Re: Linux mode is not enabled help

2002-12-01 Thread Terry Lambert
suken woo wrote: after cvsup'd recent,the Linux emulator was disabled.rebuild it , get the same error: Linux mode is not enabled. Loading linux kernel module now... kldload: can't load linux: No such file or directory This is common in -current. You either have to give an absolute path to

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-12-01 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... Partition ID changes ... ] Nate Lawson wrote: But as I said, this is rather marginal and I really don't feel it should go in unless this xor-0x10 convention is more widespread. partition magic does this too. isn't the correct failure mode just to print the part. id in hex instead

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-12-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: My own opinion is that if I have explicitly hid a partition, then freebsd should ignore it. There are times that I do this specifically so *freebsd* will ignore it, and I don't want freebsd trying to second-guess what I meant. Exactly. If you wanted the dratted

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Craig Reyenga wrote: It worked fine in 4.7 and all previous versions, just DP2 dunno about DP1. Well, you will have to back up to a version of the source code before DP2 that didn't have the problem, perform a binary search to find the exact delta that caused the problem, and examine the code

Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Kirk McKusick wrote: Ah No wonder, I tried editing the /sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile to enable UFS2 bootblock but then disklabel complained that boot2 was too big. I will have to revert to UFS1 Thanks Manfred You have hit upon the exact

Re: Problem with ntpdate

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-11-28 17:00, Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found out that ntpdate just doesn't seem to be working at all during boot. Ntpd dies because of the time differential (windows changes the time two hours because of the

Re: Are SysV semaphores thread-safe on CURRENT?

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Brian Smith wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:05:34 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Use mmap of a backing-store file, and then use file locking to do record locking in the shared memory segment. Ok, I did this, and it actually works considerably better than the SysV shared memory. However flock

Re: Are SysV semaphores thread-safe on CURRENT?

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Daniel Eischen wrote: No, libc_r doesn't properly handle flock. Usually, all syscalls that take file descriptors as arguments honor the non-blocking mode of the file if set. I guess flock(2) doesn't and has its own option to the operation argument (LOCK_NB). I hacked libc_r to

Re: system locks with vnode backed md(4)

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Michal Mertl wrote: I'm now unable to make it dead-lock again. Yet it happened quite easily. I had more md backing files in the same directory at the beginning (to test Terry's suspicion mentioned in thread 'jail' on hackers@). After the first lock-up I tried 'while(1);tar xzf ports.tgz; rm

Re: system locks with vnode backed md(4)

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Michal Mertl wrote: I'm now unable to make it dead-lock again. Yet it happened quite easily. I had more md backing files in the same directory at the beginning (to test Terry's suspicion mentioned in thread 'jail' on hackers@). I've noticed that

Re: C++ Issue On -CURRENT

2002-11-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote: does the problem still occur if you add in 'using namespace std'? Thanks. That also fixed it. Yeah. Just remember that the standard namespace isn't. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-11-29 Thread Terry Lambert
Bruce Evans wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Riccardo Torrini write As far as I know it use an EXOR 0x10 to hide/unhide but fdisk doesn't recognize 0x0B/0x0C fat32 when hidden (0x1B/0x1C) But as I said, this is rather marginal and I

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: Where does the passed in thread come from? Your changes to make certain functions which are exported interfaces take a thread * instead of a proc * argument. Generally don't use a thread pointer other than yourself unless you have a lock on the proc structure, or the

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Terry Lambert wrote: The main problem here is that lockmgr() is being called to lock things that technically don't need to be locked, at all, really, to insure that operations are not attempted concurrently. It's not really necessary: the server will refuse additional requests

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Paul A. Scott wrote: I do the following: cvs co src/contrib cvs checkout: in directory src/contrib/cvs: cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write CVS/Template file: No such file or directory cvs co stops on the

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: What I (as a 3rd party driver author working in a GNUish autoconf/gnumake environment) do is to require a user building from source to specify the location of a configured kernel tree where make depend has been run (defaulting to GENERIC). I then pickup the various

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Terry Lambert writes: Andrew Gallatin wrote: What I (as a 3rd party driver author working in a GNUish This is how I do it. ... How is one supposed to build a 3rd party module these days? How are you supposed to do it? One is not. The vendor supplies

