Re: Repeatable 2.4.0-test13-pre4 nfsd Oops rears it head again

2000-12-29 Thread David Ford
I really need to get rid of this 8139 card. Since yall are the oracle, which nice 100mbs card is fine hardware and is coupled with a well debugged driver? I don't want to have any more network card problems. I'm tired of this crappy 8139. I have an 8139 card and it's on a 2.4 testN kernel

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2000-12-28 Thread David Ford
Manfred wrote: > David wrote: > > > > Same old story, bugger still does it. Have to set the link down/up to > > get it running again. > > > > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev > > 20) > > > > I missed your earlier mails, could you resend the details? > I'm

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2000-12-28 Thread David Ford
Same old story, bugger still does it. Have to set the link down/up to get it running again. I had to reset two systems tonight, one up for ~60 days, one up for two days. Both have this card. Unrelated traffic. This is kernel 2.4.0-test13-pre4 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2000-12-28 Thread David Ford
Same old story, bugger still does it. Have to set the link down/up to get it running again. I had to reset two systems tonight, one up for ~60 days, one up for two days. Both have this card. Unrelated traffic. This is kernel 2.4.0-test13-pre4 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2000-12-28 Thread David Ford
Manfred wrote: David wrote: Same old story, bugger still does it. Have to set the link down/up to get it running again. 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) I missed your earlier mails, could you resend the details? I'm interested in the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-18 Thread David Ford
Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Oh, and try to eat atomic memory by ping -f kORBit-ized box. > > When linux is out of atomic memory, it will die anyway. Only if you subscribe to the "we don't need to handle exceptions or check return values" programmers guild...i.e. lazy error prone coders. I tend

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-18 Thread David Ford
Mikulas Patocka wrote: Oh, and try to eat atomic memory by ping -f kORBit-ized box. When linux is out of atomic memory, it will die anyway. Only if you subscribe to the "we don't need to handle exceptions or check return values" programmers guild...i.e. lazy error prone coders. I tend to

more compile errors, test12-pre8 and reiserfs

2000-12-10 Thread David Ford
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686-c -o journal.o journal.c journal.c: In function `reiserfs_journal_commit_thread': journal.c:1816: invalid operands to binary !=

test12-pre8 tq_struct compile failures

2000-12-10 Thread David Ford
There seem to be quite a lot of compile failures wrt tq_struct. Does anyone have a template patch to use to start fixing these? -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

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-10 Thread David Ford
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > Hit http://www.lm-sensors.nu/ does anyone have an IP address for cvs.lm-sensors.nu? -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;quoted-printable:GPG

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-10 Thread David Ford
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: Hit http://www.lm-sensors.nu/ does anyone have an IP address for cvs.lm-sensors.nu? -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;quoted-printable:GPG

more compile errors, test12-pre8 and reiserfs

2000-12-10 Thread David Ford
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686-c -o journal.o journal.c journal.c: In function `reiserfs_journal_commit_thread': journal.c:1816: invalid operands to binary !=

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-09 Thread David Ford
> but a last one i cannot resist... > > > but why are your ideas not widespread and > so successful like kde,gnome,windows? > maybe because they suck at some point? > > > Regards (and please flame me private ... :)) Last time I checked you needed a kernel... -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David

Re: swapoff weird

2000-12-09 Thread David Ford
> I can't swapoff. Therefore filesystem is busy (it must be -- kernel > might be writing to file on it!). And no way to get out of that. It's busy because some portion of memory is in use. manually kill things as best you can. this will clean out the swap. once you've gotten all applications

Re: swapoff weird

2000-12-09 Thread David Ford
I can't swapoff. Therefore filesystem is busy (it must be -- kernel might be writing to file on it!). And no way to get out of that. It's busy because some portion of memory is in use. manually kill things as best you can. this will clean out the swap. once you've gotten all applications

