Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-29 Thread John Polstra
On 29-Nov-2003 George Hartzell wrote: > > Speaking of which, I have a "Good" (see above...) motherboard looking > for a worthy home. There's an alias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just for such offers. :-) John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-25 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > > Please also send the output of acpidump -t -d > jdp-P2.asl I booted the 5.1R live CD in an attempt to get this output. I discovered that the machine hangs the same way with 5.1R as it does with -current. (When I originally installed 5.1R, the machine had an

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 25-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > > Someone more familiar with ithread_loop should probably answer this. One > workaround might be to enable ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES on your box. I built and booted a kernel with ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES, but it still hangs at the same point in the boot. The stack trace i

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > > Trace 1: > wakeup(c2944100,0,c06a7546,140,6c) at wakeup+0x4 > AcpiOsSignalSemaphore(c2944100,1) at AcpiOsSignalSemaphore+0xa8 > AcpiUtReleaseMutex(9,30,c295e8c0,c295e760,cdb64acc) at AcpiUtReleaseMutex+0x8c > AcpiUtReleaseToCache(3,c295e760,cdb64ad8,c045ac17,c

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, John Polstra wrote: >> On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: >> > >> > Please also send the output of acpidump -t -d > jdp-P2.asl >> >> When I try to run that command, I get: >> >> acp

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes: >>I put kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" into /boot/loader.conf, but >>it didn't make any difference. Are you sure it even works from >>loader.conf? From

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > It's a long shot, but what about setting kern.timecounter.hardware to > i8254. It appears your ACPI timer is bad. The reason why I suggest this > is that it seems like interrupts are being lost. I put kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" into /boot/loader.conf, b

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > > Please also send the output of acpidump -t -d > jdp-P2.asl When I try to run that command, I get: acpidump: sysctl machdep.acpi_root does not point to RSDP The sysctl command shows that machdep.acpi_root is 0. Remember, though, in order to boot it I had t

Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > Please add debug.acpi.disable="cpu" to loader.conf or type that in at the > loader prompt. If it boots ok, we'll have to debug the acpi_cpu_startup > path. Thanks. It still hangs even with debug.acpi.disable="cpu". I have attached the verbose boot messages.

PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

2003-11-23 Thread John Polstra
I have an old dual PII/400 system that I'm trying to set up as a -current scratchbox. The motherboard is a Tyan S1836DLUAN with the Intel 440BX chipset. I upgraded the BIOS to the latest from Tyan's web site. It is supposed to support ACPI. I'm using -current from around noon Pacific time, Nove

RE: HEADSUP: netgraph constants changing

2003-11-12 Thread John Polstra
On 12-Nov-2003 Harti Brandt wrote: > > as I've written a couple of days ago I'm going to bump some constants in > the netgraph code that defined various name lengths in the next minutes. > I've not received any negative feedback and have the ok from re. If you > use netgraph make sure that the ker

Re: Text file busy

2003-09-04 Thread John Polstra
On 04-Sep-2003 John Polstra wrote: > On 04-Sep-2003 William K. Josephson wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:02:50AM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: >>> Every single 'flavor' of Unix/Unices has always had this feature. I've >> >> No, just recent ones.

Re: Text file busy

2003-09-04 Thread John Polstra
On 04-Sep-2003 William K. Josephson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:02:50AM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: >> Every single 'flavor' of Unix/Unices has always had this feature. I've > > No, just recent ones. One use to be able to page in from the wrong > binary with rather entertaining results

Re: bge & vlan stranges

2003-08-01 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> I assume you mean, that after setting if_hdrlen, > [snip] > > I think you also have to set if_data.ifi_hdrlen as I said &

Re: bge & vlan stranges

2003-08-01 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > CSR_WRITE_4(sc, BGE_RX_MTU, ifp->if_mtu + > > > >

