Re: [kernel] man-pages-3.68 is released

2014-06-03 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Helo Michael , Thank you !-) JimL On Thu, 29 May 2014, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces his 150th release as project maintainer: man-pages-3.68 - man pages for Linux Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pag

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1 , syntax error near unexpected token `;'

2008-02-11 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Sam , On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:47:43PM -0900, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello All , grabbed using git just moments ago . make V=1 KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 INSTALL_PATH=/boot clean all install modules_install ...snip... make -f

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1 , syntax error near unexpected token `;'

2008-02-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , grabbed using git just moments ago . make V=1 KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 INSTALL_PATH=/boot clean all install modules_install ...snip... make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=sound/usb/usx2y make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=usr rm -rf .tmp_versions rm -f arch/x86/boot/fdimage arch/

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `;'

2008-02-09 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , In a recent pull of linus's tree (*) today @ 2008-02-10 02:49 UTC , Using a previously well behaving .config I now get ... Tia , JimL make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=sound/usb/usx2y make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=usr rm -rf .tmp_versions rm -f arch/x8

Re: Linux Network Load Balancing is out!

2007-09-18 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Primiano , On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Primiano Tucci wrote: Hi all! I've just released my first beta of Linux Network Load Balancing it's a driver (+ userland tool) to make decentered load balancing clusters. I hope someone is interested in the project and could do some testing in d

Re: Hangs and reboots under high loads, oops with DEBUG_SHIRQ

2007-08-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Atilla , On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Attila Nagy wrote: On 2007.08.01. 0:08, Roger Heflin wrote: Attila Nagy wrote: HARDWARE ERROR HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! Please contact your hardware vendor CPU 1 BANK 0 TSC 1167e915e93ce MCG status:RIPV MCIP MCi status: Uncorre

Re: raid5:md3: read error corrected , followed by , Machine Check Exception: .

2007-07-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alan (& Justin) , On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Alan Cox wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:08:27 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All , I was under the impression that a 'machine check' would be caused by some ne

raid5:md3: read error corrected , followed by , Machine Check Exception: .

2007-07-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , I was under the impression that a 'machine check' would be caused by some near to the CPU hardware failure , Not a bad disk ? I was also under the impression that software raid s/b a little more resilient than this . But then maybe one or the other of the subsystems walked all ov

Re: Machine Check Exception: 0...04

2007-06-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , As a continuation . On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello All , Does anoyone know howto identify a cause for these(*) ? Or of any tools to help in the identification of the cause ? So far the Machine checks only happen when I am running

Machine Check Exception: 0...04

2007-06-16 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , Does anoyone know howto identify a cause for these(*) ? Or of any tools to help in the identification of the cause ? So far the Machine checks only happen when I am running bonnie++ against my software raid6 array . I have done everything I kno

CPU 3: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004

2007-04-22 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , Has anyone else had an occurance of this hard lockup . last time it was the scsi bus that was the last item on the console this time it's CPU #3 ... Everytime I try & run a bonnie on this system something locks the system up hard . I do not trust this system at this tim

RE: MPT Fusion LSI22320 , Domain validation loops .

2007-03-20 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Eric , Fyi , linux-2.6.21-rc4 + mpt-fusion(*) patches from Andrew Morton's patch tree . Still gives me the ever looping reset . But I have just found sometrhing of interest one of the Powersuplies in the cabiinet 'May be' failing . I have to test that to be satisfied that is the case

MPT Fusion LSI22320 , Domain validation loops .

2007-03-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , I am have been having this problem since I purchased the controller and after changing out the disks I thought were the problem . I am still getting the continous : mptscsih: ioc1: attempting task abort! (sc=f7a64500) scsi 3:0:4:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 60 0

Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?

2001-05-15 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Tim , On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > > # /etc/printcap > > > # Please don't edit this file directly un

Re: Linux support for Microsoft dynamic disks?

2001-05-13 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , I see one very big gotcha here . M$ doesn't want you to have a linux partition on the drive they fdo this by not recognising your ext2/ext3/JFS/... partition . The next real difficulty is going to be for those that already have a linux system s

Re: anybody home at device@lanana.org?

2001-05-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Peter , Would also please drop a line as to what is going on to the rest of the community as well . Tia , JimL On 23 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Kipp Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I'

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

2001-04-22 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alan , To whom is this attributed ? Tia , JimL On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > o Hopefully fix bugtraq reported netfilter ftp > flaw ++ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques |

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Eric , On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Eric S. Raymond writes: > > This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux > > kernel sources. The goal of the system is to make it easy for > > people reading any given piece of code to identify the respon

Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?

2001-04-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Tim , On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > > [...] > > > /c#eodiecnyotai rhernili s to rpaemn > > > s

Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?

