Re: axp kernel breakage

1999-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
>cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes >-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions >-ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include >opt_global.h -mno-fp-regs -Wa,-mev56 ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c >../../n

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > :Env: > : > :Yesterday I went to a friends house for installing a box from the freebsd > :3.0-release cdrom (I have also the src and obj very current on another cd > :to do a quick make installword :-). > : > :He has : > :1 hd master (A) + 1 cdrom slave on primary ch. > :1 hd master (B) + 1 zi

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 17.49 17/02/99 -0800, you wrote: >:everything was fine after adding a boot config with 1:wd(2,a)kernel >Look at the disklabel for wd2s2. If the 'disk:' field in the label >says wd1 that may be your problem. I think is our installer that have some problems :-) Btw I'll check it, but

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Env: : :Yesterday I went to a friends house for installing a box from the freebsd :3.0-release cdrom (I have also the src and obj very current on another cd :to do a quick make installword :-). : :He has : :1 hd master (A) + 1 cdrom slave on primary ch. :1 hd master (B) + 1 zip atapi slave on sec

panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
Env: Yesterday I went to a friends house for installing a box from the freebsd 3.0-release cdrom (I have also the src and obj very current on another cd to do a quick make installword :-). He has : 1 hd master (A) + 1 cdrom slave on primary ch. 1 hd master (B) + 1 zip atapi slave on secundary ch

Re: Compaq built-in ncr & tl controllers with 4.0

1999-02-17 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Benjamin Lewis wrote: ... > We then tried to boot with the 3.1 and the 4.0 boot floppies. Neither was > able to find the SCSI controller or the ethernet device. Of course, we find > it odd that 2.2.8 found the devices ok, but newer releases do not. As far > as I can tell

Re: 4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I don't control the options used to build the distribution kernels during a 'make release'. Jordan is responsible for that. I don't have any problems building my local kernel since the only nfs options I have are: options NFS #Network Filesystem options

Re: 4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:12:59 EST, "John W. DeBoskey" wrote: > Just fyi, current as of 2pm EST. > > ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c:92: warning: `nfsrv_zapsock' declared `static' but > never defined > *** Error code 1 I get this when I set ``option NFS_NOSERVER''. If I disable the option, my kernel

4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Just fyi, current as of 2pm EST. Thanks, John cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -DVM_STACK -include opt_glob

Compaq built-in ncr & tl controllers with 4.0

1999-02-17 Thread Benjamin Lewis
Hello- I've been trying to get 3.1 or 4.0 to run on a Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 with dual PII-300s, using the built-in symbios 53c875 SCSI controller, and the built-in "ThunderLan" ethernet adapter. The machine works perfectly with 2.2.8, but we'd like to get it running 3.1 (or 4.0 if

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
Matthew Dillon wrote: > I've been using -O2 kernels for over a year. Works fine as far as I > can tell. I've had a few failures with -O2 ages ago, though I can't guess how long ages was - I definitely remember tracing one problem down to '-O' vs. '-O2', I stick to '-0' now religiously.

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Lucky you. -O2 *does* break world for many people. Eventually, it > might break your world too, and there is a great chance you'll first > spam -current before changing -O2 to -O and trying again. Or there > would, if we stopped hitting on this nail.

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:At 8:05 pm -0800 16/2/99, Mike Smith wrote: :>[...] :>No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things :>before. : :I've been using -O2 building -current for over a year with no problems. I :haven't dared try it for the kernel though... : :-- :Bob Bishop (0118) 97

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bob Bishop wrote: > > At 8:05 pm -0800 16/2/99, Mike Smith wrote: > >[...] > >No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things > >before. > > I've been using -O2 building -current for over a year with no problems. I > haven't dared try it for the kernel though... Lucky you. -

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:46:49AM -0500, tc...@staff.circle.net wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dil...@apollo.backplane.com] > > :What's the chance that our kernel adaptations for PIIs > > :is partly at fault? > > : > > :-Troy Cobb > > : C

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:19:07AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :maxusers 256 > > Try reducing maxusers to 128. Another person reported similar behavior > to me and after a bunch of work he tried going back to a basic > distribution -- and everything started working again. > T

