Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note in updating right now. That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their work machines for the

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mark Murray wrote: That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their work machines for the next few days until entropy is fixed. Upgrading is fine; just don't build certificates/credentials. Or use ssh Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit

Re: Vendor import of Perl 5.6

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
This indicates to me that configpm is not reading Config.pm from the obj directory, which does contain the correct value that configpm is looking for at line 433. I'm not sure what the fix is, but hopefully this'll help mark down the road. Thanks! You're building threads, right?

Re: Problems with nlist on -current?

2000-06-26 Thread Dampure, Pierre Y.
Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote: Dampure, Pierre Y. wrote: I installed 5.0-2621-CURRENT on a new system (OR840, 2x733EB, 512MB RDRAM) and had problems with top / systat / vmstat all failing after reporting problems with nlist: [...] At a guess, you don't use /boot/loader? The loader

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Mark Murray wrote: Without knowing what you typed (and where), I can't help. Well, I thought that was obvious :) Not really; folks do the darndest things. :-) Just added options RANDOMDEV as pr your instructions and made

Re: Vendor import of Perl 5.6

2000-06-26 Thread Doug Barton
Mark Murray wrote: This indicates to me that configpm is not reading Config.pm from the obj directory, which does contain the correct value that configpm is looking for at line 433. I'm not sure what the fix is, but hopefully this'll help mark down the road. Thanks! You're

/dev/random, Perl 5.6 SMP destabilisation (Was: Vendor import of Perl 5.6)

2000-06-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Doug Barton wrote: Semi-PS, I'd like to put in a vote for your /dev/random work to be completed before the SMP destabilization begins. It would be nice to have a fully-working -Current to fall back on before the axes start to fall. :) I second to this. -Maxim To Unsubscribe:

Re: Vendor import of Perl 5.6

2000-06-26 Thread Munehiro Matsuda
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:42:43 +0200 From: Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: This indicates to me that configpm is not reading Config.pm from the obj :: directory, which does contain the correct value that configpm is looking :: for at line 433. :: :: I'm not sure what the fix is, but

Call for review: pkg_which.

2000-06-26 Thread Jeremy Lea
Hi guys, This is BCC'd to ports, since it is mostly for use there... I've placed the source for a new command, pkg_which, on http://people.freebsd.org/~reg/. The idea behind this command is to get Ports/Packages to register their dependencies based on what is on the system, not what they think

Re: irunning, width in bits.

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Smith
What about shared interrupts? How are they going to be treated? With the spl leaving the arena it somehow looks feasible to run one interrupt source on two different threads if there are two pieces of hardware attached to the same interrupt line. From what I understood from dfr, when

Re: Call for review: pkg_which.

2000-06-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Jeremy Lea wrote: Hi guys, This is BCC'd to ports, since it is mostly for use there... I've placed the source for a new command, pkg_which, on http://people.freebsd.org/~reg/. The idea behind this command is to get Ports/Packages to register their dependencies based on what is on the

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I was expecting this to stay in Mark's tree until it at least tries to do everything the old driver did. Weakening system security like this for an

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:17:27PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 2) With the SMP "Destabilization" of the tree coming, I took the opportunity because a) Merging differences was going to get harder; and b) folk were already warned off the use off CURRENT for production purposes.

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 3) It is not built by default (except as a kernel module), so you either need to add the "options RANDOMDEV" like to your kernel config, or load it at boot time in /dev/loader.conf Can't things be made to autoload random.ko as

Re: Config problems

2000-06-26 Thread Peter Wemm
Chuck Robey wrote: I am getting a config error with the new gethints.pl stuff: unrecognized config token 1 This means the decoder for 'device ed0 at isa? flags 1' style lines did not like what was in one of your device lines. I have added a new line number message in the error so that it

XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Sent to -doc, for info, -current for some expert advice on the feasability of this approach with FreeBSD's migration to a kernel consisting only of aggregated devices. ] We have a problem with keeping our documentation up to date. One of the most glaring examples of this is the hardware

Re: Config problems

2000-06-26 Thread Peter Wemm
Chuck Robey wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Hey chuck, except for the SMP stuff, your config looks mostly like mine (I only have a cpu line for i686) Let me know if there's anything I can do to help though. I'm about ready to post again, so this is good timing.

