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| 05:46.16 | mr_claus | morning |
| 05:47.32 | mr_claus | last week i had some trouble with my nslu2, i decided to format the disk and unsling new, i have done that yesterday but the box comes not up with the disk attached |
| 05:48.29 | mr_claus | while booting the LED ready will never get green |
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| 06:04.18 | mr_claus_ | perhaps the box is in mainenance mode? |
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| 06:20.34 | mr_claus | how i can find out if i'm in mainenance mode? |
| 06:33.02 | rwhitby-web | df |
| 06:35.34 | mr_claus | hmm, seems to be strange, i have redone a whole unsling to the disk attached, reboot and it boots from the flash and not from the disk |
| 06:35.56 | mr_claus | i'm reflashing now and start with the first step again |
| 06:37.37 | mr_claus | rootfs 11895 10119 1776 85% / |
| 06:37.37 | mr_claus | /dev/ram0 6528 5308 1220 81% /initrd |
| 06:37.37 | mr_claus | /dev/ram0 11895 10119 1776 85% / |
| 06:37.51 | mr_claus | ok, can i check now if i left the maintenance mode? |
| 06:39.27 | mr_claus | i must be in maintenance mode because the red light is flashing |
| 06:39.45 | mr_claus | how i can get back to the normal operating mode? |
| 06:41.03 | jacques | you could have mentioned the flashing red light before :-\ |
| 06:42.20 | mr_claus | thats because the box is not in side of me, i have to go downstairs :/ |
| 06:42.48 | jacques | did you search the wiki for "maintenance" |
| 06:42.48 | mr_claus | but i have done nothing, i have put the box into mainanence mode with the web interface and i have done the upslug |
| 06:43.02 | mr_claus | i searched the FAQ |
| 06:43.41 | jacques | I just searched the wiki for "maintenance" and found two pages |
| 06:43.55 | jacques | one of them is http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/GetOutOfMaintMode |
| 06:44.46 | mr_claus | ok, i see, thx |
| 06:45.37 | mr_claus | REBOOTING IN NORMAL MODE rm: unable to stat `/mnt/repair/.ramdisk': Input/output error |
| 06:45.41 | mr_claus | that is ok? |
| 06:45.55 | rwhitby-web | known proble, |
| 06:45.59 | rwhitby-web | problem |
| 06:46.25 | mr_claus | ok |
| 06:46.25 | rwhitby-web | telnet in, mkdir /mnt/repair, then exit maintenance mode |
| 06:47.12 | rwhitby-web | you didn't even read the page that jacques listed, did you? |
| 06:47.48 | rwhitby-web | or did you make the directory and still got that error? |
| 06:47.58 | mr_claus | yes |
| 06:48.15 | mr_claus | i created the directory of course |
| 06:49.25 | rwhitby-web | ok, back to step one. describe the current state of your box, and how it got to that state, starting from stock firmware. |
| 06:50.12 | mr_claus | a few weeks ago i upgrade to 4.20, there was installed 3.18 before |
| 06:50.59 | mr_claus | perhaps 2 weeks ago, all was working in the first days but then, i dont know why, it was not possible to get into the box again |
| 06:51.21 | mr_claus | i tried a lot of things and decided to clean up the disk to redo unsling disk1 |
| 06:52.01 | mr_claus | now i have run upslug with the 4.20 and try to get out of the mainenance mode, no disk attached |
| 06:52.36 | rwhitby-web | are you able to use redboot to load new firmware? |
| 06:53.00 | rwhitby-web | (of course you are, cause that's a prerequisite for using unslung firmware) |
| 06:53.19 | mr_claus | i compiled upslug because it's less work to upgrade the firmware |
| 06:53.21 | rwhitby-web | so the easiest thing to do is telnet into redboot, then type "upgrade", then use upslug to reflash. |
| 06:53.45 | rwhitby-web | if that doesn't work, then you've got network problems |
| 06:54.02 | rwhitby-web | if you have a windows box, you can even use the SerComm upgrade tool |
| 06:54.06 | mr_claus | to telnet into redboot and write upgrade is the same like pressing reset while switching the box on? |
