sysinstall: Avoiding version checking of CD-ROM (patch included)

2000-09-21 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
I'm an administrator of current.jp.FreeBSD.org, yet another snapshots services in Japan. Now I'm going to make a bootable FreeBSD installation CD which contains FreeBSD 3-stable, 4-stable and -current (namely, 'triplex CD-ROM'). Maybe it's useful for installation events at BUGs (BSD Users Groups

Re: A SMPng suggestion..

2000-09-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Sep-00 Doug Barton wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> If you are running -current with the SMPng code, it would probably >> be very production to stick the following options in your kernel >> config, especially if you are having crashes: >> >> SMP_DEBUG >> DIAGNOSTIC >> INVARIANTS >> INVA

Re: A SMPng suggestion..

2000-09-21 Thread Doug Barton
John Baldwin wrote: > > If you are running -current with the SMPng code, it would probably > be very production to stick the following options in your kernel > config, especially if you are having crashes: > > SMP_DEBUG > DIAGNOSTIC > INVARIANTS > INVARIANT_SUPPORT Rumor not too long ag

Re: 1131 unneeded includes in the kernel...

2000-09-21 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 September 2000 at 3:10:21 -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >> >> Oh- don't get me wrong. Valuable info. Thanks. > > What would be very cool is to feed this into another script which strips > these unnecesary includes out. Then do a

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RE: processes only consume system time ????

2000-09-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Sep-00 Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > This happens with freshly built -CURRENT, on an uniprocessor machine: > > $ cat loop.c > main() { while (1); } > $ time ./loop >[ wait for ten seconds... ] > ^C > real0m9.982s > user0m0.000s > sys 0m5.689s > > Uh? Other utilities, such as to

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
My system fans always stay on... but again this is not in a laptop .. it is on my regular pc... = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade| | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | |

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I don't have it enabled... I am not even on my laptop with -CURRENT... this is on my regular PC... and I'm taking my thermal readings by banging around on some memory addys through /dev/io with a little hack of a program I wrote as a windowmaker dockapp for this purpose... =

Re: 'host' command with CNAMEs

2000-09-21 Thread Mark . Andrews
BIND 4 and BIND 8 bugs can be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BIND 9 bugs can be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark P.S. don't bother submitting this as it will just land in my mailbox. > > --ELM969581696-60857-0_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-AS

Re: 'host' command with CNAMEs

2000-09-21 Thread Dima Dorfman
> > As I recall, Sean Kelly wrote: > > > I've got two machines here, one running 4.1-STABLE (from Aug 3) and a > > > 5.0-CURRENT (from Aug 10) and both of them show the same issue. When > > > you use the 'host' command to resolve a CNAME, it will show all the A > > > records twice: > > > > > > (

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> : >> If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we > : >> don't do this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an > : >> interrupt, and there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll > : >> take an interrupt in order to get us out of the HLT. > : > > : >I thought t

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tony Finch writes: : Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >Mike Smith writes: : >> : >> If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we : >> don't do this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an : >> interrupt, and there are cases where

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Tony Finch
Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Smith writes: >> >> If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we >> don't do this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an >> interrupt, and there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll >> take an interrupt in order to

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: > : If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we don't do > : this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an interrupt, and > : there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll take an interrupt in > : order to ge

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: : If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we don't do : this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an interrupt, and : there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll take an interrupt in : order to get us out o

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> My laptop does seem to run *MUCH* warmer than before as well. It runs > hot to begin with, but with the latest kernels it runs really hot. It > used to get this hot only when I compiled -j 4. I don't have ACPI > enabled and am using UP kernel. There really needs to be a HLT in the > idle loo

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenneth Wayne Culver writes: : I can second this... on my PC the cpu used to run around about 84 degrees : F with the case at 80 degrees F, now the cpu runs at about 91-93 degrees F : while the case runs at 80 degrees F. My laptop does seem to run *MUCH* warmer tha

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> I can second this... on my PC the cpu used to run around about 84 degrees > F with the case at 80 degrees F, now the cpu runs at about 91-93 degrees F > while the case runs at 80 degrees F. While you're tinkering with SMPng, be VERY SURE that you do not have acpi enabled (ie. make sure it's no

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I can second this... on my PC the cpu used to run around about 84 degrees F with the case at 80 degrees F, now the cpu runs at about 91-93 degrees F while the case runs at 80 degrees F. = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donn Miller writes: : I've been doing "make buildkernel installkernel" in /usr/src without doing : a "make buildworld" first. Is this OK? NO. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Notebook & current rebooting problems

2000-09-21 Thread Karl M. Joch
Hi all, I am new to -current but running FreeBSD since 2.2.?. current was a result of haveing problems with my notebook after running a long time with 3.x and 4.x. till the last cvsup mid of august and now there must have been changes which cases my notebook to hang when rebooting. it is a Kap

Fsck wrappers, revisited

2000-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
I've updated my fsck wrappers patchset to the latest netbsd and freebsd fsck patches. I'd appreciate some feedback on them before I run off and commit them (with my mentor, of course.) For those who aren't in the know, the general idea is that a single wrapper program spawns a FS-specific fsck

new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Takaya Ogawa
Hi. After new idle_proc() committed to the tree, my laptop become very hot as if under heavy cpu load even when cpu is actually 95%~ idle. If I understand collectly, idle_proc() doesn't contain any HLT instruction in i386 UP case which former idle() had. Attached patch adds back the HLT in i38