2001-04-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > # /etc/printcap > > # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing! > > # Be warned that the control-panel printtool req

Is printing broke on sparc ?

2001-04-16 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , On Linux-Sparc I can send data to the /dev/par0 & /dev/lp0 but the data appears to be garbled . Sending the below printcap to either of the above ports ... # /etc/printcap # # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing! # Be warne

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Wichert , On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Artur Frysiak wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:43:29AM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAI

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Wichert , On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root & > > having gained root is now a

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Ion , On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Why do it from user space? Simply add a printk() to sys_init_module() or > > similar. > Agreed, but at that point the solution has absolutely nothing to do with > insmod anymore. :-) >

Re: WG: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Frank , Highly recommend the sym53c* . JimL On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Butter, Frank wrote: > 2.2.16 claimes to find a ncr53c1510D-chipset, supported by > the driver ncr53c8xx. Which kernel-param would be the correct one for this? > Frank > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > V

RE: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown.

2001-02-28 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Per , Yah I can understand high volume lists ;-) But combined with the dropping of a copy of the iso-image you create , A Howto ??? Please . Tia , JimL On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Per Erik Stendahl wrote: > Oops, I almost missed this one. High-volume mailinglists... :-

Re: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown.

2001-02-28 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
read-only and the umount of the live-fs can not complete , so the CD drive never receives an unlock . Sound about right ? Twyl , JimL On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, James A. Sutherland wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > > > > Hello Per ,

Re: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown.

2001-02-28 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Per , Has anyone gotten back to you on this subject ? I as well am very interested in any information about releiving this difficulty . Tia , JimL On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Per Erik Stendahl wrote: > Hi! > I'm putting together a maintenance/rescue CD. It's bootable wi

Re: Can't compilete 2.4.2 kernel

2001-02-28 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello David , do a 'ln -s linux-2.4 linux' in directory /usr/src . Hth , JimL On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, David Anderson wrote: > Please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your replies - I'm not on the mailing list. > > Slackware 7.1 > cd /usr/src > tar -xvyf linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2 > mv linux linu

Re: re. too long mac address for --mac-source netfilter option

2001-02-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stefan Hanse writes - > >Umm.. An ethernet MAC address is 48bit long, ie AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF, 6 >groups, not 14. Is this really an ethernet > >interface? (If it really has 14 groups). > >> Good question. I have determined by scanni

Re: too long mac address for --mac-source netfilter option

2001-02-16 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Jack & All , Might this be an atm interface ? If it is not then am I to assume that an atm interface with its erroneous mac-address is going to have the same difficulties . That is of course as soon as the atm interface actually put a valid ESI/mac-

Re: kernel 2.4.0/1/1-ac15 and ncr53c810a

2001-02-16 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Wolfgang & J.A. , On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 02.17 Wolfgang Teichmann wrote: > > Hello, > > I have problems using my scanner (HP C6270A connected to ncr53c810a) > > with xsane. > > I always get the error message: > > error during read: Error during device I/O

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Rik , As an aside to the below conversation . Is there a URL/doc/... that gives basic tuning examples for various types workloads ? Tia , JimL On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: ...snip... > > It's still reluctant to shrink cache. I'm hitting I/O saturati

Re: DNS goofups galore...

2001-02-08 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Matti , On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: ...snip... > Answer to the self-education question above: > > The NAME fields in usual BIND systems get appended the current $ORIGIN > string value when the data in the field does not end with a dot: > > Wrong: IN MX 10 11

Re: increasing the 512 process limit at run-time?

2001-02-07 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Matt , At what uptime does one hit this limit ? uptime 4:40am up 444 days, 12:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 uname -a Linux filesrv2 2.2.6 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 20:33:30 PDT 1999 i686 unknown Not that that is anything spectacular , just looking for roug

Linux2.4.1-pre1, Kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy

2001-02-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , I like the warning Ladies & Gents . But when did it first appear ? I seem to have missed the announcement in the change logs . Tia , JimL make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-pre1/arch/i386/boot/compressed' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -f

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Matthias , When I run your script under a -very- old release of slackare (See after .sig) I get the below . my ldd is ancient . root@filesrv1:~# ~/bin/bugreport.sh asdfasdfasdf /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/u

Re: Console logging

2001-01-06 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mike , On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Mike wrote: > > Hi! > > I am getting getting "/var/log/messages" on my console. It doesn't save > > it in /var/log. > > I have checked entries in /etc/syslog.conf file. Its correct. > > Can someone help me. >

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Paul & Phil , Ouch !, is this media that loose on the substrate that it leaves that much behind ? Or is it something else ? I'd really like to know what the problem is , as I am seriously looking at putting DDS-III & IV 's into my backup schemes

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
.0smp. > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Paul , Could you add a little more info like which scsi > > chipset you are using & what the driver version is & what kernel > > version you are running also (One more )& h

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Paul , Could you add a little more info like which scsi chipset you are using & what the driver version is & what kernel version you are running also (One more )& how you have the drive chained to the scsi-bus . Someplace there is a pointer on howto

Re: gigabit ethernet small-packet performance

2000-11-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Robert , Quote: You probably want to buy the 66-mHz version instead, model PWLA8490SX, often called the "Pro/1000 F Server Adapter". If memory serves me , this adapter has an on board processor with no way to disable it nor to use it (at present) under

Re: That Dirty Son of a Bitch, Bill Gates!!!

