Linux-Development-Sys Digest #322, Volume #6 Sat, 23 Jan 99 23:13:58 EST
Contents:
Re: TAO: the ultimate OS (jl gomez)
Re: numeric keypad and rxvt ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: glibc2.0.7 ldd {somefile} FAILS (Andreas Jaeger)
2.2.0-pre9, will not 'make menuconfig' (Son Trung Nguyen)
HELP: ATA/ATAPI cd-rom programming (Javier Reyes)
Lightnux, the slim Linux ("Pascal Ferrari")
Re: Linux Phase 2: A Consumer Operating System (David Magda)
Re: 2.2.0-pre9, will not 'make menuconfig' (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Newbie Question (marc-paul lee)
Re: How can I build a Linux system from scratch - NO distribution? (Jens Kristian
Søgaard)
Re: Modest next goal for Linux (Tim Smith)
Re: Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux) (Adrian
'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder)
Re: disheartened gnome developer (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: Modest next goal for Linux (Bruce Stephens)
Pattern in network errors...kernel problem? ("D. Stimits")
Re: test box (Frank Hale)
nfs client file corruption (Paul Vojta)
Framebuffer on ATI XPert@Play PCI and other stuff for pre9 (gpasa)
Re: TAO: the ultimate OS (Tim Smith)
Re: 2.2.0-pre9, will not 'make menuconfig' (Stephen Sill)
nfs client file corruption (Paul Vojta)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jl gomez)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: TAO: the ultimate OS
Date: 23 Jan 1999 21:50:14 GMT
Dude, you need to play "Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head!". :)
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: numeric keypad and rxvt
Date: 23 Jan 1999 21:43:29 GMT
Franck ZOCCOLO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Using xterm, I'm able to use the numeric keypad of my keyboard : It
> displays numbers when I press a key...
> BUT
> I'm unable to make it working correctly using rxvt (in fact, it's not
> exactly rxvt, but wterm, a WindowMaker port of rxvt). For example, when
> I press the "4" key, rxvt displays "q".
Then use xterm (rxvt, provides partial support for the numeric keypad).
Both emulate more/less a DEC vt100 which uses escape sequences for setting
the keypad into/out-of numeric mode.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glibc2.0.7 ldd {somefile} FAILS
Date: 23 Jan 1999 22:30:09 +0100
>>>>> Mark Swanson writes:
> ldd always fails. If I:
> [root@linux:lib] file /bin/vim
> /bin/vim: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically
> linked, stripped
> *this shows it is a dynamically linked executable*
> If I then:
> [root@linux:lib] ldd /bin/vim
> not a dynamic executable
I guess that vim is a libc5 binary?
> *Arg.* I'd *really* like this to work!
It will be fixed in glibc 2.1.
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for pgp-key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Son Trung Nguyen)
Subject: 2.2.0-pre9, will not 'make menuconfig'
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:24:14 GMT
I got pre-release for Kernel 2.2 patch 9 and tried to get the
'menuconfig' up but it comes to a halt with the following message.
Anyone know how to get pass this? Please email, thanks.
Using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
Preparing scripts: functions, parsing...............................done.
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From: Javier Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: ATA/ATAPI cd-rom programming
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:26:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Guys,
I need to make a driver to control an ATA/ATAPI cdrom. The driver
only needs to be able to read an sector from the cd-rom and dump it
into a memory buffer. I know that it is matter of sending a bunch of
commands through the ATAPI interface and wait for the response.
Could you please give me some hint or better, a source code example ?
Javier
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Javier Reyes
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Pascal Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lightnux, the slim Linux
Date: 24 Jan 1999 00:14:27 GMT
Yesterday night I had a dream :
I was visiting one of my clients' office and was looking at the people
working there :
- 8 secretaries typing mail as usual on their old x386 Win3.1 machine,
- 2 accountants entering book items from their term emulator using my
remote char-based accounting application running on the Linux Server,
- 3 managers using their wonderful Pentium Pro box under Win98 one hour per
day for just playing Doom.