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-09 Thread David Ford
but a last one i cannot resist... sarcasm but why are your ideas not widespread and so successful like kde,gnome,windows? maybe because they suck at some point? /sarcasm Regards (and please flame me private ... :)) Last time I checked you needed a kernel... -d begin:vcard

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-08 Thread David Ford
> > * We can now write device drivers in perl, and let them run on the iMAC > > across the hall from you. :) > > Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? So you can easily facilitate opportunities for viruses ;) -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-08 Thread David Ford
* We can now write device drivers in perl, and let them run on the iMAC across the hall from you. :) Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? So you can easily facilitate opportunities for viruses ;) -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-03 Thread David Ford
Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > This is standard stuff... You are really pissing into the wind here ;) > > Guess I am. Still isn't an explaination why I see a lot of broken code out > there regarding this issue. > > Igmar Broken code due to broken programmers. -d begin:vcard

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-03 Thread David Ford
Igmar Palsenberg wrote: This is standard stuff... You are really pissing into the wind here ;) Guess I am. Still isn't an explaination why I see a lot of broken code out there regarding this issue. Igmar Broken code due to broken programmers. -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-02 Thread David Ford
Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > For a blocking fd, read(2) has always blocked until some data is > > available. There has never been a guarantee, for any driver, that > > a read(2) will return the full amount of bytes requested. > > I know. Still leaves lot's of people that assume that reading

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-02 Thread David Ford
Igmar Palsenberg wrote: For a blocking fd, read(2) has always blocked until some data is available. There has never been a guarantee, for any driver, that a read(2) will return the full amount of bytes requested. I know. Still leaves lot's of people that assume that reading /dev/random

[bug] apm resume, uhci and usb devices won't talk right anymore

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 532 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 546 usb.c: USB disconnect on device 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 569 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 7 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: USB device not accepting new

[bug] floppy spins w/out end after apm resume

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
yet another apm related bug. this one is the odd one, frequently i update my kernel on this laptop. every once in a while, i'd say about one out of five kernels..upon apm resume, the floppy drive motor will start spinning. nothing stops it from spinning except i attempt to mount a non-existing

Re: test12-pre3 (broke my usb)

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
> Seems to have broken my IntelliMouse Optical (logs from the third time > I inserted usb-uhci): > > Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: hub.c: USB hub

[oops] test12-2, yet another apm related oops

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00fc c02b3527 *pde = 02253067 Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010293 eax: ebx: c90cb800 ecx: c03826a8 edx: 0001 esi: 0003 edi:

[oops] test12-2, yet another apm related oops

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00fc c02b3527 *pde = 02253067 Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c02b3527] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010293 eax: ebx: c90cb800 ecx: c03826a8 edx: 0001 esi: 0003 edi:

Re: test12-pre3 (broke my usb)

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
Seems to have broken my IntelliMouse Optical (logs from the third time I inserted usb-uhci): Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: hub.c: USB hub found

[bug] floppy spins w/out end after apm resume

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
yet another apm related bug. this one is the odd one, frequently i update my kernel on this laptop. every once in a while, i'd say about one out of five kernels..upon apm resume, the floppy drive motor will start spinning. nothing stops it from spinning except i attempt to mount a non-existing

[bug] apm resume, uhci and usb devices won't talk right anymore

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 532 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 546 usb.c: USB disconnect on device 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 569 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 7 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: USB device not accepting new

Re: VFS: brelse message in syslog, its due to ReiserFS or kernelfailure ?

2000-11-28 Thread David Ford
I can't say who's fault it is, but I suggest this test12-pre2 patch for clarity --- fs/buffer.c~Tue Nov 28 05:11:56 2000 +++ fs/buffer.c Tue Nov 28 06:27:05 2000 @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ atomic_dec(>b_count); return; } - printk("VFS: brelse:

Re: VFS: brelse message in syslog, its due to ReiserFS or kernelfailure ?

