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From: mebrenna@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Brennan)
Subject: SLS Installed, But Wont Boot
Organization: Office of Training & User Support, Oakland University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:40:45 GMT

Hello,

I have installed the newest SLS disks (A, B, C) onto my system.  I put
it (Linux) on /dev/hdb and it seems to have installed correctly.  It 
wrote the boot disk and all!  But now when I try to boot it, it 
initalizes all the way to the floppy drive line (it is recognized) 
then it just hangs there and doesn't get to recognizing the HDs.  
The A1 disk recognized them, obviously.

What needs to be done next.  I have done the installation twice now,
redoing the FDISK and mkfs each time.  I have even tried to change the
Bootimage with norton's diskedit to change offset 508 as listed in the
documentation. 

386sx 20Mhz, 6.5mg RAM
2 X 42 Meg HD IDE (C is DOS, D is Linux/Minix)
3.5" A Drive
VGA ATI Wonder (Old)

Anyone, please help.

Thanks
michael
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From: neil@alamo.mth.pdx.edu (John Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is ``lint'' available for Linux?
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:57:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: dehn.neil.724435058

joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:

>I didn't find lint on tsx-11, nor on prep.ai.mit.edu.  Where might I
>find it?

>Thanks.

>-Joel
>(joel@wam.umd.edu)

lint is built in to the gcc package.  To use it compile your source with the
-Wall option.  There is no separate lint program in gcc.  This has been a
source of confusion on just about every platform that gcc runs on.

--John Neil


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From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Serial communications problems
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:12:48 GMT

   From: rich@falcon.engr.utk.edu (Steve Rich)
   Date: 12 Dec 92 21:59:13 GMT

   I have a simple (and probably stupid) question: How do you designate that
   the com port has interrupts disabled? My com3 isn't attached to an
   interrupt. (I know where to designate the interrupt number in serial.c,
   but I don't know how to tell it not to use one at all.)
   Thanks.

Because of Linux serial driver works, a serial port must have an IRQ
associated with it, or it won't work.  In DOS, you can get away with not
having an interrupt (at least for some applications) because you're
working in a signle-threaded environment.  This allows you to monopolize
the CPU while you wait for characters to come into the serial port.  In
multi-processing system such as Linux (and any Unix-like system), you
can't afford to tie up the CPU waiting for the serial port.  Instead,
the process which is waiting for serial input allows some other process
to run, and when the serial port is ready, it sends an interrupt to the
CPU.

It would be possible to write a serial driver that did not use
interrupts --- by hooking something to the timer interrupt and having it
check 100 times a second to see if there's anything on the serial port;
but it would ruin your system performance, and it wouldn't really work
unless you had a 16550A UART, or if you aren't doing anything faster
than 600 bps.  (And even if you had a 16550A, you wouldn't be able to do
anything faster than 9600.)

Because of these limitations, I haven't attempted to include such
functionality in the Linux serial driver; it is theoretically possible,
however. 

						- Ted


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From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: .98.5 and .98.6: Infinite loop trying to init SMC Elite16
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:19:08 GMT

In article <ADAMS.92Dec9171255@PDV2.pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de> adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) writes:
>>>I'd regard the code around we_rcv 
>>>	{ struct wd_ring * ring;...; if (ring->status & 1)...}
>>>as at least "a little bit dangerous". 

>>   In this case the packet buffer shared memory was written before this
>>   routine (a packet-received interrupt handler) was called, so there is no
>>   possibility of the value changing in memory while you keep a copy in a
>>   register.
>
>..But you have to force the C compiler to reevaluate 
>	(ring->status &1) on each invocation,
>indenpendent of any code around this expression. 
>
>There is a chance the code just succeeds by luck, not by design.

But 'ring' is reassigned to a unknown (to the compiler) value each
time it goes through the loop -- the compiler is not allowed to assume
that 'ring->volatile' evaluates to the same value, it wouldn't even if
this were not "shared memory.  In this case, a shared memory
8390-based ethernet card, the packet buffer you are interested in has
already been written and will not change until you move the 'boundary'
register forward -- which should only happen when you are finished
with that packet.  In other words, 'ring->status' isn't polled to see
if the packet has been written which is the only case where 'volatile'
would be called for.

Donald Becker				       becker@super.org
Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482


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From: Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Power Management For Notebooks With WD7600
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:36:08 -0800

Replying to a message by Larry Augustin of 1:343/94@fidonet, Dec 15
05:23, to All:

 LA> Anyone worked/working on power management for notebooks?

