Re: Dell Precision 330 (Pentium 4, i850 chipset, 3c905c)

2001-01-05 Thread Jon Burgess
What is the output of 'lspci -v'? If it says that the chip revision is '78' then this is one of the new 3C905CX (note the CX) NIC's or ASIC on the motherboard. I've seen a problem with the 3c59x.c driver and this chip, it can send packets but not receive any. The 3Com 3c90x-1.0.0i.tgz driver at

2.4.0 tulip bug (was: And oh, btw..)

2001-01-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: >Changes since the prerelease: >... >Matti Aarnio: > - teach tulip driver about media types 5 and 6 This part of the patch introduces a bug in 2.4.0, as noticed by gcc: media.c: In function `tulip_select_media': media.c:268: warning: unused variable

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-05 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> I need to look at fdisk, because it is doing things wrong. I don't think so, unless you have a really old version. > Linux sees the correct size, but fdisk still sees 32 GB. > Probably a recompile / upgrade. Yes, upgrade in case your version is older than 2.10i. Andries - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.4 todo list update

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
> * VFS?VM - mmap/write deadlock (demo code seems to show lock > is there) Linus fixed that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Error building 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-05 Thread John Summerfield
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o

Re: Dell Precision 330 (Pentium 4, i850 chipset, 3c905c)

2001-01-05 Thread I Lee Hetherington
Sorry to follow up, but I forgot to note that it is trying to share IRQ 11 for aic7xx and eth0. However, even if I move the Adaptec card to another slot, where it gets IRQ 10, still no joy for eth0 on IRQ 11. --Lee Hetherington - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Dell Precision 330 (Pentium 4, i850 chipset, 3c905c)

2001-01-05 Thread I Lee Hetherington
Andrew Morton wrote: > Please do. The boot-time messages which come out of the driver > would be interesting. It would help if you add `debug=7' to > the 3c59x modprobe command line also. OK. I've included dmesg output due to modprobe with debug=7 followed by ifup (using pump -- problems

2.4 todo list update

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Ted, in the last few weeks quite a few of the bugs listed on your (excellent) http://linux24.sourceforge.net/ have been fixed. Here is a list of the VM bugs that are on your list and can be moved to the "fixed" category: * truncate->invalidate_inode_pages removes mapping information from

Re: More better in mount(2)

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
Nathan Scott wrote: > On Jan 5, 3:26am, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > ... > > This filesystem mount option parsing code is completely ad hoc, and uses > > strtok which is horribly horribly broken. (Do man strtok and read the > > 'Bugs' section.) > > > > It would be worth thinking about how to do

reset_xmit_timer errors with 2.4.0

2001-01-05 Thread Patrick Michael Kane
Hello! I've installed 2.4.0 on a system that has been tracking 2.3.xx/2.4test for quite a while. With 2.4.0 installed, I've started to see the following errors: reset_xmit_timer sk=cfd889a0 1 when=0x3b4a, caller=c01e0748 reset_xmit_timer sk=cfd889a0 1 when=0x3a80, caller=c01e0748

Re: 2.2.18: do_try_to_free_pages

2001-01-05 Thread Brad Hartin
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > [If you don't mind, please help test 2.4.0 a bit more. I'm > pretty confident it's better than 2.2.18 when under load, > but maybe the device drivers you use still need some tweaking] I'll be trying to move to 2.4.0 again soon. First 2.4.0-test* I

Re: Anyone else interested in a high-precision monotonic counter?

2001-01-05 Thread Christopher Friesen
Manfred Bartz wrote: > Why a new system call? Well, you'd be accessing a different kernel variable--"ytime" instead of "xtime". This new variable wouldn't be adjusted when the system time/date was, it would start at zero and always increase. > regarding a: it could have microsecond

Re: 2.2.18: do_try_to_free_pages

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Brad Hartin wrote: > Jan 4 00:06:05 osprey kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for X... > Jan 4 00:06:06 osprey last message repeated 6 times This bug is fixed in 2.2.19-pre2 and later. Oh, and 2.4.0 of course doesn't have it either ;) [If you don't mind, please help

Kernel halts rock solid on assigning ip (ne2k-pci)

2001-01-05 Thread Aschwin van der Woude
Hi, I have a problem with a network-driver. The ne2k-pci modules loads fine, no problem at all. Everything works like a sunshine. But as soon as I try to assign an IP-adress the whole system halts rock-solid, the magic sysrq combinations don't even work anymore. I am not sure if this is due to

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 05, 2001 02:04:08 PM +0100 Claas Langbehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: >> This patch is meant to be applied on top of the reiserfs >> 3.6.23 patch to get everything working in the new prerelease >> kernels. The

2.2.18: do_try_to_free_pages

2001-01-05 Thread Brad Hartin
I recieved the following messages from the kernel yesterda morning. It doesn't appear that any running programs actually died, or ran out of memory (128M physical/ 256M swap, only about 150M total or so in use when I got back on the machine. As a side note, during times of what I consider only

Re: Network oddity....