Re: bge & vlan stranges

2003-08-01 Thread John Polstra
; > > Given that bge advertises IFCAP_VLAN_MTU?? Good guess, but the approved way of doing it is to add this code near the point where IFCAP_VLAN_MTU is set: ifp->if_data.ifi_hdrlen = sizeof(struct ether_vlan_header); See "sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c" for an example that wo

Re: TUNABLE_INT in a kernel module

2003-07-17 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17-Jul-2003 John Polstra wrote: > > Does TUNABLE_INT work in a kernel module, or do you have to use > > TUNABLE_INT_FETCH? > > It should work just fine since it uses SYSCTL()

TUNABLE_INT in a kernel module

2003-07-17 Thread John Polstra
Does TUNABLE_INT work in a kernel module, or do you have to use TUNABLE_INT_FETCH? John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: wierd dsl performance with -CURRENT

2003-07-09 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, John Polstra wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Kenneth Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Recently, for some

Re: wierd dsl performance with -CURRENT

2003-07-09 Thread John Polstra
but when I download from FreeBSD, the speed > drops. Just as an experiment, try setting "net.inet.tcp.newreno" to 0 using sysctl(8). It might help; it might not. Please let us know. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.S

Re: Corroupted CVS File (fwd)

2003-07-03 Thread John Polstra
FreeBSD-3.x, but I haven't heard of any for a long time now. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Two buttocks cannot avoid friction." -- Malawi saying __

Re: HEADS UP: libthr broken (was Re: HEADS UP: new KSE signal code)

2003-06-29 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Makonnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David's signal changes broke libthr. This is not his fault. The > original implementation of sigtimedwait was broken and jdp (John > Polstra) had worked up patches to fix it, but David beat him to

Broken make release

2003-06-17 Thread John Polstra
8000 bytes/inode, 543 left *** 8000 bytes/inode, 543 left + break + umount /mnt umount: unmount of /mnt failed: Device busy *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release. + umount /dev umount: unmount of /dev failed: Device busy + true *** Error code 1 Stop in /a/src/release. John -- John Polstr

Re: panic: spec_specstrategy(0x3c41a000 != 0xc3419db0)

2003-06-16 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes: > >With a -current kernel from yesterday's sources (June 15) I get a consistent > >panic on boot. It happens when trying to m

panic: spec_specstrategy(0x3c41a000 != 0xc3419db0)

2003-06-16 Thread John Polstra
yte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 4357MB (8925000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 555C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a John -- John Pols

Build breakage in the "en" module

2003-06-14 Thread John Polstra
With this morning's sources, my kernel build is failing in the "en" module: /a/src/sys/dev/en/midway.c: In function `en_get_vccs': /a/src/sys/dev/en/midway.c:1474: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /a/src/sys/dev/en/midway.c:1474: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /a/src/sys/dev/en/m

Re: gcc/libm floating-point bug?

2003-05-29 Thread John Polstra
Almost all of the I/O calls are included. Even fork and exec[lv]e must be callable from signal handlers. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Two buttocks cannot avoid friction." -- Malawi s

Re: -O2 breaks GCC 3.2.1-compiled code (seems OS specific)

2003-03-11 Thread John Polstra
e to releasing version 1.1, which is based on gcc-3.2.1. There's more hope for that version. But out of curiosity, what exactly happens if you try to build ezm3 with those CPUTYPE and CFLAGS settings? Do you have the error messages? I'm surprised that CPUTYPE and CFLAGS affect the e

Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree

2003-03-02 Thread John Polstra
can't do that on a void *, at least not in ANSI C. I think gcc lets you do it, but it's an extension. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Tru

Re: OpenSSL question for id_function()

2003-02-27 Thread John Polstra
riptor -- i.e., an index into a table containing the actual structures. I suspect that was the intent of the standard writers. But faking it into an __intptr_t would satisfy the text of the standard. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington U

Re: OpenSSL question for id_function()

2003-02-27 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So it looks like pthread_t must be an arithmetic type, but not the > others. Great. Thanks for checking! John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: OpenSSL question for id_function()

2003-02-27 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > FreeBSD violates POSIX in this respect. The 1003.1 standard > > (section 2.5) requires pthread_t to be an arithmetic type. > > It loo

Re: OpenSSL question for id_function()

2003-02-27 Thread John Polstra
utex_t pthread_mutexattr_t pthread_cond_t pthread_condattr_t pthread_once_t We got it right for pthread_key_t, though. :-) John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence

Re: Is scsi device wiring broken?

