Re: DP2 iso crash on boot

2002-11-19 Thread Brian Dean
to your /boot/loader.conf file: exec="unset ACPI_LOAD" Good luck! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Memory overwrite problem in the -current kernel ??

2002-04-23 Thread Brian Dean
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:54:17PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > This commit detects a memory overwrite problem in the kernel which > happens before we ever get into userland for the first time. Do you know the address being corrupted? If so, try breaking into ddb early on and set a hardware

Re: rc.diskless2 fails to create /var/log/lastlog

2001-10-17 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:07:28PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > Hi, > > /var/log/lastlog is not in /etc/newsyslog.conf and is for this reason no > created upon boot. This gives an error message each time one logs into > the system. The append patch creates the file. Committed. Thanks! -Brian

patch for using hardware debug registers for kernel debugging

2001-06-24 Thread Brian Dean
vel at this point, but can be real handy. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:34:31PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > So we have two problems: > > 1) Calling cp(1) repetitively is inefficient. > > 2) The argument list is too big for cp(1). > > Extending cp(1) will not solve (2). Extending xargs(1) will solve both. > So why is an extension to cp

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-20 Thread Brian Dean
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:26:18PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp > > I like this version of the patch!! It's much much cleaner than > hacking up cp or xargs, it even follows the unix principle of > using simple tools and glueing them togeather to

Re: Failed using CD-ROM as root filesystem

2001-04-19 Thread Brian Dean
have got it working very well. My purposes are varied, but I'm mainly experimenting with setting up a cd-rom based firewall device using a more traditional layout as opposed to the picobsd methods. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files

2001-04-02 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:28:29AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > Oops. That was broken allright. It's definitely correct to > copy the files in reverse order so the network files override > the defaults, and the per-host files override the network files. > >

Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files

2001-04-01 Thread Brian Dean
cp -Rp /conf/${bootp_ipa}/etc/* /conf/etc fi The idea of this being that most /etc files go into "default", and only overrides go into the "network" and "host-specific" directories. Would folks support and agree to a change like this? -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PR

Re: Package installation location

2000-12-10 Thread Brian Dean
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:02:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > The problem is that *it doesn't work*. Well, not very well. Part of it > is that it's only given lip service: the porters handbook says "make > your ports PREFIX clean"; portlint doesn't do any checking about it. > The porters handbook

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Brian Dean
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:42:38AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Ports, on the other hand are installed in /usr/local or /usr/X11R6. > > What happend to "that's what PREFIX is for"? I was speaking about the default behaviour. If you want the port to go somewhere other than /usr/local, PREFIX o

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Brian Dean
Emacs onto FreeBSD, it goes into /usr/local. The behaviour is the same. Are you proposing that since FreeBSD provides a set of patches so that Emacs builds cleanly, that it should therefore install it somewhere other than /usr/local? -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Uns

really strange problem - extracting X turns my system off, literally

2000-11-13 Thread Brian Dean
Hi, I'm bewildered and looking for clues ... I'm running -current, cvsup'd and rebuild world as of yesterday: FreeBSD stage.bsdhome.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 12 18:30:15 EST 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I went to install X from Ports and

Re: Cleanout & rebuild of /dev on -current

2000-10-19 Thread Brian Dean
cd0, etc if you use those. I think Doug mentioned that it won't re-create your disk slices. I always do that manually for the disk where the root filesystem is located. With a little scripting, all of this could be automated. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: Review requested for i386 debug register helper functions

2000-08-25 Thread Brian Dean
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Brian Dean wrote: > If you have the time, I would very much appreciate any reviews on a > couple of helper functions that I've put together for manipulating the > i386 debug registers: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bsd/i386watch/ Just a not

Review requested for i386 debug register helper functions

2000-08-24 Thread Brian Dean
ut this seemed to be the best fit location for these. I'm open to other suggestions as well. Thanks, Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: DHCP does not honor default router?

2000-07-04 Thread Brian Dean
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > I updated my dhclient script to handle this case, since it > happens on the roadrunner network as well. I can send you the patch > if you want, but I have a lot of other hacks in my script so it > might be confusing. Starting right around line 106 o

Re: FW: GDB 5.0 is released!

