/etc/fstab vs. /sbin/mount -p

1999-07-15 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I just noticed the following while tracing my config to make sure everything was correct: From /etc/fstab, I am forcing a v2 mount: netapp01:/vol/sas /sasnfs rw,nfsv20 2 /sbin/mount -p should create an fstab format output: netapp01:/vol/sas

inetd looping (from cvs-all)

1999-07-23 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, From the discussion on cvs-all about inetd, I'd like to add the following: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 198 root 105 0 908K 584K RUN141.8H 95.70% 95.70% inetd This is on a system running: 4.0-19990712-SNAP There are NO me

make release doc failure

1999-07-28 Thread John W. DeBoskey
hi, For those of you who may not have seen this, and my apologies if I haven't seen it and everyone else has... ===> FAQ sgmlfmt -f html -links /usr/doc/FAQ/FAQ.sgml sgmlfmt -f latin1 -links /usr/doc/FAQ/FAQ.sgml sgmlfmt -f ascii -links /usr/doc/FAQ/FAQ.sgml FAQ.trf:7781: warning: can't find

make world failure (egcs)

1999-07-29 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following seems to have slipped in over the last 24 hours. I'm probably the last to see it, and it may already be fixed, but I don't see any obvious commits: c++ -c -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include/g++ -O -pipe -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/config -I/usr/src/

'make release' doc problem (lynx)

1999-08-04 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've noticed the following the last few days... Not a big problem, but it eventually needs some attention... Thanks, John rm -f /usr/local/share/lynx_help/help_files.sed Updating /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg /bin/sh -c 'if test -f /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg ; then mv /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg /

This looks like a Good Snap :-)

2000-01-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Well folks, Happy New Years... :-) It looks like 'make world && make release' run ok today... ---> Sat Jan 1 02:32:28 EST 2000 - Nightly build attempt for 4.0-2101-SNAP ---> Sat Jan 1 02:32:28 EST 2000 - make world ... Many Many lines deleted... ---> Sat Jan 1 07:58:20 EST 2000 - Creati

maxfiles same as maxfilesperproc ??

2000-01-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, On a FreeBSD 4.0-19991223-SNAP system... I just ran into a situation that caused me to have to reboot the machine before understanding what had really happenned... The problems comes down to: kern.maxfiles: 4136 kern.maxfilesperproc: 4136 Thus, because I had a root uid server

make world failure (libcrypt)

2000-01-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm seeing the following error, and don't see any fixes in the cvs repository yet. I am however, about an hour behind since I get my updates from a standard mirror. My sources are current as of about an hour ago... If this is already fixed, just ignore Thanks, John ln -sf libutil

rlogin exited on signal 6

2000-01-14 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I just installed 4.0-2112-SNAP. Everything appears to be working fine so far (no softupdates), with the exception of one bug which I started to look at and posted about 2 months ago or so... Basically, rlogin randomly exits on signal 6. From messages: Jan 14 13:28:07 magenta /kern

make release failure (HARDWARE.TXT)

2000-01-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've seen the following error for the last 2 days since the make release change to HARDWARE.TXT. CVS shows this file as removed from the head of the tree at revision 1.30 but the Makefile is unconditionally attempting to copy them in the ftp.1 & cdrom.1 targets, followed by optionally

4.0-20000204-SNAP install catching sig 11

2000-02-04 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm in the middle of trying to load up a new Dell GX1 550 for the 1st time and am seeing some strange behaviour. I am unsure of whether it is the machine or the code. What I receive from sysinstall is the following: man/man1/xmseconfig.1.gz 137 blocks sysconfig in free(): warning: jun

Re: 4.0-20000204-SNAP install catching sig 11 (properties.c)

2000-02-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I have rebuilt sysinstall inside the 0207-SNAP area and can recreate the problem by simply running sysinstall as root and running an installation to /install. Also, previously, I was using a cdrom as the media, I am now using ftp. In gdb, I get the following traceback: (Note, I copied

4.0-20000208-SNAP -- make world fails(/usr/src/tools/install.sh)

2000-02-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've just installed a 4.0-2208-SNAP on a test machine, sources current as of 9am EST for the make world/make release. The following command fails almost immediately: cd /usr/src && make world -- >>> stage 1: bootstrap

Re: 4.0-20000208-SNAP -- make world fails(/usr/src/tools/install.sh)

