Re: __getcwd errno 20 (Not a directory) vfs_cache.c

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: You are not supposed to call __getcwd() directly. Yes, but it would be an excellent junior-kernel-hacker task to make it work in all cases, ie: manually searching parent directories. netbsd does this, as does linux, and if we're going to emulate the linux getcwd(2)

Re: __getcwd errno 20 (Not a directory) vfs_cache.c

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
John W. De Boskey wrote: The really annoying aspect to this is that it doesn't happen everytime, and happens more often when in a nfs mounted directory vs. a local directory. Yes, this is expected due to __getcwd(2) being incomplete. NFS expires the directory nodes after about 10

ACPI: One fixed, one (of mine) to go

2001-09-07 Thread Pete Carah
The new acpi version apparently fixed my panic (I didn't change any other configs, and things now boot, apparently correctly, on the A7V board.) (and it keeps time right :-) -- Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991,

Re: ACPI: HEADS UP (ACPI CA update)

2001-09-07 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: Outstanding issues: - The ACPI timecounter does not work on some ALi chipsets. - ACPI mode results in some PCI devices not being configured by the BIOS. Power off on some VIA based boards (Epox8kta3 etc) doesn't work (reboot). Suspend on some VIA based

Re: Linuxulator: possible Giant pushdown victim

2001-09-07 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:55:19AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Note that 3 of these are runnable (stat of 2 == SRUN). In top, see if they are chewing up lots of time. Top doesn't update after the first mozilla process has started. Its trace is: mi_switch() cv_timedwait_sig() select()

Re: Linuxulator: possible Giant pushdown victim

2001-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: BTW: Do we have handy functions for use in the remote debugger, such as show_proc, show_vm or whatever, that dump important information in a readable form? Matt has a cool set of macros as does Grog. -- ++ __ _ __ |

Re: KSE kernel comparissons

2001-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Peter Wemm wrote: For what it is worth, I am in agreement with Julian. The KSE code is at an ideal checkpoint stage, but we must not rush it and screw things up. The main reason that I would like it to be committed soon is that it reduces the amount of moving target that the KSE part of

Re: __getcwd errno 20 (Not a directory) vfs_cache.c

2001-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: You are not supposed to call __getcwd() directly. Yes, but it would be an excellent junior-kernel-hacker task to make it work in all cases, ie: manually searching parent directories. netbsd does this, as does linux,

last commit broke ps/2 mouse support on VAIO Z505HS(without acpi)

2001-09-07 Thread Juriy Goloveshkin
last commit broke ps/2 mouse support on my VAIO -- bye Juriy Goloveshkin Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #45: Fri

My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-09-07 Thread Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
Matt Dillon writes: * On my -STABLE box I build the -current world. I usually try to build it -DNOCLEAN but if that fails I just rebuild it from scratch. NOTE!!! DO NOT ACCIDENTLY TRY TO INSTALL THE -CURRENT WORLD ON YOUR STABLE BOX!!! stable cd

anoncvs.freebsd.org's disk is full?

2001-09-07 Thread Yoichi NAKAYAMA
Hi, When I try to cvs checkout via :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs, I receive message as follows cannot mkdir /cvstmp/cvs-serv35384/./CVS No space left on device --- Yoichi NAKAYAMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the

Re: __getcwd errno 20 (Not a directory) vfs_cache.c

2001-09-07 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:50:17PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: You are not supposed to call __getcwd() directly. Yes, but it would be an excellent junior-kernel-hacker task to make it work in all cases, ie: manually searching parent directories. netbsd does this,

Re: postfix fails to start

2001-09-07 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Ok, today in the morning i checked a fresh current tree out to a different machine which just got done with a make build/installworld, new kernel and a mergemaster run. Before i did that, i updated the postfix port, compiled it and verified it works (this was on a current as of August 1st).

acpi can't map ports/memory

2001-09-07 Thread Beech Rintoul
Yesterday I tried three different nic cards in this machine, two use the rl driver and one uses the xl. I got exactly the same error on all three. These all work pre-acpi commit. here's the dmesg: ACPI debug layer 0x0 debug level 0x0 Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright

auth a835a7f2 unsubscribe freebsd-current albedo@transbay.net

2001-09-07 Thread albedo
auth a835a7f2 unsubscribe freebsd-current [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Albers w: 510-848-6767 x211 h: 510-845-8540 www.7FF.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: postfix fails to start

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Harnois
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:03:00 +0200 (METDST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hellmuth Michaelis) said: After the reboot i tried postfix: Sep 7 16:19:49 hmscrap postfix[372]: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces Do you have a way to try dhclient? As I said, that failed with a

failure to detect network interfaces

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Harnois
As of about two days ago, -current began to exhibit a problem which affects at least postfix and dhclient, wherein these two programs fail to find any active network interfaces. Could someone who understands such things take a look at the thread postfix fails to start? Thanks. -- Michael D.

