UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[Jakub Jelinek]

Hi!

Following things have changes in UP1.1 beta:

update to kernel 2.1.99 (should fix a couple of bugs with Ultra5 machines,
plus one ugly bug which sometimes killed applications during fork - now
there are no known bugs, just to make assure you)

update to glibc-2.0.7pre3 plus sparc patches (please, if you can, test
whether this update does not break anything, I haven't seen any problem, but
the more people, the more proper testing).

ld.so: ld-linux.so.1 and libc5 apps now should work on both sparc32 and
	sparc64, not only on sparc64

mouseconfig: I hope the lockup during serial installation is gone, but
	things about probing Xserver need still to be solved (for now, don't
	install Xservers when doing serial console installs - hope to fix
	this tomorrow)

joe: fix a bug in joe, which caused improper screen size detection

procps: update to 1.2.7, fixed a bug in procps which caused it not to work 
	with shared libs

other minor updates:
	lpr, hdparm, strace, texinfo, ypbind

The colors in SBUS Xservers are not yet fixed (well, I have a patch which
fixes it, but am waiting for a fix for Mach64/16+32bpp colormap handling to
make a shiny new XFree86-3.3.2 RPMS).
Then, modutils need to be fixed wrt. kerneld, and then I'd like if people
can remind me on broken packages, so that we can have a release in a week or
so.
And if the sparcaudio people help us, we can have full sound support in the
distribution as well ;) Then just T-shirt time and CD burning time...

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.99 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
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Re: UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[Thierry Lafage]

Hi,

I recently installed UP-1.0.9 on an UltraSPARC I. It seems to work
well, thanks to the ultralinux team !

But, I just tried to first update the kernel with srpm to version
2.1.99, and I got the following compilation error:

make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers/char'
[...]
gcc -o conmakehash conmakehash.c
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[3]: *** [conmakehash] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers/char'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers'
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
Bad exit status


Any idea about what I must have missed ?

Thierry Lafage.

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Re: UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed UP-1.0.9 on an UltraSPARC I. It seems to work
> well, thanks to the ultralinux team !
> 
> But, I just tried to first update the kernel with srpm to version
> 2.1.99, and I got the following compilation error:
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers/char'
> [...]
> gcc -o conmakehash conmakehash.c
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> make[3]: *** [conmakehash] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers/char'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers/char'
> make[1]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux-2.1.99/drivers'
> make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
> Bad exit status
> 
> 
> Any idea about what I must have missed ?

Ok. How old is your installation? This is exactly the kernel bug I was
talking about in the last announce. In fact, this is even the command the
bug has been found on. So, you should update the kernel from RPMS to 2.1.99
and then you can freely recompile it.
Or, alternatively, do a make in /var/tmp/kernel/usr/src/linux/
(that will compile you the kernel - the difference is in the amount of
variables in environment that moves stack down during RPM builds and
triggers the kernel bug).

Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.99 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
___________________________________________________________________

Re: UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[Thomas A. Szybist]

Hi, I just installed this, really great!  I just have two questions:

1.	X seems a bit slow, very appearent on opaque moves.
	Not a big deal, just wondering if this is expected.

2.	autofs doesn't seem to work.  I get this when starting it:

	sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(40049363) arg(00024134)

	and this when cd'ing to an autofs'd directory:

	sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(20009361) arg(00000000)

I have an Ultra 30.

Thanks very much,

Tom Szybist
szybist@boxhill.com

Re: UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[David S. Miller]

   Date: 	Tue, 05 May 1998 17:12:30 -0400
   From: "Thomas A. Szybist" <szybist@boxhill.com>

   Hi, I just installed this, really great!  I just have two questions:

   1.	X seems a bit slow, very appearent on opaque moves.
	   Not a big deal, just wondering if this is expected.

They seem to not have put very much video memory in the Mach64 boards
found in the UltraPCI machines, so the X server can't cache very many
or very large glyphs.  I bet this is what you're seeing.

We plan on making some vast improvements to the Mach64 X server on
Ultra some time soon, it has a few deficiencies... but at least it
works ;-)

   2.	autofs doesn't seem to work.  I get this when starting it:

	   sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(40049363) arg(00024134)

	   and this when cd'ing to an autofs'd directory:

	   sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(20009361) arg(00000000)

Thanks for the report, I'll fix this, it should be easy.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

Re: UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[Olivier Bornet]

Hello David,

I'm also very interested with this correction. I'm trying to setup a UltraPenguin
system on a Ultra 10.

To do this, I must have an automounter (autofs or amd).
Autofs generate the same error as below ( Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(40049363) arg(00024134))
Amd work, but when I do a "big" compilation (kernel or Qt or ...), the system
hang.

Of course, I prefere autofs if it works.

If you want someone for doing tests, let me know : I can do every thing
you want on the Ultra 10 (even test a beta-version of autofs).

Thanks in advance for your great job.

					Olivier

PS. For the X, it's also slow on our Ultra 10 workstation. And the station
has a PCI Creator 3D card. In this case, I don't think the memory on the
card is the problem.

>    Date: 	Tue, 05 May 1998 17:12:30 -0400
>    From: "Thomas A. Szybist" <szybist@boxhill.com>
> 
>    Hi, I just installed this, really great!  I just have two questions:
> 
>    1.	X seems a bit slow, very appearent on opaque moves.
> 	   Not a big deal, just wondering if this is expected.
> 
> They seem to not have put very much video memory in the Mach64 boards
> found in the UltraPCI machines, so the X server can't cache very many
> or very large glyphs.  I bet this is what you're seeing.
> 
> We plan on making some vast improvements to the Mach64 X server on
> Ultra some time soon, it has a few deficiencies... but at least it
> works ;-)
> 
>    2.	autofs doesn't seem to work.  I get this when starting it:
> 
> 	   sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(40049363) arg(00024134)
> 
> 	   and this when cd'ing to an autofs'd directory:
> 
> 	   sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(20009361) arg(00000000)
> 
> Thanks for the report, I'll fix this, it should be easy.
> 
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
> 
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Re: UltraPenguin1.0.9 update

[David S. Miller]

Please be patient.  We have the autofs thing fixed, and also Jakub has
found a way to deal with some of the performance problems of the X
server on Creator chips.  We'll have updated images etc. up in the
UP-1.0.9 distribution area in the next day or so.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com