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: If you're a vendor of a device which inserts MAC mtags and needs options MAC, you put this code in your driver: if (mbstat.m_mhlen != MHLEN) { printf(Please rebuild your kernel with 'options MAC'\n); goto atach_failed_no_mac; } I've already got code like

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: I know we're in a code freeze right now, but would anyone have a problem with this patch once the freeze is up? This brings us closer to allowing samba to automatically joining machines to the domain. This change permits '$' in the account name, group name, and

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name? Samba needs a user account for the domain machine account the machine account always ends

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: If it's allowed, it whould probably only be allowed in the user name (i.e. the patch is wrong; it should probably add another parameter to the allowable values of 'int gecos', and change it to 'int checktype' or similar). I don't have a problem with this, but

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: the machine account always ends with a $ So it would only have to be for the account name I think I'd prefer a somewhat more involved change, one which allowed $ only for account-name, and only as the last character. That seems like a good idea to me. But then,

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Oops. Better patch attached (damn Makefile dependencies are broken unless you manually build them via make depend). -- Terry Index: pw.h === RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw.h,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -c -r1.13 pw.h *** pw.h

Re: bonobo-activation core dump help

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
suken woo wrote: hi, all: setting the env with zh_CN.EUC ,and run X but got the following errors. pid 495 (bonobo-activation-s), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Compile the bonobo-activation-s binary with debugging symbols, so that you can debugthe core file and see where it's

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Juli Mallett wrote: The '$' is a pain. None of the examples in the original post would have worked, because the '$' was not '\$', and the shell would have blown chunks over the variable expansion. Your foundation is flawed, we allow $ in passwd just fine, and the only problem here is

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-11-27 12:55, Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this open up a security hole for a nomal user account being used to compromise the domain system security? Probably 'yes'. I haven't tried this, but I guess one could name his machine Administrator

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Wouldn't pw still have to be updated. I haven't looked at adduser but I David thought it was a wrapper for pw? No. My /usr/sbin/adduser, updated on Nov/23/2002 21:58 JST, does not call pw command. It adds

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Paul A. Scott wrote: setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs login cvs co src/contrib When it gets to directory src/contrib/cvs, I get: cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write CVS/Template file: No

Re: ACPI problem with laptop?

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
John Angelmo wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: Is this a Dell Lattitude? They are known to have heat problems. There's also the possibility that the CPU is a desktop CPU in the laptop; people aren't supposed to do that, either, but it can crank up the heat. No it's a Evo N114

Re: ACPI problem with laptop?

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Terry Lambert wrote: Have you applied the most recent ACPI patches, and turned on debugging output (at least hw.acpi.verbose=1) to see if it fixes the problem (and if it doesn't, at least report what's going on)? It looks like the author of the ACPI code has already replied to your post

[PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug 5.0 problems

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Nate Lawson wrote: It's not so much that I volunteered as I said that I'd help with thread/proc issues.. The trouble was that there are places where it used a proc in the old code, but in some cases it needs to be a proc, and in other cases it now needs to be a thread. But all they

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug 5.0 problems

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Terry Lambert wrote: I'll take a whack at it and send it out by tomorrow, working or not. Don't bother. 8-). The attached patch makes it compile, and takes a shot at doing the right thing. Just a followup... select definitely won't work (IMO), but needs someone who is threads-savvy

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
First of all, the patch was just to get to the point of compilability, which other prople said they would take it from there. I don't have a NetWare server to test against in my apartment. I'd be just as happy to _let_ the other people who wanted to take it from there do do, now that I made it

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Terry Lambert wrote: Did you want me to update the patch to use your FIRST_THREAD_IN_PROC macro and resend it? OK; here it is, whether you wanted it or not. -- Terry smbfs_thr.diff.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0problems

2002-11-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: The answer is that the code doesn't care what thread; it would prefer to not have to think in terms of threads at all, but if you want to force it to, then it's going to think in terms of blocking contexts for the benefit of FreeBSD code it calls, and nothing else.

Re: ACPI and apm_saver?