I'm presently working on a driver for the Western Digital WD7600 chip
set.  It will allow you to use the serial ports you think are 16450's,
as 16550A's, allow you to power up and down the various components, and
provide automatic speed-switching and context saves.   Hopefully it will
do just about everything you could possibly want.

I know the CompuAdd Express 425cxl uses this chipset, and would
appreciate anyone else whose machine uses it (look at the BIOS setup
screens) letting me know, so I can compile a list.

Also, volunteers for pre-alpha testing would be appreciated.


Rob L.

 * Origin: Via the Annex in Victoria, Texas (1:3802/217.13)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: More 0.99 boot problems (even after fixes)
Keywords: 0.99, boot, hang, fixes
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:56:59 GMT

In article <2c.t03Kac4Y200@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> garyf@uts.amdahl.com (Gary Faulkner) writes:
>Hello all
>
>I have been trying to get 0.99 to boot on my 486 tonight, with no
>luck.  It's dying in a very strange (to me) place...
>
>The system comes up and appears to sense all of the devices, until
>it gets to the call to move_to_user_mode() in init/main.c.  When
>this call is made, the system just hangs.  I can't even
>ctl-alt-del reboot.  I have to reset the machine.
>
>I'm not very 80x86 assembler literate, so I'm not sure what
>move_to_user_mode() is trying to do.  Is it 'supposed' to return to
>main?  If so, it is not.  I put a printk() before and after it, and
>the one before prints, but nothing thereafter.

You cannot use a "printk()" after calling move_to_user_mode: you no
longer have priviledges, so the swapper has to open a file like
everybody else (and it cannot do this: the swapper may not sleep, so you
can open files only after forking (in init)). 

The above means that it's essentially impossible to debug the thing
until it has forked(), but I doubt the problem is in move_to_user_mode()
anyway: that part of the kernel hasn't changed at all in the last few
releases. 

Make sure that you have applied the inode.c patch (search for
"IMPORTANT" in the subject line on col or cola), as without that patch
you can get errors in various places at bootup.  Also make sure that the
math-emulation code is compiled into the kernel if you don't have a
coprocessor, as otherwise init will die, and you'll be looking at a very
dead machine. 

		Linus
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From: c60c-2gf@web-2d.berkeley.edu ()
Subject: Help with talkd
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:46:05 GMT


Thanks for the help in getting finger working (the solution seems
simpleminded, but I didn't realize finger had to be in /usr/local/bin, so
I made the sym-link.)

Anyways, now I can't get talk to work, and I really don't think I had
it working before even though I inadvertently said I did.  I ftp'd the
current binaries of talk, including ytalk, talkd, and ntalkd.

My problem seems to be the same in ytalk and talk.  The daemon can't
recognize the machine of the other user, even if the user is on the
same machine (since I am not really networked, this is all I want to
do.)  My nameserver is working fine (e.g. it works with finger, telnet,
and ftp).

Do I need to add talkd and ntalkd to the rc.net file?  I don't think
so.  I added the correct lines to both the inetd.conf and services
files.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is the last
problem I would like to iron out...

-David Simpson
From: rad@think.com (Bob Doolittle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: emacs debug-on-error - does it work?
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:47:54
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: wingit.think.com


I need to debug my .emacs startup.  The following seems to have no effect
under Linux Emacs (SLS 0.98pl5 release):

(setq debug-on-error t)

This works fine for me with GNU Emacs 18.58.2 under SunOS.  Anybody know
why this might be a problem with Linux's Emacs?

Thanks!
	Bob

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From: to-pse@xfswob.han.de (Tobias Erichsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with lp0
Keywords: LONG printing time
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:47:36 GMT
Organization: net concept - system development

Hi there,

I've got a problem using SLS and the new pl6 kernel.
I wanted to print a pre-calculated file from ms-windows
(which was printed using the 'print to file' option).
I did: cp FILE /dev/lp0.

It worked, but it actually took an hour to complete.
Every minute or so it printed one line.  The same happened
with another file. 

