roottask problem?? help!!!

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Tue Sep 04, 2007 at 09:47:17 +0800, huang wrote:
>    When I tried to use the l4env nameserver "names" to help doing sth,
>    I found it doesn't work. For example, the logserver "log" can not
>    register at nameserver, so it fall asleep, so does names_demo. I
>    examed and tested the names.c, and I modified a few lines of code
>    in main() such as:
> 
> ...
> if(rmgr_init())
>  	printf("roottask service unavailable!\n");
> else
>     printf("roottask service init successfully!\n");
> ...
> 
> then I rebuilded names, and tested again with modules listed in menu.lst:
> 
> title hello world
> kernel (hd0,0)/fiasco/bootstrap
> modaddr 0x02000000
> module (hd0,0)/fiasco/fiasco -nokdb -nowait
> module (hd0,0)/fiasco/sigma0
> module (hd0,0)/fiasco/roottask
> module (hd0,0)/fiasco/names
> module (hd0,0)/fiasco/names_demo
> 
> the output screen is in the attachement roottask.jpg, the key output is
> names	| roottask service unavailable!

That's strange indeed. names_demo will not really work in this setup as
it's querying for dm_phys which is not there (it's a demo). I cannot say
why it does not work otherwise for you as it does for me. You could put
your binaries online so that I can check what's going on (using tracing
and similar).

> Is this really caused by roottask??
> 
> In the manual tut.pdf, the menu.lst is as below:
> 
> title Hi world, server version
>   kernel (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/bootstrap
>   modaddr 0x02000000
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/fiasco -nokdb -nowait
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/sigma0
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4vs/roottask
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/log
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/names
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/dm_phys
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/hiserver 
>   module (nd)/tftpboot/yourname/bin/x86_586/l4v2/hiclient
> 
> I found the line of roottask is different from other lines in "l4vs",
> while others are "l4v2". What is the difference?

Just a typo, it's fixed internally.


Adam
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