Re: Is pf still the recommended firewall/NAT software for OpenBSD?

[Maurice McCarthy]

Yes

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, 01:14 Steve Litt,  wrote:

> Is pf still the recommended firewall/NAT software for OpenBSD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm
>
>

Re: Triple booting Windows/Debian/OpenBSD?

[Maurice McCarthy]

The kernel recognises bluetooth devices

Nov  5 11:32:25 fresh /bsd: ugen1 at uhub5 port 5 "Cambridge Silicon
Radio Bluetooth" rev 2.00/88.91 addr 2

But there is no support in the system and, so far as I am aware, there
is no one working on this. The few devs have too much to do already.

Re: Triple booting Windows/Debian/OpenBSD?

[Maurice McCarthy]

Thanks for all the education here folks!

Re: Triple booting Windows/Debian/OpenBSD?

[Maurice McCarthy]

I think you are asking for a world of grief.

sda5 is likely to be on an extended partition. That is trouble booting.

You cannot use the linux swap partition easily, though it might be
possible, reformatting on change of operation system, ???!!!

I'd advise against even trying. Unless you enjoy pain, that is.

Re: Many video frames dropped unless sound is muted

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 22/10/2022, Richard Ulmer  wrote:
> Hi all,
> since updating to 7.2 the performance of video playback in Firefox, as
> well as in mpv has dropped significantly on my machine. ...

I too have had poorer video performance too since 7.1   Not _certain
of the cause but since 7.1 one of my pair of 2-core cpu is always
offline. I suspect this may be to do with the deliberate removal of
hyper-threading support. (Yet this happened in 2018! It was done to
eliminate possible data leaks.
https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/20/openbsd_disables_intels_hyperthreading/
) There is a consequent drop in performance.

I use youtube-dl to download anything I want to see. (Performance is
far better from a local file.) It works on many sites such as the
Rumble 'embed' links and Odysee. headwind.tv was more problematic but
that played well directly over the internet.

Best

Re: OpmenBDS XFCE

[Maurice McCarthy]

Instead of dd there is rawrite32. This should also work
https://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/index.html

Re: OpmenBDS XFCE

[Maurice McCarthy]

you will find dd for windows at http://www.chrysocome.net/dd with instructions.

Re: Not able to get the HP AIO scanner working

[Maurice McCarthy]

BTW

scanimage -L

cannot work exactly because the all-in-one is only connected via the
network. There is no config in /etc/sane.d/

Re: Not able to get the HP AIO scanner working

[Maurice McCarthy]

I use scanimage rather than simple-scan but there the hpaio phrase
must be in quotes.

In ~/.kshrc I have a function which works fine

scan() {
if [[ "$1" = "" ]] ; \
then echo "Please enter a file number" ; return 1; \
fi ; \

/usr/local/bin/scanimage -v -p \
--device='hpaio:/net/Deskjet_2540_series?ip=192.168.1.132' \
--format jpeg -x 210 -y 297 --resolution=300 --mode=color \
>$1.jpg
}

Best

Re: Upgrade from 6.6

[Maurice McCarthy]

You are better off backing up then installing 7.1 from scratch. It will be
faster.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2022, 11:53 Anne Wainwright, 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am belatedly trying to update my 6.6 server.
>
> # sysupgrade
> ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 not found
>
> Done all the preparatory steps, so should I presume this is no longer
> possible?
>
> best and thanks
> Anne
>
>
>

Re: Unbound rc script behavior on 7.1

[Maurice McCarthy]

Did you miss out

# unbound-control-setup

perhaps?

Re: WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1

[Maurice McCarthy]

At home, once I reconnected to my own wifi the whatsapp QR reader
login came up. After that the linking of Chrome on OpenBSD device went
as expected.

Before the reconnection to wifi there was no login whatsoever.

Good Luck.

Re: mailrc and muttrc

[Maurice McCarthy]

I think many use fdm from ports.
Best

Re: install the sets, install70.img

[Maurice McCarthy]

Wow, cannot even see your usb drive. Now I am right out of my depth.
The sdhc0 and sdmmc0 are to do with the SD card slot.

I  have no further suggestions sorry.

Re: install the sets, install70.img

[Maurice McCarthy]

# mount /dev/sd1a /usb  (for example)
# exit

Should return to the installation.

Re: install the sets, install70.img

[Maurice McCarthy]

When you boot the usb it creates a _small ramdisk for the installation
to run from. Your notebook drive sd0 gets mounted on /mnt. The sets
stay on the usb.

If you look in /dev there are probably no sd1 files created (which I
guess is where the usb stick is, provided there are no other disks
present.) So drop to a shell

# export TERM=vt220
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV sd1 (!! Do not omit the sd1 or you will exhaust the ramdrive !!)
# mkdir /usb
# disklabel sd1

and you should see which partition your usb device is.

Best

Re: install the sets, install70.img

[Maurice McCarthy]

Your sets are on the USB "disk"


>
>
>

Re: The License of the Official Website

[Maurice McCarthy]

I think the best place to look is here:
https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

Good Luck

Re: Using OpenBSD as an L2TP client with A ISP

[Maurice McCarthy]

Ah, OK. Thank you Stuart.

Re: Using OpenBSD as an L2TP client with A ISP

[Maurice McCarthy]

tunnelbroker.net

Re: 6.9 Installer succeeds, computer will not boot from hard drive

[Maurice McCarthy]

At the boot prompt try

boot> boot hd1a:/bsd

If it works you can put it in boot.conf

HTH

Re: Behavior of sndioctl

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 20/08/2021, Yoshihiro Kawamata  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using OpenBSD 6.9.
> How should I understand the following behavior of sndioctl?
>
... etc.

Perhaps you have different apps set at different levels of output. On
my home PC I see this:

$ sndioctl
input.level=0.490
input.mute=0
output.level=0.502
output.mute=0
app/chrome0.level=1.000
app/firefox0.level=1.000
app/firefox1.level=1.000
app/firefox2.level=1.000
app/mpv0.level=1.000

Best Wishes

Re: using mdnsd as resolver

[Maurice McCarthy]

i think it is just an entry in /etc/rc.conf.local like so:

pkg_scripts=messagebus mdnsd cupsd

The order should be important.
Good Luck

Re: How do I change the default per-application sound volume in sndiod?

[Maurice McCarthy]

/usr/bin/sndioctl app/mplayer0.level=1.000

perhaps

Re: How do I change the default per-application sound volume in sndiod?

[Maurice McCarthy]

I only run stable 6.8 but I do this with a sndioctl output.level
command in .profile or .kshrc

HTH

Re: plugging head phones does not mute speaker

[Maurice McCarthy]

Sndiod is to be the default method of controliing audio.
Run sndiod and see what sndioctl says.

doas rcctl enable sndiod
doas rcctl start sndiod
doas sndioctl

Best

Re: Best way to increase openfiles-max and -cur for NGINX/PHP?

