[9fans] SATA boot failure

2010-04-20 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
hi, using 9atom.iso from Apr 19, installation completes but boot freezes. here is the transcript: cpu0: ... pat: ... ELCR: CC28 pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI 0.31.0 8086/2810 oni 0x732 phyno 1, mccv=0x3800, phyv=0x002 #l0: rtl8169: 100Mb parport 0x6800 irq 10 tu 1514:001a9272efe7

[9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread Adriano Verardo
Hi all. I'm building an industrial application hosted by several independent cpu server, each of them booted from a CFlash on sdD0. The application doesn't write on sdD0 and there are no redirection on local files in the cpurc scripts. In this particular situation fossil should be

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread maht
On 20/04/2010 11:45, Adriano Verardo wrote: Hi all. I'm building an industrial application hosted by several independent cpu server, each of them booted from a CFlash on sdD0. The application doesn't write on sdD0 and there are no redirection on local files in the cpurc scripts. In this

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread John Soros
Hello Adriano, Have you disabled all snapshotting features? Usiong open -r? How are you starting fossil, what's your configuration? -- John Soros On Tuesday 20 April 2010 12:45:09 Adriano Verardo wrote: Hi all. I'm building an industrial application hosted by several independent cpu

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread Adriano Verardo
maht wrote: On 20/04/2010 11:45, Adriano Verardo wrote: Hi all. I'm building an industrial application hosted by several independent cpu server, each of them booted from a CFlash on sdD0. The application doesn't write on sdD0 and there are no redirection on local files in the cpurc

[9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread pmarin
Hi all. I notice that in Plan9 (p9p) the character CR is not represented with '\r'. What I have to use instead? Cheers. pmarin

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread Adriano Verardo
John Soros wrote: Hello Adriano, Have you disabled all snapshotting features? Usiong open -r? How are you starting fossil, what's your configuration? Hi, John fsys main open -AWVP -c 3000 srv fossil srv -p fscons on /dev/sdD0/fossil open -r guarantees that fossil doesn't do physycal

Re: [9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 20 April 2010 13:28, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I notice that in Plan9 (p9p) the character CR is not represented with '\r'. What I have to use instead? Cheers. pmarin what is it that you wanna achieve? '\n' is almost always what I want... R

Re: [9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Apr 20 08:27:04 EDT 2010, pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to remove this character from some files. I tried to do it with the p9p tr(1) and I noticed that It does not support '\r'. use . (type with compose + X + 000d) - erik

Re: [9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread pmarin
I wanted to remove this character from some files. I tried to do it with the p9p tr(1) and I noticed that It does not support '\r'.

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
I've made a customized install procedure copying from the standard one. Where can i find a procedure for kfs to copy from? Can kfs be configured to be absolutely insentive to hard power down ? absolutely is too strong. if one turns off atime with kfscmd/atime, it is pretty robust. see

Re: [9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread yy
2010/4/20 pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com: I wanted to remove this character from some files. I tried to do it with the p9p tr(1) and I noticed that It does not support '\r'. You can use \x0d or probably sed 's/.$//' -- - yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread Adriano Verardo
erik quanstrom wrote: I've made a customized install procedure copying from the standard one. Where can i find a procedure for kfs to copy from? Can kfs be configured to be absolutely insentive to hard power down ? absolutely is too strong. if one turns off atime with kfscmd/atime, it

Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure

2010-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
using 9atom.iso from Apr 19, installation completes but boot freezes. here is the transcript: cpu0: ... pat: ... ELCR: CC28 pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI 0.31.0 8086/2810 oni 0x732 phyno 1, mccv=0x3800, phyv=0x002 #l0: rtl8169: 100Mb parport 0x6800 irq 10 tu 1514:001a9272efe7

Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure

2010-04-20 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
no PATA drives, just SATA-II, it worked before, but stopped to, I thought it was damaged but surface scan was OK, I reinstalled, but the problem persists. it well may be also caused by the fact that I, in the meantime, used that box with linux IDE discs, so I fiddled with BIOS, sory...

Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure

2010-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Apr 20 09:23:42 EDT 2010, tyap...@gmail.com wrote: no PATA drives, just SATA-II, it worked before, but stopped to, I thought it was damaged but surface scan was OK, I reinstalled, but the problem persists. it well may be also caused by the fact that I, in the meantime, used that box

Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure

2010-04-20 Thread EBo
no PATA drives, just SATA-II, it worked before, but stopped to, I thought it was damaged but surface scan was OK, I reinstalled, but the problem persists. it well may be also caused by the fact that I, in the meantime, used that box with linux IDE discs, so I fiddled with BIOS,

Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure

2010-04-20 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
does resetting bios help? no. i tried (almost) all combinations that came on my mind.there is also some JMicron SATA option that I recall it caused me problems with this same disk installation some half-a-year ago...Aug 11 2009 actually, the disk stopped to boot with the original native 9

[9fans] Error building 9vx on OS X 10.5.8

2010-04-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
9vx cloned from hg repo today. Error early in the build process: libvxc/_exit.c: In function '_exit': libvxc/syscall.h:8: error: can't find a register in class 'BREG' while reloading 'asm' make: *** [libvxc/_exit.o] Error 1 I can't recall if those can't find a register errors are due to

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
Both fossil and kfs seem like the wrong tool for your job. In addition to the robustness questions, they (especially fossil) include features you're not going to get anything out of in your environment. If you use something like paqfs(4) or sacfs(4) (not sure which is more appropriate) you'll get

Re: [9fans] Error building 9vx on OS X 10.5.8

2010-04-20 Thread andrey mirtchovski
make 9vx/9vx is the first step, but I imagine you'll hit a snag with ucontext.h being deprecated unless _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined.

Re: [9fans] Error building 9vx on OS X 10.5.8

2010-04-20 Thread andrey mirtchovski
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: make 9vx/9vx is the first step, but I imagine you'll hit a snag with ucontext.h being deprecated unless _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined. oops, i could be wrong -- it may only be deprecated on snow leopard.

Re: [9fans] Error building 9vx on OS X 10.5.8

2010-04-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 20 Apr 2010, at 17:08, andrey mirtchovski wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: make 9vx/9vx is the first step, but I imagine you'll hit a snag with ucontext.h being deprecated unless _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined. oops, i could be wrong --

[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

[9fans] updating 9vx root

2010-04-20 Thread EBo
what is the procedure for either updating the entire 9vx root, or setting up and building all the special customizations to build an up to date system? For background, I am running the newest 9vx/vx32 sources and have tried various combinations of 9vx-0.12 (which is missing libc.a), the full

Re: [9fans] updating 9vx root

2010-04-20 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:49 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: what is the procedure for either updating the entire 9vx root, or setting up and building all the special customizations to build an up to date system? For background, I am running the newest 9vx/vx32 sources and have tried

Re: [9fans] updating 9vx root

2010-04-20 Thread EBo
Fernan Bolando fernanbola...@mailc.net said: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:49 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: what is the procedure for either updating the entire 9vx root, or setting up and building all the special customizations to build an up to date system? For background, I am