Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments?

2001-07-25 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>> I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD >> screen savers. > >[ ... "performance degradation" ... ] > >[ ... "file access" ... ] > >I don't see either of these as being compelling arguments >in favor of a user space implementation; I guess this means >you want to do file access

filesystem errors

2001-07-25 Thread Michael Harnois
I'm tearing my hair out trying to find a filesystem error that's causing me a panic: ufsdirhash_checkblock: bad dir inode. When I run fsck from a single user boot, it finds no errors. When I run it on the same filesystem mounted, it finds errors: but, of course, it then can't correct them -- M

SMP panic at boot

2001-07-25 Thread David Scheidt
My SMP box, running current from about 24 hours ago, panics on a cold boot, but only if I don't touch a key. If I use the keyboard to do anything, whether to skip the loader twiddler, or to skip the BIOS disk probing, or just to bang my head against it, it boots fine. It will reboot fine once it

Re: su root broken in -CURRENT

2001-07-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:46:15AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:15:38 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > I've completed a pretty clean crossgrade [1] to -CURRENT and find that > > su is broken. I thought this had been fixed. > > > > I have a virgin rev 1.17 /etc/pam

src/usr.bin/passwd in recent -current seems to hang machine andcorrupts passwd database files

2001-07-25 Thread Vincent Poy
/usr/bin/passwd in the latest -current world build with kernel build seems to do the following: # passwd joeuser Changing local password for joeuser. New password: Retype new password: passwd: updating the database... passwd: done

Re: su root broken in -CURRENT

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:15:38 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I've completed a pretty clean crossgrade [1] to -CURRENT and find that > su is broken. I thought this had been fixed. > > I have a virgin rev 1.17 /etc/pam.conf, I'm in group wheel, I built > world with no funky options, the su binary

su root broken in -CURRENT

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I've completed a pretty clean crossgrade [1] to -CURRENT and find that su is broken. I thought this had been fixed. I have a virgin rev 1.17 /etc/pam.conf, I'm in group wheel, I built world with no funky options, the su binary (built from su rev 1.39) really is setuid root and yet I

Re: current kernel build fails with src/sys/kern/sys_socket.c v 1.342001/07/25 20:14:59 fenner

2001-07-25 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Bill Fenner wrote: > You must have updated in the middle of the commit. Make sure you have > rev 1.38 of src/sys/net/route.h . You're right about this one... I looked at the commit messages and cvsup did update route.h from what I saw but somehow I still have 1.37

Re: current kernel build fails with src/sys/kern/sys_socket.c v 1.34 2001/07/25 20:14:59 fenner

2001-07-25 Thread Bill Fenner
You must have updated in the middle of the commit. Make sure you have rev 1.38 of src/sys/net/route.h . Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

current kernel build fails with src/sys/kern/sys_socket.c v 1.342001/07/25 20:14:59 fenner

2001-07-25 Thread Vincent Poy
It seems with the src/sys/kern/sys_socket.c v 1.34 2001/07/25 20:14:59 fenner committed today, kernel build fails in -current as follows: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-exten

RE: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments?

2001-07-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Jul-01 Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > This is to propose to abolish KLD screen saver modules. > > KLD screen savers have the following problems/deficiencies. > > - It is too easy to abuse the power of being run in the kernel > mode. The screen saver is invoked periodically once the console >

Re: driver writing newbie

2001-07-25 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I havn't checked, but I'll probably do that soon. Ken On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > Well, I could do that, but I'd rather write a complete driver with all the > > regular interfaces... (open, close, ioctl, and a spec

Help wanted: loadable SMBFS

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, This is a copy of a message I sent to cvs-all, requesting help with kernel loadable SMBFS support without the need for LIBICONV statically linked into the kernel. Ciao, Sheldon. --- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:29:18 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

buildkernel [SOLVED]

2001-07-25 Thread Olivier Cortes
I added some lines to my kernel config file: WITNESS DDB bktr (i have one) all the smb/smbus stuff agp and it compiled fine. now i go for the world. on my computer, it seems to be a long story... ;-) -- Olivier Cortes To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-c

Re: driver writing newbie

2001-07-25 Thread Juha . Nurmela
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Well, I could do that, but I'd rather write a complete driver with all the > regular interfaces... (open, close, ioctl, and a specific major/minor in > the kernel, I'm going to add other chips to this driver eventually) The > way you are sugges

hum,hum...another build problem...

2001-07-25 Thread Olivier Cortes
Hi everyone, this time it is the kernel. i know acpica is in heavy dev. but here's my problem : make buildkernel KERNCONF=NEPTUNE: -- cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/obj/usr/build/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/build/src/sys/i386/acpica/acpi

Re: driver writing newbie

2001-07-25 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Well, I could do that, but I'd rather write a complete driver with all the regular interfaces... (open, close, ioctl, and a specific major/minor in the kernel, I'm going to add other chips to this driver eventually) The way you are suggesting just opens /dev/io and uses inb and outb to do some hac

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Re: driver writing newbie

2001-07-25 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Sorry to post to this forum, but I'm not getting any replies from -hackers > or -questions, and I've looked at the webpages on writing device drivers, > as well as several other drivers. Here's my problem/question/whatever... > > I am writing

driver writing newbie

2001-07-25 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Sorry to post to this forum, but I'm not getting any replies from -hackers or -questions, and I've looked at the webpages on writing device drivers, as well as several other drivers. Here's my problem/question/whatever... I am writing a driver right now for the Hardware monitoring features of the

Re: 3dfx module breaks without /sys symlink

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:45:34 MST, Dima Dorfman wrote: > This isn't Coleman's fault; it's a bug in bsd.kmod.mk, which was fixed > in r1.86 (or r1.75.2.3 in RELENG_4), and it affects all modules (3dfx > is failing because it's first on the list). Are you running a stale > -stable (e.g., before 2

Re: 3dfx module breaks without /sys symlink

2001-07-25 Thread Dima Dorfman
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Coleman, > > Could you take a look at the 3dfx module build as handled under the > buildkernel target? It breaks on "can't find kernel source" if the /sys > symbolic link is broken. It shouldn't need that, right? This isn't Coleman's fault; it'

3dfx module breaks without /sys symlink

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi Coleman, Could you take a look at the 3dfx module build as handled under the buildkernel target? It breaks on "can't find kernel source" if the /sys symbolic link is broken. It shouldn't need that, right? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

Re: Re: build problem ?

2001-07-25 Thread Olivier Cortes
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:08:07AM +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Olivier Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > fool, fool, fool am i. here it is : > > > > -- > > mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -DDISASSEMBLER -DNO_X -I/usr/obj/usr/build/src/i >386/usr/include > > Make

Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments?

2001-07-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > This is to propose to abolish KLD screen saver modules. > > KLD screen savers have the following problems/deficiencies. [ ... ] > I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD > screen savers. [ ... "performance degradation" ... ] [ ... "file access" ...

Re: build problem ?

2001-07-25 Thread Terry Lambert
"Scot W. Hetzel" wrote: > When you have a build failure using -j x (x > 1), you need to restart the > build without -j in order to get any meaningful info from the build failure. Unless the breakage is a dependency breakage, not a build breakage, in which case omitting the "-j x" will run to com