Matt Dillon has enabled the SIO FIFO (1655x) (don’t ask me what that is…) to reduce latency when that little spinning / | \ – bar thing runs during inital boot.
I note this just so I can say: “DragonFly – we even twiddle fast.”
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Matt Dillon has enabled the SIO FIFO (1655x) (don’t ask me what that is…) to reduce latency when that little spinning / | \ – bar thing runs during inital boot.
I note this just so I can say: “DragonFly – we even twiddle fast.”
If you’re building world and you see errors on named
, do these steps as described by Matt Dillon:
Run cvsup
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin
rm -rf named
cvs update named
Matt describes in a separate post how the -Pd options to cvs updates can prune and create directories as needed.
As Erik P. Skaalerud pointed out in the bugs list, there’s been a lot of source changes lately. If you encounter an error when doing a buildworld/buildkernel, update your sources and try again. A number of people have managed to fall right inbetween updates lately.
Hiten Pandya and Matt Dillon have put together a debug script area for the kernel. Pasted here is Hiten’s commit message.
Continue reading “Debug directory”
I’ve committed the initial “port” of the FreeBSD Handbook into the doc repository. It’s not yet built into the site, but you can see a test version at http://forknibbler.com/guide/. Anyone who wants to add/rewrite a section is strongly encouraged – send it to the submit ‘at’ dragonflybsd.org mailing list.
David Rhodus has removed GCC 3.3 from the tree, since GCC 3.4 is in. ‘make upgrade
‘ during upgrade will clean it out.
The ISO on the DragonFly download page has been updated. This version has an an updated ATA driver, and some other patches that are not yet part of the normal codebase, in an effort to help out some folks that have been reporting installation difficulty.
Beta 1.2a, released as of Fri Jun 23 13:30:40 GMT 2004.
Andre Nathan made some nice “Powered By DragonFly” buttons.
PFIL_HOOKS is now on by default, so it can be removed from kernel configuration files. It’s not in by default normally, so if it’s unfamiliar, ignore it.
The Download page has a new ‘known stable’ ISO image. The Threads page has been updated too.
Matt Dillon committed code that makes DragonFly computers boot in dual mode – i.e. both the serial console and the video console are active. Use -h at boot to get just serial, and -V to get just video.
Someone wrote a DragonFly BSD song. Don’t worry, it’s just the lyrics, not a crazy sound file. More usefully, that site has some notes on installation and using LDAP.
The DragonFly Installer page now has a spiffy text scroller which mentions, among other things, the Installer Wiki and Installer Scripts.
A few people using Postfix for mail have reported system hangs at irregular intervals; Joerg Sonnenberger and Matt Dillon have been trying to track this down. Joerg posted these steps to take if you are so fortunate as to encounter this problem:
“Please try to provide the following for us for download:
- a tarball of your
/var/spool/postfix
[if this doesn’t contain private mail, save it and try to remove them as long as the problem persists]- a crash dump of the system when it hangs and the kernel.debug, please test that ‘
gdb -k kernel.debug vmcore.X
‘ actually works and gdb doesn’t crash.- if you can easily reproduce the problem, compile
kern/kern_lockf.c
with -DLOCKF_DEBUG, use the ddb command ‘w lf_print_ranges 1
‘ to set the lockf debugging and give us the/var/log/messages
.I really want to fix this, but neither Matt nor I can reproduce this problem and the code is not obviously bad. There is some interaction going on, but the crash dump we had so far doesn’t work (see above about testing). It would be nice, if you can use bzip2 or gzip on all this data.”
I somehow managed to miss this, but there’s been an update to Matt Dillon’s Diary page.
GoBSD.com has a ‘packages’ section which holds prebuilt software packages for DragonFly, suitable for adding with pkg_add -r packagename
. It doesn’t happen to have many KDE packages, which can be very time-consuming to build by hand. However, there’s a whole bunch in a different directory, http://gobsd.com/packs/.
Apparently, there’s a ISC DHCP vulnerability just discovered – DragonFly could use an update.
Gabor Mickso linked to a story in Hungarian about the new installer; if you can’t read Hungarian, there’s plenty of (English) screenshots.
A newer version of the beta installer is up at http://www.livebsd.com/dfly.