2000-11-28 Thread David Ford
I can't say who's fault it is, but I suggest this test12-pre2 patch for clarity --- fs/buffer.c~Tue Nov 28 05:11:56 2000 +++ fs/buffer.c Tue Nov 28 06:27:05 2000 @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ atomic_dec(buf-b_count); return; } - printk("VFS: brelse:

Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

2000-11-26 Thread David Ford
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > I'd rather have Anaconda changed rather than special casing standard > > utils to account for distro handling. > > Great. Then tell RedHat to rewrite it without the need for these switches. > They

Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

2000-11-26 Thread David Ford
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:46:35PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > + {"ignore-versions", 0, 0, 'i'}, > > > > I dont think we should encourage anyone to ignore symbol versions > > Anaconda will barf and require over 850+ changes to the scripts without > it. If

Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

2000-11-26 Thread David Ford
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:46:35PM +, Alan Cox wrote: + {"ignore-versions", 0, 0, 'i'}, I dont think we should encourage anyone to ignore symbol versions Anaconda will barf and require over 850+ changes to the scripts without it. If you look at

Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

2000-11-26 Thread David Ford
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: I'd rather have Anaconda changed rather than special casing standard utils to account for distro handling. Great. Then tell RedHat to rewrite it without the need for these switches. They will say

Re: CS4630

2000-11-24 Thread David Ford
Charles Peterman wrote: > Thanks, I had to putz with the gain to get sound out of it without > turning my amp to 11, but yes it works. Do you know if anyone is > putting in the effort to make the six channel useful? > > Thanks again, Dunno about that, I use gmix for my mixer and it sounds

Re: CS4630

2000-11-24 Thread David Ford
Charles Peterman wrote: Thanks, I had to putz with the gain to get sound out of it without turning my amp to 11, but yes it works. Do you know if anyone is putting in the effort to make the six channel useful? Thanks again, Dunno about that, I use gmix for my mixer and it sounds fine, I

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

2000-11-22 Thread David Ford
> > * Remove compile warnings in xstrcat. > > * snprintf cleanups. > > * Set safemode when uid != euid. > > * Strip quotes from shell responses. > + add RedHat ism's with a --rhc (red hat compatible) -i -m (-F) > > RedHat kind of is the standard in the commercial

test11 spontaneous reboot

2000-11-22 Thread David Ford
Something appears to be broken. One of my servers is going through seemingly random spontaneous reboots with nothing to indicate why. model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse It's a VIA

test11 spontaneous reboot

2000-11-22 Thread David Ford
Something appears to be broken. One of my servers is going through seemingly random spontaneous reboots with nothing to indicate why. model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse It's a VIA

Re: run level 1, login takes too long, 2.4.X vs. 2.2.X

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
rpc.portmap isn't running, your login configuration/nss requires yp or something provided ans an RPC. -d "M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote: > I had occasion to "telinit 1" today and found that it took a long time > to login after root passwd was entered. this doesn't happen with 2.2.X > kernels. > > Is

Re: XMMS not working on 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
My guess is that it's a plugin, the source for xmms doesn't have "cpuinfo" anywhere in it. -d Gianluca Anzolin wrote: > it seems there has been a change in the format of the /proc/cpuinfo file: infact >'flags: ' became 'features: ' > > This change broke xmms and could broke any other program

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
Christer Weinigel wrote: > >Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk... > > So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order > from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want > to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? > > Of course, using capabilities and totally disabling

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
> Why not? /me has nearly everything compiled as modules. Some people have extensive sh, awk and sed scripts to manage their systems, some have compiled programs. > > There is an introduced security weakness by using kernels. > > ??? Guess you mean "by using modules"? Which weakness? Other

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
Gerd Knorr wrote: > Why? What is the point in compiling bttv statically into the kernel? > Unlike filesystems/ide/scsi/... you don't need it to get the box up. > No problem to compile the driver as module and configure it with > /etc/modules.conf ... Huh? Some systems are built without module

Re: neighbour table?

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > > Be sure lo is established before eth0 and you won't see this message. > > Hmm. How does the interaction work. I've been meaning to track it for > a while but haven't yet. > > >From the cases I have observed it seems to be connected with arp requests > that aren't

Re: neighbour table?

