xfreerdp and stuttering sound

2022-07-27 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I am remoting to a Windows machine to view Widevine encrypted videos, and need to forward the sound. My xfreerdp line is: xfreerdp /h:2560 /w:3712 /d:[hostname] /u:[username] /sound:sys:sndio \ /v:[hostname] I see the video, but the sound stutters badly. Closing other applications does not

Re: Docking station and external monitor

2022-07-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 11:29:16 +0200 "Tobias Fiebig" wrote: > Heho, > You have one of those fancy dual-cpu things (nvidia optimus); This > can be somewhat difficult, see also: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T530 > > "When using NVIDIA Optimus the Display port will not be

Docking station and external monitor

2022-07-02 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I have a ThinkPad T530, with a recently acquired docking station that I am finally attempting to use. It doesn't pick up on the displayport to the external monitor. I have read acpi(4), acpidock(4), sensorsd(8), and sensorsd.conf(5), and I don't know how to get there. dmesg below sig, -- Edward

Re: Starlabs Lite Mk IV support

2022-01-06 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
r purpose, they might need some support > code. > > Chris > I asked Starlabs, and this is what they told me: Hi Ed, Thank you for your email and question regarding OpenBSD on our hardware. The initial testing that has been performed shows that most BSD operating systems worked with ou

Re: -- SPAM --Daily digest, Issue 5579 (22 messages)

2021-10-25 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Ares On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 05:51:52 +, Ares wrote: Subject: Re: Unable to log in with Pubkey after upgrade to 7.0 Date: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >Emiel Kollof wrote: > > > >> Ivo Chutkin schreef op vr 22-10-2021 om 15:23 [+0300]: > >> > Hello

Re: xlock doesn't unlock any more

2021-10-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:01:56 - (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021-10-21, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > Did xlock lose the setgid bit or group ownership? > Did /usr/X11R6 gain a nosuid mount option that it shouldn't have? > > $ ls -l

self-encrypting disks

2021-10-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Lots of the new SSDs are self-encrypting, often using OPAL conjunction with a Trusted Platform Module. Does this get in the way of using a disk with OpenBSD? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

xlock doesn't unlock any more

2021-10-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-out screenshot.xwd" command snip "/usr/local/bin/import screenshot.png" command mountusb /home/ed/bin/mountusb command umountusb /home/ed/bin/umountusb command RapidFile /usr/local/bin/dosbox command gimp /usr/local/bin/gimp command audacity /usr/local/bin/audacity command vlc /usr

Re: 4K display, teeny-tiny things

2021-08-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 20:24:10 +0100 cho...@jtan.com wrote: > Joe Gidi writes: > [...] > [...] > > This "problem" is proving quite entertaining on a ~13" laptop. I > don't use that machine for much so I mostly ignore it (it helps > that it has a touch screen that "just works") but the issue

4K display, teeny-tiny things

2021-08-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Picked up a 4K display (LG 27UPS650) and it's gorgeous. Bright colors, crisp, lovely. The console fonts and some application fonts are now dialed in WRT size. But application menu bars have tiny icons and tiny titles, and their man pages don't address that. Do those settings live in libraries I'm

FireFox crashing on credential submission

2021-06-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Has anyone else seen Firefox crashing when submitting web site credentials? This has been happening for about a week in snapshots. I'd submit a bug on Bugzilla, but that's one of the sites that generates a crash. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

the 6.9 release being out....

2021-05-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
...remember that it's time to donate what would be the price of the CD set. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: help debug NFS

2021-04-11 Thread Ed Gray
the same while loop to run rpcinfo or showmount commands from the client and server to see if it stops working after the same delay. Someone with more knowledge of NFS might suggest some better debugging steps... Regards Ed Gray On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, 10:07 am Родин Максим, wrote: > Hello >

Re: 6.8 with gnome boots to xterm after upgrade

2021-03-10 Thread Ed Gray
/ CSM boot or UEFI not both but I don't know how well it is supported on OpenBSD. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, 1:53 am Sivan !, wrote: > Thank you. Please see inline: > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 13:03, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > On 2021-03-08, Sivan ! wrote:

Re: 6.8 with gnome boots to xterm after upgrade

2021-03-08 Thread Ed Gray
might benefit from reading the documentation particularly the INSTALL file, the FAQs and afterboot man page. It seems like you don't understand some of the fundamental differences between Openbsd and other systems. Particularly the disk layout. Regards Ed Gray On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, 7:27 pm Sivan

Re: 6.8 with gnome boots to xterm after upgrade

2021-03-05 Thread Ed Gray
recommend moving .xsession to .xsession.bak and starting with a fresh configuration. I would need to understand more about how you are starting gnome like more details of any changes you made to the standard installation. Regards Ed Gray On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, 12:03 am Sivan !, wrote: > Dear Stu

Re: 6.8 with gnome boots to xterm after upgrade

2021-03-03 Thread Ed Gray
Hi Sivan, I think you need to provide more details on your problem if you want some help at least a log from X and what is in your .xsession file. You also mentioned errors but don't say what they are. Did you upgrade the packages each time you upgraded the system? Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 3

Re: Window Manager performance impact on applications

2021-03-03 Thread Ed Gray
not aware of any technical reasons why Firefox should be significantly faster with one rather than another. You'd still be using gtk either way I imagine. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, 3:48 pm Mihai Popescu, wrote: > Hello, > > Technically speaking, is it possible for a window manage

Re: OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-27 Thread Ed Gray
UNLOAD FEATURE SMART self-test SMART error logging Device has enabled the following command sets/features: NOP command READ BUFFER command WRITE BUFFER command Host Protected Area feature set Read look-ahead Write cache Power Management feature set SMART featur

Re: OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-22 Thread Ed Gray
: Version 2017.3.23 external FUSE 26 Mounted /dev/sd2i (Read-Write, label "SAMSUNG", NTFS 3.1) Cmdline options: no_detach Mount options: allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sd2i,blkdev,blksize=4096 Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1 Regards Ed Gray https://www.li

Re: OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-21 Thread Ed Gray
various hangs in thunar file manager. I previously had increased shm variables because of a KDE application recommending it for lots of file accesses. I know ntfs-3g is using FUSE rather than a native driver. Regards Ed Gray On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, 6:51 pm Maurice McCarthy, wrote: > Native read-o

OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-21 Thread Ed Gray
the read-only NTFS driver or ntfs-3g port successfully and if there are any known bugs with these. Regards Ed Gray https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-gray-55079422

Re: Zotac 880GITX-A-E amd64 Onboard NEC USB3 does not work.

2021-02-17 Thread Ed Gray
download as I cannot find one from renasas or NEC. Regards Ed Gray https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-gray-55079422 On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 21:43, Ed Gray wrote: > > Hi, > > My main OpenBSD system is a Mini-ITX PC that I built myself using the > Zotac 880GITX-A-E amd64 AM3 motherboard.

Re: sysupgrade failure logs

2021-02-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:44:37 -0700 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > You are outside the box, by changing tons of stuff. > > People who operate inside the box won't be able to help you. > > And it is even less likely when you are dishonest in the original > email. You claimed your sysupgrade use was

Zotac 880GITX-A-E amd64 Onboard NEC USB3 does not work.

2021-02-10 Thread Ed Gray
addr 01: 1002: ATI, EHCI root hub Controller /dev/usb4: addr 01: 1002: ATI, OHCI root hub Controller /dev/usb5: addr 01: 1002: ATI, OHCI root hub Controller /dev/usb6: addr 01: 1002: ATI, OHCI root hub Controller /dev/usb7: addr 01: 1002: ATI, OHCI root hub usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 01: 1033: NEC, xHCI root hub super speed, self powered, config 1, rev 1.00 driver: uhub0 Regards Ed Gray https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-gray-55079422

Re: Installation overwritten... Accidental disklabel and newfs

2021-02-10 Thread Ed Gray
Thanks for the answers. I will make a note of this command. I have now installed 6.8 and am gradually getting my settings and software back. Regards Ed Gray https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-gray-55079422 On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 19:25, Ian Darwin wrote: > > The device nodes don't exist