Intel 815e and SMbus

2000-09-21 Thread Schmalzbauer, Harald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, is the SMBus on the 815e different from the old BX? I'm running 4.1 but it can't find any SMB device. (ASUS CULS2) Is it supported in -current? Thanks, Harry belenus GmbH Harald Schmalzbauer Sys/Net Admin Tel: +49 (89) 21979-120 Fax: +49

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2000-09-21 (10:00), Donn Miller wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > On Thu 2000-09-21 (08:48), Donn Miller wrote: > > > An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set > > > KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf, so I should be alright there. >

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2000-09-21 (08:48), Donn Miller wrote: > An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set > KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf, so I should be alright there. > > {standard input}:2342: Error: Subtraction of two symbols in different sections >".data" {.data section}

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2000-09-21 (16:27), Stijn Hoop wrote: > nm: could not exec elf/nm in /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec: No such file or >directory Yep, this is the problem. > Which is quite correct since I blew away /usr/obj after my last buildworld > (FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Wed Sep 13 14:45:31 CEST 200

SMPng panic message

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
Hi, When I boot an SMP kernel (updated 2 days ago) I get the following panic message -> panic: cpu_switch: chooseproc returned NULL cpuid = 0; lapic_id = db> tr Debugger(..) panic(..) sw0_3(2,c03876f8,0,0,0) at sw0_3 msleep(c038f958,0,30,c03890dc,64) at msleep+0x235 random_kthread(c038

processes only consume system time ????

2000-09-21 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
This happens with freshly built -CURRENT, on an uniprocessor machine: $ cat loop.c main() { while (1); } $ time ./loop [ wait for ten seconds... ] ^C real0m9.982s user0m0.000s sys 0m5.689s Uh? Other utilities, such as top(1) and systat(1) show that 100% of time is accounted to the

Re: 'host' command with CNAMEs

2000-09-21 Thread Scot Elliott
I think this is a bug in that version of Bind as it also happens on my Solaris machine here on which I compiled up bind v8.2.2 recently... Scot On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tim Zingelman wrote: > > As I recall, Sean Kelly wrote: > > > I've got two machines here, one running 4.1-STABLE (from Aug 3) an

Re: 'host' command with CNAMEs

2000-09-21 Thread Tim Zingelman
> As I recall, Sean Kelly wrote: > > I've got two machines here, one running 4.1-STABLE (from Aug 3) and a > > 5.0-CURRENT (from Aug 10) and both of them show the same issue. When > > you use the 'host' command to resolve a CNAME, it will show all the A > > records twice: > > > > (7) smkelly@edg

kldload and alternate kernel locations...

2000-09-21 Thread Donn Miller
Normally, kldload can only find .ko modules in /boot/kernel. What if you have KERNEL=MYKERNEL set in /etc/make.conf, for instance, which will result in a kernel installed in /boot/MYKERNEL? kldload doesn't find the modules then (because all the .ko's are in /boot/MYKERNEL). I've first noticed t

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:00:59AM -0400, Donn Miller wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > On Thu 2000-09-21 (08:48), Donn Miller wrote: > > > An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set > > > KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf, so I should be a

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Donn Miller
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Thu 2000-09-21 (08:48), Donn Miller wrote: > > An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set > > KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf, so I should be alright there. > > > > > {standard input}:2342: Error: Subtraction of

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set > KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf, so I should be alright there. > > - Donn > {standard input}:2342: Error: Subtraction of two symbols in different sections >".data" {.data secti

buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Donn Miller
An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf, so I should be alright there. - Donn {standard input}:2342: Error: Subtraction of two symbols in different sections ".data" {.data section} - "KERNBASE" {*UND* section} at file address 92

Re: OpenBSD errata 008 also applies to FreeBSD

2000-09-21 Thread Marius Bendiksen
> > It appears msdosfs is using a vnode after having released its reference on > > it, which could lead to a bad things under high load. I've patched the > > OpenBSD errata to apply cleanly to FreeBSD. > > Yes, I remember you bringing this up a while back. I don't see anything > wrong with the pa

Re: OpenBSD errata 008 also applies to FreeBSD

2000-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > It appears msdosfs is using a vnode after having released its reference on > it, which could lead to a bad things under high load. I've patched the > OpenBSD errata to apply cleanly to FreeBSD. Yes, I remember you bringing this up a while back. I do

Re: Initial installation console

2000-09-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 20-Sep-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000920 12:46] wrote: >> Can the configuration for bootup and initial installation be configured to >> detect (and configure) a serial console. This would be very useful for >> rackmount systems. Yes, I know it can b

A SMPng suggestion..

2000-09-21 Thread John Baldwin
If you are running -current with the SMPng code, it would probably be very production to stick the following options in your kernel config, especially if you are having crashes: SMP_DEBUG DIAGNOSTIC INVARIANTS INVARIANT_SUPPORT Using these allow for more useful error messages allowing the develo