1. stale NFS file handle
2.4.2-ac28 serving nfs3 from reiserfs
2.4.3 being nfs3 client,
nfs damn slow on 100Mbps p2p link.
mounted nfs with rsize=8192,wsize=8192
nfs fast.
soon got :
bash-2.04$ls
ls .: stale NFS file
I dont know, if it is bug or feature, but,
USB mouse jumps around (between) /dev/input/mouse0 and mouse1
when taken out and put back in(to same connector), 2.4.0 kernel.
Annoys, should not be the default behaviour, IMHO.
elmer.
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
>
> If USB mice had serial numbers (like some USB storage devices
> do), then we could tell that it's the same mouse on the
> same connector and not change from mouse0 to mouse1.
> Currently it looks like a new device attachment.
>
> One possible soluti
SMP Dual celeron, 128MB ram, 3.6GB part newly created, untar'ing 1GB
newsspool, gave kreiserfsd priority -19, got not very easily reproducible
lockup.
Sysreq showd kreiserfsd running in state L-TLB or something.
elmer.
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Nice to see again a two cutting-edge-killing opinions.
Every time I really wonder, how such brilliant hackers can be that stupid
that they can not have cake and eat it the same time, and have to scratch
each-others eyes every time.
Use macros.
Kernel has become so big that it really needs univ
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> I would suggest you to read through the following book and files:
> * Kernighan & Pike, "The Practice of Programming"
> * Documentation/CodingStyle
> * drivers/net/aironet4500_proc.c
> and consider, erm, discrepancies. On the second
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Sure it will slow the driver down a bit, because of all those bit-test
> instructions in the driver. If it bothers you, you get to turn it
> off. If you are capable of that, you are also capable enough to turn
> it back on when neccesary.
Now if there
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Now, how is say "Red Hat" (*) going to ship kernels? Of course they are
> going to turn off debugging. Then I'll be stuck with a non-recompiling
> user-in-trouble with a non-debugging-enabled kernel.
Red Hat will ship two kernels. Well, they actually
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Turns out that people will
> prefer to run the "performance" kernel, and they will send in useless
> bugreports like "my just hangs" much more often than now.
But look at positive side:
1. really few people run development kernels despite the "perform
well, really, look the other side:
We dont make a way to take info away, we just put a lot more into it and
give the option to take it away if it is not needed.
With this you get your usual amount of debug info plus a way to have lots
more.
Oh, and one more point: if linux is going to have non
Mike Coleman wrote:
> Microsoft is about taking control
> away from users and giving it to vendors, and the GPL is, to a degree, the
> reverse.
True, but for very specific stuff there is no good to go to edges with that.
Very much better solution would be if company defines a good generic
inte
Matti Aarnio wrote:
> From personal experience I can say that even cisco router training
> includes example of: "block ALL of ICMP", which of course makes
> TCP PMTU discovery non-functional.
Yeah, there is the general problem with such a stuff:
if something becomes d
Mark Hahn wrote:
> I'm curious to know what you mean.
That is your websurfing session.
But try on some 100+ size network to set some
hops go trough a tunnel... the variety of behaviour
and reasons for it are way larger there.
I mean a network that is not completely under your control.
neither a
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was
> rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are
> quick to grab the very best of Linux and adopt it for their own.
? You mean that they did it illegally and you can show a way
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > There is overproduction of generic-purpose software in world and
> > of course lots of companies are going to bancrupt soon, but if you
> > continue this way, GPL is going the same way...
>
> Do not follow the thought, sorry.
The Novell stuff. Sorry to say, but who need
Alan Cox wrote:
> > There are a -lot- of large sites that give us issues like this.
>
> So mail lots of people. Cisco are I think now aware that their firewall
> products dont handle ECN correctly but others might not be.
>
> Or wait until more vendors roll out ECN
There is another big problem l
Hi,
2.4.0-test8, 2.4.0-test7, 2.4.0-test5
1. bridge. If to set bridge addr on C level after bridge is created, but
before any interfaces are ever attached to it,
it oopses. The box I am doing it is quite embedded and I am too lazy
to set up any serial
line debugging or nfs root, so
Alexander Viro wrote:
> Looks like I'm taking care of the UFS for a while. Yes, 2.4 is currently
> broken.
2.2.16, migrated FreeBSD to Linux on production system this weekend.
Dreamed that I just leave ufs there without copying the stuff.
1. First - it mounted a ufs but showed nothing long
Alexander Viro wrote:
> How about syslog?
Well, I read syslog a lot at home and servers, but customer on-site
production computer deep reconfiguration ,
there is another paradigm - it either works 100% or I dont care.
Looks from general talk here, that some kernel people should try
servicing so
Alexander Viro wrote:
> ??? You had explicitly enabled the code that was marked "experimental". If
> the warning from make config was not enough, how the hell would runtime
> warning be more useful?
Yeah, you see, If you have about 100 Linux servers to maintain, part your own,
part installed by
Running here SMP dual celeron, 440BX, 2HD( Maxtor 1G IBM 9G)
ISA 3c509, 128MB ram,
nfsroot server for 2 clients, X, workstation,
Once a day of serious usage computer locks up.
Most part sysrq works.
Now I had to work on text-console(test9 clean) for some days
and got 2 lockups:
1. nfs was in
under serious memory shortage, memory hog running and doing random access
over 133 MB(128MB ram) and disk output as fast as it could.
swap(128M) free = 0M, stable high disk io for long time, then
me killing X with -9 , got oops.
