Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Francisco Reyes" writes: : For one they are missing the references about genassym. No. They aren't. You don't need to build genassym. Buildkernel takes care of all of that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Francisco Reyes" writes: : clarification... I mean to say if someone would send-prg to : update /usr/src/UPDATING. What update is needed? The instructions worked fine for me last time I tried it? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Francisco Reyes" writes: : Would someone please send-pr the current instructsions to go : from 3.4 to 4.X Stable. cvsup cat /usr/src/UPDATING Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe Royce writes: : An alternative method of building a kernel is: : : cd /usr/src/usr.bin/genassym : make depend all install clean : cd ../../usr.sbin/config : make depend all install clean : cd ../../sys/i386/conf : config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE : cd ../../compile/YOUR_

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Francisco Reyes" writes: : /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.4" not found UPDATING says: [5] If you get warnings from ld-elf.so that it cannot load libc.so, run 'ldconfig -R /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc' and repeat the installwor

Re: pcmcia fails to identify cards (4.0-stable cvsup 2000-06-26)

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alan Clegg writes: : Any ideas? Almost certainly a memory conflict. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Annoying reverse hylighting in `more' 4.0-STsnap0624

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Harry Putnam writes: : Good info here, I'm still bogged down trying to get a network up on a : laptop with FreeBSD so getting tired of the obnoxious highlighting : since I'm pooring thru manpages constantly right now. Not that : familiar with FreeBSD and its just e

Re: FreeBSD 3.5 now available for x86

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <4.3.2.7.0.2627022543.00ab0cc0@vivaldi> Sergei Vyshenski writes: : So FreeBSD has two stable branches? : Which one is more stable among stable for i386? : Say for use at a site that need reliable round-the-clock : gatewaing, named and mail operation? I'd use 4.0-stable. Warner T

Re: Almost serial consoles.

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Gilbert writes: : While we have for some time used serial consoles from realweasel.com, : we are faced with a number of server motherboards without ISA slots. : I found it fairly easy to get the kernel to boot against the serial : console and there is an option

Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Karel J. Bosschaart" writes: : On 06/17 there was a change in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c, which causes my ISA : NE2000 compatible to hang at boot time, just like in your case. I contacted : Paul Saab, who commited the change, about it and hope he will have a : solution. As

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Heckaman writes: : comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for : over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once though) Without any ram-related problems that were detected you mean. without ECC or parity, you

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Francisco Reyes" writes: : When I get to the point of building the kernel I get a number : of syntax errors and the last line reports: did you accidentally update to -current where lots of things changed? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: microuptime() going backwards

2000-06-26 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:03:49PM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Monday, 26 June 2000 at 22:56:29 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I just got tons and tons of > > > > Jun 26 22:06:33 freebie /kernel: microuptime() went backward

Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs

2000-06-26 Thread John Holland
At 04:36 PM 6/26/00 +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: >On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote: > > Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a > new > > kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed* > > devices (old Tho

Fixing PCI device locations

2000-06-26 Thread Remy Nonnenmacher
I recently upgraded a server from 3.4 to 4-stable and was hurted by the PCI device scanning not done in the same order on the two versions. Mainly, the server have 6 SCSI busses over 3 devices and two PCI busses. (da0 on 3.4 ended up on da52 under 4-stable) While provisions are made for fixing

Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs

2000-06-26 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote: > Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a new > kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed* > devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs). Before this, the system was > worki

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: : : Ouch. That is quite a lot of money, but then a shell server is : usually the sort of machine that gets pounded on the worst, and in : the worst ways -- all sorts of bizarre things that users try,

4.0-Stable boot hangs

2000-06-26 Thread John Holland
Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a new kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed* devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs). Before this, the system was working perfectly. Did something break in the ed driver in the two months

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread Joe
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:27:01AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Following the instructions from UPDATING. > When I get to the point of building the kernel I get a number > of syntax errors and the last line reports: > > Specify machine type, e.g. ``machine vax'' > > I tried to put single and

Re: lockups

2000-06-26 Thread Dave Boers
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:39:47AM -0500, Pete Fritchman wrote: > If it's up long enough, pretty high load. Once people get a chance to > get their processes back up, around 400-500 processes. The machine can > handle this though, it's a dual 550 MHz, with 768 MB ram. Is the machine by any cha

Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable

2000-06-26 Thread andrew
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Francisco Reyes wrote: > When I get to the point of building the kernel I get a number > of syntax errors and the last line reports: > > Specify machine type, e.g. ``machine vax'' I got this when I accidently cvsuped 3-STABLE rather than 4-STABLE on a 4.0-RELEASE box. Hav

Serious stability problems (with my dmesg)

2000-06-26 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
Sorry, forgot the dmesg-output in my previous posting. Here it is. -- Morten A. Middelthon Freenix Norge http://www.freenix.no/ Jun 26 12:32:06 atreides /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Jun 26 12:32:06 atreides /kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 Jun 26 1

Serious stability problems

2000-06-26 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
Recently I've experienced stability problems with one of my 4.0-STABLE boxes. When it freezes/locks up I can still ping it, and I can change between virtual consoles, but everything else is dead. Ctrl-alt-del doesn't work, or any other input on the console, except for print-screen. As far as I c

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Douglas G. Allen wrote: ... : I suggest you go look at http://www.crucial.com for memory. It's Crucial's : website, which means it's Micron memory. I think they had 256M ECC modules : for the PowerEdge listed for about $500 a pi

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Jim King
- Original Message - From: "Matt Heckaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-STABLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Matt Heckaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: Announce: -stable commit lists

2000-06-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 30 May 2000 07:52:09 -0400, David Miller wrote: > I've setup freebsd-stable-3 and freebsd-stable-4 majordomo lists at > sparks.net. These use procmail to filter the RELENG_[3|4] messages out of > cvs-all, so one can easily tell which commits affect them. Are you using the new X-FreeBS

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Matt, >Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated >and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in >comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for >over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once