Re: Installation overwritten... Accidental disklabel and newfs

2021-02-10 Thread Ed Gray
seriously nowadays. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, 3:52 pm Otto Moerbeek, wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:35:06PM +0000, Ed Gray wrote: > > > Okay, thanks Stuart. > > > > I have left testdisk running a deep scan and will see if it finds my > /var. > >

Re: Installation overwritten... Accidental disklabel and newfs

2021-02-10 Thread Ed Gray
the install or upgrade programs. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, 8:33 am Stuart Henderson, wrote: > On 2021-02-09, Ed Gray wrote: > > I have backups and will probably not have lost anything important but I > > just wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to whether

Installation overwritten... Accidental disklabel and newfs

2021-02-09 Thread Ed Gray
this approach. In my case I wanted to see the disklabel allocation for comparison. I suppose I at least didn't run "rm -rf *"... Regards Ed Gray

Re: i386 "panic: pci_make_tag: bad request" after acpi sleep states

2020-12-30 Thread ed
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:20:29 -0500 Ian Darwin wrote: > Boot used Kernel FromResult > pxeboot bsd.rd tftpOK > pxeboot bsd hd0aOK (via > tftpboot/etc/conf) boot bsd > hd0a panic > > I.e.,

Re: Supported PCI USB 3 cards

2020-12-09 Thread Ed Gray
with "AMD RS880 Host" and "AMD RS780 PCIE". I know it's rather old hardware now and a bit specialist being ITX but I would expect these NEC chips to be bundled on quite a few boards. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, 8:51 am Nils Blomqvist, wrote: > On 27 Nov 2020, at 17:12

panic "locking against myself"

2020-11-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I've had a couple of panics: mtx(something) (address) locking against myself in the last couple of days. The most recent address was 0x821c63c8 How do this get tracked down? No core files from anything in the applicable time window. dmesg below signature. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft

Re: Security & Compliance - A/V

2020-11-27 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:33:34 +0100 Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote: (snip) > I am not aware of any publicly available set of documents that > provide the direct checkoffs for OpenBSD with respect to specific > compliance regimes, but I’m fairly certain that you will find useful > answers by

Re: Security & Compliance - A/V

2020-11-27 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:35:45 -0500 Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-11-25 17:10, Brogan Beard wrote: > [...] > > Something to consider: run the AV against your boxes -- elsewhere! > > I have a similar situation at $DAYJOB. Not OpenBSD, but an OS that > similarly has little malware written for

Re: Using ports and updates to the release

2020-10-29 Thread Ed Gray
Thanks Stuart, That was quite a complete answer. I think in my case to be certain any errors I might find using ports are not due to something outdated on my system I should follow your instructions and pull the updated CVS first especially after doing a release upgrade. Regards Ed Gray On Thu

Re: Using ports and updates to the release

2020-10-28 Thread Ed Gray
of the ports tree? The following question is then if I have a problem building a port due to an outdated dependency on a supported release should I report it as an issue with the port even if a newer release of openbsd does not have the issue? Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 28 Oct 2020, 7:07 am Marc Espie

Re: sysupgrade doesn't like the path

2020-10-11 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:04:52 -0600 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > [...] > > fw_update, sysupgrade, pkg_add, syspatch, and some other things have > heuristic issues near release, and it is difficult to fix because > what we release gets

Using ports and updates to the release

2020-10-11 Thread Ed Gray
Hi, I'm still fairly new to openbsd and the idea of using ports in general rather than binary packages. Is it necessary to keep the ports tree updated if using a release version of openbsd e.g. pulling the stable tree from CVS before building new software? Regards Ed Fray

sysupgrade doesn't like the path

2020-10-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
sysupgrade is looking for files in 6.9 (which isn't being found). Is this due to a slow mirror upgrade or just "near release stuff"? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: XFCE menu does not load with keyboard shortcut

2020-06-24 Thread Ed Gray
menu (which Robb at y42 mentioned). I suppose we just have to wait for it to be fixed upstream. The .xsession-errors file was the right place to look which was helpful for me so thanks for that Robb. Regards Ed Gray On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 09:07, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2

