[it really is text/plain :P] dual port onboard 82546EB checksum errors

2007-04-19 Thread David Ford
I have a rackmount server that has a dual port onboard 82546EB card. I've googled and seen this card apparently active with other users but I seem to only get checksum errors. [0.194129] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.15-k2-NAPI [0.194234] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Co

Forcedeth issues, loss of connectivity. ASUS M2N32-SLI-D w/ AMD64

2007-01-25 Thread David Ford
(please CC me when replying) I just got a motherboard with the dual nic marvell chipset onboard. Splendid board save for the driver issue I'm having :) I'm currently using 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 which doesn't have any forcedeth patch applied, a vanilla kernel seems to give the same results. This board

quick question; did usb hid change from .12 to .13-rc3 on x86_64?

2005-07-28 Thread David Ford
I've a quick question before I start digging through patches between .12 and .13-rc3, /dev/input/mice (usb mice) stopped yielding data. dmesg indicates removal/re-insertion of the device but no driver registers and nothing comes from /dev/input/mice. I have rc-3 on other machines and the mous

ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread David Ford
It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c01d7746

Re: ALPS tapping disabled. WHY?

2005-03-01 Thread David Ford
I would also appreciate the return of good resolution. Blocky mouse startup moves make graphic editing rather difficult. No mouse movement until I have moved my finger a significant distance then the mouse all of a sudden jumps a dozen pixels before it "smoothly" glides along. I would also lo

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-24 Thread David Ford
use a minimum resolution until you detect motion then switch to high resolution. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http:

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-02 Thread David Ford
What does one need to do to: a) put tapping back in, and b) fix the severe jerkiness with small movements Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread David Ford
PMTU bug -- or better said, bad firewall admin who blocks all ICMP. http://blue-labs.org/clue/mtu-mss.php -david David Brownell wrote: I'm seeing a problem with TCP as accessed through KMail (SuSE 9.2, x86_64). But oddly enough, only for sending mail, not reading it; and not through other (reading)

Re: Disaster under heavy network load on 2.4.x

2001-06-12 Thread David Ford
It looks like you don't have 'lo' configured, i.e. your 127.0.0.1 interface. David Michal Margula wrote: >Hello! > >My friend told me to noticed you about problems I had with 2.4.x line of >kernels. I started up from 2.4.3. Under heavy load I was getting >messages from telnet, ping, nmap "No bu

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-08 Thread David Ford
BTW, you ONLY need to echo 1 > /proc../sysrq if you use a distribution that puts a 0 there on init. By default the kernel initializes with '1'. David >>>I compiled it, and the sysrq is definitely in the config. No doubt at >>>all. I also use make mrproper and config again before dep and actual

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
Quite positive it's the right map file. I used -m and specified the exact file. David Jeff Garzik wrote: >David Ford wrote: > >> >>EIP; c01269f9<= >>Trace; c01b1021 >>Trace; c01b1c43 >>Trace; c01b2643 >>Trace; c0137fc0 <_

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
2.4.5-ac8 has a brokenness about it. sshd stalled in [down] with the following, subsequent sshd attempts which needed a tty resulted in D state the same as the first: invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010086 eax: 001

Re: Selectively refusing TCP connections

2001-05-24 Thread David Ford
Is there an example somewhere of this? David >You can push a BPF (LPF) filter expression onto a LISTEN socket that checks >every incoming packet using SO_ATTACH_FILTER. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [PATCH] drivers/telephony/phonedev.c (brings this code up to date with Quicknet CVS)

2001-05-13 Thread David Ford
Alrighty. That eliminates the patch. I'll rewrite the ixj.c according to this. ixj.c will be a large patch due to the numerous revisions, I don't know how well it can be broken up into small pieces. Do you want small pieces still? The ChangeLog shows all the fixes for the revisions. Ther

[PATCH] drivers/telephony/phonedev.c (brings this code up to date with Quicknet CVS)

2001-05-12 Thread David Ford
s with unit!=PHONE_UNIT_ANY + * + * May 12 2001 David Ford, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * brought kernel version up to date with CVS, minor changes */ +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < 0x020400 +#include +#endif #include #include #include @@ -23,13 +29,16 @@ #inc