I think there's a problem with an IRQ or something like
this - is that right, and what can i do?

thanks a lot

bye tobias

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: serial port question for 0.99
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:56:32 GMT

I have this serial port problem - I had one serial port in the machine, and
when I strapped it for COM2 (/dev/ttys1), rebooted, then accessed /dev/ttys0,
the system locked up.  Is this normal?  Shouldn't the driver have returned
ENODEV?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.announce
From: sanjuan!pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: SLS update: .99 kernel
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: SLS kernel 0.99
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:00:53 GMT

I was so impressed with the .99 kernel, that I have already upgraded
SLS to it.  Just get SLS/a2 and "sysinstall -install /user/image.taz" it. 
It may take Ted a bit to get the .99 source and change the symlink.
Be patient (don't you get tired of hearing that: give it ALL to me
right NOW!).

I am not upgrading the boot disk as yet, but let me know if the old
one causes problems (SCSI?).   The kernel has grown another 30K or so
so until/if loadable devices show up, I may have to be a little conservative
on the boot disk upgrades.  Maybe I could try rebuilding the kernel
without FP-EMU.  Do bash/tar/compress et al need FP?  

Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca

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From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Subject: Re: Zip for distributions?
X-Aka: Upholder
Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:37:12 GMT

mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:

>Convince me that reducing the amount of cruft I need to download and
>transfer on *floppy disks* to bring a machine up isn't worthwhile.  Or
>at least try.

the FTP site maintainers have said time and again that they will *NOT*
use zip or lha or zoo or arj.   They have said that they will deal only
with tar.Z files.

Do as you wish if you want to setup a distribution, perhaps they'll even
carry the distribution in zip format, but for general packages they have
aleady decided the matter... to the point of unzipping/arjing/zooing/etc
and tar.Z themselves if need be.

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From: simmon@eeel.nist.gov (Eric Simmon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP! v0.99 installation
Summary: kernel panics on boot
Keywords: help 0.99
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:14:41 GMT

I have just downloaded the new kernel, and it won't boot :-(

It compiled fine after I made linus' patches, but won't boot
properly. After I get a partition table OK, I get this:


	MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
	MSDOS bread failed
	Kernel panic: unable to mount root


Anybody have any ideas???

Thanks,

Eric Simmon

simmon@eeel.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: additional features for linux
Keywords: virtual serial consoles, tcpip bootrom, streams, isdn-driver
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:35:31 GMT

to-pse@xfswob.han.de (Tobias Erichsen) writes:

>1) Virtual consoles for the serial ports

>    It would be very nice if someone could use more than one console
>    on a remote terminal.  I don't know if that is possible to imple-
>    ment.

You could do one of four things..

1) Get TERM.. It does multi/io on a serial link really really well!
2) get SCREEN.. Also does multi console type of stuff well..
3) write a Line Switcher in the modem server like some terminal
   servers do..
4) Get the user (If there under MAC/DOS) to use UW(PC) which does
   multi consoles from a unix box to a MAC or a PC..

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From: fasciano@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Massimo Fasciano)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: mounting a filesystem from a regular file
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:29:15 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal -- Laboratoire Incognito

Hi,

are there any patches for 0.99 that would allow mounting a filesystem
from a file instead of a device? i would like to use ext-fs for a
small number of directories, but i don't feel like repartitioning...
since swapping can be done from files, it would seem logical that
mouting a fs should also be possible. of course, it would probably be
very slow compared to a real partition, but i only need it for
manpages and stuff that isn't time-critical.

Thanks in advance
Massimo-

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tglovie@sail.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Help! .99 crashes on boot
Summary: Unable to handle kernel paging request
Originator: tglovie@sail.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:44:30 GMT

Hello,
I have just compiled version .99 taken off sunsite and it compiled
fine, but when loading (off a floppy, made with make disk, everything
is fine...finds my three partitions, partition table ok and then...
Unable to handle kernel paging request at address c8c1ff06
Ooops: 0000
EIP 0008:0000B6C0
EFLAGS: 00010206
fs: 0017
base: c0000000, limit = 000A0000
pid:1 process nr=1
0b 13 85 d2 74 27 B3 3a 02 74


and then it just hangs there...
I'm using a 486/50 4MB RAM, IDE disk (120 Meg) and booting from 1.44 floppy

Any ideas what's going on???
Thanks for any help,
Jerry
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lucy@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (_xY)
Subject: xview3L2 Problem
Keywords: xview3L2, tty, top
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:49:11 GMT

Hi

I installed the xview3 (shahred lib) version and all went fine exept for
one problem. If i run top in an xterm or cmdtool top gets disconnected from the
tty (?) and the xterm gets *insane*. I have to type stty sane <ctrl g> . 
My question is: are there any Problems with controlsequences in xterms (olwn
setting) in this version ???  

thanx  in advance
			h.b.
PS running SLS 0.98.x (1,5,6) & (net) 0.99  
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From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: A question about TCP/IP [repost]
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:50:36 GMT

administrator (bjjung@love) wrote:
>I use Xfree86 and TCP/IP. That almost work well.
>but sometimes when I run some remote X program (ex maze) from SUN3,
>X hangs with message as follows.

