Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-10-01 Thread Doug White 
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 2. at some point in time, usually around "Remaking all devices", the
>machine throws a handful of segfaults and boom. I'm unsure whether
>this might be the hardware, it's an old Cyrix MII/233 (PR300) Super7
>CPU in a VIA MVP3 board (PCChips M577), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM
>(66 MHz FSB), nothing "server-class", but it seems to be fine even
>under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot).

This tends to imply hardware issues.  What kind of storage?

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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-10-01 Thread Matthias Andree 
Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1
> ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso
>
> We are particularly interested in having people test this release
> candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so
> that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.

Well, I did an FTP install (rather than ISO) from ftp7.de.freebsd.org
and it went mostly smooth, two issues:

1. ports collection is claimed to not be found (what the heck...) but
   some INDEX file is available, so pkg_add works.

2. at some point in time, usually around "Remaking all devices", the
   machine throws a handful of segfaults and boom. I'm unsure whether
   this might be the hardware, it's an old Cyrix MII/233 (PR300) Super7
   CPU in a VIA MVP3 board (PCChips M577), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM
   (66 MHz FSB), nothing "server-class", but it seems to be fine even
   under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot).

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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-10-01 Thread Erik Trulsson 
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:40:56PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> Is
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1132682+0+current/cvs-all
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-isa.c.diff?r1=1.4.2.2&r2=1.4.2.3
> 
> not the commit that is needed ?

Yes, as I said it has already been fixed.  It was that commit I was
referring to.  No further fix is needed as far as I can tell.

> 
> ---Mike
> 
> At 08:23 PM 01/10/2003, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:58:10AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >> On 2003-Sep-29 18:09:05 +0200, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> >wrote:
> >> >On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> >> >> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least
> >> >> available from ftp.freebsd.org.  Please download and install this
> >> >> candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >You mean apart from the minor bug that non-pci kernels using ata won't 
> >even
> >> >compile, and hasn't worked for the last three weeks or so?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >See
> >> >
> >> >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=44649+0+archive/2003/freeb 
> >sd-stable/20030928.freebsd-stable
> >> >
> >> >or
> >> >
> >> >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=816008+0+archive/2003/cvs- 
> >all/20030921.cvs-all
> >> >
> >> >for details and a patch.
> >>
> >> Whilst both Erik and I independently came up with the same patch, upon
> >> reflection, I'm not sure that this is the correct patch.  None of the
> >> callers to ata_dmastart() check for a return value and therefore this
> >> probably should be a void function - so the code in ata-isa.c is
> >> correct and the remaining declaration and definitions are incorrect.
> >
> >The "real" version of ata_dmastart() found in ata-dma.c does return
> >different values for different situations, so for compatibility that
> >function would also need to be modified, which I am not sure is a good
> >idea.
> >You are correct in that the return value is currently not checked by
> >the callers to ata_dmastart, but perhaps it should be?
> >I believe the return value probably should be kept, in case some future
> >caller wants to check how the call succeeded, but for an authoritative
> >answer you would have to ask one of the ATA-experts.
> >
> >Anyway, it doesn't really matter.  The code compiles with the patch,
> >and a return value that is ignored is quite harmless, so any changes
> >should wait until after 4.9-RELEASE at least.
> >
> >>
> >> In either case, I would request that this be fixed before 4.9-RELEASE.
> >
> >It has already been fixed.  The commit to fix it was made by luoqi about
> >20 hours ago.

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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-09-30 Thread Andre Albsmeier 
[CC'ed Martin Blapp since he was the last one who touched amd]

On Mon, 29-Sep-2003 at 08:19:05 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least
> available from ftp.freebsd.org.  Please download and install this
> candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.

Just tracked down a nasty bug when using amd to mount msdos
filesystems.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57401

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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pepper 
At 2:23 PM +0300 2003/09/30, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:03:11AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:38:05PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:

 >   When I choose vt100 (option #2), the display is scrambled
 > (lines wrap, option titles shift up and down when using the arrows,
 > and get out of sync with the descriptions on the right side). With
 > ANSI (option #1), I couldn't move into the main options area -- all 4
 > arrows, as well as tab, ask me if I really wanted to abort, and
 > there's no visible way to do anything but exit.
 Sounds like both of these are the wrong terminal type.
Chris (the original poster ;), what terminal emulator are you using
on the other side of the serial cable?  What terminal type is it set to
emulate?
	I'm using Mac OS X 10.2.8's Terminal.app, which claims to be 
vt100, through minicom. The bad display is probably Terminal.app's 
fault -- I'll try through an (Apple) xterm next -- but I was very 
surprised that arrow keys wouldn't work in ANSI mode.

	FWIW, I mentioned that primarily as an indication that I 
might not have hit BootMgr, since I couldn't see what I was doing 
well. The more serious problems are package conflicts and nonworking 
boot code...

		Thanks,

Chris Pepper
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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-09-30 Thread Peter Pentchev 
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:03:11AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:38:05PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:
> 
> > When I choose vt100 (option #2), the display is scrambled 
> > (lines wrap, option titles shift up and down when using the arrows, 
> > and get out of sync with the descriptions on the right side). With 
> > ANSI (option #1), I couldn't move into the main options area -- all 4 
> > arrows, as well as tab, ask me if I really wanted to abort, and 
> > there's no visible way to do anything but exit.
> 
> Sounds like both of these are the wrong terminal type.

Chris (the original poster ;), what terminal emulator are you using
on the other side of the serial cable?  What terminal type is it set to
emulate?

G'luck,
Peter

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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

2003-09-30 Thread Kris Kennaway 
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:38:05PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:

>   When I choose vt100 (option #2), the display is scrambled 
> (lines wrap, option titles shift up and down when using the arrows, 
> and get out of sync with the descriptions on the right side). With 
> ANSI (option #1), I couldn't move into the main options area -- all 4 
> arrows, as well as tab, ask me if I really wanted to abort, and 
> there's no visible way to do anything but exit.

Sounds like both of these are the wrong terminal type.

Kris


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