Re: profiling problem

2008-03-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[redirecting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johannes Hofmann wrote: when I try to compile a statically linked binary for profiling I get the following error: blob:/tmp echo int main(int argc, char **argv) { for (;;); } test.c blob:/tmp gcc -static -pg -o test test.c blob:/tmp ./test ELF binary type 0

Re: Bittorrent for releases (offering)

2008-03-06 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/FrequentlyRejectedRequests I don't think we'll be having a torrent of traffic anytime soon. I'm not sure why this is on that page - we've had torrents for previous releases. There's no reason to refuse torrents. (and we never

Re: Introduction

2008-02-29 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Colin Adams wrote: Meanwhile, I have managed to install 1.12 in a virtual machine on my Linux 64-bit quad core box. I didn't attempt to configure the network when I did the installation, thinking that as I was running under KVM, I would not need to (that was the case when I set up FreeBSD 6.3

Re: how to attach to gdb forked child?

2008-02-17 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to figure out where an abort core dump in imake is coming from, so I do: For a core dump, you should be able to get a nice backtrace from the dump. (gdb) n 458 cppit(cleanedImakefile, Template, ImakefileC, tmpfd, tmpMakefile); (gdb) n So now

Re: Building/Installing DragonFly from within FreeBSD

2008-02-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Sascha Wildner wrote: I would like to go this route to migrate some production servers that are currently running FBSD 4.11 to DragonFly, if possible. Yeah, some kind of more or less convenient upgrade path for FreeBSD 4 users would be nice to have. Where is the big difference between doing a

Re: drm/dri update

2008-02-14 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Petr Janda wrote: 2) /dev/drm/card0 keeps disappearing due to make upgrade. Can adjust the MAKEDEV script to create the nodes so they dont disappear? Sorry, I should have verified it. the /dev/dri/card0 node disappears on every reboot, not after make upgrade. Why is that? And what can we do

Re: Building/Installing DragonFly from within FreeBSD

2008-02-14 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: /modules/acpi.ko text=0x477c0 data=0x2034+0xc98 syms=[0x4+0x6e60+0x4+0x8bfc] - And then it's dead Are you sure (sure sure) it is dead? I had the situation that it would simply not use the console, and at some point the Login: prompt would show up (maybe won't happen

Re: License questions

2008-02-08 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
ciol wrote: - If someone send you a code of a driver for instance which is not under BSD, neither GPL: something like the LGPL, will you accept it? Because if I understand well, the only issue with the GPL, is you can't use it in a BSD code, without licensing it in GPL too. Am I right?

Re: wiki unbroken

2008-01-31 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: The default layout back to 'modern', the default it ships with. I had the 'dfly' layout as default before; I'll re-add it after I take another stab at improving it, as it was showing the logo but not the background when I tested it last night. Justin, your work is

rsync considered superior (was: Re: rsync vs. cvsup benchmarks)

2008-01-30 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Hello Vincent, Vincent Stemen wrote: The results are dramatic, with rsync performing hundreds of percent faster on average while only loading the processor on the client side a little over a third as much as cvsup. Either the performance claims about cvsup being faster than rsync are based on

Re: rsync vs. cvsup benchmarks

2008-01-30 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: The only minor thing I'd bring up is that I recall one reason for cvsup is that rsync placed a relatively higher load per client on the server. That needs to be established. We already heard that cvsup - contrary to claims - is not competitive with rsync, on the

Re: rsync considered superior

2008-01-30 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Bill Hacker wrote: To state it clearly for everybody: = Use rsync to sync your repos! It is faster and can even be compiled! To state it even MORE clearly... ...so long as you do not give a damn about the extra load

Re: rsync vs. cvsup benchmarks

2008-01-30 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: Just use rsync, and shut up about it already. What are you people blabering about? cvsup SUCKS. not the idea, but the language it is implemented in. and cvsup inherits the suckage. as simple as that. if it was written in a portable language, nobody would bother

Re: upgrading wiki

2008-01-28 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I'm in the process of upgrading wiki.dragonflybsd.org's wiki software, MoinMoin, from 1.5.7 to 1.6.0. The upgrade process quietly changed the link markup for all the links on the wiki, so they don't work. I'm working on a fix. Seems that you converted them to the

