Re: Current in Production

2002-04-10 Thread Jim Bryant
Do you own a Harley? Do the Mosh Pit? You definitely like riding the edge of insanity... -current is always in a state of flux... I say you lucked out... FreeBSD is killer stuff, but, I personally wouldn't risk a job on the odds of getting a stable -current when I needed one... Chris Knigh

kernel build breaks in bktr_i2c.c

2002-03-23 Thread Jim Bryant
last cvsup, less than an hour ago. cc -c -O -g -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../../.. -I../../../dev -I../../../contrib/de

Re: Interesting syscons behaviour - [followup]

2002-01-28 Thread Jim Bryant
Yeah, I'm also using the SMP kernel. Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 28), Jim Bryant said: > >>Oh yeah, I immediately did a shutdown with reboot, and the problem >>did not duplicate itself. >> >>Jim Bryant wrote: >> >> >>

Re: Interesting syscons behaviour - [followup]

2002-01-28 Thread Jim Bryant
Oh yeah, I immediately did a shutdown with reboot, and the problem did not duplicate itself. Jim Bryant wrote: > After upgrading -current, then reverting back to the previous [more > stable] kernel, upon rebooting after reverting, I noticed the oddest > thing on ttyv0. Apparent

Interesting syscons behaviour.

2002-01-28 Thread Jim Bryant
After upgrading -current, then reverting back to the previous [more stable] kernel, upon rebooting after reverting, I noticed the oddest thing on ttyv0. Apparently, after /etc/rc took over in init all of the text was still in the kernel color scheme. FreeBSD wahoo.kc.rr.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBS

Vinum issue with USB CompactFlash reader.

2001-12-28 Thread Jim Bryant
I know this is probably a minor issue, as it is only an annoyance, and doesn't impact operation or performance, but still.. Ever since I concatenated some old drives to make a more reasonable capacity out of them, I have been noticing the following whenever vinum is loaded at startup [Note: Th

Re: Panic changing screen mode with vidcontrol

2001-11-27 Thread Jim Bryant
John Baldwin wrote: > On 27-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote: > >>VESA is broked. Remove VESA from your config. Been this way for months. >> >>It also will panic once in a VESA mode, such as my favorite and yours, >>132x60, when switching from vty to vty. >> >

Re: Panic changing screen mode with vidcontrol

2001-11-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote > +---[ Peter Jeremy ]-- > | Having installed a new kernel and userland from sources about a day > | old, my vidcontrol command now causes a panic: > > [snip] > > | The command I used was "vidcontrol 132x60" after confirming that > | this was

Re: Panic changing screen mode with vidcontrol

2001-11-27 Thread Jim Bryant
VESA is broked. Remove VESA from your config. Been this way for months. It also will panic once in a VESA mode, such as my favorite and yours, 132x60, when switching from vty to vty. Peter Jeremy wrote: > Having installed a new kernel and userland from sources about a day > old, my vidcontro

Re: damaged file system despite unmounts

2001-11-21 Thread Jim Bryant
I recently [this week] had to revert to a tape backup of an out-of-sync /var because yet again, /var got mangled on 'shutdown -r now', this time, and I reported this to the list the first time this happened, is the second time I have had to do this, so this seems to be an ongoing issue. I hav

Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues...

2001-11-19 Thread Jim Bryant
John Baldwin wrote: > On 19-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote: > >>anyhow, now that this is working, i'm kinda pissed to have lost use of my >>mouse wheel. apparently the keyboard was made before >>wheels became popular. >> >>anyone know a good usb keyboard

Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues...

2001-11-19 Thread Jim Bryant
John Baldwin wrote: > On 18-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote: > >>John Baldwin wrote: >> >> >>>On 16-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote: >>> >>> >>>>It's not the BIOS failing it... >>>> >>>>The BTX bootstrap loader V 1.00 d

Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues...

2001-11-18 Thread Jim Bryant
John Baldwin wrote: > On 16-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote: > >>It's not the BIOS failing it... >> >>The BTX bootstrap loader V 1.00 detects the keyboard, and refuses to proceed >>without it. >> > > Err, no. BTX cares zero, zilch, nada about keyboards.

Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues...

2001-11-16 Thread Jim Bryant
It's not the BIOS failing it... The BTX bootstrap loader V 1.00 detects the keyboard, and refuses to proceed without it. Chris Dempsey wrote: > Try changing the BIOS options regarding failing on all > errors. After changing my Tyan Thunder K7 to not fail > on keyboard failures, it was able to

BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues...

2001-11-15 Thread Jim Bryant
I am in the process of switching to a USB keyboard with a PS/2 to USB mouse port on the KB [freeing IRQ 12]. The keyboard works, the mouse works. My problem here is in getting past the BTX loader WITHOUT the AT keyboard attached. How would I keep BTX from freezing when it can't see the AT ke

Re: USB and SMP

2001-11-10 Thread Jim Bryant
PIIX4, and I do think it's running under uhci. Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 10-Nov-2001 Jim Bryant wrote: > >> I have a [secondary] USB Keyboard with a mouse port on it's side installed, >> as well as a cameramate CompactFlash reader hooked up. >> Both w

Re: kernel won't build - atomic.c/atomic.h errors...

2001-11-10 Thread Jim Bryant
I'll give it a try next time I build a kernel. Thanks for the info on the optimization option info, adding -O was successful in compiling atomic.c. John Baldwin wrote: > On 08-Nov-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > >>On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: >> >> >>>

Re: USB and SMP

2001-11-10 Thread Jim Bryant
I have a [secondary] USB Keyboard with a mouse port on it's side installed, as well as a cameramate CompactFlash reader hooked up. Both work. Michael Class wrote: > Hello, > > just a question. Has anyone usb-devices working on a current-smp > (very recent current, but problem exists since I c

kernel won't build - atomic.c/atomic.h errors...

2001-11-02 Thread Jim Bryant
Is anyone else seeing this problem? I posted a message the other day to this list, and have yet to see a single response. This is from a completely fresh cvsup of everything. buildworld succeeds, but the kernel build fails on atomic.c with the following message about the ATOMIC_ASM macros in

kernel build fails in atomic.c

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
I got the following eariler, and thinking I was out of sync, I cvsupped everything from scratch, and still got it. --- cc -c -g -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -f format-extensions

Re: HEADS UP kernel & burncd change..

2001-10-03 Thread Jim Bryant
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:56:11PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>This may sounds strange, but as I don't actually recall seeing any actual changes to >burncd unless i missed something in my cvsup >>early this morning CDT... >> >>

Re: HEADS UP kernel & burncd change..

2001-10-03 Thread Jim Bryant
. 1:46:59pm wahoo(110): burncd -s 12 -f /dev/acd0c data StarOffice-x86.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 addr = 0 size = 587956224 blocks = 287088 writing from file StarOffice-x86.iso size 574176 KB written this track 574176 KB (100%) total 574176 KB fixating CD, please wait.. Jim Bryant wrote: &g

Re: HEADS UP kernel & burncd change..

2001-10-02 Thread Jim Bryant
Heheh... Just to clarify for some... my standard practice involves following buildworld with installworld... Jim Bryant wrote: > Søren Schmidt wrote: > >> Kernel and burncd must be in sync again, a make kernel followed >> by a make world should do it. >> >> -Sø

Re: HEADS UP kernel & burncd change..

2001-10-02 Thread Jim Bryant
Søren Schmidt wrote: > Kernel and burncd must be in sync again, a make kernel followed > by a make world should do it. > > -Søren acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 This is from -current as of about 1am or so CDT today. I did a make buildworld instead of a make world, but I would assume that

burncd issue

2001-10-02 Thread Jim Bryant
This is from -current as of about 1am or so CDT today. 2:51:10pm wahoo(112): burncd -s 12 -f /dev/acd0c data StarOffice52.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Device busy I was under the impression that if the kernel and world were in sync that this would work based on a message I read yest

Re: USB Multimedia Card (MMC) readers supported?

2001-09-20 Thread Jim Bryant
I believe at least one version of the SanDisk one is supported, and I recently helped test and get committed the Microtech CameraMate I personally recommend the CameraMate, as it has support for all known CompactFlash devices, including IBM Microdrives, as well as the fact that it also re

Post-KSE KDE Issues...