2001-01-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: >Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:08:49 +0100 (MET) >From: Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Subject: Network oddity > > >Hi all, > >I have a server, and it reports ("netstat -a") > >tcp

Re: Fw: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Hahn
> since Mark posted his views to the list, I figured I could safely post the > conversation I've been having with him in email which is universally considered rude, if not illegal. in any case, please don't respond to this thread, which is quite off-topic. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:46:19PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > recovery. Because the ext3 journal is just a series of data blocks to > > be copied into the filesystem (rather than "actions" to be done), it > > doesn't matter how many times it is done. The recovery flags are not > > reset

[PATCH] up to 50% faster sys_poll()

2001-01-05 Thread Manfred
sys_poll spends around 1/2 of the execution time allocating / freeing a few bytes temporary memory. The attached patch tries to avoid these allocation by using the stack - usually only a few bytes are needed, kmalloc is used for the rest. The result: one poll of stdin is down from 1736 cpu

reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Claas Langbehn
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > This patch is meant to be applied on top of the reiserfs > 3.6.23 patch to get everything working in the new prerelease > kernels. The order is: > > untar linux-2.4.0-prerelease.tar.bz2 > apply linux-2.4.0-test12-reiserfs-3.6.23.gz

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
Mark Hahn wrote: > > I personaly do not trust the 2.4.x kernel entirely yet, and would prefer to > ... > > afraid that this may partialy criple 2.2 driver development. > > egads! how can there be "development" on a *stable* kernel line? > > maybe this is the time to reconsider

Re: Update of quota patches

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
> and added a few comments. I also fixed compilation problems > (when quota was disabled) - Alan, were there any problems > I didn't fix (I've seen you and someone else were fixing some AFAIK the only reported problem was the compile with no quotas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: agpgart problem on 2.4.0-ac1

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
> wanted to try the latest stuff, but X fails to start now. Yep > dmesg part: > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 93M > agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
> Unless Stephen says otherwise, my understanding is that a crash during > journal recovery will just mean the journal is replayed again at the next > recovery. Because the ext3 journal is just a series of data blocks to > be copied into the filesystem (rather than "actions" to be done), it >

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> No. 2.2.* handles large drives since 2.2.14. > This looks more like you used the jumper to clip the drive to 32GB. > Don't use it and get full capacity. > If your BIOS hangs when it sees such a large drive so that you > cannot avoid using the jumper, use setmax in your boot scripts, > or use a

Update of quota patches

2001-01-05 Thread Jan Kara
Hello. So I've updated my quota patches for 2.4.0-prerelease. I also fixed one locking bug in implementation of new quotafile format and added a few comments. I also fixed compilation problems (when quota was disabled) - Alan, were there any problems I didn't fix (I've seen you and someone

[PATCH] 2.4.0 drivers/atm/Makefile...

2001-01-05 Thread Jan Rekorajski
...is still broken. It does not build Fore 200e driver. Jan --- linux/drivers/atm/Makefile.orig Tue Jan 2 10:18:25 2001 +++ linux/drivers/atm/Makefile Tue Jan 2 12:00:05 2001 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ endif endif -obj-$(CONFIG_ATM_FORE200E) += fore200e.o $(FORE200E_FW_OBJS)

Re: [PATCH] dcache 2nd chance replacement

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Evans
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:59:49PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Unfortunately you seem to ignore my arguments, so lets > > I've not ignored them, as said they were either obviously wrong of offtopic. > > Would the two of you ajourn this debate to

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:01:37AM +0100, Stefan Traby wrote: > > Please tell me how to specify "noreplay" for the initial "/" mount > :) You don't have to: the filesystem knows when a root mount is happening, and can do the extra work then to make sure that the mount isn't failed on a