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: Be sure lo is established before eth0 and you won't see this message. Hmm. How does the interaction work. I've been meaning to track it for a while but haven't yet. From the cases I have observed it seems to be connected with arp requests that aren't

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
Gerd Knorr wrote: Why? What is the point in compiling bttv statically into the kernel? Unlike filesystems/ide/scsi/... you don't need it to get the box up. No problem to compile the driver as module and configure it with /etc/modules.conf ... Huh? Some systems are built without module

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
Why not? /me has nearly everything compiled as modules. Some people have extensive sh, awk and sed scripts to manage their systems, some have compiled programs. There is an introduced security weakness by using kernels. ??? Guess you mean "by using modules"? Which weakness? Other than

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
Christer Weinigel wrote: Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk... So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? Of course, using capabilities and totally disabling access

Re: XMMS not working on 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
My guess is that it's a plugin, the source for xmms doesn't have "cpuinfo" anywhere in it. -d Gianluca Anzolin wrote: it seems there has been a change in the format of the /proc/cpuinfo file: infact 'flags: ' became 'features: ' This change broke xmms and could broke any other program

Re: run level 1, login takes too long, 2.4.X vs. 2.2.X

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
rpc.portmap isn't running, your login configuration/nss requires yp or something provided ans an RPC. -d "M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote: I had occasion to "telinit 1" today and found that it took a long time to login after root passwd was entered. this doesn't happen with 2.2.X kernels. Is this

Re: neighbour table?

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Andrew Park wrote: > I get a message > > neighbour table overflow > > What does that mean? It seems that > > net/ipv4/route.c > > is the place where it prints this. But under what circumstances > does this happen? > Thanks It means you set the link state of eth0 up before lo.

[FIXED!] Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
ock. eth1: MII transceiver #0 config 3000 status 7809 advertising 01e1. call_usermodehelper[/sbin/hotplug]: no root fs Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Can you (you've probably done this before, but

Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Can you (you've probably done this before, but anyway) enable DEBUG in > arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h? I wonder if the kernel for some strange > reason doesn't find your router, even though "dump_pirq" obviously does.. > If there's something wrong with the checksumming for

Re: speaking of USB...(bug/hub.c)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > # dmesg > > hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 6 > > usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 121 > > usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110) > > hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 7 > >

[oops] apm and tulip (eeprom.c) related in kernel 2.4.0 test11-pre7

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
I've been trying [unsuccessfully :S] to get the kernel's pcmcia working. I woke up this morning and found the following oops: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 001b c01d4dca *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops

speaking of USB...(bug/hub.c)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Here's another one for the books. In the recent test11 series, timing appears to be partially broken for dev addr assignments. If I'm lucky a new usb device will answer back and get all the numbers set up properly. Regularly however a new device gets plugged in and I get several of the below

Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > If somebody still has a problem with the in-kernel stuff, speak up. The kernel's irq detection for the card sockets doesn't work for me. It's the NEC Versa LX story. The DH code also reports no IRQ found but still figures out a working IRQ (normally 3) and

Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] If somebody still has a problem with the in-kernel stuff, speak up. The kernel's irq detection for the card sockets doesn't work for me. It's the NEC Versa LX story. The DH code also reports no IRQ found but still figures out a working IRQ (normally 3) and assigns

speaking of USB...(bug/hub.c)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Here's another one for the books. In the recent test11 series, timing appears to be partially broken for dev addr assignments. If I'm lucky a new usb device will answer back and get all the numbers set up properly. Regularly however a new device gets plugged in and I get several of the below

[oops] apm and tulip (eeprom.c) related in kernel 2.4.0 test11-pre7

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
I've been trying [unsuccessfully :S] to get the kernel's pcmcia working. I woke up this morning and found the following oops: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 001b c01d4dca *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c01d4dca] Using defaults from