2001-09-15 Thread Jim Bryant
I am getting intermittant communications initialization errors involving DCOPSERVER upon starting KDE. The thing is that it seems to be random. So far it will happen 2 out of every 3 times you attempt to login via KDM... So far, the only cure is to keep logging in until it doesn't produce t

Re: can't write CD-Rs with or without new DAO mode

2001-09-12 Thread Jim Bryant
Jim Bryant wrote: > Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > >> After updating my system I can't burn CD-Rs successfully. Can anyone >> else? What happens is pretty simple: >> >> {"/home/green/toxicity"}$ burncd -s 8 -d audio /dev/null $(ls | >>

Re: can't write CD-Rs with or without new DAO mode

2001-09-12 Thread Jim Bryant
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > After updating my system I can't burn CD-Rs successfully. Can anyone else? > What happens is pretty simple: > > {"/home/green/toxicity"}$ burncd -s 8 -d audio /dev/null $(ls | trackclassify > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCINITWRITER): Input/output error > acd0: MODE

Re: KSE usage, and one forgotten item (PC98)

2001-09-12 Thread Jim Bryant
Okay, from -CURRENT fetched at approximately 1320 CDT today, buildworld/installworld were successful, building the kernel was successful, booting failed with the following [copied by hand]: trap 12: page fault in kernel mode cpuid = 1 lapic id = 0100 virt. addr = 0x0 code = supervisor rea

Re: anonymous-ftp cracked

2001-09-12 Thread Jim Bryant
This doesn't indicate that you were cracked if it was anonymous FTP. You may have been scanned for open ports, and it appears that they took advantage of your FTP being open. Set up logging via the inetd.conf line (man ftpd for options). Then you can at least use ipf or ipfw to ban the domain

Re:

2001-09-12 Thread Jim Bryant
Jonathan Love wrote: > > jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _ Do You Yahoo!? G

Re: Raid Controller reconditioning

2001-09-10 Thread Jim Bryant
Faulty battery monitor? If it's a NiCad, consistant recharging when the cell isn't discharged to the recommended "discharged" voltage can cause what is known as "memory effect", where the battery will never charge above that partially-discharged state at which it been consistantly recharged f

RAM cram!!! is this a -current issue? XF86/Netscape-6.10

2001-09-08 Thread Jim Bryant
I was just checking something out in top, and noticed a big discrepancy in the core usage for mozilla, and XF86 looks a bit heavier than normal... The "mozilla" in use is the linux netscape 6.10 dist direct from netscape [i avoided installing the -port, because it was using some kinda hacked

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-06 Thread Jim Bryant
Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Are you guys on crack? Scheme is just a dialect of LISP, where "LISP" > could also just as easily be any one of MacLisp, InterLisp, Franz > Lisp, Common Lisp or one of many other possibilities. The very > acronym lacks specific meaning without an additional qualifier. >

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
FreeBSD Fanatic wrote: >>>Show us a suitable LISP interpreter, then. >>> >>$ cd ~/lang/Scheme/tinyscm-1.27 >>$ size scheme >> textdata bss dec hex filename >> 6134244763480 69298 10eb2 scheme >> > > Is that statically-linked? I'm curious to know the size of the b

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Bakul Shah wrote: >>>I doubt if the bootloader will ever change from FORTH, but if it >>>does, I suggest LISP as the preferred choice on a short-list of >>>potential replacements. >>> >>Show us a suitable LISP interpreter, then. >> > > I don't know what size constraints the bootloader has to hav

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:39PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > > >>I doubt if the bootloader will ever change from FORTH, but if it >>does, I suggest LISP as the preferred choice on a short-list of >>potential replacements. >> > &

Re: unpleasant ps output and possible related problems.