| 06:55.12 | rwhitby-web | yes |
| 06:55.38 | rwhitby-web | as long as you get the alternately flashing red and green, then you're in upgrade mode, and upslug or SerComm tool will work |
| 06:56.25 | mr_claus | ok, so i'm in upgrade mode now, i will redo the upslug |
| 07:00.02 | rwhitby-web | then unsling to the disk, and reboot, and don't touch the web upgrade page (it has a button to exit maintenance mode when booted from a disk - don't push that button) |
| 07:00.17 | rwhitby-web | check the df to make sure you are booting from the external disk and not the ramdisk |
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| 07:18.22 | CIA-8 | 03jeanfabrice * 10unslung/ (7 files in 3 dirs): Promoted wiley/poptop, a pptp server solution (courtesy of phedny from Chupa Forum) |
| 07:18.53 | jf-work | good morning all |
| 07:24.32 | jf-work | rwhitby-away: ping |
| 07:37.39 | mr_claus | a question about the dhcp daemon, should it now be looking at /opt/etc/ for the configuration file instead of /etc/? |
| 07:38.20 | mr_claus | there a two ways to change it, 1. change the Makefile.conf --> ETC = /etc |
| 07:38.42 | mr_claus | 2. include a -cf /opt/etc/dhcpd.conf into the S56dhcp startup script |
| 07:39.20 | mr_claus | can anybody change the buildsystem please? |
| 08:47.24 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10unslung/make/libtopfield.mk: Tagged at 0.5.0. |
| 08:48.01 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10unslung/make/ftpd-topfield.mk: Updated to version 0.5.1 |
| 08:48.51 | rwhitby-away | version 0.5.1 puts the ftpd-topfield.pid in the right place. |
| 08:53.13 | jacques | rwhitby-away, your success with libusb is my inspiration |
| 08:53.27 | jacques | I'm trying once again to get my camera working with the slug |
| 08:53.45 | jacques | not having much luck but that could be bad libptp2 |
| 08:55.19 | jf-work | rwhitby-away: ftpd-topfield failed to build on nudi. any hint ? |
| 08:55.23 | jacques | so now I'm trying latest gphoto2 |
| 08:56.28 | rwhitby-away | jf-work: will check tonight |
| 08:56.38 | rwhitby-away | does it get the cvs tag? |
| 08:58.02 | jf-work | what's this ? |
| 09:02.15 | dyoung | rwhitby, I'm still looking over what the differences are in the current zd1211 and the patch set that you forwarded to me. |
| 09:02.22 | dyoung | Its just taking a long time. |
| 09:10.13 | rwhitby-away | jf-work: looks like sf.net public cvs hasn't updated yet - it will work in 6 hours or so |
| 09:11.27 | rwhitby-away | dyoung: no rush |
| 09:12.19 | jf-work | ok |
| 09:35.11 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10unslung/make/ftpd-topfield.mk: Revert back to previous tag until sf.net updates. |
| 09:35.46 | jacques | gphoto2 segfaults just like ptpcam - I'm starting to suspect libusb again |
| 09:35.56 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10unslung/make/ftpd-topfield.mk: Put the version back too. |
| 09:35.58 | rwhitby-away | jf-work: try now - there will be another update tomorrow |
| 09:36.24 | jf-work | I'm building |
| 09:36.44 | rwhitby-away | it will build 0.5.0 now, and 0.5.1 tomorrow |
| 09:37.20 | rwhitby-away | hmm - Makefile.patch needs updating |
| 09:39.15 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10unslung/sources/ftpd-topfield/Makefile.patch: Fixed the patch for 0.5.0 |
| 09:39.36 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10unslung/sources/ftpd-topfield/Makefile.patch: Fixed the pid path. |
| 09:40.01 | rwhitby-away | ok. that builds now |
| 09:41.30 | jf-work | ok |
| 09:41.34 | dyoung | jacques, which is the good shuttle mini barebones system to get these days? |
| 09:41.55 | jacques | sn25p |
| 09:42.27 | dyoung | searching... |
| 09:44.31 | dyoung | I wonder if its loud... |
| 09:45.36 | jacques | we discussed it quite a bit a few months ago |