Re: speaking of USB...(bug/hub.c)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Johannes Erdfelt wrote: # dmesg hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 121 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110) hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 7 Status 2 means

Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: Can you (you've probably done this before, but anyway) enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h? I wonder if the kernel for some strange reason doesn't find your router, even though "dump_pirq" obviously does.. If there's something wrong with the checksumming for

[FIXED!] Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-18 Thread David Ford
transceiver #0 config 3000 status 7809 advertising 01e1. call_usermodehelper[/sbin/hotplug]: no root fs Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Can you (you've probably done this before, but anyway) enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h? I

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread David Ford
> > The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very > > difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself [...] > It could be that -test5 and -test6 break some assumption kdb makes. > It has been eminently stable here. Whether or not the

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread David Ford
The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself [...] It could be that -test5 and -test6 break some assumption kdb makes. It has been eminently stable here. Whether or not the assumptions

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > * 2.4.0-test10 pcmcia fails to detect IRQ's correctly, and will > >sometimes kill all software interrupts on card insertion on a NEC > > Versa LX (David Ford) > > Still does this with test11-pre-latest? I'll test this tomorr

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
I have found that lowering the MTU helps a lot. If it is a particular route, simply add an additional route with the lower limit set. The tradeoff of efficiency v.s. reliability is improved. -d Horst von Brand wrote: > In my experience, if you try to send large messages over unreliable >

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
I have found that lowering the MTU helps a lot. If it is a particular route, simply add an additional route with the lower limit set. The tradeoff of efficiency v.s. reliability is improved. -d Horst von Brand wrote: In my experience, if you try to send large messages over unreliable

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
Jeff Garzik wrote: * 2.4.0-test10 pcmcia fails to detect IRQ's correctly, and will sometimes kill all software interrupts on card insertion on a NEC Versa LX (David Ford) Still does this with test11-pre-latest? I'll test this tomorrow, I can't interrupt my laptop

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
> They're not modprobes, they're misnamed processes sleeping from NWFS. If they're sleeping, why are they in D state? That ups the load average. > I got the fix from someone so now they display their proper names. > top displays the names correctly, ps does not. Several people have >

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
> > With a handle like > > "Assmann", deviation is proably something you already understand quite > > well ... > > Don't be a moron. Claus is German, Assman really is his last name and > not some "handle", and it's pronounced "Oss-man". Claus is a well liked, knowledgable and well

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
The only defaults I've really had to change are the max children and some of the timing simply because I want stalled connections (read routing loss) to requeue quickly. -d "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > David, > > We got to the bottom of it. send

Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Some wild blatherings about sendmail... - Uses lots of memory to send a big file. Incorrect. I just verified it with a 10 meg file which became a 14 meg attachment. Sendmail consumed an additional 5 megs combined while handling the input and output v.s. an idle daemon. Idle is 1.8M, recv

Re: [reiserfs-list] [bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs,2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
. Chris Mason wrote: > On Friday, November 10, 2000 06:15:40 -0800 David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen > > of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: > > > >

[bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs, 2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic: invalid operand due to panic @ 0xc0163d7a eax = 0x001a ebx = 0xcf907d8c ecx = 0xcf906000 edx =

[bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs, 2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic: invalid operand due to panic @ 0xc0163d7a eax = 0x001a ebx = 0xcf907d8c ecx = 0xcf906000 edx =

Re: [reiserfs-list] [bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs,2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
. Chris Mason wrote: On Friday, November 10, 2000 06:15:40 -0800 David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic

Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Some wild blatherings about sendmail... - Uses lots of memory to send a big file. Incorrect. I just verified it with a 10 meg file which became a 14 meg attachment. Sendmail consumed an additional 5 megs combined while handling the input and output v.s. an idle daemon. Idle is 1.8M, recv

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
The only defaults I've really had to change are the max children and some of the timing simply because I want stalled connections (read routing loss) to requeue quickly. -d "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: David Ford wrote: David, We got to the bottom of it. sendmail is using a BSD meth