[Maurice McCarthy]

Please forgive an ignoramus butting in with a suggestion.

Have a look at man ksh - the section on the command "ulimit".

Best

Re: clock not set on boot

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 05/12/2020, Patrick Wildt  wrote:
>
> -s doesn't exist anymore.
>

... and other replies...

You've all proved what I guess I already knew.
I don't live in the world anymore. It just passes me by.

Re: clock not set on boot

[Maurice McCarthy]

Perhaps add

ntpd_flags="-s"

to /etc/rc.conf.local

Re: procedure for making an msdos usb stick

[Maurice McCarthy]

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10353

Re: Sound/audio onFirefox on 6.8

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 23/10/2020, Duncan Patton a Campbell  wrote:
>
> Hey Maurice.  The audio works elsewhere and this looks to be
> a Zombie Bugzilla bug come back from the dead.  Something
> about needing to directly link to sndio and skip the "cubeb" something...
>
> Dhu
>

Ah, so "works elsewhere" in your initial message refers to other
programs running under OpenBSD not other operating systems. Warned you
I was a numpty. In this case I'm completely clueless. That's normal
for me.

Good Luck

Re: Sound/audio onFirefox on 6.8

[Maurice McCarthy]

Warning: Numpty speaking

Well this seems to give you access to audio hardware

azalia1 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 "ATI SBx00 HD Audio" rev 0x40: apic 4 int 16
azalia1: codecs: Realtek/0x0892
audio0 at azalia1

So I can only point you at this
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#audioprob

Good Luck

Re: Installing sets from install67.fs on USB stick

[Maurice McCarthy]

I'm talking shite. Ignore all.

Re: Installing sets from install67.fs on USB stick

[Maurice McCarthy]

The installation ramdisk is deliberately small therefore not all
devices are pre-created.

You probably need to drop to a shell and

# cd /dev
# /dev/MAKEDEV sd2

Hopefully your 2nd usb device will be sd2. Check dmesg to be sure.

Good luck

Re: Installation problem on Fujitsu RX1330M4

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 13/07/2020, martin.scha...@l-bank.de  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have new Fujitsu RX1330M4 machines here. When I try to boot the
> install67.iso (cd) or the install67.fs (usb) the installaiotn media is not
> recognized by the system and therefore i can not select the media in the
> boot menu of the bios.
> My installation medias work as expected on normal pc hardware. Also no
> chance to boot the install kernel with a virtual cd (install67.iso) via the
> iRMC management system of the server. (secure boot config is disabled in the
> bios options).
>
> I’ve also installed a linux system (opensuse) and tried to boot the bsd.rd
> with the grub command line but it is doing a reboot only and therefore
> starting the grub again without starting the bsd install-kernel.
>
> Has anyone an idea or experience with installing on newer Fujitsu systems ?
>
> Regards
> Martin
>

Presumably you've tried setting the USB to legacy or auto in the bios?

Re: Openbsdstore.com - offline or powered off?

[Maurice McCarthy]

I think it has been reported here on misc that it no longer exists,
not since physical CDroms have been discontinued.

Re: OpenBSD alternatives to Pi-Hole

[Maurice McCarthy]

You could have a look at https://www.geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html and
https://www.geoghegan.ca/pfbadhost.html

Re: sane-backends permission problems

[Maurice McCarthy]

Hmm, interesting.
Thanks both

Re: sane-backends permission problems

[Maurice McCarthy]

Add your user to the operator group.
Regards

Re: sndio: troubleshooting no input

[Maurice McCarthy]

sndioctl -d

Have a look at man sndioctl
Good Luck

Re: Distorted sound in 6.7

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 25/05/2020, Alexandre Ratchov  wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:35:06PM +0100, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since installing 6.7 I've found that human voices in mpv or youtube
>> sound either very quiet or  as-if  "under water" or bubbly. I was
>> unable to cure this with sndioctl but succeeded with the old mixerctl
>>
>> doas outputs.master=200,150
>>
>
> Most probably the speaker(s) are not properly wired and left and right
> channels cancel each other. You could check this as follows: play a
> mono file and meanwhile try the following:
>
> doas outputs.master=200,0
> doas outputs.master=0,200
> doas outputs.master=200,200
>
> first two should play but the last one should produce (almost)
> silence.
>
>> If I understand sndioctl well enough this kind of left and right
>> speaker adjustment is not possible under sndioctl. dmesg attached.
>>
>
> fwiw, to control individual channels (if hardware allows it), put the
> channel number between squire brackets:
>
> sndioctl output[1].level=0
>

Thank you Alexandre. You were spot on about playing the mono file. I
failed to make it clear that I normally use headphones jacked into the
onboard sound. (My good lady does not share my taste in music.) It
turns out they don't support separate channels.

Thanks again for the enlightenment.

Distorted sound in 6.7

[Maurice McCarthy]

Hi,

Since installing 6.7 I've found that human voices in mpv or youtube
sound either very quiet or  as-if  "under water" or bubbly. I was
unable to cure this with sndioctl but succeeded with the old mixerctl

doas outputs.master=200,150

If I understand sndioctl well enough this kind of left and right
speaker adjustment is not possible under sndioctl. dmesg attached.

Thanks again for all the magnificent effort. I've made a donation
within my means.