XFCE menu does not load with keyboard shortcut

2020-06-23 Thread Ed Gray
and I'm not on the desktop. I can't confirm at the moment if it is specific to OpenBSD or XFCE in general. Does anyone else have this problem? Regards Ed Gray

Re: Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

2020-06-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:38:55 -0400 "Eric Furman" wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > [...] > > This is why if you are serious you use a degausser. > The truly serious use a smelter. I am not making a joke. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

The 16 partitions thread

2020-04-30 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Some people read replies in misc and say, "wow, Theo and the OBSD devs are obnoxiously harsh.' I read the 16 partitions thread and think, "I marvel at their patience with interlocutors who have not read the relevant source code and give no indication that they would understand it if they did."

Browser tabs crashing if running via X forwarding.

2020-04-08 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
esults. No mingw related logs on the Windows side. Output from firefox to the initiating xterm: user@host(~)$firefox & [3] 42685 ed@pav(~)$ ###!!! [Parent][RunMessage] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv ###!!! [Parent][RunMessage] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv [Parent 42

Re: OPenBSD 4.9 i386, Asus EEE 701, no network

2019-01-02 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On 2019-01-01 12:13:47, oletus wrote: > > Owain Ainsworth-2 wrote > >> - "ifconfig lii0" returns: > >> lii0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu > >> 1500 lladdr > > > >>priority: 0 > >>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > >>status: no carrier > >>inet6 > >

Re: Advice on Security Cameras

2019-01-02 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> From: "Elias M. Mariani" > Date: 2019-01-01 17:46:25 > > Hi list, > I'm thinking in installing some cameras in my private home, I have > been looking for solutions, my concern is that I wish to be able to > look the videos from outside the house and I'm a little paranoid about >

panic booting with bsd.rd from the September 15 2018 snapshot

2018-09-17 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
trap type 18, code 0, pc=81374ace gsbase 0x81870ff0 kgsbas 0x0 panic: trap type 18, code 0, pc=81374ace dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 6.4-beta (GENERIC.MP) #294: Wed Sep 12 19:50:03 MDT 2018

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:55:40AM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: > > Ken, > > > > Just curious, are you using pf to filter out the bad websites for > > you kids? I find that to be more challenging for our older daughter > > to not stumble into the bad stuff and not the wholesome sites like > >

Re: Change Windows10 disk to OpenBSD, but not sure what disklabel and fdisk mean

2018-09-04 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:35:04 -0700 Chris Bennett wrote: > OK > I see that i needed to use fdisk -v > > Any need to preserve any existing stuff? (and how if so?) > > > Primary GPT: > Disk: sd0 Usable LBA: 34 to 1953525134 [1953525168 Sectors] > GUID: 0b27fac9-4c45-460c-b321-f6ba7ccacfb9 >

Re: perlish question

2018-08-16 Thread Ed
intf("%s: %s\n", p, h); >     return (crypt_checkpass(p, h)); > } Why not perl -e 'print( crypt( $p, $h ), "\n" );' -- Best regards, Ed http://www.s5h.net/

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> Message-ID: 20180716172740.20b5a7ff () mephala ! kappastar ! com On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:27:40 Marko wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300 > Man Hobby wrote: > > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why?

Re: dump/restore and crontab(5)

2018-07-02 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:25:37 -0400 "trondd" wrote: > On Mon, July 2, 2018 8:14 am, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > I'd have to look later to see if my dumps are coreectly grabbing the > crontabs. But first, try looking in /var/backups either on disk, or

dump/restore and crontab(5)

2018-07-02 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Having clobbered my crontab (5) file in error (-r and -e are close) I merrily went to my level 0 dump to restore it. It's present on the dump (which is to file) but the restored file is zero bytes. Should I have run those dumps manually instead of as cron jobs? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft

Re: Gtk-WARNING and cannot open display attempting to forward X

2018-02-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:01:19 -0600 Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net> wrote: > Since the snapshot of the 16th, I cannot run X apps from a W10 box > with PuTTY and mingw. No config changes to Windows, put X11Forwarding > yes back into sshd_config.dmesg and sshd_config

