Re: make.conf INSTALL knob

2001-04-25 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Eric D. Futch wrote: > I originally sent this to freebsd-stable but didn't get any replies. It > has been reworded. > > I ran across this while playing with the INSTALL knob in make.conf. In > almost all of the Makefiles in src/ there is either -C or -c hard coded as > an

4.3-RELEASE will not boot after install (boot0 ?)

2001-04-25 Thread John W. De Boskey
Hi, I have a Dell Optiplex GXi 200Mhz machine which will not boot after installing 4.3-RELEASE. After rebooting, the normal F1 FreeBSD prompt comes up with a beep. Pressing F1 causes the machine to beep again. I believe the following code sequence is the failure location: /usr/src/sys/boot

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Garrett Wollman writes: : < said: : : > Actually, it is a bug. The drivers in the tree should grok these pnp : > ids. : : Actually, no, it is not a bug. The FreeBSD drivers for these devices : manage their resources differently from the way the Windows drivers :

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Mike Smith
> < said: > > > Actually, it is a bug. The drivers in the tree should grok these pnp > > ids. > > Actually, no, it is not a bug. The FreeBSD drivers for these devices > manage their resources differently from the way the Windows drivers > do, and the result is not unexpected if you look closel

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Actually, it is a bug. The drivers in the tree should grok these pnp > ids. Actually, no, it is not a bug. The FreeBSD drivers for these devices manage their resources differently from the way the Windows drivers do, and the result is not unexpected if you look closely at the dump in

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
Sorry for late reply. bmah> My first reaction is, "is doing doc.1 *that* much of a problem"? When bmah> I was testing, it didn't seem like building this consumed much time or bmah> disk space compared to the rest of the make release process (i.e. bmah> building world and several kernels). A

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Dima Dorfman
"Bruce A. Mah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If memory serves me right, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > > takhus> Perhaps the *.TXT files could be periodically regenerated to their > > takhus> current location to 1) avoid a POLA violation and 2) allow for at > > takhus> least some RELNOTES without

Recent problems with pmap_remove_pages()

2001-04-25 Thread John Baldwin
Curious if anyone else has been having problems with pmap_remove_pages() recently? In the past week or so, I've found that heavy load on my dual p3 600 testbox can usually trigger a page fault (prolly a null pointer deref of some kind) in pmap_remove_pages() called from exit1(). Just now I was

Re: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Wemm
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010424 11:59] wrote: > > It seems to me that these things are not boot-time tunable, and > > should be (really, they should be runtime tunable, but there > > are some nasty pageable region allocations for networking that > > appear to

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Dima Dorfman
Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 10:01 AM -0400 4/25/01, John W. De Boskey wrote: > >I have reduced the runtime of the process so far by a solid > >hour. My change to cp is the lowest level/minimal change fix > >which allows me to maintain a O(1) time constraint. I've played

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Dima Dorfman wrote: > On a slightly related note, do you object, or > have plans to, build the release notes with the web site? It would > solve this problem very nicely. Hi Dima-- No objections, but no plans right now either. Mostly because I don't know enough abo

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Mike Smith
> < said: > > > This is not a bug. This is an FAQ. So much that it's actually > > documented in (*gasp!*) the FAQ: > > Unfortunately, the A in the FAQ is wrong. > > The ``can't assign resources'' messages indicate that the devices are > legacy ISA devices for which a non-PnP-aware driver is c

Re: world broken at vnode.h

2001-04-25 Thread Neal Rigney
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:24:42AM -0500, Michael Harnois wrote: > In file included from ../../dev/bktr/bktr_audio.c:52: > ../../sys/vnode.h:571: conflicting types for `vaccess_acl_posix1e' > ../../sys/vnode.h:568: previous declaration of `vaccess_acl_posix1e' > ../../sys/vnode.h:571: warning: red

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Baldwin writes: : : On 25-Apr-01 Warner Losh wrote: : > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dima Dorfman : > writes: : >: Riccardo Torrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >: > pca1: at port 0x61 on isa0 : >: > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudio") :

Re: Install kernel gets divide overflow

2001-04-25 Thread Gregory Bond
> Weird, I installed the April 19 snap here locally on a testbox without any > problems. Rgr, I'll try Apr 19th and send another note with some debug info if it is still dying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Apr-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dima Dorfman > writes: >: Riccardo Torrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: > pca1: at port 0x61 on isa0 >: > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudio") >: > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudioctl") >: >

