Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
This deals with a mmap+fork bomb that can cause the kernel to eat all of KVM in vm_map_entry structures. The default limit should be set generously enough for people using the current FreeBSD threads incarnation (and isn't an issue w/ linux threads due to rfork resulting in

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Tom Bartol
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad or look at this it

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Joao Pedras
eheh I mean dead frozen, like if I was watching at a screeshot of a X session ]:) Alfred Perlstein wrote: Do you mean dead frozen, as in needs a reboot? or frozen for a second or so? The first one I haven't seen recently, the second I have noticed. -Alfred

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joao Pedras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000216 17:50] wrote: Hello all While making -j 4 buildworld and moving a netscape window, everything frozen. Happens often if do other things while cpu and disk are very active. Happens quite often. Anyone else has noticed this ? Do you mean dead

Re: dev/umass major and minor numbers

2000-02-16 Thread Phoenix
Ok sorry for the next stupid question but does that mean I need the CAM system compiled in or not? Im just switching over to freebsd and am not very familier with all the subsystems yet. this is an otherwise non-scsi box. thanks Bob Rentschler On Feb 17, The Matrix made MAEKAWA Masahide say,

Re: gcc, eh_rtime_match

2000-02-16 Thread Ilmar S. Habibulin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Alex Zepeda wrote: Where is this undefined symbol comming from? A quick grep in konqueror/ and libkonq/ revealed nothing (assuming here that you're seeing some sort of linker error). This error comes from libkhtml. But it doesn't include such function. It is in the

Re: FTP_INTERNAL_LS

2000-02-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:24:00 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: You're 6 months late, this is already done: Hahaha! Suits me. I'm sure _someone_ will be unhappy that he can't offer an ftp service sans directory listings, but it certainly won't be me. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that for loading the kernel and drivers.

installworld problem(s)

2000-02-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
CVSup -current as of Wed Feb 16 04:11:01 CST... Figured I'd try a build/install from source before wiping it all for the latest RC: === gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc install-info --quiet --defsection="Programming development tools." --defentry="* As: (as). The GNU assembler." as.info

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
O.K. I've got a burner and boat loads of cheap media so no problem there. One question though -- Once I've modified the sources as you've outlined below, how do I make the bootable floppy image that gets written to the CDR? Since we only care about getting to the point where the loader can

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joao Pedras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000216 18:07] wrote: eheh I mean dead frozen, like if I was watching at a screeshot of a X session ]:) Alfred Perlstein wrote: Do you mean dead frozen, as in needs a reboot? or frozen for a second or so? The first one I haven't seen recently,

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration

Re: AIC card not recognised?

2000-02-16 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I get the following: pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x9004, dev=0x5078) at 8.0 irq 11 Nothing has changed in this area for some time and the id for this card is in the table of supported devices. Do you get any additional information from a boot -v? --

Re: Mounting Netware drive onto 4.0-CURRENT ...

2000-02-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 16), The Hermit Hacker said: athena# ncplogin -S admin.acadiau.ca -U marc Warning: no cfg files found. ncplogin: can't find server ADMIN.ACADIAU.CA: syserr = No route to host athena# ncplogin -A admin.acadiau.ca ncplogin: no default connection found: syserr = Bad

Question about kernel without pci device

2000-02-16 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, I have an old notebook (Toshiba 445CDX) which seems to have all its devices excluding video card and USB on the ISA bus. Here is the question: could I safely remove "device pci0" from my kernel config as long as I doesn't use USB and XFree AFAIK doesn't require any kernel support to work

Re: FTP_INTERNAL_LS

2000-02-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:04:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: What about making FTP_INTERNAL_LS the default for 4.0? I'm very much in favour of this, Agreed. Do you want to bug JKH, or should I? ;) -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.0 release candidate issues

2000-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:10:59PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: `options XSERVER' is for vt0 only. sc0 doesn't need it to run the X server. Could you add appropriate comments to this

Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000216 16:05] wrote: It is possible to fix the problem. We can add a new mmap() flag which we call MAP_GUARDED which would basically be an anonymous mmap() which implements a special case in vm_fault. This pager is designed to always

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi, On 17 Feb, Joao Pedras wrote: While making -j 4 buildworld and moving a netscape window, everything frozen. Happens often if do other things while cpu and disk are very active. Happens quite often. Anyone else has noticed this ? I had that problem three times: Once, when I tried

Re: gcc, eh_rtime_match

2000-02-16 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote: Who is porting gcc to freebsd? I have some problems with development vertion of kdes' new filemanager/browser. It can't find function eh_rtime_match, which i found in libgcc.a. What for is this function, should libgcc.a be linked with -lgcc

Re: FreeBSD-current question re: binutils

2000-02-16 Thread Takehiro Suzuki
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I pointed earlier I manually updating my cvs shapshot and packing it into binutils.tar.bz2, which obviously unpacks into work/binutils directory. Here some It seems so good.Is it in ports-current? Takehiro Suzuki [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc, eh_rtime_match

2000-02-16 Thread Ilmar S. Habibulin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: I know taht i have correct versions of freebsd, gcc and libstdc++. What version of KDE libs do you have installed? current. ;-) 2.0 from 14 or 15 of february. Hum... I'll have to pass to KDE clueful people on this point. It would be nice to found

Re: FTP_INTERNAL_LS

2000-02-16 Thread Peter Wemm
"David O'Brien" wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:04:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: What about making FTP_INTERNAL_LS the default for 4.0? I'm very much in favour of this, Agreed. Do you want to bug JKH, or should I? ;) You're 6 months late, this is already done: revision 1.26

RE: Problems with Recent PPP Changes

2000-02-16 Thread Joe Jacobson
Ran into this quoting change problem too. It affects authname, authkey, and phone strings as well. Phone numbers with '*' sequences failed for me, as well my authname and authkey settings (which contained non-alphanumerics). Encasing these strings in "" worked for me. Since your ISP is

Re: Mounting Netware drive onto 4.0-CURRENT ...

2000-02-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Okay, now I'm getting somewhere, but where I don't know :( set the ifconfig, run IPXrouted, and netstat -nr tells me a bunch of stuff about IPX ... great, that appeasr to be up, but I get errors with ncplogin, so obviously I'm missing something (and wihtout the search of archives, this is the

sysinstall of 20000214 snap hangs

2000-02-16 Thread Jim Shankland
I just tried installing the 2/14 4.0 snap onto a Cyrix MediaGX-based box, and the sysinstall hung at the "probing devices" phase. Because the 3.4 sysinstall works just fine on this box, and because the last thing I see on the debug screen (ttyv1) is DEBUG: Found a disk device named ad0

Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ramrd0 bs=1k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.000446

Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Jason Evans
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:18:13PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: This deals with a mmap+fork bomb that can cause the kernel to eat all of KVM in vm_map_entry structures. The default limit should be set generously enough for people using the current FreeBSD threads incarnation

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Tom Bartol
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that for loading the kernel

Re: 4.0 release candidate issues

2000-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:10:59PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: `options XSERVER' is for vt0 only. sc0 doesn't need it to run the X server. Could you add appropriate comments to this effect in GENERIC and LINT? I have always been confused

Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Jason Evans
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:13:39PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:18:13PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: This deals with a mmap+fork bomb that can cause the kernel to eat all of KVM in vm_map_entry structures. The default limit should be set generously

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Gerald Abshez
Mike Smith wrote: The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad or look at this it would be easy to fix. How would I

Re: Mounting Netware drive onto 4.0-CURRENT ...

