Re: OBSD 5.8 and console
On 2015-11-22 09:13, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I've an APU1D where I want install OpenBSD 5.8 amd64. The only option that I have is install from console. I've downloaded install58.fs and modified /etc/boot.conf adding: set tty com0 (saved) During boot it recognizes obsd install media then print this message: switching to com0 after this I can't receive any output from terminal console (in my case screen from linux) and don't know what happen. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. The default baud rate for your APU is probably 115200bps. OpenBSD will be set to 9600. You can either change the baud rate to 115200 in boot.conf (stty com0 115200), or connect your screen session at 9600bps.
Re: Private cloud hosting recommendations
On 2015-10-09 09:04, Martín Ferco wrote: Hi misc, I'm looking for alternatives to host our OpenBSD web frontends off-site. Up until now we've been using AWS for contingecy, but as you may well know, they only support Linux and Windows instances. We already have a couple of OpenBSD frontends on-site, and getting all our frontends to be OpenBSD would be ideal (instead of using Linux as contingency in AWS). So I'm trying to find similar solutions to AWS, but with OpenBSD capabilities. So far the only I've found is rootbsd. I've looked at arpnetworks but they don't seem to offer private cloud hosting from what I've seen. Another importat thing for us is to have a private network that we can connect to our main site and AWS using a VPN. rootbsd does seem to offer this as well. Ideally, I'd like something that runs an ESXi Hypervisor, which is what we'be been using on-site with good results. rootbsd seems to offer a mix of Xen and KVM, but I don't have experience with those. KVM seems to work fine with OpenBSD from what I've read though. Do you know or can recommend other private cloud providers? rootbsd does seem to offer every thing we need, but I'm a bit concerned about them being, probably, a small sized company. I know they won't be AWS, but it would be reassuring if someone commented on them, especially if they have experience running a private cloud with them. I started to look at VMware vcloud air, but haven't heard from him yet, and was starting to take a look at virtustream -- they seem to offer ESXi hypervisors as well as VMware vloud air. Thanks! I've been using the VPS provider Vultr.com (https://www.vultr.com/) for a few months now, and have no complaints. They're KVM-based, and have datacenters in the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia. They allow you to install from a custom ISO, so OpenBSD works well. Regards, Mike
Re: Recommended miniPCI express wireless module for PC Engines' APU system board?
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> wrote: On 15-09-23 05:01 PM, Mike Bregg wrote: > I'm using an APU as a firewall/router and it works very well. > However, after experimenting with some different wireless cards, I > actually opted to install a separate EnGenius EAP600 Access Point on > the main floor of my house, using PoE to run to the router/switch. [OT, sorry...] One word of warning: don't *ever* put an EnGenius AP outside the firewall... it has an open DNS resolver running on it that you can't disable. Found that out the hard way when I used an EAP600 to bridge a cable modem connection to a router in another room :-(. -Adam Good to know, thanks for the heads up Adam. Mike
Re: Recommended miniPCI express wireless module for PC Engines' APU system board?
The reason I am so onto this, is, there has been so many posts and threads has been here praising the PC Engines APU boards. I assume quite a few of you use it as a router, given its Ethernet ports. Then, why not add a wireless access point, too? That might be a popular request as well. Wi-Fi is important, but unfortunately it's a hit and miss. Thanks I'm using an APU as a firewall/router and it works very well. However, after experimenting with some different wireless cards, I actually opted to install a separate EnGenius EAP600 Access Point on the main floor of my house, using PoE to run to the router/switch. This was a better solution for me as the router was in the basement, and the wireless signal from the APU wasn't very good. To answer your original question, the card that seemed to work the best in the APU was an Atheros AR9280. Regards, Mike
Re: Home server rack recommendations?
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Kent R. Spillner kspill...@acm.org wrote: Can anyone recommend a good server rack for home? Ideally something with casters so I can move it around, preferably 12-16U. I found several via Google but my primary concern is the quality durability of the casters. Not that I plan on wheeling this old gear around a lot, I just want the piece of mind that a caster won't snap off when I do. :) You might want to check out monoprice. Maybe something like this: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=105cp_id=10516cs_id=1051601p_id=10643seq=1format=2 I've bought a number of different things from monoprice for home and work (some shelves and wall mount brackets), and the quality and durability is excellent. The only downside is the shipping charges can get quite expensive if you're outside the US, but the lower prices of the items mostly made up for that.
