i386 tinderbox failure

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-- Rebuilding the temporary build tree -- stage 1: bootstrap tools -- stage 2: cleaning up the object tree

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread David Malone
FWIW - AIX aggrees with Solaris. Endiannes, or an SVR4 implementation difference? OS X agrees with FreeBSD i386. In fact, FreeBSD sparc64 and FreeBSD alpha are all the same too, so it seems the code isn't too sensitive to byteorder or wordsize. Bakul's comments on who agrees with BSD

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: David Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2003-02-03 ] [ Subjecte: Re: rand() is broken ] FWIW - AIX aggrees with Solaris. Endiannes, or an SVR4 implementation difference? OS X agrees with FreeBSD i386. In fact, FreeBSD sparc64 and FreeBSD alpha are all the same too, so it

L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Lucky Green
I have a dual PIII Intel L440gx+ (VA Linux) server. I am running CURRENT cvsupped a few hours ago. This motherboard provides access to the BIOS via sio1. When booting, the serial BIOS shows everything that's happening until the point of booting the kernel (where it seems to switch video modes to

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, This motherboard provides access to the BIOS via sio1. When booting, the serial BIOS shows everything that's happening until the point of booting the kernel (where it seems to switch video modes to have a bright white character set rather than the dull white/grey characters used

pam is chatty when logging in via ssh

2003-02-03 Thread David P. Reese Jr.
On current as of about four hours ago, sshd spits the following to the console after a successful login: Feb 3 01:41:29 metropolis sshd[550]: in _openpam_check_error_code(): pam_sm_setcred(): unexpected return value 24 It seems harmless, but pam doesnt sound happy. I did notice that

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 16:26:39 -0800, David Schultz wrote: The correlation is still present with your patch and NSHUFF set to 10. For instance, try seeding rand() with contiguous monotonically increasing integers, and observe the four lowest-order bits. Since you already have running

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:41 PM -0800 2003/02/02, Terry Lambert wrote: Donald Knuth seemed to like them well enough to publish the algorithm, as part of his discussion on randomness. He *didn't* publish RC4, in that same discussion. RC stands for Ron's Code. This stuff came after the work that Diffie

RE: Mylex support under 5.0-R

2003-02-03 Thread Vaidas Damosevicius
Hi, Is it just me or is the Mylex driver broken under FreeBSD 5.0-Release? I couldn't dig up anything related in archives. I'm aware of bootup issues using Mylex cards, but I already have it installed on IDE and trying to work with a drive connected to a mylex controller locks up the

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Alexander Pohoyda
FWIW - AIX aggrees with Solaris. OSF1 .. V5.1 732 alpha HP-UX . B.11.00 U 9000/800 agree with Solaris -- Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: copy extended attributes

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Doug Barton wrote: Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns? My concern is setting various mac labels to various files in /etc, and having these files keep the labels after a mergemaster. Doug On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: I'm starting to have a bad

Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Mark Murray
Andrey A. Chernov writes: If I understand correctly, this still doesn't solve the problem, because any PRNG sequence that hits the magic value will still get stuck there forever. It was true for the first patch I post which just move problem to another= place (this is commonly spreaded

LOR: if_ether.c - route.c.

2003-02-03 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Hello. We got lock order reversal here: 1st 0xc0384800 arp mutex (arp mutex) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c:151 2nd 0xc1886b7c radix node head (radix node head) @ /usr/src/sys/net/route.c:549 Simple backtrace: rtreqest1() [route.c] rtreqest() [route.c] arptfree() [if_ether.c] arptimer()

Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:55:42 +, Mark Murray wrote: How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers? I run simple test for it, it is not too short. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To

Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 14:08:41 +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:55:42 +, Mark Murray wrote: How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers? I run simple test for it, it

Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Mark Murray
Andrey A. Chernov writes: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:55:42 +, Mark Murray wrote: How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers? I run simple test for it, it is not too short. simple test? How

Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:19:17 +, Mark Murray wrote: simple test? How long did you check for? See my another message with details. random() is documented to not repeat before some number of outputs; how do you know that this fix does not significantly shorten that? random(3) is

Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 14:26:00 +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: random(3) is not affected to to its hashing nature. We talk about rand(3). to to = due to -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of

alpha tinderbox failure

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-- Rebuilding the temporary build tree -- stage 1: bootstrap tools -- stage 2: cleaning up the object tree

Final fix for correlation problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
This is final fix for 1st value correlation problem. Somebody with math statistic knowledge please run some test to be sure that NSHUFF is good enough for this simple PRNG (i.e. not 100% good, but good for average quality PRNG we have). My simple test shown that 100 is enough, but I am not

Re: Final fix for correlation problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I'm afraid I don't understand the fix... and how it seems to affect the historical behaviour of srand()/rand(). How does it address the understanding that if I use srand(28), I will get exactly the same sequence of numbers srand(28) produced yesterday, last week, last year? I have worked with