OpenBSD 6.7 (RAMDISK_CD) #177: Thu May  7 11:19:02 MDT 2020
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
real mem = 7459487744 (7113MB)
avail mem = 7229386752 (6894MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xebee0 (52 entries)
bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "FC" date 01/19/2016
bios0: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. F2A78M-HD2
acpi0 at bios0: ACPI 5.0
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC FPDT MCFG HPET WDRT SSDT SSDT CRAT SSDT SSDT SSDT
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 16 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD A6-7400K Radeon R5, 6 Compute Cores 2C+4G, 3496.29 MHz, 15-30-01
cpu0: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,PCLMUL,MWAIT,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,FMA4,TCE,NODEID,TBM,TOPEXT,CPCTR,DBKP,PERFTSC,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,XSAVEOPT
cpu0: 96KB 64b/line 3-way I-cache, 16KB 64b/line 4-way D-cache, 1MB
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 24 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 64 4KB entries fully associative, 64 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz
cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, IBE
cpu at mainbus0: not configured
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 0 pa 0xfec0, version 21, 24 pins
ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec01000, version 21, 32 pins
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (PB21)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB22)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (PB31)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 3 (PB32)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB33)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB34)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 4 (P0PC)
acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (PE20)
acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus -1 (PE21)
acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus -1 (PE22)
acpiprt11 at acpi0: bus -1 (PE23)
acpicpu at acpi0 not configured
"PNP0A03" at acpi0 not configured
acpicmos0 at acpi0
"PNP0C0C" at acpi0 not configured
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD 15h Root Complex" rev 0x00
"ATI Kaveri Radeon R5" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 not configured
"ATI Kaveri HD Audio" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 not configured
pchb1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "AMD 15h PCIE" rev 0x00
ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 "AMD 15h PCIE" rev 0x00: msi
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 7470" rev 0x00
wsdisplay1 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
"ATI Radeon HD 6400 Audio" rev 0x00 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 not configured
pchb2 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "AMD 15h PCIE" rev 0x00
ppb1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 "AMD 15h PCIE" rev 0x00: msi
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x06:
RTL8168E/8111E-VL (0x2c80), msi, address 1c:1b:0d:35:f5:13
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S/8211 PHY, rev. 5
ppb2 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 "AMD 15h PCIE" rev 0x00: msi
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
xhci0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Renesas uPD720202 xHCI" rev 0x02: msi, xHCI 1.0
usb0 at xhci0: USB revision 3.0
uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Renesas xHCI root hub" rev
3.00/1.00 addr 1
pchb3 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "AMD 15h PCIE" rev 0x00
xhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "AMD Bolton xHCI" rev 0x09: msi, xHCI 1.0
usb1 at xhci1: USB revision 3.0
uhub1 at usb1 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD xHCI root hub" rev
3.00/1.00 addr 1
xhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "AMD Bolton xHCI" rev 0x09: msi, xHCI 1.0
usb2 at xhci2: USB revision 3.0
uhub2 at usb2 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD xHCI root hub" rev
3.00/1.00 addr 1
ahci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "AMD Hudson-2 SATA" rev 0x40: msi, AHCI 1.3
ahci0: port 0: 6.0Gb/s
ahci0: port 1: 6.0Gb/s
ahci0: port 2: 1.5Gb/s
ahci0: port 3: 6.0Gb/s
scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: 
t10.ATA_R3SL120G_E201609080040271_
sd0: 114473MB, 512 bytes/sector, 234441648 sectors, thin
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0:  naa.50014ee25eef5b02
sd1: 953869MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1953525168 sectors
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0:  removable
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0:  naa.5707c181003d6344
sd2: 122104MB, 512 bytes/sector, 250069680 sectors, thin
ohci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "AMD Hudson-2 USB" rev 0x11: apic 0
int 18, version 1.0, legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "AMD Hudson-2 USB2" rev 0x11: apic 0 int 17
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev
2.00/1.00 addr 1
ohci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "AMD Hudson-2 USB" rev 0x11: apic 0
int 18, version 1.0, 

Re: Mounting microSDHC

[Maurice McCarthy]

Maybe depends whether it is on usb or pci. Have a look at

$ pkg_info pcsc-tools

Re: [/ is full] How to delete junk in /dev ?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 6.6 stable

$ ls /dev | nl

gives me 1179 in the list. Have you written something in there? A
large print file?

Re: Filesystem corruption on OpenBSD routers after power outage?

[Maurice McCarthy]

There is a discussion about sofdeps here
http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/What-are-the-disadvantages-of-soft-updates-td264283.html

Re: What TERM fixes Emacs?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 25/02/2020, Emilia  wrote:
> It is impossible to use Emacs on OpenBSD Terminal (no X).
>

OpenBSD does not do non-X versions of ported software so even if you
dont use X as such it still needs to be in the base install.

HTH
(I've had my backside reamed over this more than once!)

Re: USB printer?

[Maurice McCarthy]

In my belief, you _must install hpcups. And if you use the usb then
you _must disable ulpt in the kernel. See
/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/cups

Re: Unable to kill a python process

[Maurice McCarthy]

you could try kill -1 8926

Re: RV: Query

[Maurice McCarthy]

Hi

OepnBSD has its own installation system. The operating system itself
has a steep learning curve for a beginner. I'd suggest you start by
reading the relevant parts of the faq
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html and the installation notes
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.6/amd64/INSTALL.amd64

I run a similar amd64 myself and can now install the base system in
about 4 minutes from the install iso
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.6/amd64/install66.iso  It will
install to a usb drive.

Good Luck

Re: pipe html mail to links

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 30/12/2019, putridsou...@gmail.com  wrote:
>> Should this not just need a .mailcap entry:
>>
>> text/html; /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump -force_html %s
>
> I tried your way only changed: lynx -> links
> .mailcap
> text/html; /usr/local/bin/links -dump %s
>
> But mail did not call links when I tried to
> read a html mail using "p [message]" command.
>

The pipe command is pi not p but I cannot help further sorry. Don't
use mail much.

Re: pipe html mail to links

[Maurice McCarthy]

Should this not just need a .mailcap entry:

text/html; /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump -force_html %s



On 29/12/2019, putridsou...@gmail.com  wrote:
> I wish to pipe my mails from the standard
> openbsd mail command to links.
> But I failed to find any way to pipe
> in message or file from stdin to links
>
> Following three lines are edits I want to
> do expect use links instead to lynx
>
> .mailrc
> # Reading HTML mail
> set pipe-text/html="lynx -dump -force_html /dev/stdin"
>
> I tried this with "links -dump /dev/stdin"
> I'm greeted with following error
>
> Unkown file type
>
>

Re: Thinkpad T420: Screen, keyboard and mouse freeze when using web browsers on 6.6/AMD64

[Maurice McCarthy]

Are you browsers allowed enough memory?

Someone on this list once suggested putting lines like these in ~/.kshrc

# Raising the memory limits to accommodate greedy browsers 3Gb
alias chrome='(ulimit -d $((3*1024*1024); /usr/local/bin/chrome'
alias firefox='(ulimit -d $((3*1024*1024); /usr/local/bin/firefox'

Regards

Re: sysupgrade (Was: Re: Kernel crash in OpenBSD 6.5)

[Maurice McCarthy]

Thank you for the clarification!

Re: sysupgrade (Was: Re: Kernel crash in OpenBSD 6.5)

[Maurice McCarthy]

In the past it was not uncommon for non-X programs in base to have
dependencies in Xenocara. Are you certain that this is no longer so?

Re: OpenBSD on thinkpad x280

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 25/05/2019, Timo Myyrä  wrote:
> Tristan Pilat  writes:
>
>> Hi OpenBSD users and devs!
>>
>> I got a new laptop in January, a thinkpad x280. At that time my system
>> running 'current' was very slow and I assumed the video acceleration
>> wasn't working so I just sadly stuck with Debian for a while. I then
>> saw that an update of the inteldrm landed in current a month ago or so
>> so I tried yesterday to reinstall current. Unfortunately the system is
>> still barely usable. Could you guys tell me why the video acceleration
>> isn't handled? Isn't Kaby lake compatible for now? I saw this article
>> (https://jcs.org/2017/05/22/xiaomiair) which says it is.
>>

You may have to adjust the aperture
See /etc/examples/sysctl.conf

#machdep.allowaperture=2# See xf86(4)

Good Luck

Re: Troubleshooting FDE with SD Card Reader

[Maurice McCarthy]

Forgive me if I'm being silly but just because the kernel recognizes
the SD card it does not follow that the software to read it is built
into _base_. I hardly ever use an SD card but from what I remember you
have install pcsc-tools from ports to use one. If this is so then you
will _never_ be able to boot with a keydisk on the SD card. You must
use the USB.

