BENEFIT OFFER

2002-11-18 Thread mbacha
FROM: HAJIA MARIAM ABACHA Following the sudden death of my husband, Late General Sanni Abacha, the former head of state of the federal republic of Nigeria in June 1998, I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the present civilian administration. Secu

Re: argp crashes because of CTYPE_B threadvar being 0

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:19:49PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > But only since end of august. Maybe I have an older Hurd installed. > > That seems likely given the failure mode. Verified. Tomorrow Jeff wants to make new glibc packages, and then we can upload them together. So the only ch

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:55:29PM -0500, David Walter wrote: > X loses keyboard on trivial operation > > ls -l /dev/kbd > > The kbd translator formerly believed it needed to start a new thread > for every open call. It also _closed_ the device after every > corresponding close_hook cal

Re: argp crashes because of CTYPE_B threadvar being 0

2002-11-18 Thread Roland McGrath
> But only since end of august. Maybe I have an older Hurd installed. That seems likely given the failure mode. > It would have been nice to know about such incompatibilities :) Sorry. I figured you would have been noticing the hurd commits anyway and ask if you didn't grok what it was for.

Re: Hurd server manual (first chunk)

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Hart
Marcus, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hi, I started to document the Hurd server interfaces in the style of a reference manual. The Hurd server interfaces are currently only documented in the .defs files, which is a bit short on detail. I wanted a place where I could put all the lengthy explanations

Re: argp crashes because of CTYPE_B threadvar being 0

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:33:56PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > That sounds like the new thread failed to call uselocale as it needs to. > The call is in cthread_body. But only since end of august. Maybe I have an older Hurd installed. It would have been nice to know about such incompatibiliti

Hurd server manual (first chunk)

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I started to document the Hurd server interfaces in the style of a reference manual. The Hurd server interfaces are currently only documented in the .defs files, which is a bit short on detail. I wanted a place where I could put all the lengthy explanations and rationale and protocols, and s

Re: argp crashes because of CTYPE_B threadvar being 0

2002-11-18 Thread Roland McGrath
That sounds like the new thread failed to call uselocale as it needs to. The call is in cthread_body. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

assertion failed in rpctrace

2002-11-18 Thread Gaƫl Le Mignot
Hello, While debugging a home-made program with rpctrace, I've found a bug in rpctrace: an assertion failed: rpctrace: ../../utils/rpctrace.c:699: trace_and_forward: Assertion `info' failed. I've looked inside rpctrace code, and it's in the mangling of the message header befo

argp crashes because of CTYPE_B threadvar being 0

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, the glibc 2.3 has another problem, which is exhibited by fsysopts on a server. The problem shows up because argp uses isprint, and the new implementation of that uses ctype_b, which is a thread local variable. However, this variable is only set for the main thread, all other thread have this

Re: libc failure

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:26:56AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > this is a bit more debugging info on the glibc 2.3 release (I will try the > latest version soon, I just want to send this as long as I am still able to > reproduce it). I don't really know how to make sense of this. I spotted >

[Patch #642] simple nfs cleanups

2002-11-18 Thread nobody
Patch #642 has been updated. Project: Category: None Status: Open Summary: simple nfs cleanups Follow-Ups: Date: 2002-Nov-18 14:17 By: marcus Comment: It would be nice if you could get rid of the assert instead just moving it. Also, I would like to see a rationale (if not as a comment, then

Bug#107493: marked as done (Kill)

2002-11-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#63646: marked as done (hurd: can't build without optimization)

2002-11-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:47:19 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line fixed has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the

[Bug #1741] term doesn't accept more than 300 bytes at once

2002-11-18 Thread nobody
=== BUG #1741: LATEST MODIFICATIONS == http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1741&group_id=30 Changes by: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2002-Nov-18 13:36 (Europe/Berlin) What | Removed | Added --

[Bug #1741] termd oesn't accept more than 300 bytes at once

2002-11-18 Thread nobody
=== BUG #1741: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT === http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1741&group_id=30 Submitted by: marcusProject: The GNU Hurd Submitted on: 2002-Nov-18 13:36 Category: None Severit

Re: libc failure

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:26:56AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > When leaving gdb at that point, the sh process (which forked), still runs. > And after I few seconds I get a kernel panic. This seems to be another bug. > (See below for a kernel backtrace, which looks ok to me). > I will set a b

Re: libc failure

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:21:01AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Misunderstanding by me. It seems that only exceptions for the signal thread > are handled by proc. So it doesn't seem that the proc server is involved at > all, and I only have to look at the signal thread. Uhm. How can I debug

Re: gnumach + oskit + pcmcia boot failure:

2002-11-18 Thread Laudney Ren
Hi, all: I've moved my hurd partition to a primary partition instead of the logical partition. I compiled gnumach and oskit without Wagi's pcmcia patch and everything succeeded! I boot successfully. I haven't applied Richard Kreuter's patch. I hope it can solve the the logical partition bootup prob

Re: libc failure

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > It's indeed the case that a bombardement of exceptions are generated, and > eventually the kernel gets short on reply ports or so. The exception > management in glibc and the proc server looks peculiar. Roland, do you have > an i

Re: libc failure

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:26:56AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > this is a bit more debugging info on the glibc 2.3 release (I will try the > latest version soon, I just want to send this as long as I am still able to > reproduce it). I don't really know how to make sense of this. I s

libc failure

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, this is a bit more debugging info on the glibc 2.3 release (I will try the latest version soon, I just want to send this as long as I am still able to reproduce it). I don't really know how to make sense of this. I spotted that main_arena's next pointer is zero, while the code assumes that t

console client

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I just checked in the console client's port to the oskit-based GNU Mach. You need Roland's oskit patch to get the @>=kbd device in oskit. I probably broke the support for the GNU Mach v1 kbd device, I didn't test it. But if it doesn't work it should be just a minor conversion error or somet