A tiny Perl bug?

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen McKay
I was trying to get FreeBSD 4.2-BETA to compile under FreeBSD 3.4 when I found that the use of the new setresgid() and setresuid() system calls were causing the perl5 compile to fail. I got around this using NOPERL=yup but while investigating I noticed an apparent bug in the use of setresgid()

Re: No console on AlphaServer 2000 4/233 4.2-RC2

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
John W. De Boskey writes: Hi, Console, console, where's the console? The SRM console is using a TGA video card as the console output device. TGA is not supported by syscons. So FreeBSD is forced to use the serial console instead... You can "fix" this by using just about any $10

Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles

2000-11-22 Thread Steve Horan
Hi, Apologies upfront if anything I ask/say has already been covered, I'm somwhat limited in my resources at present. In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This makes me ask a couple of questions: 1)

Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles

2000-11-22 Thread Nate Williams
Apologies upfront if anything I ask/say has already been covered, I'm somwhat limited in my resources at present. In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This is *VERY* old information. When

Re: No console on AlphaServer 2000 4/233 4.2-RC2

2000-11-22 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:31:50AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: John W. De Boskey writes: and dmesg: (Yes, the 1st 2 lines are from dmesg, and I cannot find where they are coming from yet). Unrecognized boot flag '0'. Unrecognized boot flag ','. They're coming from the

RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The attached patch is a "proof-of-concept" on which I would like to get some comments: It bugs me big time that the output from /etc/rc and all other output to /dev/console is volatile and lost once it scrolls of your console. It particular bugs me for systems which are configured with a modem

Re: RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Ashley Penney
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:40:41PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp said: The attached patch is a "proof-of-concept" on which I would like to get some comments: I'm only a moronic user, but this would make my life easier. My machine switches into 132x43 on startup, and I always lose the output.

Re: RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Poul-Henning Kamp said: The attached patch is a "proof-of-concept" on which I would like to get some comments: It bugs me big time that the output from /etc/rc and all other output to /dev/console is volatile and lost once it scrolls of your console. SCO logs

Re: RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Nelson writes: In the last episode (Nov 22), Poul-Henning Kamp said: The attached patch is a "proof-of-concept" on which I would like to get some comments: It bugs me big time that the output from /etc/rc and all other output to /dev/console is volatile and

sound card errors in -current ?

2000-11-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
This is on a -current system when loading snd_maestro some time after boot. pcm0: ESS Technology Maestro-2E port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 pcm0: chn_init() for (play:0) failed pcm0: offset 0xfef7a000 exceeds limit. pcm0: chn_init() for (play:1) failed pcm0: offset 0xfefa9000

Re: RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:22:39 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Another particular thing I remember was that some syslog-challenged daemons whine on /dev/console long after /etc/rc has finished. They can try, but by the time they do the console has already been revoke()d, so

Re: RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Garrett Wollman write s: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:22:39 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Another particular thing I remember was that some syslog-challenged daemons whine on /dev/console long after /etc/rc has finished. They can try, but by the

Kernel panic with ipfw pipes

2000-11-22 Thread Russell Vincent
The attached kernel panic occurs when a connection is made that would pass through an ipfw pipe configured as: ipfw add 1000 pipe 1 tcp from any 119 to any out ipfw add 1001 pipe 2 tcp from any to any 119 in ipfw pipe 1 config bw 64Kbit/s ipfw pipe 2 config bw 64Kbit/s I can reproduce this at

how to mutex'ify a device driver

2000-11-22 Thread Archie Cobbs
As a relatively simple exercise in -current kernel programming, I'm planning to mutex'ify the ichsmb(4) device driver (this is a relatively simple driver that currently uses splhigh()). I'd appreciate some feedback if what I'm doing is the right thing. The plan is to give each instance of the

RE: how to mutex'ify a device driver

2000-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Nov-00 Archie Cobbs wrote: As a relatively simple exercise in -current kernel programming, I'm planning to mutex'ify the ichsmb(4) device driver (this is a relatively simple driver that currently uses splhigh()). I'd appreciate some feedback if what I'm doing is the right thing. The

rtc-2000.09.22.tgz can't load on my system

2000-11-22 Thread S.W.Liu
My system is FreeBSD 5.0(src-cur.4612) , I want to run vmware2 , so I pkg_add rtc-2000.09.22.tgz. But when My computer starting, it say can't load rtc.ko, Execute error, Why? ¡Iì¹»®Þ±éݙ¨¥¶‰šŽŠÝ¢j­çH:+ƒ­†éì¹»®Þ~·žnÇ\ººÞžØ§¶›¡Ü¨~Ø^™ë,j

Re: Kernel panic with ipfw pipes

2000-11-22 Thread Bosko Milekic
Hi, Please try this patch and report: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/ip_pipe.diff joe, it appears that this commit: Revision 1.114 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Oct 29 01:05:07 2000 UTC (3 weeks, 4 days ago) by joe Changes since 1.113: +7 -3 lines

Re: RFC: /dev/console - /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:44:12 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Garrett Wollman write They can try, but by the time they do the console has already been revoke()d, so they no longer have access to the real console. I don't know what you consider

COMPAT_SVR4 broken after uipc_syscalls commit (1.77)

2000-11-22 Thread Danny J. Zerkel
The recent renaming of getsock() to holdsock() broke COMPAT_SVR4 (and MISC_FS). I have made a quick stab at fixing it up in src/sys/compat/svr4/svr4_stream.c, but I'm a little hesitent to figure out what is going on in src/sys/miscfs/portal/portal_vfsops.c. Note: I don't actually use

RE: COMPAT_SVR4 broken after uipc_syscalls commit (1.77)

2000-11-22 Thread Danny J. Zerkel
Okay, this time I'll even include the entire patch... -- Danny J. Zerkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- svr4_stream.c.orig Thu Aug 31 18:54:05 2000 +++ svr4_stream.c Wed Nov 22 22:39:00 2000 @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ struct uio ktruio; #endif - error = getsock(p-p_fd, s, fp); +

Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles

2000-11-22 Thread Boris Popov
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nate Williams wrote: In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This is *VERY* old information. When Pentium's were introduced (755/560) series, it has no longer been a necessity.

Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Could I get some feedback on URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22755 ? It's just a one-line kernel patch with some attendant updates in the kernel and libc, but it makes dealing with broken #! scripts *much* saner, and no one has even seen fit to comment on it yet :-(.

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2000-11-22 Thread turehu
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