able to open it. is it meant to be like this if it

Re: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread James Stevenson
Hi no they should not be effected the place that starts the connection eg send the first SYN has to ask to use ECN if it is not requested it will never be used in that connection In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote: >Hello, > >What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, wi

[OPPS] 2.2.18

2001-02-13 Thread James Stevenson
On Linux version 2.2.18 (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) i got Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 74723e0a current->tss.cr3 = 0353d000, %cr3 = 0353d000 *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010816 eax: ebx

Re: What does "NAT: dropping untracked packet" mean?

2001-02-01 Thread James Stevenson
Hi do the messages apear when the windows machines a booting ? i would tend to think that the kernel cannot handle the NET on IGMP packets so its printting a message about it the packets do look like they are goign to a multicast address > >Feb 1 12:58:56 obelix kernel: NAT: 0 dropping untra

[OPPS] 2.2.18

2001-01-30 Thread James Stevenson
Hi got this opps the other day on a 2.2.18 kernel i will get more information if it is needed though i cannot remember what i was doing at the time ksymoops 0.7 on i686 2.2.18. Options used -v /home/mistral/data/kernels/P200/vmlinux (specified) -K (specified) -l /proc/modules (d

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-26 Thread James Stevenson
> >> Then there is reasability. >> >> void ThisIsMyDumbassFunctionName >> so how many times have you typed something like ThisIsMyDumbAssFunctionName instead of ThisIsMyDumbassFunctionName >> if MUCH more difficult to read than >> >> void this_is_my_clear_and_easy_function_name > >I can c

[PF_PACKET] and failed checksums

2001-01-18 Thread James Stevenson
Hi when i use a PF_PACKET / raw socket when i read data from the socket everything is fine apart from udp packets which are going to the machine on port 2049 sometimes the checksums fail i belive that the data might be getting changed on the udp pakcet somewhere inside the kernel as with the sam

/proc/sys/net/unix

2001-01-05 Thread James Stevenson
Hi should there be 2 files in that diretory with the same name ? mistral@sx:/proc/sys/net/unix$ ls -la total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root0 Jan 5 21:09 ./ dr-xr-xr-x 8 root root0 Jan 5 21:09 ../ -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 5 21:09 max_dgram_ql

Re: test12: eth0 trasmit timed out after one hour uptime

2000-12-13 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i may have also had some problems with this when i was connected to the net though ppp (most of the night) so far in about 6 hours it has stoped transmitting 2 times but still recives it is fine after i disconnect and reconnect i will try and get it to stop working with heavry disk io BTW this

Re: EJECT ioctl fails on empty SCSI CD-ROM

2000-11-15 Thread James Stevenson
Hi this is what i get on 2.2.17 open("/dev/scd1", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 3 ioctl(3, CDROMEJECT, 0xbc78)= 0 close(3)= 0 In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote: >Apparently using the CDROMEJECT ioctl with kernel 2.4-testX fails on >a SCSI CD-ROM that

[USB] Alcatel Modem ?

2000-10-16 Thread James Stevenson
Hi is there currently any support under linxu for the Alcatel USB ADSL modem under linux ? thanks James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/