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: http://moinmo.in/TextCha Where a text question is asked that only a human could easily understand. It doesn't yet appear to be a feature we can apply to only anonymous users, if at all. Seems as if they implemented it in their recently released 1.6 version. I

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Sdävtaker wrote: Maybe we should consider a wiki migration, if the one we using doesnt have a lot of basic features that almost every other has. Which basic features are missing? Im not a big experienced wiki user, but heard a lot of good comments about mediawiki. We've been there, the

Re: SMP question

2008-01-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Michael Neumann wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: I would like to revisit SMP but it isn't going to happen until HAMMER is well into production. I try to encourage others to take up the SMP work but so far there's only been some minor poking around. IMHO a first step would be to write

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Well, a wiki is a great thing, but I think restricting page editing to registered users only is really needed. What do you think about it? I think we should add a captcha for unregistered users and require a captcha for registering. cheers simon -- Serve

Re: How to rebuild LiveCD

2008-01-24 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Haidut wrote: OK, that answers part of the question - we can create live CDs. How about the compressed filesystem? Does Dfly have anything similar to SquashFS (Linux) or cloop2 (FreeBSD/NetBSD) so we can cram a lot of software in the 700MB ISO limit? No, we don't have that. This could be a

Re: rsync and new mirroring tool (was cvsup)

2008-01-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dave Hayes wrote: host cvsup.dragonflybsd.org cvsup.dragonflybsd.org is a nickname for crater.dragonflybsd.org crater.dragonflybsd.org has address 216.240.41.25 crater.dragonflybsd.org mail is handled (pri=10) by crater.dragonflybsd.org Given your desired policy above, I'd say moving that

Re: how to get dragonfly and freebsd source code

2008-01-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Bill Hacker wrote: If you are serious - start with Minix. It is has a very small code-base, was designed specifically as a teaching and learning tool, and has books to match that explain everything in it. Not true (anymore?). We had a look at minix 3 while preparing the operating system

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: One of the original reasons for using cvsup was so people could maintain local branches of the repository. I don't think people do this much anymore, if they do it all. Disk space is so cheap these days that keeping a master sync copy and a separate one for

Re: rsync and new mirroring tool (was cvsup)

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Vincent Stemen wrote: sites += crater.dragonflybsd.org::dragonfly_cvs could you please not mirror off crater? Matt's link is quite resource constrained and should mainly be used for feeding mirrors and developers. Typing in a shell with high latency sucks :) cheers simon

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Bill Hacker wrote: CVS has been the 'compromise' that is at least not harmful or overly demanding. CVS *is* harmful. I can't run a patch and work on a different issue myself - I'll mix both. Or I'll have to check out into another tree and lose the patch. Rather than 'nag' - set up what you

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Nicolas Thery wrote: What, people didn't know we install a Makefile in /usr? Well, now you do! Er...maybe it's because I'm running 1.8.2 that I don't see one in /usr? When did you folks start doing this? 1.10 IIRC. Eh? I thought that was a joke. There's no /usr/Makefile on this

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Maybe you need to install from a CD to get this makefile? I guess so. Nothing does a make distribution except for mergemaster, and mergemaster doesn't merge /usr, I think. Hmm, I haven't used mergemaster since the upgrade target went into /usr/src/Makefile to

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Bill Hacker wrote: I can't run a patch and work on a different issue myself - I'll mix both. Or I'll have to check out into another tree and lose the patch. Indeed. And have to go find it and manually re-apply, and/or alter and re-apply 'coz it no longer fits quite tha same on code that has

Re: cvsup

2008-01-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
walt wrote: Anyway, you created a DragonFly-git repo at http://repo.or.cz but it is out of date now. They do offer an automatic update service, which sounds very good: In the mirror mode, we will check the remote repository at the URL you give us every hour and if we spot any changes, we will

Re: cvsup

2008-01-19 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Vincent Stemen wrote: Also, if nobody has written one or is working on one, I am considering writing a script to provide basic cvsup like features/functionality for repository updates via rsync. I'm not sure what you mean with that. Isn't calling rsync enough? Maybe people could be