2003-02-15 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > see "SCSI DEVICE CONFIGURATION" in /sys/conf/NOTES, you have to use a > hints-file. Many thanks to both you and Juli. I was misled by some seriously stale information in SCSI(4). John -- John

Is scsi device wiring broken?

2003-02-15 Thread John Polstra
I can't seem to get config on a Jan. 15 -current system to accept wired down SCSI devices. I tried this: device ahc options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO device scbus0 at ahc0 device da0 at scbus0 target 0 unit 0 device da1 at scbus0 target 1 un

Re: Please don't define away DEBUGPRINTF and similar...

2003-01-29 Thread John Polstra
} It's complaining because of the empty statement (";") in the if clause, I suppose. Does it shut up if you define the macros like this in the disabled case? #define DPRINTF(x) ((void)0) #define DPRINTFN(n,x)((void)0) John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra

Re: 5.0-RELEASE failing on Thinkpad T30

2003-01-24 Thread John Polstra
/usr/share/examples/cvsup carefully and make sure you are getting all the collections you need. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubs

Re: VLAN v.s. NIC with VLAN hardware support bug.

2002-12-21 Thread John Polstra
't currently make use of that feature. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

CVSup vs. src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL: the fix

2002-12-07 Thread John Polstra
Some of you who use CVSup in checkout mode to update our source trees have reported problems with "src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL" that look like this: > Delete src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL > Cannot delete "/usr/src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL": Directory not empty This was apparently caused by a recent gcc import

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > : It's not CVSup, it's Modula-3. It thinks it knows that stdin, > : stdout,

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > : FWIW, the only OS fix that will make stock ezm3/pm3/CVSup buildable on > : -current is to

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:35:19AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > That would surprise me, but I haven't tried it myself. Inspection > > of the ezm3 bootstrap shows that it has references

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:21:53AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > It's possible that if you already have a working installation of pm3 > > or ezm3, you'll be able to build CVSup on -curr

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-07 Thread John Polstra
ezm3, you'll be able to build CVSup on -current. But if you try to build pm3 or ezm3 from scratch, you'll find that the build fails. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of bas

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-07 Thread John Polstra
bal again and arrange for: stdin == &__sF[0] stdout == &__sF[1] stderr == &__sF[2] John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa

Re: gnome on current

2002-10-29 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > I think it would work if the symbol were defined strongly in libc_r. > > I think so too. I was trying to work out why this wasn't how things we

Re: gnome on current

2002-10-29 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > When a symbol is defined in multiple libraries, the first library > > wins. That's how it has always been in Unix, for archive libraries > &g

Re: gnome on current

2002-10-29 Thread John Polstra
brary wins. That's how it has always been in Unix, for archive libraries and for shared libraries. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungp

ATTN: people who were getting CVSup crashes under -current

2002-10-09 Thread John Polstra
Folks, I am trying to understand the CVSup crashes that were reported by some -current users during the past week or two. I realize the crashes had to do with changes in the ucontext structure, but I am trying to understand why those changes mattered. My theory is that the changes would matter

Re: Reason: releng4 comp. hack, machdep.c 1.539 (was: cvsupd death(signal 6))

2002-10-03 Thread John Polstra
hey are written in Modula-3 and don't include C header files. It would require actual changes to the Modula-3 sources to deal with this. The changes to ucontext have broken the ability to run old binaries, which historically has been considered unacceptable in the

Re: Reason: releng4 comp. hack, machdep.c 1.539 (was: cvsupd death (signal 6))

2002-10-03 Thread John Polstra
> "/tmp/a/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.0/libs/libm3/src/uid/Common/Time > Stamp.m3", line 63 This particular message is usually caused by a very bogus system date setting. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "

Re: [PATCH] Broadcom BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet support

2002-09-28 Thread John Polstra
27;t supported yet, so I wrote simple patches for it. > It's working now, so far so good :) > Could you review the patches and commit them if acceptable? > # Or may I commit this with confidence? The patch looks fine to me. Please commit it. Thanks, John -- John Polstra John D.