Re: Final fix for correlation problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:01:50 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Please, oh please, don't change that behavior in srand()/rand(). This subject is not discussed (again). We already discuss it long time ago and agrees that changes are allowed especially when they fix bugs. Search mailing

Re: pam is chatty when logging in via ssh

2003-02-03 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:54:45AM -0800, David P. Reese Jr. wrote: On current as of about four hours ago, sshd spits the following to the console after a successful login: Feb 3 01:41:29 metropolis sshd[550]: in _openpam_check_error_code(): pam_sm_setcred(): unexpected return value 24

Re: Final fix for correlation problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:01:50AM -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I'm afraid I don't understand the fix... and how it seems to affect the historical behaviour of srand()/rand(). How does it address the understanding that if I use srand(28), I will get exactly the same sequence of numbers

Re: pam is chatty when logging in via ssh

2003-02-03 Thread David P. Reese Jr.
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:13:03AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:54:45AM -0800, David P. Reese Jr. wrote: On current as of about four hours ago, sshd spits the following to the console after a successful login: Feb 3 01:41:29 metropolis sshd[550]: in

Re: Final fix for correlation problem (was Re: rand() is broken)

2003-02-03 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm afraid I don't understand the fix... and how it seems to affect the historical behaviour of srand()/rand(). How does it address the understanding that if I use srand(28), I will get exactly the same sequence of numbers srand(28) produced

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What is the difference between p_ucred and td_ucred?

2003-02-03 Thread Ilmar S. Habibulin
Why not to use only credits for proc and make td_ucred macro like td_proc-p_ucred? Or it has some meaning that i do not understand? Thank you for help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: What is the difference between p_ucred and td_ucred?

2003-02-03 Thread Jake Burkholder
Apparently, On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:08:41AM -0500, Ilmar S. Habibulin said words to the effect of; Why not to use only credits for proc and make td_ucred macro like td_proc-p_ucred? Or it has some meaning that i do not understand? td_ucred is a read only reference to p_ucred, so

Re: How to freeze up your FreeBSD 5.0 box.

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Watson
Jaye, Thanks for the report. Haven't seen it here, but I also don't have a configuration that looks like that one. In order to usefully debug this, we'll need some more information -- off the top of my head, it sounds a lot like a file system pseudo-deadlock of some sort. Perhaps a race to the

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guys, please realize that random() is also used in generating simulation inputs (or timing or whatever). If you go change the underlying algorithm or its parameters one can't generate the same sequence from the same seed when repeating a test. Some chip

Re: pam is chatty when logging in via ssh

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David P. Reese Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cvsuped again to get des's recent changes and built world. After a fresh install, when trying to ssh in i get: Feb 3 05:02:36 metropolis sshd[3695]: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_krb5.so found Feb 3 05:02:36 metropolis sshd[3695]: fatal:

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Don Bowman
From: Lucky Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 1) Is there a way to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from ever switching into this different video mode, thus allowing me to continue to use the built-in serial terminal? The machine is a headless server, I don't care if video works as long as I

5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread massey
First I love FreeBSD !! It Rocks! Now that I softened you busy people up. Where can I find a list of what ports 5.0 has? I am looking to setup 5.0, currently running 4.7, with Apache PHP MySQL SSH for testing and help in feed back on how it's doing or not doing. I am not a UNIX programer but I

Re: 5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:58:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I love FreeBSD !! It Rocks! Now that I softened you busy people up. Where can I find a list of what ports 5.0 has? I am looking to setup 5.0, currently running 4.7, with Apache PHP MySQL SSH for testing and help in feed

Re: copy extended attributes

2003-02-03 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns? My concern is setting various mac labels to various files in /etc, and having these files keep the labels after a mergemaster. That's reasonable mm uses

Re: copy extended attributes

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns? My concern is setting various mac labels to various files in /etc, and having these files keep the labels after a mergemaster. That's

Re: Question about devd concept

2003-02-03 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hello Warner. On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:30:30PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: Consider the following patch. Since you have custom configuration, it [changes in devd rc script require / before] That helped perfectly; my system is quite happy with this, even without the sleep patch. Thanx!

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Lucky Green wrote: I have a dual PIII Intel L440gx+ (VA Linux) server. I am running CURRENT cvsupped a few hours ago. This motherboard provides access to the BIOS via sio1. When booting, the serial BIOS shows everything that's happening until the point of booting the kernel (where it seems

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Attila Nagy wrote: I think you need to read the Serial Console section of the Handbook. You will find it here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html This is actually no longer accurate. PHK changed the defaults, and it no longer does correct

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: At 4:41 PM -0800 2003/02/02, Terry Lambert wrote: Donald Knuth seemed to like them well enough to publish the algorithm, as part of his discussion on randomness. He *didn't* publish RC4, in that same discussion. RC stands for Ron's Code. This stuff came

Re: What is the difference between p_ucred and td_ucred?