Good Luck

Re: Infinite spin when trying to burn a CD

[Maurice McCarthy]

I never looked at your dmesg earlier. These lines

cd0(ahci0:2:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x1e
SENSE KEY: Illegal Request

suggest the Openbsd system finds something wrong with your hardware.
I'm not clever enough to speculate further. Sorry.

Re: GMA500 drivers

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 23/03/2019, Normen Wohner  wrote:
> I have now successfully installed OpenBSD
> on my Netbook, however Graphics performance
> is abysmal.
> I know that sadly Linux uses binary blobs for
> the GMA500 as it is a licensed Powervr chip.
> Any idea on how to "maybe" get faster graphics
> working?
> I'm willing to do the legwork.
>

I assume you've tried fw_update to attempt from firmware.openbsd.org ?!

As it is not listed in man 4 intel (don't know how up to date that is)
maybe someone is already porting the firmware driver from freebsd.
Otherwise I'd guess you would have to port a linux driver yourself.

Best Wishes

Re: Infinite spin when trying to burn a CD

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 23/03/2019, Jérôme FRGACIC  wrote:
> Hi misc,
>
> I encounter an annoying problem when I try to burn a CD on my laptop: my
> CD spin forever and nothing is written on it. Worst: it's impossible for
> me to eject the CD without rebooting.
>
> Here is the command I use:
>
> cdio -vv -f cd0c tao -d file.iso
>

# cdio -f /dev/rcd0c tao -s 1 file.iso

Maybe? Raw device and slow speed

Re: Need help installing 6.3 to Acer Aspire with eMMC drive; sdmmc troubles

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 14/10/2018, Nathan Clement  wrote:
> Hello,
> I am new to OpenBSD, installing for the first time to an Acer Aspire
> ES1-111M. The only internal drive it has is a 32GB eMMC card.
> I have used dd to get install63.fs on a usb drive, and it boots fine.
> However, the installer reports sd0 as 1024M, so naturally the partition
> table it devises is no good.
> When I check dmesg (which I have no way to save as I am in the
> install medium?) I see the messages:
>
> sdmmc0: can't re-read EXT_CSD
> sdmmc0: mem init failed
> scsibus0 at sdmmc0: 2 targets, initiator 0
> scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0:  SCSI2 0/direct removable
> sd0: 1024MB, 512 bytes/sector, 2097152 sectors
>
> I am booting in UEFI mode, but the results were the same when I used
> my BIOS' "Legacy" mode. disklabel also returns the same size, but
> when I run fdisk on /dev/sd0c it says it can't read sector 0.
> What should I do?
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>

Hi

Can't help with your problem but to get the dmesg I'd do something like this:

1. Drop to a shell in the installer (I think it is type in "!")
2. Plug in a fat32-formatted usb and note its device name, say sd1
3. cd to /dev and do chmod +x MAKEDEV
4. run ./MAKEDEV sd1 to create the device files.
5. mount_msdos /dev/sd1i /mnt2 (create the directory if necessary)
6. cat dmesg > /mnt2 and post it in.

Notes: The ramdisk is small so _don't_ do MAKEDEV all
None system partitions always start from the letter i

Good Luck

Re: DRM without X

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 03/09/2018, Thomas de Grivel  wrote:

> Is there any way to use the DRM drivers without X11 ?

Probably not. The X sets in base are an integral part of the whole
operating system. You install them whether or not you use X.

Re: Selling things through the mailing list allowed? I have compatible THIN CLIENTS for Firewall / Router appliance use Available

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 31/08/2018, Alexis  wrote:
>
> Jon Tabor  writes:
>
>> Yep, right there with ya.  So, ah...what's everyone using for
>> mail
>> filtering these days?  Spamassassin? ClamAV?  Something else
>> entirely?
>
> i use maildrop:
>
> http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
>
> Alexis.
>

$ pkg_info fdm

Re: sshfs permission problem

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 03/08/2018, Rudolf Sykora  wrote:
> doas sshfs syk...@pc109.fzu.cz: /home/ruda/mnt/fzu -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000

Leave out the 'doas' ?

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

[Maurice McCarthy]

Can only suggest reading man intel and/or running
$ doas fw_update

beyond that you'd  need someone more knowledgeable.
Good Luck

Re: user directory and wheel group

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 15/06/18 21:42, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2018-06-15, Asbel Kiprop  wrote:
> > Sooo, current behaviour when i have everything in /home/ with
> > "myuser:myuser" ownership and "wheel:*:0:root, myuser" in /etc/group  the
> > correct one?
> 
> That's one common way. As for whether it's "correct", that depends how
> you want to administer your system.
> 
> One thing to be aware of is the not-very-well-known restriction that one
> user can be in a maximum of 16 groups.  If you're using the "uid=gid"
> scheme and have some admin users that you want to add to the primary
> group for a bunch of users, you'll soon run out.
> 

Thanks Stuart. I wasn't aware of that restriction. 

Re: user directory and wheel group

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 15/06/18 22:10, Asbel Kiprop wrote:
> Sooo, current behaviour when i have everything in /home/ with
> "myuser:myuser" ownership and "wheel:*:0:root, myuser" in /etc/group  the
> correct one?
> 

That is correct.

Re: user directory and wheel group

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 15/06/18 20:52, Asbel Kiprop wrote:
> hello @misc!
> Kinda simple question here, but didnt fount any answer.
> After fresh install i've created new user, added to 'wheel' group.
> But /home/user/ direstory and everything in it has "user:user" owner, but
> shouldnt it be like "user:wheel" instead?
> sorry for bad english, hope for some help

No, no!

$ useradd -D
group   =uid
base_dir/home
skel_dir/etc/skel
shell   /bin/ksh
class   
inactiveNull (unset)
expire  Null (unset)
range   1000..6

The wheel group is a secondary group for the user.
Read man 8 useradd

Re: Installboot uses wrong device for secondary boot loader

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 29/04/18 08:39, Eric Zylstra wrote:
> I???m following the documentation in OpenBSD FAQ:  disk setup.
> 
> I???m inclined to think there is a code issue since I specified device
> sd4 and installboot used that device for the first stage and then seems
> to have defaulted to sd0 for the second stage bootloader. 
> 
> EZ
> 
> 

Did you omit "MAKEDEV sd4" by any chance?