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Dave Cornejo wrote: > I apologize for not having any idea where to start on this. I am not > whining for someone to fix something, merely reporting an odd behavior > that I have now seen on multiple machines in cae it means something to > anybody. > > I am tracking current almost daily on three

Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > KSrinivasa Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>For some reasons I was unable to checkout sources from cvs server of >>FreeBSD sources. I have been using anoncvs.FreeBSD.org to fetch the >>files. >> > > I believe the administrators have

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Jim Bryant wrote: > Dave Cornejo wrote: > >> you wrote: >> >>> And just for the record: PERL is right out (of space) for this >>> purpose... >>> >> >> as I assume emacs would be too? :-( > > > > Hey now! Them's fi

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Dave Cornejo wrote: > you wrote: > >>And just for the record: PERL is right out (of space) for this purpose... >> > > as I assume emacs would be too? :-( Hey now! Them's fightin' words! :^) Emacs makes the sun shine, Emacs makes the birds sing, Emacs makes the grass grow green! chsh -s /u

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > >>David O'Brien wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:48:24AM -0300, Daniel Capo Sobral wrote: >>> >>> When I first wrote the loader.conf thingy, I couldn't get the value of environment variables from the FICL

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Bryant
David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:04:49PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > >>Samuel Tardieu wrote: >> >>>Or why is BSD make used when the vast majority of Free Software developpers >>>use GNU make? >>> >>1)It actually works >> > > You forgot the syntax is nearly the same as GNU

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Bryant
David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >>I haven't looked at the code, but does a value of 0 for vchans mean >>infinite, I know this is a standard use for the value of zero in some >>instances... >> >> > What what I gather, 0 means none, only use how many channels the > sound card has. I'm assuming that

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Bryant
John Baldwin wrote: > On 04-Sep-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > >>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:40:44AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> >>>In fact, am doing so right now inside of KDE (with arts or whatever their >>>sound >>>daemon is called also running). Granted, it sounds rather weird. :-P >>> >

Re: trying to play sound in -current

2001-09-02 Thread Jim Bryant
I recall reading the explanation somewhere on the KDE site on why artsd will hold a lock on the sound device, but as I recall the lock is like for 30 or 60 seconds... Reading the explanation I seem to recall thinking it was a lame hack solution to the problem of dealing with multiple opens on

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-01 Thread Jim Bryant
I sent it in a private message to you to keep from spamming the list with a 60k file... I was wondering why the address was so high, and it was still catching matches of anything... Mike Smith wrote: >>I have a question, does /dev/mem wrap lgoically back to address once >> it's reache

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-01 Thread Jim Bryant
I have a question, does /dev/mem wrap lgoically back to address once it's reached the end of physical memory? I left the hexdump -C running all night and just checked and it's still running, and the output file shoes that it's somewhere past address: 110779f460 7c 7c 52 53 44 20 50

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Bryant
I would have waited for the re-run of hexdump to finish, but checking right after I sent the last message produced: DING! wahoo(102): hexdump -C /dev/mem | grep "RSD PTR" 000716d0 67 72 65 70 20 22 52 53 44 20 50 54 52 22 27 00 |grep "RSD PTR"'.| 000719d0 67 72 65 70 20 22 52 53 44 20 50

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Bryant
Duh!!! No wonder it was taking so long... Seems we both forgot that would have never come up with anything... doing a: hexdump -C /dev/mem | grep "RSD PTR" now... Mike Smith wrote: >>My motherboard is a Tyan S1696-DLUA dual P2-333. I am using the latest known >> bios updates. ACPI is ena

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Bryant
In progress... You aren't joking about it taking a while... Been half an hour now... Mike Smith wrote: >>My motherboard is a Tyan S1696-DLUA dual P2-333. I am using the latest known >> bios updates. ACPI is enabled, and APM disabled in >>the BIOS. This happens regardless if PnP is on or of

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-08-31 Thread Jim Bryant
I'm going to double-check my config against GENERIC, but I've been seeing this since before the new changes. Because of that one problem with the missing file the other day, I simply blasted and re-synched my /usr/src/sys, so I am definitely running the latest sources. My motherboard is a Tya

Re: testing KSE

2001-08-30 Thread Jim Bryant
I'm in the process of getting set up for testing KSE too, but I was wondering, how are you capturing the panic dump? Do you run a serial console or something to do it? Carlo Dapor wrote: >>can you try the same with a "matching" -current? >>I heard that msdosfs is bombing there too. >>(just to