| 09:46.04 | jacques | along with me posting links to reviews which included dB charts |
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| 09:46.29 | jacques | jbot, status |
| 09:46.30 | jbot | Since Wed Jun 8 17:08:31 2005, there have been 7 modifications, 123 questions, 0 dunnos, 0 morons and 118 commands. I have been awake for 1d 16h 37m 59s this session, and currently reference 108761 factoids. I'm using about 19500 kB of memory. With 0 active forks. Process time user/system 3298.75/145.1 child 214.58/16.73 |
| 09:46.53 | mr_claus | there is a patch to store files in /opt instead of /, can anybody checkin the code please? http://hashphp.org/pastebin.php?pid=3609 |
| 09:48.04 | dyoung | Debating replacing my 3.06Ghz build box. |
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| 09:49.17 | jacques | dyoung, http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/shuttle-sn25p/index.x?pg=1 |
| 09:49.32 | jacques | http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/shuttle-sn25p/index.x?pg=16 |
| 09:50.02 | jacques | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856101468 |
| 09:51.04 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: looks good to me |
| 09:51.18 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: i teste the package, it works |
| 09:51.29 | rwhitby-away | who's listed as the maintainer? |
| 09:52.02 | mr_claus | in the makefile? nobody |
| 09:52.18 | dyoung | jacques, cool. |
| 09:52.19 | dyoung | thanks |
| 09:52.37 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: got an sf.net id? |
| 09:52.38 | jacques | np |
| 09:52.56 | dyoung | Just gotta find me a doo-doo video card. |
| 09:54.44 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: 430840 if you mean the userid |
| 09:55.15 | jacques | heh, make that a pci-e card |
| 09:56.40 | dyoung | I'm so behind the times now. Does that replace AGP as the preferred video interface? |
| 09:57.23 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: no, the user name |
| 09:57.29 | NAiL | dyoung: yes |
| 09:57.34 | rwhitby-away | dyoung: yeah, pci-express |
| 09:57.35 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: mr_claus |
| 09:58.17 | jacques | dyoung, it replaces agp and pci |
| 09:59.02 | jacques | most new motherboards only have pci-e slots, of varying widths |
| 09:59.09 | jacques | 1x 4x 8x 16x |
| 09:59.15 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: you now have CVS write access - use it wisely |
| 09:59.17 | dyoung | Wow. I wonder if a doo-doo pci-e card even exists... This machine doesnt need high end graphics. Must read.... |
| 10:00.11 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: hmm, i will try to leave all things intact |
| 10:00.13 | dyoung | And actually if the Xilinx ISE works under linux now, I can replace *two* machines with this one. |
| 10:00.22 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: there is a maitainer |
| 10:00.38 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: but i dont have the newest source there was a change two days ago |
| 10:01.17 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: i will send the patch to the maintainer, would that be the better way? |
| 10:01.39 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: who is the maintainer? |
| 10:02.09 | dyoung | Christopher. |
| 10:02.12 | jacques | dyoung, there are some relatively inexpensive pci-e videocards, but I don't think I've seen any $30 ones or anything |
| 10:02.22 | mr_claus | christopher blunck |
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| 10:02.43 | jacques | morning [g2] |
| 10:02.54 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: I think you're safe to update it. Christopher will be cool with it. |
| 10:03.10 | rwhitby-away | just send him an email at his sf.net address to let him now you've done it |