In my dream I was unplugging the x386 machines, leaving to the users their
monitor, keyboard and mouse and plugging these peripherals back on a small
and flat box I placed under their monitor. This box was just offering a
VGA, a keyboard, a mouse and a network connection plugs : no floppy drive,
no CD and even no hard drive.
This box contained its own OS stored in a simple PROM. This OS was a tiny
Linux Kernel with just the minimal functions for good networking : Web
browser, terminal emulation and GUI. When the users plugged on their new
machine, there was no OS loading delay and no noise. They immediatly got
their connection to the server. The accountants kept using my accounting
application without any change. The secretaries worked on a new word
processor, running on the remote Linux server, providing Word 6 compatible
documents. And the managers, between two Doom games, could open and read
these documents from their Office 98 word processor.
Not only I could sell these nice boxes at an interesting price, but my
client gave me for free all their x386 CPUs, thanking me for taking off
this obsolete stuff. And with this old material I could build new boxes by
using the inside components, and sell back these boxes in a new client
office.
When I woke up this morning I went on the Web and looked for this tiny OS.
Unfortunately for me, the idea was already taken by QNX. QNX's OS can be
stored entirely on one floppy (1.44 MB)! Unbelievable!...But it is a
commercial product with the well known serie of development licenses,
run-time licenses, paying options and so on...The final bill raises to
several thousands $. And you remain in the hands of a commercial structure
and its changing pricing options, most often going higher than lower.
So my idea is the following :
Linux is getting fat. The last Red Hat distribution is about 800 MB and
needs at least 32 MB RAM to run efficiently. This is acceptable for a
server machine where you need more functionalities and which has higher
architecture.
But for a workstation, it becomes too much. So, why not to write a very
light and packaged version of the current Linux, with only the minimal
functions for networking easily? This "Lightnux" should be no more than 4
MB if we want to store it on a simple PROM.
Do anybody have an experience in that way? Do you think we can obtain
efficient results quickly by using standard Linux components, or is it
necessary to develop specific functions?
Thank you for your answer.
Pascal Ferrari
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Magda)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux Phase 2: A Consumer Operating System
Date: 24 Jan 1999 00:00:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) writes:
[...]
>And it bloody supposed to be one. Excuse me, but WTF do we need marketdroids
>on our necks? Sorry, I'm sick and tired of people who can't program their way
>out of the manhole (perfectly OK with me) *AND* have a temerity to decide what
He's giving us options for the future. Whether we follow them is up to us
and not written in stone. We are just beginning to see the commercialization
(sp?) of GNU/Linux and we have to think about it. Even now, RPM is the most
popular package manager but dselect is supposed to be better. Is this the old
VHS vs. Beta cliche again? I'm currently using RH5.0 on my main system (Slack.
on the other) and I find it annoying to download a .rpm only to find out I
need another.
>should we do. To all such persons: Linux is not controlled by your ilk. Yes,
>there are things done without Management. If it shatters your world it's *your*
>problem. Suffer or change your parasitic beliefs or scream and die if you can't
Relax. I don't know you personally, but from your last two posts it seems that
you are a zealot. There is room for everyone. There's Slackware and Debian,
and then there's RH and Caldera. Right tools for the right job. This is one of
the things I like a BeOS. Mac-like for my Grandma, BSD underneath for me.
Should there be a Linux Inc. run my Linus? Not necesarrily . Should there be
something for people who want some type of "commercial" safety net for people
who want a more "traditional" (outdated?) approach to things? Why not?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: 2.2.0-pre9, will not 'make menuconfig'
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:20:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Son Trung Nguyen wrote:
>I got pre-release for Kernel 2.2 patch 9 and tried to get the
>'menuconfig' up but it comes to a halt with the following message.
>Anyone know how to get pass this? Please email, thanks.
Yes ...
>Using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
>Preparing scripts: functions, parsing...............................done.