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-11 Thread David Ford
I simply crontab an ECN off period for five minutes every hour and flush the mail queue. David. Holger Lubitz wrote: >"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > >>I suspect that the main way to get this thing fixed is to make sure >>ECN is enabled on the server side; for example, we have turned on ECN >>on ker

Another report of mozilla in D state, related to the 'uninterruptible sleep' thread

2001-04-04 Thread David Ford
Second time around, I didn't evoke any interest the first time. I reported it back on Mar/27. It is still an almost daily problem requiring a reboot. Mozilla gets stuck in down_write_failed. This time I'm sure it's not reiser's fault. # uname -r 2.4.3-pre8 mozilla-bin D C781849C 0 21055

sysrq-t followup to possible reiserfs bug

2001-03-27 Thread David Ford
Ok, here's the trace, this time it didn't die on me. mozilla-bin D CDC1779C 0 6530 1(NOTLB) 6533 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [scsi_queue_next_request+62/248] [__scsi_end_request+327/340] [scsi_io_

Bug in reiserfs? 2.4.3-pre6

2001-03-27 Thread David Ford
Lately I've been having to reboot every few days due to D state processes, always mozilla so far. When I exit mozilla it doesn't always cleanly shutdown, sometimes processes are left behind. I'll post what I have and if I'm lucky I'll follow up with a backtrace on the pids. Last time I tried a

Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-24 Thread David Ford
Otto Wyss wrote: > > No, the correct answer is if you want a reliable recovery then run your disks > > in non write buffered mode. I.e. turn on sync in fstab. > > > You probably haven't tried to use sync or you would have noticed the > performace penalty. I think nobody really considers sync an

Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-23 Thread David Ford
Otto Wyss wrote: > > I had a similar experience: > > X crashed , hosing the console , so I could not initiate > > a proper shutdown. > > > > Here I must note that the response you got on linux-kernel is > > shameful. > > > Thanks, but I expected it a little bit. All around Linux is centered > aro

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread David Ford
a) not all drivers are created equal b) esd should check the return value anyway -d Doug Ledford wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > > > Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- > > writes to the socket without regard to return valu

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread David Ford
Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- writes to the socket without regard to return value. If the write only accepted 2098 of 4096 bytes, the residual bytes are lost, esd will write the next packet at 4097, not 2099. esd is incredibly bad about err che

curious messages

2001-03-12 Thread David Ford
2.4.2-ac4 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c1 l1 ss2/2 p1 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/25 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/22 c1 l3 ss2/2 p3 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/143 c2 l0 ss2/3 p0 simple debug messages, or is someone (andy/dave) interested

curious bug

2001-03-12 Thread David Ford
2.4.3-pre3 richh12557 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 D04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho richh12558 0.0 0.0 00 pts/10 Z04:32 0:00 [egg ] richh12560 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 S04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho # ps -eo args,wchan|grep egg ./egg idaho down [egg ] do_exi

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-10 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: >> I run Reiser on all but /boot, and it seems to enjoy corrupting my >> mbox'es randomly. >> Using the old-style Reiser FS format, 2.4.2-pre1, Evolution, on a CMD640 >> chipset with the fixes enabled. >> This also occurs in some log files, but I put it down to syslogd >> crashing

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: > > On Thursday, February 01, 2001 02:16:43 PM -0200 Rik van Riel ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> About the system hanging completely, I wonder if it goes >> away by pressing sysrq-S (sync all disks). If it does, >> maybe Reiserfs was blocking all the pages in the inactive

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This solution doesn't stop compiling and makes a visible indicator without fo

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-02 Thread David Ford
> image=/boot/bzImage > label=linux > append="root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 vga=3845" root=/dev/ide/host will work the same as root=/dev/hda... in pre-devfs -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
My apologies...my internic data isn't updated, http://208.179.0.18/VM/ -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To unsubscr

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
"Michael J. Dikkema" wrote: > I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root > filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm > thinking there might have been a change with regards to the devfs > tree.. is the legacy /dev/hda1 still /dev/discs/disc0/pa