| 10:03.11 | mr_claus | rwhitby-away: ok |
| 10:03.19 | rwhitby-away | (and that you discussed it in the channel first) |
| 10:03.38 | dyoung | It may be worthwhile to update the .mk file to the new template too, while youre in there. |
| 10:03.51 | [g2] | hey jacques |
| 10:04.02 | [g2] | morning rwhitby-away and dyoung |
| 10:04.08 | dyoung | Hi [g2] |
| 10:04.33 | dyoung | i'm sad, my two 160GB WD Drives sound like chainsaws now. |
| 10:04.45 | jacques | now that... ? |
| 10:05.04 | [g2] | DOH! |
| 10:05.29 | dyoung | I havent had much luck with hardware recently. |
| 10:05.54 | dyoung | My slugs are punishing me for ignoring them I guess. |
| 10:06.45 | dyoung | The data is intact; just real noisy. |
| 10:07.59 | dyoung | Time to rebuild MediaSlug, better, stronger, faster..... |
| 10:14.37 | [g2] | Do you guys know how long we've been doing this stuff ? Last night I rebuilt the latest crosstool when I was talking to a guy in #elinux.. |
| 10:14.53 | [g2] | My last version was .28-rc37 |
| 10:15.07 | [g2] | I downloaded and built .35 |
| 10:15.34 | [g2] | man it's been quite some time since we played with that! |
| 10:15.57 | dyoung | almost a year. |
| 10:16.12 | dyoung | 10 months or so? |
| 10:18.05 | [g2] | and what a great 10 months |
| 10:25.14 | jacques | hmmm, pb is messing with binutils version in oe |
| 10:41.49 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: you need to check it out with :ext: to be able to check back in again |
| 10:42.07 | rwhitby-away | and we just use basic CVS commands for checkin |
| 10:45.09 | rwhitby-away | can someone flash 3.18 and find that upgrade.cgi script which makes the 8MB ramdisk and frees it to make room for maintenance mode upgrade? |
| 11:15.30 | mr_claus | do i have to be root to checkout the sources? |
| 12:05.34 | rwhitby-away | mr_claus: no, we recommend that you do *not* build as root. we do require you to be able to run sudo if you want to build crosstool-native |
| 12:06.20 | rwhitby | dyoung: I finally found that upgrade.cgi code. It was in switchbox, and didn't make it into 4.x - and that's why maintenance mode won't work in 4.x |
| 12:07.28 | dyoung | well, we did kinda rush that switchbox removal into service..... |
| 12:08.38 | mr_claus | rwhitby: hmm, i can checkout as user root but not with another user |
| 12:09.00 | mr_claus | cvs.sourceforge.net: Connection timed out |
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| 12:09.06 | rwhitby | mr_claus: nobody else checks out as root |
| 12:09.09 | mr_claus | if i'm not user root i get that error message |
| 12:09.14 | rwhitby | glc: hi |
| 12:11.48 | mr_claus | argll, my fault, sry |
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| 12:22.52 | dyoung | I'm totally slugless now. |
| 12:23.11 | dyoung | I cant find my devslug, and MediaSlug's drive was sounding like a chainsaw. |
| 12:23.17 | dyoung | so its all off now. |
| 12:23.27 | rwhitby | can't find .... ? |
| 12:23.36 | dyoung | yeah, its lost. |
| 12:23.42 | rwhitby | you should put a picture of your development room sometime ... |
| 12:23.47 | dyoung | probably buried under a pile of '244's |
| 12:24.02 | dyoung | You would cringe. |
| 12:24.03 | jacques | I know they're small but... |
| 12:24.17 | dyoung | my dev room is... um... Messy. |
| 12:24.27 | rwhitby | go on - put up a piccie |
| 12:24.32 | rwhitby | you've seen my shelf ... |
| 12:24.36 | dyoung | Its been lost for weeks. |
| 12:25.00 | dyoung | last time I saw it I was testing something for someone, I dont even remember what it was for. |
| 12:26.04 | dyoung | okay i'll post up some "dyoung secret laboratory" pics later. When I find my camera. :-) |
| 12:33.11 | rwhitby-away | oh no - new binutils downloading when building unslung .... |
| 12:33.50 | rwhitby-away | jacques: do I let it go, or do I pin the version back? |
