Re: loop device corruption in 2.4.6

2001-07-05 Thread Mark Swanson
Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Mark Swanson wrote: > > I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption > > patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of > > Reiserfs. > > International crypto patch assumes that bloc

loop device corruption in 2.4.6

2001-07-04 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of Reiserfs. All I have to do is: 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=testfs bs=1024 count=10 2. losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 ./testfs 3. mke2fs /dev

ALI 1541,K6,AGP 2.4.3-ac12 instability

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, When I enable AGP on my ALI system 2D seems to work fine but 3D causes kernel oops messages. (Ran through ksymoops) It looks like it could be an NVidia driver problem, but I doubt it as I run this with AGP at work with no problems. I'm wondering if anyone else has AGP working with the (new

2.4.2-ac20 USB suspend oops message

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, Reproducable 100% of the time. I have 1 mouse plugged into my uhci port. When I suspend I get: Mar 20 09:09:33 laptop kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6273754b Mar 20 09:09:33 laptop kernel: printing eip: Mar 20 09:09:33 laptop kernel: cc86d58b Mar 20 09

2.4.2-ac20 build fails with some pcmcia option

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, make bzImage gives this: ld: cannot open drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o: No such file or directory with the following .config: # # PCMCIA network device support # # CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETCARD=y I'm not sure how the 'CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETCARD=y' got set as my `mak

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Swanson
--- Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ps -aux | grep loop > > 1674 tty1 DW< 0:00 [loop0] > > > > The system is doing nothing to the loop filesystem. > > Strange t

242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Swanson
First, good job on the loop device. It's rock stable for me - except when I try to load the blowfish module which oops the kernel and crashes the loop device:-) No problem, I just use another cipher. The bug I'm reporting is that when a loop device is in use the load of the machine stays at 1.00

2.4.2-ac3 == 400% speed improvement with Java

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, any 2.4.1-ac5 kernel and above until 2.4.2-ac3 had a bug (Ingo guessed it might be the yield() bug) that made Java (and some other things *really* slow). This is fixed now. When I profiled slow kernels the mtrr_file_add was taking up all of the time - even though I had disabled mtrr in my

[help] _syscall2 fails with -fPIC

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, I am building a -fPIC shared object that will define and access a Linux kernel system call, but _syscall2 fails with -fPIC .so compilation. What can I do? F.E. the statement: _syscall2 (int, tux, unsigned int, action, user_req_t *, req) Gives the following gcc error when comp

Re: System V msg queue bugs in latest kernels

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Swanson
The exact error is in /usr/include/linux/msg.h The three unsigned shorts should be unsigned int instead. Would too many things break if this was changed? Should user-space tools like ipcs be rewritten to use /proc/sysvipc instead? (I notice that my old 2.2.14 kernel doesn't have /proc/sysvipc...)

Re: System V msg queue bugs in latest kernels

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Swanson
You are right. /proc/sysvipc/msg is correct. It shows: cbytes: 1048575 qnum: 95325 ipcs shows: used-bytes: 65535 messages: 65535 It's a 16-bit number issue. --- Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Swanson wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > ipcs

System V msg queue bugs in latest kernels

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, ipcs (msg) gives incorrect results if used-bytes is above 65536. It stays at 65536 even though messages are being read and removed from the msg queue. The sysv msg queue either ignores the /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb value if it is above 65536 or simply gets it wrong. Proof: I can place more

Re: PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard conflict and lockup

2001-02-12 Thread Mark Swanson
>I'm also seeing a ps/2 mouse bug, with 2.4.0-pre5 (I think) on a >CS433 (486/33 laptop) >Freezes after some time in X, killing keyboard. >Is there a generic approach to finding where this sort of problem lies? The exact same thing happens to me too. Winbook XL2 laptop. I can ssh to the box

2.4.1-ac10 loop/encryption lockups.

2001-02-12 Thread Mark Swanson
FYI: With ac5 I could mount loopback filesystems that were aes encrypted. All I get with ac10 is a lockup. Will test patches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/m