2000-02-09 Thread John W. DeBoskey
dist.h 2000/02/09 05:13:29 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ #define DIST_SRC_INCLUDE 0x00020 #define DIST_SRC_LIB 0x00040 #define DIST_SRC_LIBEXEC 0x00080 -/* 0x00100 */ +#define DIST_SRC_TOOLS 0x00100 #define DIST_SRC_RELEASE 0x00200 #define DIST_

ahc & PIONEER DVD-R DVR-S201 1.10 (data overrun)

2000-02-14 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I have a -current system (current as of 1pm EST today) which I am trying to use with a Pioneer DVR-S201 dvd writer... FreeBSD FreeBSD2.unx.sas.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Feb 14 15:39:24 EST 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/FreeBSD i386 The appropriat

Re: ahc & PIONEER DVD-R DVR-S201 1.10 (data overrun)

2000-02-14 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Many thanks for the response!! More below... > On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 16:27:37 -0500, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > > Hi, > > > >I have a -current system (current as of 1pm EST today) which I > > am trying to use with a Pioneer DVR-S201 dvd writer..

4.0-current and elm2.4.ME+.68 segv

2000-02-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've been installing 4.0-current and testing it. One of the problems I've found is with the port elm2.4.ME+.68 ... /usr/ports/mail/elm/work/elm2.4.ME+.68/lib/can_open.c function 'can_open()' checks for the presence of the mail folder (which doesn't exist). It returns an appropriate err

sysinstall and the status of des encryption?

2000-03-06 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, A quick question before I try to come up with a fix and patches for a problem that I believe to be a moving target. I have run 'make release' to create 4.0-2306-SNAP with sources current as of 2am March 6th. When running sysinstall and selecting the encryption components, sysinst

make release - usr.bin/ssh error

2000-03-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm running a make release with sources current as of 7pm EST. I'm in the process of trying to figure out the following failure. ===> usr.sbin/ktutil install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ktutil /usr/sbin install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 ktutil.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 cd /pub/FreeBS

make release and DOC failures (diskless doc)

1999-08-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, the following has been happenning for some time now... is anyone else seeing this, or is it time to turn of doc again? Thanks, John cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1 ; make afterdistribute DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/bin ===> en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles ; make a

make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm having problems making world... before I dig into this, does anyone already know what's going on? My source is current as of 11:30pm EST. thanks, John ===> cpp cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp/../../../../contrib/eg

Re: make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
> On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 23:39:56 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > > Hi, > > > >I'm having problems making world... before I dig into this, does > > anyone already know what's going on? My source is current as of > > 11:30pm EST. > >

Re: make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
of 11:30pm EST, 8/25/99. Thanks, -John > On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 23:39:56 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > > Hi, > > > >I'm having problems making world... before I dig into this, does > > anyone already know what's going on? My source is current

-current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Following up my own mail on sig 11 problems, I beleive the problem is kernel related. Running a kernel with sources current as of 11:30am EST, I get the following during a make world: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=0) bp 0xc3700ec8 vp 0xc92ce000 size: 0, resid

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
ED]>, Jul > ian Elischer writes: > >swapping on a vn device? > >the 'size' and 'resid' of 0 looks suspicious. > > > >a fix was just committed to teh vn code that may fix this if that's your > >problem. > > > > > >On Thu,

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Sorry for taking so long to reply. I have an isdn line to my office which has been acting up lately (or should I say acting down?). Anyways, yes, I am using a ccd. I also have a machine with a dpt raid4 controller that I probably need to check to see if it still works My setup

make release GENERIC kernel error (pnp)

1999-09-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm seeing the following error during a 'make release' with sources current as of 4:30pm EST. I'll re-cvsup, and try again, but I don't see (via the cvsweb) any commits that would fix this. cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf && config -r GENERIC && cd ../../compile/GENERIC && make depend

make release failure in rlogind/libkrb

1999-09-06 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, make release is doing better, we're now up to a failure in rlogind with respect to libkrb... cc -O -pipe -Wall -DKERBEROS -DCRYPT -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/src/libexec/rlogind/../../kerberosIV/include -I/usr/src/libexec/rlogind/../../crypto/kerberosIV/include -I/usr/src/libexec/rlogind

make release (ohh so close - fixit floppy)

1999-09-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Oh so close to a complete release. who performs the coin toss to decide what to remove from fixit? -John Regular and MFS boot floppies made. touch release.8 Making fixit floppy. disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group

rshd patch for REMOTEUSER & REMOTEHOST

1999-09-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, We've been using the following patch which adds the REMOTEUSER and REMOTEHOST variables to the environment 'ala Irix. Comments and feedback are welcome. I followed the existing code style, though I don't really agree with statically allocating the variable space. This patch is aga