Re: phk malloc() sometimes forget to set errno

2002-08-10 Thread John Polstra
code, like EFAULT? Not EFAULT -- it has a very specific meaning. It is for addresses which in userland would cause a SIGBUS or SIGSEGV. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intell

Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure

2002-07-25 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does tinderbox run with a nonstandard WARNS setting? I did the > > cross build with these environment settings: > > des@freef

Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure

2002-07-24 Thread John Polstra
why it didn't catch this. Does tinderbox run with a nonstandard WARNS setting? I did the cross build with these environment settings: TARGET_ARCH=alpha __MAKE_CONF=/dev/null John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA

Re: strange netstat output on Intel pro/1000 netperf testing

2002-07-03 Thread John Polstra
rface statistics are only updated once per second, and your 1-second netstat delays are in sync with the stats updates. If you do "netstat -w 2" or more, this artifact vanishes. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA &

Re: buildworld error

2002-06-26 Thread John Polstra
': > /usr/src/lib/libc/net/gethostbydns.c:392: `buflen' undeclared (first use > in this > function) It looks like that has been fixed in revison 1.36 of gethostbydns.c. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA &qu

Re: Bootstrap problems for asm

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Kabaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not an inline assembler guru, but here is the patch I think get the > job done. If I understannd things correcly, GCC accepts matching > constraints only for parameters for which registers are allowed. > > Any c

Re: rc_ng: amd invocation is still broken

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Makonnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:54:06 -0700 (PDT) > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I updated my -current system yesterday, and AMD still isn't being > > started quite ri

Re: Bootstrap problems for asm

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
FLAGS in make.conf, > make sure that -O is included in in your definition of the variable, > or you may get assembler errors compiling rtld. > > ? No, I don't mind. But I'll try to commit a fix later today, so it might be worth waiting 24 hours before changing

rc_ng: amd invocation is still broken

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
I updated my -current system yesterday, and AMD still isn't being started quite right by rc_ng. The messages at boot time say: Starting amd. Amd configuration file (/etc/amd.conf): No such file or directory Here is my rc.conf file: rc_ng="YES" hostname="blake.polstra.com"

Re: Bootstrap problems for asm

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > > > /cboss/freebsd/commit/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c: In function > > > `atomic_decr_int': > > > /cboss/freeb

Re: Bootstrap problems for asm

2002-06-24 Thread John Polstra
oblem at the moment in compiling that file without -O. Is your /etc/make.conf standard, or did you specifically ask for no optimization? John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intellige

Re: mergemaster broken?

2002-06-05 Thread John Polstra
r depends on perl and perl is not installed, it should be a fatal error which terminates mergemaster immediately. It doesn't make any sense to proceed if the merged files cannot be installed. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington

Re: SRA login failed -- bug?

2002-05-20 Thread John Polstra
en anything on this topic, so I'd like to hear if > others are experiencing this as well and if this is a security > "feature", a bug or misconfiguration. Yes, I see this sometimes too, even in -stable. I agree with your conjecture -- it acts like there's an uninitiali

Re: rtld messing up?

2002-03-20 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > All I know is this: The dynamic linker was working just fine for > > years. Then we got a new version of binutils, and lots of problems > > started happening.

Re: rtld messing up?

