dual 150 mhz hypersparc ss20

2003-12-02 Thread Heitzso
headless and I control via ssh over local lan. I can leave the current debian setup on the disk or wipe it. Heitzso heitzso at growthmodels dot com

top failing on ss20 debian unstable

2003-11-25 Thread Heitzso
top has been failing for a week or so on my ss20 box running 2.4.22 compiled single cpu. Error message is "top: failed /proc/stat read" strace top yields (last few lines) open("/proc/stat" ... = 5 fstat64(5, ...) = 0 mmmap( _llseek( read(5, ...) = 243 write(1, "..." = 317 ioctl(0,

sparc debian unstable python snarling apt-get

2003-11-25 Thread Heitzso
he moment about this problem (the archives search server is not responding.) Heitzso

tar breaking on large backups, ss20, unstable 2.4.22

2003-11-25 Thread Heitzso
email to the list) - umounts of my NFS backup volume is failing, even after the hung tar is killed BTW, al of these pieces were working a couple of weeks ago before the upgrade that forced me to bump from 2.2.25 to 2.4.22. Suggestions? Thanks, Heitzso

SMP hypersparc ss20 kernel recommendations

2003-11-18 Thread Heitzso
were breaking instead of the kernel? Should I sit tight for some patchset to come down the pike in a future 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? Also, and this is very strange, 'top' stopped working in 2.4.22, though worked great in 2.2.25. I'd appreciate any clues re getting it to work again. Thanks, Heitzso

Re: Networking problem.

2003-11-07 Thread Heitzso
r box and see if the network is up, though that assumes all eth settings okay with the other port. And this is just a wild guess. If I'm right, setting alias between the eth0 and your hme card will fix things. Heitzso Steve King wrote: I have experienced a weird problem with the networ

sparc32 hypersparc 150 smp followup

2003-11-07 Thread Heitzso
glitches elsewhere have been fixed. Is that true? Also, if I build a custom 2.4.? SMP kernel what compiler should I be using? And should the source be vanilla or debian patched? Thanks, Heitzso

Re: sparc32 unstable upgrade choking on libc6

2003-11-07 Thread Heitzso
ystem. I can't spend days thrashing this again. If I have to, I can go to single cpu kernel (they work on my system) but really want to get the SMP rolling. What is the current recommended most-likely-to-work kernel/patch/gcc setup to run SMP on dual hypersparc 150 ss20? Thanks, Heitzso W

sparc32 unstable upgrade choking on libc6

2003-11-06 Thread Heitzso
and locales. Comments on safest path appreciated. (Wait and retry tomorrow? Use -f?) Thanks, Heitzso

postfix smtpd/mysql cf files bonked this morning

2003-10-20 Thread Heitzso
s running 2.4.22-ac3, both are on 'unstable' so there's the steady thrash of packages, and I've been trying to push key packages over to -mv8 packages on the sparc box to get the integer math speedup for some python/openssl/whatever packages. Thanks Heitzso

Re: [DebToo-Devel] Some benchmarks from using apt-fu + modified pentium-builder

2003-10-17 Thread Heitzso
, yes, the decreased time is why I've been fighting it -- I want that 2-3 second ssl setup time. lsh gave it to me w/o compiling from source for ssh2 and cvs-over-ssh2 but email-over-tls-libssl is still the agonizingly slow 10 seconds. Michael Andersen wrote: Heitzso wrote: Problem

Re: [DebToo-Devel] Some benchmarks from using apt-fu + modified pentium-builder

2003-10-16 Thread Heitzso
up ssh via openssl. My email TSL still routes via openssl/libssl and takes the 10 seconds, but otherwise ... Heitzso Andrew Sharp wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Heitzso wrote: Eric Wong wrote: I used very conservative optimizations, but nevertheless, it looks go

Re: [DebToo-Devel] Some benchmarks from using apt-fu + modified pentium-builder

2003-10-16 Thread Heitzso
some speedup over -mv7 flavor distributed. I'm still trying to get a ssh logon to my ss20 to drop down to a few seconds. Somewhat frustrating for every cvs/email/ssh (all using ssl) to take about 10 seconds for the ssl to setup. Heitzso

sparc32/64 confusion in builds

2003-10-15 Thread Heitzso
I'm still fighting a debian libssl0.9.7 build trying to execute a 64 bit program on my 32 bit sparcstation 20 system (current as of this morning debian source). I'm watching other emails talk about 32/64 confusions in sparc ports/builds. I thought I'd 'apt-get remove' useless 64 bit packages off

