"swapfile" doesn't work if md driver is not pre-loaded

In /etc/rc, there is a "swapfile" feature, to configure a file to use swap device. Here is a script for that. # Add additional swapfile, if configured. # case ${swapfile} in [Nn][Oo] | '') ;; *) if [ -w "${swapfile}" -a -c /dev/mdctl ]; then echo "Adding ${swapf

Re: PCCARD/NEWCARD won't configure on 5.0

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Sparrow writes: : > Gotta love one problem report hitting 5 problems all at once :-) : : You do? :-/ Yes, and I wasn't even counting your sound problems :-) hopefully I can resolve at least the interrupt routing issue soonish. Would you be game to be a guinee

some info

hi all, sorry for running -current.. but i am an enthusiastic and challenging man...(boy)... anyways.. whats a mutex and a lock order reversal... if you could point to some good manual on these subjects... thanks... help is appreciated... thanks again... = regards, Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PR

Re: buildkernel fails for advansys device

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > Gotta add scsi system stuff too: Yeah, I just pooched it and had dropped the scbus device, had the rest. Just kept overlooking it. Thanks for the reply. Darren Henderson

RE: ata drive under -current

i think I saw the same problem. I was trying to do a make buiildworld and the system hung early in the build process (while it was rm /usr/obj and cleaning dirs). I froze hard; no ctl-alt-del, no nothing. I had to remove the battery to reboot it (it's a laptop). I rebooted the old kernel and

Re: some info (new)

Hiten Pandya wrote: > MH> The lock order verification is not part of the mtx > MH> API. It's debugging > MH> stuff activated by default in -CURRENT. If you do > MH> not want to see these > MH> warnings, remove ``options WITNESS'' from your > MH> kernel conf or patch the > MH> code to solve the p

Re: some info (new)

MH> The lock order verification is not part of the mtx MH> API. It's debugging MH> stuff activated by default in -CURRENT. If you do MH> not want to see these MH> warnings, remove ``options WITNESS'' from your MH> kernel conf or patch the MH> code to solve the problem :-) hi, i know that bit..

Re: some info

Hiten Pandya wrote: > hi all, > sorry for running -current.. but i am an enthusiastic > and challenging man...(boy)... > > anyways.. whats a mutex and a lock order reversal... > if you could point to some good manual on these > subjects... thanks... > > help is appreciated... > > thanks again..

Re: some info (new)

Hiten Pandya wrote: > one more question... if there is a lock order > reversal.. is there a way that can be solved.. for > e.g. by using on of the MTX_XX things... The lock order verification is not part of the mtx API. It's debugging stuff activated by default in -CURRENT. If you do not want t

Re: some info (new)

hi maxime... thanks very very much.. now i get it..., its like.. a mutex is a lock, which is used when things are done in parralel and to avoid corruption of the data which is being processed... i took an example of the way i used to lock files in PERL, in order to avoid multiple writes at the sam

Re: PCCARD/NEWCARD won't configure on 5.0

> OK. Here we see the confluance of two problems. First, irq 0 is > bogus and likely illegal per the pci spec for devices that do > interrupt. Even if it isn't illegal, it is wrong wrong wrong wrong, > but lots of people do it. I have a patch for -stable, but not for > current. Well, the car

Re: PCCARD/NEWCARD won't configure on 5.0

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Sparrow writes: : pci_cfgintr_search: linked (62) to configured irq 0 at 0:31:0 : pci_cfgintr: 0:30 INTC routed to irq 0 : pcib2: routed slot 5 INTA to irq 0 : pcic0: irq 0 at device 5.0 on pci2 : pcib2: device pcic0 requested unsupported memory range 0x440

init not reaping zombies from linux processes ?

I was trying to view a VCD with mtv, which is a linux binary. Mtv starts mtvp to do the actual rendering. I made quite a few attempts with various combinations of options with no success. That's not the problem. I just noticed, some 10 hours later, that there are 34 zombied mtvp processes layi

Re: Still panic() with userland binary on CURRENT

Hi DES, - realitexpire, td); + realitexpire, td->td_proc); Fixes the panic 100%. Thanks a lot ! Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Still panic() with userland binary on CURRENT

Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0x123423bd > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc024d74a > stack pointer

Re: ata drive under -current

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:51:26AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:42:53PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > I am running -current and trying to remove a directory and every time > > I try it hardlocks the computer. Its a -current as of noon central > > time. I

Re: ata drive under -current

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:37:01AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > hi david... > if you are running current.. please give more > information on what it does after it locks out your > drive... > I really don't know what else to give you. Any type of large file i/o and the computer hard locks. Befo