Re: CVSup core dumps

1999-10-05 Thread Mark Murray
I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more information. For starters, I would like to know whether the static binary (ports/net/cvsup-bin) works or not under the very latest -current on the i386. Could

Re: CVSup core dumps

1999-10-05 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:33:54AM +0200, Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more information. For starters, I would like to know whether the static binary

Re: make buildworld broken?

1999-10-05 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 06:21:55AM +0800, Michael Kennett wrote: Is this a known problem? Yes, and it is well documented in the -current mailing lists. I feel embarrassed as I'v just spoken to Marcel a couple fo days ago. However I just resubscribed to -current. I did look in the

Re: Recent kernel hangs during boot with pnp sio.

1999-10-05 Thread Timo Geusch
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:12:10PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Timo Geusch wrote: If you're interested I can send you the source code for the driver but it is not clear if it works on -current at the moment as I haven't updated for some time. Send it here as I'm

Re: my make world is broken !

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bruce Evans wrote: 3: *always* build (or try to) and install a new kernel before a make world as that's a lot easier to back out of. This badly bites the bum of anyone who uses KLD's regularly. 4: Don't use modules in -current unless you know what you are doing. This normally

Not for me. (was: CVSup core dumps)

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Thyer
Just an anti-me too. Static cvsup works perfectly for me (installed from ports cvsup-bin on Sept 9th). I run it both on my dumb terminal and on my X display. (My X configuration is XFree86 3.3.5, Gnome/Enlightenment [all built Sept 9th after a make world]). My shell is tcsh 6.09 (built Sept

python-1.5.2 port broken with current

1999-10-05 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
python-1.5.2 is broken with current this week when compiled with the "--with-fpectl" option (a hack using jmpbuf.h, signal.h etc.) which is default in the ports collection. Exponentiation fails i. e. Python 1.5.2 [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 on freebsd4 Copyright 1991-1995

Re: my make world is broken !

1999-10-05 Thread John Hay
3: *always* build (or try to) and install a new kernel before a make world as that's a lot easier to back out of. This badly bites the bum of anyone who uses KLD's regularly. 4: Don't use modules in -current unless you know what you are doing. This normally means not

4.0-CURRENT from 3.2-RELEASE

1999-10-05 Thread Bill A. K.
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my system from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT, i CVsuped the source, but when I try to build it, (with cd /usr/src, make -j4 buildworld, but also with just make buildworld), it blows up on libgcc1.c (the one everybody's been complaining about.) Greg Lehey told me to

Re: maxphys = 0??

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: You need to move your sources further forward. Alas, it didn't help. What versions of what files I should have? The warnings are still appearing, at fsck time. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: A kernel from this weekend's sources is

Re: CVSup core dumps

1999-10-05 Thread Jos Backus
Fwiw, the problem seems to have disappeared over here. I'll check at home later. FreeBSD hal.mpn.cp.philips.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 5 09:36:29 CEST 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/HAL i386 Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/

Re: CVSup core dumps

1999-10-05 Thread Rajappa Iyer
John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more information. For starters, I would like to know whether the static binary (ports/net/cvsup-bin) works or not under the very

Re: CVSup segfaults identified/solved [PATCH]

1999-10-05 Thread Luoqi Chen
Hi, It seems that the trampoline code got too long and resulted in the coredumps people reported. The following patch solves that. it basicly works as follows: o Simplify the trampoline code so that it doesn't have to distinguish between an old- and new sigframe and also restoring

Re: CVSup core dumps

1999-10-05 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, John Polstra wrote: I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more information. For starters, I would like to know whether the static binary (ports/net/cvsup-bin) works or not under the

4.0-CURRENT from 3.2-RELEASE

1999-10-05 Thread Bill A. K.
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my system from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT, i CVsuped the source, but when I try to build it, (with cd /usr/src, make -j4 buildworld, but also with just make buildworld), it blows up on libgcc1.c (the one everybody's been complaining about.) Greg Lehey told me to

Re: 4.0-CURRENT from 3.2-RELEASE

1999-10-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 09:39:05 -0400, "Bill A. K." wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my system from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT You're venturing into some virgin territory, but some old advice in the FreeBSD Handbook still applies -- if you intend to run CURRENT, subscribe to the freebsd-current

CVSup core dumps: a work-around

1999-10-05 Thread John Polstra
Wow, you guys have been busy while I was asleep! Thanks for the reports, and for the diagnosis already done by Marcel, Luoqi, and others. If you are stuck with a kernel that can't run CVSup, I believe you can work around the problem by adding "@M3novm" to the cvsup command line. Add it anywhere

Re: CVSup segfaults identified/solved [PATCH]

1999-10-05 Thread Luoqi Chen
Luoqi Chen wrote: o restoring %gs is now handled in the proper sigreturn. Restoration of %gs should not be in the kernel because it comes from user application and maybe invalid, if you restore it inside the kernel it could be fatal to the whole system, and on the other hand just

