Re: help: can't boot 5.0 diskless

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Santcroos
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0500, Mike Makonnen wrote: > Do you have device.hints in /boot of your diskless tree? I think you have to statically link your hints into the kernel. Mark -- Mark SantcroosRIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/

re:VmWare

2003-01-23 Thread Kirill Pisman
im had no troubles with 5-RELEASE under VmWare 3.2.1 ... host is Windows XP proffecional , with tualatin processor but on AtlonXP it dont works at all . and also im find , that sysinstall runs much better from real boot cdrom , othervise there is some problems with bootloader ...

Re: pw

2003-01-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:25 AM +0600 1/24/03, Max Khon wrote: hi, there! Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw? The patch is attached. Other variant is to enable using '$' only at end of user name. I'd prefer to go with "only at the end of a user name", and I did have a patch which does that. Now I just hav

Re: make release fails building floppies ...

2003-01-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
got it ... figured out how the mfsfd/modules is generated, and just trim'd down the driver.conf file to the "bare essentials" ... On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > [ Subjecte: make release fails building floppie

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Makonnen
Just a "me too". I have a procmail filter that uses spamassissin to filter all my incomming mail (downloaded with fetchmail). I have noticed that if I get a lot of messages at once, interactive response degrades tremendously with a lot of perl processes stuck in either swread or pfault state. The

Re: Options MAXMEM added to GENERIC kernel config causes kernel panic in -current

2003-01-23 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:40:16PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > > /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x2fab4 data=-0x1a84+0x6e0 > syms=[0x4+0x5540+0x702d|] snip > embedded 0 6 A 0x60 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 > panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory > Debugger("panic") > Sto

Re: make release fails building floppies ...

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: make release fails building floppies ... ] > > I'm slowly getting closer, but "am not quite there" yet :( > > I'm at the stage where its building teh floppies, but its telling me that > the md devices are out of

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: > > If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters > > as "entropy" sources, does the problem fix itself? > > If you're thinking it's /dev/random blocking on him, 5.0's output never > blocks. Its output is a PRNG periodically seeded from random data, > includ

make release fails building floppies ...

2003-01-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm slowly getting closer, but "am not quite there" yet :( I'm at the stage where its building teh floppies, but its telling me that the md devices are out of disk space: if [ -d /R/stage/driversfd ]; then sh -e /usr/local/5.0/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh /R/stage/floppies/drivers.flp /R/stage

Re: pw

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Makonnen
Attached is Terry's patch modified to include $ in group names as well. I have tested it. Both adduser(8) and rmuser(8) work as expected. Please give -audit a chance to object and then commit it. Also, please close PR: bin/46890 when you do. We should have had this a long time ago. If -audit does

November-December 2002 FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Status report

2003-01-23 Thread Scott Long
<<< text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed: Unrecognized >>> November-December 2002 Status Report Introduction: At long last, FreeBSD 5.0 is here. Along with putting the final polish on the tree, FreeBSD developers somehow found the time to work on

Re: Options MAXMEM added to GENERIC kernel config causes kernel panic in -current

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Vincent Poy said: > Greetings everyone, > > With the latest -CURRENTs ever since atleast September 12, 2002 > that I have tested on several different machines ranging from > PII/PIII/PIV Desktop and Notebooks, whenever the following option is > added to the GENERIC

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Terry Lambert said: > Atte Peltomaki wrote: > > Description: > > > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this

Options MAXMEM added to GENERIC kernel config causes kernel panicin -current

2003-01-23 Thread Vincent Poy
Greetings everyone, With the latest -CURRENTs ever since atleast September 12, 2002 that I have tested on several different machines ranging from PII/PIII/PIV Desktop and Notebooks, whenever the following option is added to the GENERIC kernel config, the kernel will panic on booting up. I

5.0 kernel can't print to console ???(was can't boot 5.0 diskless)

2003-01-23 Thread Dong Lin
Hi, I am having trouble booting 5.0 diskless. My setup works for booting 4.x perfectly. If I replace the the 5.0 image with a 4.7 diskless image, it works fine. The 5.0 kernel crashes without printing a single char to the console. But my NFS traces shows that the last file loaded via NFS before t