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: On 22-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: Someone needs to write an acpi_saver.ko. No, they need to write a dpms_saver.ko instead. :) acpi doesn't really have the same functionality as far as screen blanking IIRC. You're right. Is it just me, or is there a lot of month old

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:24:46AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: I thought, this might be due to the priority of the background fsck and have once left it alone for several hours -- with no effect. The usual fsck takes a few minutes. We really need to disable

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Mikhail Teterin wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 12:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: = On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:24:46AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: = = I thought, this might be due to the priority of the background = fsck and have once left it alone for several hours -- with no = effect.

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Bosko Milekic wrote: This is not entirely true. You can allocate an mbuf chain without holding Giant if the caches are well populated - and they should be in the common/general case. You can in fact modify the allocator to just not do a kmem_malloc() if called with M_DONTWAIT, but I

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Bosko Milekic wrote: [ ... packet size distribution ... ] I am equally curious about this. One of the design assumptions for mbufs and clusters, according to McKusick et al. (and I believe another text which currently escapes me) is that packets are typically either very small or

Re: I'm impressed, but ...

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Philip Paeps wrote: On 2002-11-25 14:41:22 (-0500), Hiten Pandya wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:49:34AM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote: | unknown: PNP0401 can't assign resources (port) | unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) Can you try changing the hardware tunable,

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Bosko Milekic wrote: [ ... memory allocator ... ] FWIW: The Sequent Dynix allocator paper has been converted, and is now available online: Experience With an Efficient Parallel Kernel Memory Allocator Paul E. McKenney, Jack Slingwine, Phil Krueger Sequent Computer

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:02:14PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: I don't think this is really possible. Yeah :( If you made system dumps mandatory (or marked swap with a non-dump header in case of panic), this still would not handle the silent reboot, double panic

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: At 2:02 PM -0800 2002/11/25, Terry Lambert wrote: If you made system dumps mandatory (or marked swap with a non-dump header in case of panic), this still would not handle the silent reboot, double panic, or single panic with disk I/O trashed cases. 8

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Marcin Dalecki wrote: I don't think this is really possible. I went looking for a generic application use CMOS are for this sort of thing a while back, and I was unable to find one. Well you should please take a look at the fast boot option of moderately modern BIOS-es. Somthing along

Re: I'm impressed, but ...

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Philip Paeps wrote: The maildirs issue, I won't comment on, at this time. I hope I can provide enough information for someone to solve it though :-) It would be nice to be able to read my mail 'reliably' :-) The problem is not the amount, but the type of information. You need to

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: Is there documentation available for this anywhere? The BIOS vendor documentation, not the Linux source code. http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/specs/simp_bios.asp http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/specs/simp_boot.asp is the best I could find; you'll

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-11-24 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... Objective C ... ] Chad David wrote: And I thought this thread was dead :). It just showed up in the inbox last night; it must have been stuck in your mail server. Sorry about that. I don't really feel a need to convince. If people are too busy (or just do not care) to maintain ObjC

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Scott Sipe wrote: I didn't make a backup copy (or mark down the errors) of the bad file or try rebooting which in retrospect would have been a good idea..sorry--I just fixed the file and saved it so I could compile some ports--and that worked. Just FWIW: if it was a transfer error, a backup

Re: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi'

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Bruce Evans wrote: The existence of SYSINIT is a bug, but shouldn't the order of SYSINITs be such that they are run before MOD_LOAD events? SYSINITs have no way to communicate failure, so they are especially broken when they are used to allocate resources. Users of the resources have no

Re: Autodefaults in disklabel on 5.0dp2 install

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: This is something I noticed while installing 5.0-dp2. I'm not sure how much we'd want to change it. I'm installing dp2 on a 4-gig disk. I want to split that in two, with dos for the first 2 gig and freebsd in the last 2 gig. When I got to the disklabel step, I

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: You got me wrong. I'm user and do not know and don't want to know about any CPU architecture and bugs. But I've got problems and simply trying to provide any data possible to gather by myself. Either CPU hardware or software bug, fine. You're claiming to know the bug and

Re: Autodefaults in disklabel on 5.0dp2 install

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: Hmm. I hadn't really thought much about the specifics of what is needed. I was just wondering if we might want to think about the auto size algorithm a bit more. The value, by default is 2 * `sysctl hw.physmem`. This is kind of ugly, because it doesn't include the

