Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-05-31 Thread James Chapman
Z On 31 May 2013 11:36, "David du Colombier" <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > main: df > > main: 557,539,328 used + 35,184,325,517,312 free = 510,967,808 > > (109.1% used) > > > > I thought the large number was my disk space including venti. Looking > > more closely, I certainly don't have 35 terabyt

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-05-31 Thread James Chapman
i On 31 May 2013 11:36, "David du Colombier" <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > main: df > > main: 557,539,328 used + 35,184,325,517,312 free = 510,967,808 > > (109.1% used) > > > > I thought the large number was my disk space including venti. Looking > > more closely, I certainly don't have 35 terabyt

Re: [9fans] Virtualbox and real mode

2013-02-25 Thread James Chapman
On Feb 24, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Rikard Lang wrote: > 24 feb 2013 kl. 12:48 skrev James Chapman : >> Virtualbox 4.1.24 works well for me. >> > I have Virtualbox 4.2.6 What settings if any did you use for the virtual > machine? I downgraded to 4.1.24 as 4.2.6 (or possibly som

Re: [9fans] Virtualbox and real mode

2013-02-24 Thread James Chapman
Virtualbox 4.1.24 works well for me. On Feb 24, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Rikard Lang wrote: > My first post to 9fans; Hi! > > I am currently running 9Front on real hardware (mini-itx board with an Atom > CPU), I also run 9Front using Virtualbox. I have had issues getting regular > Plan 9 to instal

Re: [9fans] trying to populate arm tree

2013-01-28 Thread James Chapman
On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: >> It gets further but fails here: >> /sys/src/ape/lib/openssl/apps/openssl.c:364[stdin:85783] no return at end of >> function: main > add -B to CFLAGS in apps/mkfile Thanks, that did it. I then had to create a directory /arm/bin/contrib

Re: [9fans] trying to populate arm tree

2013-01-28 Thread James Chapman
On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:07 PM, "Federico G. Benavento" wrote: > z and python: > > Jan 19 10:46:03 ART 2012 /n/dump/2013/0128/sys/src/ape/lib/z/mkfile 603 [fgb] > 39c39 > < CFLAGS=-c > --- >> > My z/mkfile already has: CFLAGS=-c -D_C99_SNPRINTF_EXTENSION and was already working I think. Jam

Re: [9fans] trying to populate arm tree

2013-01-28 Thread James Chapman
On Jan 28, 2013, at 4:53 PM, "Federico G. Benavento" wrote: > I fixed openssl, I'll push it when sources is back up again, just > remove the error > from opensslconf.h. > > python needs a mkfile rework. > > Dec 6 07:52:28 ART 2012 > /n/dump/2013/0128/sys/include/ape/openssl/opensslconf.h 630

[9fans] trying to populate arm tree

2013-01-28 Thread James Chapman
Hi, I would like to boot my 9pi using an fs from a 386 based cpu/auth/fossil server. I have previously installed: fgb/z fgb/bz2 fgb/openssl bichued/python stallion/mercurial and go from the development repo, and I was planning on putting kertex on there too. I tried cpuing into the server and

Re: [9fans] acid on linux; easiest-to-set-up virtual machine

2013-01-25 Thread James Chapman
It hangs during booting. The same as this I think: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=52431 On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:15 PM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > whats the problem with this version? > > -- > cinap >

Re: [9fans] acid on linux; easiest-to-set-up virtual machine

2013-01-25 Thread James Chapman
I have had recent sucess with VirtualBox 4.1.24. The current version of VirtualBox (4.2.6) didn't work for me. You can get older version of virtualbox from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds James On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:18 PM, wrote: > vmware, kvm/qemu, vbox should a

Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-23 Thread James Chapman
Success! On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:58 PM, James Chapman wrote: > On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> Some apple keyboards will work if you connect them via >> a powered hub. > > Ok, I might try that. I changed the power supply to

Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-22 Thread James Chapman
On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > Some apple keyboards will work if you connect them via > a powered hub. Ok, I might try that. > Some don't work at all, possibly because they don't implement > the usb HID boot protocol in quite the standard way. > > The

[9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-22 Thread James Chapman
Hi, I just downloaded http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz and tried it out. It booted, my logitech mouse worked but my apple keyboard (model A1243) doesn't work. It produces the following error: usbotg: ep 5.0 error intr 0082 Best wishes, James

Re: [9fans] troubleshooting pull from sources

2012-08-09 Thread James Chapman
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > so maybe patience is the critical issue here? It seems so! I left it for several hours yesterday afternoon and it eventually sprung to life. Thanks for the responses, James

[9fans] troubleshooting pull from sources

2012-08-08 Thread James Chapman
Hi, When I run 'pull' it just produces no output and just sits there apparently for ever. I can run '9fs sources' and navigate around in /n/sources/. Is there a lock file or something I should delete? Any suggestions for debugging? Thanks, James

Re: [9fans] drawterm to cpu/auth server with ordinary user

2012-06-04 Thread James Chapman
And now I discovered the problem was a typo in setting up an ssh tunnel. Sorry for the noise, and thanks for the help! James On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:59 PM, James Chapman wrote: > I just discovered that I can drawterm in from a machine on the same network > with my user but it doesn'

Re: [9fans] drawterm to cpu/auth server with ordinary user

2012-06-04 Thread James Chapman
I just discovered that I can drawterm in from a machine on the same network with my user but it doesn't work from outside (over the internet). I am using dhcp with just the following in /lib/ndb/local: cpu% cat /lib/ndb/local # # files comprising the database, use as many as you like, see ndb(

Re: [9fans] drawterm to cpu/auth server with ordinary user

2012-06-04 Thread James Chapman
P.S. mv /rc/bin/service/tcp567 /rc/bin/service/!tcp567 This line didn't work when I was following the instructions on the wiki for configuring a standalone cpu server as the file tcp567 wasn't there. James On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:14 PM, James Chapman wrote: > cpu%cat /cfg/$sys

Re: [9fans] drawterm to cpu/auth server with ordinary user

2012-06-04 Thread James Chapman
cpu%cat /cfg/$sysname/cpustart aux/listen -q -t /rc/bin/service.auth -d /rc/bin/service tcp cpu%ls /rc/bin/service.auth /rc/bin/service.auth/authsrv.il566 /rc/bin/service.auth/tcp567 I guess I am already flailing... and I can't run anything on the server's console until tomorrow. Thanks, James

[9fans] drawterm to cpu/auth server with ordinary user

2012-06-04 Thread James Chapman
Hi, I'm trying to set up a combined cpu/auth server. I can drawterm into it using bootes but if I try the other user then I created the following happens after I type in my password: cpu: cannont get auth tickets in p9sk1: Connection refused goodbye drawterming in with bootes and running auth

Re: [9fans] ssh2

2012-04-24 Thread James Chapman
Perhaps I should add that when I did this the following message appeared on the screen: 14:11:39 netssh: server id 0 new connection on fd 6 Thanks, James On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:17 PM, James Chapman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very pleased to see the new progress with ssh2. I thought

[9fans] ssh2

2012-04-24 Thread James Chapman
Hi, I'm very pleased to see the new progress with ssh2. I thought I'd try it out but I didn't get very far. I just did a pull from sources and built a new kernel. I tried the following: cpu% ssh user@host The following key has been offered by the server: ek=23 n= Add this key? (yes, no, se

Re: [9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users?