... use make config. Looks like menuconfig does not work in general
or whatsoever but you can wait until it works or have a new kernel
up and running *now* ...
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marc-paul lee)
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:44:13 GMT
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:21:06 -0600, "Charles Riley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I can't get my modem to work in Linux...(I just started installing today...)
>
>Chip Riley
i'm a newbie, too, and had the same problem with my modem. turns out
it's a "winmodem" and will only work with windows. (apparently it
takes advantage of the windows software to get rid of some chips on
board, thus saving hardware costs). i had to buy a new modem that
will work with any o/s and then everything was fine.
in short, my guess is that you have a winmodem and you'll need to buy
a new one. i found a good deal at egghead.com and compusa on a
cardinal modem. seems 33.6 is ot so popular anymore. : )
good luck!
** mp **
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Kristian Søgaard)
Subject: Re: How can I build a Linux system from scratch - NO distribution?
Date: 22 Jan 1999 16:20:09 +0100
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> a system with X-Windows and various components taking a very long time to
> appear (i.e. netscape and emacs) when my network is not up. Various other
This is probably a DNS problem. Setup your DNS server to reply with a
"nonexistent domain"-error when an internet-domain is requested
( ofcourse it should reply normally when connected to the net ).
This makes netscape behave properly.
--
Jens Kristian Søgaard,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Modest next goal for Linux
Date: 23 Jan 1999 17:07:19 -0800
In article <78db8c$g43$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The easy way is to run two machines. Run nothing but the Xserver
Another easy way to solve the problem is to run NT, which seems to handle
running out of memory better than Linux 2.0.x does.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.software.year-2000,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:22:38 GMT
On 22 Jan 1999 03:12:15 GMT, Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[...], then it will be time for renaming it to
>c.s.y2k+38 or similar. Or keep the name and be the Y2K+38 newsgroup.=20
Or rename it to something more general, like c.s.date-problems or
so.
--
Greets from over there
Dagurashibanipal
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nothing travels faster than light.
With, of course, the exception of bad news. -- D. Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: disheartened gnome developer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:31:26 GMT
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:06:08 GMT, David M. Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:40:22 GMT, steve mcadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Not using desire/competition as the motivating force in an economic
>>system is what put the USSR in its current condition.
>
>The Russian Federation is in much worse shape after years of free market
>reforms.
It's not directly about evils of "free markets;" it's about the evils
of throwing a nation from one group of despots essentially to another.
They may have eliminated "Sovietism;" when there wasn't any major "moral
will" available to replace it, it's no surprise that the results are
not wonderful.
Unfortunately, giving "freedom" to people not used to it, whilst not tying
down the substantial group of former "criminals" that ran black markets
has the effect of producing a country that lacks a useful justice system.
The US has the most ridiculed justice system of late, what with respective
cases from OJ, Gates, and Clinton. Nonetheless, the fact that it was
*reasonably* functional (perhaps up until recently) allowed people to
act privately, establishing contracts and other legal arrangements, with
the expectation of *reasonably* fair treatment. (Albeit not without
problems.)
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to Linux today?..."
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Modest next goal for Linux
Date: 24 Jan 1999 01:38:19 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith) writes:
> In article <78db8c$g43$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The easy way is to run two machines. Run nothing but the Xserver
>
> Another easy way to solve the problem is to run NT, which seems to
> handle running out of memory better than Linux 2.0.x does.
I think that cure may be worse than the disease. A better approach
might be to run *BSD, which probably has more mature strategies for
memory handling, although I don't know whether they're better than
Linux's or not.
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:43:32 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pattern in network errors...kernel problem?