| 12:38.00 | jacques | rwhitby-away, I intend to test the new version, but pinning it back is the wiser course IMHO |
| 12:38.23 | jacques | I'll start a build now |
| 12:39.18 | rwhitby-away | cool - I'm trying to get the maintenance mode working again, so I'm pinning back |
| 12:40.16 | jacques | yeah, nothing can screw up a toolchain like an untested binutils |
| 12:41.24 | jacques | I'm clearing my .ccache now, then I'll start a frech openslug-image build |
| 12:48.55 | dyoung | is the binutils lock pushed? |
| 12:50.11 | rwhitby-away | pushing now |
| 12:50.23 | CIA-12 | 03rwhitby 07 * r1.3468 10openembedded/ (4 files in 3 dirs): Unslung 5.2-alpha: added upgrade-real.cgi back, and locked the binutils version |
| 12:50.36 | rwhitby-away | just about to flash that .... |
| 12:55.30 | rwhitby-away | Firmware Version: V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.2-alpha |
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| 12:57.19 | rwhitby-away | hopefully 5.x will have 'x' < 5 this time around .... |
| 13:02.44 | rwhitby | exit maintenance mode works ... |
| 13:03.06 | dyoung | woo |
| 13:10.04 | rwhitby | do you reckon we should just release this as a 4.x ? |
| 13:10.57 | dyoung | it is kind of a repair to 4.x |
| 13:11.21 | rwhitby | yeah, that's what I'm thinking, since we're not removing maintenance mode |
| 13:11.58 | dyoung | or we could just let the masses wait. |
| 13:12.22 | dyoung | and release it wit the R29 base. |
| 13:13.27 | rwhitby | it does have the R29 base now |
| 13:13.41 | rwhitby | (by "this" I mean a tested version of what we have now) |
| 13:13.55 | rwhitby | has Tiersten added those usb devices patch yet? |
| 13:14.06 | dyoung | Right, what I'm saying is that 5.x will be the R29 base. Its kind of a jump to release a 4.x with a R29 base eh? |
| 13:16.00 | rwhitby | not really - it's an R29, not a V2.4 |
| 13:18.39 | rwhitby | now, any README suggestions on the wiki to add ..... |
| 13:18.54 | dyoung | We should ask the new Unslung-manager-elect what he thinks. |
| 13:19.04 | rwhitby | Note much at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/SuggestedChangesToTheReadme |
| 13:19.40 | rwhitby | s/Note/Not/ |
| 13:19.58 | rwhitby | So much bellyaching about the doco, but only one suggestion on that page .... |
| 13:24.10 | dyoung | Hows the "for dummies" initiative going? |
| 13:24.57 | rwhitby | dunno, haven't checked the yahoo group |
| 13:25.28 | rwhitby | So should we just go and change the root password to always be "uNSLUng" all the time, in all relevant files? |
| 13:25.48 | dyoung | more additions to the SlugArmy. |
| 13:26.14 | dyoung | thats basically the first thing I've been doing myself as a post-install task. |
| 13:28.33 | dyoung | Wow now I'm all depressed that the 4.x initiative ended up being a bust. |
| 13:29.11 | rwhitby | what do you mean? |
| 13:30.26 | rwhitby | 4.x works fine, unless to push buttons randomly, or want to upgrade to a new version after it :-) |
| 13:30.35 | rwhitby | s/to push/you push/ |
| 13:42.01 | CIA-12 | 03rwhitby 07 * r1.3469 10openembedded/ (5 files in 3 dirs): Unslung 4.21-alpha: updated README and NOTES, and fixed /mnt in maintenance mode. |
| 13:46.08 | jacques | it looks like the binutils 2.16 openslug-image is actually going to complete |
| 13:48.30 | jacques | NOTE: build 200506100542: completed |
| 13:48.50 | jacques | I'll flash it to my unslung slug in a little while |
| 13:55.06 | rwhitby | Hmm - maintenance mode upgrade still doesn't have enough ram |
| 13:55.22 | rwhitby | ah - /dev and /var don't need to be ramdisks in maintenance mode .... |
| 14:10.50 | rwhitby | and /initrd is stopping it from working |
| 14:16.18 | NAiL | hmm... What app can I use to talk to the slug over serial in windows |
| 14:16.21 | NAiL | ? |
| 14:16.44 | rwhitby | HyperTerm? |
| 14:17.07 | NAiL | aha |