Gtk-WARNING and cannot open display attempting to forward X

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Since the snapshot of the 16th, I cannot run X apps from a W10 box with PuTTY and mingw. No config changes to Windows, put X11Forwarding yes back into sshd_config.dmesg and sshd_config below signature. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.102

font path ignorance

2018-01-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Built a new system, and it didn't have all the fonts that were on the old one. I looked for msttcorefonts as a package, and didn't find it. So I went through ports and found it, and some other font sets that I remembered from before, make, make build, make install. At the end of each make install

no X login

2018-01-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
After upgrading to the Jan 4 amd64 snapshot, I do not see a login box. I can ssh to the machine, and run X applications in an X server, but no graphical login at the console. dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 6.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #324: Thu Jan 4 23:44:04 MST

no video on resume

2018-01-04 Thread Ed Brunelle
ded- after the system resumes , its working, as I can type -in "blind" mode- so I can reboot the system. Do I need to setup any extra params on conf files? many thanks ed

Re: bug tracking system for OpenBSD

2017-12-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:05:53 -0800 Kai Wetlesen wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > > There are many decisions that would need to be made that will piss > somebody off. Decisions like what software/platform to use, where to > host the thing, and how much the

Re: kernel reordering and config -e

2017-11-22 Thread Ed Hynan
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Theo de Raadt wrote: If someone wants to solve this fully there have been some proposals for keeping track of the instruction sequence, and attempting to reapply it upon each relink in the build directory. There just hasn't been any scripting changes to do that from anyone,

Re: Automatically restarting services/daemons after crash

2017-10-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:01:58 +0300 Mihai Popescu wrote: > [...] > > Not OpenBSD related, but I was truly amazed people like you still > exist and still set up computers for others! > For you curiosity about user case, I preffer such a service not to be > started at all. >

stickers

2017-10-01 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Now that there are no CDs, are stickers also gone? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: screen black after attaching to inteldrm, June snapshots

2017-06-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 06:27:56 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net> wrote: > Since the June 7 snapshot and the one before that, once inteldrm is > attached: > > inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel G41 Video" rev 0x03 > > the screen goes black. See

screen black after attaching to inteldrm, June snapshots

2017-06-09 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Since the June 7 snapshot and the one before that, once inteldrm is attached: inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel G41 Video" rev 0x03 the screen goes black. Seems similar to the issue noted here: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech=144317809403958=2 dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard

Re: Firefox: Recenty instable

2017-03-16 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:47:36 +0100 Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:19:18PM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote: > [...] > > [...] > > [...] > > I found this quite helpful. > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports=148925156914633 > > Since raising

Re: Fw: Re: https://undeadly.org

2017-02-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I have used and enjoyed undeadly for around ten years, and wish to acknowledge Paul for having been helpful to me on more than one occasion. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: autoinstall with local file

2017-01-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:01:36 -0700 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > [...] > > That is yet another example of interactive use, of an installer > feature designed for NON-INTERACTIVE USE. > > I feel like we're being pushed to support a set of use cases which > are not core

Re: autoinstall with local file

2017-01-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:06:35 + Robert Peichaer <rob...@peichaer.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > The installer looks at the filesystem provided by bsd.rd itself, not > the filesystem on disk. > Thanks. -

autoinstall with local file

2017-01-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: /auto_upgrade.conf or file://auto_upgrade.conf or file:auto_upgrade.conf do not work. Is this still a "watch this space!" feature? -- Edward

Re: Is 6.1 expected to happen soon?