Re: postfix fails to start

2001-09-07 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
From the keyboard of Michael Harnois: Sep 7 16:19:49 hmscrap postfix[372]: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces Do you have a way to try dhclient? As I said, that failed with a similar error for me. I´ll see if i can try. In the meantime i tried to find out why

Re: __getcwd errno 20 (Not a directory) vfs_cache.c

2001-09-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: The really annoying aspect to this is that it doesn't happen everytime, and happens more often when in a nfs mounted directory vs. a local directory. Yes, this is expected due to __getcwd(2) being incomplete. NFS expires the directory nodes after about 10 minutes.

Re: postfix fails to start

2001-09-07 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 07 September 2001 09:54 am, Michael Harnois wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:03:00 +0200 (METDST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hellmuth Michaelis) said: After the reboot i tried postfix: Sep 7 16:19:49 hmscrap postfix[372]: fatal: could not find any active network

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, September 04, 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Content-Description: ASCII C program text Index: coda/coda.h === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/coda/coda.h,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -d -u -r1.9 coda.h --- coda/coda.h

Re: RFC: hack volatile bzero and bcopy

2001-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Evans writes: : In the case of if_ie.c and bcopy(), bcopy() is not suitable for copying : memory that doesn't behave like RAM. Some optimized versions of it : do out of order and/or repeated copies. This might be very bad for : volatile device memory. I think

Re:none (cvs mirrors)

2001-09-07 Thread KSrinivasa Raghavan
Hi Kris, cvsup servers doesn't seem to work as cvs servers. The anoncvs server worked yesterday, but today I am seeing other problems. I have been checking out sources directly into /usr directory and using it. Today I am getting this error message: # cvs co ports/www/w3m-img cannot mkdir

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, September 07, 2001, Chris Costello wrote: But is it necessary that you really use those defines? The idea is not to use them globally. Perhaps getnewvnode() should get the string from `mp-mnt_stat.f_mntfromname', instead... ^

Re: none (cvsup2 as cvs server)

2001-09-07 Thread KSrinivasa Raghavan
Hi Jim, Does it have a different user:password ? (I used anoncvs:anoncvs). # export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs # cvs login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvsup2.freebsd.org:2401 failed: Connection refused Thanks, Srini.

Re: none (cvs mirrors)

2001-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:24:58PM +, KSrinivasa Raghavan wrote: Hi Kris, cvsup servers doesn't seem to work as cvs servers. The anoncvs server worked yesterday, but today I am seeing other problems. Yes, I was being sarcastic. They're different protocols. I have been checking out

Need a Home Loan? We Can Help!!

2001-09-07 Thread Kelly Jones
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top(1) takes ages to start up

2001-09-07 Thread Thomas Quinot
... because it walks through the entire NIS db just to find out what the longest user name is (/src/usr.bin/top/machine.c 1.5). At this site, this means 2800 RPC calls and dozens of seconds when the network and/or NIS server are busy. What do others think of the following patch? Thomas. ---

Re: [acpi-jp 1246] ACPI and PS/2 mouse problem

2001-09-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Please send me the entire dmesg output after you boot the system with boot -v at the loader prompt. And do you have the following line in /boot/device.hints? hint.psm.0.irq=12 Kazu I don't know why, but NOW I have broken PS/2 mouse _without_ acpi module :( VAIO Z505HS. atkbdc0: Keyboard

Re: [acpi-jp 1247] Re: ACPI and PS/2 mouse problem

2001-09-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
I'm not sure exactly what to do here. These resources contain information we need to know about where we cannot put PnP devices. But if we feed the information into our current resource manager, we end up with conflicts with existing devices. For the moment, I've changed the code to allocate

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-07 Thread FreeBSD Fanatic
Is that statically-linked? I'm curious to know the size of the bootloader forth footprint. The loader is about 150k, so I'm sure you could probably fit a nice Scheme interpreter in under that size... ?? ie. almost all of the size is the dictionary/runtime library. I'll bet it's

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-07 Thread FreeBSD Fanatic
6134244763480 69298 10eb2 scheme Is that statically-linked? I'm curious to know the size of the bootloader forth footprint. The loader is about 150k, so I'm sure you could probably fit a nice Scheme interpreter in under that size... ?? Dynamically linked. Here is

Re: [acpi-jp 1246] ACPI and PS/2 mouse problem

2001-09-07 Thread Donny Lee
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: Please send me the entire dmesg output after you boot the system with boot -v at the loader prompt. And do you have the following line in /boot/device.hints? hint.psm.0.irq=12 i have ibm 570e, with the same PS/2 mouse problem, Ohh. worse.. Fatal trap 12: page

current.freebsd.org

2001-09-07 Thread Alexey Zelkin
hi, Is there any reason why 5.0-RELEASE snapshots are not building/uploading to current.freebsd.org for about 3 months ? Latest i386 snapshot is 20010618. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: [acpi-jp 1246] ACPI and PS/2 mouse problem

2001-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
On 07-Sep-01 Donny Lee wrote: Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: Please send me the entire dmesg output after you boot the system with boot -v at the loader prompt. And do you have the following line in /boot/device.hints? hint.psm.0.irq=12 i have ibm 570e, with the same PS/2 mouse problem, Ohh.