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" writes: : : Hey whatever. Let's just keep a rendered TXT version where it always : : (ie. in the src/release... cvs) was but keep the originial as a sgml : : version in the doc tree. : : UP

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" writes: : Hey whatever. Let's just keep a rendered TXT version where it always : (ie. in the src/release... cvs) was but keep the originial as a sgml : version in the doc tree. UPDATING will continue to be a flat file, or I will no longer mai

Re: -current world can't be built on 4-STABLE (broke in lint)

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maxim Sobolev writes: : It seems that recent lint modifications made impossible to build the : -current world on 4-stable system, thus breaking source upgrade path : from -stable to -current. Agreed! I have a few fixes to -current/-stable so that you can build -sta

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
aIn message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "John W. De Boskey" writes: :I must say at this point, I tend to agree with him. Basically, : my review request was skipped over and folks simply went on to : discuss/argue the merits/demerits of various patchs to xargs. The : question of whether xargs is approp

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dima Dorfman writes: : Riccardo Torrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > pca1: at port 0x61 on isa0 : > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudio") : > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudioctl") : : As it says, this is a driver mistake. It

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Leif Neland
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:42:07PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > > > > > > > > Here's my thoughts...for the record, I'm weakly opposed to regen-ing > > > > *.TXT versions: First, I don't want to bloat the repository with oodles > > > > of builds to the *.TXT files. If we do this, it ought to be

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:42:07PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > > As UPDATING may contain information nessecary to run make world, it can't b > e built by make world. > > Chicken and egg, methinks... > > Possibly. But I was not refering to UPDATING.

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:42:07PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > > > > > > Here's my thoughts...for the record, I'm weakly opposed to regen-ing > > > *.TXT versions: First, I don't want to bloat the repository with oodles > > > of builds to the *.TXT files. If we do this, it ought to be be fairly

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Antoine Beaupre (LMC)
Hey whatever. Let's just keep a rendered TXT version where it always (ie. in the src/release... cvs) was but keep the originial as a sgml version in the doc tree. Just like ports/INDEX. Only better. I think it is important to solve the duplication problem we have. It would be very sad to see a r

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Leif Neland
> > > > Here's my thoughts...for the record, I'm weakly opposed to regen-ing > > *.TXT versions: First, I don't want to bloat the repository with oodles > > of builds to the *.TXT files. If we do this, it ought to be be fairly > > infrequently, like maybe once or twice a month. > > Bad idea..

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Brian Somers
> It is inconceivable that the proposed patch to 'xargs' would > increase your running time. I don't mean the standard '-I' > change, which would certainly destroy performance, but the > proposed patch to 'xargs' which solves your specific problem > in a general way. > > I'm still curious as to

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > The "xargs weenies" have also offered an explicit patch that > could be tried, but that patch is being ignored by you. It > is not a matter of talking ourselves to death, it's a matter > that we're looking for feedback from anyone who wants to > respond to the proposed xargs changes. >

make.conf INSTALL knob

2001-04-25 Thread Eric D. Futch
I originally sent this to freebsd-stable but didn't get any replies. It has been reworded. I ran across this while playing with the INSTALL knob in make.conf. In almost all of the Makefiles in src/ there is either -C or -c hard coded as an argument to install. This means that changes you make

Re: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-25 Thread Terry Lambert
> > It seems to me that these things are not boot-time tunable, and > > should be (really, they should be runtime tunable, but there > > $ sysctl -a | grep maxf > kern.maxfiles: 360 > kern.maxfilesperproc: 360 > > `maxfiles' and `maxfilesperproc' have been runtime tunable for more > than 5 years

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> However, a specific hack to cp(1) is what a lot of people don't like. > If FreeBSD contained every little hack every committer had used to > address specific problems, it'd be a mess. I was told that the "hack" everyone is referring to is already implemented in several other operating systems,

problem report: optimization

2001-04-25 Thread Ilya Naumov
Hello, i've discovered that now the world cannot be built without any optimization options (-Oxx) due to a 'dirty' code in some places. one of good examples is usr.sbin/rpc.lockd. without -Oxx options kern.c fails compilation: cc -pipe -march=k6 -I. -I/usr/include/rpcsvc -g-o rpc.lockd kern.