2016-11-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 20:25:12 -0500 Ax0n wrote: > My advice: If you really want the performance boost and you think a > recent snapshot will provide it, make sure your backups are good and > test the snapshot on comparable hardware as best you can. I usually > restore the dump to a

ddclient failure to start

2016-07-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
ddclient won't start from rc.d with this configuration: rc.conf.local: ntpd_flags= xdm_flags= httpd_flags= doas_flags= ddclient_flags=-file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf pkg_scripts=ddclient ddclient.conf: # Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf # # /etc/ddclient.conf # #opendns #

forwarding sound as well as video

2016-03-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I sometimes remote to my snapshot desktop from a WIndows laptop and it would be interesting if sound could come along (I use Putty). Does anybody so this? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

scheduler changes in the 22 March Snaphot

2016-03-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Wow. It's as if somebody hit the good video in FF switch. Kudos to all. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Hosting a virtual Windows instance

2015-12-25 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Does anybody do that (e.g., deal with a stupid mandatory web site)? If so, what host do you use? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: OpenBSD 5.8 on VMware 5.5

2015-12-01 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> From: Fabio Almeida > Date: 2015-12-01 16:18:43 > Message-ID: CAGd5O8LpM3Dz8N7fq8edWmuqnxnBEVgN16QETsOtHo69Ote_-w () > mail ! gmail ! com [Download message RAW] > > Hi Felipe, > > I'm running OpenBSD VMWare guests without problem, both as Firewall, > IPSec VPN and FTP/SFTP

printing change over the ages

2015-11-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Saturday I saw this line on tech from Theo: lpd lpr lpq lprm (yes, legacy software, but still) Is CUPS become more "the thing" among developers? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: printing change over the ages

2015-11-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 07:20:56 -0700 Theo de Raadt wrote: > [...] > > Having read CUPS code, and aware of how things interface withit, it is > something I definately try to shy away from. > That was what I had thought was the case. > But it is true that our lp suite

changing swap partition upon adding RAM

2015-10-17 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I just doubled RAM in my October 7 snapshot machine. I'd like to have enough swap for a crash dump. I have plenty of unallocated disk, but it's not adjacent to wd0b. I disklabeled myself a wd0l, same size, of type swap, but I'm not sure that's right. wd0l has an offset of over a billion, so it

Re: DHCPv6 server - send_packet6: Network is unreachable

2015-08-27 Thread Ed Hynan
[ I tried sending this Monday morning; I just a DSN for failure -- so trying again, from different address. ] On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Claus Lensbøl wrote: On 18-08-2015 21:32, Ed Hynan wrote: From: Claus Lensbøl cl...@fab-it.dk I am running openbsd 5.6 GENERIC.MP#333 amd64. Using isc-dhcp

Re: DHCPv6 server - send_packet6: Network is unreachable

2015-08-18 Thread Ed Hynan
checking whether it's needed -- still works. I don't know about 5.6 (as he ducks his head). NOTE: patch applies to ISC tar archive -- I did not start from ports, so I don't know if it'll apply to patched ports source. Try it if you like. Good luck. -Ed # BEGIN PATCH diff -u -r dhcp-4.3.0-orig

doas.conf

2015-07-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
There seems to be know sample configuration file for doas. I complains of not being enabled, and the man pages do not say how to do that. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

PPPoE Dropping

2015-06-29 Thread Ed Stout
### .. If anyone has any suggestions, or seen anything similar previously, I'm all ears. Going to open a case with the ISP as well. Thanks, Ed

Re: PPPoE Dropping

2015-06-29 Thread Ed Stout
wrote: On 2015-06-29, Ed Stout edst...@gmail.com wrote: Good Morning, I've recently migrated to a new ISP (Zen UK), from BT, and am facing an annoying problem - head banging against a brick-wall has started - it is the same broadband product, i.e VDSL2/FTTC, just a different ISP

Re: Realtek ALC887 on OpenBSD 5.7 current

2015-05-11 Thread Ed Martinez
On 05/11/15 15:00, Stan Gammons wrote: module-console-kit.c: Unable to contact D-Bus system bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory May need to start dbus?

xkci recommendations

2015-03-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I got a card to exploit the xkci support, and but it turned out to want a Windows driver and therefore doesn't work (don't buy Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports and 5V 4-Pin Power Connector for Desktops [VL805 Chipset]). What are some USB 3 cards that DO work? --

Re: xkci recommendations

2015-03-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:48:06 +0100 ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 08:47:27AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: I got a card to exploit the xkci support, On 21 March 2015 at 21:00, Bryan Steele wrote: You didn't send a dmesg. xhci(4) support is new for 5.7

