Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread David Ford
gnome, kde, enlightenment...these are just a few of the "let's give everyone access" utilities. -d "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > I've got segments showing up with perm 777 and I dont run enlightenment. > Though they all go away when I guit all apps that use gtk/gnome =) -- "There is a

Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread David Ford
Shawn Starr wrote: > Odd, Isn't 777 insecure for shared memory segments? very. rasterman may make cute stuff, but reliable in adverse conditions and secure is completely out of the ballpark. -d -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and

Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread David Ford
David Ford wrote: > [more to come - dinner calls - please feel free to comment and provide > information] It is indeed X's fault. A cursory trace on 4.01b shows an equal amount of shmat/shmdt at dozens upon dozens per second. 4.01c has just as many shmat but no shmdt. However it's u

Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread David Ford
David Ford wrote: [more to come - dinner calls - please feel free to comment and provide information] It is indeed X's fault. A cursory trace on 4.01b shows an equal amount of shmat/shmdt at dozens upon dozens per second. 4.01c has just as many shmat but no shmdt. However it's unclear

Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread David Ford
Shawn Starr wrote: Odd, Isn't 777 insecure for shared memory segments? very. rasterman may make cute stuff, but reliable in adverse conditions and secure is completely out of the ballpark. -d -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and

Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread David Ford
gnome, kde, enlightenment...these are just a few of the "let's give everyone access" utilities. -d "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: I've got segments showing up with perm 777 and I dont run enlightenment. Though they all go away when I guit all apps that use gtk/gnome =) -- "There is a

Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
(cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this should be the last post to LKML for this subject) Known historical items: -All shm segments get used up in very fast order. -Everyone noticing it maintains it is 4.01c versioned -It happens on multiple versions of Linux kernels, 2.2 and

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: > SHM segments are increasing (they only go away when X closes) .. swap seems > to be stable for nowhere is the ipcs -u output If they all go away when X closes, it seems that X is at fault. -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
19.5 day uptime on test8 and 4.01b, ~13 segments, ~350K all user 'david'. 4 day uptime on test8 and 4.01c, ~16 segments, 256 bytes used by user 'postgres'. test9 is very broken, we know it is :] There are a bunch of OOPSes and complaints about the VM. -d safemode wrote: > Ok, compiling

Re: Given an image, how can show its config?

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
Keith Owens wrote: > That would take my 2.4.0 bzImage to 893864, it does not leave much room > out of a 1.4Mb floppy for LILO files. We could have multiple make > targets, with and without appended config/map but that just complicates > the build environment. I normally occupy over a meg with

[patch] net/ipv4/arp.c #20000923

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
Kuznetsov: new arp state machine; * now it is in net/core/neighbour.c. + * David Ford : More fixes cleaning up the proc output */ /* RFC1122 Status: @@ -1025,6 +1026,7 @@ char hbuffer[HBUFFERLEN]; int i,j,k;

[OT] lkml reply-to header (was: Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM)

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: > Reply ALL also results in 2 mails being sent instead of one but of course this is >usually not a problem since one is going direct and the other is going through vger, >but still... it's kind of wasteful to > resources and i dont see any harm in Reply-to being sent in the

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: > i'll get back about the latest xfree86 in about 2 hours .. but if anyone has any >other ideas > or info i can give ...it's not problem. test8 seems stable enough to keep itself up >until > i'm ready to reboot. I should hope, I have a 20 day uptime so far. -d --

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: > It seems to me that test8-vm3 handles this fine. in test9 upon loading X i was > already using swap and down to 10MB ... here i have netscape loaded and some other > stuff along with gaim and i've got 36MB free still. I'm not so sure you can chalk > this up totally to X

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: > One more little complaint.. why doesn't vger replace the FROM to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] like any other sane mailing list ... i > keep going to Reply and not sending to the list. At least add a > reply-to tag like the proftpd mailing list has if you want to keep the > FROM tag

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
Shaw Starr repored on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that a fresh checkout of 4.01d and fresh build of X resulted in a fixed/working shm w/ X. -d safemode wrote: > When in doubt. . Blame it on the biggest piece of crap around .. X.One can > say using a cvs of X is the cause of this by somehow i doubt

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
XFree86 Version 4.0.1b / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 11 August 2000 =) Are you by chance using cvs X from after september 10th? If so, hop on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list and post your comments there. There is another gentlemen