Re: cvsup

2008-01-18 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Vincent Stemen wrote: *** using cvsup cvsup -L 3 ./DragonFly-cvs-supfile 155.08s user 69.40s system 40% cpu 9:14.73 total I for sure didn't use cvsup for a long time, but that seems quite long. This can happen for various reasons (just guesses): - CVSup not knowing certain tags

Re: USB scanner unrecognized on 1.11-DEVELOPMENT

2008-01-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Hasso Tepper wrote: Francois Tigeot wrote: However, I found out there's was a difference between a standalone uscanner module and one compiled in the kernel. Standalone module: - original - nothing - patched - nothing Note that loading module doesn't rescan devices. You have

Re: USB scanner unrecognized on 1.11-DEVELOPMENT

2008-01-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 8:14 PM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hasso Tepper wrote: Francois Tigeot wrote: However, I found out there's was a difference between a standalone uscanner module and one compiled in the kernel. Standalone module: - original

Re: cvsup

2008-01-15 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Vincent Stemen wrote: I was dismayed to discover that the BSD community (not just DragonFly) has created such as dependency on a tool written in an obscure problematic language such as Modula-3 that are not even easily ported to platforms such as DragonFly, causing us to have to run a binary

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-08 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: It definitely does need the conditionals around those free calls to avoid crashing though. The only thing I'm not sure about is which is the error - freeing them when they are NULL or them being NULL in the first place. Okay, I missed that during porting and had

Re: drm/dri update

2008-01-07 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
walt wrote: ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON: ERROR: [bsd.options.mk] At least one of the following options must be selected: dri-i810 dri-i915 dri-i965 dri-mach64 dri-mga dri-r128 dri-r200 dri-r300 dri-radeon dri-savage dri-sis dri-tdfx dri-unichrome Fine, so I add this line to

Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly

2007-12-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[Just some comments, not meant to shoot you down] Matthias Schmidt wrote: bspatch/bsdiff To use the client and the server tool you have to install Colin Percivals bsdiff/bspatch tools at first. I have a version ready for DragonFly here: should probably be placed in pkgsrc. Design and

Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly

2007-12-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthias Schmidt wrote: I wonder, why bother with binary patches? Network is cheap nowadays, so we could as well distribute complete binaries. Thats right, but I'm a fan of saving disk space and bandwith. Distributing complete binaries has one big advantage. We could update user-modified

Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly

2007-12-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Alex Neundorf wrote: As soon as you compile stuff, you probably will get different binaries. If you update the kernel, you need to update the userland as well. If we had a way to identify from which sources a binary was compiled from, we could do upgrades more easily. Maybe enhance gcc to

Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly

2007-12-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Do you mean with or without patching? That would be without patching. A way to find out which sources a particular binary corresponds to, and if these sources are the same like the ones being upgraded, you can replace the (different) binary with a fixed replacement.

Re: DragonFly over Sony Vaio

2007-12-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Brian Reichert wrote: Does DragonFly work over Sony Vaio? You can test quite easily by booting the CD which is a complete system (LiveCD). My ancient Vaio C1XS does not come with a CD-ROM drive, and will only boot off of a Sony-branded PCMCIA-based CD-ROM drive. So that kinda sucks. :)

Re: nsswitch on DragonFly

2007-12-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Stephane Russell wrote: Is nsswitch supporter on DragonFly? I tried to find some aswers in the archives, but I got no clear answers. I'm trying to make samba work with ldap+winbind, but I'm getting some problems with the laters verion in pkgsrc. No, we don't have a pluggable nsswitch yet.

