Re: 6-STABLE snapshot (background fsck) lock-up

2006-08-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Did you get a chance to look at those screenshots? I'm curious to know if you also think it is gjournal related. I've stopped loading gjournal, and I've had no other related deadlocks. This patch was not yet merged to

Re: 6-STABLE snapshot (background fsck) lock-up

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Anderson
On 08/24/06 05:54, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Did you get a chance to look at those screenshots? I'm curious to know if you also think it is gjournal related. I've stopped loading gjournal, and I've had no other related deadlocks.

Re: About loader(8) forth

2006-08-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sorry, my mistake. :-( Oliver Fromme wrote: Oh, I forgot to mention that the word `` . '' cannot be used in interpret mode, but only in interpret mode (i.e. ^ Only in _compile_ mode, of course. Sorry for the confusion. Best regards Oliver

Re: get DMI information in kernel

2006-08-24 Thread Adrian Steinmann
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:48:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can get the System Informations [using smbios] , but how do i get OEM Strings? You can poke around in BIOS memory using bios_oem_strings() from sys/i386/i386/bios.c These two show you how it's done for Soekris, Advantech, and

doadump at pcpu.h:165

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel A.
Hi guys, My server crashes very often and it's very random. So not long ago, I was suggested that I read the FreeBSD Handbook pages about kernel debugging, and here is the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIENUB $ kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.3 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads:

Re: The proper way to open a file from inside the kernel

2006-08-24 Thread Kim Shrier
On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Joseph Koshy wrote: I am experimenting with modifying a kernel module and I need to be able to open/read/write/close a file from within the module. Is there a preferred way to do this? Are there any locking or buffering issues that I need to be aware of?

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Anderson
On 08/20/06 04:21, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: I'm tired of trying to use rsync or gcp (which doesn't like symlinks often) to copy trees of files/directories using hard links, so I added the gcp-ish options -a and -l. ... Comments? Flames? Committers

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Eric Anderson wrote: On 08/20/06 04:21, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: I'm tired of trying to use rsync or gcp (which doesn't like symlinks often) to copy trees of files/directories using hard links, so I added the gcp-ish options -a and -l. ...

Re: Forcing the kernel-toolchain to jive with my new port

2006-08-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R. Tyler Ballance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : Hash: SHA1 : : I've finally found time to work on my L4::BSD project again, and I'm : getting back into the building of the kernel and it's various : friends alongside

Re: get DMI information in kernel

2006-08-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hello, | how do i get DMI Informations (stuff displayed by dmidecode) in a kernel module? | | I need some System Information like Vendor,Model and OEM String identifying hardware on a Thinkpad. | | Can anybody give me a hint on that? You can look at the ipmi(4)

Re: About loader(8) forth

2006-08-24 Thread donxc
Matteo Riondato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to understand how the loader forth works to see if it's possible to develop something similar to knoppix boot menu and use it for FreeSBIE. Just to have a try, I replaced /boot/beastie.4th with file a containing only: . Welcome

Re: 6-STABLE snapshot (background fsck) lock-up

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Anderson
On 08/24/06 05:54, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Did you get a chance to look at those screenshots? I'm curious to know if you also think it is gjournal related. I've stopped loading gjournal, and I've had no other related deadlocks.

Re: doadump at pcpu.h:165

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel A.
Daniel A. wrote: Hi guys, My server crashes very often and it's very random. So not long ago, I was suggested that I read the FreeBSD Handbook pages about kernel debugging, and here is the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIENUB $ kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.3 [GDB will not be able to debug