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
I think it's time to get Christoph on the line and see what he has to say. The 4096 number is a limit to the system, you can have a max of 4096 shared memory segments systemwide. Do you know offhand which programs are using(abusing) shm? -d safemode wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > &g

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: One more little complaint.. why doesn't vger replace the FROM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] like any other sane mailing list ... i keep going to Reply and not sending to the list. At least add a reply-to tag like the proftpd mailing list has if you want to keep the FROM tag as the

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: It seems to me that test8-vm3 handles this fine. in test9 upon loading X i was already using swap and down to 10MB ... here i have netscape loaded and some other stuff along with gaim and i've got 36MB free still. I'm not so sure you can chalk this up totally to X

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: i'll get back about the latest xfree86 in about 2 hours .. but if anyone has any other ideas or info i can give ...it's not problem. test8 seems stable enough to keep itself up until i'm ready to reboot. I should hope, I have a 20 day uptime so far. -d -- "There is

[patch] net/ipv4/arp.c #20000923

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
etsov: new arp state machine; * now it is in net/core/neighbour.c. + * David Ford : More fixes cleaning up the proc output */ /* RFC1122 Status: @@ -1025,6 +1026,7 @@ char hbuffer[HBUFFERLEN]; int i,j,k;

Re: Given an image, how can show its config?

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
Keith Owens wrote: That would take my 2.4.0 bzImage to 893864, it does not leave much room out of a 1.4Mb floppy for LILO files. We could have multiple make targets, with and without appended config/map but that just complicates the build environment. I normally occupy over a meg with my

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
19.5 day uptime on test8 and 4.01b, ~13 segments, ~350K all user 'david'. 4 day uptime on test8 and 4.01c, ~16 segments, 256 bytes used by user 'postgres'. test9 is very broken, we know it is :] There are a bunch of OOPSes and complaints about the VM. -d safemode wrote: Ok, compiling using

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
safemode wrote: SHM segments are increasing (they only go away when X closes) .. swap seems to be stable for nowhere is the ipcs -u output If they all go away when X closes, it seems that X is at fault. -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an

Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-23 Thread David Ford
(cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this should be the last post to LKML for this subject) Known historical items: -All shm segments get used up in very fast order. -Everyone noticing it maintains it is 4.01c versioned -It happens on multiple versions of Linux kernels, 2.2 and

Re: [patch] net/ipv4/arp.c

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > On a side note, does it/will it be implemented in the future? > > it was implemented and it is phased out. It is only present to be > compatible. One would do that with user space arp daemons or auto_arp. > > Greetings >

Re: [patch] net/ipv4/net.c (correction: arp.c)

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
David Ford wrote: > After reviewing the arp.c file, I made a couple of changes. I fixed the uhm. I meant arp.c ;) -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." begin:

[patch] net/ipv4/net.c

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
After reviewing the arp.c file, I made a couple of changes. I fixed the ip.ip.ip.ip0xNN breakage and also changed the printing routine. Since the ARP mask is not implemented in the /proc file, I changed the length formatting of it and the following dev->name entry. e.g.: -"

[patch] Re: ARP entry in /proc wrong?

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
Attached is a patch. -d his dad wrote: > Linux 2.4.0-test6 i386 > > I've just put a manual arp entry in for 192.168.56.1. > > arp -n does not show it. > > /proc/arp > > has the following line > > 192.168.56.10x10xc > > where the ipaddress and the HWtype are jammed against each other.

[patch] Re: ARP entry in /proc wrong?

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
Attached is a patch. -d his dad wrote: Linux 2.4.0-test6 i386 I've just put a manual arp entry in for 192.168.56.1. arp -n does not show it. /proc/arp has the following line 192.168.56.10x10xc etc where the ipaddress and the HWtype are jammed against each other. dare i

[patch] net/ipv4/net.c

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
After reviewing the arp.c file, I made a couple of changes. I fixed the ip.ip.ip.ip0xNN breakage and also changed the printing routine. Since the ARP mask is not implemented in the /proc file, I changed the length formatting of it and the following dev-name entry. e.g.: -"

Re: [patch] net/ipv4/net.c (correction: arp.c)

2000-09-22 Thread David Ford
David Ford wrote: After reviewing the arp.c file, I made a couple of changes. I fixed the uhm. I meant arp.c ;) -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." begin:vca