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Powering down a VCR whilst recording can damage the tape or even > worse have the tap get jammed in the video. I have also had a TV die > because it was unpowered from the mains without being switched off > first. > Sure, these things don't always happen -- but they

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > In what way? A root fs readonly mount is usually designed to prevent ^^^ > the filesystem from being stomped on during the initial boot so that > fsck can run without the filesystem being volatile. That's the only >

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Nicholas Knight wrote: > While I understand the reasoning behind this, and might do the > same thing if I was in your position, I feel it may be a > mistake. I personaly do not trust the 2.4.x kernel entirely yet, > and would prefer to wait for 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 before upgrading

Re: How can I create root disk in Redhat 6.0

2001-01-05 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike wrote: > Hi !! > > When i boot linux from rescue disk, i get following message: > > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded in RAM disk and press ENTER > > Now how can i create a root disk... I am trying to boot Redhat 6.0 > > > Regards, >

Re: Can I submit a bug report on this mailing list?

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Evan Thompson wrote: > I hear about the 2.4.0 release. I have, in my mailbox, many > messages titled "Re: And oh, btw...", BUT NO ORIGINAL MESSAGE! > What happened? Is my stupid mailserver selective or something? > > Anyways. My bug report is: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] does >

Re: How can I create root disk in Redhat 6.0

2001-01-05 Thread Devik
Mike, there are docs named HOWTO-. There is also one about boot/root disks. I recommend you to boot from redhat instalation CD and after launch pres Alt-F2 (or F3,4... a can't remember) to get into free console with bash prompt. Then mount your hacked(TM) disk and try to repair. devik > When

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:06:47AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Stephen, you write: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > BTW, what inumber do you want for whiteouts? IIRC, we decided to use > > > the same entry type as UFS does (14), but I don't

Re: agpgart problem on 2.4.0-ac1

2001-01-05 Thread Manfred
> EIP: 0010:[<>] > Call Trace: [] [] [] [] > [] [] [] > [] [] [] > > Code: Bad EIP value. Could you parse your oops through ksymoops? Probably someone called an uninitialized function pointer, or there was a stack overrun. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this

Re: IEEE1394 2.4.0 (final) compile problems

2001-01-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > video1394.o(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `ohci_csr_rom' > ohci1394.o(.data+0x0): first defined here Known bug, fix attached below. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven diff -urN /mnt/kernel/clean/linuxprereleaseac5/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c

Re: Network oddity....

2001-01-05 Thread Devik
Interesting, yesterday I have TCP problems with my three independent systems. They all acts as simple firewalls with MASQ. Yesterday they all suddenly stopped responding to ssh TCP connections to IP on eth1 (internal net) but they continued to work on IP attached to eth0 and lo. The problem

subscrive

2001-01-05 Thread CÍCERO Campelo
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lvm: hw error or misconfig?

2001-01-05 Thread Narancs 1
Dear developers! (sorry for the long mail) We have a compaq proliant server with NO raid and 5 scsi discs: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: BD00911934 Rev: 3B02 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 bounded together to a volume

Re: INIT: No inittab file found

2001-01-05 Thread Mike
I tried linux single but it says " no such image" Actually someone hacked my linux box and now i can't boot it. Can somone help me. "J . A . Magallon" wrote: > On 2001.01.04 Mike wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am unable to boot my linux. I got the following message during boot. > > > >

How can I create root disk in Redhat 6.0

2001-01-05 Thread Mike
Hi !! When i boot linux from rescue disk, i get following message: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded in RAM disk and press ENTER Now how can i create a root disk... I am trying to boot Redhat 6.0 Regards, Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: Where to get quota.

2001-01-05 Thread Jan Kara
Hello. > Perhaps the help text for disk quotas needs to be updated, or at least the > howto for quotas. > > The help text for disk quotas says to see the Quota mini-HOWTO. The howto > says to get the quota source from: > >

Re: So, what about kwhich on RH6.2?

2001-01-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: can't we just hardwire `kgcc' into the build system and be done with all this kwhich stuff? It's just a symlink >>> >>> And break compilation on all non RedHat 7, non connectiva systems ? >>> Would you volunteer to handle the support

compile error on 2.4.0

2001-01-05 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o r128_cce.o r128_cce.c r128_cce.c: In function

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > Why not DEB? Because Keith doesn't have a Debian system? He just provides the rpms as a service, he doesn't have to do that. Install the "alien" package on your machine and you will be able to convert between rpm and deb.

