Re: current hangs...

2001-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: On 20-Jan-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: On 20-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mark Murray wrote: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three

VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've got a recent current (cvsuped and rebuilt yesterday) on a laptop and I can't use the vn(4) pseudo-driver : I've compiled it in the kernel and I've also tried to kldload vn.ko, but I get consistently "vn0c : device not configured" when I try to use it to mount a locally stored iso

Re: XFree86 4.0.2

2001-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:51:05AM -0600, David Syphers wrote: the binaries from a directory labeled "FreeBSD 5.x". So I tried the ports, and it built fine for a long time, and then after about 35300 lines of output to the screen, ran into make: don't know how to make

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:32:38AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: Several of us have started experiencing problems with kernels that won't boot. The symptom is hard to miss: the machine locks up at the spinner just before printing the copyright message at the beginning of the boot sequence.

Re: bin/24444: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-21 Thread Andrea Campi
the hostname, one being a syscall and the other being a sysctl. One could of course have the kernel print a message to the console about it, syslogd(8) would pick that up. Yes, I was about to propose this, but then I thought: why? If we go this way, then we should definitely also log an IP

Fixed (was Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups)

2001-01-21 Thread jasone
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:32:38AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: We don't know why this is happening, and at this point the primary suspicion is that this problem has been lurking for quite some time, and we've recently committed a combination of changes that causes the problem to exhibit itself

make buildworld failed...

2001-01-21 Thread Sergey A. Osokin
Hello! After cvsuped, i try to build world under FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 13 22:57:43 MSK 2001 === usr.bin/kdump cc -O -pipe -march=pentium -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../.. -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/u sr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/kdump.c cc -O

WITNESS may cause failed boot, patch available

2001-01-21 Thread Jason Evans
Peter Wemm noticed that WITNESS currently causes a kernel trap the alpha. The bug also exists on x86, but does not necessarily cause any problems. If you run into problems (probably during boot), there is a patch available that should fix the WITNESS problem:

Re: cc1 gets segmentation faults

2001-01-21 Thread Alex Kapranoff
Huh, I removed '-O' switch from ${CFLAGS} and managed to rebuild and reinstall gcc. This new (in fact the same) gcc now works fine both with '-O' and without it. Looks like a pilot error. Strange, anyway. Sorry to bother you all. On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:50:48PM +0300, Alex Kapranoff wrote: I

Re: sys/time.h w/ timespec stuff

2001-01-21 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Will Andrews wrote: The timespec* stuff is hidden behind the _KERNEL aura on FreeBSD, but not on OpenBSD. This is manifested in OpenBSD's make source, which uses timespec for a few things. So now, maybe someone can answer my question: why is timespec _KERNEL? The

buildworld in -current failed...

2001-01-21 Thread Sergey A. Osokin
Hello. After resup few hours ago, i try to buildworld on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 13 22:57:43 MSK 2001 gzip -cn /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/regex/re_format.7 re_format.7.gz make in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense. Abort trap - core dumped *** Error code 134 Stop in

Re: WITNESS may cause failed boot, patch available

2001-01-21 Thread Bosko Milekic
Jason Evans wrote: Peter Wemm noticed that WITNESS currently causes a kernel trap the alpha. The bug also exists on x86, but does not necessarily cause any problems. If you run into problems (probably during boot), there is a patch available that should fix the WITNESS problem:

loopback nfs hangs now propagated to -stable...

2001-01-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
The loopback nfs hangs that have been with us for a month have now propagated to -stable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

strong recommendation re: NFS

2001-01-21 Thread Matt Dillon
Guys, I've noticed that some of you have been making noises about cleaning up the NFS macros in current. I strongly recommend that you not do this, at least not unless you want to take on a man month (or two!) worth of work debugging! In fact, I would recommend that the NFS

Re: XFree86 4.0.2

2001-01-21 Thread Chris
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:51:05AM -0600, David Syphers wrote: the binaries from a directory labeled "FreeBSD 5.x". So I tried the ports, and it built fine for a long time, and then after about 35300 lines of output to the screen, ran into make: don't know how

Re: loopback nfs hangs now propagated to -stable...