Re: CVSup segfaults identified/solved [PATCH]

1999-10-05 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Luoqi Chen wrote: o restoring %gs is now handled in the proper sigreturn. Restoration of %gs should not be in the kernel because it comes from user application and maybe invalid, if you restore it inside the kernel it could be fatal to the whole system, and on the other hand just a core

make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Warner Losh
I have soft updates enabled on a fast machine at work. make installworld can fill up slash even though it has 15M free before the install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim space quickly enough or in overflow situations. To work around it, I've used make

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Warner Losh: install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim space quickly enough or in overflow situations. Yes, it is a known issue Kirk know of AFAIK. It should probably reclaim the soon-to-be-freed blocks when it needs them. I've removed softupdates on /

Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed

1999-10-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcel Moolenaar writes: : Yes, but if you need the tools you just compiled in your : cross-compilation for cross-compilation itself, you'll have a big : problem. And that's almost exacly what happens when building world... No. The cross build world takes care to

Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed

1999-10-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John-Mark Gurney writes: : I thought we were working to the point that we could build a mips world : on an x86 box?? w/ this, it completely breaks it... the whole idea of : a buildworld is that the tools can be build on ANY platform and run, : (assuming the tools

RE: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread David Schwartz
I have soft updates enabled on a fast machine at work. make installworld can fill up slash even though it has 15M free before the install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim space quickly enough or in overflow situations. It's really not a bug, it's just

Re: Recent kernel hangs during boot with pnp sio.

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Timo Geusch wrote: I'll send it once I verified that it (still) works with -current. The work dates from before newpnp, Also, some indication as to where you made changes would benice - my PnP changes are pretty self-contained but I made some more general changes that

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-06 07:42:39 +1000, Warner Losh wrote: Nearly full? It is a 32M file system with 15M free. That's not nearly full. The problem is that the update rate is faster than the softupdate code can deal with. Running sync between each install shows that this is a bug. As Ollivier Robert

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message 01bf0f86$d8d84670$[EMAIL PROTECTED] "David Schwartz" writes: : I think anybody reasonable familiar with softupdates understands what : 'sync' does in this context. It's not a bug because it is documented : behavior done for a specific reason. It is a bug. You've just said

RE: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread David Schwartz
In message 000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$[EMAIL PROTECTED] "David Schwartz" writes: : It's really not a bug, it's just a missing feature. There's no requirement : that a filesystem reclaim empty space immediately. You really shouldn't be : using fastupdates on nearly full filesystems -- it

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Nate Williams
In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the lack of softupdates should not be a problem. So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do development alot of writes are done to /. And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the same

RE: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, David Schwartz wrote: I have soft updates enabled on a fast machine at work. make installworld can fill up slash even though it has 15M free before the install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim space quickly enough or in overflow

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-06 09:02:12 +1000, Nate Williams wrote: In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the lack of softupdates should not be a problem. So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do development alot of writes are done to /. I've pretty

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize a system worries me greatly. What do you mean by `destabilize'? There are bugs in softupdates which

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize a system worries me greatly. What do you mean by

installworld broken from R/O /usr/obj

1999-10-05 Thread Andrew Gallatin
W`hile installworld is being discussed, I wanted to get this out there: Since rev 1.13 of usr.bin/make/arch.c, I've been seing a problem with ELF archive libraries being rebuilt unnecessarily. I believe that this problem can be traced to the RANLIBMAG string being set to "/". The reason I care

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Kevin Street
Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the lack of softupdates should not be a problem. So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do development alot of writes are done to /. And, if you do

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-06 11:33:51 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize a

Re: FTP daemon error messages when login

1999-10-05 Thread Mark Murray
Anyone could give me some hints about how to set up my ftp service correctly ? thanks alot, This looks like a recently introduced bogon. I'm seeing it too. Hmmm. PAM Stuff. Have you fully updated (mergemaster) your etc area? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement:

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Somers
[.] Please read more of the thread before replying, the fact of [.] Now if everyone used mailers that actually wrote correct in-reply-to lines, this might be a realistic thing to suggest ! -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Somers
In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the lack of softupdates should not be a problem. So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do development alot of writes are done to /. And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Somers
On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize a system worries me greatly. What do you mean by `destabilize'? There are bugs in softupdates

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-05 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: I have a -stable production server that keeps (solidly) blocking pretty often (I don't get over 3 days uptimes). If you need details just let me know. Just to let you know: syncing every second in a loop like this: while true do

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: The problem is that the machine is completely locked, I can't get into :the debugger with CTR-ALT-ESC; no panics so there are no coredumps :catched. Any advise ? Could you escape in the debugger when you were hit :by these bugs ? If it's completely locked up and ctl-alt-esc doesn't work

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-05 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : Excuse my intrusion, but could you be so kind to tell me whether you had :the time to build patches for these MMAP-related freezes ? If not could :you recommend me some workarounds ? : : I have a -stable production server that keeps (solidly)