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:12AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > > Yes, and so long as your journal is not on another partition/disk things > will eventually be set right. The combination of a partially updated > filesystem and its journal is in some sense

agpgart problem on 2.4.0-ac1

2001-01-05 Thread Narancs 1
Dear all! wanted to try the latest stuff, but X fails to start now. dmesg part: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 93M agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual

why getch() cann't work in rpm package's %post section?

2001-01-05 Thread kouqian
a program using getch() function (included in curses.h) runs OK when it executes in system prompt. when I put it in rpm package's %post section, it can start running until getch() statement. press any key to test getch(), getch() has no response! Can anybody tell me how to resolve this

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

2001-01-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.05 Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:18:46AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > > Silly question, but have you realized that you don't have to enable > > SMP in kernel to do multithreading ? > > > > That depends on your definition: If you really want to run

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

2001-01-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.05 Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > In my own work I mostly do multithreaded software development and I just sort > of > felt like it would be good karma to enable it even if my machine didn't > support > it. Go figure. So this was mostly a user error, although I guess I've been >

IEEE1394 2.4.0 (final) compile problems

2001-01-05 Thread Dax Kelson
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support # CONFIG_IEEE1394=y # CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX is not set CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y # CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Adding devices to dc2xx.c

2001-01-05 Thread Alastair Foster
Hello, and thank you to those who responded to my query about adding my Agfa ePhoto to the USB mass storage device database. I had no success with this (the machine locked hard on connecting the device), so I have decided to try it with the dc2xx driver. I have added it to

System Crash Kernel 2.4.0-test12 and 2.4.0-pre with XFree 4.0.2

2001-01-05 Thread Hans Freitag
Hi, [1.] One line summary of the problem: my System hangs up if I have a high load and if I use XFree. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I'm using XFree 4.0.2 on a Vodoo3 2000 Graphics Board. If I'm booting 2.4.0-test10 it works fine. If I'm booting 2.4.0-test12 or pre my

Memory Corruption

2001-01-05 Thread Ryan Sizemore
This message has a couple of questions to it, so maybe a few people might want to contribute to answering them all. My apologies in advance for the long length of this post. The Problem: I have an Alpha PC164 with 512 Meg of memory. As a friend and I were setting it up, we tried to compile

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-05 Thread Miles Lane
Michael D. Crawford wrote: > You might think this is great because of all the extra testing the new users > will do but I assert that it isn't. The environment for Linux is quite > different these days than when 2.2 or 2.0 were released. > > A lot of the people who will be using it are not

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:30:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > I agree. I can set up a "linux-hotplug" group using SourceForge if ... > I'm only proposing SourceForge as I can set up a list easily there > easily, and I don't know the right people to ask to get it

Re: You've Been Slashdotted

2001-01-05 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I gather from the combination of what I read on Slashdot and what folks replied here that the mirrors are actually lightly loaded, but Slashdot readers don't know about them because they couldn't read the home page at http://www.kernel.org that directed them to the mirror list. So I posted the

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-prerelease: preemptive kernel.

2001-01-05 Thread george anzinger
ludovic fernandez wrote: > > george anzinger wrote: > > > Roger Larsson wrote: > > > > > > > > This part can probably be put in a proper non inline function. > > > Cache issues... > > > +/* > > > +* At that point a scheduling is healthy iff: > > > +

Re: You've Been Slashdotted

2001-01-05 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I gather from the combination of what I read on Slashdot and what folks replied here that the mirrors are actually lightly loaded, but Slashdot readers don't know about them because they couldn't read the home page at http://www.kernel.org that directed them to the mirror list. So I posted the

Memory Corruption

2001-01-05 Thread Ryan Sizemore
This message has a couple of questions to it, so maybe a few people might want to contribute to answering them all. My apologies in advance for the long length of this post. The Problem: I have an Alpha PC164 with 512 Meg of memory. As a friend and I were setting it up, we tried to compile

System Crash Kernel 2.4.0-test12 and 2.4.0-pre with XFree 4.0.2

2001-01-05 Thread Hans Freitag
Hi, [1.] One line summary of the problem: my System hangs up if I have a high load and if I use XFree. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I'm using XFree 4.0.2 on a Vodoo3 2000 Graphics Board. If I'm booting 2.4.0-test10 it works fine. If I'm booting 2.4.0-test12 or pre my