Re: Extend test and expr to 64 bit integers

2000-06-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:05:14 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: 1) I choose "quad_t" for long integers. Is this a good choice ? In the kernel I'd use int64_t, but I'm not sure what is most appropriate here. I'd use the new C standard's int64_t, since you're specifically looking for 64-bit

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 11:04:10PM -0700, Kelly Yancey wrote: Can you guys post the output of: $ ipcs -bmo | awk -- '/^m/ {num++;total+=$7*$8}; END {print num,(total/4096)}' taken while you are experiencing the problem. The first number is the total number of shared memory segments

Re: building stable from current

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:12:28PM -0400, Kent Hauser wrote: For the last while (several months), whenever I try to build a RELENG_4 release from my -current box, it fails building gcc. Yes. (but it should only have been for the past 1.5 mos). There are two ways to fix it. One will be done

Re: Vendor import of Perl 5.6

2000-06-26 Thread Munehiro Matsuda
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Munehiro Matsuda) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:53:35 +0900 ::Mark, :: ::I'm not sure if this is correct, but I got through the perl build problem ::with the following patch: ::-8--8--8-- snip

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Jun Kuriyama
At 26 Jun 2000 09:33:30 GMT, nik wrote: We have a problem with keeping our documentation up to date. One of the most glaring examples of this is the hardware compatability list. We currently list hardware information in LINT, HARDWARE.TXT, the FAQ, and the Handbook. Any time this

Re: Call for review: pkg_which.

2000-06-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:57:00 MST, Jeremy Lea wrote: I've placed the source for a new command, pkg_which, on http://people.freebsd.org/~reg/. Argh, yet another pkg_* command that looks (at first glance anyway) like it should have been implemented as a feature enhancement to the existing

Re: irunning, width in bits.

2000-06-26 Thread Nick Hibma
From what I understood from dfr, when switching away from an interrupt handler it is converted into a full thread. When the second piece of hardware fires an interrupt it could then run at the same time. I thought of this almost immediately - it's a bad idea though because it makes it

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:27:39PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: So first of all, we (documentation project) should develop prototype tool to achive that conversion. And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers will

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Michael Wlliams wrote: I'm catching up on email, sorry if this was answered... are you talking OBP/Forth on Suns? Try ok sifting foo to get a list of words with foo in them (kinda like grep foo). Try ok see foo to see the details of the word (if you get forth this will help.) If

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jun Kuriyama wrote: And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers will *forget* to update that master text. :-) I'm not sure I would *forget* it, but I my indulge in "forget"ing it. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Config problems

2000-06-26 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: What does ``hint.scbus.1.bus="0"'' mean? Do I have to stick a number after the "device ahc" and "device scbus" lines (the NOTES file doesn't). Are there any other oddities I ought to know of? It works the same as the other devices: 'device

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: I don't know which applications depend on /dev/random providing entropy and which gather their own. SSH and SSL should not be used: PGP should be okay. FWIW, a quick look indicates: MIT Kerberos V gathers its own

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Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:40:44PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Jun Kuriyama wrote: And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers will *forget* to update that master text. :-) I'm not sure I would *forget*

-current snapshot 0526 sysinstall failure

2000-06-26 Thread pst
Folks, I haven't honestly debugged this one yet, so feel free to ignore me. Just a heads-up. I'm trying to install a new system using -current snapshot boot floppies. I boot the kernel, then I load the mfs root. Screen turns blue, no messages at all. (No probing for devices msg.) If I give a

Make World is hosed...

2000-06-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Who knows the cure for this ? === gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl Extracting config.h (with variable substitutions) Extracting cflags (with variable substitutions) Extracting writemain (with variable substitutions) Extracting myconfig (with variable substitutions) Perl lib version (v5.6.0) doesn't match

Re: Call for review: pkg_which.

2000-06-26 Thread Jeremy Lea
Hi, On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:30:09PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Argh, yet another pkg_* command that looks (at first glance anyway) like it should have been implemented as a feature enhancement to the existing pkg_* tools. What is it that makes this unsuitable for incorporation into the

Re: Call for review: pkg_which.

2000-06-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Yeah, I will say that pkg_info could get a lot more featureful than it is now without "exceeding its mandate." It would have been better than a profusion of tools. - Jordan On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:57:00 MST, Jeremy Lea wrote: I've placed the source for a new command, pkg_which, on

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 3) It is not built by default (except as a kernel module), so you either need to add the "options RANDOMDEV" like to your kernel config, or load it at boot time in /dev/loader.conf Can't things be made to autoload

Re: Vendor import of Perl 5.6

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
I'm not sure if this is correct, but I got through the perl build problem with the following patch: I did something that is effectively the same. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Make World is hosed...