Hi:
A while back I posted some bad checksum results, and it looked like the problem really
was with the
other side of the connect. Currently this is with 2.1.130, and all related package
versions up to
date. The base install was SuSE 5.3. Before I continue, here is a sample error message
from
/var/log/messages:
kernel: TCPv4 bad checksum from 205.180.83.80:a82a to 209.60.72.109:0000,
len=1480/1480/1500
That one is from the egcs site, http://egcs.cygnus.com/, which I can *almost*
guarantee isn't the
fault of the egcs site. The same problem occurs on several other sites, sometimes
temporarily,
sometimes permanently, many of them being well-known sites (for example, SuSE, Red
Hat).
In the 2.1.130 source, I tracked the message down to file
/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c,
function
int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned short len)
The pattern of the error that I found is this: each error lists a len=first/2nd/3rd
format, such
that the first and 2nd are always equal, and the 3rd is always 20 bytes over the first
and 2nd. Is
it part of protocols that every bad checksum site would have the 3rd exactly 20 bytes
over the first
and 2nd? If this is not a protocol thing, or due to something otherwise explainable,
then I find it
very suspicious that all these sites are not functioning correctly such that they all
produce
exactly the 20 byte checksum error difference between the 2nd and 3rd lengths listed.
And I know it
isn't the hardware, because it has been tested on a 2nd machine as well as rebooting
the first one
to other (yucky) o/s's.
Can someone tell me what it means when this 3rd length is always 20 greater than the
other 2
lengths?
Thanks!
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: test box
Date: 24 Jan 1999 02:47:36 GMT
@maine.rr.com wrote:
>
> hey guys there a box up at 204.210.86.79 i've setup a user test/test to
> assit your tasks... telnet in see what u can do .. root it whatever
Get a life. We could care less about your box.
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Website: http://www.franksstuff.com/
"Forget Java, 100% Pure Linux"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vojta)
Subject: nfs client file corruption
Date: 23 Jan 1999 19:20:41 -0800
Folks:
I have been experiencing occasional file corruption when accessing files
in nfs-mounted directories.
My system:
nfs client: Sun Sparc 5, running Linux-2.2.0-pre9 with Sparc patches
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/davem/
nfs server: Sun server, SunOS 5.5, sun4d.
The problem can be consistently reproduced by doing the following (in tcsh):
On the nfs client:
cd /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/kernel
foreach x (*.c)
zoo a /nfs-mounted-dir/foobar $x
end
Then, on the nfs server:
zoo -test foobar
[The directory /usr/src/linux/... is on my local hard disk.]
I have also experienced some file corruption using mailx, where /var/spool/mail
is mounted from a SunOS 4.1.3 system. I remedied that by having procmail
deliver my mail to ~/.Mail, mounted from the Solaris machine mentioned above.
Simple things like copying files, etc., never cause me problems. The problem
seems to be with all the random access to the file.
Upon further tests, I find that replacing the foreach loop with just
zoo a /nfs-mounted-dir/foobar *.c
also causes corruption, but not as often.
No, it is not a bug in zoo. I know that because no program, however buggy,
should cause a situation where `sum foobar.zoo' produces different answers
on the server and on the client. (And yes, I am using /usr/ucb/sum on the
server, so the answers really should be the same.)
Help would be much appreciated.
--Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: gpasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Framebuffer on ATI XPert@Play PCI and other stuff for pre9
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:37:19 +0100
-- Hi,
I'm running pre4 without the ATI Mach64 console stuff, but
with framebuffer enabled and it works rather well. My PC is
a K6-2 3D 300MHz, 128M RAM , Monster 3D2, booting on a scsi
AHA 3940 based HDD, with an original 3Com 3c509 ISA PnP ethernet card
and an ASUSCOM ISDN ISA PnP card. My m/board is an ASUS TX-95E
LILO is launched by the NT5.0 loader, from a file bootlinx.bin on c:.
What I must say from kernel starting from pre5 and to pre9 inclusive is
:
1. (this is from all 2.2.0-pre releases) my 3c509 ether card is only
detected if I build the driver as a module. If it is built in the
kernel the detection doesn't work.