Re: fsck's, current vs earlier releases

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: I have 4.6.2-release, 4.7-release, and 5.0-dp2-release on a single PC. After some bouncing between versions, and an occasional 'disklabel' command, I seem to have the partitions for 4.6.2 in an odd state. Both 4.7 and 5.0-dp2 have no problem mounting them, but if I try

Re: ACPI problem

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Ertan Kucukoglu wrote: I want to use the power key to shutdown the system. It is compaq evo 300, P4 1.6ghz, 368MB RAM Yesterday OS was 5.0DP2. I can not power it off. It comes to a point when it should cut the power off 'System is shutting down using ACPI' like message is displayed and

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:03:50AM -0800, David O'Brien I would like to see GCC 3.2.1 release be our 5.0-R compiler. However, the GCC 3.2.1 release date kept slipping and in fact was nebulous for a while. The same for our 5.0-R. So this has made it hard to decided

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:52:27PM -0800, Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody with knowledge and time should generate patches, so it's possible to at least test and report problems (or success). Given that enough people give it a try and report, there's

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Steve Kargl wrote: Don't worry about it; it's being totally blown out of proportion; there's no way anyone will commit to importing a 2 day old 3.2.1, which is why I put the smiley's there. Well, the 2-day old 3.2.1 fixes numerous problems with our 3.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20021009 (prerelease).

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug 5.0 problems

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: It sounds like there are a couple of problems here -- that we need a debugging guide (How to prepare a useful bug report for a kernel panic, How to prepare a useful bug report for a sysinstall failure, etc) A bug-filing wizard would be useful. The send-pr system

Re: No entries in /proc :: feature or problem ??

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: (2) truss currently relies on procfs, albeit not working very well. There were a set of patches floating around to make truss use ptrace(), which is the direction we probably do want to take this. If someone could finish up that work, it would be great.

Re: ACPI and apm_saver?

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Donn Miller wrote: ACPI works pretty well on my HP Pavilion Notebook. But is it possible to get the apm saver (apm_saver.ko) to work with ACPI? From what I understand, acpi is a superset of apm, and is able to provide some emulation of apm functionality. So, by this principle, shouldn't

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Steve Kargl wrote: Supposedly, bringing in 3.2 was going to solve more problems than it caused. It turns out the 4.x compiler, GCC 2.95.3, also does not have an ICE as a result of compiling that code. You know the reason why 3.2 pre-release was brought into the tree, right? GCC has

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: Is it any help to know that my problems on P4 stopped after enabling DISABLE_PSE? Initially I had both of these enabled, but seems that one is enough. Just FYI. If we can verify that DISABLE_PG_G has no effect then that would be nice. It has an effect:

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: I have now definitive answer for _my_ case and environment. Just finished full package build for my workstation bundle port (92 ports), including XFree-4, KDE3, mozilla-devel and whatnot. It all went very well running kernel which had: DISABLE_PSE enabled

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Scott Sipe wrote: It was a trap 12, and definitely that address...I think something more overarching must be going on though. I'm able to login with /bin/sh (not csh/tcsh) and so I've been trying various things--I can't compile a kernel because I get bus errors, same with many ports I've been

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
David Schultz wrote: It really comes down to a question of living with known bugs, or risking gaining a new set of unknown bugs. In theory, the set of bugs in an actual release should be smaller than the set of bugs in a prerelease. In theory, practice will be the same as theory. 8-)

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... bug filing wizard ... ] Brad Knowles wrote: Speaking as someone who is about to step off the deep end and start trying to actually run and test -CURRENT on my system here at home, I believe that this kind of resource would be vitally important. In contrast, I've had a

[PATCH] Re: smbfs panic

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Tim Robbins wrote: Here's a backtrace of a smbfs panic. Looks like it does not correctly handle the smbfs_getpages error it is encountering and leaves garbage vnodes lying around. The panic probably comes from the VI_LOCK macro call on smbfs_node.c line 321. # cp blah.tar.gz ~tim cp:

Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:14AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Is FreeBSD likely to follow the in footsteps of NetBSD and create : a framework to do crossbuilds ? : :