| 14:17.20 | NAiL | of course, hyperterm isn't installed... Bah :P |
| 14:18.38 | rwhitby | ok, so it looks like we need to solve the initrd unmount before we can get maintenance mode working |
| 14:23.59 | CIA-12 | 03rwhitby 07 * r1.3471 10openembedded/packages/nslu2-binary-only/unslung-rootfs/create-ramdisks.patch: Don't create /dev and /var ramdisks in Unslung maintenance mode |
| 14:41.09 | rwhitby | Hmm - /initrd has nothing to do with it. |
| 14:41.20 | rwhitby | web upgrade just doesn't want to work in 4.x |
| 14:47.20 | rwhitby | ok, that's it from me tonight. unless anyone else has any ideas why maintenance mode web upgrade doesn't work in 4.x, then I'm all ears. |
| 14:48.06 | rwhitby | if there are no other ideas, then we'll just call it a casualty of freeing up the extra 1MB of RAM from switchbox, and change it to use Upgrade Mode instead. |
| 14:51.56 | jacques | no ideas here, unfortunately |
| 14:52.46 | rwhitby | it just silently fails somewhere inside the Linksys upgrade.cgi binary |
| 14:53.27 | rwhitby | there is plenty of RAM available, and the replacement upgrade.cgi script which creates and frees the ramdisk makes sure that the RAM is listed in the right category in /proc/meminfo |
| 14:54.27 | rwhitby | and I even went as far as deleting /dev/console from the jffs2, and booting without a console (which then allowed me to unmount /initrd) and then killall'd lots of processes to free up even more RAM, and it still didn't work |
| 14:55.34 | jacques | I'm going to flash the binutils 2.16 openslug |
| 14:55.57 | rwhitby | openslug should be fine - I'm worried about a binutils 2.16 unslung ... |
| 14:56.03 | [g2] | go jacques go jacques flash that bad boy flash it |
| 14:56.14 | rwhitby | (due to the linksys binaries) |
| 14:58.39 | jacques | flashing |
| 14:58.59 | jacques | toolchains can be very fragile |
| 14:59.10 | jacques | tho it looks good for openslug because it all built |
| 14:59.52 | jacques | I guess I can try an unslung too |
| 15:00.31 | jacques | booting |
| 15:02.03 | jacques | booted |
| 15:03.10 | jacques | starting fresh clean unslung-image build |
| 15:03.39 | jacques | (but with binutils 2.16) |
| 15:06.16 | jacques | I guess while I'm waiting for unslung to build I can look at my other usb drive - I want to repartition that one too for turnuping :-) |
| 15:13.31 | [g2] | jacques, THX for the info and testing |
| 15:14.23 | jacques | [g2], np :-) |
| 15:16.23 | jacques | hmm I just thought of something - I haven't tested the armeb-native binutils 2.16 yet |
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| 15:18.09 | jacques | morning jbowler-away |
| 15:38.27 | CIA-12 | 03rwhitby 07 * r1.3471.1.1 10openembedded/ (5 files in 4 dirs): Unslung 5.2-alpha: Removed the ipkg symlink on the jffs2 partition, and made unsling put it back again on the external disk |
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| 15:42.23 | rodo37 | Hello all |
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| 15:47.43 | [g2] | Hi rodo37 |
| 15:48.22 | rwhitby | So maintenance mode has to go .... |
| 15:48.32 | [g2] | nod. Nice post |
| 15:49.08 | [g2] | rwhitby, do you know what the memory footprint of thttpd is by chance ? |
| 15:49.17 | rwhitby | It would be nice to know why upgrade.cgi isn't working, but it's not worth the effort IMHO. |
| 15:49.37 | rwhitby | [g2]: it was around a MB I think. |
| 15:50.26 | rwhitby | as soon as my flashing of 5.2-alpha completes I will be able to tell you |
| 15:50.37 | [g2] | ok thx |
| 15:54.40 | rwhitby | <PROTECTED> |
| 15:55.10 | [g2] | 2 MB ? |
| 15:55.14 | [g2] | 2.1 |
| 15:55.26 | NAiL | 1054kb? |
| 15:57.06 | rwhitby | Heh - an interesting side effect of removing /usr/bin/ipkg is that /etc is still in the path, so typing "ipkg" returns "ipkg: Permission denied" due to /etc/ipkg being a directory. |