A thank you for Scid & Stockfish

[Maurice McCarthy]

Just a note to bcallah@ to express great thanks for porting the chess
applications scid and stockfish-9 to OpenBSD. I'm well chuffed.
:)

Re: 6.2 song?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 15/03/18 01:38, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2018-03-15, jungle boogie  wrote:

> 
> it doesn't say which December.
> 
> (and I don't really see why 14/3/2018 would be "pi day"...)
> 
> 

Pi = 3.14 ... 

Personally I think it should be 22nd July, in Britain.

Pi =~ 22/7

:)

 

Re: "Dump device" is only partition never swap file right? Deliberate or onl f historic reasons?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 15/03/18 00:32, Tinker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I normally won't use any swap, and if it gets utilized then low
> performance would be fine, so normally using a swap file would be
> satisfactory for all my swap needs.
> 
> That is, if it was not for OS crash dumps. I like to catch those (to
> encrypted media) as they can provide insight into the reasons for
> system crash e.g. resolve hardware instability or kernel bug.
> 

The system is designed for the developers not the users.

> Dumps are stored to the "dump device", which is the swap partition on
> the system disk - and that has the consequence that dumps never are
> stored to swap files, right?
> 
> Is there a deliberate thought here that a crash could happen in the
> filesystem logics so therefore better write dumps only directly to
> partitions, or is this for historic reasons only e.g. noone bothered
> consider giving "dump device" a wider definition?
> 
> http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.2/crash
> http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.2/savecore
> http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.2/swapon
> 
> Thanks,
> Tinker
> 

Re: [6.2] Problem with X, .cwmrc file missing from fresh install

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 08/03/18 05:16, Luka Kosanovic wrote:
> Hi, Im a new user and I have a problem with cwm, everything works, I
> login and default xterm window appears but default keyboard shortcuts
> do not work. I tried many standard shortcuts and nothing happens, then
> I went on mailing lists and found somebody had the same problem a
> month ago so I did a little bit of digging and found out .cwmrc conf
> file doesnt exist.
> Can you please tell me why is that, shouldnt there
> be a default file in my home folder with a fresh install? Everything
> else works as expected there were no problems.
> 
> Thank you
> 

The zero config is intentional. First have a read of man 5 cwmrc. My own
~/.cwmrc looks like this:

command xterm   /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -bg black -fg wheat -fn 10x20 -ls

and ~/.xsession like this:

exec /usr/X11R6/cwm


and ~/.xinitrc like so:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -geometry -0+0 -fn 8x10 & \ 
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e tmux -2u & \
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm & \
/usr/X11R6/bin/cwm 

Good Luck

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 05/01/18 08:51, Eric Furman wrote:
> I always love threads like this. :)
> Doesn't it tell anybody anything that none of the developers have commented?
> 

Ignorant speculation: has pledge as revealed the severity of these bugs ?

Re: remastering as a live disk

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 23/12/17 00:23, Philip Mundhenk wrote:
> Are there any tools for cloning an OpenBSD installation as a live disk, like 
> the ones in the in the Debian (Respin;  Remastersys) and Mandrake (Makecd?) 
> families of Gnu/Linuxes? Or any reasonably painless way of making a 
> customized OpenBSD live disk?
> 
> Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
> Because the Constitution must not be allowed to become "a literary fiction."

Try fuguita.org

Re: [cwm] list all available items

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 30/11/17 12:25, Charlie Eddy wrote:
> Just a note that cwm is an old welsh word for a mountain pass, one of the
> few OED words with no vowel

The Welsh-English Dictionary gives

cwm 1. valley n.m.
http://www.geiriadur.net/

My Geography teacher taught us many years ago that it especially
referred to a valley created by glaciation scooping out a mountain
side. It is related to the English place names ending in coombe or
combe, such as Ilfracombe.

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

[Maurice McCarthy]

I assume the radeon firmware is in /etc/firmware. If not download
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.2/radeondrm-firmware-20150927.tgz
and untar it in that directory. (Sorry if I'm teaching granny to suck eggs.)



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Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

[Maurice McCarthy]

Your dmesg says

...
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 8600" rev 0x00
...

but I don't see this listed in "man 4 radeon".
https://man.openbsd.org/radeon

Cannot say for sure but it may not be supported.
Have a look at the log for X. Might provide info.
Good luck






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Re: Problems dual booting OpenBSD 6.2 on X1 Carbon

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 12/11/17 20:53, I wrote:

> 
> I just copied my own openbsd.pbr (on a non-encrypted partition) to
> C:\.  I also slightly adjusted the faq instructions thus:
> 
> C:\Windows\system32> bcdedit /set {0154a872-3d41-11de-bd67-a7060316bbb1}
> path C:\openbsd.pbr  ### I added "C:"   < IDIOT
> The operation completed successfully.
> 

White man speak thru forked arse! Fooled myself into doing something I
had not. 

Re: Problems dual booting OpenBSD 6.2 on X1 Carbon

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 12/11/17 16:14, Martin Oppegaard wrote:
> Yes.
> 
> From before I have another fulldisk encrypted OpenBSD with Windows (7)
> multiboot and that works as normal. It's Windows 10 I'm having issues with.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 12/11/17 13:54, Martin Oppegaard wrote:
> > > Yes, with same result.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > rsd2c
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > Sorry, just to double-check. From
> > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting
> >
> > you created the pbr with
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/rsd2a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
> >
> > yes?
> >
> >

I just copied my own openbsd.pbr (on a non-encrypted partition) to
C:\.  I also slightly adjusted the faq instructions thus:

C:\Windows\system32> bcdedit /set {0154a872-3d41-11de-bd67-a7060316bbb1}
path C:\openbsd.pbr  ### I added "C:"
The operation completed successfully.

because my Win10 boots from the system reserved 500MB and not from C:

This worked OK for me. Don't know if adding C: to \openbsd.pbr would
work for you too. The only other thing I can think of is to move bootmgr
to C: with the help of BCDedit.

Good Luck
Moss

Re: Problems dual booting OpenBSD 6.2 on X1 Carbon

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 12/11/17 13:54, Martin Oppegaard wrote:
> Yes, with same result.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > rsd2c
> >
> >

Sorry, just to double-check. From
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting 

you created the pbr with 

# dd if=/dev/rsd2a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1

yes?

Re: Problems dual booting OpenBSD 6.2 on X1 Carbon

[Maurice McCarthy]

rsd2c

Re: Problems dual booting OpenBSD 6.2 on X1 Carbon

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 12/11/17 10:35, I wrote:
> Snap response but have you tried the pbr from sd2c? 
> 
> 

Delete all and insert ""

Re: Problems dual booting OpenBSD 6.2 on X1 Carbon

[Maurice McCarthy]

Snap response but have you tried the pbr from sd2c? 


