Re: Netscape, again

1999-02-06 Thread Chris Tubutis
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > OK, > > found another reproducable coredumper: > > whenever I click a mailto: HREF it inadvertly dumps core. Does it truly dump core, or does it merely go away? It's a known problem with Communicrasher 4.5 on UNIX platforms that trying to use any of the mail

Significant page coloring improvement

1999-02-06 Thread John S. Dyson
When reviewing the VM code regarding another issue (another significant VM contributor had found an interesting anomoly), I noticed that the coloring wasn't as complete as it should be. Attached is a patch that appears to make a reasonable improvement in performance, when using both my slightly mo

msdosfs is dead, Jim.

1999-02-06 Thread Brian Feldman
How am I supposed to find the maintainer of a certain part of the kernel, anyway? The basic problem is that msdosfs panic()s quite easily with a "zone not free" error (INVARIANTS is /ON/ in the kernel), when I attempt to do a rw mount of a FAT16. I don't know what else it affects, but it's eas

Netscape, again

1999-02-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
OK, found another reproducable coredumper: whenever I click a mailto: HREF it inadvertly dumps core. Now, am I wrong or did Netscape code their mailer in Java? (btw, Netscape 4.5 Communicator) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread John Robert LoVerso
> Well, I need to learn a little about programming first, so where do you > reccomend I begin learning? > E-Mail: William Woods > FreeBSD 4.0 -Current If you don't know about programming, then you just shouldn't be running -current. Step back to 2.2.8R and enjoy the Floppy Tape support there. J

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread William Woods
Well, I need to learn a little about programming first, so where do you reccomend I begin learning? On 07-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> So, basically I am screwed? > > Not at all - get busy on maintaining this thing and ft is all yours > again. How do you think stuff like this happens aroun

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Christopher Masto
I have an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 drive, and I had a look at the floppy tape situation a while back. The driver is.. well.. inadequate. It makes a lot of assumptions that are quite a few years incorrect. But they're probably still needed if someone has those old drives. New drives come in all sorts

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> So, basically I am screwed? Not at all - get busy on maintaining this thing and ft is all yours again. How do you think stuff like this happens around here? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Mikhail Teterin wrote... > Kenneth D. Merry once stated: > > =To format a disk, you would do something like this: > = > =camcontrol cmd -n da -u 0 -t 3600 -v -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" > > Yep, this similar to what the scsiformat(8) script was doing using > the scsi(8) command. > > IMHO, it is very bad, t

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Kenneth D. Merry once stated: =To format a disk, you would do something like this: = =camcontrol cmd -n da -u 0 -t 3600 -v -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" Yep, this similar to what the scsiformat(8) script was doing using the scsi(8) command. IMHO, it is very bad, the scsi(8) did not survive the switch to CAM

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Kenneth D. Merry wrote... > Daren R. Sefcik wrote... > > Thanks..I ended up just pulling my old Atari out of the closet and doing > > the format on it...that seemed to work and I am now up and running. I > > would still like to know how to do it under FreeBSD. > > > First off, someone (can't tell

Re: low level format--howto??

1999-02-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Daren Sefcik wrote... > > You are, probably, using a wrong device name. First, check the file > > /var/run/dmesg.boot to find out exactly how the drive was found -- > > what is the device number (da? something). > > >From dmesg.boot: > > (da0:adv0:0:1:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Daren R. Sefcik wrote... > Thanks..I ended up just pulling my old Atari out of the closet and doing > the format on it...that seemed to work and I am now up and running. I > would still like to know how to do it under FreeBSD. First off, someone (can't tell who, because the attributions were dele

3c905B stops responding during ifconfig alias

1999-02-06 Thread tcobb
This happens in -current and -stable. Machine: CPU: Pentium II (quarter-micron) (350.80-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping=2 Features=0x183fbff> real memory = 402653184 (393216K bytes) config> quit avail memory = 388808704 (379696K bytes ... xl0: <3Com 3c905B Fas