2010-12-13 Thread James Chapman
Dear Thierry, I use it: james$ bibtex --version BibTeX 0.99d (TeX Live 2010/MacPorts 2010_0) kpathsea version 6.0.0 Copyright 2010 Oren Patashnik. ... In my area (roughly theoretical computer science I guess) LaTeX is a necessity (I have to send the LaTeX source to the publisher) and bibTeX is u

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2010-10-19 Thread James Chapman
Hi, My attempt to (belatedly) follow the instructions below has been hindered by the fact that I don't seem to have the arm assembler 5a on my i386 plan 9 system. ls /bin/?c yields lots of compilers ls /bin/?a yields only 0a and 8a. Is 5a supposed to be there by default or should I build it fro

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-06 Thread James Chapman
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >> In drawterm middle-click is option-click and right-click is command-click. >> >> In OS X in general right click is ctrl-click and in plan9 under vmware >> fusion ctrl-click is right-click and command-click is middle-click. >> >> Is there any reaso

[9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-06 Thread James Chapman
Hi, In drawterm middle-click is option-click and right-click is command-click. In OS X in general right click is ctrl-click and in plan9 under vmware fusion ctrl-click is right-click and command-click is middle-click. Is there any reason for this discrepancy and can it be easily changed? Best w

Re: [9fans] resizing desktops under vmware vs. parallels

2010-09-05 Thread James Chapman
monitor=cinema vgasize=1280x768x24 works for me. James On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: > [ Let me try again, this time hitting Post vs |fmt :-) ] > > For ages I've run diskless terminals under Parallels, and aux/vga would > quite cheerfully resize the Par

[9fans] Fwd: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc opportunities at UPenn, Harvard, and Northeastern

2010-08-24 Thread James Chapman
I thought this might interest some 9fans. James -- Forwarded message -- From: Benjamin Pierce Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:44 PM Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc opportunities at UPenn, Harvard, and Northeastern To: types-annou...@lists.seas.upenn.edu, Coq Club , Study on Mechan

Re: [9fans] soverflow for fx->in

2010-07-25 Thread James Chapman
Thanks Erik. Removing the first instance of the print in /sys/src/9/pc/devether.c appears to fix it: /* print("soverflow for f->in\n"); */ There is another another print lower down but I left this there for the moment. term% time upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com/address_remo...@gmail.com !Addi

[9fans] soverflow for fx->in

2010-07-24 Thread James Chapman
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> what's happening is that the printing of "soverflow for fx->in" >> is wasting so much time that the imap server gets bored and hangs >> up. > > This is really dragging out for 30 minutes? No. Not that long. Also, I just did a pull from

[9fans] upas problem

2010-07-24 Thread James Chapman
ave only seen the hangup errors. I also seen the soverflow error when doing a pull (a big one) under vmware. James Chapman

Re: [9fans] printing over usb

2010-07-05 Thread James Chapman
e to be able to directly connect with usb. I will try with native plan 9 instead of under vmware fusion and also try a different printer to see if I get different results. Is there some extra extra debugging I can enable to see what's going on with the usb devices? Best wishes, James Chapman On Su

Re: [9fans] printing over usb

2010-07-03 Thread James Chapman
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, franciscojose ballesteros wrote: > Ep4.0 does not look like the place to send data. It's probably the control ep. > for the printer. IIRC, the driver adds a file named lp something, but I'm not > sure. Try to look at /dev to see if there's a file there. term% du -

[9fans] printing over usb

2010-07-03 Thread James Chapman
Then I tried to print something: term% lp -dlaserjet1300 /sys/doc/utf.ps cat: write error copying : request timed out Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Best wishes, James Chapman

Re: [9fans] iwp94e proceedings

2010-05-02 Thread James Chapman
Hi Erik, I think the Currying paper appears twice. In the second case it appears instead of the other paper by Ron Minnich et al. James On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > http://iwp9.org/iwp94e.pdf > > - erik > >

Re: [9fans] TeX it!

2010-04-23 Thread James Chapman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:23 PM, wrote: > It takes M_default when it should take M_plan9. > > What gives you (under ape): uname -s? # uname -s Plan9

Re: [9fans] TeX it!