>WD8013 transmit timed out
>love vmunix: *** tcp.c:tcp_data bug acked < copied

>Hardware 
[deleted].
It is often more important to know what kernel you are running... since there
are so many different patchlevels around, your particular bug may be fixed.
In the current version of tcp [as of a few hours ago... 0.98 pl6 pl10 (10 tcp
patches on top of 98pl6 kernel)] I can still hang my machine with the right
tcp incantation...

If you can fault the current (or an almost current) tcp version then send your
bug to the author: bir7@leland.stanford.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Newbie questions -- C++, PS printer 
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:50:45 GMT

Ammo Goettsch (ammo@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
>2) I compiled tons of C code and some C++ code from work, by using g++. 
>   Everything works fine except C++ program which use cout for standard output
>   cannot find "cout" or operator<<(various types)" and so they don't link.
>   Do I need to link a special library for this? I thought this stuff should be
>   in libc.a? 

It should be in libg++.a, but it is not (in the g++ distribution that comes with
SLS 0.98pl5). The includes are all there, but none of the iostream stuff is.
libg++ must have been built wrongly...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Shared library problem
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:32:22 GMT

<DMTSI@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:

>Hi.
>  I tried to compile xmix that comes with the sound driver. If I use the
>static libraries in /usr/X386/lib, I get a 500K executable from ~20K source.
>If I use the libs in /usr/X386/lib/jump I can't run the reluting file. It
>reports that it "can't load library '.." where  .. corresponds to some
>non-ascii character. I have the libraries from xfree1.1.

You need (well, you don't need to, but it's better) to make symlinks from
/usr/lib/shlib/jump   to all those X libs in /usr/X386/lib/jump

Then gcc uses the X shared libs as default and all your X compiles are nice
and small like everything else...


Enjoy !

Cos !
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From: berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SPLIT #$%&%$ THIS GROUP NOW!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 06:17:40 PST
Organization: Private for Now

drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:

> Net news has more than just comp.os.linux*.  There are a number of other 
> hierchies, such as comp.windows.x, comp.unix, etc that are better suited 
> to many linux questions.  
> 
> If people would use these, and then post to comp.os.linux only after 
> reading the various FAQ's, info sheets, and TFM, maybe we wouldn't 
> have any traffic problems.
> 
>  

Great wisdom, now... how to implement? (Hopefully, 0.99 and + won't break 
things so specifically Linux much any more)  Since Linux is rocketing 
faster than anything else towards the center of the universe (POSIX)  :), 
_most_ of the questions _should_ be dealt with more meaningfully (read 
with wider application) in those groups that you mentioned.  Maybe Real 
Soon Now (TM J. Pournelle) Linux will shed its teething distress, and 
have a higher percentage of problems be normal, industry standard, 
problems.

I think that you've hit the nail on the head, and the time is soon.

Berk Walker                           berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: emlee@panix.com (Edward M. Lee)
Subject: PSDATABASE blues
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:42:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


My thanx to the people that responded concerning how to CREATE (not
update) my /etc/psdatabase file.  Unfortunately, I do not HAVE
/usr/src/linux/tools/system.  Furthermore, it seems that I have also
blown away /usr/include/linux/*.  Where can I get these files?  Don't
say look in GCC, because I reinstalled gcc and I still couldn't find
them.

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From: batavia@aludra.usc.edu (Parag Batavia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X fonts problem...Help. Please?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 23:09:45 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


Hi...I managed to get Linux .98pl5 up and running last night, along w/ 
GCC and a few other utilities. WHat I can't get running is X8514. I've got an
ATI Ultra - I believe I've set up my Xconfig file properly. However, when I 
run startx, it blanks the screen, and comes back to the text screen with
"unable to set default font directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, ..."
and it's unable to find the fixed font. (As am I ). The paths exist, but 
xstart can't set the path to it...Any ideas? Thanks much....

Parag Batavia
USC Robotics Lab...

parag@mensa.usc.edu
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