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2

2000-09-19 Thread David Ford
Tom Rini wrote: > >that. I see that 2.4 is getting all kinds of changes merged in > >that should be going on with 2.5. The recent VM changes have left > >us with deadlocks that we didn't have before. Shouldn't that have > >gone into 2.5 not 2.4? > Well, I think the bitterness

[not a bug] apm resume and return to vc/1

2000-09-18 Thread David Ford
'twas user error, apmd does it. mea culpa. -d -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: Format of /proc/meminfo

2000-09-18 Thread David Ford
I'd rather see a new /proc/memoryinfo with a lot of thought given to the current and future structure of it than adding kludges into what already exists. Userland utils need to be more tolerant of "junk" and not rely on static content locations. -d Dan Kegel wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > >

Re: Format of /proc/meminfo

2000-09-18 Thread David Ford
I'd rather see a new /proc/memoryinfo with a lot of thought given to the current and future structure of it than adding kludges into what already exists. Userland utils need to be more tolerant of "junk" and not rely on static content locations. -d Dan Kegel wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: The

[not a bug] apm resume and return to vc/1

2000-09-18 Thread David Ford
'twas user error, apmd does it. mea culpa. -d -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:img

Re: Ethernet Driver for Built in Network Card

2000-09-17 Thread David Ford
Craig Whitmore wrote: > I checked again and its a Intel 815 Board. > Someone told me to use tulip and someone told me to use eepro Is this the CNR based network device? -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -

Re: Ethernet Driver for Built in Network Card

2000-09-17 Thread David Ford
Craig Whitmore wrote: > I checked again and its a Intel 815 Board. > Someone told me to use tulip and someone told me to use eepro Tom's hardware guide shows a 3Com 3c905B-TX for the Intel i815. -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast:

Re: Ethernet Driver for Built in Network Card

2000-09-17 Thread David Ford
Craig Whitmore wrote: I checked again and its a Intel 815 Board. Someone told me to use tulip and someone told me to use eepro Is this the CNR based network device? -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -

Re: PROBLEM: Segmentation fault [SIGSEGV] reading from /proc/tty/driver/serial

2000-09-16 Thread David Ford
There was a round of discussion about /proc.../serial back in May. It covered corruption and bad addresses. Although it didn't specifically say "I'm fixing the segmentation fault that some people are going to report", they did indeed discuss the bad data, smp locking, and etc precisely on

Re: Ethernet Driver for Built in Network Card

2000-09-16 Thread David Ford
Craig Whitmore wrote: > Does anyone know what driver will work with the ethernet card in a New > Intel motherboard /proc/pci says its .. > PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82865 > 0x1227PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL 0x8086 But I can't find any > drivers for this device :-( Its a 820 Motherboard I think.

Re: Yet another report on the dquot oops

2000-09-16 Thread David Ford
J Sloan wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > > Did you apply the quota patch that was posted this week? > > Yes, thanx for the sanity check - > > After the oops, I remembered something about a patch, > and there was indeed one posted by Herr Diehl. > > Will check that

Re: Yet another report on the dquot oops

2000-09-16 Thread David Ford
J Sloan wrote: David Ford wrote: Did you apply the quota patch that was posted this week? Yes, thanx for the sanity check - After the oops, I remembered something about a patch, and there was indeed one posted by Herr Diehl. Will check that out - now I'm curious if there's some

Re: PROBLEM: Segmentation fault [SIGSEGV] reading from /proc/tty/driver/serial

2000-09-16 Thread David Ford
There was a round of discussion about /proc.../serial back in May. It covered corruption and bad addresses. Although it didn't specifically say "I'm fixing the segmentation fault that some people are going to report", they did indeed discuss the bad data, smp locking, and etc precisely on

Re: Ethernet Driver for Built in Network Card

2000-09-16 Thread David Ford
Craig Whitmore wrote: Does anyone know what driver will work with the ethernet card in a New Intel motherboard /proc/pci says its .. PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82865 0x1227PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL 0x8086 But I can't find any drivers for this device :-( Its a 820 Motherboard I think.