Re: ACPI: One fixed, one (of mine) to go

2001-09-07 Thread Pete Carah
Is there a way to set a loader env from a file? (I presume that is part of what prompted the rather funny quasi-flame-war about loader interpreter base. Lisp indeed :-) Actually I remember Jordan (and at least one more who is now in the fbsd group; who?) getting into the forth loader

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-07 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
freebsd I suppose I could volunteer for this. It would be great, but current /boot/loader has also the fancy feature, tty screen handling (see /usr/share/examples/bootforth if you have never seen before). I heavily depend on this feature for the selection menu of boot kernel using a sample

Re: current.freebsd.org

2001-09-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
First we had hardware problems, then NFS was broken on the cluster for awhile, preventing current.freebsd.org from getting at the CVS repository. It's fixed now and I see that a snapshot is building as we speak. - Jordan From: Alexey Zelkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: current.freebsd.org Date:

Re: RFC: hack volatile bzero and bcopy

2001-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Bruce Evans wrote: This just breaks the warning. well this is th idea, because I think that bcopy is probably a safe operation on the volatile structures if the driver knows that they are presently owned by it.. (e.g. mailboxes) The correct answer would be, as you suggest, bus-space

Re: RFC: hack volatile bzero and bcopy

2001-09-07 Thread Bakul Shah
well this is th idea, because I think that bcopy is probably a safe operation on the volatile structures if the driver knows that they are presently owned by it.. (e.g. mailboxes) *probably* safe? For truly volatile memory bzero bcopy are *not* safe. Anyone remember the origial 68000's

SSH remote X problem

2001-09-07 Thread Pete Carah
On both of my -current systems, I can't remotely display X apps back to my (non-current) laptop. I don't know if this is related to the upgrade in ssh (my suspicion) or some other (likely library) issue. One of them is running X 4.1.0 downloaded from xfree86.org; the other 3.3.6, so the

Re: ACPI problems

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Smith
Since you posted this message to -current, I just assumed you had upgraded to the latest code, and thus were using ACPI (this is the same thing that ended up confusing Mike Smith, who also made the mistake in correcting me to say that ACPI was being loaded twice on your system). Actually, I

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Smith
I suppose I could volunteer for this. I've been dissecting the loader for months now and hitting the 4th fence has been bothersome.. As far as braving those pesky naysayers, I thought about doing it on my own anyway so if no one wants the change, I'll just keep it for my own systems. =)

Re: ACPI: One fixed, one (of mine) to go

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Smith
Apparently debug.acpi.avoid doesn't avoid the timer problem anyhow, and the earlier panic appears to have been too early (but was fixed; thanks Mike). I'm going to ignore the bogus clock some and try to track things down as Mike suggested in private mail. That should be debug.acpi.disable,

Re: SSH remote X problem

2001-09-07 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2001-09-07, Pete Carah écrivait : On both of my -current systems, I can't remotely display X apps back to my (non-current) laptop. I don't know if this is related to the upgrade in ssh (my suspicion) or some other (likely library) issue. With -CURRENT cvsupped from this afternoon, I can

Re: [acpi-jp 1246] ACPI and PS/2 mouse problem

2001-09-07 Thread Juriy Goloveshkin
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:51:44PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: I don't know why, but NOW I have broken PS/2 mouse _without_ acpi module :( VAIO Z505HS. atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 kbd0:

RE: RFC: hack volatile bzero and bcopy

2001-09-07 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 07-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote: Here is a hack to remove the 20 or so warning messages from if_ie.c No hacks please. I fixed some of these locally a few years ago without using any hacks, but gave up. if_ie.c should be rewritten to not use

Re: RFC: hack volatile bzero and bcopy

2001-09-07 Thread Bruce Evans
[I replied to parts of this in reponse to a later message] On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: typedef void Xcopy( void volatile *, void volatile *, int); #define VBCOPY(A,B,L) (*(Xcopy *)bcopy)((A),(B),(L)) typedef void Xzero( void volatile *, int); #define VBZERO(A,L) (*(Xzero

Re: proctitle progress reporting for dump(8)

2001-09-07 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Mikhail Teterin wrote: On 5 Sep, Bruce Evans wrote: snprintf, strlen, vsnprintf, sysctl, sysctlbyname I think all of these are safe in practice. It also accesses some variables that are not safe to access in a signal handler (non-auto ones that

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Costello writes: On Tuesday, September 04, 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Content-Description: ASCII C program text Index: coda/coda.h === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/coda/coda.h,v retrieving

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Saturday, September 08, 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: No actually not, I want something short and predictable like VT_CODA. How about my second suggestion: making v_tag point to mp-mnt_stat.f_fstypename, or a copy thereof? --