Re: pw

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Max Khon wrote: > most messages were related to adduser.pl. adduser.pl has gone > and adduser.sh now uses pw directly > > as for login class and group names -- there is nothing wrong with '$' > in them but if anyone would be uncomfortable with it why not commit > the patch that someone (Terry?) su

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Ben Hockenhull
At 12:04 PM -0800 1/23/03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:44:49PM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: >> >> >> >> Exactly what I needed to know. I discovered that it's actually >>0x090cd041 >> >> for my Vaio R505EC. I've added that to pcm.c and recompiled and it's now >> >> found an

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Atte Peltomaki wrote: > Description: > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling > software and copying files over NFS while l

cbb: unsupported card type detected

2003-01-23 Thread Søren Vrist
Does subj mean that my cardbus brigde isn't supported ? (even though the relnotes for 5.0 says that all cardbus brigdes is supported) Cause it allways comes with that mesg, even thought theres no card in. I tried booting an oldcard kernel, still no use for my 16bit Netgear MA401 card, which was

Re: acpi problem ???

2003-01-23 Thread Bryan Liesner
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Bryan Liesner wrote: > > I just upgraded my 4.7 system to 5.0-current via sources. Everything > > went smoothly, and I was up and running quickly, but with an acpi related > > problem. > > > > When booting, the kernel loads, detects t

Re: calcru: negative time ... messages in 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Bill Moran
Nate Lawson wrote: See thread just above your post, titled "Re: Time keeping problems with 5.0-RELEASE" Thanks for the reply, Nate. I've searched the -CURRENT mailing list archives for a number of combinations of the title you describe and haven't found anything. Any suggestions? -- Bill Moran

5.0-RELEASE failing on Thinkpad T30

2003-01-23 Thread stark
Well, I have a brand new IBM Thinkpad and it shipped with XP so I decided to put FreeBSD on it. 4.7 (after I gave up on 5.0) installs and works FINE. no problems whatsoever. 5.0, when I install it, does a kernel panic, randomly about 5 minutes into the processing of packages. I don't know what

Re: acpi problem ???

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Bryan Liesner wrote: > I just upgraded my 4.7 system to 5.0-current via sources. Everything > went smoothly, and I was up and running quickly, but with an acpi related > problem. > > When booting, the kernel loads, detects the devices, then hangs right > here: > > Mounting r

Re: help: can't boot 5.0 diskless

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Makonnen
Do you have device.hints in /boot of your diskless tree? -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fingerprint: D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 msg50827/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

acpi problem ???

2003-01-23 Thread Bryan Liesner
I just upgraded my 4.7 system to 5.0-current via sources. Everything went smoothly, and I was up and running quickly, but with an acpi related problem. When booting, the kernel loads, detects the devices, then hangs right here: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a pid 84 (fsck_ufs), uid 0: exited

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > Here's the URL once more: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/newfs-libufs.diff Two minor issues: one use of "if Nflag" is left near the beginning of the diff and would prefer the check in bwrite() be "if !Nflag" instead of returning early. -

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:24:20AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Hmmm That PnP id is a generic id (has the PNP prefix). A Sony > >specific PnP id is 0xd94d... Your Id is one for an ACPI embedded > >controller and I don't think it has to be a mouse. I suspect there's > >a _CID value

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Someone recently added an 'SMP' file to sys/i386/conf, which just > includes GENERIC, changes the 'ident' and then turns on the SMP > and APIC_IO options. Perhaps we should add a VMWARE one, with an > eye towards building a "vmware-appropriate" kerne

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > I just went to do this, and found that pwrite is failing, saying EBADF. > Could this be because of the failed ioctl? I'm not sure why this is > happening. Any tho

Re: /dev/dsp disappears while being used

2003-01-23 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:10:05PM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote: > > Folks. I heard on IRC others are seeing this as well: > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Thu Jan 9 22:49:45 CET 2003 on i386, > but it used to happen since at least December, maybe even November (I'm > always using more or

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > * De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Ma