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote: Why not to use only credits for proc and make td_ucred macro like td_proc-p_ucred? Or it has some meaning that i do not understand? td_ucred is a cached copy of p_ucred. The cached copy is potentially updated on any entry to the kernel. The

Missing semicolon in generated insn-recog.c file.

2003-02-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I tried a buildworld yesterday and today, and I got: ---snip--- gcc -I/big/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/config -DHAVE_C ONFIG_H -DTARGET_NAME=\i386-undermydesk-freebsd\ -DIN_GCC -c insn-recog.c -o insn-recog.o insn-recog.c: In function `split_2': insn-recog.c:52213:

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, This is actually no longer accurate. PHK changed the defaults, and it no longer does correct autodetection from the boot loader config file. It may be my fault, but I could set up a serial console to a 5.0-RELEASE box using this page. 5.0 uses hints, I think this is the only change, I

RE: split out patch

2003-02-03 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: I'm working on backing out david's patch. Part of his megacommit was a patch that should ahve been separatly handled. I have split it out.. Can people have a look at it and see if it makes sense. http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/lock.diff

RE: Request for info from SiS chipset owners

2003-02-03 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Feb-2003 Soeren Schmidt wrote: I'm currently in the midst of an ATA chipset support mega rewrite/update, and the last item on the list is SiS support. That where _you_ come into the picture, I need a pciconf -l from your SiS based system! Just reply to this message with the

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Attila Nagy wrote: This is actually no longer accurate. PHK changed the defaults, and it no longer does correct autodetection from the boot loader config file. It may be my fault, but I could set up a serial console to a 5.0-RELEASE box using this page. 5.0 uses hints, I think this is

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Don Bowman
From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... Anyway, it was a particular problem with the SuperMicro motherboards with the AMI BIOS that's been the subject of the rest of this discussion (i.e. the ones that kick out the escape sequence at the end, for no good reason, except to screw

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Don Bowman wrote: Anyway, it was a particular problem with the SuperMicro motherboards with the AMI BIOS that's been the subject of the rest of this discussion (i.e. the ones that kick out the escape sequence at the end, for no good reason, except to screw up non-monochrome VTxxx

Re: Question about devd concept

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I ran into a similar problem, actually -- programs like dhclient rely on : being able to write to lease and pid files. It's almost as though we'd : like an additional set of events when the

i386 tinderbox failure

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-- Rebuilding the temporary build tree -- stage 1: bootstrap tools -- stage 2: cleaning up the object tree

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Lucky Green
Attila wrote: The reason that you lost the serial console after the kernel started is that you BIOS from that point is launched to the nearest galaxy's trashcan via hyperspace, I mean is not functional. You have to set up the serial console. A good answer on your average

Re: 5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread massey
Thank you for the information. Is there by chance a list of What does work? This is so I can at least move forward and get a backup before I start blowing things up... I love the mad bomber on the muppetsg M On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:58:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I love

Re: 5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:33:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the information. Is there by chance a list of What does work? This is so I can at least move forward and get a backup before I start blowing things up... I love the mad bomber on the muppetsg

Re: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Lucky Green wrote: However, the Intel L440gx+ motherboard I have (it came in a VA Linux rackmount) seems to have a separate CPU performing all kinds of monitoring tasks, watchdog, etc, so I was hoping this separate CPU was actually performing the serial console task. According to Doug's Intel

Re: LOR: if_ether.c - route.c.

2003-02-03 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:06:28PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: + We got lock order reversal here: + + 1st 0xc0384800 arp mutex (arp mutex) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c:151 + 2nd 0xc1886b7c radix node head (radix node head) @ /usr/src/sys/net/route.c:549 + + Simple backtrace: +

Re: Question about devd concept

2003-02-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Warner, I hate Mondays, especially when I am the front-line network trouble person (cleverly called Person of the Week or POW). I have not had much time, but I can confirm that pccard_ether is NOT called when the card is already inserted at boot time and IS called when the card is inserted after

Re: Question about devd concept

2003-02-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Warner, Please ignore my last message about re-building the kernel. I just actually LOOKED at the patch and I have implemented it. (Of course, no kernel rebuild.) I still don't see anything. I am both doing the requested echo and writing a log entry. Neither shows up. Since it works, I now

alpha tinderbox failure

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-- Rebuilding the temporary build tree -- stage 1: bootstrap tools -- stage 2: cleaning up the object tree

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Lucky Green wrote: However, the Intel L440gx+ motherboard I have (it came in a VA Linux rackmount) seems to have a separate CPU performing all kinds of monitoring tasks, watchdog, etc, so I was hoping this separate CPU was actually performing the serial console task. As

extended slices on 5.0-RELEASE?

