Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-26 Thread EBo
I forget what all else I did when trying nano. I ended up focusing back on 9atom, and Erik had just patched the source so that a mk all would compile everything. See ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2 if interested. That is one of the source trees I'm playing with for setting

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-26 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 04/26/2010 09:52 AM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Try http://werc.homelinux.net/hacks/nano9/ Hope that helps, How does one install the stuff in that directory? Specifically, what handles *.xz files? See http://tukaani.org/xz/ -- Balwinder S bdheeman DheemanRegistered Linux

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-26 Thread lucio
sure. what specifically would you like to see? Well, of course, the bit about xz would not go amiss. I note that Ubuntu doesn't offer xz utilities, so as soon as I have copies for my installation (plan 9, ubuntu, netbsd 3.1) I'll let you know so you can put that on the wiki as well. I'll

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-25 Thread lucio
Try http://werc.homelinux.net/hacks/nano9/ Hope that helps, How does one install the stuff in that directory? Specifically, what handles *.xz files? ++L

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-25 Thread EBo
lu...@proxima.alt.za said: Try http://werc.homelinux.net/hacks/nano9/ Hope that helps, How does one install the stuff in that directory? Specifically, what handles *.xz files? I tripped over that one too... This might help with the *.xz files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz I

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-25 Thread lucio
I forget what all else I did when trying nano. I ended up focusing back on 9atom, and Erik had just patched the source so that a mk all would compile everything. See ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2 if interested. That is one of the source trees I'm playing with for setting up 9vx

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 04/20/2010 11:46 PM, EBo wrote: that pc is in the floating point code. clearly bogus. as find doesn't do any floating point. I have no idea why this is happening, only that it is and it is failing consistently. While I could spend time trying to tracing through the code to figure

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman bsd.sans...@cto.homelinux.net wrote: Try http://werc.homelinux.net/hacks/nano9/ That's neat, I'm going to have to try it now :-) ron

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 04/21/2010 05:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: While I could spend time trying to tracing through the code to figure out what is going on, I have opted for the moment to update the base root I am using as the old one is just shy of two years old, and the newer one seem to run correctly so

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread EBo
Sorry, forget to mention that I also spend a lot of time on figuring out why newly build 9vx from hg was crashing both on FreeBSD and Linux, but all in a vain (currently don't have access to an OS/X machine). I'm not sure, if it was a correct fix, but removing -melf_i386 option did the

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread ron minnich
randomly changing build options is one approach to debugging but not always effective :-) ron

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread EBo
ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com said: randomly changing build options is one approach to debugging but not always effective :-) true, true ;-) I'm still waking up! and in my best NASCAR announcers voice-over: Gentlemen, Start your tea-pot/coffee-makers! and the crowd goes wild

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-21 Thread EBo
randomly changing build options is one approach to debugging but not always effective :-) I also forgot to mention that the reason I tried that is that I noticed both of those switches were missing from one of the Makefrag files I was reading recently, so it was not completely random ;-)

[9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-20 Thread EBo
Just an FYI. I've been working on getting 9vx running on a TinyCoreLinux USB stick, and I have been having 9vx crash in odd ways and wanted to post a note about it. For starters, I am building 9vx from hg source and using the root from 9vx's 2008/7/1 release 9vx-0.12. There are three points of

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
2) I installed Erik's find utility and running it gave the error: find 2062: suicide: sys: trap: invalid opcode pc=0x5001 from inside 9vx, and: invalid opcode ff ff ba at eip 5001 in the linux terminal that spawned it. that pc is in the floating point code.

Re: [9fans] 9vx crashing

2010-04-20 Thread EBo
that pc is in the floating point code. clearly bogus. as find doesn't do any floating point. I have no idea why this is happening, only that it is and it is failing consistently. While I could spend time trying to tracing through the code to figure out what is going on, I have opted for