2001-01-21 Thread Matt Dillon
: :The loopback nfs hangs that have been with us for a month have now propagated :to -stable. Can you break into DDB and get a 'ps' and a kernel core? There are a bunch of things it could be, including possibly my low-memory deadlock code (which concentrated more on UFS and not so

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Evans writes: : Several of us have started experiencing problems with kernels that won't : boot. The symptom is hard to miss: the machine locks up at the spinner : just before printing the copyright message at the beginning of the boot : sequence. I've seen

Re: WITNESS may cause failed boot, patch available

2001-01-21 Thread Jason Evans
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:06:15PM -0500, Bosko Milekic wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/diffs/mutex_f_3.diff This looks like a variation of Peter's mutex.diff which moves a bunch of macros to kern/kern_mutex.c from sys/mutex.h - so is it final now that we will move them

cvsup'ing repo cvs-checkout'ing sources makes cvs complain...

2001-01-21 Thread Salvo Bartolotta
/* apologies if this is not the most appropriate list; [additional] * apologies for the long post; suggestions and pointers gladly * accepted. */ Dear FreeBSD'ers, Over the past few days, I have been cvsup'ing FreeBSD's repository and cvs-checkout'ing out my -CURRENT sources; for the

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2001-Jan-21 10:15:22 +0100, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a recent current (cvsuped and rebuilt yesterday) on a laptop and I can't use the vn(4) pseudo-driver : I've compiled it in the kernel and I've also tried to kldload vn.ko, but I get consistently "vn0c : device not

Re: cvsup'ing repo cvs-checkout'ing sources makes cvs complain...

2001-01-21 Thread Szilveszter Adam
Dear Salvo, Maybe I do not know your problem exactly but I am trying to find out... I think that what you saw at first try was related to the fact that the source tree you tried to upgrade did not have CVS directories in each directory. These directories are needed for proper CVS operation. If

Re: cvsup'ing repo cvs-checkout'ing sources makes cvs complain...

2001-01-21 Thread Salvo Bartolotta
Original Message On 1/21/01, 11:28:46 PM, Szilveszter Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: cvsup'ing repo cvs-checkout'ing sources makes cvs complain...: Dear Salvo, So if you want to place a directory under CVS control, you must first rm -rf it and then check it out again.

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:05:20AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: It may have absolutely nothing to do with either of these cases, but I found out the hard way recently that booting with no device.hints in /boot will exhibit symptoms that appear identical to this. Is it possible that

lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
just tried to reboot with a latest build (from this afternoon), and upon reboot, it gives: pid 6 (sh), uid 0: exited with signal 8 when /etc/rc tries to run, and, of course, won't let me get to single user mode for same reason ... checked /usr/src/UPDATING, and nothing in there seems to apply

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:29:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:05:20AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: It may have absolutely nothing to do with either of these cases, but I found out the hard way recently that booting with no device.hints in /boot will exhibit

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Wemm
The Hermit Hacker wrote: just tried to reboot with a latest build (from this afternoon), and upon reboot, it gives: pid 6 (sh), uid 0: exited with signal 8 when /etc/rc tries to run, and, of course, won't let me get to single user mode for same reason ... checked /usr/src/UPDATING,

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: The Hermit Hacker wrote: just tried to reboot with a latest build (from this afternoon), and upon

Cannot build emulators/vmware2

2001-01-21 Thread Jun Kuriyama
After installworld'ing today, I cannot compile emulators/vmware2. Does someone see this result? - cc -O -mpentiumpro -pipe -I/tmp/work/home/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/include -I/tmp/work/home/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/common

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
thanks a lot : that was it ! Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2001-Jan-21 10:15:22 +0100, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a recent current (cvsuped and rebuilt yesterday) on a laptop and I can't use the vn(4) pseudo-driver : I've compiled it in the kernel and I've also tried to