Re: va_copy() problem

2007-11-28 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Johannes Hofmann wrote: Sepherosa Ziehau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you try compiling your program with -fno-builtin-vsnprintf? This makes no difference here, also it does not matter whether I compile the program with gcc34 or gcc41. Did this ever get resolved? cheers simon -- Serve

gcc update (was: Re: va_copy() problem)

2007-11-12 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Johannes Hofmann wrote: Hello, I see crashes with a string handling library on DragonFly. The problem can be reduced to the test program below. It crashes on DragonFly when compiled with gcc -O2 -o foo foo.c. Without -O2 it runs fine. No problems on Linux with or without -O2. Can anyone

vsnprintf broken (was: Re: gcc update)

2007-11-12 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Johannes Hofmann wrote: Hello, I see crashes with a string handling library on DragonFly. The problem can be reduced to the test program below. It crashes on DragonFly when compiled with gcc -O2 -o foo foo.c. Without -O2 it runs fine. No problems on Linux

Re: moused + modular xorg 'sticking' ?

2007-11-08 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:07:55PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: My problem with /dev/sysmouse is that my mouse pointer will go to upper left corner and can't move anymore. Sounds like the FPU-used-in-signal handler issue. do you know what is going on there or do

DragonFly get-together at 24c3

2007-11-07 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Hey, like every year a couple of the regulars will meet up at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24c3) [1] of the Chaos Computer Club [2] in Berlin. The Chaos Communication Congress THE annual hackers' conference in Europe and has become really international in the last years. This is just

Re: How to install nvidia graphics driver on dfly?

2007-09-20 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
daniel olsson wrote: How to install nvidia graphics driver on dfly? It doesn't work. There are no DragonFly binaries from nvidia. cheers simon

Re: Dumb question - loopback mounting an ISO image

2007-09-09 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Would anyone object to this being present in GENERIC? It seems handy. vn is available as module cheers simon

Re: New DragonFly user

2007-08-27 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Andre LeClaire wrote: The only problem I've experienced is that the floppy drive is no longer recognized. It's configured in the kernel, but I get fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range in dmesg. I know floppies are antique, but it would be nice if I could get it to work again. Can anybody give

Re: Metapackage kde-3.5.7 absent from 1.10

2007-08-23 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: kde-3.5.7.tgz is present in: ftp://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/packages/stable/DragonFly-1.8/kde/ but it is absent from: ftp://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/packages/stable/DragonFly-1.10/kde/ Should this be considered as a bug? :-) A pkgsrc

Re: makefile target

2007-08-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[redirecting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] km b wrote: Does anyone know which Makefile target builds and installs statically linked binutils,gcc and other build tools in the /usr/bin directory? I am asking this question because the TARGET_ARCH=amd64 generates the right sort of buildtools in

Re: makefile target

2007-08-21 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
km b wrote: Sorry to not augment my question properly. I meant when I do a make buildworld TARGET_ARCH=amd64 with Noah's patches it creates /usr/obj/blah/blah/ctools_i386_amd64/ directory which contains the cross build tools. In there usr/libexec/binutils{215,217} contain the right target tools

Re: Disklabel Question

2007-08-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Chris Turner wrote: Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: try '-r -w ad4s0 auto' here instead - I think it needs to be 'read' before it's edited. -r is raw :) aaiight.. I promise to RTFM before posting. since I'm spamming anyway - this perlish 'context dependant' -r thing is way silly. I think

Re: Disklabel Question

2007-08-15 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Chris Turner wrote: Adrian Michael Nida wrote: We're getting closer! leviathan# disklabel -w ad4s0 auto try '-r -w ad4s0 auto' here instead - I think it needs to be 'read' before it's edited. -r is raw :) cheers simon

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-14 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: :For the proc's memory stats, it wants to run through the mmap entry :list amongst other things. Here is an excerpt of the original code. As :I know about nothing about this, it's a bit too difficult to patch :-) /proc can be used to read the mmap entry list and get

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-13 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Does the installer still create /etc/mk.conf by default? I think it does. If /etc/mk.conf is obsolete then we need to do something about it but I'm not really up on all the ins and outs of pkgsrc so it has to be someone who actually understands what is

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-13 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Pieter Dumon wrote: Hmm, I'm afraid I don't know enough about the kvm changes (or would need to browse through the diffs). I found most members of kinfo_proc and kinfo_proc.kp_lwp that replace the old structures and members. But, for instance, what should I replace .kp_proc.p_vmspace by ? the

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-13 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: I'm thinking we will want something in the make upgrade path as well, but it probably shouldn't just remove /etc/mk.conf outright. Maybe rename it to /etc/mk.conf.obsolete and prepend some # comments explaining why it was renamed. Let's put some more

Re: DragonFly installation experience / suggestions

2007-08-12 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: That early in the boot there's probably no way to get a kernel core dump. I think Michael wrote that he can load it from loader without problems, but it panics when kldloading it. Debugging in that case might be easy. Just set a dumpdev and write out a dump

Re: Trying to setup PF and spamd...hell!