2002-03-18 Thread John Polstra
nker was working just fine for years. Then we got a new version of binutils, and lots of problems started happening. The dynamic linker wasn't changed -- binutils was. I have no idea what got broken, but I kind of doubt that the bug is in the dynamic linker. John -- John Pol

Re: Panics in ffs_clusteracct with todays -current

2002-02-04 Thread John Polstra
no reason why NBBY shouldn't be used in signed contexts, but making it unsigned promotes all of the other ints in containing expressions to unsigned as well (on the i386). NBBY is used in lots of code, including 3rd party applications. It has a long tradition, and now isn't the time to change

Panics in ffs_clusteracct with todays -current

2002-02-03 Thread John Polstra
The kernel from today's current (CVSupped 3 Feb 2002 around 17:40 PST) can't stay up for more than a few minutes without getting a page-not-present panic at line 1815 of ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c revision 1.86. It is in this code: /* * Find the size of the cluster going backward.

cvsup7.freebsd.org down until further notice

2002-01-15 Thread John Polstra
CVSup7.freebsd.org is having hardware problems. It will be down until further notice -- probably at least 2 weeks. For a list of mirror sites, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-MIRRORS John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: CVSup vs inttypes.h,v

2002-01-01 Thread John Polstra
ne), and I'll help you figure it out. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: KSE changes available

2001-12-31 Thread John Polstra
p4-cvs-all p4-cvs-kse p4-cvs-trustedbsd p4-cvs-trustedbsd-audit p4-cvs-trustedbsd-base p4-cvs-trustedbsd-cap p4-cvs-trustedbsd-mac John "Peter" Polstra -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle,

Re: Intel 82544GC Gigabit support?

2001-12-20 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does anyone know if this is/will be supported? I believe it is supported by the "em" driver, which has been in -current for a few weeks and was recently merged into -stable. John

Re: Anonymous FreeBSD CVS Servers

2001-12-02 Thread John Polstra
copy of /usr/src... Well, what is the error? We can't fix it if you don't give us the details. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungp

Re: cvsup-devel port build problem (pm3-base)

2001-11-21 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent John Polstra a similar patch some time ago Any news about > getting this committed John (P) ? There is already an open PR with a patch. I think Mark Murray is working on committing it.

Re: building cvsup from ports

2001-11-19 Thread John Polstra
There is already a patch in PR ports/30899. It is OK to commit it IF you can test it first on a FreeBSD 4.x system (any architecture) and also a -current Alpha system. John Mark Murray wrote: > John > > I have a patch (courtesy of Brian Somers) that fixes M3. I believe > he has submitted it to

Re: Alpha kernel breakage

2001-09-13 Thread John Polstra
have to tell the maintainer or the problem won't get fixed. Thanks, John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelli

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, you are right. cvs writes the shadow stuff in /tmp. bleah. It does honor $TMPDIR and the "-T" option, though. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because > > anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny lock files or

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
so that everybody can get read-only access. - A chroot environment would be a Real Good Idea. - And of course you have to have cvsup running from a cron job to keep the repository up to date. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra

Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
pgrading that system. I don't know when it will be back up. > I am getting "Operation timed out" errors. Are there any other cvs servers > from which I can check out the sources ? Not as far as I know. By the way, more people would read your mail if you would ty

Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-02 Thread John Polstra
ee? > > If I were to make up a patch for current removing all of them would > anybody care enough to commit it (Or care enough to not have it commited) Please don't. It would just create a bunch of new gratuitous differences against the o

Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach

2001-08-12 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:04:07PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > > > I just want to add that in the case of the Belkin OmniView, it > > should be noted that Belkin shipped a bunch of them

Re: Missing '()' in aac.c

2001-08-07 Thread John Polstra
> > Index: aac.c > === > RCS file: /usr/ncvs/src/sys/dev/aac/aac.c,v > retrieving revision 1.20 > diff -r1.20 aac.c > 1302c1302 > < "aac_sync_fib: datasize to large"); > --- > > ("aac_sync_fib: dat