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Aaron Tiensivu wrote: > | > ASUS P5A with delayed transactions enabled? > | Oh, you know this critter? I'm assuming disabling delayed transactions fixes the > | speaker solos? > > I used to have a website dedicated to all the quirks that motherboard had. :) > > It's either delayed transactions

Re: Yet another report on the dquot oops

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Did you apply the quota patch that was posted this week? -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Steven Walter wrote: > I posted a few days ago reporting that under normal load on 2.2.17final > would crash under non-strenuous loads. One of the symptoms I reported > was that the system speaker would beep. In fact, the beeps are coming > from the speakers. My soundcard is a CM8738, and so

Re: nfs v3 (fwd)

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
I hate to say it, but NFS on Linux has been the worst thing I've every had to deal with since SLS was the only person on the hill. Every now and then I give it a go and try to read through the v2/v3/v29384 tangle of packages and documentation for building/using. Nobody has a usable set of

Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Martin Josefsson wrote: > > I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this > > new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been > > compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files > > (that was a big

Re: [bug report] pcmcia in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Alessandro Suardi wrote: > Kernel pcmcia code works fine with 2.4.0-test8 and my Xircom RBEM56G100TX, > in fact I am writing from my laptop connected through it. See lsmod output > and relevant part of .config. > > [asuardi@princess asuardi]$ lsmod > Module Size Used by >

[bug report] pcmcia in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Summary: Kernel pcmcia code doesn't work. DHinds pcmcia code works only if kernel pcmcia code is completely disabled. USB Pegasus driver fails when kernel pcmcia code is enabled. Attached is a text writeup of several tests. -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like

[bug report] pcmcia in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Summary: Kernel pcmcia code doesn't work. DHinds pcmcia code works only if kernel pcmcia code is completely disabled. USB Pegasus driver fails when kernel pcmcia code is enabled. Attached is a text writeup of several tests. -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like

Re: [bug report] pcmcia in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Alessandro Suardi wrote: Kernel pcmcia code works fine with 2.4.0-test8 and my Xircom RBEM56G100TX, in fact I am writing from my laptop connected through it. See lsmod output and relevant part of .config. [asuardi@princess asuardi]$ lsmod Module Size Used by serial_cb

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Steven Walter wrote: I posted a few days ago reporting that under normal load on 2.2.17final would crash under non-strenuous loads. One of the symptoms I reported was that the system speaker would beep. In fact, the beeps are coming from the speakers. My soundcard is a CM8738, and so uses

Re: Yet another report on the dquot oops

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Did you apply the quota patch that was posted this week? -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:img

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Aaron Tiensivu wrote: | ASUS P5A with delayed transactions enabled? | Oh, you know this critter? I'm assuming disabling delayed transactions fixes the | speaker solos? I used to have a website dedicated to all the quirks that motherboard had. :) It's either delayed transactions or

Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread David Ford
Jamie Lokier wrote: Martin Josefsson wrote: I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files (that was a big problem

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: >Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:55:55 -0700 >From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Please add 'APM resume returns the machine to the first tty, crashes >X' This appeared w/ test8. If this is intended, I'd be very happy to

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: >Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:37:57 -0700 >From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > 4. Boot Time Failures >> > >> > * Use PCI DMA 'lost interrupt' problem with some hw [whi

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
Mark Kettenis wrote: >From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2000-09-13 6:35:16 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I didn't realize things had changed that broke the old threading model. >> Did Linus do more than add support for the new thread groups? I didn't >>

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
e6, David Ford) Actually this bug applies to all kernels as far back as early 2.3 afair. > * Oops in dquot_transfer (David Ford, Martin Diehl) (Jan Kara has a >potential patch) I believe this would be the referenced patch. Please add 'APM resume returns the machine to the first

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
sue resets to get out of the loop. > > > * PIIXn tuning can hang laptop (2.4.0-test8-pre6, David Ford) > > Need more details of how APM/ACPI is dorking with DMA settins by the OEM. These two are both reported by me, are the same issue. The exact same kernel, one with PIIX

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:28:22 -0700 >From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Well, how about backing out the threads change until somebody is >ready to fix everything involved. I haven't the time, depth of >knowledge, or r

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:28:22 -0700 From: David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, how about backing out the threads change until somebody is ready to fix everything involved. I haven't the time, depth of knowledge, or rep for this. At present the only

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
. * PIIXn tuning can hang laptop (2.4.0-test8-pre6, David Ford) Need more details of how APM/ACPI is dorking with DMA settins by the OEM. These two are both reported by me, are the same issue. The exact same kernel, one with PIIXn tuning enabled, will hang the hardware on boot requiring a physical

