Re: [MiNT] My problems with 1.17 (8/13 trunk) so far (untested in 1.16 beta)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:16 -0400, Keith Scroggins wrote:
> Problems I have been having:
> 
> scp freezes, needing to be killed, or drops the connections, did not 
> happen previously.  Have not figured out a pattern, even from debug 
> output.
>
> ssh into the system (sshd), connections seem to drop in 10 minutes or 
> less, but this needs more testing.  Remote debug says the Atari dropped 
> it.
> 
> telnet / ftp logins are failing sometimes based on timeouts, the machine 
> seems to stop listening after username is given.  Works most of the time 
> though.  Might only be an issue when, say, gcc is compiling and trying to 
> log in?  Not sure yet.
> 
> These could all be network issues with the ethernec driver, possibly.

Not experienced any of the above here.

> vi will hang, and needs to be killed.  Never previously had this problem 
> and have made extensive use of vi.  Seems to happen when I am inputing 
> commands too quickly for it to handle, like a buffer issue.  Working on 
> compiling / cross compiling latest vim.

As mentioned in a previous email I have similar problems with vim
occasionally, but I think this is a vim problem with temporary files on
our platform.

> Have had configure script fail with sed (latest version).  Basically it 
> freezes at the same test, and never comes back til killed.  It takes about 
> 15 to 30 seconds for a CTRL-C to be read.

This isn't a freeze but a side effect of the test it's doing.
Essentially, leave it for about 30 minutes :-)

I know the problem but it's a hard fix.

Alan.

> Here is the config.log snippet:
> 
> configure:16371: checking for working mkstemp
> configure:16415: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
> configure:16418: $? = 0
> configure:16424: ./conftest
> 
> And the source code is attached to this message.
> 
> My system:
> 
> Falcon - 72 Mhz CT60 (Rev 6) with 20 Mhz Bus, EtherNec, 14 Meg ST, 512 Meg 
> TT/FastRAM.  500 GB SATA / SATA DVDR.
> 
> Latest released RPMs from SpareMiNT for everything, except GCC, which is 
> 4.5.1.
> 
> ps -ef shows:
> 
> root@falcon:/usr/local/src/sed-4.2>ps -ef
> PID  PPID PRI CURPRI STATUS   SIZE    TIME    COMMAND
> 000  000   0     0  Wait      98304 16:05.59  MiNT
> 001  000   0     0  Wait      98304 00:00.13  init
> 002  000   0     0  Sleep     98304 01:44.29  update
> 015  000   0     0  TSR      163840 00:02.05  EXTENDOS
> 031  000   0     0  Sleep    262144 00:01.79  syslogd
> 049  000   0     0  Sleep    212992 00:00.04  inetd
> 067  001   0     0  Sleep     73728 00:00.06  getty console
> 068  049   0     0  Ready    188416 00:00.41  in
> 069  068   0     0  Ready    770048 00:01.03  bash
> 156  049   0     0  Sleep    188416 00:00.44  in
> 157  156   0     0  Wait     770048 00:01.31  bash
> 192  157   0     0  Sleep   2097152 00:00.68  lynx www.sparemint.org/sparemint/m
> int/kernel/1.16.1/
> 221  069   0    21  Ready     49152 00:00.03  ps -ef
> 
> I killed sshd as there was no purpose to having it run since it was not 
> currently usable.  And, as can be seen, currently getting the previous 
> beta kernel to setup, hopefully tonight, but it might be a few days.