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Like I said... Count me in... Julian Elischer wrote: > Pleas guys, > cut it out... > > Take a copy, run it, beat on it.. > let me know if it fails.. > > thanks.. > > (p.s. I'll need to put a new patch up because -current has changed.. :-) jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's alwa

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:13:19PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>Count my vote as a go-for-it. >> > > Blah. You're vote doesn't mean jack in this. > Unless you are one actively working on the 5-CURRENT kernel (SMPng > s

Re: KSE kernel comparissons

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:28 PM -0500 8/27/01, Jim Bryant wrote: > >> The patches seem relatively benign, and after some basic >> immediate testing, they should be committed to -current. >> That's all I'm trying to say. > > > Then shut up and h

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 5:02 PM -0500 8/27/01, Jim Bryant wrote: > >> Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>> We can't just keep pushing back the release date because "some >>> very important enhancements" could be made. It will ALW

Re: KSE kernel comparissons

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:09:53PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> >>>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Wemm writes: >>> >>> My personal check list before committing it to -current is: - an honest shot at

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Jim Bryant wrote: > > > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> At 1:49 PM -0700 8/27/01, Sean Chittenden wrote: >> >>> > >If there are grave concerns about having KSE and SMPng in >>> > > 5.X, then why not push back the release date? The v

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:49 PM -0700 8/27/01, Sean Chittenden wrote: > >> > >If there are grave concerns about having KSE and SMPng in >> > > 5.X, then why not push back the release date? The value far >> > > outweighs the extra months needed to get it finished and out >> > > t

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Matt Dillon wrote: > :> and preferably on more than the i386 platform. If we are going to > :> be serious about supporting more hardware platforms, then we have > :> to start treating them more seriously when major changes like this > :> come along. If we can't get some broader testing of thi

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Sean Chittenden wrote: >>>I am ready to do my megga-commit to add the first stage of KSE-threading support >>>to >>>the kernel. If there is any argument as to the wisdom of this move, >>>then this is the time to speak up! >>> > > I have one system that I've been maintaining/updating since

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > "5.0" (or whatever name it will go by) is slated for November, right? > And the plan was that a new 6.0-current branch wouldn't even be STARTED > until sometime next year, because we'll be concentrating on the > reliability of 5.x. These kernel changes have to go in be

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian Elischer writes: > > >>I am ready to do my megga-commit to add the first stage of KSE-threading support >>to >>the kernel. If there is any argument as to the wisdom of this move, >>then this is the time to speak up! >> > > I sa

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Julian Elischer wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > >>On 27-Aug-01 Julian Elischer wrote: >> >>>I am ready to do my megga-commit to add the first stage of KSE-threading >>>support >>>to >>>the kernel. If there is any argument as to the wisdom of this move, >>>then this is the time to speak up! >>> >>

UFS issue in -current? Plus good news for tape users...

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
FreeBSD wahoo.kc.rr.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #26: Sat Aug 25 02:25:41 CDT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/WAHOO i386 1). I shut down properly [shutdown -r now] about an hour ago to boot into winblowz [yeah, but it's the only thing morpheus works in]... 2). When I

Re: user/group "bind"

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
Okay, please don't say it... I'm blind... Boot to the head! I see it now, as GID 53... Jim Bryant wrote: > After being informed of the paragraph in UPDATING on this topic, I went > to /usr/src/etc to see what the settled-upon UID/GID of "bind" is... > >

user/group "bind"

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
After being informed of the paragraph in UPDATING on this topic, I went to /usr/src/etc to see what the settled-upon UID/GID of "bind" is... Ummm... Did someone forget to commit changes to the /usr/src/etc/group and /usr/src/etc/passwd baseline files? What UID/GID should be used? jim -- ET

Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
Terry Lambert wrote: > I was still grumpy about the change, but that at least was > enough to mollify me into not objecting loudly and persitantly > up to the import. > > Let me get this straight, though: _now_ you are saying that > the system wide defaults and account template defaults will >

Re: exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
Nate Williams wrote: >Wow. Why not use xdm? 8) > Too lazy? >>>Heh. You just uncomment one line in /etc/ttys and HUP init. It's not >>>compilicated. >>> >>Indeed. However, there are some differences in startup of which to be >>aware (.xinitrc vs. .xsession). >> > > I just