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:56 AM -0800 1/23/03, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Now I'm trying to look at 5.0-RELEASE (I've downloaded ISO > of first i386 CD). > > It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But > speed is VERY low. I even

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > * De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > > [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) us

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread takawata
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:50:36AM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: >> > >> >Use acpidump(8) and grep(1) for MOUE. The definition of _HID is >> >the PnP id that you need to add. It probably is 0x0190d94d in >> >your case. You can add the PnP id,

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > Thanks to Ruslan's reminder that tunefs now uses libufs and tunefs is > >

Re: /dev/dsp disappears while being used

2003-01-23 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Kenneth Culver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This may be related to the vchans stuff in in the pcm driver. Good point. I don't know when I activated the vchans stuff, but I think it was approx. the time the error occured for the first time. Let's see if the error occurs again. Alex To Uns

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > * De: Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > [ Subjecte: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > > [rambling, and a patch] > > I

Re: -current error in kernel build with NO_GEOM

2003-01-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gary Jennejohn > w > rites: > > >Am I the only person using NO_GEOM in -current? > > Probably. > > NO_GEOM is scheduled to be removed as an option in some weeks, so if > there is a bug or other issue which prevents you from running GE

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > [rambling, and a patch] I thought every bit of code that would possibly write out was protected by Nflag, it isn't. I'll re-instate the wtfs function as a wrapper to

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs. ] > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > Thanks to Ruslan's reminder that tunefs now uses libufs and tunefs is > > one of the crunched programs, I realised that

Re: Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > Thanks to Ruslan's reminder that tunefs now uses libufs and tunefs is > one of the crunched programs, I realised that I really needed to make > newfs(8) use libufs. To show off that it *can* help us reduce space, > a good bit in some cases. Good to see t

Re: /dev/dsp disappears while being used

2003-01-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
This may be related to the vchans stuff in in the pcm driver. Ken On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Alexander Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] > [ Subjecte: /dev/dsp disappears while being used ] > > When I then symbolically link /dev/dsp to one of the dspX.X

Re: /dev/dsp disappears while being used

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Alexander Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-23 ] [ Subjecte: /dev/dsp disappears while being used ] > When I then symbolically link /dev/dsp to one of the dspX.X devices, > XMMS can play sound for some more time, but then these are disappearing > as well. > > Is this a devfs

/dev/dsp disappears while being used

2003-01-23 Thread Alexander Langer
Folks. I heard on IRC others are seeing this as well: I'm using FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Thu Jan 9 22:49:45 CET 2003 on i386, but it used to happen since at least December, maybe even November (I'm always using more or less recent -CURRENT's). I didn't happen before, so I can be rather sure it's

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
the vmware people don't list 5.0 as a supported os... theres probably a reason for this. Ken On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, current! How are you? > > When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have > ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. I

Test this! Patch to make newfs(8) use libufs.

2003-01-23 Thread Juli Mallett
Thanks to Ruslan's reminder that tunefs now uses libufs and tunefs is one of the crunched programs, I realised that I really needed to make newfs(8) use libufs. To show off that it *can* help us reduce space, a good bit in some cases. Well, after an afternoon of work, here's the diff. Some of it

Re: -current error in kernel build with NO_GEOM

2003-01-23 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gary Jennejohn w rites: >Am I the only person using NO_GEOM in -current? Probably. NO_GEOM is scheduled to be removed as an option in some weeks, so if there is a bug or other issue which prevents you from running GEOM this would be a really good time to tell me.

Re: pw

2003-01-23 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:54:18PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw? > > The patch is attached. > > The same patch was submitted here by David Chapman: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1059329+1062195+/usr/local/www/db/text/20

Re: calcru: negative time ... messages in 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
See thread just above your post, titled "Re: Time keeping problems with 5.0-RELEASE" -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Re[2]: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Brooks! > Thursday, January 23, 2003, 10:56:28 PM, you wrote: > > BD> From sys/i386/conf/NOTES: > BD> # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32 > BD> # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causi

calcru: negative time ... messages in 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Bill Moran
I posted this to -STABLE on Monday, since then I've come to understand that -STABLE doesn't really include 5.0 (even though it's been released). That, combined with the fact that I received no answer, has propted me to post this to -CURRENT. Following is my original post: We're trying out 5.0-RE