2007-08-09 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 99940 spamd-setup CALL close(0x3) 99940 spamd-setup RET close -1 errno 9 Bad file descriptor 99940 spamd-setup CALL pipe 99940 spamd-setup RET pipe 3 99940 spamd-setup CALL fork 99940 spamd-setup RET fork 99948/0x1866c 99940 spamd-setup CALL close(0x3)

Re: Trying to setup PF and spamd...hell!

2007-08-09 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 42015 spamd-setup CALL execve(0xbfbff370,0xbfbff7c0,0xbfbff8e0) 42015 spamd-setup NAMI /sbin/__nonexistent__ It tries to execute __nonexisten__. No wonder that it fails. Something in your config must be wrong. cheers simon

Re: Kerneltrap interview available

2007-08-08 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
James Frazer wrote: Dare I ask for the cold hard truth about the state of SMP on DragonFly? nonexistant in the common kernel code path, except for the network threads. everybody knows this. these trolls are nothing but. put up or shut up. if I like indenting all code and comments in the

Re: mirror in ukraine

2007-08-07 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Roman Dayneko wrote: http://www.dragonflybsd.kiev.ua/ (include cvsweb http://cvsweb.h0.org.ua) ftp://ftp.dragonflybsd.kiev.ua/pub/DragonFlyBSD/ rsync://rsync.dragonflybsd.kiev.ua/DragonFlyBSD/ cvsup://cvsup.dragonflybsd.kiev.ua (dragonfly-cvs-root dragonfly-cvs-src netbsd-pkgsrc

Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-08-03 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dave Hayes wrote: Somewhat related to this topic, is there a reason that the installer isn't built from source along with a make world? because it is not necessary, makes stuff more complicated, needs either a) the source in cvs or b) a network connection, which we neither want. -- Serve -

Re: New Mirror

2007-08-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
TWAREN FTP wrote: Please feel free to let me know, if you guys still have any questions. Yes, from where do you mirror and when? cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon /\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ /

Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-08-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: No. We only include kernel sources on the CD. Generally speaking there isn't much of a point including anything else on a CD, but I would love to see an nrelease target for a DVD which preinstalls all sorts of nice packages and contains the full pkgsrc

Re: New Mirror

2007-08-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
TWAREN FTP wrote: I updated the iso-images from ftp.dragonflybsd.org and got others from chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de I updated once a day. It would be very nice if you'd give a heads up to the mirror admins beforehand so they can schedule the mirrors appropriately. I suggest you mirror

pkgsrc bulk build results

2007-07-31 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
hey, i finally finished the pkgsrc bulk build for 1.10 and these are the results: http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/unsorted/bulkbuild/20070726.2220/meta/report.html There is quite some breakage, please go down the list and check if you can fix an issue for the package you'd like to be

Re: Release update

2007-07-28 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: I'm right now running a bulk build to create pkgsrc-2007Q2 packages for 1.10. Okay, good news: the build is half complete, with 3200 built packages out of 6500 possible or so. There are a couple of build errors which might have to be fixed, but let's see

Re: compiling stops in bootstraps stage

2007-07-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Noah yan wrote: mmap failed: Invalid argument Patching file /usr/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh/sh.exp.c using Plan B... Segmentation fault (core dumped) could you debug this core file? Seems that there are two problems: 1. mmap fails. root of the problem. what could be the invalid

Re: compiling stops in bootstraps stage

2007-07-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Noah yan wrote: I attached a binary patch built without -O and with -g. Remeber i have a messed up kernel/modules and the world (typically libc) and the new binaries built before the error behave very wired, e.g. cp arg.c argdfd.c errs out with file name too long. In my another box that has

Re: Dragonfly wall's

2007-07-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Tue, July 10, 2007 1:44 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: Very nice. Justin, you gonna throw it into cvs so we don't lose it? I added the images - I skipped the first 3, as they are in part made from other images that are not free to reuse, despite the GPL label.

