Heya,
I don't know if m4 should be in the build tools that are made during make
world, but it isn't. And because I had the GNU m4 installed as m4 and not
gm4 the building of the boot blocks went belly up (bootblocks crashed on
boot).
Just my $0.02
DocWilco
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In file included from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:93,
from vgaHW.c:44:
/usr/include/machine/endian.h:72: syntax error before
`__uint16_swap_unit32'
/usr/include/machine/endian.h:72: syntax error before `__x'
snip
I've not seen this reported before, nor a work around.
I don't know
/me hands Chris SARCASM and /SARCASM
DocWilco
At 13:50 24-10-2000 -0400, you wrote:
The solution is very simple. Put a statically linked Perl in /sbin,
and write the startup system in Perl. For user convenience, it should
have a Gnome interface and a PostgreSQL backend, so we should
We used to, but we were trying to remove `apm0' from GENERIC. I've fixed
to just `apm'.
Might it be a good idea to make a INSTALL kernel config and a GENERIC
config? INSTALL goes on the floppies and has just enough for all the
different sorts of installations. GENERIC has almost LINT
So, who wants to do a proof-of-concept implementation for -current
which integrates with our existing rc.conf mechanism? In order to
obey POLA, we should at least have the separate scripts switch off the
same knobs whenever possible.
It's something I'd be willing to do, I guess. I have some
Believe me, if we were to put out a serious call to kill NFS from the
installation boot images, you'd very quickly hear from all of those
people and they would be screaming. We need to exhaust all other
possibilities before we even contemplate that option.
Are there maybe other large pieces
First of all (using -current of 26 October) I was not able to attach pcm to
my Yamaha OPL-SAx soundcard in my Toshiba Tecra8000 when using snd_pcm.ko.
Using a statically compiled driver though I had no trouble whatsoever. The
module was pre-loaded at boot time.
2nd with a working pcm driver I
Does this look like english to anyone and is my mailer messed, or is this
gobbledegook to anyone not using Outlook + japanese character set?
DocWilco
At 05:12 27-10-00 +0900, you wrote:
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$BFMA3$N%a!=%k!":NiCW$7$^$9!#(B
$B;d$N%a!%k%\%C%/%9$K!"#1#0%v7n0LA0$+$i(B
This makes it difficult to configure remotely without getting locked out
of the
system.
Is there a way to cause the ipfw module to default to a different policy upon
loading?
I'm not sure about influencing modules with options in kernel config, I'll
leave that to the pro's but you could as a
At 10:07 27-10-00 -0700, you wrote:
I wonder if anyone noticed that mouse jerkiness caused by entropy
harvesting routine is here again (both in syscons and X11), although
it was expected to be solved by kthreads, at least on my poor old P133
with PS/2 mouse.
You say "here again". Was
At 18:24 30-10-00 +0100, you wrote:
Probably not related at all, but on -current I am seeing:
xe0: watchdog timeout; resetting card
It happens just once, at boot time or after I insert the PC Card (Compaq
whatever). After that, everything works ok.
This is normal. It's bringing up the card
I wonder if anyone noticed, but as of today's current NTFS driver is broken. I
can mount a volume, list files on it, but when I'm trying to read any file I
have famous "Inappropriate ioctl...". Can someone look what is wrong with it?
It's been broken for me for about a week (could have been
it is detected by the kernel and pccardd correctly as an ed0 device,
ifconfig configures it correctly, but as soon as the interface
is up, the kernel starts spewing ed0: device timeout...
This usually means IRQ stuffups.
at first i suspected cable/hardware problem, and rebooted in windows98SE
At 13:37 6-11-00 -0500, drwilco wrote:
Yes I do have PERL_THREADED=true. Or rather I did have it until a minute
ago =)
Building world kernel was succesful without PERL_THREADED. Maybe a
warning should be added to /etc/make.conf?
DocWilco
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For everybody who was having trouble with NTFS (not being able to read any
files): I have submitted a patch with send-pr:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22756
give it a spin, let me know if there are any problems with it.
DocWilco (junior kernel hacker)
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I'm seeing something similar with -current on this laptop here. Magically,
if I jiggle the mouse whilst playing an mp3, things start to skip and the
clock goes *way* off way (sometimes by a few seconds in a few seconds. :)
I've had this for a few weeks now (the skipage). It has been explained
NTFS is still broken in -CURRENT
I've submitted a patch to gnats (and posted about it):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22756
I've been running it for a while now, without problems. Can someone commit it?
DocWilco
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(Stuff about sound skippage mouse jerkiness snipped)
I'm getting this too, in fact even pcmplay (about as minimalistic as you
can get) skips a lot and often throws hwptr went backwards. Oh yeah, I'm
using an AWE64 PnP as well.
Making the sound buffer 32K instead of 4K (like a related thread
when inserting a pccard, the card is not being recognized, pccardd tends
to call it something like "Null, Null".
1) is this a CardBus card maybe?
2) What does 'pccardc dumpcis' return?
DocWilco
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I want to start building releases on a home box since it's not doing much
else when I'm at work. But I have a rather low bandwidth, so I was
wondering about the CVS checkout of /usr/src that the make release does.
