Re: -CURRENT b0rked?

After having the sysinstall/kbdcontrol problem, I cd src/usr.sbin/sysinstall make clean cvsup make world and all worked OK. As of Sat May 12 1430 PDT. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Strangeness with newsyslog/wtmp

I notice that my /var/log/wtmp has strange renewal times. I don't know when it was not like this. newsyslog.conf is set to renew this once per week. What is causing this? # ls -l /var/log/wtmp* -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel0 Apr 29 12:00 /var/log/wtmp -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 27 Apr 27 16:0

etc/* in pending release

I am planning to shift a machine from -current to the pending release. I have tracked -current (SMP) on this machine for > 4 years. But, now, I need to depend on it - it is old, making a net server. What date were the etc/* files frozen for the pending release? I plan to do a new install, just

Re: current hangs...

I have a recent -current that hangs in 'make -j36 world'. I am now running a UP kernel of the same date: # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: \ Mon Jan 15 18:42:30 PST 2001 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS i386 dmesg attached. tomdean dmesg fro

Re: Anybody else seeing a broken /dev/lpt with SMP on -current?

Hi Bruce, I applied the patch to dev/ppbus/lpt.c and sys/i386/isa/intr_machdep.c. Before the patch, I got the lpt failure almost immediately. df | lpr df | lpr df | lpr lpt .cshrc would normally do it. After the patch, it took lots more activity. I did the above a half-dozen times, su

UP Stray irq7's and SMP Fatal Trap 12's

I am running -current UP. I try to run SMP, but, I get Fatal Trap 12's. The easiest way to trigger the trap is to cause a transactiopn to lpd. In the UP kernel, I get a group of stray irq7's every time I print somethting. I started seeing stray irq7's around Sep. 1, 2000. The result of three

Make World Success - Good Going

I just completed a 'make world' from sources at midnight PST. I made a static vi before starting. I had problems trying to make libc. I got lots of complaints about 'tqh_last' not being members of a structure. But, world completed OK. Must have been something on my system or something I did.

Re: Fatal trap while printing under SMP

Here is what I saw on 12/24. This is with DDB and KTRACE. I added options WITNESS options INVARIANT_SUPPORT options INVARIANTS but gained no futher information. Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid=0; lapic.id= fault virtual address = 0x18c7a2bb fault code

Re: Current stalls...(now also panic)

I have a -current stall or hang, also. I do NOT have USB support in my kernel. Running gdb on hello.c, the standard hello, world, will cause the stall or hang. Keyboard input is echoed, but, no action. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

gdb Causes Freeze in -current

I am running -current # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: \ Thu Dec 28 19:20:35 PST 2000 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS i386 from a cvsup today. Using the standard hello, world, # gdb hello (gdb) b main (gdb) r and the system is unreachable. K

Re: Current hangs...

I am seeing a couple of problems with -current. Running gdb on a recent -current, # uname -a FreeBSD dsl081-020-229-sea1.dsl-isp.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT \ #1: Wed Dec 27 16:20:32 PST 2000 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS i386 causes the console to go out into left

SMP Problem? (was: Repeatable Hang -current SMP and lpd)

By not running X, at the console, I was able to see this to be a Fatal Trap 12. I can cause the machine to become non-responsive to the keyboard by doing a 'make -j36 world', which normally takes 8 hours. Now, this hangs the machine between 2 and 7 hours. Breaking into ddb, only shows a normal

Repeatable Hang -current SMP and lpd

I tried to post this before, but, I think it got lost. I have a repeatable hang with -current when attempting to print a region from emacs. This happened after 2 1/2 days uptime. The system is frozen. The mouse does not move the pointer. The keyboard does nothing - pressing Caps Lock does not

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

I have no environment settings that relate to groff and only MANPATH that relates to man. There are no local modifications. etc/make.conf only has CFLAGS= -O -pipe HAVE_MOTIF= yes MOTIF_STATIC= yes USA_RESIDENT= YES WRKDIRPREFIX= /usr/obj/ports NO_MODULES= NO I have always

