gnupic: Re: [gnupic] first attempt flops
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] first attempt flops
From:
Wayne Topa ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jun 2006 16:05:29 +0100
Message-Id: <20060616150410.GA5532@intergate.com>
Eamon ####@####.#### is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> >I _was_ going to show the results of running a user and root, but
> >it seems that even root doesn't work now. As root it starts
> >burning but after ~1 hour it hasn't quit.
>
> Some versions of Picprog including 1.7 had a bug that
> prevented them from running as root under 2.6 kernels.
> I found that 1.7 would work perfectly for normal users
> but would hang up forever at the "Burning program memory,"
> stage when run as root.
>
> See picport.cc from the picprog 1.8.1 source code for details:
> ******************************************
> // Set this to -1 if you want to use nanosleep when running as root.
> // This only works with 2.4 kernels, 2.6 series kernels no more work.
> int picport::use_nanosleep = 0;
> *******************************************
>
>
> Version 1.8.1 works fine here for root and as a normal user.
>
Odd, I did have 1.7 working with 2.6.11 and now with 2.6.15 it fails.
I tried a number of suggestions, from the author, to get 1.8 working
with 1.8 while I was running 2.6.11. I'll try 1.8 again now.
Thanks
Wayne
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