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Bishop
At 8:05 pm -0800 16/2/99, Mike Smith wrote: >[...] >No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things >before. I've been using -O2 building -current for over a year with no problems. I haven't dared try it for the kernel though... -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 in

Re: You Got To Love the New Kind of Spam 8)

1999-02-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > > SGI is releasing GLX 8) > > > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990216/ca_silicon_2.html > > > > Have Fun, > > Amancio > > > > P.S.: If companies start dumping large packages is going to weight us down > > :( >

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread John S. Dyson
Julian Elischer said: > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow > > linux threads to run on SMP. > > I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed > for SMP where address spaces are shared

axp kernel breakage

1999-02-17 Thread Gary Palmer
cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -mno-fp-regs -Wa,-mev56 ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c ../../nfs/n

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > I usually keep -O to just '-O' - I had been upping it recently, but then it > > started breaking even some of my simple programs, so leasson learn't, it's > > staying at just '-O' from now on in... (safety first? :-) > > -O2 works fine too. -O3 does

Re: how to play with pci128 sound card

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Knight
Greetings, I also have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI128 installed, and though I followed your instructions below I am not havine what I would call promising results. At 12:21 PM 1/10/99 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >you need a -current system with the "pcm" device, then I am running 3.1-STAB

Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf

1999-02-17 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 06:15:06PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 February 1999 at 9:24:31 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> If I have a /etc/defaults/rc.conf, then my /etc/rc.conf won't be consulted. > > > > Wrong. You need to read just a bit FURTHER into that file before > > jumpi

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Gary Palmer
[ CC trimmed ] tc...@staff.circle.net wrote in message ID : > I've had it at MAXUSERS=256 on both the P5 and the P6. The P5 stays > stable, the P6 doesn't. If I reduce MAXUSERS to 128 then these > heavily loaded boxen will fall over due to out of MBUFs errors, or > so I believe. If you are runn

Re: RE: RE: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
Try reducing maxusers to 128. If you have mbuf problems, override NMBCLUSTERS ( making it 4096 or 8192 should be sufficient ). Sometimes network mbuf problems on heavily loaded machines are due to too-large default buffer sizes - if net.inet.tcp.sendspace or recvspace is greater

RE: RE: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread tcobb
> -Original Message- > From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dil...@apollo.backplane.com] > :What's the chance that our kernel adaptations for PIIs > :is partly at fault? > : > :-Troy Cobb > : Circle Net, Inc. > : http://www.circle.net > > With what config? Have you tried

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
> I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed > for SMP where address spaces are shared. > > There are details I didn't get, such as where is the per-processor > pde pointed, (i.e. where is the per processor KVM range) and is there a > single page table for each proce

Re: VM patch.. SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
> who's looked at this. Tor Egge, he has been very helpful during the development of the code. The pmap change was a result of discussions with him. > It looks to me that this is serious stuff > spliting the pmap out of the vmspace structure is a big change. > caertainly a logical move but req

Re: Kernel option NFS_NOSERVER breaks current kernel

1999-02-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:48:15 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Is anyone else using the NFS_NOSERVER option successfully? Bleh, I should have mentioned that the kernel builds fine if I remove the NFS_NOSERVER option. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubsc

Kernel option NFS_NOSERVER breaks current kernel

1999-02-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I have the following pertinent options in my kernel config: options FFS #Fast filesystem options FFS_ROOT#FFS usable as root device options MFS #Memory filesystem options NFS #Ne

Re: RE: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm seeing different responses depending on hardware. : :On regular Pentium 166 machines, I almost NEVER get :a panic. On brand-new Pentium II 350s, I get a panic :every 6-9 hours. This happens when both kernels are :configured the same for maxusers. It happens when :both machines are under the

Re: Aladdin chipset SMBus support available!

1999-02-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > : Not to stop you in your tracks, but I would really love to see > : somebody (more capable than the PAO people) work out a power > : management architecture for us before we have too many more > : hacks in this area... > > I'd have to agree that a unifie

Re: Staroffice 5.0 under 4.0-current

1999-02-17 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Go to http://lt.tar.com/ and see? transcript? of a successful installation of StarOffice 5.0. It should help you. ad...@worldbank.org wrote: > I'm running 4.0-current as of late last week, elf kernel.? Everything works > great - no problems.? I understand that the Linux kernel threads stuff is no