Re: exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:43:56 -0400 (EDT) >>From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >>On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: >> > >>>>Wow. Why not use xdm? 8) >>>> > &g

Re: exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Mike Smith wrote: >>* Jim Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010823 01:33] wrote: >> >>>i noticed this after a build from -current of about 24 hours ago: >>> >>>due to problems getting kde-2.2 to compile under -current, I am >>>currently using windo

Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-24 Thread Jim Bryant
Peter Wemm wrote: > Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >>>Because of certain differences, it cannot be used wholesale as a >>>replacement for csh. >>> >>Then please enumerate them so that they can be given due attention. >>This is exactly the sort of detailed feedback that was requested when >>we first rai

Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
sentance: "..., but it's not a drop-in replacement for csh." Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:03:29PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>Why is csh tcsh? >> >>There are differences... >> >> 4:52:48pm wahoo(6): cmp /bin/csh /bin/tcsh

Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
Why is csh tcsh? There are differences... 4:52:48pm wahoo(6): cmp /bin/csh /bin/tcsh 4:59:12pm wahoo(7): jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.

exec issue with tcsh?

2001-08-22 Thread Jim Bryant
Please DISREGARD my previous message on this topic... I have issued myself a severe boot to the head in the true tradition of tai-kwan-leap as a result of sending that, so if you must, please remember that I booted myself in the head first, and was enlightened by the experience. jim -- ET ha

exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-22 Thread Jim Bryant
i noticed this after a build from -current of about 24 hours ago: due to problems getting kde-2.2 to compile under -current, I am currently using windowmaker and doing a `exec startx >&/dev/null` to get into X without leaving a console shell open... the problem i have is that when i switched b

Re: syscons VTY switch panic...

2001-08-22 Thread Jim Bryant
This seems to solve the problem. Thank you. How soon before VESA will be stable? I do prefer a 132x60 text-mode console... Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > Would you please remove the vesa driver from the kernel and > do not try loading the vesa module either, and see if things work? > > >>Actuall

Re: Interrupt messages from usb0 on CURRENT

2001-08-22 Thread Jim Bryant
Same thing here, started with the build this morning... I know of one change that had been done in the past 36 hours to usb, but it should not have done this, as the patches I was using didn't produce this before the committer committed the patches. Maybe something else got changed as well? V

Re: syscons VTY switch panic...

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Actually, I have tried to get the VESA splash thing going, but never can get anything to display... I can try removing that... I believe it is still set up this way... What are the limitations on image size and color-depth for the boot splash thing? Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > Do you by any ch

Re: Disk I/O problems with -current.

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > >>I'm having strange problems with -current on a laptop with 64mb of >>memory. Periodically "things go strange" [tm]. >> >>Because of the lack of memory I'm using a fair amount of swap. >> >>Everything

syscons VTY switch panic...

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
I am getting this with regularity now. The one time I was available to see the panic, I forgot to go into the debugger and do a traceback, but it had something to do with a mwrite, and had a line concerning [maybe a buffer is?]... I know this isn't much to go on, but that's what I have. I

Re: Sound broken on -current again...

2001-08-19 Thread Jim Bryant
Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >>On 19 Aug, Søren Schmidt wrote: >> >> >Yups, reverting this, even in a newer kernel makes sound work again, >well the VIA support is still not sounding proberly, but it didn't >before as well so thats not related to thi

Re: Sound broken on -current again...

2001-08-18 Thread Jim Bryant
This is pretty wierd... I'm running -current as of 7am this morning, and am listening to Black in Black in XMMS at this moment. SB-Live! Value, I am running SMP. Richard Todd wrote: > In servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-current Daniel M. Kurry writes: > > >>On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:01:46PM +0200

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-13 Thread Jim Bryant
Joseph Mallett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:23:26PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>DOD/DFAS, as well as DOD/DISA. >> >>I find it amazing that the CIA has a more lax policy than DFAS and DISA. >> >> > > The only person I've ever talked to fr

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-13 Thread Jim Bryant
DOD/DFAS, as well as DOD/DISA. I find it amazing that the CIA has a more lax policy than DFAS and DISA. David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:13:52AM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>from what i've read here, not many undrestand the actual mindset of the >&