PCCARD kernel config update (miibus0)

1999-09-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I have 'make release' up to the point where it fails building the PCCARD kernel. It needs to have the miibus0 controller added. A patch is attached.. Would someone please commit this? Thanks, john ps: I'm still having problems with the size of the fixit floppy, but currently I've sim

optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following patch to /usr/src/release/Makefile allows the specification of the variable FASTCLEAN, which instead of doing a recursive rm on CHROOTDIR, simply umounts/newfs/mounts. Of course, this is only useful if your CHROOTDIR location is a separate mount point (which mine is: /snap).

Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-10 Thread John W. DeBoskey
dif -mkdir -p ${CHROOTDIR} cd ${.CURDIR}/../etc && ${MAKE} distrib-dirs DESTDIR=${CHROOTDIR} > On Thursday, 9th September 1999, "John W. DeBoskey" wrote: > > > The following patch to /usr/src/release/Makefile allows the > >sp

4.0-19990914-SNAP/xterm/libtermcap/libncurses problem/fix

1999-09-14 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I just finished doing a test install of 4.0-19990914-SNAP, which worked like a champ. The X11 config with 3.3.5 also went great. However, after everything was up and running, I couldn't start an xterm. The following error was reported: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libtermcap.s

Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

1999-09-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes: > > >> ugh, why aren't you extending poll to work on files and directories to > >> get this info?? it would make MUCH more sense to extend poll to do this.. > >> > >> any specific reason why it wasn't done this way? > > > >Yes. Last time I

ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm current as of 11:30am EST. If a fix has been made for the following I probably won't see it until the cvsup servers run their hourly updates... didn't know if you'd seen this or not. Thanks, John cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -DKERNEL -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prot

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Many thanks... personal opinions aside, I appreciate the work that ALL of you do. Again, many thanks, John > > : > :Hi, > : > : I'm current as of 11:30am EST. If a fix has been made for the > :following I probably won't see it until the cvsup servers run > :their hourly updates... didn't k

Re: Beneath The Planet Of The Mondays

1999-09-27 Thread John W. DeBoskey
I've been tracking -current for a few years now, and find that typically it is actually pretty stable. The two items that will cause trouble are documentation problems, and a kernel/userland change that I miss. I have a system dedicated to building a SNAP everyday at 2am EST (11pm PST). I

sysinstall/dist.c sigaction update patch

1999-09-30 Thread John W. DeBoskey
hi, we're working on a small mod to sysinstall, and we're seeing the following with the unmodified source since the signal code going in: cc -O -pipe -Wall -I/usr/src/release/sysinstall/../../gnu/lib/libdialog -I/usr/obj/usr/src/release/sysinstall -I/usr/src/release/sysinstall/../../sys -c

make release failure -- ed0 in PCCARD

1999-10-23 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Make release has been failing for awhile now and I just started to take a look at it. If I remove 'ed0' from i386/conf/PCCARD then the BOOTMFS kernel for pccard links correctly. With ed0 present, the following link errors occur: linking BOOTMFS if_ed_isa.o: In function `ed_isa_probe': if_

4.0 packages INDEX file - questionable entry?

1999-10-29 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm not real sure were to send this, though I'm sure someone will tell me... but... In writing a few scripts which process the INDEX file, I've come across the following entry which doesn't look right... ja-|/usr/ports/japanese/exmh2|/usr/local|X11/TK based mail reader front end to M H fo

make world: doesn't?

1999-12-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've just cvsup'd my -current source tree about 5 minutes ago and tried to make world... and got the following: FreeBSD(root)/usr/src %make world make: don't know how to make world. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src. FreeBSD(root)/usr/src % This was ok 24 hours ago... I rece

rlogin receiving sig 11 (randomly)

1999-12-20 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Before I dig into this, I'd like to know if anyone else is seeing the following on -current: (Not tested/seen on stable/release). Dec 20 10:57:58 magenta /kernel: pid 9869 (rlogin), uid 227: exited on signal 11 Dec 20 10:58:02 magenta /kernel: pid 9875 (rlogin), uid 227: exited on signa

cc taking a signal 11

1999-12-20 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, While I'm at it, a co-worker gave this one to me earlier today. cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Dec 20 01:45:25 EST 1999 FreeBSD(root)/tmp %cc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) Free