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8. Fix Exists But Isnt Merged Please add 'Quota support causes OOPS' Someone posted a patch but I don't have the reference offhand. That patch appears to have fixed one person's problems. 9. To Do * PIIXn tuning can hang laptop (2.4.0-test8-pre6, David Ford

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
Mark Kettenis wrote: From: Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2000-09-13 6:35:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't realize things had changed that broke the old threading model. Did Linus do more than add support for the new thread groups? I didn't think any

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:37:57 -0700 From: David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Boot Time Failures * Use PCI DMA 'lost interrupt' problem with some hw [which ?] (NEC Versa LX with PIIX tuning) If this is a ra

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread David Ford
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:55:55 -0700 From: David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please add 'APM resume returns the machine to the first tty, crashes X' This appeared w/ test8. If this is intended, I'd be very happy to know if so and I

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-12 Thread David Ford
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: >Date:Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:27:30 -0700 >From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I've told Linus several times about this problems but he puts out one >> test release after the other without this fixed. >

[OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread David Ford
C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that. If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then filter it. Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME

[OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread David Ford
C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that. If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then filter it. Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread David Ford
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a succinct description of the the thread group changes > > someplace? I'd be willing to take a look at fixing linuxthreads, > > but haven't seen any description (other than the kernel source) of > > what the changes

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread David Ford
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On the recent test kernels, processes get stuck. A kill -9 results in > > zombies. > > The thread group changes broke the signal handling in linuxthreads. > The CLONE_SIGHAND is now also used

[BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread David Ford
On the recent test kernels, processes get stuck. A kill -9 results in zombies. # cat /tmp/ps.out PID USER STAT WCHAN COMMAND 1 root Sfillon init [5] 2 root SW acpi_i [kapmd] 3 root SW swap_o [kswapd] 4 root SW brw_pa [kflushd] 5 root SW

[BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread David Ford
On the recent test kernels, processes get stuck. A kill -9 results in zombies. # cat /tmp/ps.out PID USER STAT WCHAN COMMAND 1 root Sfillon init [5] 2 root SW acpi_i [kapmd] 3 root SW swap_o [kswapd] 4 root SW brw_pa [kflushd] 5 root SW

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread David Ford
Ulrich Drepper wrote: David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the recent test kernels, processes get stuck. A kill -9 results in zombies. The thread group changes broke the signal handling in linuxthreads. The CLONE_SIGHAND is now also used to enable thread groups but since

[PATCH] 2.4.0-test8; spontaneous reboot with 8139too driver

2000-09-09 Thread David Ford
Thu Sep 7 23:50:14 2000 +++ 8139too.c Sat Sep 9 18:43:31 2000 @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ posted MMIO write bugginess Gerard Sharp - bug fix + + David Ford - ring offset miscalculation Submitting bug reports: @@ -

[BUG] 2.4.0-test8; spontaneous reboot

2000-09-09 Thread David Ford
narrowed it down significantly i think. copying large files via the network (note: 100M FD) makes it explode. the network card this is happening on is the 8139 driver. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.8 loaded eth2: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) board found at 0xdd00, IRQ 5

[BUG] 2.4.0-test8, spontaneous reboot

2000-09-09 Thread David Ford
Somewhere out of blue, this kernel is spontaneously rebooting, no OOPS, no nothing. It's on an AMD K6-III 450 using iptables, advanced routing, devfs, hardly anything running. # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 13.7 0.3 1036 472 ? S

[BUG] 2.4.0-test8, spontaneous reboot

2000-09-09 Thread David Ford
Somewhere out of blue, this kernel is spontaneously rebooting, no OOPS, no nothing. It's on an AMD K6-III 450 using iptables, advanced routing, devfs, hardly anything running. # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 13.7 0.3 1036 472 ? S

[BUG] 2.4.0-test8; spontaneous reboot

2000-09-09 Thread David Ford
narrowed it down significantly i think. copying large files via the network (note: 100M FD) makes it explode. the network card this is happening on is the 8139 driver. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.8 loaded eth2: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) board found at 0xdd00, IRQ 5

[PATCH] 2.4.0-test8; spontaneous reboot with 8139too driver

2000-09-09 Thread David Ford
Thu Sep 7 23:50:14 2000 +++ 8139too.c Sat Sep 9 18:43:31 2000 @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ posted MMIO write bugginess Gerard Sharp - bug fix + + David Ford - ring offset miscalculation Submitting bug reports: @@ -

[bug] USB pegasus driver (perhaps USB core?) no longer functions correctly

2000-09-07 Thread David Ford
Ok, more bothersome irk. =| test8-pre4 was the last kernel the pegasus driver worked in. Since then it refuses to go online. The code in the pegasus.c file hasn't changed, so somebody in the middle broke. All the changes seem to have happened in pre5. Here's what I've gleaned thusfar.