On 12/11/17 09:43, Martin Oppegaard wrote:
> Hi misc,
> 
> I've just shrinked the Windows partition on my X1 Carbon and installed
> OpenBSD 6.2 with full disk encryption. After copying the PBR Windows is not
> able to boot with it, returning error 0x07b: file is missing or corrupt.
> 
> I've tried with "PBR"s from several partitions, including sd2a where sd2 is
> the encrypted disk.
> 
> I can boot into OpenBSD with the installation media's bootloader however.
> Attached is dmesg, fdisk and disklabel outputs. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> Martin Oppegaard
> 

Re: Release 62 i386 not booting on MacBook Pro 13?? mid 2012

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 01/11/17 23:06, SFM wrote:
> Hi everyone ! I posted this a while ago but got absolutely no answers. As a 
> couple of weeks have gone by, I was hoping *maybe* someone out there already 
> has an explanation or solution to this problem. Thanks in advance !
> 
> I had been able to boot and run releases 60 and 61 in exactly the same 
> hardware, but the install 62CD did not boot (strangely enough), and neither 
> does the OS, which I successfully installed from a USB stick. During the 
> first boot, Screen goes blank (backlight on) and freezes right after printing 
> the CPU cores to the screen. No dmesg and no keyboard or mouse interaction 
> possible.
> 
> Ax0n Reported the same Problem with a snapshot and similar hardware in this 
> mailing list, but the thread is already about two months old and it is not  
> clear if he managed to solve it or not.


I had similar trouble with an AMD64 and  Radeon HD 7470 graphics card. I
found that copying the radeondrm firmware before first boot to
/etc/firmware/ fixed this. http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.2/
In my case it is the same firware as 6.1. I've no idea whether this will
work for you.

Good Luck

Re: Is Matrox G200e supported?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 23/09/17 02:56, Philippe PONCEBLANC wrote:
> Hello,
> "Why is my Matrox MGA G200e not supported?" on a Proliant ML150 G6,
> OpenBSD 6.1 for I386, My full dmesg output, complete output of sysctl
> and Xorg.0.log in this message. "Matrox G200e: back to software
> rendering". 2d acceleration is not available. Gnome appears but the
> windows of the programs move very slowly, I think it lacks a firmware
> or settings for the server X.
> 
> Kinds Regards
> Philippe Ponceblanc
> 

As Xenocara tracks Xorg then this may be related to this bug only 
recently fixed in Linux systems

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1316035

Re: Set date during OpenBSD installation

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 19/08/17 12:23, Nan Xiao wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Greetings from me! I am a newbie of OpenBSD, and come across
> a confusion of setting date during installation:
> 
> I install OpenBSD on VirtualBox and host machine is ArchLinux.
> During setup, it prompts me:
> 
> > What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [Asia/Singapore]
...
> 
> After installation, I use "date" command to check time:
> 
> #date
> Sat Aug 19 03:57:14 GMT 2017
> 
> The time is correct. But after reboot. The time changes:
> 
> #date
> Sat Aug 19 20:01:00 +8 2017
> #date
> Sat Aug 19 12:01:05 UTC 2017

Hi and welcome,

Did you do something between these two commands? My own date displays thus:

$ date
Sat Aug 19 08:15:55 BST 2017

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF8
LC_ALL=

and is as expected for the United Kingdom. The system usually displays
the locale date. Whenever there is a problem the first thing to do is to
read the relevant manpage and faq. The developers spend a lot of time
keeping the manpages right so that is always the first thing to do. They
are way superior to all linux systems I have seen. 

$ man 1 date
$ man 1 locale

I don't understand how this has arisen on your installation.

Good Luck
Moss

Re: Using USB headsets

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 16/08/17 19:21, Norman Golisz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to get my USB headset (Plantronics C310)
> to work.
> 
> I can't hear anything, nor does the microphone work. I fiddled with
> different mixerctl settings to no avail, and I'm not even sure my
> headset had been detected at all, as the available options to set
> don't change, while I plug or unplug the device[1].
> 
> dmesg[2] happily reports it detected and configured the device:
> 
> uaudio0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Plantronics Plantronics 
> C310" rev 2.00/1.35 addr 2
> uaudio0: audio rev 1.00, 7 mixer controls
> audio1 at uaudio0
> uhidev1 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 3 "Plantronics Plantronics 
> C310" rev 2.00/1.35 addr 2
> uhidev1: iclass 3/0, 42 report ids
> uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 1: input=1, output=0, feature=0

...

> 
> Do you have an idea what else to try? Do you have experience with
> similar hardware?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Norman
> 

# usbdevs -vd 

as root will tell you something. I'd also look at lsusb as an ordinary
user. You might have to add the user to the operator group or change 
permissions in /dev/usbx (whichever number it is) for the user to have
access to the usb. But I'm guessing. 

Lastly raise outputs.master=255,255

> [1] mixerctl -v
> 

> outputs.master=126,126
> outputs.master.mute=off  [ off on ]

Good Luck
Moss

Re: Headphone with Conexant CX20724

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 27/06/17 10:27, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > $ mixerctl outputs.hp_mute=off
> 
> I don't have this entry and mixerctl said so. I think I'll have to dive
> into understanding azalia, now.
> -- 
> Manuel Giraud
> 

The above is a command for testing.

Re: Headphone with Conexant CX20724

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 27/06/17 09:51, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Edgar Pettijohn  writes:
> 
> > mixerctl (1) handles a lot of stuff. Take a look at it's output and
> > you may find something that needs tweaking.
> 
> I started with mixerctl but did not found anything. And everything seems
> reasonable (no?):
> 
> inputs.dac-0:1_mute=off
> inputs.dac-0:1=126,126
> inputs.dac-2:3_mute=on
> inputs.dac-2:3=126,126
> inputs.beep=108
> record.adc-0:1_source=mic2
> record.adc-0:1_mute=off
> record.adc-0:1=126,126
> record.adc-2:3_source=mic2
> record.adc-2:3_mute=off
> record.adc-2:3=126,126
> outputs.spkr_source=dac-2:3
> outputs.spkr_eapd=on
> inputs.mic=85,85
> outputs.mic_dir=input-vr80
> inputs.mic2=85,85
> outputs.hp_source=dac-0:1
> inputs.hp=85,85
> outputs.hp_dir=output
> outputs.hp_boost=off
> outputs.hp_eapd=on
> outputs.mic_sense=unplugged
> outputs.hp_sense=plugged
> outputs.spkr_muters=hp
> outputs.master=126,126
> outputs.master.mute=off
> outputs.master.slaves=dac-0:1,dac-2:3
> record.volume=126,126
> record.volume.mute=off
> record.volume.slaves=adc-0:1,adc-2:3
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Giraud
> 

I'm no expert but I'd check audioctl for the number of play channels.
Mine looks so~

$ audioctl
name=azalia1
mode=
pause=0
active=0
nblks=2
blksz=960
rate=48000
encoding=s16le
play.channels=2
play.bytes=0
play.errors=0
record.channels=2
record.bytes=0
record.errors=0

Then I'd try 

$ mixerctl outputs.hp_mute=off

as that does not seem to appear in your mixer listing. If it makes any
difference then do

$ echo "outputs.hp_mute=off" >>~/.mixerctl.conf

to have the same on reboot. Just for comparison this my list of head
phone settings most of which are automatic: 

$ mixerctl | grep hp  
inputs.mix_source=mic,mic2,line-in,hp,line
inputs.mix_hp=248,248
outputs.hp_source=mix5
outputs.hp_mute=off
inputs.hp=255,255
outputs.hp_dir=output
outputs.hp_boost=off
outputs.hp_eapd=on
record.adc-2:3_source=mic,mic2,line-in,hp,line,mix
record.adc-0:1_source=mic,mic2,line-in,hp,line,mix
outputs.hp_sense=unplugged
outputs.master.slaves=dac-0:1,dac-6:7,line,hp

Also mixerctl outputs
...
outputs.master=255,255
outputs.master.mute=off
...