Re: cc taking a signal 11

1999-12-20 Thread John W. DeBoskey
> > > > Hi, > > > >While I'm at it, a co-worker gave this one to me earlier today. > > > >cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 > > > >4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Dec 20 01:45:25 EST 1999 > > > > > > > > FreeBSD(root)/tmp %cc -v > > Using built

4.0-19991220-SNAP sysinstall failure (triage)

1999-12-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I tried to install a SNAP which I built early this morning and ran into some trouble (4.0-19991220-SNAP). After running through sysinstall and configuring everything, the following message pops up: Unable to make device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be

AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-19 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, We have a system with a new AMI card in it controlling a pair of shelves from Dell (fbsd dated: 4.0-2313-SNAP). The relevant dmesg output is below: (complete dmesg at end) amr0: mem 0xf6c0-0xf6ff irq 14 at device 10.1 on pci2 amr0: firmware 1.01 bios 1p00 128MB memory am

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-20 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The controller is new. Dell calls it a Perc2/dc and it has 128Meg of memory installed in it. I'm not sitting infront of the machine right now. More detailed information is available when the machines is booted and you enter the bios setup on the adapter card. > >We have a system with

csh/nls problem causing make release failure

2000-04-23 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, As Poul-Henning has pointed out, make release is broken... ===> bin/csh/nls ===> bin/csh/nls/finnish install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 tcsh.cat /snap/release/../usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/tcsh.cat install: /snap/release/../usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/tcsh.cat: No such file or d

Archive pruning - some #s

2000-04-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've been idly watching this thread and decided to check a few numbers Is it truly worth pruning? I mirror the freebsd repository, mail archives, and www site locally: size 1.9Gig. time 4:48minabout 2/5 gig per minute ie: it takes about 5 minutes for the up

Support for large mfs

2000-04-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Today, we tried to create a 5Gig mfs. It turns out this is not such a good idea. It turns out that support is basically limited to an int. Extracts from some of the appropriate files show some of the problems... newfs.c: int fssize; /* file system size */

5.0-20000502-SNAP install does not boot

2000-05-02 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Today, I tried a test install of the last nights -current, 0502-SNAP. The cd boots correctly and the install works like a charm. However, after finishing the install and attempting to boot the newly installed system, it hands at the "F1 FreeBSD" prompt. Hitting the F1 key (or any other ke

Re: 5.0-20000502-SNAP install does not boot

2000-05-03 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Well... The system I was replacing was simply an older snap from november of last year.. I've replicated the problem on two different machines (yes, one with an adaptec controller, but the option is on. The 2nd an older HP Vectra XU 5/133C with an amd0 controller). I've determined a non-source

make release failure during ports

2000-05-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
fyi... ===> Creating README.html for tkrat-1.2 ===> mail/tkrat2 ===> Creating README.html for tkrat-2.0b9 ===> mail/wanderlust-emacs Error: Bad value of EMACS_PORT_NAME: emacs. Valid values are: Emacs family: emacs19 mule19 emacs20 XEmacs family: xemacs19 xemacs20 xemacs21 x

Make world failure

1999-01-15 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, My src tree is current as of 2:00 EST (35 minutes ago), and I'm seeing the following failure: cp dl_dlopen.xs DynaLoader.xs /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin/miniperl -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/lib -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/lib /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/

Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel

1999-01-20 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Well, FWIW, I've been modifying my local 'make release' to produce a 2.88M boot floppy, which I then use as the boot image when I burn a CD of the SNAP. Works like a champ. Thus, the isofs creation is a straight run of the code in examples/worm and cdrecord: sh /usr/share/examples/worm/ma

Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel

1999-01-20 Thread John W. DeBoskey
hi, Hang on a second... I think you might be putting words in my mouth... I'm not saying that the nfs boot floppy is the One True Boot Floppy. I see no reason why we can't have a netboot.flp and a dskboot.flp created. If you really want to make things easier for the beginner, why not provi

make release - Party Time!

1999-01-27 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, A note of thanks to Jordan and everyone else who's been working on the new 4.0 code... We have our first complete processing of cd /usr/src && make world && cd release && make release. ---> Wed Jan 27 02:20:13 EST 1999 - Nightly build for 4.0-19990127-SNAP ---> Wed Jan 27 07:40:27 EST 1999

Re: Scsi chatty'ness can be good..