| 15:57.25 | jacques | unslung-image with binutils 2.16 completed |
| 15:57.35 | rwhitby | I think I'll leave it like that, cause "Permission denied" is a good message for people who try to run ipkg on the jffs2. |
| 15:58.06 | jacques | could just make it a tiny script that gives an informative message |
| 15:58.26 | jacques | guess I'll flash unslung |
| 16:00.57 | rwhitby | I'll wait for 12 hours before starting removal of maintenance mode. Just in case someone finds the answer to make it work. |
| 16:01.32 | jacques | flashing |
| 16:02.20 | rwhitby | I expect it would only be glc who could nut it out. He is a linuxrc guru now. |
| 16:03.11 | jacques | booting |
| 16:04.43 | jacques | beep |
| 16:05.33 | jacques | well so far binutils 2.16 appears to be a nonissue |
| 16:05.51 | rwhitby | for a change :-) |
| 16:06.42 | rwhitby | so jacques it looks like we're keeping the same hours again .... |
| 16:07.28 | jacques | rwhitby, yep seems that way |
| 16:07.48 | jacques | I'd like to go to sleep soon but I might have a lunch appointment :-\ |
| 16:13.34 | mr_claus | before i commit my changes i want to ask if i'm doing all things right, i change into my unslung directory and run cvs commit -m "my change description" |
| 16:16.45 | rwhitby | as long as you have only changed that one file, then yes |
| 16:16.54 | rwhitby | you can check this with "cvs update" |
| 16:17.09 | rwhitby | it should remove "M" for your single modified file only |
| 16:17.14 | rwhitby | s/remove/report/ |
| 16:17.45 | rwhitby | alternately, you can give the single filename as the last argument to cvs commit |
| 16:19.11 | rwhitby | night all |
| 16:19.34 | jacques | `night rwhitby-asleep |
| 16:21.28 | rwhitby-asleep | another benefit of removing maintenance mode is that we can fill up the rootfs on jffs2 with more stuff in the base firmware image. |
| 16:21.43 | rwhitby-asleep | (like dropbear) |
| 16:21.54 | jacques | yay, I'm for that |
| 16:22.39 | rwhitby-asleep | ok, the ipkg thingo works |
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| 16:52.18 | CIA-12 | 03mr_claus * 10unslung/make/dhcp.mk: Look for dhcpd.leases, dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.pid at /opt instead of / |
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| 20:16.37 | ilg | I just finished the unslung build (from the repository sources) and the kernel fails to recognize the initrd. any experience? |
| 20:21.04 | ilg | I investigated and the only difference between my kernel and the 4.20 kernel was the gcc version 3.4.4 instead of 3.4.3, otherwise diff-ing the two directories showed no diffs. |
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| 22:44.39 | rwhitby-away | ilg: I flashed unslung-5.2-alpha built from the repo about 8 hours ago |
| 22:44.48 | rwhitby-away | will rebuild from scratch today to confirm |
| 22:48.05 | ilg | right now I'm switching back to gcc-cross-3.4.3 to check if that version works |
| 22:49.14 | ilg | I also checked the unslung-4.20-source.tar.gz archive and the highest gcc-cross is also 3.4.3 |
| 22:49.49 | rwhitby-away | yeah, the change to 3.4.4 was recent, for unslung 5.x |
| 22:50.27 | ilg | for corectness, the version I'm using is 4.21 (got it from repos on June 5th) |
| 22:50.47 | rwhitby-away | ah, you'll want to update from the repo then |
| 22:52.19 | ilg | what you say is that 4.21 was patched for 3.4.4 recently? |
| 22:53.40 | rwhitby-away | which repo? bk or svn? |
| 22:53.51 | ilg | bk |
| 22:54.10 | rwhitby-away | we haven't changed unslung with regard to gcc, but there was a window when gcc was broken in OE |
| 22:55.04 | rwhitby-away | jacques has built unslung 5.2 from scratch last night, and he was using 3.4.4 |
| 22:56.05 | rwhitby-away | I haven't been building from scratch, but have just kicked one off now |
| 22:56.18 | rwhitby-away | (mine takes a couple of hours) |