2003-02-03 Thread Mike Meyer
[I asked this on -questions, and got no response, so...] Is it just me, or has disklabel lost the ability to read/write from extended slices in 5.0-RELEASE? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

make buildkernel failure

2003-02-03 Thread Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer
I've now run into this 2 times this week... doing a make buildkernel with pretty much generic (SMP turned on and IPFILTER enabled with logging and default block): /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_subr.c:557: undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_switch.o: In function `choosethread':

Re: make buildkernel failure

2003-02-03 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.02.03 18:52:09 -0600, Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer wrote: I've now run into this 2 times this week... doing a make buildkernel with pretty much generic (SMP turned on and IPFILTER enabled with logging and default block): From UPDATING : 20030125: The scheduler

Re: make buildkernel failure

2003-02-03 Thread Julian Elischer
read UPDATING and look for teh paragraph about the new scheduler options. I disagree strongly with needing an option to keep the current scheduler.. I think no option should give teh default scheduler.. after all, you need one... On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer wrote:

Re: make buildkernel failure

2003-02-03 Thread Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer
options SCHED_4BSD #4BSD scheduler It's in there. Regards, Nick H. Technical Support Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please rate my performance! http://www.supportteam.net/rate.php3 Please submit all new support requests to http://ticketmonster.hostingsupport.com/

OK, how about now? PFIL_HOOKS

2003-02-03 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
Now that 5.0 has been released, can we please make PFIL_HOOKS the default? -- Jacques A. Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: OK, how about now? PFIL_HOOKS

2003-02-03 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:37:06PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: Now that 5.0 has been released, can we please make PFIL_HOOKS the default? Oh, I should have said that I'm going to make the change in a few days if there are no objections. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LOR: if_ether.c - route.c.

2003-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Hsu
1st 0xc0384800 arp mutex (arp mutex) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c:151 2nd 0xc1886b7c radix node head (radix node head) @ /usr/src/sys/net/route.c:549 A fix was committed on Jan 28, so if you update your source, the problem will go away. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: make buildkernel failure

2003-02-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: read UPDATING and look for teh paragraph about the new scheduler options. I disagree strongly with needing an option to keep the current scheduler.. I think no option should give teh default scheduler.. after all, you need one... It's trivial to do this, I think.

minor yacc warnings

2003-02-03 Thread Chad David
We are having minor problems with a newer gcc generating warnings for yacc due to yyrcsid not being used. Does anyone object to the following patch to skeleton.c or have a better way of handling this? -Dlint causes other problems. Thanks. -- Chad David[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.FreeBSD.org

comms/birda on -current and PalmPilot sync.

2003-02-03 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hi! Does the combo in subject work for anyone? I have Win98 on this laptop, too, and it can sync. the palm over the IrDA port. However, with FreeBSD-current it does not work. Birda's irs is running as /opt/bin/irs -y /dev/ptypv -c -d /dev/ttyd1 -Y and I point coldsync to the

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 16:26:39 -0800, David Schultz wrote: The correlation is still present with your patch and NSHUFF set to 10. For instance, try seeding rand() with contiguous monotonically increasing integers, and observe the four

Re: comms/birda on -current and PalmPilot sync.

2003-02-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:28, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Anyone has a success to share? I tried both birda-1.00 from the ports and the later 1.1 -- without visible differences. Thanks! Guess I should look at upgrading the port I don't have a -current system at present, and the test machine I

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Eric Hodel
David Schultz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rather than me showing you more semi-meaningful numbers from Marsaglia's tests, why don't you look at the following sequence, which I get by taking the lowest four bits of the 201st number in the rand() sequence for seeds of (0, 1, 2, ...). f c 9 6

Re: extended slices on 5.0-RELEASE?

2003-02-03 Thread phk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: [I asked this on -questions, and got no response, so...] Is it just me, or has disklabel lost the ability to read/write from extended slices in 5.0-RELEASE? I hope not. Please send me the output of sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml in private

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Eric Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David Schultz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rather than me showing you more semi-meaningful numbers from Marsaglia's tests, why don't you look at the following sequence, which I get by taking the lowest four bits of the 201st number in the rand()

sysinstall-Configure-Fdisk

2003-02-03 Thread Andy Farkas
sysinstall's 'FDISK Partition Editor' won't let me create a second slice. After pressing 'w' it says: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4! then Disk partition write returned an error status! Freshly cvsup'd a few hours ago. # sysctl -a | grep kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT

Minor oddity with sysinstall/disklabel on -current

2003-02-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
So, I'm trying something on -current. I boot up, log into root. I have two hard disks on the system. All of my mounted partitions are on ad0, except for one partition on ad2. I 'umount' that partition. I run the Disklabel Editor via sysinstall. I delete that partition, and then re-create it as