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
They're not modprobes, they're misnamed processes sleeping from NWFS. If they're sleeping, why are they in D state? That ups the load average. I got the fix from someone so now they display their proper names. top displays the names correctly, ps does not. Several people have verified

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-09 Thread David Ford
"Dunlap, Randy" wrote: > > Either. Currently bus (self) powered. This hub has worked > > fine on my other > > computers without any adverse affect. > > Bus-powered != self-powered. It had been a long day. I really do know the distinction :) It is currently bus powered and I've only once had

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-09 Thread David Ford
"Dunlap, Randy" wrote: Either. Currently bus (self) powered. This hub has worked fine on my other computers without any adverse affect. Bus-powered != self-powered. It had been a long day. I really do know the distinction :) It is currently bus powered and I've only once had it self

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Sigh. That's not the real hang position. I needed to step slower. kdb> ss 0xc01100f8 pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x40: outw %ax,(%dx) SS trap at 0xc01100fa (pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x42) 0xc01100fa pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x42: popl %ebx kdb> ss 0xc01100fa

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
More data: kdb> bp pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x3a Instruction(i) BP #1 at 0xc01100f2 (pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x3a) is enabled globally adjust 1 kdb> go Instruction(i) breakpoint #1 at 0xc01100f2 (adjusted) 0xc01100f2 pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x3a: orl$0xcfc,%edx Entering kdb

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:19:13PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > > I am going thru the steps atm. The JE driver also hangs. > > Thanks for doing this. np. > > More information. I have an external USB 4 port hub, in which I have one > > logitech mouse

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
> The NMI oopser for UP only trips in when the cpu is spinning. If the > cpu is in a halt state then NMI does not run. But in a halt state you > should be able to activate kdb via the pause key. The only time you > cannot get kdb via pause is if interrupts are disabled (but then the > cpu

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
I am going thru the steps atm. The JE driver also hangs. More information. I have an external USB 4 port hub, in which I have one logitech mouse at the moment. I can cold boot and reboot to my heart's delight fine. But if I unplug/plug in the mouse and reboot, it will hang. Note, I have to

OOPS loading cs46xx module, test11-pre1

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.09, 16:07:04 Nov 8 2000 cs461x: Card found at 0xc780 and 0xc700, IRQ 11 cs461x: Voyetra at 0xc780/0xc700, IRQ 11 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address a1d60878 printing eip: a1d60878 *pde = Oops: CPU:

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
I just recompiled using the JE driver and it doesn't lock up on boot. -d Georg Nikodym wrote: > >>>>> "DF" == David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DF> Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular > DF> workstation lock

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
support that I need ? > Its nicely commented out in drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in > > I remember everything working fine up until about test3/4, since then I've > had to revert to the pcmcia-cs package. > > Just wondering whats going on ? > > / Brett > > On Wed, 8

[bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular workstation locks up hard as it reaches the following: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.242 $ time 15:53:47 Nov 8 2000 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
With a few exceptions, it should work. The problematic systems are few. -d David Feuer wrote: > What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on > this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA > network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? --

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
With a few exceptions, it should work. The problematic systems are few. -d David Feuer wrote: What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? --

[bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular workstation locks up hard as it reaches the following: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.242 $ time 15:53:47 Nov 8 2000 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
commented out in drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in I remember everything working fine up until about test3/4, since then I've had to revert to the pcmcia-cs package. Just wondering whats going on ? / Brett On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: With a few exceptions, it should work

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
I just recompiled using the JE driver and it doesn't lock up on boot. -d Georg Nikodym wrote: "DF" == David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DF Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular DF workstation locks up hard as it reaches the following: I have a simil

OOPS loading cs46xx module, test11-pre1

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.09, 16:07:04 Nov 8 2000 cs461x: Card found at 0xc780 and 0xc700, IRQ 11 cs461x: Voyetra at 0xc780/0xc700, IRQ 11 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address a1d60878 printing eip: a1d60878 *pde = Oops: CPU:

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