2010-04-23 Thread James Chapman
Hi, I downloaded the four files and failed almost immediately. What am I doing wrong? James Transcript below: term% ls kertex_M kertex_T knuth risk_comp term% ape/psh # cd kertex_M # ../risk_comp/sys/posix/sh/rkconfig -> config pathname /usr/james/tex/kertex_M/conf/KERTEX_M entered in cache ->

Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!

2010-04-19 Thread James Chapman
There is also pdftex. This is part of texlive and provides pdflatex. I think texlive and pdftex are more popular/de-facto standard but this is only from personal experience. Also, it would be very nice to see some performance comparison between tex on plan9 and tex on some other platform. Is it f

Re: [9fans] multiple pings cause panic

2010-04-18 Thread James Chapman
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:32 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> term% for (i in `{seq 1 254}) {ip/ping -n 1 192.168.1.1&} > > i think you mean > >        for(i in `{seq 1 254}){ip/ping -n1 192.168.1.$i} Sorry, I meant for(i in `{seq 1 254}){ip/ping -n1 192.168.1.$i&} I added the & as I didn't want t

[9fans] multiple pings cause panic

2010-04-18 Thread James Chapman
On my new plan 9 terminal running under vmware fusion on my leopard macbook this happens: Executing the command term% for (i in `{seq 1 254}) {ip/ping -n 1 192.168.1.1&} causes panic: Fsprotoclone: all conversations in use panic :Fsprotoclone: all conversations in use dumpstack disabled cpu0: e

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread James Chapman
This afternoon I downloaded a trial version of VM Fusion (Version 3.0.2 (232708)) and a fresh plan9.iso.bz2 and installed it on my core 2 due macbook running OS X Leopard (Version 10.5.8). It works quite nicely, graphics and networking are both working. The only things that tripped me up were I ha

Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!

2010-04-16 Thread James Chapman
This page and its links maybe be interesting for understanding the relationship between latex and tex: http://www.tug.org/levels.html In my area of computer science all publications are written in latex and for a particular conference/journal a latex class or style file (I must admit to not reall

Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!

2010-04-16 Thread James Chapman
LaTeX does too. I have used it with a recent version of TeX Live to get greek and mathematical symbols in verbatim code listings. James On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > XeTeX/XeLaTeX do this, I believe... Perhaps they can be ported at some > point? > > K > > Karljür

Re: [9fans] problem logging into a combined auth/cpu/fileserver

2009-09-07 Thread James Chapman
On 8 Sep 2009, at 01:13, erik quanstrom wrote: and if you have cpu and auth set to carp.lan? Doesn't seem to change anything.

Re: [9fans] problem logging into a combined auth/cpu/fileserver

2009-09-07 Thread James Chapman
Hi Erik, Thanks for the reply. I added the authdom and this is what I have now in /lib/ndb/local: [snip] ipnet=mynet ip=192.168.1.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0 auth=carp cpu=carp authdom=home.net dns=192.168.1.254 dnsdom=lan authdom=home.net auth=carp ip=19

Re: [9fans] problem logging into a combined auth/cpu/fileserver

2009-09-07 Thread James Chapman
: resource does not exist" Firstly, is what I'm trying to do possible or do cpu/auth/file servers have to have static ips? Secondly, can anybody suggest what I'm doing wrong? Or can you tell me where to look to try to fix it. Or am I barking up the wrong tree completely? James Chapman

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-06 Thread James Chapman
On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:05 PM, David Leimbach wrote: On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Eris Discordia > wrote: In this respect rating the "expressive power of C versus LISP" depends very much on the problem domain under discussion. Of course. I pointed out in my first post on the thread that "[...]

[9fans] problem logging into a combined auth/cpu/fileserver

2009-09-06 Thread James Chapman
Hi, I have set up a combined auth/cpu/fileserver (using fossil) under parallels. The hostowner is bootes and I created an ordinary user called james. I can connect with drawterm with either user. I can also boot a plan 9 terminal in a parallels instance from the server. If I do this as bo