Re: 2.2.18/ext2: special file corruption?

2001-02-26 Thread Walter Hofmann
Ulrich Windl schrieb am Montag, den 26. Februar 2001: > I had an interesting effect: Due to NVdriver I had a lot of system > freezes, and I had to reboot. Using e2fsck 1.19a (SuSE 7.1) I got the > message that one specific "Special (device/socket/fifo) inode .. has > non-zero size. FIXED." I

Re: eject weirdness on NEC disc changer, kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-05 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Jim Breton wrote: > I have had a similar problem in the past where, for example, after > cancelling a burn session with cdrecord I am unable to eject the disc. > However that was on kernel 2.2.x and using "real" scsi (not ide-scsi). This was a bug in cdrecord which used gene

Re: kernel.org verification key updated

2000-10-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
I cannot verify this signature with gpg or pgp. gpg says gpg: invalid radix64 character 00 skipped gpg: Signature made Tue Oct 10 08:26:46 2000 MEST using DSA key ID 2BCBC621 gpg: BAD signature from "H. Peter Anvin (hpa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" Walter -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-28 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > >Any idea? > > Sure - very simple. If the execute bit is set on a file, don't allow > ANY write to the file. This does modify the permission bits slightly > but I don't think it is an unreasonable thing to have. And how exactly does this help? fchm

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-29 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > By itself it doesn't - but if you also don't have user/group/world rw and > don't own the file, you can't do anything to it. This is all completely useless. Why not remove world rw permissions in the first place. If the admin isn't even able to write

Re: ECN and other sites

2001-01-26 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Michael B. Trausch wrote: > > I've kinda been watching the ECN discussion there, and I have 2.4.0 and > noticed that after I'd installed it, I couldn't get to my favorite search > engine (Dogpile.com). I'd assume they don't support it either, because > when I "echo 0 > /pro

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-29 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > Does not that mean that Linux 2.0.10 mistakenly announces it is ECN > capable when offered ECN connection? No, the RFC deals with this. Walter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: RTC hardware clock option

2001-01-30 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Antonio Miguel Trindade wrote: > I just would like to ask all of you what has the option "RTC stores time in > GMT" have to do with APM... The hardware clock in my machine stores time in > GMT, but I do not want APM, so why do I have to have APM just to have that > option

Re: NT soon to surpass Linux in specweb99 performance?

2001-02-01 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Looks like TUX caught MS's attention: > http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html > > Anyone know if their method of achieveing this is as flexible as TUX, or is > their "SWC 3.0" simply mean 'spec web cheat' and invol

Re: Announcement: TUX 2.0

2001-02-01 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > > TUX 2.0 is now available for download at the following URL: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/tux/tux-2.0/ According to http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/: On a PowerEdge 8450/700 8 CPUs: TUX 1.0: 6387 TUX 2.0: 7500 Looks like

oops with 2.4.5-ac12

2001-06-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
I got the following oops with 2.4.5-ac12 after I issued "rmmod -a" twice. I only notices the oops after I issued "rmmod -a" once which might explan that ksymoops cannot name the module which caused the oops. This is possibly ALSA-related (although I never had problems with unloading alsa modules

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
I had already two crashes with ac15. The system was still ping-able, but login over the network didn't work anymore. The first crash happened after I started xosview and noticed that the system almost used up the swap (for no apparent reason). The second crash happened shortly after I started fsc

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > I had already two crashes with ac15. The system was still ping-able, but > login over the network didn't work anymore. > > The first crash happened after I started xosview and noticed that the > system almost used up the swap (fo

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > I had already two crashes with ac15. The system was still ping-able, but > login over the network didn't work anymore. > > The first crash happened after I started xosview and noticed that the > system almost used up the swap (fo

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > FWIW, here is the vmstat output for the second (short) hang. Taken with > > ac14, vmstat 1 was started (long) before the hang and interrupted about > > five seconds after it. The machine has 128MB RAM and 256MB swap. > > >procs

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2001: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 >^ > > Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFF

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Freitag, den 22. Juni 2001: > > 6 5 1 77232 2692 2136 47004 560 892 2048 1524 10428 285529 2 98 0 >^ > Was disk running? (I bet not.. bet it stopped just after stall began) There was no dis