Re: 1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-03 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: The 1.10 release will be around July 15-20ish. Try to restrict activities in HEAD mainly to bug fixes, necessary package updates, etc until we branch. I'm working on the installer to get the new lua version integrated. I hope to finish this the next days.

Re: 1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-03 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Hasso Tepper wrote: About release number I have one concern though. A lot of code I have written during last year checks for __DragonFly_version = 19. It would be nice to see it working after 1.10 release as well ;). why were there so many zeroes in the first place? Now we have to live

Re: 1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-03 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Good point. I'll call the release 1.10 but I'll use 195000 for DragonFly_version. Why not simply continue counting and use 1A... we're still in decimal domain :) cheers simon

Re: file handles in checkpt and sys_checkpoint

2007-07-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
why the lucky stiff wrote: So, if I have further questions about the checkpointing code, should I direct them to the kernel list? Or am I okay here? I guess the kernel list is more appropriate regarding development stuff. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++

Re: User-Land PPP vs. Free/Open

2007-06-25 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Chris Turner wrote: which brings up a side question of - would it me more appropriate to synch with awfulhack or fbsd?, etc, etc.. Probably you first should find out what's wrong and then fix it :) If you suspect code (i.e. FreeBSD works, DragonFly doesn't), then do this: - diff between the

Re: umodem? driver

2007-06-19 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Ilias Nakos wrote: bah, no luck I don't get the device not configured message but there is no output anyway thanks for your time That's a good sign. It means that you connected. Probably you need the right settings or send a start command. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this

Re: weired behavior

2007-05-29 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
km b wrote: That is ultra odd. What did you upgrade from? An earlier release or a less recent HEAD? It wasn't a release but about a 2 weeks old HEAD. which gcc and CFLAGS do you use to build the kernel/modules? Could you show any relevant lines from make.conf? do you use ACPI?

Re: SMP performance on drgonfly

2007-05-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: :If there is a reasonable expectation that Preview will perform :differently then I am happy to test it, but the way I read Matt's :email is that there has been no recent progress on SMP development :that might improve performance here. : :Kris I think they're gonna be

Re: Root password restrictions

2007-05-13 Thread Simon corecode Schubert
+++ Matthew Dillon [12/05/07 15:20 -0700]: : I've noticed that the root account password (according to the :installer) cannot contain punctuation; why is this? A major part of creating :good passwords is the use of punctuation and special characters. Are there :plans to reverse this or was

Re: libm update plans?

2007-05-10 Thread Simon corecode Schubert
+++ Chris Turner [09/05/07 20:36 -0400]: Maybe you should pick up DragonFly C99 Standards Conformance Project? ;) http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/df/conformance/ like I said.. wayyy down the list for me.. good to know this page exists though.. this page is outdated and is not being

Urgent security update necessary for all DragonFly versions

2007-05-09 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dear DragonFly BSD users, I am addressing you as the security officer of DragonFly, because this is a very serious issue. Please take this as serious as we, KAME, Cisco and other vendors are and therefore react *immediately* and update *all* your installations. This is *very* serious; Cisco

Re: no chekcsums for current

2007-05-06 Thread Simon corecode Schubert
+++ arnuld [04/05/07 10:39 +0530]: i noticed that NO checksums are provided for these builds: http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/snapshots/i386/ http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/iso-images/ how will i know that my download is OK without md5sum/GPG ? gzip has some sort

Re: Gnome: Couldn't load icon... bug

2007-05-01 Thread Simon corecode Schubert
+++ Stephane Russell [30/04/07 21:55 -0400]: Hello, Some Gnome programs are crashing in a similar manner. For example: gedit when exiting: alcyone: {110} gedit (gedit:71982): Gnome-CRITICAL **: gnome_program_get_app_version: assertion `program != NULL' failed I can't comment on this,