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

>> /usr/bin/groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -man -Tascii | ... > > should be -mandoc This was generated by 'man', not me. There appears to be a problem in man. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

# ls /usr/share/man/man*/zzz* /usr/share/man/man8/zzz.8.gz # ls /usr/share/man/cat*/zzz* ls: No match. Ok, so, man zzz should reformat the man page. I have attached the output of 'man -d zzz' and 'man zzz' After 'man zzz', I see # ls /usr/share/man/cat*/zzz* /usr/share/man/cat8/zzz.8.gz So, t

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

Is this the problem I see with mal-formatted man pages? The pages appear as 1 block with no headers, tities, etc. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problem With Man Formatting

I dropped off the list for a day, or so, during an ISP change. Did I miss a resolution? # ls -l `which groff` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 62860 Dec 7 00:01 /usr/bin/groff* # groff -v GNU troff version 1.16.1 #ls -l `which man` -r-sr-xr-x 1 man wheel 28576 Dec 7 00:01 /usr/bin/man* # man -

Problem With Man Formatting

Since a 12/6 cvsup and 'make world', I notice a problem with the output of man. The output consists of one block of justified text. The headers, etc., are missing. Have I missed something? tomdean # man man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This version knows about the and

Make World Time Format

Is it possible to go back to the old style of reporting world time in Makefile? I have been collecting make time stats. This is where the last 3 lines of the output are: -- >>> elf make world started on Thu Aug 31 09:47:50 PDT 2000 >>>

Re: Clock Strangeness in UP Kernel

I have a high clock drift rate. The problem is in selecting the timecounter, at least on my machine. Both the TSC and the i8254 timecounters are checked and, since, I believe, TSC is last, TSC is the timecounter the kernel uses. TSC is a horrible timer, at least on my machine. i8254 is not perf

Clock Strangeness in UP Kernel

The clock is strange in -current UP. # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: \ Sun Nov 19 17:53:38 PST 2000 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS i386 dmesg is attached. Some of the garbage at the top of dmesg is from 2 kernels ago, 15 Nov., when I was runni

Re: sio patch to use mutexes

I am seeing lots of silo overflows in -current SMP. #uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: \ Mon Nov 13 19:31:49 PST 2000 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS-SMP i386 I this is not related to the recent patch for conversion to mutex. I tried both ways. I

Good Work Developers

I havn't said this for a while. However, I frequently think it. I just cvsup'd, make world, make and install a new kernel. All without a hitch. Good Work Developers. Thanks, tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: -current hangs during boot

I cannot make mergemaster work. Tried twice earlier in the year and took several hours to recover... Don't know what my problem is. However, I have a script that compares and lists diffs in /etc/rc* and /etc/defaults/* to those in src/etc. Normally, I manually copy those files to /etc. # grep

Re: -current hangs during boot

Did I miss something on the /dev/random hang? During a `shutdown -r now`, the boot process hangs for more than an hour. I thought this was supposed to work. However, jwd's receipe for recovery works. I repeated this three times, although I only waited an hour the last time (dinner!). I am run

Unknown PCI chipsets

I am trying to identify some PCI chips on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4340. Looking at sys/pci/pcisupport.c and dmesg, is it safe to assume these are matches? Looking at the spec of the system, it seems logical. pci0: (vendor=0x11c1, dev=0x0441) at 7.0 irq 3 return ("LUCENT K56Flex DSVD L

DEC EtherWORKS 2 and 3 Not Supported?

I recently received the 4.1 subscription CD. I have an old machine doing only ppp and serving a printer on a home lan. So, why not upgrade to 4.1? Get into this century. Wrong! It appears from GNATS that the DEC EtherWORKS 2 and DEC EtherWORKS 3 NIC's no longer work with no prospect of it hap

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

How would this work with printers on local networks? Say, a print server 192.168.1.73? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Recent -current Performance Drop?

