Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:42:48 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Broken sound with 4.4-RC Message-ID: <15270.49848.815483.632974@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010918112529.A17055@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <3BA60EE8.EDDF0E5C@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <15270.45166.357473.814933@guru.mired.org> <20010918112529.A17055@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> types: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > There have been multiple reports of gkrellm causing SMP systems to > > freeze - more accurately, gkrellm plugins cause this to > > happen. Which prompts me to ask if you are running SMP, and if you > > have any gkrellm plugins running. > My system has single Celeron-300A with Iwill BD100+ motherboard. > And yes, I run gkrellm's plugin reading sensor information. Gkrellm's sensor reading code isn't a plugin, it's built into gkrellm. Note that it makes lots of assumptions about the hardware that may not be true. If I try and run it using the SMB interface, it locks the machine up instantly when it hits the second SMB in the system. > > FWIW, if you define WITHOUT_SENSOR when you install gkrellm, it will > > not turn on the SUID bit on the binary. > I've discovered this reading Makefile of port. > Now, without SUID gkrellm does not show sensors states. > This is not a problem for me. I'm running Dual Xeon PIIs. Running gkrellm with the sensor mode enabled and displaying works fine, including what little audio playback I do. However, if I enable a plugin - *any* plugin - the system will freeze up, possibly in as little as 15 minutes, possibly hours later. More plugins seem to make it happen faster. I believe there was a system change that's causing this, but haven't set down to chase down the problem. That I get a hard freeze doesn't help much. Final note: if plugins worked properly, I'd love to do a healthd plugin. Healthd has a number of advantages over the gkrellm code, like working reliably with more hardware, not locking the system up if I use it in SMB mode, being able to get information for both CPUs, being able to monitor more than one system, etc. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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