Re: [DebToo-Devel] Re: libssl0.9.7 build fails sparc32

2003-10-14 Thread Heitzso
in ../ If that fails also, contact the upstream author. As I understand it, apt-build is pretty much just a wrapper for those steps. I'm glad you're having at least some success, though! I've not had the time to piddle with it this month like I wanted. /dev/idal Heitzso

nsswitch.conf compat problem with passwd

2003-10-14 Thread Heitzso
rogram is still complaining so I'll reboot and cross my fingers. Any other ideas? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks, Heitzso

Re: libssl0.9.7 build fails sparc32

2003-10-14 Thread Heitzso
I haven't studied the guts of what's going on. I'm just reporting what happens with apt-build on 32 bit sparc (mv8) system. Please let me know if there's some test or system check I should run to help clarify this problem. BTW, otherwise apt-build tends to work (I've used to build/install maybe

libssl0.9.7 build fails sparc32

2003-10-13 Thread Heitzso
ompile it's harder to hold the pieces together. Does anyone have a suggestion re getting this package to compile with apt-build? Thanks, Heitzso

short note re trying to push a system from debian to gentoo

2003-10-11 Thread Heitzso
? I only had CD 1 non-us debian sparc stable on hand and the primitive shell that's provided in that environment was frustrating. Are there knoppix/gnoppix like rescue CDs around for sparc? Thanks, Heitzso

Re: Recompiling everything on my system

2003-10-08 Thread Heitzso
ries somewhere along the way that breaks everything. We'll see. Heitzso -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all I am interested at recompiling all packages that i have installed on my ultra5 currently running unstable. (yeah its a slow box, but its idle too) I am at the

v8 hypersparc optimization

2003-10-08 Thread Heitzso
parc Is this catching all possible hypersparc optimizations? Thansk! Heitzso

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-10-07 Thread Heitzso
so, given that it was about midnight, I thrashed it back to the original state without noting the exact wording of the eternal error loop. I apologize for not grabbing the exact text. Heitzso Eric Brower wrote: Heitzso wrote: I have an sbus antares (actually a qlogic) fast/wide scsi

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Heitzso
few days before I get to it. My main thrash is trying to figure out why postfix-tls-openssl-saslauthd-pam stopped sending out the sasl auth modes recently. I'm rigging the ss20 to be a hopefully stable SOHO edge box with mail server. Heitzso Eric Brower wrote: Yep-- missing the "int

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Heitzso
ing controller etc. message. Thanks for digging up the message in the driver. Still no scsi controller. I'll slide on it since I'm not in a position to thrash the code. Heitzso Eric Brower wrote: Heitzso wrote: I have an sbus antares (actually a qlogic) fast/wide scsi2 controller in

antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Heitzso
2.2.X kernels. I've scanned kernel doc and googled around but haven't found the right clue. Any ideas would be appreciated. It would be real nice to get the speed bump from this controller! Thanks, Heitzso

apt-build openssl problems

2003-09-29 Thread Heitzso
because the dist-upgrade will rip amavisd-new out of your system. Between that and having sasluathd ripped out by a prior 'apt-get dist-upgrade' my mail server is feeling rather vulnerable. Just some FYIs while I wonder about my sanity. Heitzso

Re: [gentoo-sparc] more info re hypersparc smp w/ 2.4.23-pre5

2003-09-26 Thread Heitzso
l.org. Since this 2.2.25 kernel doesn't crash at INIT on the way up I'ld guess it isn't the INIT code per se. ?? Just trying to add data points. Thanks, Heitzso I have a sparc 20, 2x 150 MHz HperSparcs, and 2.4.21-SMP, vanilla, no patch, ext3 all over. My machine always boots up t

ss20 hypersparc smp update

2003-09-25 Thread Heitzso
t;unimplemented sparc system call" error messages popped up on the console. The unimplemented sparc calls were 32, 53, 69, and 89. Should I be worried? (said nervously ...) Heitzso

smp hypersparc oopsed when I pressed keyboard key

2003-09-23 Thread Heitzso
limitation and how to measure what's generated by the compile I'ld appreciate the pointer. Thanks, Heitzso

more info re hypersparc smp w/ 2.4.23-pre5

2003-09-23 Thread Heitzso
nicom watching the ttya serial port) bootlogd complained of not being able to access /dev/tty0 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Heitzso

another hypersparc smp question ...

2003-09-23 Thread Heitzso
ox. Any pointers would be appreciated. I've googled on most word combos but am not seeing recent references to the hypersparc/smp combo. Thanks! Heitzso

ss20 dual ross hypersparc; smp; 2.4/2.6 kernel

2003-09-23 Thread Heitzso
on of the kernel. A simple 'make' builds vmlinux and I (believe, haven't tried) can work from there. NOTE I assume this is not related to sparc architecture but have not tracked it down. Finally, I haven't tried running with this new 2.4.23-pre5 kernel yet. That's next. Heitzso