Re: Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?
Chris Newport wrote: I will try Sarge in the next few days and report back, but I suspect that I will need to upgrade to 2.4.29 or later. AFAIK nobody has done any work on 2.6.x for Sun4d. Sarge does not boot on Sun4d - this looks like a SILO issue, but I could be wrong. My SS1000E has never booted from a SILO CD correctly, but it does boot from a TILO tftpboot image for Splack and it does boot a Solaris CD. Loaded kernel version 2.4.27 Data Access Exception Type help for more information #0 ok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new install on blade 100 won't boot after poweroff
I've managed to get sarge with kernel 2.4 installed on a blade 100, but it won't reboot after a poweroff -- it hangs at running init. (Rebooting was OK until the poweroff, and I've reproduced this through a couple of re-installations.) I don't know whether the same thing happens with the 2.6 kernel, but it seems X still doesn't work with that anyway. Any suggestions about the cause and a fix? I guess openboot is a likely culprit. It's got 4.0 on it -- what version is recommended? This was off http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/iso.img. Where should one report problems with that (apart from this one)? Also, how should you specify root to use it as a rescue CD? When I use `rescue root=/dev/hda1' it fails to find /, though it is there. (I've not tried rescue disks before with sparc.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed
David, do you know if anything further was done on this issue? Thanks. On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:52:17AM -0700, David S. Miller said: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:47:54 -0400 Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apr 29 08:45:34 psychology kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0) Apr 29 08:45:34 psychology kernel: __alloc_pages: task(spamc) pid(25917) caller(0046edc0) Apr 29 08:45:34 psychology kernel: DEBUG: __get_free_pages() order 2 failed called by 0046aaa8 ... 0046a9c0 t kmem_cache_grow 0046ad00 T kmem_cache_alloc_batch Does spamc use AF_UNIX sockets to communicate with other processes? If so, someone should audit it to make sure it checks properly for return values on write() calls. If spamc uses non-blocking AF_UNIX sockets, -ENOBUFS can happen under normal circumstances. If the sockets were blocking then the kernel could sleep to swap out some pages to free up some space and then the call could succeed. A quick perusal of the spamc sources seems to indicate that it does use non-blocking AF_UNIX sockets as the transport to talk to the spamassasindaemon. I'm on vacation so cannot investigate this more deeply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Newark campus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed
Is it possible that every single process listed here has the same issue? 1 task(courierpop3d) 1 task(dbclean) 1 task(qmail-remote) 1 task(qmail-to-mailma) 1 task(sh) 1 task(soffice.bin) 1 task(sperl5.8.4) 2 task(apache2) 2 task(smbd) 3 task(in.ftpd) 3 task(lpd) 3 task(top) 4 task(imapd) 4 task(python) 10 task(display) 10 task(spamd) 12 task(perl5.8.4) 26 task(abiword) 28 task(sshd) 541 task(spamc) 849 task(swapper) This is a list of processes that have set off this complaint, and how many times they've been seen (I'm rather disturbed that swapper has surpassed spamc...). It may very well be that spamc has a bug - but why am I seeing this error for all of these processes? On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:37:43AM -0700, David S. Miller said: From: Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:25:17 -0400 David, do you know if anything further was done on this issue? The spamc daemons simply don't do correct error checking on writes to AF_UNIX sockets. I thought I explained this pretty well, so that someone could go check out the userspace bits and look for the bug. -- Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Newark campus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed
From: Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:25:17 -0400 David, do you know if anything further was done on this issue? The spamc daemons simply don't do correct error checking on writes to AF_UNIX sockets. I thought I explained this pretty well, so that someone could go check out the userspace bits and look for the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge: Sparc5 Parallel Port - no such Device
I just netinstalled a Sparc 5 with Debian Sarge. After tweaking around with the XF86 it's running ok now. Except: The printer (HPLJ2100) is not working, what is bad for a print server :-) During my troubleshooting I figured, that the parallel port device is not ok. It used to work earlier with Solaris. lpadmin returned no such device ... for lp0. snip config-2.4.27-2-sparc32 Is this the standard Debian/Sarge kernel? You didn't say which one you were running :-) from my archives I have this reference, it may help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/1999/10/msg00072.html also check the archives, there have been other people trying to persuade parallel ports to work. HTH Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seasons change, things come to pass -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?
Fisrt statment : I am sorry for my bad english. I was installing a sarge on a BS/150 (XVR500 3D Wilcat, 600MHz/512Mo 40GoHD+DVDROM) througt DHCP (boot image 2.6, builded 7mar.2005). I suffered framebuffer bug that I solved by umounting the 3D accelerator card (fb on ATI Rage is OK). Later installation frozen on ide-cd module insertion. I unmounted again the DVDROM to solve problem. In use, ide-cd module still froze at insertion. But I will not use 3D Accel nor DVDROM on exploitation: The system is a SSH/SFTP data server and works fine in actual testing phase. ~40Mbit/s total bandwith against 4 PC doing SFTP upload/Download with compression: Not too bad without dedicated cypher card. Sylvain ** Sylvain MAURIN - Admin.Sys. Institut des Sciences Cognitives UMR 5015 CNRS-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 67, boulevard Pinel 69675 BRON cedex Tel: +33 437911218 -- Cel: +33 612399929 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge: Sparc5 Parallel Port - no such Device
On Thu, 2005-05-19 16:50:30 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***lsmod*** Module Size Used byNot tainted lp 7412 0 (autoclean) parport26396 0 (autoclean) [lp] sunlance9896 1 crc32 3248 0 [sunlance] sr_mod 16088 0 (unused) cdrom 28028 0 [sr_mod] ext3 85292 2 (autoclean) jbd45860 2 (autoclean) [ext3] sd_mod 11868 6 (autoclean) esp29232 3 (autoclean) scsi_mod 61292 3 (autoclean) [sr_mod sd_mod esp] You're missing parport_sunbpp here. lp: driver loaded but no devices found Correct. I have absolutely no more ideas what else to check. Maybe you ? # modprobe parport_sunbpp Well, it works like this: There's a generic parport mid-layer to which physical parport drivers can attach (and register physical ports). These are parport_pc, parport_sunbpp, parport_atari, parport_amiga, you name it. On the other side, where are users of (physical) parports, 'lp' being the one mostly used. It implements the low-level (handshake) protocol used by computers to shift data into parport-based printers. (And there are other useful clients, like ppdev). So you've got the mid-layer as well as a high-level protocol driver, but you're missing parport_sunbpp as a physical driver. Once you've loaded that, your printer should work just fine. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Brger | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)); signature.asc Description: Digital signature
XVR500 on linux ?
Subsidiary question ... May I do something with a XVR500 card outside Solaris world ? Sylvain I was installing a sarge on a BS/150 (XVR500 3D Wilcat, 600MHz/512Mo ^^^ ^^ Wildcat 650MHz 40GoHD+DVDROM) througt DHCP (boot image 2.6, builded 7mar.2005). I suffered framebuffer bug that I solved by umounting the 3D accelerator card (fb on ATI Rage is OK). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XVR500 on linux ?
On Fri, 20 May 2005 00:43:38 +0200 (CEST) MAURIN Sylvain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subsidiary question ... May I do something with a XVR500 card outside Solaris world ? Not under Linux, no specs and no drivers. It might work on some of the BSD's using the VGA driver one of them has for their sparc64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
