Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> The ltrace convinced me that the problem was with the /etc/dhcpd.conf
>> file, although that was not the last file accessed. VMware manages a
>> special DHCP on its own virtual subnet for the virtual machine. They
>> recommend that those already managing DHCP include an entry for the
>> new subnet with no "range" parameter. Linuxconf, however, insists
>> that the range cannot be empty. I had edited the dhcpd.conf file by
>> hand, and when linuxconf tried to use the missing parameter (but *not*
>> when it loaded it), it performed a strdup() to an uninitialized
>> pointer.
>
>It sounds like you had an incomplete range directive, rather than none
>at all. I run DHCP, and have several subnets that have no range
>parameter. Linuxconf doesn't segfault.
>
>You don't really need anything other than the definition for the subnet.
>Try using:
>
>subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {}
Strange. Now Linuxconf doesn't crash when I start it up, but it
definitely does if I try to go to the DHCP menu. Now, *I* know that
you don't need a range, and *you* know that you don't need a range,
but if you try to configure a new subnet with linuxconf, it *insists*
that you need a starting address, and it even crashes if you have a
staring address but no ending address. It's annoying, but it is
listed as a known bug at Bugzilla, so it's not just my imagination...
>[...]
>> Thanks for the tip! I'm going to have to try this with the GNOME
>> CD player, which crashes my entire system big-time with my Ricoh
>> CD-R/W, but that's another post for another day...
>
>The entire system? I don't know if ltrace can help you there.... If
>the _system_ is crashing, there's probably something wrong with the
>hardware, or the kernel driver. Is that IDE or SCSI? ;)
The *entire* system freezes solid when the Gnome CD player tries to
scan a drive with no disk. I've also had cdrecord lock the machine up
when writing to the drive. I mean frozen, too. No mouse, no
keyboard, no three-finger salute, no network, no nothing! The drive
is a Ricoh RW7060S SCSI drive, and the SCSI card is a Mylex BT-950
Flashpoint (without the RAID). The kernel is compiled from the
Rawhide 2.2.14-1.5.0 sources, using the stock RH6.1 libraries.
I was at least hoping to use strace/ltrace to find out what IO call is
causing the freeze. Then I can at least talk to somebody about it. I
filed a bug report with the Gnome group, but no response yet. I
talked to Ricoh, but they "don't support Linux".
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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