2000-05-28 Thread Brian Dean
ludes support for our new hardware debug register support on IA32? -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-28 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > I've often traced files back to the begining of FreeBSD time (and then > continued in the CSRG SCCS tree). ^^ I've wanted to do this on occasion. Where are these pre-FreeBSD history records availa

Re: Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf->bio patch)

2000-04-05 Thread Brian Dean
the code that I use so that we can do this in a straight forward way from within the kernel debugger. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Load average calculation?

2000-04-03 Thread Brian Dean
If you need something fancier, or more specific to a particular load type, you'd need to roll your own using the abundant statistics that the kernel keeps and makes available. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. [EMAIL PRO

Re: Odd problem with ppp0 in -current

2000-04-01 Thread Brian Dean
Just to follow up - this has been tracked down and fixed. The recent delayed checksum code was not compatible with IPDIVERT. Thanks for the fix, Jonathan! -Brian Brian Dean wrote: > The symptoms are that I cannot telnet out though my ppp0 interface. > Ktrace indicates that the connec

Odd problem with ppp0 in -current

2000-03-31 Thread Brian Dean
e, this is with last night's cvs update, and kernel with IPFIREWALL, IPDIVERT, and natd. I use 'pppd' and 'ppp0'. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Dean
Mike Smith wrote: > > Just recently (this evening), I was able to get our controller to lock > > up with the latest patch. Previously, with that patch installed, I > > must not have been able to tickle the bug just right, and I believe > > that Mike based his decision to make that mod based on my

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Dean
at happened very quickly, making me think it was more easily reproduceable that it actually is. It sounds like Markus may be onto something. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Dean
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Brian Dean wrote: > > > > Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > Someone mentioned that sysinstall could be scripted... is this the way to > > > go, then? > > > > I use scripted sysinstalls here. It's really easy, however,

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations

2000-03-17 Thread Brian Dean
r configuring the ethernet interface. Everything below the line "# - End of generated information -" is the same for all hosts, only the stuff above that line is different for each host. So, I end up with a config file per host. -Brian -- Brian Dean

make release failing in /usr/ports/www/w3m/work/w3m

2000-03-12 Thread Brian Dean
n, it works. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Keyboard troubles

2000-03-10 Thread Brian Dean
ange that makes your motherboard think there's a keyboard attached even if you are not currently switched onto the system. Just a thought ... and it's a lot cheaper than more convenient that swapping your $500 keyboards (which must be _really_ impressive BTW :). -B

Re: Make world error.....

2000-03-10 Thread Brian Dean
ssl/*.h files (or at least openssl/des.h) were installed, and was thus a sort of bootstrapping issue. But I must admint, I have not investigated it further. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Un

Re: Make world error.....

2000-03-05 Thread Brian Dean
The perl script h2ph does not exit immediately on des.h, it sets it's $Exit value to 1, but continues processing. If the original poster would check further back in his log file, he'll see: [...] ===> gnu/usr.bin/perl/utils/h2ph install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 h2ph /usr/bin install -c -o r

Re: Make world error.....

2000-03-04 Thread Brian Dean
William Woods wrote: > vm/vnode_pager.h -> vm/vnode_pager.ph > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/utils/h2ph. > *** Error code 1 > > Ideas about what died and why? I got the same thing here. h2ph does not like /usr/include/des.h which is a symlink to /usr/include/openssl/d

Re: HEADS UP! IPC security (Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sysv_ipc.c(fwd))

2000-03-02 Thread Brian Dean
Bruce Evans wrote: > It has too many style bugs for me. It corrupts all tabs to spaces and > has some other style bugs. Resisting the temptation to cut-and-paste (resulting in the lost tabs), and incorporating your other suggestions, how about this version? Thanks, -Brian Index: sysv_ipc.c ===

Re: HEADS UP! IPC security (Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sysv_ipc.c(fwd))

2000-03-02 Thread Brian Dean
ould only be set when superuser privileges are actually used. Let me know if this looks OK, and if Jordan approves, I'll commit it. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAS Institute Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: sysv_ipc.c ==