Adding devices to dc2xx.c

2001-01-05 Thread Alastair Foster
Hello, and thank you to those who responded to my query about adding my Agfa ePhoto to the USB mass storage device database. I had no success with this (the machine locked hard on connecting the device), so I have decided to try it with the dc2xx driver. I have added it to

IEEE1394 2.4.0 (final) compile problems

2001-01-05 Thread Dax Kelson
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support # CONFIG_IEEE1394=y # CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX is not set CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y # CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

2001-01-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.05 Michael D. Crawford wrote: In my own work I mostly do multithreaded software development and I just sort of felt like it would be good karma to enable it even if my machine didn't support it. Go figure. So this was mostly a user error, although I guess I've been helpful

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

2001-01-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.05 Dominik Kubla wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:18:46AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: Silly question, but have you realized that you don't have to enable SMP in kernel to do multithreading ? That depends on your definition: If you really want to run multiple threads

agpgart problem on 2.4.0-ac1

2001-01-05 Thread Narancs 1
Dear all! wanted to try the latest stuff, but X fails to start now. dmesg part: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 93M agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: Why not DEB? Because Keith doesn't have a Debian system? He just provides the rpms as a service, he doesn't have to do that. Install the "alien" package on your machine and you will be able to convert between rpm and deb.

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:12AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: Yes, and so long as your journal is not on another partition/disk things will eventually be set right. The combination of a partially updated filesystem and its journal is in some sense a

compile error on 2.4.0

2001-01-05 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o r128_cce.o r128_cce.c r128_cce.c: In function

Re: So, what about kwhich on RH6.2?

2001-01-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: can't we just hardwire `kgcc' into the build system and be done with all this kwhich stuff? It's just a symlink And break compilation on all non RedHat 7, non connectiva systems ? Would you volunteer to handle the support load on l-k that

Re: Where to get quota.

2001-01-05 Thread Jan Kara
Hello. Perhaps the help text for disk quotas needs to be updated, or at least the howto for quotas. The help text for disk quotas says to see the Quota mini-HOWTO. The howto says to get the quota source from: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/subsystems/quota/all.tar.gz

lvm: hw error or misconfig?

2001-01-05 Thread Narancs 1
Dear developers! (sorry for the long mail) We have a compaq proliant server with NO raid and 5 scsi discs: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: BD00911934 Rev: 3B02 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 bounded together to a volume

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2001-01-05 Thread CÍCERO Campelo
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Re: Network oddity....

2001-01-05 Thread Devik
Interesting, yesterday I have TCP problems with my three independent systems. They all acts as simple firewalls with MASQ. Yesterday they all suddenly stopped responding to ssh TCP connections to IP on eth1 (internal net) but they continued to work on IP attached to eth0 and lo. The problem

Re: IEEE1394 2.4.0 (final) compile problems

2001-01-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: video1394.o(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `ohci_csr_rom' ohci1394.o(.data+0x0): first defined here Known bug, fix attached below. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven diff -urN /mnt/kernel/clean/linuxprereleaseac5/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c

Re: agpgart problem on 2.4.0-ac1

2001-01-05 Thread Manfred
EIP: 0010:[] Call Trace: [c8829bb0] [c8827000] [c8827068] [c8829d50] [c882aa00] [c8827000] [c01156cd] [c882] [c8827060] [c0108d5f] Code: Bad EIP value. Could you parse your oops through ksymoops? Probably someone called an uninitialized function pointer, or

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:06:47AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: Stephen, you write: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: BTW, what inumber do you want for whiteouts? IIRC, we decided to use the same entry type as UFS does (14), but I don't remember what

Re: How can I create root disk in Redhat 6.0

2001-01-05 Thread Devik
Mike, there are docs named HOWTO-. There is also one about boot/root disks. I recommend you to boot from redhat instalation CD and after launch pres Alt-F2 (or F3,4... a can't remember) to get into free console with bash prompt. Then mount your hacked(TM) disk and try to repair. devik When

Re: How can I create root disk in Redhat 6.0

2001-01-05 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike wrote: Hi !! When i boot linux from rescue disk, i get following message: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded in RAM disk and press ENTER Now how can i create a root disk... I am trying to boot Redhat 6.0 Regards, Mike man

Re: Can I submit a bug report on this mailing list?