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
John Jasen wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > [Michael J. Dikkema] > > > > I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root > > > > filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm > > > > thinking there might have been a change wi

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: > Sorry, can't seem to resolve stuph.org. What is kreiserfsd doing during when the >system is waiting for more ram? With JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH set to 100, kreiserfsd will >end up responsible for sending log blocks/metadata to disk and freeing the pinned >buffers. > > -chris (

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
My apologies...my internic data isn't updated, http://208.179.0.18/VM/ -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To unsubscr

Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
ther this is with no swap space allocated... And the question is why does > the oom handler not get triggered? > > Ed Tomlinson > > David Ford wrote: > > > (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect > > anything). > > > > Ok, hav

VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
(Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect anything). Ok, having approached this slightly more intelligently here are [better] results. The dumps are large so they are located at http://stuph.org/VM/. Here's the story. I boot and startx, I load xmms and netscape to eat aw

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? > > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is > > > even launched. > > > > Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is current

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: > > > AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically > > > enable it at run time. > > > > I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd leave it in... > > Should have asked for feedback on it, but you caught it anyway, thanks! > > > > Here's a patch

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP? -d Stephen Frost wrote: > * David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined

2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at http://stuph.org/smp-config -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of t

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-29 Thread David Ford
Jonathan Earle wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:35:50 +, David Ford wrote: > > > AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically > > > enable it at run time. > > > > I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I&#

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
The one LInus posted plus his addendum for the ll_rw_blk. http://blue-labs.org/patches/ps-hang.patch -d Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29 2001, David Ford wrote: > > kernel 2.4.0-ac12 > > > > # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail&qu

D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_request_wait david 627 imapdget_request_wait david 752 procmail -f linu down david 761 procmail -f linu down david 799 procmail -f linu down david 8

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
"Jeremy M. Dolan" wrote: > +Note that previous versions disabled sysrq by default, and you were required > +to specifically enable it at run-time. That is not the case any longer. AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. There are certain distr

Re: [PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Pierre Rousselet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > for me : > > make CFLAGS='-O2 -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE' > > compiles without any patch. is it correct ? > > Yes. RTLD_NEXT is not in any standard, it's an extension available > via -D_GNU_SOURCE. Ok, how about we all tag Richar

[PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Fail if a configuration line has EXECUTE modprobe. +Updated by David Ford 27-JAN-2001: Added RTLD_NEXT define */ #include @@ -221,6 +222,10 @@ #define AC_MKNEWCOMPAT 8 #define AC_RMOLDCOMPAT 9 #define AC_RMNEWCOMPAT 10 + +#ifndef RTLD_NEXT

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
It is important to note that when I hit the magic key and rebooted (SUB), a split second before it rebooted, a stalled 'lspci' snapped back to life and printed out my expected data. -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
d? I have an ATI Rage LT Pro AGP-133 according to lspci. -d J Sloan wrote: > Sorry, there was no xmms involved here - > > The behavior occurred while playing unreal tournament. > > But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - > > jjs > > David Ford wrote: > >

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Unfortunately klogd reads /procerg. So the following is a painstakingly slow hand translation, I'll only print the D state entries unless someone asks otherwise. Prior to this: XMMS is running playing star wars mpeg. (regular user) (frozen) TOP is running (regular user) (frozen)

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms?

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
At the time I had temporary access to my notebook and had a mismatched System.map file :S -d Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or > >

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. -d J Sloan wrote: > Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem > has only ext2 - -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
The system will then grind the harddrive solid for about 25-30 minutes then everything will go silent. The brokenness is that the OOM code never activates. -d Ed Tomlinson wrote: > David Ford Wrote: > > >Since the testN series and up through ac12, I experience total loss of > >c

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:01:14 +0000, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is > > even launched.