| 22:56.58 | ilg | Linux version 2.4.22-xfs (unslung@unslung.org) (gcc version 3.4.4) #1 Mon Jun 6 |
| 22:57.06 | ilg | it failed with: |
| 22:57.39 | ilg | NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision) |
| 22:57.39 | ilg | RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. |
| 22:57.39 | ilg | Freeing initrd memory: 10240K |
| 22:57.39 | ilg | FAT: bogus logical sector size 27209 |
| 22:57.39 | ilg | Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 |
| 22:58.04 | rwhitby-away | what's the kernel command line printed earlier than that? |
| 22:58.12 | ilg | replacing it with the kernel unpacked form the binary 4.20 worked |
| 22:58.41 | ilg | Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0x01000000,10M |
| 22:58.41 | ilg | <PROTECTED> |
| 22:59.20 | ilg | I diff-ed it with the 4.20 kernel and except compiler version there were no differences |
| 22:59.37 | dyoung | bad flash? |
| 23:00.01 | ilg | possible but unlikely |
| 23:01.29 | ilg | bad programming rulled out, I did several programmings and all behaved the same |
| 23:02.12 | ilg | I doubt a bad flash sector would allow the kernel to uncompress |
| 23:03.30 | rwhitby-away | ah: the dyoung bug bit him |
| 23:04.04 | rwhitby-away | ilg, you built the kernel at a time where dyoung's cmdline ?= change caused it to get the linksys kernel cmdline instead of the unslung kernel cmdline. |
| 23:04.12 | dyoung | yeah, sorry. |
| 23:04.17 | rwhitby-away | rebuild the kernel from latest bk repo and you will be fine |
| 23:04.32 | rwhitby-away | it's completely unrelated to gcc |
| 23:04.36 | dyoung | or if you wish to build what you have, change the ?= to = or bk undo it. |
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| 23:06.38 | rwhitby-away | there's still a window of 4 hours or so before I can start on it, so any new revelations will have to be quick ones :-) |
| 23:06.59 | dyoung | Yank it. |
| 23:07.45 | ka6sox-away | adios Maintainence mode. |
| 23:08.07 | dyoung | It would be nice to know its busted though. |
| 23:08.13 | dyoung | why its busted.... |
| 23:13.40 | beewoolie | Anyone interested in taking a job in Shanghai? |
| 23:14.06 | rwhitby-away | since I consider the web upgrade mode to be inferior anyway, I'm not all that driven to solve that problem |
| 23:14.20 | rwhitby-away | beewoolie: does it pay a squillion dollars? |
| 23:14.27 | beewoolie | Probably. |
| 23:14.43 | beewoolie | It's for Intel and their xscale group. |
| 23:15.03 | beewoolie | I was asked if I knew anyone willing to relocate there for a couple of years to help with the Linux stuff. |
| 23:15.20 | beewoolie | I'd do it, but relo isn't really in my stars. |
| 23:16.35 | dyoung | I would take a job in Shanghai. |
| 23:16.55 | rwhitby-away | dyoung: I'll give you a reference ... |
| 23:17.06 | beewoolie | Excellent. |
| 23:17.33 | beewoolie | They're looking for someone to do driver writing and BSP stuff. |
| 23:19.03 | rwhitby-away | do they like UBE ? |
| 23:20.03 | dyoung | Somehow I dont think I'd fit into Intel Culture. |
| 23:20.15 | dyoung | Lemme think about it for a bit. |
| 23:20.16 | rwhitby-away | Don't like bunny suits? |
| 23:22.25 | beewoolie | UBE...wait... |
| 23:22.41 | beewoolie | Ugly but effective... |
| 23:22.43 | beewoolie | Right. |
| 23:22.55 | beewoolie | I don't think there's a hurry. |
| 23:37.55 | rwhitby-away | Maybe kergoth would like that job ;-) |
| 23:38.30 | rwhitby-away | back later ... |
| 23:39.19 | ilg | regarding the cmdline ?= bug, I just updated from the bk, can you point to a file where to check if the ? went away? I would like to avoid waiting several compiling hours to discover the same problem... |
| 23:43.39 | rwhitby-away | linux/unslung-.....bb |
| 23:44.39 | ilg | CMDLINE_ROOT = "root=/dev/mtdblock4 rootfstype=jffs2 rw init=/linuxrc mem=32M@0x00000000" |
| 23:49.02 | dyoung | yeah thats the one. |