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Evan Thompson wrote: I hear about the 2.4.0 release. I have, in my mailbox, many messages titled "Re: And oh, btw...", BUT NO ORIGINAL MESSAGE! What happened? Is my stupid mailserver selective or something? Anyways. My bug report is: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Nicholas Knight wrote: While I understand the reasoning behind this, and might do the same thing if I was in your position, I feel it may be a mistake. I personaly do not trust the 2.4.x kernel entirely yet, and would prefer to wait for 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 before upgrading

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In what way? A root fs readonly mount is usually designed to prevent ^^^ the filesystem from being stomped on during the initial boot so that fsck can run without the filesystem being volatile. That's the only reason

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Powering down a VCR whilst recording can damage the tape or even worse have the tap get jammed in the video. I have also had a TV die because it was unpowered from the mains without being switched off first. Sure, these things don't always happen -- but they

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:01:37AM +0100, Stefan Traby wrote: Please tell me how to specify "noreplay" for the initial "/" mount :) You don't have to: the filesystem knows when a root mount is happening, and can do the extra work then to make sure that the mount isn't failed on a

Re: [PATCH] dcache 2nd chance replacement

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Evans
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:59:49PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: Unfortunately you seem to ignore my arguments, so lets I've not ignored them, as said they were either obviously wrong of offtopic. Would the two of you ajourn this debate to alt.flame

[PATCH] 2.4.0 drivers/atm/Makefile...

2001-01-05 Thread Jan Rekorajski
...is still broken. It does not build Fore 200e driver. Jan --- linux/drivers/atm/Makefile.orig Tue Jan 2 10:18:25 2001 +++ linux/drivers/atm/Makefile Tue Jan 2 12:00:05 2001 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ endif endif -obj-$(CONFIG_ATM_FORE200E) += fore200e.o $(FORE200E_FW_OBJS)

Update of quota patches

2001-01-05 Thread Jan Kara
Hello. So I've updated my quota patches for 2.4.0-prerelease. I also fixed one locking bug in implementation of new quotafile format and added a few comments. I also fixed compilation problems (when quota was disabled) - Alan, were there any problems I didn't fix (I've seen you and someone

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
No. 2.2.* handles large drives since 2.2.14. This looks more like you used the jumper to clip the drive to 32GB. Don't use it and get full capacity. If your BIOS hangs when it sees such a large drive so that you cannot avoid using the jumper, use setmax in your boot scripts, or use a

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
Unless Stephen says otherwise, my understanding is that a crash during journal recovery will just mean the journal is replayed again at the next recovery. Because the ext3 journal is just a series of data blocks to be copied into the filesystem (rather than "actions" to be done), it doesn't

Re: agpgart problem on 2.4.0-ac1

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Cox
wanted to try the latest stuff, but X fails to start now. Yep dmesg part: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 93M agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual

reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Claas Langbehn
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: This patch is meant to be applied on top of the reiserfs 3.6.23 patch to get everything working in the new prerelease kernels. The order is: untar linux-2.4.0-prerelease.tar.bz2 apply linux-2.4.0-test12-reiserfs-3.6.23.gz apply

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:46:19PM +, Alan Cox wrote: recovery. Because the ext3 journal is just a series of data blocks to be copied into the filesystem (rather than "actions" to be done), it doesn't matter how many times it is done. The recovery flags are not reset until

[PATCH] up to 50% faster sys_poll()

2001-01-05 Thread Manfred
sys_poll spends around 1/2 of the execution time allocating / freeing a few bytes temporary memory. The attached patch tries to avoid these allocation by using the stack - usually only a few bytes are needed, kmalloc is used for the rest. The result: one poll of stdin is down from 1736 cpu

Re: Fw: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Hahn
since Mark posted his views to the list, I figured I could safely post the conversation I've been having with him in email which is universally considered rude, if not illegal. in any case, please don't respond to this thread, which is quite off-topic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Network oddity....

2001-01-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:08:49 +0100 (MET) From: Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Network oddity Hi all, I have a server, and it reports ("netstat -a") tcp0 0

2.2.18: do_try_to_free_pages

2001-01-05 Thread Brad Hartin
I recieved the following messages from the kernel yesterda morning. It doesn't appear that any running programs actually died, or ran out of memory (128M physical/ 256M swap, only about 150M total or so in use when I got back on the machine. As a side note, during times of what I consider only

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 05, 2001 02:04:08 PM +0100 Claas Langbehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: This patch is meant to be applied on top of the reiserfs 3.6.23 patch to get everything working in the new prerelease kernels. The order is:

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