[patch] preferencial naming for the NIC hardware throttling in network options

2000-09-07 Thread David Ford
This applies to any recent kernel. Changes : -Forwarding between high speed interfaces +NIC Hardware throttling for high speed interfaces The original is confusing with the previous option which is "Fast switching (read help!)", one might infer similar. -d -- "The difference between

[bug] PIIXn tuning enabled still hangs laptop

2000-09-07 Thread David Ford
The ongoing saga of the machine that hates tuning being enabled; 2.4.0-test8-pre6 Boot message w/ PIIXn tuning enabled: [...] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39

[bug] PIIXn tuning enabled still hangs laptop

2000-09-07 Thread David Ford
The ongoing saga of the machine that hates tuning being enabled; 2.4.0-test8-pre6 Boot message w/ PIIXn tuning enabled: [...] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39

[patch] preferencial naming for the NIC hardware throttling in network options

2000-09-07 Thread David Ford
This applies to any recent kernel. Changes : -Forwarding between high speed interfaces +NIC Hardware throttling for high speed interfaces The original is confusing with the previous option which is "Fast switching (read help!)", one might infer similar. -d -- "The difference between

[Fwd: help requested posting to linux-kernel]

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
Eric Buddington wrote: > David Ford, > > I seek your help posting to linux-kernel. Would you kindly forward this if > indeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] is still the right address? > > I am attempting to report a Linux bug, as you will see below. I get 'user > unknown' with no expla

Processes still get stuck when killed with -9

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
# pse|grep defunct 7854 [gftp ] exit_notify 7855 [gftp ] exit_notify 31281 [xmms ] exit_notify 31282 [xmms ] exit_notify 31285 [xmms ] exit_notify 31717 [xmms ] exit_notify test8-pre5 -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( > > > + 0 , "lvm", 0, 0, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, > > > > Does this really have to go into /dev rather than a subdirectory? > > Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. > I can't use /dev/lvm,

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
Christoph Hellwig wrote: + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( + 0 , "lvm", 0, 0, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, Does this really have to go into /dev rather than a subdirectory? Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. I can't use /dev/lvm, too because

Processes still get stuck when killed with -9

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
# pse|grep defunct 7854 [gftp defunct] exit_notify 7855 [gftp defunct] exit_notify 31281 [xmms defunct] exit_notify 31282 [xmms defunct] exit_notify 31285 [xmms defunct] exit_notify 31717 [xmms defunct] exit_notify test8-pre5 -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is

[Fwd: help requested posting to linux-kernel]

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
Eric Buddington wrote: David Ford, I seek your help posting to linux-kernel. Would you kindly forward this if indeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] is still the right address? I am attempting to report a Linux bug, as you will see below. I get 'user unknown' with no explanation (not obviously ORBS

Re: BUG?

2000-09-05 Thread David Ford
Angel Luis Uruñuela wrote: > Hello, > > Since upgrading from 2.4.0-test6 to 2.4.0-test7 I have noticed I can't > connect to some webs, www.amazon.com, www.linuxtoday.com... (trying > telnet www.linuxtoday.com 80 returns connection refused). It works with > 2.2.X series, 2.4.0-test6 and

Re: BUG?

2000-09-05 Thread David Ford
Angel Luis Uruñuela wrote: Hello, Since upgrading from 2.4.0-test6 to 2.4.0-test7 I have noticed I can't connect to some webs, www.amazon.com, www.linuxtoday.com... (trying telnet www.linuxtoday.com 80 returns connection refused). It works with 2.2.X series, 2.4.0-test6 and

[bug] test8-preX crashes X on APM resume >>>Re: [Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2000-09-04 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: > > My server is in the tested/good list w/ orbs. Aren't you following your own advice > > about properly setting up your MTA to allow good guys and stop bad guys in accord > > with ORBS DNS? > > I get too much junk to care about it. > > Alan How are we supposed to properly

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