Re: pw

2003-01-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:25:38AM +0600, Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > > Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw? > The patch is attached. The same patch was submitted here by David Chapman: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1059329+1062195+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-curre

Re: Time keeping problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Patrick Hartling
That fixed it. Thanks a bunch. :) -Patrick John Baldwin wrote: On 23-Jan-2003 Patrick Hartling wrote: I just updated a 4.7-STABLE system (last rebuilt using sources from Jan 7, 2003) to 5.0-RELEASE, and now the system clock is going nuts. I had the same problem when I updated from 3-STABLE

Re: Error Mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: during sysinstall of5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Nate Lawson
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > Nate suggests: > > >>Does setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 help? > > How would you do this in the clean installation scenario. Is there a > way to pass this setting to the kernel during the boot process, or > modify the running environment by some other m

-current error in kernel build with NO_GEOM

2003-01-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Am I the only person using NO_GEOM in -current? Here the relevant error output from ``make buildkernel'' (cvsup 5 minutes ago): cc -c -pipe -O -march=athlon-xp -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extens

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:37:55 -0600 (CST) Charlie ROOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CR> CR> CR> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Wolfskill wrote: CR> CR> > See /usr/ports/x11/wrapper. CR> CR> I have wrapper installed If you have updated your X server since installing wrapper the link will be p

pw

2003-01-23 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw? The patch is attached. Other variant is to enable using '$' only at end of user name. /fjoe Index: pw_user.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c,v retrieving rev

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:37:55PM -0600, Charlie ROOT wrote: > > See /usr/ports/x11/wrapper. > > I have wrapper installed > > lorax# pkg_info | grep wrapper > fampp-1.1 A C++ wrapper for fam from SGI > gtkmm-1.2.8_1 C++ wrapper for gtk, a x11 graphics library > javav

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:04:32PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hmm... I need installer with special kernel... Is it possible without > building full release? I don't know of a way to do it without building a release, though I think you might be able to get by with only a buildworld and build

Re[2]: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Brooks! Thursday, January 23, 2003, 10:56:28 PM, you wrote: BD> From sys/i386/conf/NOTES: BD> # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32 BD> # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causing BD> # the guest OS to run very slowly. Enabling thi

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:44:49PM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > >> > >> Exactly what I needed to know. I discovered that it's actually 0x090cd041 > >> for my Vaio R505EC. I've added that to pcm.c and recompiled and it's now > >> found and works normally. > > > >Hmmm That PnP id is a generic

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But speed is > VERY low. I even could not do installation! Unpacking of > distributive have been started at normal speed, but after 2 or 3 > minutes speed decreased to

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread John David Duncan
> H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. R is on > by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. Setting > malloc.conf to "aj" makes it work like it does in 4.*. Here are some benchmarks to illustrate that, using ubench (from /usr/ports/benchmarks) on a du

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, current! How are you? > > When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have > ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works > pretty well and I was totally satisfied. > > My host is: 2x

5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, current! How are you? When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works pretty well and I was totally satisfied. My host is: 2xP!!!-770Mhz, 512Mb of memory, Hardware RAID with 2x40Gb IBM IDE HDDs (and one

Re: buildworld failure, rtld-elf, RELENG_5_0

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:15:24AM -0800, Evan Dower wrote: > An update: > CVSup'ing didn't fix the problem, but when I deleted the rtld.c and mv'd > /etc/make.conf /etc/make.conf.hide, it stopped at > /usr/src/contrib/amd/amd/srvr_nfs.c. So, I deleted that file, CVSup'd, and > built again, and

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Ben Hockenhull
At 10:50 AM -0800 1/23/03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:50:36AM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: >> > >> >Use acpidump(8) and grep(1) for MOUE. The definition of _HID is >> >the PnP id that you need to add. It probably is 0x0190d94d in >> >your case. You can add the PnP id, or ch

Re: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:14:46PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. > > Yes. > > > R is on > > by de

Re: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. > > Yes. > > > R is on > > by default in 5.0