Re: gcc code generation bug (optimisation related)

2000-02-21 Thread Brian Dean
levels. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hi, > > When I'm trying to compile kernel from just cvsup'ed sources on system > builded/installed last evening I have following error message. This problem > could be solved by lowerin

Re: /sys/i386/machdep.c breaks kernel build

2000-02-21 Thread Brian Dean
Thanks for the fix - it has been committed. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seigo Tanimura wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:48:01 -0500, > Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Ray> cc -c -march=pentium -O3 -pipe -fno-builtin -Wall -Wredundant-

please commit this before -RELEASE

2000-02-11 Thread Brian Dean
ch in a few days with a standalone program that demonstrates the use of these registers for setting up a watchpoint for a process. Maybe this could go into /usr/share/examples or something. Does anyone have any opinions on this or think it might be useful? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-02-02 Thread Brian Dean
This patch fixes the problem for me. Thanks!!! -Brian > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:42:39PM -0500, Brian Dean wrote: > > > > > >For what its worth, I am able to reproduce this problem on my system. > > Would you mind trying this patch before I send it t

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-30 Thread Brian Dean
et 4 connected to the parallel port. I am running -current, and a buildworld as of about a week ago. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993

Re: tip features (cdelay and ldelay)?

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Dean
f not, please let me know what changes you would consider taking and I'll do my best to get you patches. Here a modified patch which: 1) closes PR bin/15847 2) enables 'cdelay' and 'ldelay' 3) makes '

Re: tip features (cdelay and ldelay)?

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Dean
pened. If you wish to submit these separately so that it makes backing out easier, just edit out the stuff related to eofchars in this included patch. I included a patch in the PR that fixes the core dump and can be applied on its own. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [

tip features (cdelay and ldelay)?

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Dean
e features work for my application, and they do. My question is: does anyone remember why these were disabled in the first place? Is there an equivalent replacement feature that I can use instead to pace the outgoing characters so that I don't overrun dumb devices with no flow control? Thanks,

emacs / ncurses - problem somewhere

1999-10-29 Thread Brian Dean
sure whether this is an emacs bug or a FreeBSD bug? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall network performance

1999-07-28 Thread Brian Dean
Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Brian Dean had > to walk into mine and say: > > > I was wondering what to attribute this better performance to. Could > > this be due to the new network driver / newbus integration? > > Wel

sysinstall network performance

1999-07-28 Thread Brian Dean
nd pleased). Thanks, -Brian P.S. - we track current and build our own SNAPs locally on a daily basis for testing -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

a fix for a harmless but annoying sysinstall bug ...

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Dean
DES 0x04000 #define DIST_CATPAGES 0x08000 #define DIST_PORTS 0x1 -#define DIST_ALL 0xF +#define DIST_ALL 0x1 /* Canned distribution sets */ #define _DIST_DEVELOPER \ Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean The SAS Insti

kernel panic w/regard to setting io permissions bitmap

1999-06-26 Thread Brian Dean
e debugger before the panic)? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

can't install on machine with 8 Meg

1999-06-12 Thread Brian Dean
ll it. Or maybe I've missed some special instructions for installing the system on a low-memory machine? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean brd...@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: scripted install( was sysinstall manpage inst)

1999-06-08 Thread Brian Dean
process, at the main menu, just select the "Load Config File" option (or something like that), and enter the name of the config file you want to use, which in my case is .cfg. -Brian -- Brian Dean brd...@unx.sas.com Process Engineering The SAS Institut

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-14 Thread Brian Dean
;Z" to acheive the same affect without having to always export the environment variable. Of course, when you do this, your process will (might) still be killed immediately or at some point in the future, which I think is what you are trying to avoid :( -Brian -- Brian Dean

aio_read panics SMP kernel

1999-02-03 Thread Brian Dean
response. Below, please find the output of 'mptable' for the SMP experts and the program that I used to cause the panic. Any help on fixing this and/or suggestions on what I might be doing wrong are much appreciated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean Process Engi