2000-06-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Who knows the cure for this ? I do :) Rip out perl from the base system ... (ducks and runs) -Søren === gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl Extracting config.h (with variable substitutions) Extracting cflags (with variable substitutions) Extracting writemain (with

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Leif Neland
How much does this "unrandomness" matter? How often are keys generated? If only once per program, then does it really matter if the keys are generated randomly or from my mothers maiden name? Leif - Original Message - From: "Jacques A . Vidrine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Kris Kennaway"

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:40:44PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Jun Kuriyama wrote: And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers will *forget* to update that master text. :-) I'm not sure I would *forget*

Re: Config problems

2000-06-26 Thread Peter Wemm
Chuck Robey wrote: deviceda0 at scbus 0 target 0 deviceda1 at scbus 0 target 2 deviceda2 at scbus 1 target 1 devicecd0 at scbus? devicecd1 at scbus? Change 'scbus 0' to 'scbus0' and 'scbus 1' to 'scbus1' and

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-26 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:32:47PM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: SYNOPSIS device isa device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 Should this become: SYNOPSIS device isa device ata hint.ata.0.at="isa"

Re: Config problems

2000-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
duh... that was too simple... :-) = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade| | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr

Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Martin Cracauer
[CC'ed to current] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Cracauer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Murray wrote: May I have a login on your build box to have a look? It would be more useful if you could put a log of your buildworld (at least the perl-related parts) somewhere so I can look how

Re: irunning, width in bits.

2000-06-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:29:39 +0100 (BST), Nick Hibma [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I guess that the perfect solution is to be able to hardwire the PCI irqs in some way once FreeBSD is doing the PnP resource allocation. On typical non-SMP motherboards, the PCI IRQs are hard-wired on the motherboard.

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2000-06-26 Thread Layne Evans
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Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Cracauer writes: : [CC'ed to current] : : In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Cracauer wrote: : In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Murray wrote: : May I have a login on your build box to have a look? : : It would be more useful if you could put a log of your

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:09:26PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: How much does this "unrandomness" matter? That's why I said `depending on the application'. It probably doesn't matter too much for a Kerberos session key that will be used for the duration of an ftp session. It definately matters

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
Message to others for bootstrapping: Checkout perl (contrib/perl5 and gnu/usr.bin/perl) from -D 2624, build and install it manually, then update both dirs to HEAD and do a world with the new perl in place. Now you can colour me flummoxed. :-(. Have you a script(1) of that? M -- Mark

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Cracauer writes: : [CC'ed to current] : Message to others for bootstrapping: : : Checkout perl (contrib/perl5 and gnu/usr.bin/perl) from -D 2624, : build and install it manually, then update both dirs to HEAD

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Murray wrote: Message to others for bootstrapping: Checkout perl (contrib/perl5 and gnu/usr.bin/perl) from -D 2624, build and install it manually, then update both dirs to HEAD and do a world with the new perl in place. Now you can colour me

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
Since I'm now through it, I don't know the latest problem, but the last thing I saw that the old lib got used with the new perl (or the other way round) and that looks like it can be fixed with some path adjustments. The problem here is that miniperl needs to be built early enough to be in

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Mark Murray wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note in updating right now. That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
If I'm not mistaken, all open problems are like "Perl lib version (v5.6.0) doesn't match executable version (5.00503) at Config.pm line 18." Hmm... That should be easy to reproduce on your development system by just copying an old /usr/bin/perl executable to it and trying to build. What

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/

2000-06-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: If I'm not mistaken, all open problems are like "Perl lib version (v5.6.0) doesn't match executable version (5.00503) at Config.pm line 18." Hmm... That should be easy to reproduce on your development system by just copying an old /usr/bin/perl

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nik Clayton writes: : In my world, this XML file would be a replacement for many of the files : in src/sys/conf/. Or, at the very least, those files would be generated : from this XML file. As a developer, if you don't update the file the : system won't even know

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nik Clayton writes: : Another script would parse the above and generate HARDWARE.TXT. And another : could parse the above and spit out DocBook for the Handbook and FAQ. There's some problems witht his. the ed driver supports a whole raft of cards, but who can list

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl Makefile)

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: Since I'm now through it, I don't know the latest problem, but the last thing I saw that the old lib got used with the new perl (or the other way round) and that looks like it can be fixed with some path adjustments. The

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kernel breakage?

2000-06-26 Thread Kelly Yancey
On a just-supped -current I am seeing: make: don't know how to make ../../dev/nulldev/nulldev.c. Stop on kernel builds (even GENERIC). Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD

Re: kernel breakage?

2000-06-26 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Kelly Yancey wrote: On a just-supped -current I am seeing: make: don't know how to make ../../dev/nulldev/nulldev.c. Stop on kernel builds (even GENERIC). Nevermind, pilot error :( -- Kelly Yancey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Belmont, CA System Administrator,

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Another way perl build is broken

2000-06-26 Thread Leif Neland
Doing a make world, even after completely removing /usr/obj cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl; make build-tools cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl make build-tools mkdir: lib/auto: File exists *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl. *** Error code 1 Stop in

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