Re: smbfs problems

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... smbfs ... ] Vallo Kallaste wrote: Now the writing part: After creating 5MB file using /dev/urandom, I'm trying to copy it over to users/vallo smb share mounted at /mnt, which fails. The copy is interruptible using Ctrl-C. Examination at NT4 server shows 0 byte file. Umount of /mnt

Re: smbfs problems

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: Sorry forgot to add one detail. Althought dd'ing the same file to smbfs mount works, it'll sometimes modify the file being copied (size is different). It doesn't happen reliably, sometimes the file is copied fine, sometimes not. At the times the file isn't copied right

Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: NetBSD builds a directory full of tools that you can later use to incrementally build, say, 'ls' or 'cat' because one can define USETOOLS to be 'yes' and have the make automatically pick them up when rebuilding. There are a few of the details I'm a little unclear on,

Re: recommended VAIO for ACPI hacking (Re: cvs commit:www/en/releases/5.0R todo.sgml)

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: Also, development resources are limited. For example, none of ACPI developers has VAIO. Well, I don't know enough to be a developper but I do have a VAIO (Z600TEK) and can test things. Just ask. BTW, I'm planning to buy VAIO (maybe used one) to improve ACPI

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install, X-Developer install, first boot after the install finished, generic kernel etc. Ok,

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: Is it any help to know that my problems on P4 stopped after enabling DISABLE_PSE? Initially I had both of these enabled, but seems that one is enough. Just FYI. If we can verify that DISABLE_PG_G has no effect then that would be nice. It has an effect: writing CR3 or

Re: 5.0 DP2 on Vaio Z600

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Richard Tobin wrote: I'm trying to install DP2 on a Sony Vaio Z600TEK laptop, but it hangs at Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while) [ ... ] Any suggestions? Tell it to not load ACPI. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Marc Recht wrote: There is neither a gcc 3.2.1 nor a gcc 3.3 yet, so I would't use any of them in a stable release. gcc 3.2.1 has been uploaded on ftp.gnu.org at Nov. 19th. So it's been extensively tested by the full user base for the last two days, and you should have known about it before

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Marc Recht wrote: So it's been extensively tested by the full user base for the last two days, and you should have known about it before you posted. 8-) 8-). My original question was only if it will be imported before 5.0R. David O'Brien already answered it with no. That's fine with me.

Re: DP2 (and earlier) Problems *addition

2002-11-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Scott Sipe wrote: Sorry, should have done this with the first email. The dmesg from my stable boot: Yank half your memory, and try it again, and let us know. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: DP2 (I think!) crash booting from floppies

2002-11-20 Thread Terry Lambert
local.freebsd.current wrote: I got a pair of floppies from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/5.0-20021103-SNAP/floppies/ and booted them on a Dell Dimension XPS D300 which is currently running 4.7. It's a PII/300 with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI and an STB Riva graphics card.

Re: Device permissions with DEVFS

2002-11-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Kip Macy wrote: Sorry, if I'm repeating something already said, but the tone of your mail would indicate that I'm not. This doesn't sound like an intrinsic limitation of devfs, just an issue with how it is structured now. There should just be a central file for all the devices which devfs

Re: Device permissions with DEVFS

2002-11-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Marcin Cieslak wrote: What's wrong with having /etc/minor_perm et consortes a la Solaris? With sensible kernel defaults to allow booting without your favourite root partition. What's wrong with just having /dev? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Device permissions with DEVFS

2002-11-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have to say that the ownership issue has been a pet peeve of mine for some time: I would really like the kernel to know about exactly two magic id values: uid 0 (suser uid, default uid, default devfs owner), and gid 0 (default gid, default devfs owner). Hard-coding

Re: New NVidia drivers on -current

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
David Holm wrote: Note that the patch has already been applied so no need to patch your kernel! BTW, why hasn't anyone set the mailing list to automatically set the reply-to address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Because the poster may not be a list subscriber, and the most important person to reply

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: It depends on how you do it. You could $INCLUDE the exterior file inside the interior file, if that subset of information is the same. You could also use BIND 9 views. Otherwise, split-horizon can be a pain. If you have a LAN behind a transient network

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: Sorry, I wasn't think of transient networks. Indeed, that does make things a lot uglier. I'll have to think some more about all the various implications, however. One of the draft RFC's in the FTP directory I referenced is a Best Current Practices document. --