Re: msdosfs/vn trouble, doscmd "nicety", fd trouble

1999-02-06 Thread Brian Feldman
The panic() I'm getting is not what appears to be the fault of vn(4). I can vnconfig, newfs, and mount_ufs a filesystem to my heart's content, even running my nice file-system-beater-upper (TM). The problem only occurs when I try to use msdosfs, and then occurs when: I chdir into the msdosfs, t

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren R. Sefcik
Thanks..I ended up just pulling my old Atari out of the closet and doing the format on it...that seemed to work and I am now up and running. I would still like to know how to do it under FreeBSD. Daren On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > You will get more mileage by discussing this type

Silo overflow messages with 3.0 Release

1999-02-06 Thread Stephen Rose
I didn't get a response from the questions list, so let's try here. I've been getting my server ready to switch from FreeBSD 2.2.2 to 3.0 Release. Everything was going well until I tried to bring my kernel ppp link up to my isp. I get many silo overflow messages when there's any activity on the

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-06 Thread Mike Smith
> I tried to track down some of the problems doing a network snoop and noticed > something interesting: > NFSv3 seems to produce more than twice the packets during file write than > NFSv2 > Is this true. There are many more getattr() calls with NFSv3 than with NFSv2. You may mean "ACCESS", not "

Re: SKIP on 3.0 ? lkm vs kld = SOL ?

1999-02-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 5 Feb 1999 23:56:04 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: >#define quoting(Mike Tancsa) >// Are there any other options for VPN on the 3.0 branch ? SKIP wasnt/isnt >// the greatest, but I had decent luck with it on the 2.2 branch of things... > >Have you tried the ssh+ppp combo ?

Incorrect idle times

1999-02-06 Thread Patrick Hartling
I'm getting some weird/wrong idle times with newly opened windows. For example, this is from a few minutes ago: > w 3:27PM up 13 mins, 6 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.18, 0.13 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT [...] mystify p3 :0.0 3:17PM

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren Sefcik
Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Daren Sefcik once stated: > > => =Is it possible to do a low level format of a scsi disk..I do not see a > => =utility to do so. > => > => scsiformat(8) > > > > Is there ``/sbin/scsiformat''? Or may be you have to use camcontrol now? rover# camcontrol defects -f da0

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Daren Sefcik once stated: => =Is it possible to do a low level format of a scsi disk..I do not see a => =utility to do so. => => scsiformat(8) =rover >man scsiformat =No manual entry for scsiformat =rover > Khmm... My man-page is dated August 19, so it was in -current back then... I used this o

Re: low level format--howto??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren Sefcik
> You are, probably, using a wrong device name. First, check the file > /var/run/dmesg.boot to find out exactly how the drive was found -- > what is the device number (da? something). >From dmesg.boot: (da0:adv0:0:1:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:adv0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:

Re: msdosfs/vn trouble, doscmd "nicety", fd trouble

1999-02-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > When I mount a floppy image (msdos, using the vn device), I soon get: > panic: zone: entry not free When I needed to copy some stuff onto a "boot disk", this worked fine with my Feb 1 kernel. Installing Win95 on Bochs OTOH and mounting the resulting disk

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren Sefcik
> Have you tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd# count=100? > rover# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 count=100 dd: /dev/rda0: Device not configured rover# yeah.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Daren Sefcik wrote: > No..it's an HP generic and it has no BIOS... > I tried using SCSI ToolBox on my windows > machine but it just hangs. > The disk was formatted for freebsd and I used > the newfs_msdos command on it and now it > is hosed..I can't seem to get it back. > Diskl

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren Sefcik
> =Is it possible to do a low level format of a scsi disk..I do not see a > =utility to do so. > > scsiformat(8) > > -mi rover >man scsiformat No manual entry for scsiformat rover > rover >uname -a FreeBSD rover.sefcik.cc 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Sat Jan 30 09:17:12 PST 1999