With my bandwidth the source may very well be out of synch with what the
Is it also capable of shrinking filesystems? I've sometimes wanted to grow
my /var or / slice using space freed by shrinking /usr (on a default
partitioned disk). Up to now I've solved it through symlinks, but that
doesn't really deserve the beauty award. I'd imagine a lot of new users
Stripe'd file systems (or concat ones) ... what growfs allows is someone
to add an n+1 drive to their RAID/Stripe and increase the size of the
file
No, vinum can do this alone.
But you couldn't grow the _fs_ after that, so there was no use for
this vinum feature.
Okay, that is
At 22:14 14-12-00 +0100, you wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Andrea Campi wrote:
Of course I could have abandoned logo_saver, but I love the little
devil ;-)
Which devil?
Hmmm, I've never seen any devil where BSD is involved. Lots of daemons
though =)
DocWilco
Every time I make
the thing hangs up. I never had this problem b4 and I think its has
something to do with my CPU choice in my config file so here is the
million dollar question.
From when is your current -current install? (no pun intended)
I seem to recall people not being able to build
I wish to obtain number of processes forked since boot from userland.
I think dynamic sysctl is useful for dynamic context. But, here is
just static and it seems there is no advantage. Isn't it?
That sounds to me like a wholly dynamic thing. I mean the amount of forks
since boot can rise
3) Most of what FreeBSD installs is not required for day-to-day for most
users. Since many users use sysinstall to some extent as a system
managing tool, sysinstall is actually quite more oftenly used than many.
It's currently the best way to install packages IMHO. With the automatic
What are you talking about? pkg_add -r pkgname, that's all it takes.
*hides head in shame*
OK so I'm a sucker for the graphical interface =)
DocWilco
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Is anyone working on the bridge code?
I've got a couple of things I'd like to fix in it, but I wouldn't want to
be doing anything someone else already did.
My wishlist:
1) Better interaction with various drivers (like if_tap). For some reason I
need to do a wack (undocumented) sysctl to make
FYI:
Full source CVSupped on the 18th or 19th
Panic came about when I did a 'ls' in ngctl(8).
Kernel config attached, gdb of core follows below:
This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...
IdlePTD 5300224
initial pcb at 31c4e0
panicstr: from debugger
panic messages:
---
panic:
personally I use the netgraph bridging code and I think (though I'm biased)
that you should look at using htat rather than the hardwired bridging
code that it was derived from.
Now that I've read up on it I can tell you you and and Archie have every
right to be biased =)
I've had a netgraph
Since I currently have high workload, I dont have time to port it to 4.x or
5-CURRENT...
Conclusion: volunteer required for this work... and I can consult him/her.
Shouldn't be too hard. I'll gladly volunteer for this project.
Quick question for the netgraph guru's. I haven't looked
this would be a REALLY easy node to write...maybe your first?
(see how 'ng_tee' works and ng_one2many, and
write one that does something in between.
I was thinking adding an algorithm to one2many.
DocWilco
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At 09:37 25-1-01 -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote:
Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes:
But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's
left is
spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more
I'm asking if anyone is working on it. If not I'll start on it.
Do
What I want to know is can I just link tap0.upper to a new bridge hook? It
seems to me that is the case.
yes I believe so..
you can hook as many interfaces as you want to the bridge node.
(but you probably don't want to BRIDGE to your cable modem, but to ROUTE
to it )
Don't worry =)
I
There's a Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) defined by IEEE 802.1D. I'd prefer
to have that, but I don't have the 1K US$ to shell out for that.
Does BSDi have IEEE subscriptions for FreeBSD developers to use?
Please also consider implementing 802.1G, which is for bridging over PPP
(BCP I
For the last week, each kernel built with fresh source code
cannot exec sh. I've seen a lot of emails about this, but
most were about the "correct" way to rebuild a system.
Is this a problem affecting only me?
I haven't had any trouble.
How do you rebuild your system? What is the exact error
I also have a problem with my laptop that built world at the same
time. Because
of the above, I decided to restart it to put the kernel and programs in
sync to
see if that was causing the error. Murphy caught me in the act and my laptop
now hangs on boot:-( I haven't tried rebooting any of
If I copy GENERIC to DEBUG and recompile the kernel it will not
boot properly copy the file back to GENERIC and everything
seems fine?
I have searched the archives and read UPDATING, but nothing jumps
out at me.
Does anybody have any idea where I could look next?
Chad
On Sun, Jan 28,
None of this has any bearing on the problem, which was caused by a bug
in gensetdefs.pl. Please update your source tree and rebuild your
kernel.
Eek. I had the gensetdefs.pl problem too, but my machine just seemed to
lock. He says his machine does go on running.
I have been pretty tied up
I found this while experimenting with both "legacy" bridge and ng_bridge.
The bridging code doesn't check its activation everywhere so when I started
using an ng_bridge node I started getting weird errors.
Patch is rather simple, can someone submit this?
DocWilco
Date: Mon, 29 Jan
At 00:48 3-2-01 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote:
I found this while experimenting with both "legacy" bridge and ng_bridge.
The bridging code doesn't check its activation everywhere so when I started
using an ng_bridge node I started
ok I understand now...
I thought you were saying that the netgraph code was acting differently
to how I belive it should act.
Nope that was the legacy bridge.
Exactly if there's just one interface when netgraph bridging is on. Why?
Why just one interface? Now that my kernel is patched to
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