Looking for comparison data on network stack prowess

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
I'm looking for some authoritative comparisons and discussions of the current network stacks in *BSD and Linux. I.e. NET4 in Linux and whatever is most current in *BSD. _PLEASE_ no flaming, no causing flamewar, nadda. I am writing an article for Linux.com and I am attempting to debunk longstan

Re: [PROBLEM]: Under 2.4.X hdparm displays device names backwards? ;)

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
-I is what is read directly off the drive, -i interprets it. IIRC, it's been this way for a while..or it's just that I've used 2.4 for a while :) In any case, it's byte swap issue. WD becomes "WDC AC" would become "DW CCA" , i.e. "WD", "C ", and "AC" etc. -d Shawn Starr wrote: > This is wha

spurious IRQ complaints

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:00.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0008 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, lat

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or mpegs in xmms. It may take a few minutes but it's guaranteed. xmms stalls flat on it's face and anything accessing /proc stalls. If I get the time to do it, I'll take a gander at it with kdb. I have no patches applied to

[PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-26 Thread David Ford
Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is even launched. --- linux/kernel/printk.c~Fri Jan 26 18:50:28 2001 +++ linux/kernel/printk.c Fri Jan 26 23:59:31 2001 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ #include

VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-26 Thread David Ford
Since the testN series and up through ac12, I experience total loss of control when memory is nearly exhausted. I start with 256M and eat it up with programs until there is only about 7 megs left, no swap. From that point all user processes stall and the disk begins to grind nonstop. It will co

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David Ford
"Randal, Phil" wrote: > James Sutherland wrote: > > > Except you can't retry without ECN, because DaveM wants to do > > a Microsoft and force ECN on everyone, whether they like it > > or not. If ECN is so wonderful, why doesn't anybody actually > > WANT to use it anyway? > > And there's the rub.

Re: ECN and other sites

2001-01-25 Thread David Ford
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: > I've kinda been watching the ECN discussion there, and I have 2.4.0 and > noticed that after I'd installed it, I couldn't get to my favorite search > engine (Dogpile.com). I'd assume they don't support it either, because > when I "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

2001-01-23 Thread David Ford
Matti Aarnio wrote: > I think they are separate problems. > The first is power-management suspend/resume issue, and possibly > PCMCIA problem at software re-insert of card (which never was taken > out *physically*). > > If I pull the cardbus card out, make sure the "dhcpcd eth0" has >

Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

2001-01-23 Thread David Ford
Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000, David Ford wrote: > > The three cardbus cards are slightly different in numerous ways. For > > them they normally fault with an APM event, an eject/insert cycle via > > software will reset hem and a link down/

NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

2001-01-23 Thread David Ford
> > Do the tulip driver updates address the increasingly common NETDEV timeout > > repots? > > In general you can answer this yourself by reading > drivers/net/tulip/ChangeLog. > > I don't see increasingly common timeout reports.. with which hardware? > They are likely on the newer LinkSys 4.1 car

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-22 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > The ChangeLog may not be 100% complete. The physically big things are the > PPC and ACPI updates, even if most people won't notice. > > Linus > > > > pre10: > - got a few too-new R128 #defines in the Radeon merge. Fix. > - tulip driver update from Je

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-22 Thread David Ford
If it makes the kernel do Bad Things, the kernel needs to be fixed. -d Shawn Starr wrote: > This is not a kernel bug, This is a bug in the XFree86 TrueType rendering > extention. This has been discussed on the Xpert XFree86 mailing list. There > is a fix in the works (depends on the TrueType fo

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread David Ford
Rainer Mager wrote: > > Would this be an SMP IA32 box with glibc 2.2? I have two such boxen > > showing exactly the same behaviour, although I can't reproduce it at will. > > Close, it is actually an SMP IA32 box with glibc 2.1.3. But you've now > convinced me to not upgrade glibc yet ;-) Upgra

Re: Coding Style

2001-01-19 Thread David Ford
Mark I Manning IV wrote: > Tabs are 8 characters so NO tabs should be used in ANY source file what > so ever. There are some silly people that insist on hitting the tab key > when they should really be hitting the SPACE key (and for your info Linus > PI is EXACTLY 3... ish :) If one is intellig

Re: [off topic] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-18 Thread David Ford
Brad Felmey wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:53:32 +, you, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote: > > >So you can't fault John for personally effecting a policy similar to what > >ORBS does en masse. > > Of course I can. A bad implementation is a bad