/home is on reiserfs, which is on raid, which has 5 slices all on sa
At mandrake bootup, both isapnp and 3c509 as modules
Nov 4 20:29:46 news kernel: isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
Nov 4 20:29:46 news kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Nov 4 20:29:46 news kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0070
Nov
Did full compile, just for fun:
CONFIG_for Red Creek whatever RCPCI has a syntax error
other warnings and errors, compiled on 2.4.0-prerelease, nonSMP, PIII
md5sum: WARNING: 11 of 12 computed checksums did NOT match
ec.c:279: warning: `ec_space_setup' defined but not used
{standard input}: Asse
compiling everything builtin, (exept RCPCI, which does not compile)
linking errors:
drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.a is not made, quick hack to use .o to see other
errors.
compiling warnings and linking errors are included
drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o: In function `cleanup_module':
drivers/soun
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> You're then using the ieee1394.o module object which doesn't include the
> hardware and highlevel drivers. I've sent a patch to Linus already and
> cc'd the mailing list also.
!!! there were heaps of other (not related to ieee1394 stuff )
linking err
Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Elmer Joandi wrote:
> > strict standard template for linux kernel functions:
> > INLINE(context,level,for_speed, fixed) returntype functionname
>
> Please have a tought look at the floppy tape streamer driver to see why
> this is a BAD IDEA.
Co
> understanding the
> > underlying principles and the code.
Speaking about that, I have been long time dreaming
about following strict standard template for linux kernel functions:
(macroplay intended)
--
INLINE(context,level,for_speed, fixed) returntype functionname
(PARM(p
Hi,
DUAL-Celeron, 2.4.0,
ATI64 Rage pro AGP,
Matrox Millenium,
Matrox Mystique,
ATI Rage II+ PCI,
normal keyboard
USB keyboard,
2x USB mouse.
USB hub and USB hub in keyboard.
1. Just plain Xfree 4.0.2 with xinerama works
2.4.2-ac8, with 4 graphics cards, Dual Celeron
now with 2.4.2-ac8 it is even more clear
any attempt to insert module ends with straight lockup
video mode swithc occurs and then ping to the box stops
immediately.
more, starting X locks kernel the same way.
meantime I changed from BIOS the AGP
Got it to work somewhat...
that was real long f***
the only sequence -
no dga,
kernel boots and BIOS uses Matrox PCI as first graphics
via matrox
start up two ATI cards(one AGP, one PCI)(xinerama mode,
screwed output ) with Xserver hacked to read /dev/input/event*
ant talking direct to ATI.
no
So, the problem is on different hardware and kernel versions.
1. looks like VT switch with multiple X copies running hangs on
certain conditions
2. More critical: Matrox G400 dualhead AGP 16M hangs immediately with
fb.
Tested computers:
1. Tyan 230 SMP Dual PIII 667Mhz , 512MB
2.
Tyan 260 Dual PIII, 512M RAM,
2.4.2-ac26,
mkreiserfs /dev/hda11
mount /dev/hda11 /mnt/space
cp -dpR /usr/* /mnt/space/
immediately:
Mar 28 04:23:17 server kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0014
Mar 28 04:23:17 server kernel: printing eip:
Mar 28
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Elmer Joandi wrote:
> 2.4.2-ac26,
> mkreiserfs /dev/hda11
> mount /dev/hda11 /mnt/space
> cp -dpR /usr/* /mnt/space/
followup:
if using older 3.5 reiserfs format cp just gets stuck in WCHAN=do_jour...
problem is reproducable,
also 2.4.3-pre8, not tested oth
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> Most likely compiled with redhat gcc 2.96. Please upgrade to their latest,
> or use kgcc.
umm, upgraded to their latest, the only difference is that it wont
happen now right away, but after some time.
elmer.
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Chris Mason wrote:
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> Most likely compiled with redhat gcc 2.96. Please upgrade to their latest,
> or use kgcc.
Ok, after
1. upgrading redhat gcc
2. applying that BKL in vmtruncate minipatch
now it copies about 50MB before cp gets stuck on do_journal
2.4.0 with reiserfs patch and r
missing for line 73 at 2.4.0
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Sorry, no time to test, neither I have cisco cards.
However, general notes:
1. Aironet did (cisco may do) weird tricks on bus.
2. insmod driver -> leds go out, that may be normal.
ifconfig up should bring leds on.
3. People who fail with both drivers (B
when dma enabled by default, hangs
No time for exact investigation as the computer is here only for
installation.
There is SMP MB, UP kernel.
SCSI HDD
IDE CDROM: CRD-8400B,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdparm utility says on /dev/hdc:
getmultcount
getnovers
getgeo
all faile
on 15 Feb I complained about 2.6.10, now it works now, with 2.6.11.
However, there are two warnings still, below.
PM: Preparing system for suspend
Stopping tasks:
|
PM: Entering state.
Back to C!
Debug: sleeping function called from inval
My laptop, intel Centrino M based, all intel chips except graphics.
After opening laptop, I have to push power button, then it goes:
Back to C!
Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2055
in_atomic():0,irqs_disabled():1
__might_sleep
__kmalloc
acpi_os_allocate
acpi_ut_cal
the whole pcmcia does not work in 2.4.
Not with latest cardmgr.
What makes airo_cs to work is that pcmcia package
and kernel modules are replaced.
That is what most of distros do.
Which overwrites kernel standard ones and really fucks things up
for pcmcia drivers being in kernel.
Elmer.
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Not correct -- you do not need I82365 if you have CardBus. However, if
> you are running 2.4.4 you should be ok.
So it is nice I dont have to prove it.
Never seen cardbus laptop with linux yet.
( But Mandrake can send me one :) )
Elmer.
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