try to build xfree under current siginfo_t

1999-10-06 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
as i accidentally deleted my libc.so.3 i thought it would be a good time to rebuild xfree, but i came in a preprocessor hell due to siginfo_t _POSIX_SOURCE or not ... definition at the stage of building makedepend. In file included from main.c:41: /usr/include/signal.h:72: warning: `union

Re: try to build xfree under current siginfo_t

1999-10-06 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: as i accidentally deleted my libc.so.3 i thought it would be a good time to rebuild xfree, but i came in a preprocessor hell due to siginfo_t _POSIX_SOURCE or not ... definition at the stage of building makedepend. In file included from main.c:41:

Re: Recent kernel hangs during boot with pnp sio.

1999-10-06 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Kevin Day wrote: Afaik all 3C509B's are PnP. At least here in the UK there is not shortage of those cards. If I can get a difinitive statement to this effect then I'll grab a 3c509B. There was some question as to them actually being PnP though. Yes, the

Still ATA problems

1999-10-06 Thread Erik H. Bakke
I am still having problems with the ATA driver. I am seeing the same error messages as has been reported on the lists during the last few weeks, both on i386 and alpha platforms. On the i386, the problem is just an irritating itch, but it seems to be far more serious on the alpha, where the

Re: Still ATA problems

1999-10-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Erik H. Bakke wrote: I am still having problems with the ATA driver. I am seeing the same error messages as has been reported on the lists during the last few weeks, both on i386 and alpha platforms. On the i386, the problem is just an irritating itch, but it seems to be far more

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:22:47 +0200, Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something here, but isn't having /tmp on the root filesystem just inviting a denial-of-service attack on yourself? Only if you let random lusers log in to your machine.

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Nate Williams: So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do development alot of writes are done to /. Of course /tmp should NOT be on /. Either in its separate FS or on another partition through a symlink. / should be as small and as write-free as

Re: New CVSup mirror sites

1999-10-06 Thread Roelof Osinga
John Polstra wrote: ... One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow less up-to-date than or not as good as cvsup(N).FreeBSD.org. That's not the case at all -- the numbers mean nothing. For example, all 7 of the US mirror sites get their updates hourly from the same

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Kevin Day
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:57:23PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Peter Jeremy remarked I guess we disagree on this. My feeling is that write activity on root should be minimised to minimise the risk that root will be inconsistent following a crash. Indeed. Thus:

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:18:15PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Kevin Day remarked /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100) My understanding was that that was just a indication of writes that were able to be done asynchronously without any risk, so they

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Indeed. :Thus: :/dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100) : ^^^ : :Though I'm still waiting for an explanation of WHY exactly I have async :writes on a sync partition. Nobody yet has said anything but 'that's :interesting...'. A

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-06 16:14:19 +1000, Brian Somers 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

ahc panics and (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25.

1999-10-06 Thread Bernd Walter
I'm getting this with a recent current (6. october): (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25. (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 0. NumSGs = 1. (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25. (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): Have seen

Re: make install trick

1999-10-06 Thread Bruce Evans
/dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 32 async 15100) ^^^ Though I'm still waiting for an explanation of WHY exactly I have async writes on a sync partition. Nobody yet has said anything but 'that's interesting...'. A direction to look would

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:mount(8): : syncAll I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. : :On the gripping hand, you can say, 'this is an ATIME update, there's no :way its presence or lack thereof can do anything bad to the filesystem, :so let it be async since it takes extra work to make it

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-07 09:15:42 +1000, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Is this good, bad, ugly, or just inconsistent? On the one hand, you can argue that 'sync should be sync should be sync, I don't bloody care, just don't do anything async at all', since that's what it's supposed to do: mount(8): sync

modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... crashes... so, I figure that I somehow

RE: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module? Well its a kld.. You don't have to

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 October 1999 at 3:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Yes, it's funny how the Linuxers rave about loadable modules. It's a good idea, but I don't see anything

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Mark Murray
Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Procfs works just fine: [groovy] /usr/src.With_secure_NFS # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc010 1a10cc kernel.debug 21 0xc09c1000 3000

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07-Oct-99 Greg Lehey wrote: Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Well I would assume (aha) that when mount cannot find procfs in the list of FS's the kernel knows about it would try and load it

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

1999-10-06 Thread Adrian Penisoara
hi again, On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : 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 ?