Re: i386 kernel panic with 1/9/09 snapshot

2009-01-11 Thread Tom Cosgrove
This appears to be fixed in -current/the latest snapshot. Can you try a version = the following (which fixed exactly the same problem on my laptop): OpenBSD 4.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #32: Fri Jan 9 10:34:10 MST 2009 t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Richard Stallman 7-Jan-08 17:14 IMO, a big part of the problem here is that when you say recommend in this context what you actually mean appears (based on the discussion here) to be something that most people would express as not deliberately erect barriers against. The

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Christoph Egger 8-Oct-07 12:54 in legacy mode, there is i386 that support 4KB and 4MB page-sizes and use 2-level pagetables. in legacy mode, there is i386 PAE that support 4KB and 2MB page-sizes and use 3-level pagetables. in long mode, there is amd64 that support 4KB, 2MB and 1GB

Calling all isakmpd(8) users

2007-07-31 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Short version: PLEASE TRY RUNNING WITH THIS DIFF. If it stops your current setup working, please let me and the lists know as soon as possible. If things continue to work, just send an email direct to me - I would like to get this put in for 4.2. This diff fixes a long-standing

The British

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries... Tom Cosgrove London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-Jun-07 15:28 Hmm, a googlemail account. This message must perhaps be coming from a typical illiterate British idiot who thinks that Glory is to Britain and Grandeur is still again

Re: Problem using flashboot (openBSD based), can't get it to boot

2007-05-29 Thread Tom Cosgrove
I can tell you why it's not working, but not how to fix it. Boudewijn Ector 29-May-07 20:41 Hi there, I've been trying for some time to get flashboot (openBSD based) to work, but no success (even after having it posted to their mailing-list). I'm trying to get it to boot on a

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Rico Secada 23-Apr-07 18:23 On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:42:01 +0200 Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are dealing with a hardware problem. Suspect both the disc and/or the controller. C'mon: let's put Han out of his (our?) misery. (And mainly for the archives...) Quite possibly this is

Re: new X sets problems

2007-04-03 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Dimitry Andric 3-Apr-07 09:46 Paul Irofti wrote: Since I've updated to the latest snapshot my i386 box keeps freezing on every second boot, i.e. the first boot runs correctly but after a reboot or halt and later boot-up xdm freezes and I must do a forced reboot. ... acpi @t mainbus0

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 bc

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Igor Sobrado 29-Jan-07 14:36 But I want to note that the difference between Solaris' bc and the bc flavours available on NetBSD (GNU bc) and OpenBSD (its own bc implementation) for numbers near zero is probably a bug. In fact, Solaris' bc returns comparable numbers for l(0.1) and

Re: Mac Mini (intel) status

2007-01-03 Thread Tom Cosgrove
(I'm posting this for the archives.) Thanks to a donation from Steven Fettig we have fixed the problem with using the keyboard at the boot prompt. This is in CVS, and in the latest snapshots. The keyboard does work under OpenBSD (including the installer), as long as ACPI is used. The keyboard

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Igor Sobrado 7-Dec-06 19:29 Attached is the first draft of the patch. Once it has been debugged I will open a bug report on it. Please, check carefully all the entries Don't create a bug report for this. This is not a bug. This is a change of style that you (and some others) would like

Re: % stdout?

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Seriously guys. NOOO!!! To print an arbitrary string use fprintf(stdout, %s, foo); Come on. Tom Jason Dixon 9-Nov-06 16:59 On Nov 9, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Cassio B. Caporal wrote: Hey, I have problems to print '%' in stdout... Suppose code below:

Re: toshiba boot

2006-10-20 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Sergei Smirnov 20-Oct-06 08:55 Nice to meet you! , Good morning i can't boot openbsd from toshiba m40. the toshiba can't find boot sector (may be), but if i install linux with grub -- it's well. fdisk -u wd0 and fdisk -u -f /usr/mdec/mbr wd0 doesn't good result can't find

Re: auvia plays noise with 44 KHz samples in OpenBSD 4.0 i386 (snapshot 2006-09-01)

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Cosgrove
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7-Sep-06 14:28 As far as I understand, the fixed rate for my device ir 44.1 KHz; http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/auvia.c?rev=1.33content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup But I have problems playing at that frequency. I have no problems with 48 KHz. On

Re: pxeboot

2006-08-16 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Jeff Quast 16-Aug-06 02:29 if you had used tcpdump -Xs 99 you would have seen in the first few packets of the negotiation, the wrap netboot client sent a request for changing the packet length. This was silently ignored by the OpenBSD tftpd, because it is not supported. When the wrap

Re: cd subdir; cd .. doesn't preserve working directory

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Cosgrove
The reason this happens is fairly obvious: zinc $ pwd /usr/local/lib/qt3 zinc $ ls -l total 30232 : lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel1 Apr 4 15:55 lib - . : i.e. lib is a symlink to the directory it is in. The rest of the behaviour follows from this. As to whether there

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Tom Cosgrove
vladas 6-Jul-06 13:46 Thank you for your replies. I was not clear enough in the first place: due to the first 10Mb being gone, I do not expect to find any valid fs anymore. What I still hope for are individual files from the 3Gb image file that I have. I mean e.g. exe's, or dll's, zip's,

Re: Humppa Validation

2006-06-01 Thread Tom Cosgrove
J.C. Roberts 1-Jun-06 06:58 : Sure, you can edit the above rather easily to produce the correct format for BSD md5/cksum but why should we be doing that all of the time. Don't edit it manually, use a one-line sed, awk or perl script. Would it be worthwhile to add a format switch (maybe -f)