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-18 Thread David Ford
dean gaudet wrote: > the reason, gag puke, is for doing things such as sending "activity" > progress -- like a line at a time or whatever to indicate that the CGI is > there and still working. I understand the gagging on this and generally I agree. I do appreciate having the ability to do this

Re: [off topic] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-18 Thread David Ford
Brad Felmey wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:19:31 -0500, you, "John O'Donnell" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote: > > >Maybe you don't understand. > > No, John, it's quite obvious that it's _you_ who does not understand. > You've saved yourself some spam and pissed off a good deal of the > kernel list

Re: Problem with networking in 2.4.0

2001-01-18 Thread David Ford
Bill Crawford wrote: > In connection with connection failures using recent kernels, it often > seems to be related to ECN being enabled. > > PIX firewalls seem to interpret the ECN option header as a source > route header (that's what it's logged as). > > I got bitten by this at work ;ยท( Cisc

Re: [OT]: Linux v.2.4.0 and Netscape 4.76?

2001-01-17 Thread David Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can be a little more specific on this point. Netscape with > kernel 2.4.0 _does_ connect/download at a few local (New Zealand) > web sites (maybe 10% of those I've tried). I can't download > from _any_ distant site. It doesn't die, it just doesn't function > properly.

2.4.0-ac6, 'rm' stalls in wait_on_buffer

2001-01-16 Thread David Ford
Has this issue been addressed? When I delete something large..say a mozilla cvs tree, rm will stall for about 10-30 seconds every few minutes in wait_on_buffer. It's an IDE drive, nothing fancy on the system, it's a standard pII w/ 256 megs, about 50megs free. 'sync' also stalls similarly. Ide

Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100

2001-01-13 Thread David Ford
David Santinoli wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:53:14PM -0800, Rob Landley wrote: > > If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get an > > out.txt file of 591 bytes. > And it's the same under 2.2.x, too. > > > dd says it completes happily even when copying from > > random. 0+100 records

Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable

2001-01-13 Thread David Ford
Christoph Rohland wrote: > What do you think about "vmfs"? This probably reflects its nature > better than swapfs. That sounds applicable and pretty good. -d -- ---NOTICE -- fwd: fwd: fwd: type emails will be deleted automatically. "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds

Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable

2001-01-13 Thread David Ford
> It is a filesystem which lives in RAM and can swap out. SYSV shm and > shared anonymous maps are still build on top of this (The config > option only disables the part not needed for this). > > I am quite open about naming, but "shm" is not appropriate any more > since the fs does a lot more tha

shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable

2001-01-13 Thread David Ford
Christoph Rohland wrote: > Hi, > > The appended patch (additional to my read/write support patch) makes > the shm filesystem configurable and renames it to the more sensible > name swapfs. Since the fs type "shm" is quite established with 2.4 I > register that name also. Now...is this shared mem

Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100

2001-01-12 Thread David Ford
Rob Landley wrote: > If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get an > out.txt file of 591 bytes. It isn't broken, you have no more entropy. You must have some system activity of various sorts before you regain some entropy. Moving the mouse around, hitting keys, etc, will slowly add mor

Re: 2.4.0 Keyboard and mouse lock

2001-01-12 Thread David Ford
> > strangely, same thing with 2.4.0 this afternoon. it was not unlike > > what we saw in test 12. /var/log/messages sheds no light, and BRB > > What's BRB? big red button? -d - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
> pretty darned impressive :-). Another oddity that someone else > already reported: the ipv6 module shows a reference count of -1. a ref count of -1 means the module decides when to unload. -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;; version:2.1 email;i

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > "Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > > > > The very strange stuff is umount at reboot: > > > > umount: none busy - remounted read-only > > umount: /: device is busy > > Remounting root-filesystem read-only > > mount: / is busy > > Rebooting. Are you using devfs and do kernel t

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
Matthias Juchem wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Richard Torkar wrote: > > > I do not have any PPP, and no kdb installed on that machine, neither do I > > have procinfo. Shouldn't it say N/A or not found instead of the above? The > > ppp part is not true ;-). > > > Other thing I thought about was t

cs46xx only works as a module still (post 2.4.0)