RE: Time keeping problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Jan-2003 Patrick Hartling wrote: > I just updated a 4.7-STABLE system (last rebuilt using sources from > Jan 7, 2003) to 5.0-RELEASE, and now the system clock is going nuts. > I had the same problem when I updated from 3-STABLE to 4-STABLE quite > a while back. To solve the problem then, I

malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Dan Nelson wrote: > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. > R is on > by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. That's not what the malloc(3

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathan Belson
Charlie ROOT wrote: removed in 5.0? Second, oly root can startx. When I try as a regular user, I get the message: 'Fatal server error connot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log' what's going on here? Try deinstalling then reinstalling 'wrapper'. I've found you have to do this when upgrading X

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said: > Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave > > things like this in: > > > > options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity > > options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #Ext

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:50:36AM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > > > >Use acpidump(8) and grep(1) for MOUE. The definition of _HID is > >the PnP id that you need to add. It probably is 0x0190d94d in > >your case. You can add the PnP id, or checkout -rHEAD, because > >it's fixed already. > > Exact

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Not if you are trying to log to that file from an X server started under a regular user. You could put the user you want into the wheel group and then add permissions for write at the group level. Or just a+w. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: "Charlie ROOT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Charlie ROOT
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Adam Maas wrote: > Your permissions for /var/log are wrong. they are: lorax# ls -l XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23375 Jan 23 12:20 XFree86.0.log shouldn't that be correct? > > --Adam > > - Original Message - > From: "Charlie ROOT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
No, probably not. The original user to start X was probably root and then the file was created. If another user then tries to start X (assuming they are allowed), then they may not be able to append to that log file because it will have permissions and ownership set for root. Also, startx does n

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Charlie ROOT
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Wolfskill wrote: > See /usr/ports/x11/wrapper. I have wrapper installed lorax# pkg_info | grep wrapper fampp-1.1 A C++ wrapper for fam from SGI gtkmm-1.2.8_1 C++ wrapper for gtk, a x11 graphics library javavmwrapper-1.4 Wrapper script for various Ja

Re: only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Adam Maas
Your permissions for /var/log are wrong. --Adam - Original Message - From: "Charlie ROOT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: only root can startx > I am working the kinks out of an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-R. So far I see a > pro

only root can startx

2003-01-23 Thread Charlie ROOT
I am working the kinks out of an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-R. So far I see a problem starting X. first off xinit does not seem to work. Was that removed in 5.0? Second, oly root can startx. When I try as a regular user, I get the message: 'Fatal server error connot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.lo

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not > > whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it > > would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. > > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not > whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it > would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave things like this in: opti

Re: stand/sysinstall changes?

2003-01-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Elden Fenison wrote: According to the handbook's instructions, back on 4.7 I used to always do the following as part of my installworld: cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall make all install This apparently updates the sysinstall stuff. With 5.0, I don't seem to have that directory any more. What happ

Re: stand/sysinstall changes?

2003-01-23 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:04:30AM -0800, Elden Fenison wrote: > According to the handbook's instructions, back on 4.7 I used to always > do the following as part of my installworld: > > cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall > make all install > > This apparently updates the sysinstall stuf

Re: buildworld failure, rtld-elf, RELENG_5_0

2003-01-23 Thread Evan Dower
An update: CVSup'ing didn't fix the problem, but when I deleted the rtld.c and mv'd /etc/make.conf /etc/make.conf.hide, it stopped at /usr/src/contrib/amd/amd/srvr_nfs.c. So, I deleted that file, CVSup'd, and built again, and everything built fine. Very strange... cvsweb doesn't show any recent

Re: I want a sysctl kern.allow_shooting_into_my_foot!