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3400 (78 messages)

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Many thanks to all respondents. Problem solved with dump. -- Ed

disk change-out and packages

2015-03-04 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I decided to upgrade the internal drive, so I hooked up the new on on the CD's usual SATA channel and installed, having adjust the disklabel more to suit me (the auto partition of /usr left it really tight on space, and home was not big enough). First method: mount all the slices in /tree and run

trouble with a large disk

2015-02-19 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I have a brand spanking new 3TB disk (Seagate ST3000) and it is not behaving. fdisk -i runs and runs and eventually the console goes black except for an immovable mouse pointer. sshd is killed, have to manually power down. If power on with the disk attached (usb) an on, an odd message appears and

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3339 (16 messages)

2014-12-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 05:20:04 -0700 owner-m...@openbsd.org wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:10:27 -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: I am missing something really obvious. httpd exits logging thusly: Dec 27 10:05:07 $hostname httpd[28709]: fatal: send server: Can't assign

httpd puzzlement

2014-12-27 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
httpd doesn't serve pages on my Dec24 snapshot system (hasn't ever, actually). I am missing something really obvious. httpd exits logging thusly: Dec 27 10:05:07 $hostname httpd[28709]: fatal: send server: Can't assign requested address rc.conf.local and httpd.conf files are below. httpd.conf

Re: ifconfig command for IPv6 tunnel

2014-08-20 Thread Ed Hynan
alias /64 net prefix 64'. Then point rtadvd at that interface. -Ed

Re: ifconfig command for IPv6 tunnel

2014-08-20 Thread Ed Hynan
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Charles Musser wrote: On Aug 20, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Ed Hynan eh_l...@optonline.net wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Charles Musser wrote: - prefix::1 is the local address of the interface on the IPv6 network. No, *::2 is local. Ah, yes. Despite my best efforts

dlsym(): same symbols in prog and lib, segfault

2014-08-19 Thread Ed Hynan
prog % make clean; make fix # workaround 2 -- do not reference symbol in prog % make clean; make fix2 # still bug, different output (FPIC defaults empty) % make clean; make FPIC=-fPIC I'm sure this was not a problem with OpenBSD 4.9 because the code that raised the issue was fine on that. -Ed

Re: Donations to OpenBSD

2014-08-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
This is from the Electricity thread but seems on point: Dear Misc, In re electricity, please do one of the following: 1.Send money. 2.Convince OTHER PEOPLE to send money. This next bit is important, and is being overlooked again: 3.Stop summoning the Good Idea Fairy to the

OpenSSL static

2014-08-11 Thread Ed Hynan
The latest openssl patch was announced on the announce list. Do any of the system's static binaries use lib(ssl|crypto).a? -Ed

Re: OpenSSL static

2014-08-11 Thread Ed Hynan
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Theo de Raadt wrote: Do any of the system's static binaries use lib(ssl|crypto).a? A few use -lcrypto: iked isakmpd dc ftp Only one uses -lssl and -lcrypto: ftp Thanks for the prompt reply. dc! That caught me by surprise. -Ed

Re: login.conf default openfiles

2014-08-05 Thread Ed Hynan
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Ed Hynan eh_l...@optonline.net wrote: Saturday morning, saw this in /var/log/messages: Aug 2 08:29:12 lucy su: default: setting resource limit openfiles: Invalid argument (BTW, I quoted a line I produced by hand

Re: login.conf default openfiles

2014-08-05 Thread Ed Hynan
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Philip Guenther wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Ed Hynan eh_l...@optonline.net wrote: Failure to set the resource limits isn't considered fatal for setusercontext(). It would be Bad if a typo there could leave you unable to login or su to root... Agreed. My case

login.conf default openfiles

2014-08-02 Thread Ed Hynan
is the most recent I have handy. The 4.9 login.conf likewise has only openfiles-cur in default:, but I don't think I've seen that log message before. Some verbosity recently added? -Ed -- The rights you have are the rights given you by this Committee [the House Un-American Activities Committee

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