From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <661d0fac777e54f8bb8faf28b0340691@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Setting sysname in plan9.ini In-Reply-To: <71c481e851761b74c3ee713efb2b77e2@centurytel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-vkxanofxslymbgqeizvyhoughi" Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:25:38 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0e94bd0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-vkxanofxslymbgqeizvyhoughi Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Holy guana Batman! Just for a wild guess, I'ld say that setting the sysname is screwing over your namespace. The only place that I see the namespace changed after init starts is the newns() in its main(). /lib/namespace includes at its end: . /lib/namespace.local . /lib/namespace.$sysname Could it be that you have a /lib/namespace.blah that is blowing things away? --upas-vkxanofxslymbgqeizvyhoughi Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Sun Jan 25 20:56:34 EST 2004 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Sun Jan 25 20:56:32 EST 2004 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id A41AA19FE2; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:56:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9EAF619D1E; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:56:10 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 5E5FC19B85; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:55:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from gh-mail.centurytel.net (gh-mail.centurytel.net [209.206.160.252]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6EB76199F9 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:55:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from laptopvmw.9netics.com (adsl-64-91-109-37.centurytel.net [64.91.109.37] (may be forged)) by gh-mail.centurytel.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0Q1t0RR010139 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:55:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <71c481e851761b74c3ee713efb2b77e2@centurytel.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Skip Tavakkolian" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Setting sysname in plan9.ini Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:55:22 -0800 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) If I set 'sysname=blah' in plan9.ini for a term, init just loops complaining that it can't execute /bin/rc . Commenting out or removing the sysname=blah fixes the problem. The same thing is not a problem for cpus. --upas-vkxanofxslymbgqeizvyhoughi--