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
John De Boskey wrote: This an interesting thread, but it seems to be getting a bit off target. I need to kick off 2 name servers. The first is authoritive for the domain as seen externally and the 2nd which is authoritive for the internal network. The internal forwards to the external

Re: Are SysV semaphores thread-safe on CURRENT?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Brian Smith wrote: Sure SysV semaphores are thread-safe. When a thread blocks on one, the entire process blocks (no threads run). You won't get any safer than that ;-) Yikes that isn't good. Is that only in STABLE? or does CURRENT do that as well? I guess I'll have to protect the

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-17 Thread Terry Lambert
John De Boskey wrote: It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). Comments on the following simplistic patch? Interior and exterior DNS is a useful case; however, there are multiple ways to set it up; in general, it's not possible to have interior authoritative DNS

Re: DISABLE_PSE DISABLE_PG_G still needed?

2002-11-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: Hi The kernel compiled from yesterday sources and with the abovementioned options disabled will not finish make -j2 buildworld on P4. Dies with bus error: /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/termios.c: In function `tcgetpgrp': /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/termios.c:104: internal

Re: DISABLE_PSE DISABLE_PG_G still needed?

2002-11-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: This may be a bit overstated. I removed those options from my kernel a few weeks ago and have no problems at all. Are you certain the problem is not specific to a particular CPU? Sorry, this can be CPU specific, but I'm not sure. I'll try to reproduce it on my home

Re: DISABLE_PSE DISABLE_PG_G still needed?

2002-11-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: It only happens with P4's. I haven't seen it locally on a p4 test machine at work that I have built test releases on. Also, it would be nice to see if just adding one of the options fixed the problems. As for NOTES, those

Re: DISABLE_PSE DISABLE_PG_G still needed?

2002-11-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Wesley Morgan wrote: Based on this, are you recommending that the DISABLE_* still be used? Will I never see the problem with 512mb of ram? When Matt Dillon made some of the machdep.c allocation sizes dependent on the physical RAM size, it made the problem much less predictable, based on the

Re: Calendar Changes.

2002-11-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Tony Harverson wrote: My attention was drawn a little while ago to the fact that the South African holidays in /usr/share/calendar/ were far out of date (most not having been celebrated since 1994), and so I decided to clean them up. As soon as I got into actually working in that directory, it

Re: -current make jdk13 with native_threads error

2002-11-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Bill Huey (Hui) wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:51:38AM -0800, Bill Huey wrote: That's all been removed from a MFC of libc_r recently. Native Uh, you're running on -current I presume (without reviewing the original post), but the same logic still applies. They didn't say; I assumed they

Re: binutils symbol hiding and versioning (was Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING)

2002-11-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Loren James Rittle wrote: FYI, the libstdc++-v3 maintainers on the FSF side are only guaranteeing forward ABI compatibility of any sort if libstdc++.so is built with symbol versioning and symbol hiding. FWIW: symbol versioning is incredibly broken. It attempts to do in UNIX what interface

Re: building -STABLE from within -CURRENT

2002-11-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Wilkinson,Alex wrote: In a dual boot situation, is it possible to be logged into -CURRENT and build -STABLE ( ie -STABLE filesystems live on separate fdisk partitions and are exported ) ? Only if you unpack the contents of CDROM #2 from a -STABLE system into a chroot environment.

Re: Samba on -current

2002-11-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Jason Vervlied wrote: I am having problems with a Samba share on my -current box, I just installed from 20021103-SNAP. I did recompile my kernel with the following options. [ ... ] I also added the SMP options to the kernel. I used the same options under -stable and experineced no issues.

Re: Samba on -current

2002-11-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Sheldon Hearn wrote: It's a known problem. Consider reading the -current mailing list to keep up to date with known problems. It was discussed last week. No solution is known at this time. Use dd(1) instead of cp(1) as an interim workaround. Actually, it's fixable 3 ways: o Full

Re: binutils symbol hiding and versioning (was Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING)

2002-11-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Loren James Rittle wrote: FWIW: symbol versioning is incredibly broken. It attempts to do in UNIX what interface versioning does in Windows, through the use of class factories accessed via IUnknown. You might be absolutely correct in general. However, please read

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