Re: [9fans] how to fix: 'arena arenas00 creation time after last write time'

2009-07-29 Thread Corey
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 21:24:01 Corey wrote: On Tuesday 28 July 2009 18:42:05 Russ Cox wrote: snip It's not a question of time zones. Time zones don't matter. It's just that the clock was wrong before and later is correct--there are many reasons this might happen-- and venti shouldn't

Re: [9fans] nvram

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Cross
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: this change as worked well on my personal system and at coraid for the past 6 months.  it just works.  even on hitherto unknown controllers like the orion. Hmm. A few years ago, I ran into a similar problem and added

Re: [9fans] nvram

2009-07-29 Thread erik quanstrom
Hmm. A few years ago, I ran into a similar problem and added a variable that could be set in plan9.ini to specify where the nvram actually is. It works reasonably well difficult to maintain in a pretty active environment; one more reason for boot failure. - erik

Re: [9fans] how to fix: 'arena arenas00 creation time after last write time'

2009-07-29 Thread Steve Simon
My standalone terminal is always doing the index, the problem seemed to have just suddenly showed up for no reason - the system hasn't crashed, I'm not doing anything 'weird', and I always run fshalt before shutting down. And this persists across fresh installs. Not sure what you mean by

Re: [9fans] how to fix: 'arena arenas00 creation time after last write time'

2009-07-29 Thread Russ Cox
The problem isn't confined to unnecessary warning messages being printed. What about the 'arena arenas00: header is out-of-date' error, and the subsequent re-indexing (on every reboot) which occurs as a result of the condition? Despite the mention of date in the message, the logic behind

Re: [9fans] vmware installation problems

2009-07-29 Thread Rodolfo (kix)
Is an strange problem ... problem with interrupts? Try to disable some hardware stuff, like the CD-ROM, USB, soundcard, etc. This problem is only with plan9? On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, roger pepperogpe...@gmail.com wrote: well, now i've got another problem... i'm gettting strange time

Re: [9fans] vmware installation problems

2009-07-29 Thread roger peppe
This problem is only with plan9? yup. although it is plan9-inside-vmware, which could make a significant difference.

Re: [9fans] vmware installation problems

2009-07-29 Thread Tim Newsham
This problem is only with plan9? yup. although it is plan9-inside-vmware, which could make a significant difference. And you said VMWare 2.x, which is exceedingly old... Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/

Re: [9fans] Someone let the domain go

2009-07-29 Thread Uriel
It might be worth trying to get control back, I think you can do that for domain squatters that violate trademarks, as is clearly the case here. uriel On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, mahtmattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote: Uriel wrote: Likely Google juice, there are still plenty of high-rank

Re: [9fans] vmware installation problems

2009-07-29 Thread roger peppe
it's the latest version of VMWare Fusion AFAIK... 2009/7/29 Tim Newsham news...@lava.net: This problem is only with plan9? yup. although it is plan9-inside-vmware, which could make a significant difference. And you said VMWare 2.x, which is exceedingly old... Tim Newsham

Re: [9fans] vmware installation problems

2009-07-29 Thread drivers
Hello Roger, I'm currently running latest Plan 9 in vmware fusion Version 2.0 (116369). This system has been behaving perfectly on every installation (save where i really botched something up trying to learn the system). What is your host OS? I'm running this on Mac OS X 10.5.8 hope

Re: [9fans] Someone let the domain go

2009-07-29 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: It might be worth trying to get control back, I think you can do that for domain squatters that violate trademarks, as is clearly the case here. I think that's only if the trademark owner pursues it, and the US may have other

[9fans] ceph

2009-07-29 Thread Roman V Shaposhnik
This is sort of off-topic, but does anybody have any experience with Ceph? http://ceph.newdream.net/ Good or bad war stories (and general thoughts) would be quite welcome. Thanks, Roman.

[9fans] Race condition in /sys/src/9/pc/trap.c?

2009-07-29 Thread Matthew J Jones
My familiarity with the kernel source code is superficial to say the least, but it seems to me that this code (from /sys/src/9/pc/trap.c) contains a race condition: 702 if(sp(USTKTOP-BY2PG) || sp(USTKTOP-sizeof(Sargs)-BY2WD)) 703 validaddr(sp, sizeof(Sargs)+BY2WD, 0);

Re: [9fans] how to fix: 'arena arenas00 creation time after last write time'

2009-07-29 Thread Corey
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 17:42:23 Corey wrote: My experience is indicating a different reality, or I'm still not interpreting my experience correctly. It was definitely the latter. On Tuesday 28 July 2009 16:50:15 erik quanstrom wrote: you should note that this has absolutely zero to do