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-13 Thread Jim Bryant
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:04:01 -0500 > Jim Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JB> I said I'd drop it, but apparently there are people that don't understand the >dinosaur mentality of certain organizations such as > JB&g

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-13 Thread Jim Bryant
The Anarcat wrote: [Foul-mouthed anti-gummint drivel deleted] >>Actually, it is up to us to resolve this. I don't think you understand how >>DOD operates. The vendor makes the changes, not DOD. Not the admin. >> > > And FreeBSD is the *vendor*? I don't think so. At least I don't hope so. > I

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-12 Thread Jim Bryant
ake assumptions about an operating environment without understanding the problems of living within that environment. > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: > > >>I said I'd drop it, but apparently there are people that don't >>understand the dinosaur mentality of

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-12 Thread Jim Bryant
out cp `which bash` /bin and then how to add it > to etc/shells and chsh root, then I really question if they should be the kind > of people that dictate the future of FreeBSD. > > 0n Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:55AM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>IMHO, all widely accepted shell

USB Microtech CameraMate CF/CF+/CF+II/Microdrive/SmartMedia reader

2001-08-07 Thread Jim Bryant
I did an archive search of this list, and found a post from April from a guy who had some diffs to scsi_da.c and the umass driver to get this thing working. I sent him an email a couple of weeks ago, but haven't heard back yet. He said he had it working under -current. Does anyone have a copy

Re: ahc fails to attach in -current (was: snapshot installation woes)

2001-08-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > +---[ Gordon Tetlow ]-- > | On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > | > | > Sure enough, that fixed the kernel panic, but here's the next odd piece, > | > my hard drive wasn't showing up! I have a rather standard Adaptec AHA-2940 > | > d

Re: ahc fails to attach in -current (was: snapshot installation woes)

2001-08-05 Thread Jim Bryant
Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > Sure enough, that fixed the kernel panic, but here's the next odd piece, > > my hard drive wasn't showing up! I have a rather standard Adaptec AHA-2940 > > dmesg reports that ahc0 is there. The lines from the dmesg are (hand

Re: /home: mount pending error: blocks 14 files 3

2001-08-03 Thread Jim Bryant
Am I desynched? I went to single-user, tried to do a fsck -s, and found there is no such option. Also, the /etc/fstab didn't need changed at all. It is already proper. Needless to say, going to single-user, running just `fsck -y /dev/ad0s1g` fixed the problem, although it noted no errors. C

Re: /home: mount pending error: blocks 14 files 3 [correction]

2001-08-01 Thread Jim Bryant
Jim Bryant wrote: > > I've never had this before, and I have traced the message to ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c on >line 634. > > I have recently noticed [since my last svsup] that this is happening on boot and >shutdown [in which case, the messasge is also in > the

/home: mount pending error: blocks 14 files 3

2001-08-01 Thread Jim Bryant
I've never had this before, and I have traced the message to ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c on line 634. I have recently noticed [since my last svsup] that this is happening on boot and shutdown [in which case, the messasge is also in the same file, but for umount conditions]. I am not a filesystem exper

Looks like I solved my own problem... Sorry...

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Okay, AFTER rebuilding linuxthreads with the most recent port, IT DID make it past gen_lex_hash. Word to the wise, if you haven't rebuilt linuxthreads, I suggest you do to avoid the problems I have had. Again, I am running -current of the early hours [CDT] of Sunday morning. Jim Bryant

Re: gen_lex_hash in mysql-server-3.23.39 build hangs forever under -current

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Okay, I just built it successfully without "WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes". I also noticed that my linuxthreads lib was linuxthreads-2.1.2, and I'm rebuilding it with the linuxthreads-2.2.3_1 sources. Afterwards, I'll try the compile again. Jim Bryant wrote: > > I forgot t

Re: gen_lex_hash in mysql-server-3.23.39 build hangs forever under -current

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Bryant
I forgot to add: I am using the make option: `make WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes` Jim Bryant wrote: > > I don't know if this belongs here, in the database list, or in the ports list... > > Under -current from early Sunday morning [CDT], a build of mysql-server-3.23.39

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