Re: miniBSD vs DragonFlyBSD

2007-04-16 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Morgan Reed schrieb: I'm currently attempting to strip DragonFly down following the minBSD tutorial https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html, I've got kernel, world, etc.. My image is loading acpi.ko successfully then the kernel is freezing, I'm thinking it's probably missing module(s) what's the

Re: request for some useful packages in livecd

2007-04-12 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
km b wrote: 1. Initially I couldn't install it because kernel with nata support was not available on the installation cd. On the snapshot isos there is a NATA kernel available as /kernel.NATA. 2. After install I couldn't get any internet connectivity because the bge driver doesn't support

Re: request for some useful packages in livecd

2007-04-12 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
km b wrote: the problem is that when the bge module is loaded it prints a bunch of fwohci0: xxx error message . Consequently I can't understand what's the connection between bge and firewire. I have the same. There is some decoding/initialization problem with a PCI bridge wich subsequently

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
walt wrote: Linus avoided rsync in favor of http in 'git' because he thinks rsync is inherently unreliable. I have *no* idea if he is right or wrong in his opinions, but I figure you guys will favor me with your own opinions on the subject. Possibly for transferring the git objects. They

Re: Computer-app. crashes after accessing webdav disk

2007-04-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Huub wrote: Can somebody tell me what's wrong please? i guess gnome is breaking somewhere. quite probably not dragonfly's fault. after crashing, gnome possibly leaves some traces of its breakage around (stale processes) and thus fails to launch nautilus (or how it is called today) to show

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Nigel Weeks wrote: Just having an idea about this...are there any files in the source tree that exceed 32kbytes? What if a database solution were created to: Contain every version of every file of every branch in a nicely indexed database table The md5/sha256 of each entry mentioned above 512

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: My only worry is figuring out how to run the rsync daemon safely. I'm a bit paranoid about running things on crater but I do agree that we would have to run the master rsync daemon there. You can run rsyncd from inetd or standalone. If you're really[tm]

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dmitri Nikulin wrote: We could just distribute the CVS tree and write a front-end utility in csh or sh that we distribute along with the rest of the system to do the nitty gritty work of actually checking something out into /usr/src. In fact, I think that would be preferable.

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Peter Hessler wrote: On 2007 Apr 10 (Tue) at 18:03:49 +0200 (+0200), Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: :cvsync does cvs-only (so, :like rsync), but it has a bug which breaks the RCS files in some cases. :The author didn't want to fix it though :/ Can you describe the bug? I've been using

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: I am now running an rsync server on crater.dragonflybsd.org, serving the cvs repository as 'dragonfly_cvs'. rsync -a rsync://crater.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly_cvs blahblah very nice! will immediatelly switch to rsync operation. however, i'll have to find

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: I am now running an rsync server on crater.dragonflybsd.org, serving the cvs repository as 'dragonfly_cvs'. rsync -a rsync://crater.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly_cvs blahblah Matt, something is weird with the permissions: %rsync

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: I am now running an rsync server on crater.dragonflybsd.org, serving the cvs repository as 'dragonfly_cvs'. rsync -a rsync://crater.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly_cvs blahblah very nice! will immediatelly switch to rsync operation. however, i'll

Re: [HEADS UP] Binary package changes

2007-04-05 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: (1) Binary packages for pkgsrc-current are available from http://www.pkgsrc-box.org/packages/current/DragonFly-1.8/ and FTP respectively. This is built with X11_TYPE=modular. (2) Binary packages for pkgsrc-2007Q1 will follow after Easter when the branch is cut. thanks

Re: mounting UFS from Linux

2007-03-23 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Guillermo García Rojas wrote: and have my partition mounted, but I can't read anything because all the media mounted is owned by other user and group. [..] What can I do to read those files? chown -R, or operate as root. just the thing what you would do when you wanted to access the data

Re: To be a new DFly commiter

2007-03-17 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: In fact, I propose a new rule of thumb: For any proposed feature where: 1: Matt doesn't object, and 2: No existing functionality is lost it should go in. I don't agree. Matt of course has a veto, but the community itself should also agree that this is a feature

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