Re: more on supermicro 6010H hang

2001-07-18 Thread John Polstra
the USB interrupt is enabled. Make sure that this interrupt is enabled. If it's not, I know you can get hangs at exactly the point where the "Waiting 15 seconds.." message comes out. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ncurses: 4.x -> 5.x buildworld failure + patch

2001-07-17 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Polstra wrote: > > > While upgrading an old (October 2000) -current system which did not > > have a libc.so.5 yet, I ran into this failure in src/lib/ncurses: > &g

ncurses: 4.x -> 5.x buildworld failure + patch

2001-07-16 Thread John Polstra
While upgrading an old (October 2000) -current system which did not have a libc.so.5 yet, I ran into this failure in src/lib/ncurses: cc -o make_keys -nostdinc -O -pipe -mcpu=ev56 -mcpu=ev56 -I. -I/c/src/lib/libncurses -I/c/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncur ses/ncurses -I/c/src/lib/libncurses

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what clock_t is used for (kernel version of time_t?). It was invented by the ANSI/ISO C committee to represent CPU time. Hardly anything uses it.

Re: conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-06 Thread John Polstra
't actually specify the proper CVSROOT directory. Or maybe you have a sticky tag or sticky date set on that file. You can find out with "cvs status". To clear it, use "-A" instead of "-f" in your cvs checkout command. (Why are you us

Re: Another GNU ld(1) bug

2001-07-05 Thread John Polstra
ed libraries - following trace shows > the problem (notice bogus crtn.o entry): Yep, the same bug shows up in the "uic" program which is built by the qt23 port. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: wierdness with mountd

2001-05-28 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Over the last couple of weeks, I've seen wierd statements coming out of > mountd: > > On startup: > > May 28 10:16:04 farrago mountd[216]: can't delete exports for / > > On a mount of /usr/obj: > > May 28 10:21:43 f

Re: __FreeBSD_version and -CURRENT

2001-05-21 Thread John Polstra
th 50.) > > I think so :-) We need the ability to feature test. I think so too. It makes it possible to create ports that work with between-release versions of -current. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co.

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-19 Thread John Polstra
g device when it doesn't really have one. I assume the device is unusable without its interrupt, so shouldn't it fail at probe or attach time? John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.S

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-19 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a strong suspicion that backing out "sys/pci/uhci_pci.c" > revision 1.32 will make this problem go away. I'll test that next. Yep, I reverted that file to revision 1.31 and t

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-19 Thread John Polstra
I have some more information about this now. There is a BIOS knob "USB IRQ" which can be set to Disabled or Enabled. If it is Disabled, the hangs occur as I described. If it is Enabled, everything works fine. I think it ought to boot in either case (-4.x does). I am not actually using the USB

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-19 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Polstra writes: > : When booting GENERIC, the kernel probes most (all?) of the devices and > : gets to the point where it says, "Waiting 15 seconds for

GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-17 Thread John Polstra
The GENERIC kernel in -current hangs on my ASUS P2B-S system, but my custom kernel is OK. By trial and error I determined that removing the "uhci" device from the GENERIC kernel makes it work. I don't know how long this has been broken, because I don't normally use GENERIC. I do know it was brok

Re: catching abrupt time changes

2001-05-17 Thread John Polstra
> corse change to the system clock? This may be more work than you want to do, but ... You could add a new kqueue event which is generated when the system time is stepped. Then you could do your sleeping with kevent(). John -- John Polstra

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread John Polstra
the atacontrol(8) command. > PS: It is safer a world this days? I wouldn't like to loose all files > and rest only with lost+found as on HEADS-UP of same days ago... Actually, I found that to be a very cleansing experience. ;-) John -- John Polstra

Re: OpenSSH 2.9 problems

2001-05-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Akinori MUSHA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some problems with the newly updated OpenSSH 2.9. > > 1. Sshd fails to authenticate via PAM. > > May 5 19:18:07 archon sshd[803]: fatal: PAM setcred failed[6]: Permission denied If you would just like to get it t

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