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:01 AM -0400 4/25/01, John W. De Boskey wrote: >Hi David, Brian, > >Thank you for taking the time to reply. I hope you were >able to review the patch also. Every time you have asked for people's opinions, they have said that it seems wrong to made add a specific option to the 'cp' comman

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > This means that I can remove this lines? Sure? > device atkbdc 1 No, I said nothing of the sort. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:58:40AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > [Please keep me as one of the explicit recipients of this email. > > Removing *.TXT files also makes some difficulties when ordinally "make > > buildworld/installworld" users want to know what changes are made > > (they should chan

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Bruce A. Mah
[Please keep me as one of the explicit recipients of this email. Thanks.] If memory serves me right, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > takhus> Perhaps the *.TXT files could be periodically regenerated to their > takhus> current location to 1) avoid a POLA violation and 2) allow for at > takhus> leas

-current world can't be built on 4-STABLE (broke in lint)

2001-04-25 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, It seems that recent lint modifications made impossible to build the -current world on 4-stable system, thus breaking source upgrade path from -stable to -current. Please fix. -Maxim ===> usr.bin/xlint ===> usr.bin/xlint/lint1 cc -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -O -march=k6 -I. -I/usr/s

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Maxim Sobolev
"John W. De Boskey" wrote: > Hi David, Brian, > >Thank you for taking the time to reply. I hope you were > able to review the patch also. > >I am dealing with a production process that currently runs > approximately 10 hours. (on 28 866Mhz processors, 2 Netapps). > This process fell into

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread John W. De Boskey
Hi David, Brian, Thank you for taking the time to reply. I hope you were able to review the patch also. I am dealing with a production process that currently runs approximately 10 hours. (on 28 866Mhz processors, 2 Netapps). This process fell into my lap about 2 months ago. After study

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:01:18 -0400, "John W. De Boskey" wrote: >I am dealing with a production process that currently runs > approximately 10 hours. (on 28 866Mhz processors, 2 Netapps). > This process fell into my lap about 2 months ago. Something to consider is that you're trying to solv

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
takhus> Perhaps the *.TXT files could be periodically regenerated to their takhus> current location to 1) avoid a POLA violation and 2) allow for at takhus> least some RELNOTES without needing DocBook and doc/ (even if they takhus> may be slightly out of date). I second this. It is true that c

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread Brian Somers
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:33:24AM -0700, John W. De Boskey wrote: > >After some feedback, I have changed the patch slightly. Rename > > -d to -t and remove the requirement for the option to have a > > value. > > I thought people generally agreed the right fix was to add functionality > to

Re: nroff -man broken?

2001-04-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:17:22 +0200, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > Even removing cat1/man.1.gz man re-create same empty file. > Also making man formatting by hand show same error: Then Ruslan's comments stand. I built and installed world from the updated sources that Ruslan's suggesting and still

Re: nroff -man broken?

2001-04-25 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 25-Apr-01 (07:18:57/GMT) Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > There was a problem caused by broken `make cleandir' behavior. > Make sure you have src/share/mk/bsd.obj.mk, revision 1.35. # $FreeBSD: src/share/mk/bsd.obj.mk,v 1.35 2001/04/23 14:47:40 ru Exp $ Going to make another world this night :( Ci

Re: nroff -man broken?

2001-04-25 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 25-Apr-01 (07:55:22/GMT) Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Check for catpages in */man/en.ISO_8859-1/cat* as well, > using your own locale-dependent directory, of course. Only have /usr/share/man/en.ISO_8859-1/ but all dirs under this path (cat[1-9n] and cat1aout) are empty :-( # gzip -l cat1/man.1.gz

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 25-Apr-01 (01:31:59/GMT) Garrett Wollman wrote: > The ``can't assign resources'' messages indicate that the > devices are legacy ISA devices for which a non-PnP-aware > driver is compiled into the kernel. These include devices > such as keyboard... This means that I can remove this lines? S

Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary)

2001-04-25 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:33:24AM -0700, John W. De Boskey wrote: >After some feedback, I have changed the patch slightly. Rename > -d to -t and remove the requirement for the option to have a > value. I thought people generally agreed the right fix was to add functionality to `xargs', not `

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-25 Thread Tony Fleisher
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > [...] > > There are two disadvantages to going this route. I think they're > fairly minor: > > 1. Generating a set of release notes requires the DocBook toolchain > to be built, as well as the doc/ subtree. Note that RELNOTESng > will have a

Re: nroff -man broken?

2001-04-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:25:47 +0200, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > This happens over last week. World of this night (after > cvsup with also make kernel and mergemaster, for 4 times). > I have also tryed to remove all */man/cat*/*gz compiled > manuals with but luck :( Any hints? Thanks. Check fo