2000-02-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 16), The Hermit Hacker said: athena# ncplogin -S admin.acadiau.ca -U marc Warning: no cfg files found. ncplogin: can't find server ADMIN.ACADIAU.CA: syserr = No route to host athena# ncplogin -A admin.acadiau.ca ncplogin:

Re: Problems with Recent PPP Changes

2000-02-16 Thread Thomas Dean
A very careful reading of the man page shows: Note that two parsers will examine these escape sequences, so in order to have the `chat parser' see the escape character, it is necessary to escape it from the `command parser'. This means that in practice you should use two escapes, for

Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
: This deals with a mmap+fork bomb that can cause the kernel to : eat all of KVM in vm_map_entry structures. The default limit : should be set generously enough for people using the current : FreeBSD threads incarnation (and isn't an issue w/ linux : threads due to

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad or look at this it would be easy to fix. I'd like to help look

Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Jason Evans
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: Is anyone interested in me doing this for the 4.0 release? It would help both our current threads model and the linux threads model a lot. I can do it in a day and it should be trivial to test, the modifications

dev/umass major and minor numbers

2000-02-16 Thread Phoenix
The current MAKEDEV script seems to be lacking the umass device. I have searched all the docs that I know of and have been unable to find a listing of the major and minor number assaignments, could someone please point me in the right direction ? Bob Rentschler To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that for loading the kernel and

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration formats; you'll probably need to re-initialise the array

freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Joao Pedras
Hello all While making -j 4 buildworld and moving a netscape window, everything frozen. Happens often if do other things while cpu and disk are very active. Happens quite often. Anyone else has noticed this ? Joao ^\ /^

Re: sysinstall of 20000214 snap hangs

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
I just tried installing the 2/14 4.0 snap onto a Cyrix MediaGX-based box, and the sysinstall hung at the "probing devices" phase. Because the 3.4 sysinstall works just fine on this box, and because the last thing I see on the debug screen (ttyv1) is DEBUG: Found a disk device named

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration

Re: Very slow disk transfers (was: freezing)

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000216 19:14] wrote: On Wednesday, 16 February 2000 at 17:52:42 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Joao Pedras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000216 17:50] wrote: Hello all While making -j 4 buildworld and moving a netscape window, everything frozen. Happens often if

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:04 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 16+0 records in 16+0 records out 8192 bytes transferred in 0.006427 secs (1274613 bytes/sec) newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto newmail# disklabel -e amrd0 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO:

Re: Mounting Netware drive onto 4.0-CURRENT ...

2000-02-16 Thread Boris Popov
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Okay, now I'm getting somewhere, but where I don't know :( set the ifconfig, run IPXrouted, and netstat -nr tells me a bunch of stuff about IPX ... great, that appeasr to be up, but I get errors with ncplogin, so obviously I'm missing something

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread David E. Cross
Mine is on 0x8b. Following some sugestions I hacked my boot/loader to look specifically at 0x8b it didn't work. I even went so far as to force 0x8b even though the autodetect did not work... it still didn't work. I then looked at the 1st stage boot loader as that *was* able to load

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Joao Pedras wrote: eheh I mean dead frozen, like if I was watching at a screeshot of a X session ]:) I used to get this on a game, which was trying somehow to load a font that wasn't correct. I found it wasn't really frozen, though, because you *could* telnet in (very

Re: dev/umass major and minor numbers

2000-02-16 Thread MAEKAWA Masahide
Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current MAKEDEV script seems to be lacking the umass device. I have searched all the docs that I know of and have been unable to find a listing of the major and minor number assaignments, could someone please point me in the right direction ? Not necessary.

MAP_GUARDED patch (Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added)

2000-02-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : Is anyone interested in me doing this for the 4.0 release? It would : help both our current threads model and the linux threads model a lot. : I can do it in a day and it should be trivial to test, the modifications :

4.0 hangs (fwd)

2000-02-16 Thread Andrew Maltsev
Hi, guys! Any comments? I had to downgrade back to 3.4 yesterday.. which works absolutely without problems. If you're going to say ``it's hardware problem'' -- this was my first thought too. I tried to change memory and it did not help. Ideas? Yours, Andrew. - Forwarded message (env-from

Re: MAP_GUARDED patch (Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added)

2000-02-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I believe that I can fix the downward-trending optimization problem :but it's more work then I have time for right now. Please check out :the patch and tell me what you think. I take it back. It turns out that fixing the downward-trending h optimization is trivial. Well,