2001-01-10 Thread David Ford
Just a friendly reminder, the cs46xx driver only works if it's compiled as a module. If it's static, it never gets activated on boot. -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Blue Labs Developer note;q

Re: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread David Ford
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! > > invalid operand: > > Does reiserfs patch changes vmscan.c ? > > If so, whats in line 452 of mm/vmscan.c of 2.4.0 reiserfs tree? reiserfs doesn't touch mm/vmscan.c. the line is: del_page_from_inactive_clean_list(page); -d > -- -

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)

2001-01-09 Thread David Ford
Why not use the limits from instead? -d Chris Mason wrote: > On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 02:32:09 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> EIP; c013f911<= > > Trace; c013f706 > > Trace; c0136e01 > > The buffer reiserfs is sending to filldir is big enough for > the

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-09 Thread David Ford
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, John O'Donnell wrote: > > > Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" > > emails from outside the US. If I get a piece of spam (sorry they are > > typically from outside the US), I just block the entire .com.br domain. > > I g

Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado

2001-01-08 Thread David Ford
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > Obviously, something changed between 2.2.14 and more current > kernels which broke pump. I don't believe it's a driver change > because it also affects the 3c90x driver. I don't have a theory > as to why this affects the 3com NICs though. But I'm assum

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > Who says that it names a device? It names interfaces. > There are good reasons to have names for ifas, and I see no really good > convincing reasons not to put these names into the interface name space. > (in addition it'll save a lot of people a lot of grie

Broken tty handling

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Every once in a while I have a very frustrating problem develop. All tty handling stops. Packets flow in and out of the machine fine, but anything with a tty halts. I don't know exactly what is happening but I have found that killing the last user that logged in (all his processes) usually fixe

Re: Paket counters for aliased interfaces ?

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Patrick Mau wrote: [...] > And here's the question: > I would like to collect statistics for eth0:0 but obviously the > pakets are only counted for the real interface. If I had enough time > and knowledge, how should I implement paket counters for aliased > interfaces ? > > PS: Am I right that it

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: > > Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? > > That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case > > both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN > > came first, but non-vlan traffic would suffe

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Matthias Juchem wrote: > Why can't I assume that perl is installed? It can be found on every > standard Linux/Unix installation. No it can't. Perl isn't on any of my distributions as part of the standard installation. > My script is intended for the one who likes to provide bug reports but is

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Bind knows about multiple virtual interfaces; but we can also have > multiple addresses on a single interface and have no virtual > interfaces at all. > > I doubt bind knows about this nor handles it. > > > > OK, I'm a liar -- bind does handle this.

Re: Little question about modules...

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > If the module controls its own unloading via a can_unload routine > then the user count displayed by lsmod is always -1, irrespective of > the real use count. Maybe lsmod can show a blank for the field and (auto unload). That'd probably draw a lot l

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matthias Juchem wrote: > I guess if you use a development version the above returns nothing. If I'm > right, a pre-release libc was recommended for use with 2.2.0 (I'm not > sure). Here is a random idea. get the pathname of the library(ies) then this sed expression: sed \ '

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Virtual IP interfaces in the form of ifname: (e.g. eth:1) IMO > should be deprecated and removed completely in 2.5.x. It's an ugly > external wart that should be removed. > > That said, if this was done -- how would things like routing daemons > and bin

Re: Printing to off-line printer in 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-04 Thread David Ford
The only way to _assume_ a printer is online is to attempt a dummy poll for information. Again note that this is a strong assumption as only some new printers return data for a poll, and legacy printers control of the data port are undefined. The poll btw needs to be done in userspace because pr

2.4.0-release (and a few priors) stalls

2001-01-04 Thread David Ford
Recently, about test 12 I believe, I started experiencing stalls. I believe it has to do with VM pressure but I'm not sure. What happens: 5-60 second instant dead stall, nothing at all happens. No sound/key/disk/anything activity, screen updates stop in the middle of an update. Until recently I

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