2003-01-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Joerg Wunsch wrote: "Daniel C. Sobral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can turn this debugging off from userland with: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0 Why not make it a loader tunable? Why should it? It's a debugging flag, so it's IMHO sufficient that it can be set from DDB (that's what i d

make release of FreeBSD-CURRENT on FreeBSD-STABLE

2003-01-23 Thread Andrey Elperin
Hi! I trying to "make release" of CURRENT on 4.7-RELEASE-p3 box. To do that I use 4.7 source tree in /usr/src and /usr/src/release/Makefile from CURRENT branch. In a first half of January all worked fine, but approx. after January, 15, every "make release" fail with similiar messages in log

Time keeping problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Patrick Hartling
I just updated a 4.7-STABLE system (last rebuilt using sources from Jan 7, 2003) to 5.0-RELEASE, and now the system clock is going nuts. I had the same problem when I updated from 3-STABLE to 4-STABLE quite a while back. To solve the problem then, I added the following to my kernel configuration f

Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Atte Peltomaki
I've used 5.0-RELEASE for few days now, and I've been experiencing some serious performance problems. I haven't had the time to examine it more closely, and frankly, I have no clue where to start looking for. Perhaps someone knows what this is all about. Description: Every time machine is under h

help: can't boot 5.0 diskless

2003-01-23 Thread Dong Lin
Hi, I have been running etherboot/diskless machines successfully with several 4.x releases. Now I have trouble bringing up 5.0 diskless x86 machines. The same dhcp/nfs/etherboot setup works for 4.x. But the 5.0 kernel freezes and eventually crashes without printing anything on the console. I am pr

stand/sysinstall changes?

2003-01-23 Thread Elden Fenison
According to the handbook's instructions, back on 4.7 I used to always do the following as part of my installworld: cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall make all install This apparently updates the sysinstall stuff. With 5.0, I don't seem to have that directory any more. What happened to it?... is it o

Re: Another of my mailservers is being blocked by freebsd.org

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Knell
Hunter Peress wrote: Hi, I've been having to use this yahoo account because my normal email server *seems* to be blocked by freebsd.org: This has been going on for days now: The original message was received at Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:52:39 -0500 (EST) from cs2417534-45.austin.rr.com [24.175.34.45

Re: Another of my mailservers is being blocked by freebsd.org

2003-01-23 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Hunter Peress wrote: > Hi, I've been having to use this yahoo account because my normal email server > *seems* to be blocked by freebsd.org: > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (reason: 450 : Helo command rejecte

Another of my mailservers is being blocked by freebsd.org

2003-01-23 Thread Hunter Peress
Hi, I've been having to use this yahoo account because my normal email server *seems* to be blocked by freebsd.org: This has been going on for days now: > > The original message was received at Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:52:39 -0500 (EST) > from cs2417534-45.austin.rr.com [24.175.34.45] > >-

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Ben Hockenhull
>On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:12:12PM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: >> I recently installed 5.0-RELEASE on a Sony Vaio R505EC laptop and it's >> working pretty well, save for the fact that i can run X because my touchpad >> isn't found upon boot probe. >> >> It used to be /dev/psm0 under 4.x-STABLE.

Re: aout support not working on todays -current

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:25:16PM -0800, joseph wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Go into your kernel of choice and > build it with the following: > > options COMPAT_AOUT > > now to enable AOUT binaries from the kernel loader. > Make and Install and reboot the about new kerenl > and aout will now work for

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Ben Hockenhull
At 10:13 PM -0700 1/22/03, M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: >Ben Hockenhull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: I recently installed 5.0-RELEASE on a Sony Vaio R505EC laptop and it's >: working pretty well, save for the fact that i can run X because m

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:13:51PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: > Ben Hockenhull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : I recently installed 5.0-RELEASE on a Sony Vaio R505EC laptop and it's > : working pretty well, save for the fact that i

Re: psm0 not found on a Sony Vaio w/ 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:12:12PM -0600, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > I recently installed 5.0-RELEASE on a Sony Vaio R505EC laptop and it's > working pretty well, save for the fact that i can run X because my touchpad > isn't found upon boot probe. > > It used to be /dev/psm0 under 4.x-STABLE. I und

[PATCH]: newfs(8) FS_OPTSPACE vs FS_OPTTIME bug

2003-01-23 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Hello, newfs(8) incorrectly claims that FS_OPTTIME is unavailable when minfree is less than MINFREE. MINFREE is defined in ufs/ffs/fs.h: #define MINFREE 8 But relevant code in ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c uses hardcoded value: 288 if (fs->fs_minfree <= 5 || 289 fs->fs_cstotal.cs_nffree > 2

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