1999-01-31 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi folks, Well, to add a positive vote to this issue I run alot of ccd arrays... When I put one together last week, those messages alerted me to a bad drive One drive in the array immediately went from 64 available opennings down to about 30. None of the other drives exhibitted this

Make world failure in lpr.c

1999-02-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, 4.0-current sources current as of 9pm EST. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Version 1.28 (wollman) seems to have broken this... The relevant pieces being: +static char*Uflag; /* user name specified with -U flag */ + uflag = optarg; uflag = opta

lpr.c problem (never mind)

1999-02-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I see 1.29 (the fix) as of 10:30 EST... Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

make world failure (2 days in a row)

1999-02-02 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following says it all... Thanks, John ===> ru cd /usr/doc/ru ; make afterdistribute DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/bin ===> ru/FAQ cd /usr/doc/ru/FAQ ; make install DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/doc SHARED=copies install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 FAQ*.html /R/stage/trees/doc/usr/share/doc/ru/FAQ

4.0-19990130-SNAP - ld.so not installed

1999-02-02 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I just installed the 0130 snap. The install process did not install /usr/libexec/ld.so ... I ran a make world which built and installed correctly: -- >>> Installing legacy rtld -

ibcs2_ipc.c compile failure

1999-02-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I beleive version 1.14 of ibcs2_ipc.c is bad. I've been receiving the following error(s) when trying to comile it: Thanks! John cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -DCOMPAT_IBCS2 -DKERNEL -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wca

4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Just fyi, current as of 2pm EST. Thanks, John cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -DVM_STACK -include opt_glob

Re: 4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
k Filesystem options NFS_ROOT#NFS usable as root device, "NFS" req'ed Anyways, it looks like something needs to be done, whether it is to change 'make release', or fix the sysctl code.. Thanks! John > > > On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:12:59 EST

Really! strange uid value

1999-02-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I have some machines running 3.0-19981209-SNAP. I have seen some core dumps from pdksh (which I haven't figured out yet) that have some really strange uid values. -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink Well, I must say I'm impressed that FreeBSD can su

Fatal trap on install w/ 4.0-19990303-SNAP

1999-03-03 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, We are attempting to load 4.0-19990303-SNAP on a Dell machine: Optiplex XMT 5120 (120Mhz,48Meg) w/ adaptec 2940 controller &1gig drive. The dual floppy boot process works fine until it changes to the root device. This occurs even after going into config and deleting all unne

4.0-19990311-SNAP bootblock install weirdness

1999-03-11 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Just an install report from the field I did a new install of 4.0-19990311-SNAP onto a system that was previously running 3.0-19991105-SNAP. The 3.0 system was using the old boot blocks. The 4.0 install was via ftp, and worked without a problem. However, upon rebooting the machin

make release & doc failure

1999-03-29 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Subject says it all... Thanks, John ===> Cleaning for tidy-0.1.99.1 ===> Cleaning for docproj-1.0 ===> FAQ sgmlfmt -f html -links /usr/doc/FAQ/FAQ.sgml sgmlfmt: not found *** Error code 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the bod

make release failure(/var/db/pkg/.mkversion)

1999-03-30 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Sources current as of 9:30pm EST... ===> share/misc install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 ascii birthtoken bsd-family-tree eqnchar flowers init.ee inter.phone iso3166 iso639 man.template mdoc.template operator scsi_modes /usr/share/misc ===> share/mk install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 bsd

rexec documentation/compatibility question

1999-04-15 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, With respect to the rexec() function: From 'man 3 rexec' on a -current system I find: SYNOPSIS int rexec(char **ahost, int inport, char *user, char *passwd, char *cmd, int *fd2p) DESCRIPTION This interface is obsoleted by rcmd(3). It is available from the comp

make release & perl version failure

1999-05-03 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but from last nights 'make release' I get the following failure touch release.2 Making docs... ===> Extracting for docproj-1.0 >> No MD5 checksum file. ===> Patching for docproj-1.0 ===> Configuring for docproj-1.0 ===> Installing for docp

Re: make release & perl version failure

1999-05-03 Thread John W. DeBoskey
ound. Thanks! John > "John W. DeBoskey" wrote: > >I don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but from last nights > > 'make release' I get the following failure > > > > touch release.2 > > Making docs... > > ===> Extr

make release failure (mkdep & kget.c)

1999-05-06 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I don't know if anyone else has seen this yet. I'm current as of 5 1/2 hours ago... (2am EST, 11pm PST). Thanks! John file2c 'u_char boot0[] = {' '};' < /boot/boot0 >> makedevs.tmp mv makedevs.tmp makedevs.c rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/src/release/sysinstall/../../gnu/lib