Re: copying software from the official iso

2006-03-24 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Gilles LAMIRAL 24-Mar-06 11:43 Hello, Can I do a dd if=/dev/cdrom of=obsd.iso and redistribute it ? (the audio track is away) No. Do not do this. The CD layout (not just the song) is copyrighted. For more information see the FAQ entry http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO

Re: In chroot: /dev/stdin: Device not configured

2006-02-24 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Matthias Kilian 24-Feb-06 21:38 Hi, can anyone tell me wtf I'm missing in the commands below? # mkdir foo # cd foo # mkdir bin dev # cp -p /bin/cat bin # cd dev # /dev/MAKEDEV std # cd .. # chroot . /bin/cat /dev/stdin cat: /dev/stdin: Device not configured The reason I ask is

Re: Backup/Restore -panic: cannot open disk..., error 6

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Well, that's easy then. Your destination machine has no sd0 device, so the kernel can't find its root filesystem. Have you plugged the disk into the Dell PERC 3/Di which is not configured (i.e. no driver)? Good luck Tom Dede Dascalu 11-Jan-06 16:44 Here is some more info.

Re: Determining version of OpenBSD source

2006-01-05 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Siju George 5-Jan-06 10:09 Hi, Could some one please tell me if the source in http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source//arch/amd64/amd64/cpu.c?v=OPENBSD#L334 belongs to 3.8 stable or current or older versions? Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju Why don't you work it out yourself? HINT:

Re: problem fsckin' a usb disk on boot

2005-12-31 Thread Tom Cosgrove
b h 31-Dec-05 04:05 : then, when I press RETURN and attempt to # fsck_ffs /dev/rsd0a ** /dev/rsd0a cannot alloc 36537985 bytes for typemap # while dmesg also says I have: real mem = 1072472064 (1047336K) avail mem = 972025756 (949244K) This message comes from setup() in

Re: Debugging pxeboot on WRAP

2005-12-26 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Rolf Sommerhalder 26-Dec-05 09:13 pxeboot from OpenBSD3.8 (but also from 3.5, 3.6. and 3.7) fails to PXE boot WRAP appliances with BIOS 1.08 which supports PXE using etherboot (see www.pcengines.ch): : Probing pci nic... [dp83815] natsemi_probe: MAC addr 00:0D:B9:01:A0:A4 at ioaddr 0X1000

Re: Debugging pxeboot on WRAP

2005-12-26 Thread Tom Cosgrove
be pxe_call in my last email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said in my last email, if you want to look at it yourself, make sure you understand i386 assembler, the PXE specification, and protected- to-real-and-back mode switching. Thanks Tom Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:52:02 -0700 (MST) From: Tom

Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread Tom Cosgrove
frantisek holop 28-Nov-05 18:03 hmm, on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:32:54PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that It's even a FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwnotstd at least remove We welcome new contributors, because that is clearly not true. It is true. Off the top of my head I can

Re: Something hosing my msdos/FAT32 file system

2005-10-08 Thread Tom Cosgrove
frantisek holop 29-Sep-05 01:23 hmm, on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:55:26PM -0300, Pedro Martelletto said that No, I don't, but that's simply not needed. Just a note saying I was running OpenBSD version X, kernel dated Y, on an environment Z, and suddenly everything was gone would be a

Re: Something hosing my msdos/FAT32 file system

2005-10-08 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Guys Thanks for taking the trouble to send something more concrete about how to reproduce the problem. I have found the bug, and just committed the fix. The next snapshots will have it in, so please test, and help us make sure there are no side effects! Finally, to the person who said there

Re: Something hosing my msdos/FAT32 file system

2005-10-08 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Andreas Bihlmaier 8-Oct-05 15:20 From my point of view I can understand why people rather send their bugs to misc rather than use sendbug. It is the response or feedback they want to get before submitting plain out dumb bug reports. Most of the time (that is NOT only for OpenBSD) they are

Re: question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-10 Thread Tom Cosgrove
mojo fms 9-Aug-05 21:42 I ran fdisk and disklabel, im not splitting up the disks they are just as large as their size allows. They were both used running windows 98 which is why i fdisked to a6 format, then ran newfs /dev/wd1a and newfs /dev/wd2a .. both times it built the file system and

Re: Suggestion for queue.h

2005-08-09 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Alexander Farber 9-Aug-05 12:01 09 Aug 2005 12:56:01 +0200, Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Show me the timing results of a real-world application where you measured a difference in performance. Show me an example how will this change result in corrupted queues and strange bugs which

Re: Compiling for VIA Samuel 2 (CentaurHauls 686-class) 533 MHz

2005-07-17 Thread Tom Cosgrove
matt lawless 17-Jul-05 17:25 Hi, fed up of kernel panics on my EPIA 5000 I decided to make from source but can't find what settings use to get it to compile for this restricted processor. GCC borks when I try and compile it on the EPIA : /usr/src/sys/sys/time.h: In function

Re: Cross-Compiling OpenBSD

2005-07-10 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Maslan 10-Jul-05 08:16 On 7/10/05, Maslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pain let u learn more, besides i've some extra time. i used to make my own LFS, and i missing this in BSD. but what things i should consifer when trying so. the compiler are almost the same gcc. Almost the same? Have

Re: Cross-Compiling OpenBSD

2005-07-10 Thread Tom Cosgrove
Maslan 10-Jul-05 09:50 Thanks alot for making it clear, gcc will be another problem. but sometimes u really need to cross-compile os on another one as in case of hurd. Sigh. The Hurd home page says GNU/Hurd.. is completely self-contained (you can compile all parts of it using GNU itself).