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren Sefcik
No..it's an HP generic and it has no BIOS... I tried using SCSI ToolBox on my windows machine but it just hangs. The disk was formatted for freebsd and I used the newfs_msdos command on it and now it is hosed..I can't seem to get it back. Disklabel gives me a "disk not configured" error argghh..an

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Daren Sefcik once stated: =Is it possible to do a low level format of a scsi disk..I do not see a =utility to do so. scsiformat(8) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Josef Grosch
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:55:16PM -0800, Daren Sefcik wrote: > Is it possible to do a low level format > of a scsi disk..I do not see a utility > to do so. If you are using an Adaptec controller card, like a 2940, there is a low-level format in the card-bios. You can get into the card-bios utilit

Re: msdosfs/vn trouble, doscmd "nicety", fd trouble

1999-02-06 Thread Parag Patel
> Doscmd is really only useable with X, and running doscmd -bx with a local X > server generates tons of "trap 25 with interrupts disabled". I don't recall > this being the case many moons ago... Yeah, me too. I was told this is a bug in doscmd and the owner needs to fix it. I don't understand

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Jim Bloom
I used to run a 250Mb with extended length tapes (350Mb). That is still far short of the size of newer tape drives. Jim Bloom bl...@acm.org Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message , William Woods writes: > > >Yea yea, I know..but this was a gifyt for Christmass and I really dont > >have >

low level format--how??

1999-02-06 Thread Daren Sefcik
Is it possible to do a low level format of a scsi disk..I do not see a utility to do so. thanks in advance Daren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
4:1 that the ft driver will not do anything with it... In message , William Woods writes: >Hmm...it is an Iomega gig internalany ideas for me then? > >On 06-Feb-99 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message , William Woods writes: >> >>>Yea yea, I know..but this was a gifyt for Chris

msdosfs/vn trouble, doscmd "nicety", fd trouble

1999-02-06 Thread Brian Feldman
Okay, I've got three separate problems today: Doscmd is really only useable with X, and running doscmd -bx with a local X server generates tons of "trap 25 with interrupts disabled". I don't recall this being the case many moons ago... When I mount a floppy image (msdos, using the vn device), I s

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Mike Holling
> Btw, if this is a new device, it is unlikely that the ft driver will support > it anyway, I don't think it ever came above the 80Mbyte tapes... I have a 2.2.x machine with a 120M device. I believe someone on this list stated that they had it working with a 250M device as well. - Mike To Uns

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread William Woods
Hmm...it is an Iomega gig internalany ideas for me then? On 06-Feb-99 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , William Woods writes: > >>Yea yea, I know..but this was a gifyt for Christmass and I really dont >>have >>any extra $$ right nowso where is the floppy tape driver? >

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , William Woods writes: >Yea yea, I know..but this was a gifyt for Christmass and I really dont have >any extra $$ right nowso where is the floppy tape driver? Btw, if this is a new device, it is unlikely that the ft driver will support it anyway, I don't think it ever came abo

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , William Woods writes: >So, basically I am screwed? Run 2.2.8 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread William Woods
Yea yea, I know..but this was a gifyt for Christmass and I really dont have any extra $$ right nowso where is the floppy tape driver? On 06-Feb-99 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , William Woods writes: > >>I just finished looking in LINT for "ft" the floppy tape device. Now I >>rem

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread William Woods
So, basically I am screwed? On 06-Feb-99 Julian Elischer wrote: > OR, > > get teh changes needed (that were removed) from the fd driver.. > (you can find them using the CVS web-pages) > and the correct files, and get it all working again.. > > One of the problems was that there was no-one that

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
OR, get teh changes needed (that were removed) from the fd driver.. (you can find them using the CVS web-pages) and the correct files, and get it all working again.. One of the problems was that there was no-one that the intersecting set of developers who could maintain the driver, and people wh

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , William Woods writes: >I just finished looking in LINT for "ft" the floppy tape device. Now I remember >some discussion of this being removed a while ago, but I do not remember the >outcome of this. I am running a -curent system and was wondering what I sue for >a floppy tape driver.

Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread William Woods
I just finished looking in LINT for "ft" the floppy tape device. Now I remember some discussion of this being removed a while ago, but I do not remember the outcome of this. I am running a -curent system and was wondering what I sue for a floppy tape driver. -- E-Ma

Re: imgact_shell.c ENOEXEC

1999-02-06 Thread Tony Kimball
Quoth Zach Heilig on Sat, 6 February: : On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 02:28:38AM -0600, Tony Kimball wrote: : > In the file of the subject, I notice this: : : > /* : > * Don't allow a shell script to be the shell for a shell : > * script. :-) : > */ : > if (imgp->interpreted)

Re: Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt"

1999-02-06 Thread David Malone
> I've seen identical panics when using nmh's spost command to send > mail. Instant panic saying "negative ref cnt". This is using an NFS > mounted home directory (containing the draft mail to be sent). > Unfortunately, I didn't have time to investigate further, so I just > switched over to using

Re: Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt"

1999-02-06 Thread Dom Mitchell
David Malone writes: > We're getting lots of negative reference counts for 3.0-STABLE. We've been > getting them since long before Christmas. We have 3 SMP machines, all heavy > NFS clients, which are dieing about 1 per day with this panic. > > Several of these hangs have been provoked by me logg

Re: imgact_shell.c ENOEXEC

1999-02-06 Thread Zach Heilig
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 02:28:38AM -0600, Tony Kimball wrote: > In the file of the subject, I notice this: > /* >* Don't allow a shell script to be the shell for a shell >* script. :-) >*/ > if (imgp->interpreted) > return(ENOEXEC); > Why not

Re: Problem with "top" on current ?

1999-02-06 Thread Brian Feldman
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :Ahhh...not sure what you mean here... > : > :On 06-Feb-99 Brian Feldman wrote: > :> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, William Woods wrote: > :>> Floating point exception > :... > :> > :> Try "kvm_mkdb" yet? > :> > :-- >

pseudo-device gzip

1999-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
Are there any plans to make this work with ELF binaries? Kris - (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe

Re: 4.0 sysinstall - dmenu.c fails to compile

1999-02-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Already fixed, please re-cvsup. > With a recently cvsupped current, make all in /usr/src/release/sysinstall > fails: > > cc -O -pipe -Wall -I/d3p2/FreeBSD-3.0/src/release/sysinstall/../../gnu/lib/li bdialog -I/d3p2/FreeBSD-3.0/src/release/sysinstall -I/d3p2/FreeBSD-3.0/src/rele ase/sysinstall/../

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Murray
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > N wrote: > > > > On a totally unrelated note, su(1) never works if you're not in group > > wheel, Kerberos or no Kerberos, as far as I can tell. > > Standard BSD behavior. Hmm... for Kerberos, this ought to be relaxed, really. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM move

4.0 sysinstall - dmenu.c fails to compile

1999-02-06 Thread Adrian Wontroba
With a recently cvsupped current, make all in /usr/src/release/sysinstall fails: cc -O -pipe -Wall -I/d3p2/FreeBSD-3.0/src/release/sysinstall/../../gnu/lib/libdialog -I/d3p2/FreeBSD-3.0/src/release/sysinstall -I/d3p2/FreeBSD-3.0/src/release/sysinstall/../../sys -DUC_PRIVATE -DKERN_NO_SYMBOLS

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-06 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
N wrote: > > On a totally unrelated note, su(1) never works if you're not in group > wheel, Kerberos or no Kerberos, as far as I can tell. Standard BSD behavior. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) d...@newsguy.com d...@freebsd.org Well, as a computer geek, I have to beli

imgact_shell.c ENOEXEC

1999-02-06 Thread Tony Kimball
In the file of the subject, I notice this: /* * Don't allow a shell script to be the shell for a shell * script. :-) */ if (imgp->interpreted) return(ENOEXEC); Why not? I'd like to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.o