4.0-19990506-SNAP install problem

1999-05-06 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, When I attempt to install the 0506 snap, things work correctly until I get the following on the debug screen: DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype 0s1b DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype 0s1e DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype 0s1a DEBUG: MakeDev: Unkno

make world problem (just me?) warning: `MDF_ACTIVE' redefined

1999-05-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've had the following problem for the last 36 hours or so. I haven't seen any fixes related to this. Has anyone else seen the following, or is my tree somehow messed up? Thanks! John ===> usr.bin/kdump cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../

-current make world failure (compat22)

1999-05-09 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following is error related to compat22 is causing a make release to fail... Has mtree been updated approriately? thanks! John ===> lib/compat/compat22 cd /usr/src/lib/compat/compat22 ; make install DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/compat22 SHARED=copies install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 libal

One last make world problem (imgact_svr4.c)

1999-05-10 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, It looks like most of the compilation problems from the last few days have been cleaned up pretty well... The last one I'm seeing now is: cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -DKERNEL -DCOMPAT_SVR4 -DKERNEL -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-ari

/usr/src/release/Makefile patch

1999-05-11 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Could you please consider the following patch to /usr/src/release/Makefile? It may not be entirely correct, but it allows a 'cd /usr/src/release && make release' to run to completion. In the kernel makefile, 'kernel' is not a target, ${KERNEL} is, and ${KERNEL} has the value 'GENERIC'.

make release failure (/usr/src/release/Makefile)

1999-05-13 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I sent the following patch a few days ago... If this is working for everyone else and not me, I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong. perl5 ../../kern/makedevops.pl -h ../../pci/pci_if.m rm -f .newdep mkdep -a -f .newdep -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs ... rm -f .depend mv

mfs related -current panic in MFS (stacktrace)

1999-05-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've done alittle research into this with a debug kernel and the following is what I've found so far: db> trace checkalias(c71e2f80,ff00,0) at checkalias+0x13c mfs_mount(c0e0b800,bfbfde99,bfbfd79c,c7bb5eb4,c71ea4c0) at mfs_mount+0x28c mount(c71ea4c0,c7bb5490,0,80691e0,2000) at mount+0x4e7

Fatal Trap 12 (-current kernel w/MFS)

1999-05-18 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, For those of you who know more than I When a -current kernel boots up, it dies when trying to mount /tmp as an mfs. Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x9d2c0b38 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer =

4.0-current install problem(s)

1999-05-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I build a 4.0-current SNAP each evenning, and thought I'd give a new install a try since the dev_t issue appears to have been resolved.. Unfortunately, booting from either a CD or boot floppies, after probing the ppi0(or maybe plip0) device, the system spontaniously reboots (and I can't

Re: 4.0-current install problem(s)(cannot mount root)

1999-05-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Following up on my own mail... I applied the patch below from John Birrell, and the boot process got farther, but still fails. Chasing the problem alittle farther I found the following in ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c: rootdev = makedev(255, mfs_minor++); printf(

Re: 4.0-current install problem(s)(error mounting root)

1999-05-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following patch and John Birrell's patch posted earlier appear to fix the problem when booting a 4.0-current install floppy(kern.flp). The DEVT_FASCIST macro is incorrect and does the wrong thing when the device id 'x' passed into makedev is 255. Thanks, John Index: kern_conf.c =

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa ida.c

1999-05-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm moving this to -current from -cvs which I beleive is more appropriate... >> Is this a driver for a RAID controller or something else? I'm just >> curious because on the Compaq servers I have there are some disk >> status lights (disk OK/online/failure, etc) on each individual >> hot-s

Double panic on reboot (4.0-19990527-SNAP)

1999-06-03 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I've installed 4.0-19990527-SNAP on some machines for testing. The system runs fine, but has some problems when trying to reboot. The system panics when starting to mount the file systems. It then prints out some information about the panic, and proceeds to panic a 2nd time and reboot.

sysinstall manpage installation question

1999-06-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I have a -current machine which I use to run a: cd /usr/src && make world && cd release && make release every night. On this machine, the sysinstall manpage is not installed onto the system during make world. % man sysinstall No manual entry for sysinstall % chroot /snap/rel

make release fixit floppy out of space

1999-06-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, So, what do we get to chop out of the already miniscule system today? This has been happenning for the last 3 days... Thanks, John Making fixit floppy. disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 6. Warning: 1216 sec