2. I cannot start an app which uses my Voodoo2 card. I'm using Glide
2.53 glibc version (I'm running a RedHat 5.2 originally based system )
and Mesa 3.0 glibc too without blanking my screen an probably hanging
up my PC. Or it is frozen if it means something different. Anyway I
cannot use my PC anymore without restarting. GLQuake start, but when
launching the demo it stops and I have to reboot.
3. The framebuffer stuff doesn't work well. If I build it in the kernel,
On startup, after the LILO prompt, I get a lot of garbage on the screen,
the printer initializes, I can even imagine the Linux logo to appears in
the garbage, but then nothing.
This is however better than in the previous pre releases (past pre4 but
before pre9) as now the garbage is moving. In pre8 it was fixed. And in
pre9 I can see the logo position quite well.
More precisely what I see is a mess of vertical lines (red, green and
white) and the screen seems to be periodic as the logo appears 3 to 4
times. I cannot see anything correctly. Everything is made of a lot of
dots or little patterns.
In pre4 the atyfb doesn't detected my ATI card, but vesafb worked fine
and
I get a nice linux logo (How can I customize the logo ?) and I could
play
quake(2) on my Voodoo2 and other Voodoo2 based applications.
Now it seems that the card is recognized but i cannot play. Even if the
fb stuff is not
in the kernel, I can start linux and it seems to work well but I cannot
play quake(2) or run any Voodoo based application.
--
Sincerely yours,
Pasa Guglielmo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: TAO: the ultimate OS
Date: 23 Jan 1999 17:26:14 -0800
steve mcadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Better yet, show us the agreement you made with Tao Systems that let's you
>>use the name of /their/ OS
>
>I doubt they can prevent it. It's not like they invented the word Tao
>ya know, it's been around for what, 4,000 years? -steve
You can doubt it, but you'd be wrong. They'd have no trouble preventing it.
See any elementary discussion of trademark law for more information.
--Tim Smith
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From: Stephen Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.0-pre9, will not 'make menuconfig'
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:33:02 GMT
Son Trung Nguyen wrote:
>
> I got pre-release for Kernel 2.2 patch 9 and tried to get the
> 'menuconfig' up but it comes to a halt with the following message.
> Anyone know how to get pass this? Please email, thanks.
>
> Using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
> Preparing scripts: functions, parsing...............................done.
do you have the latest version of all the compiling tools??(eg. make)??
I have make 3.77 and gcc 2.8.1 with all the appropriate updated libs,
and pre9 compiles fine on my dual cpu machine. And best of all, it's
FAST
--
Meester, do you vant to buy a duck?
-
Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vojta)
Subject: nfs client file corruption
Date: 23 Jan 1999 19:33:17 -0800
Folks:
I have been experiencing occasional file corruption when accessing files
in nfs-mounted directories.
My system:
nfs client: Sun Sparc 5, running Linux-2.2.0-pre9 with Sparc patches
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/davem/
nfs server: Sun server, SunOS 5.5, sun4d.
The problem can be consistently reproduced by doing the following (in tcsh):
On the nfs client:
cd /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/kernel
foreach x (*.c)
zoo a /nfs-mounted-dir/foobar $x
end
Then, on the nfs server:
zoo -test foobar
[The directory /usr/src/linux/... is on my local hard disk.]
I have also experienced some file corruption using mailx, where /var/spool/mail
is mounted from a SunOS 4.1.3 system. I remedied that by having procmail
deliver my mail to ~/.Mail, mounted from the Solaris machine mentioned above.
Simple things like copying files, etc., never cause me problems. The problem
seems to be with all the random access to the file.
Upon further tests, I find that replacing the foreach loop with just
zoo a /nfs-mounted-dir/foobar *.c
also causes corruption, but not as often.
No, it is not a bug in zoo. I know that because no program, however buggy,
should cause a situation where `sum foobar.zoo' produces different answers
on the server and on the client. (And yes, I am using /usr/ucb/sum on the
server, so the answers really should be the same.)
Help would be much appreciated.
--Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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