Good Luck
Moss

Re: Is this an intrusion?

[Maurice McCarthy]

Just for info:

So I rang Virgin to ask them to turn off their ANES for me (Advanced
Network Error Search). 2 phone calls, 57 minutes and 7 advisors later
they managed to find someone who knew what I was talking about. That's
why I don't phone them unless I see no option.

Now if I run with their default DNS server I still get the same entry in
xauth list ! Prepending the opendns server removes it for me.

Thanks for all the help and insights.
High time to close this thread. :)

Re: Is this an intrusion?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 17/06/17 15:01, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2017-06-17, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 17/06/17 09:27, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >> On 2017-06-16, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Ooops! ... Well, I moved the .Xauthority file aside and restarted X to
> >> > create a new one. Obviously it has one line with my hostname in it. But 
> >> >
> >> > $ xauth list
> >> > fresh.yem/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ... 
> >> > advancedsearch.virginmedia.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ... 
> >> >
> >> > And only now did I notice that the magic cookie is identical for both
> >> > entries. This mystifies me. (BTW apparently Virgin has historically used
> >> > a bit of DNS hijacking so I bunged this line into /etc/hosts before
> >> > restarting X.
> >> >
> >> > 127.0.0.1advancedsearch.virginmedia.com )
> >> 
> >> It'll be because of your hosts entry. Try xauth -n list instead.
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> > A, I see. The hosts entry says that advancedsearch.virginmedia.com
> > is an alias for the local  host.
> >
> > $ xauth -n list
> > fresh.yem/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ... 
> > 81.200.64.50:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ...
> >
> > So this tells me why I'm getting this list now. But that hosts entry was
> > only made _after I'd found virginmedia in the xauth list. 
> 
> Hmm - I was expecting maybe 127.0.0.1 in there - it looks like
> 81.200.64.50 really is the address of advancedsearch.virginmedia.com.
> I don't know the full details of how X figures out which hosts to add
> there but I think one or other of these are involved,
> 
> 1. looks like your local hostname is "fresh.yem", attempting to resolve
> that from VM DNS will hit their NXDOMAIN hijacking and return either
> 81.200.64.50 or a CNAME to advancedsearch.virginmedia.com or similar.
> 
> 2. maybe something has done a reverse lookup for 127.0.0.1 and got
> advancedsearch.virginmedia.com from the hosts file, then done a forward
> lookup for advancedsearch.virginmedia.com and added access to the IP
> address resolved for it.
> 
> Adding to /etc/hosts for things which you want to "block" is fairly
> common practice but I've never been a huge fan.. For this case where
> you're just working around the ISP resolver hijacking NXDOMAIN
> responses I'd usually take the workaround of running my own local
> recursive DNS server (e.g. unbound) and use that instead of the
> ISP's.
> 
> Going back to the original question, I don't think it's an intrusion,
> just due to less-than-ideal things with the DNS setup.
> 
> Also note that X doesn't normally listen to TCP anyway any more, this
> was changed around 2015. You would need to use the -listen flag, as
> well as remove the default firewall rules that block 6000:6010.
> 
> 

Thanks for that Stuart,

fresh.yem is my host and, obviously, starting X before switching on the
router prevents the xauth entry from ever appearing. 

I'll have a read of the unbound man pages and see if I can fathom that.
I tried removing the resolv.conf entry 

nameserver  192.168.0.1

by playing with dhclient.conf but neither 'ignore' nor 'supercede'
statements worked. Prepending the opendns servers did worked as expected 

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 192.168.0.1

lookup file bind

(resolv.conf.tail only appends nameservers)

$ nslookup 8.8.8.8
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address:208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpaname = google-public-dns-a.google.com.


Still, if I can understand unbound. I'd give that a go.

Cheers
Moss

Re: Is this an intrusion?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 17/06/17 09:27, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2017-06-16, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ooops! ... Well, I moved the .Xauthority file aside and restarted X to
> > create a new one. Obviously it has one line with my hostname in it. But 
> >
> > $ xauth list
> > fresh.yem/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ... 
> > advancedsearch.virginmedia.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ... 
> >
> > And only now did I notice that the magic cookie is identical for both
> > entries. This mystifies me. (BTW apparently Virgin has historically used
> > a bit of DNS hijacking so I bunged this line into /etc/hosts before
> > restarting X.
> >
> > 127.0.0.1   advancedsearch.virginmedia.com )
> 
> It'll be because of your hosts entry. Try xauth -n list instead.
> 
> 

A, I see. The hosts entry says that advancedsearch.virginmedia.com
is an alias for the local  host.

$ xauth -n list
fresh.yem/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ... 
81.200.64.50:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ...

So this tells me why I'm getting this list now. But that hosts entry was
only made _after I'd found virginmedia in the xauth list. 

Thanks to Stuart and all others for the suggestions. It seems clear to
me now that my understanding is not good enough to grasp what is going
on and I should be left alone to educate myself about dns etc. 

Kindest Regards
Moss

Re: Is this an intrusion?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 17/06/17 02:32, Joe Holden wrote:

> > 
> > To Joe Holden,
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip about NXDOMAIN queries. Don't see where to unset in
> > the router but I'm guessing the hosts file entry above should do the
> > same thing.
> > 
> > I'll keep looking around to reassure myself anyhow 
> > 
> > Thanks to all, 
> > Moss
> 
> It is done by the VM dns servers, if you visit a domain that doesn't
> exist you should be directed to the advanced search page, there *should*
> be a link to disable it there, but if not login to your account and
> disable it, can't remember what it is called...
> 
> Hosts file won't solve the problem really since anything else will also
> get the same result
> 



Looks like the page to toggle the "service" has been disabled this week
https://my.virginmedia.com/advancederrorsearch/settings

as the toggle isn't working. There's been discussion in the VM forum
about it. BTW I've got a feeling I might have already toggled this after
seeing this in the The Register. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/17/dzuiba_virgin_media_opendns/
Certainly I haven't had the VM "search page" come up in some years.


