2.6.12-nitro5 "Make my day"

Thetargos · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:55 am Post subject:

Processor type and features

Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

Well, that's where it should be...I guess it isn't there because I am using AMD64. Suppose it is enabled by default, because AMD64s arent so old they can't support 4GB of RAM (or more), heh.
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Thetargos · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:39 am Post subject:

LOL, I think it has to do more with the 64-bit memory addressing which no longer imposes the 4Gb limit. Not to mention the on-die processor memory controller in the AMD64 architecture

Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

Yeah...oh well, guess I don't need to worry about it (feel silly I forgot about that, though!) I am used to x86 machines and having to set it. Thanks for your time, though.
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Thetargos · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

Does anyone know how soon the next version might be coming out? I have some serious networking problems that I believe are being caused by this version and perhaps starting with a fresh upgrade might fix them. I can't seem to get the old one to work either now, the 2.6.12-rc2-nitro1 panics and says the partition is not able to mount when I try to boot up with it. Can anyone give me some advice on how I can try the older one? It used to work before withour problems, it was around the kernel upgrade that my port forwarding stopped working.

Thetargos · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:03 am Post subject:

Are you sure you did not modify any networking relevant options that may have affected your current build?

1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

Quite sure, the newer version used the previous configuration file and all my settings are good. I've reconfigured it many times already and checked all my settings, there's nothing in them that should cause such odd behaviour.

Thetargos · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:37 am Post subject:

Now that's strange... But you say only port forwarding is not working, right? You don't mean packet forwarding.

1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

Port forwarding yes. I can't confirm it's the kernel, but that's about the only major thing I changed when it stopped working. Nat and masquerading works though.

Thetargos · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:37 am Post subject:

Then most probably is not due to netfilter changes in Nitro5, rather your system... Are you using plain iptables constructs to manage your firewall, or are you using a compiler/front end like Firewall Builder? Maybe your sintax is what's messy rather than the modules? (just a thought, though)

1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

I just use regular iptables script nothing fancy. I've done so much troubleshooting I don't even want to test another script combination again. All I know is that it worked before, it works in the gentoo home router guide, and it should work on my system now.

Thetargos · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:50 am Post subject:

Something is deffinitely amiss, but what? Have you tried an officially endorsed Gentoo kernel?

1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

I can't, I'm using reiser4

I hate lovechild and whatever lovesources or whatnot so I won't even try them. And the only other way would require for me to patch the gentoo-sources with reiser4 myself which I've never done before and would take some time to perfect.

Thetargos · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:25 am Post subject:

Hmm... You would have to patch vanilla gentoo sources with Reiser4 and hope for it to work (without further source hacking)

seppe · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:47 am Post subject:

Hey, just wanted to say that a new nitro is on it's way. It's done actually, I just need to test it which isn't easy since I'm doing everthing from a VPC image in Ubuntu. Maybe I'll post it in this thread so you guys can test it before I release it. Just let me know that you're interested or not

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1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

I'd be interested in testing it, as long as there isn't a risk of it messing up my reiser4 partition. I know you guys aren't liable even if it does, I'm just saying I'd like to avoid any further problems if their existance is likely

Btw, I'm curious what happened to the nitro-sources website? It was a nicely done website, sad to see it go offline.

seppe · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:53 am Post subject:

Well, reiser4 is in the upcoming 2.6.13-nitro1 release, but I haven't tested it (yet?) but it compiles cleanly. Other things in 2.6.13-nitro1 are latest CK-sources, vesafb-tng, gensplash, software suspend 2, shfs, unionfs. genetics and more nice things. All patches currently compile cleanly, but I haven't tested them yet.

The nitro-sources webpage is gone because I forgot to pay the bill :oops:

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Lenz · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:

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seppe · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

a13x · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 215

I've been waiting for this for a long time and I'm willing to test it.

Lenz · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

Hope 2.6.13-nitro1 will be as good as 2.6.12-nitro5!

2.6.12-nitro5 is running and running and running... :twisted:

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Anthaus · n00b Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Arlington, VA

I'm interested in testing. I'm a gamer, most of the time. But I usually leave my computer on doing calculations (Matlab) and whatnot at night. My average uptime is 10 days, but the majority of experimental kernels I've tried fail after 4 days (except nitro!)
Athlon XP 3000+, 1 GB RAM, GF 6800 GT, nForce 2, Alsa 1.0.10rc1 (emu10k1), Fedora Core 4 (shame on me), 2.6.13-ck4 (not too fast).