2000-11-02 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Andre , A ;-) is at least due on that one . actually quite funny in many places . Thanks for the fun . JimL On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > http://mslinux.org > Andre Hedrick +-

Any use of the network layer lock system . BIG . Sorry .

2000-10-18 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , on a compaq proliant 6000, 4 ppro 200Mhz 512k cpu's, 4.3Gb seagate system drive attached to onboard 53c875 ctrlr, Smart Array 2/P, 392Mb, 4 18.Gb seagate st118273 raid 5, Digital DE500(tulip), 3.5 Floppy, ide cdrom . since I have upgraded from

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mark , I can confirm the (Very) recent start of some duplicates showing up . 4 for one message , 2 for another . Hth , JimL On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Post, Mark K wrote: > I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I'm getting multiple copies > of > a lot

Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux2.2.18pre13

2000-09-30 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alexander , On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I personally dislike the 'autmatically detect kgcc and gcc272' patches a lot, > > and I think we should put a sentence like > > If you are using a distribution that ships with

Re: [PATCH] Re: SCSI scanning

2000-09-18 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And think about it - if this part didn't work, then loadable SCSI modules > > would never have worked. And every single distribution I know of basically > > depends on SCSI drivers being loadable modules

lspci doesn't know what a DAC960-PL is .

2000-09-18 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Martin , What information do you need to add this device to the lspci database (or whatever it is) ? Tia , JimL #lspci -v 00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation: Unknown device 0002 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32,

Re: undefined reference to `scsi_register_module'

2000-09-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , this time it is test9-pre2 . JimL drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In function `init_sd': drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.text+0x7326): undefined reference to `scsi_register_module' drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In function `exit_sd': drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.text+0x733e): undefined reference to `

Re: undefined reference to `scsi_register_module'

2000-09-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , Sorry this is test9-pre1 . JimL On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > > > drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In function `init_sd': > > drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.text+0x732

undefined reference to `scsi_register_module'

2000-09-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In function `init_sd': drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.text+0x7326): undefined reference to `scsi_register_module' drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In function `exit_sd': drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.text+0x733e): undefined reference to `scsi_unregister_module' drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In functi

Re: File time stamps all foobar . touch & friends .

2000-09-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , OK I'm blind & admit it . date is in the future . Doh ! . Sorry about the noise . JimL On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello All, The below files were downloaded from ftp.iphase.com > with a time stamp there of

File time stamps all foobar . touch & friends .

2000-09-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, The below files were downloaded from ftp.iphase.com with a time stamp there of ~ 29142233 . Except 00README.txt which has a TS of 29142258 . After doing a gunzip *.pdf.Z on the flipper* files . 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 jiml users1540

Re: 2.4.0 SCSI doesn't compile without modules

2000-09-13 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Torben , > > Has anyone caught this one yet . I assume it is just the same > > patch added (manually) to sr.c/h as well ? Tia , JimL > > drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In func

Re: 2.4.0 SCSI doesn't compile without modules

2000-09-13 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Torben , Has anyone caught this one yet . I assume it is just the same patch added (manually) to sr.c/h as well ? Tia , JimL drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o: In function `init_sr': drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.text+0x1cfce): undefined reference to `scsi_register_module' driver

Any truth to '"format string" Vulnerabilities ? Inside for URL:

2000-09-09 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, I hope somebody else is just honking their own horn here . But I'd rather check it out with the Kernel Gents first . http://news.cnet.com/0-1003-202-2719802.html Tia, JimL +--

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alexander, On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Pine problem ? Has anybody reported which version of pine ? > > The only version of pine I am aware of with a overrun problem > > was V4

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alexander , On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same > > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk > > activity? > Hell knows. Let me put it

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre1

2000-09-01 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alan (& Others) , How about describing what it breaks ? I know that invoking the God Linus's name can just get people to back down . So I ask for myself as well as others ... what , where , when , why , who .Hth , JimL On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wro

Re: [Announce] TUX alpha source code release

2000-09-01 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Ingo , OK wise guy . Where is the description of what it does ? I'd really like to know . Tia, JimL ++ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network