I turned off the malloc AJ flags, via malloc.conf. It improved 'make world' by something like 17% == mean_aj/mean_AJ. Make World Statistics -current SMP, 2xP133, 96MB RAM, IBM Superstor 9G disk. Lines is the number of lines of output produced by 'make world'. Date Lines Make Time Lines/Minut

Didn't mean to slight anyone - good work all who worked on it.

The subject says it all. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Recent -current Performance Drop?

I don't know if this belongs in -current or -smp, so here goes. I am running -current SMP, cvsup, etc. late last night PDT. # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: \ Tue Jul 11 09:53:15 PDT 2000 \ tomdean@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS-SMP i386 I have been us

Current Spontaneous Reboot

I just experienced a sudden reboot. I am running -current SMP. Cvsup, make world, rebuild kernel 2709. # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: \ Sun Jul 9 18:05:19 PDT 2000 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS-SMP i386 The system was v

cvs-crypto unknown

cvsup7.freebsd.org does not know about cvs-crypto. What is the correct collection? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

cvs-crypto unknown

cvsup4.freebsd.org does not know about cvs-crypto. What is the correct collection? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

We have gone to some pains in the past to make the rc.d scripts silent. Either work or fail silently. if [ -x ... ]; do ... done Now, with the addition of the start/stop, there is a message output if the argument is not 'start' or 'stop'. The default should be 'start'. These scripts a

de0: Abnormal Interrupt: Transmit Underflow

I have been seeing unusual error messages in response to network transmissions. The latest was caused by lp ~0.5MB to a remote printer. I am running -current SMP. Dmesg is attached. The error messages are attached. # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jul 1 \ 13

Re: buildworld ok, but kernel fails

I used the attached supfile in 6/30. I have used it for a couple of years. Now, it does not fetch all the 'blowfish collection. Is this a hole in using the individual names? I will switch to cvs-crypto. tomdean === supfile = *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default pre

Re: buildworld ok, but kernel fails

> Yes, you missed the fact that crypto is now required to build the kernel. > Put cvs-crypto in your cvsup file, cvsup, and try again. ^^ Does cvs-crypto replace src-crypto? I know it is in updating, but, before 2625, src-crypto was used. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 10

Sorry for two replies: I did: make world reboot rebuild+install kernel reboot tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 10

Before upgrade: FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: \ Tue Apr 4 11:47:34 PDT 2000 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS-SMP i386 After upgrade: FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: \ Sun May 28 11:07:09 PDT 2000 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sy

Re: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 10

I just completed a 'make world' on a -current cvsup'ed yesterday and saw no errors. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Unknown Devices in Dmesg

I cvsup'ed, make world, rebuild+install kernel, reboot, without problem. Good work. I upgraded from Apr 4 -current to May 28 -current and have devices listed as 'unknown' in dmesg. Everything appears to function OK. The serial ports, sio0 and sio1 appear both as sio and unknown. tomdean ===

Re: FreeBSD build status

The summary may have saved lots of net time. I did not cvsup today because of the summary. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 problems...

If 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader does not work, what is in the /boot directory on da1? Is the FreeBSD root directory on da1s1a? What does 'mount' show? tomdean # ls -l /boot total 1 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Apr 4 11:23 boot0 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Apr 4 11:23 boot1 -r--r--r--

Re: 4.0 problems...

Try 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader :(,) 1 da 1 a/boot/loader tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 problems...

I had this problem a week ago. It was caused by my booting the kernel directly. 0:da(0,a)/kernel Using 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader cures the symptoms. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Upgrade 3.4 -> 5.0 -current Success

I just upgraded a 3.4 system from the Jan. 2000 CD to 5.0 -current. I used the 3.4 CD as an installation vehicle to get -current on a new disk, cleaning the tree in the process. I removed about 100MB that had accumulated over three years tracking -current. I had an existing -current system, and

bounced mail

This may be off subject. I am seeing bounced mail from -current since this evening. The message is: <<< 550 service unavailable; [207.93.148.150] blocked using \ dul.maps.vix.com I tried disconnecting from my ISP and redialing to change the IP. Same results. My ISP, netcom (now mindspring)