Eventually I found this announcement from 6th June. 
https://help.virginmedia.com/system/templates/selfservice/vm/help/customer/locale/en-GB/portal/20030001000/article/HELP-2236/Advanced-network-error-search

This suggests to me using a different nameserver and put it in
resolv.conf.tail At present resolv.conf simply points to the router. 

But I still see no good reason for xauth to list VM server as having the
authority to view my X screens. And do so under my own magic cookie.
I'll keep digging around until I understand it anyhow.

Thanks
Moss

Re: Is this an intrusion?

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 15/06/17 14:13, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > $ xauth list
> > ...
> > advancedsearch.virginmedia.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  
> > f3aa08ed0926482c51f5cb386e28a0ea
> > 
> > 
> > Virgin Media is my ISP. Is this an intrusion into my system please? I
> > ran xauth remove ... just for the sake  of it anyhow.
> 
> well, even if it wasn't, you just posted the secret key to a public list, so
> probably wise to remove it anyway. :)

Thanks to all that have replied and apologies for the slow response. Had
to attend to more urgent matters. (Lost the blessed terrestrial TV
signal!) 

To TedU, 

Ooops! ... Well, I moved the .Xauthority file aside and restarted X to
create a new one. Obviously it has one line with my hostname in it. But 

$ xauth list
fresh.yem/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  ... 
advancedsearch.virginmedia.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ... 

And only now did I notice that the magic cookie is identical for both
entries. This mystifies me. (BTW apparently Virgin has historically used
a bit of DNS hijacking so I bunged this line into /etc/hosts before
restarting X.

127.0.0.1   advancedsearch.virginmedia.com )


To Peter Hessler, 

The reverse DNS went like this

80.2.249.209 cpc77525-cwma10-2-0-cust208.7-3.cable.virginm.net

I run most traffic through a vpn but my router is a Virgin SuperHub2, as
they call it. 


To Dot Yet,

I've through system logs etc and nothing seems to look suspicious. Can't
find any attempts to execute commands nor authenticate. Further the
remote access port is disabled in the router settings. I've never asked
Virgin for support in years.


To Joe Holden,

Thanks for the tip about NXDOMAIN queries. Don't see where to unset in
the router but I'm guessing the hosts file entry above should do the
same thing.

I'll keep looking around to reassure myself anyhow 

Thanks to all, 
Moss




 

Is this an intrusion?

[Maurice McCarthy]

Hi,

$ xauth list
...
advancedsearch.virginmedia.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  
f3aa08ed0926482c51f5cb386e28a0ea


Virgin Media is my ISP. Is this an intrusion into my system please? I
ran xauth remove ... just for the sake  of it anyhow.

Thanks
Moss

Re: Slow video in VLC and mplayer, but not in browsers

[Maurice McCarthy]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 01:25:11AM -0400 or thereabouts, Maximilian Pichler 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting slow and choppy (non-accelerated?) video in both VLC and
> mplayer on OpenBSD 6.1. However, when watching the same video inside
> chromium or firefox the quality is decent. What might cause this?
> 
> $ dmesg | grep vga
> vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel HD Graphics 630" rev 0x04
> wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> 
> $ glxinfo
> [...]
> direct rendering: Yes
> [...]
> Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
> Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0x)
> Device: softpipe (0x)
> Version: 13.0.6
> Accelerated: no
> Video memory: 16068MB
> Unified memory: no
> Preferred profile: core (0x1)
> Max core profile version: 3.3
> Max compat profile version: 3.0
> Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
> Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
> 
> Btw, for VLC I also need to export
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.17.1 to work around undefined
> symbols in swrast_dri.so, as described in
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports=146532946103283.
> 
> Thanks for any hints!
> 
> Maxim
> 

I too get this kind of effect but I'm not clever enough to sort it out. An
example from running mpv over a chess game for a few seconds. :

$ mpv nakamura-kramnik.mkv  
Playing: nakamura-kramnik.mkv
 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (vp9)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 (*) (aac)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz stereo 2ch s32
VO: [opengl] 1280x720 yuv420p
AV: 00:00:00 / 00:31:42 (0%) A-V:  0.000 Dropped: 3

Audio/Video desynchronisation detected! Possible reasons include too slow
hardware, temporary CPU spikes, broken drivers, and broken files. Audio
position will not match to the video (see A-V status field).

AV: 00:00:02 / 00:31:42 (0%) A-V:  0.000 Dropped: 62


Exiting... (Quit)
pthread_mutex_destroy on mutex with waiters!


The paragraph beginning Audio/Video is highlighted in a yellow colour. (Colorls 
is
installed and I use reverse video.) Playing for longer gets the same desynch
error repeated often.

Thanks
Moss

Re: pkg_add on OpenBSD 6.1, fresh install

[Maurice McCarthy]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:43:27PM -0600 or thereabouts, Anathae Townsend wrote:
> I have done a fresh install of 6.1 (downloaded it today, from
> ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.1/amd64 as the file install61.fs (I live in
> Edmonton, Alberta, that's why I use the source ftp)) and was trying to
> install some packages...
> 
> When I type in pkg_add -v http://ftp.openbsd.org/%m/joe (as an example),
> pkg_add reports joe not found.  If instead I do pkg_add -v
> http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.1/packages/amd64/joe, it works.  
> 
> Admittedly, I am running this from the root login... am I doing something
> wrong?
> 
> Anathae
> 

$ man pkg.conf
...
Special sequences â%a, %c, %m, %v will be expanded to
package architecture, OS version or snapshots,
full mirror pathâand OS version respectively.
... 

"%m" is the _whole _path

Re: Openup and stable

[Maurice McCarthy]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 11:53:35AM +0100 or thereabouts, ludovic coues wrote:
> You might have missed the email from Antoine Jacoutot about syspatch,
> on the first december last year
> 
> See http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch
> 

The same Antoine Jacoutot also maintained openup. I believe several of the
OpenBSD developers work for M:Tier. Therefore I think they can be trusted.

Re: OpenBSD Stable

[Maurice McCarthy]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:55:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, Kapetanakis Giannis 
wrote:
> On 18/01/17 12:36, George wrote:
> > Its the stable version that im trying to install. I installed the
> > release version but i wanted to update to stable mostly for the security
> > patches.

... 

> 
> I'm not sure about the update procedure for packages in stable.
> I only use snapshots and update with
> pkg_add -u
> 
> For stable you probably have to recompile them yourself from ports, since I 
> see in mirror servers that they are not updated.
> 
> G
> 

https://www.mtier.org/solutions/apps/openup/

Blueray Writer Support?

[Maurice McCarthy]

Anyone know if an ASUS BW-16D1HT (Internal BD Writer 16X) is supported on
OpenBSD?

Thanks, Moss.