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices Poul-Henning In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Herbelot writes: thanks a lot : that was it ! Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2001-Jan-21 10:15:22 +0100,

RE: Cannot build emulators/vmware2

2001-01-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Jan-01 Jun Kuriyama wrote: After installworld'ing today, I cannot compile emulators/vmware2. Does someone see this result? Fix it to #include sys/selinfo.h instead of sys/select.h sys/select.h was just recently gutted and/or axed (can't remember which). If selinfo doesn't work on

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Wemm
The Hermit Hacker wrote: d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) in such a way that buries the warning messages

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:49:30PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) in such a way that buries the warning messages where people dont see. config(8) is meant to be used interactively :-( Is there another target that will get a

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20010122 07:55], Peter Wemm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The Hermit Hacker wrote: d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls

Re: cvsup'ing repo cvs-checkout'ing sources makes cvs complain...

2001-01-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20010121 23:10], Salvo Bartolotta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Following Warner's directions in internat.txt, I removed the crypto-related stuff, and issued the following explicit command: One question: why? crypto is now folded into src-all -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven VIA

Re: Lots of page faults

2001-01-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20010120 08:40], Alex Kapranoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Additional symptoms include very high system CPU state percentage and a lot of page faults. A page fault is not a bad thing, it is merely an indicator from the CPU to the kernel that the page you want to refer to, the next page of

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Jan-01 Donald J . Maddox wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:49:30PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) in such a way that buries the warning messages where people dont see. config(8) is meant to be used interactively :-(

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: The Hermit Hacker wrote: d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) in

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Jan-01 John Baldwin wrote: On 22-Jan-01 Donald J . Maddox wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:49:30PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) in such a way that buries the warning messages where people dont see. config(8) is

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices If I may, two more questions : - the 4.2 man page for vn says the file must be stored locally (I have tried vn-mounting a NFS

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Herbelot writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices If I may, two more questions : Sorry, my misundertstanding, seing that

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Donald J . Maddox
Ok, fair enough. I have to confess that my usual procedure remains, as it has been for a long time, like this: 1) rm -r /usr/include; cd /usr/src; make includes This may be controversial, but it has always worked for me, and although it's not supposed to (in my understanding), the build (I

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: The Hermit Hacker wrote: d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... Argh! I wish people would stop using

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Jan-01 Donald J . Maddox wrote: Ok, fair enough. I have to confess that my usual procedure remains, as it has been for a long time, like this: 1) rm -r /usr/include; cd /usr/src; make includes I just do 'make includes' w/o the rm of /usr/include when I do this.. I normally do

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread John Hay
But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices So why not change the release process to use md instead of vn, so that we can make sure it works before vn is axed? John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Donald J . Maddox" writes: : way of doing things now. It appears that these pronouncements were : premature at best. Actually no. It isn't premature. It is the canonical way. It is how we've been telling people to build it for at least the past year or so. Some

Exit value of rtprio(1)

2001-01-21 Thread Jun Kuriyama
Manual page of rtprio(1) says it returns exit value 0 on success when PID is specified via argument. But current rtprio(1) returns 1 whether rtprio(2) is processed successfully or not. This patch seems to fix to return 0 on success as documented in manpage. Please let me know if it is

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:35:49PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: On 22-Jan-01 Donald J . Maddox wrote: 1) rm -r /usr/include; cd /usr/src; make includes I just do 'make includes' w/o the rm of /usr/include when I do this.. I used to do 'make -DCLOBBER includes' to make sure no old stuff

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Baldwin writes: : 2) It hides the output from config(8). config(8) prints out all sorts of : useful warnings when options are deprecated, etc., but buildkernel hides these : from the user. The problem is that config(8) is by design an interactive tool, : which

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Hay write s: But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices So why not change the release process to use md instead of vn, so that we can make sure it works