Problems with Apache/PHP

2002-06-19 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I just did: dpkg --force-depends --purge apache php3 apt-get install apache php3 on my E250 server. After this I expected my php3 to run after uncommenting all php related stuff in /etc/apache/*.conf but I failed even on the php3 examples. I consider PHP3 broken because it d

Re: kernel 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 for sparc

2002-05-31 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Paul Hedderly wrote: > > Got the 2.4.19-pre8-ac5 patch, and tried to apply it on a standard > > 2.4.18 kernel tree. I got A LOT of rejects! > > > > Alan's patches don't seem to be up to the usual standard... > > You DID apply 2.4.19-pre8 FIRST didn't you... At least I did the

E250 Crashes with 2.4.17

2002-05-27 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, while I know that there are some issues which let a Sparc (E250) crash randomly if using ext3 with kernel 2.4.17 (I'm using ~> uname -a Linux bse 2.4.17 #1 SMP Don Feb 28 12:32:06 CET 2002 sparc64 which I compiled by myself) I wonder if I should take the 2.4.18 Debian sources or 2.4

E250 crashing hard with 2.4.16 and 2.4.17

2002-02-28 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, once I had hardware failures on my E250 server which I was able to reproduce also under Solaris. This enabled me to bother the Sun support. Now I am in trouble because the problem only occures under Linux :-(. After the crash I had to switch on the machine manually. A can't to anything

Re: Sun Support for Linux

2002-02-20 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andrew Sharp wrote: > I guess I'm just confused. Say again why anyone is waiting for a > Sun version of Linux for SPARC? Debian and others work pretty > well. But it would really help if the support would not say: "Oh, you are running Linux on your Sparc machine. This i

Crashes with 2.4.16

2002-02-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, after some crashes with 2.4.16 I brought my Sparc E250 server into an unbootable state :-(((. Because of the crashes I observed I just swithed to ext3fs and did so for the root partition as well. Now the box crashes while booting. Tha last claim is that it can't fix an ro-mounted disk. My

Making a disk bootable

2002-02-06 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I just made a dd-copy of a disk and wanted to boot from the copy. I used the following /etc/silo.conf: partition=1 root=/dev/sda1 timeout=100 read-only image=1/vmlinuz label=linux image=1/vmlinuz.old label=linux.old image=2/vmlinuz label=linuxb

Re: Ftpfs for Sparc with 2.4.17

2002-01-23 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Ben Collins wrote: > > gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -DMODULE > > -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c cache.c -o cache.o > > Ftpfs is using the userspace compiler when it shouldn

Ftpfs for Sparc with 2.4.17

2002-01-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I tried to build the ftpfs module with kernel-source-2.4.17. The kernel package builded fine, but fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image failed (log attached to this mail). Did anybody had success with this funny thing? It's great if you use Zope. Kind regards Andreas. test -f

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Sounds like maybe something is wrong with the preceding lines. How > about deleting all the comment lines before hand. Or adding one. > Mine looks like this: > > benedict:/usr/share/kernel-package# cat /etc/exports > # /etc/exports: the access control li

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel > version will only give you better performance (depending on what the > processor is), and who really needs that? Performance and security. Well NFS is insecure anyway and I'm sitting behin

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > What happens when you try the user level nfs server? The nfs-user-server always worked like a charm and does now as well. But I really thought it would be depreciated and wanted to try nfs-kernel-server over and over again. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Guillaume Lécroart wrote: > strace seems to reveal that the error is reported by the kernel part of the > stuff... This was my impression that something went really wrong inside the kernel. UNfortunately I have neither time nor enough knowledge to track down the problem into t

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Guillaume Lécroart wrote: > Did you try to run mountd/nfsd w/ strace and/or debug flags? # strace /usr/sbin/exportfs -r 2>&1 | tee > exportfs.strace wr-linux02.rki.ivbb.bund.de:/: Invalid argument ... may be somebody would have a clue from that output. I for myself can't see

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote: > hmm, try it without LVM support. Seems that it still does not work for sparc > My custom 2.4.16-pre1 did not compile with LVM support either. This worked so far even if I wanted to try LVM :-(. So I have to wait again for a kernel which fits my nee

Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I just wanted to give the recent kernel a try after beeing bothered now to much by the broken NFS and NCPFS of my current 2.4.9. So I installed kernel-source-2.4.16 package from Woody and builded the usual way. But ... sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16/include

Re: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument

2001-10-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Paul Heinlein wrote: > I saw a note on this in Chip Salzenberg's changelog for nfs-common. It > looks as if you'll need to update the tcpwrappers service name: > > * Warn users about "rpc.mountd" -> "mountd" in /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}. I just grepped the changelogs from nef

Re: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument

2001-10-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Graham Williams wrote: > Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument > mountd. > > Until now NFS has been working just fine. I'm running kernel 2.2.19. > (NFS is now not working - remote hosts can not access this host.) > > Any ideas? No ideas but you are not al

Re: Solution (Was: Sparc has slow disk access)

2001-09-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sparc/Solaris: 45s > > Sparc/Linux:35s !! (We are really good, aren´t we?) > > PC/Linux: 61s > > Gratulations Thanks :). > time cat smalltebledefinition | psql database -> real0m0.306s > time psql -e database < smalltabledefinition

Solution (Was: Sparc has slow disk access)

2001-09-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, people might remember my question about the E250 server with slower disk access than a usual PC which I testet by some dd copying. Now I found a solution: $ dd if=hd-test.filenof=hd-test.file.out bs=1024k Seems that there were not an opti

Re: Sparc has slow disk access

2001-08-30 Thread Tille, Andreas
Quoting my previous mail and adding the rest of my homework: On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > That's your homework for today. Tomorrow we'll get to advanced disk > > performance considerations. ~:^) > Sorry for beeing late in solving my homework but I l

Re: Sparc has slow disk access

2001-08-27 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Several things. One, you left out a ton of information, as this > could be the result of many, many things. Where to start? > > What kind of disk/controller for each machine/disk? Hmm, I quote from my previous mail: > > E250: > > ... > > 4x36 GB SCSI

Re: Sparc has slow disk access

2001-08-27 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > My point exactly: not only is tmpfs a notoriously slow filesystem to Sorry what´s the difference between /tmp directory on / which has the "default" filesystem I created while installing Solaris 8. I really can´t understand why /tmp should be slow

Re: Sparc has slow disk access

2001-08-23 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > It would be worth upgrading the ultra to a recent 2.4 kernel from > http://vger.samba.org. I found a > 10% improvement in some IO benchmarks Are there any patches applied? I just think about using kernel-image-2.4.7 (or higher) from the Debian mirror.

Sparc has slow disk access

2001-08-23 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I´ve got a Sparc E250 server and I´m runing Debian GNU/Linux on it. I now started to make some performance comparisons against a default PC. Here are the configurations I used: E250: ~> cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) fpu : UltraSparc II