Re: OpenBSD 5.5 on mSATA SSD unit in PC Engines APU.1C - bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry kernel panic
On June 25, 2014 4:42:05 PM MDT, noah pugsley noah.pugs...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2014-06-25 22:25 GMT+02:00 noah pugsley noah.pugs...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: That's what the thermal pads are for. Going from 6W/mK to 17W/mK will conduct more heat to the sink, but the sink might need to be larger for some situations. Also even pressure around the pads is going to be critical as the box's designer says. Perhaps a stupid question, but what about grease or a pad between the sink and the case? You mean the thermal pads already deployed? Yes. Either the pads if they are thin enough, or a dot of grease to fill in the air gaps between sink and case. But I don't have one of these so this is probably noise... Considering the way the heat spreader adheres to the bottom of the case (the adhesive basically _welds_ it on), I wouldn't think that there is much in the way of air gaps. But in my case, I guess because of how cool my basement is, heat isn't really a concern. Mike
Re: OpenBSD 5.5 on mSATA SSD unit in PC Engines APU.1C - bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry kernel panic
On 2014-06-20 04:14, Zé Loff wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:40:02AM +0200, Roger Wiklund wrote: No problems so far with Intel mSATA 525 30GB. On a side note I'm a bit worried about the CPU temperate, almost 70 degrees C during normal load. Same here: 70-75C, for a 0.2 average load. The case gets pretty hot, so I'm guessing I installed the heatsink correctly... Does anyone have (much) lower figures? Mine sits in my basement on a shelf with the modem, switch, etc and it idles right around 57-58C, with an average load of around 0.2.
Re: dovecot issues
On 2014-06-20 20:48, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
I'm trying to setup dovecot with opensmtpd and I'm getting the
following
errors for dovecot.
Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal:
pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal: master:
service(auth-worker):
child 10932 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
environment to get core dump)
Jun 20 21:41:04 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
process died unexpectedly
Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal:
pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
Jun 20 21:41:10 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
process died unexpectedly
Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal: master:
service(auth-worker):
child 12071 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
environment to get core dump)
You could try increasing vsz_limit to something like 512 MB. Do you
have mailboxes with a large quantity of emails (as in thousands) that
256 MB isn't enough?
Mike
Re: dovecot issues
On 2014-06-20 21:14, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
On 06/20/2014 10:05 PM, Mike Bregg wrote:
On 2014-06-20 20:48, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
I'm trying to setup dovecot with opensmtpd and I'm getting the
following
errors for dovecot.
Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal:
pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal: master:
service(auth-worker):
child 10932 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set
CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
environment to get core dump)
Jun 20 21:41:04 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
process died unexpectedly
Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal:
pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
Jun 20 21:41:10 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
process died unexpectedly
Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal: master:
service(auth-worker):
child 12071 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set
CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
environment to get core dump)
You could try increasing vsz_limit to something like 512 MB. Do you
have mailboxes with a large quantity of emails (as in thousands) that
256 MB isn't enough?
Mike
I felt like that was a clue, but have no idea how to set vsz_limit,
however there is no mail on the system. I got those errors just
testing
imap login from mutt.
Have a look through the config files in /etc/dovecot/conf.d
Mike
Re: OpenBSD 5.5 on mSATA SSD unit in PC Engines APU.1C - bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry kernel panic
On 2014-06-07 12:51, JB M wrote: I'm having troubles installing OpenBSD 5.5 (amd64) on a mSATA SSD card ( http://pcengines.ch/msata16a.htm) PC Engines APU.1C device ( http://pcengines.ch/apu.htm) with the most recent BIOS version. I've made several attempts, using install55.fs copied to an SD card, with both 5.5-release and 5.5-current (June 6th snapshot). Most attempts have failed, either during the install (filesystem creation phase or during the sets extraction phase) or during the first boot after the initial install (case reported in this message). I wonder if I have a faulty SSD unit. Does the mSATA drive have the new firmware, or is it one of the problem drives from earlier? If you have a null modem serial cable handy, you could try PXE booting and then installing the OS to the SD Card instead of the mSATA drive to at least rule out any other issues. Then try the same process and install to the mSATA card and see if you have the same problem again. Mike
Re: acpitz3: critical temperature exceeded with HP nc6320 Laptop
I had the same issue a couple of weeks ago with my Sager laptop. An update to a newer snapshot seemed to solve it. Sorry, I can't really offer any advice as the issue seemed to resolve on its own after the update and hasn't surfaced on any snapshots since then. Mike On Apr 9, 2014 4:37 PM, Steve Quinn letter2st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks I have been recently playing with OpenBSD. I am very impressed with the whole experience, great job people !! I am using an HP nc6320 Laptop. Quite often, I get an error similar to this with amd64 5.4 and 5.5 acpitz3: critical temperature exceeded 3786C, shutting down For me it was a nice error to get, because it introduced me to the coolness of using boot -c and config -e I have no problems working around the issue. I did some digging and see others with the same issue on similar hardware http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/176044 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/205033 I'd like to offer the use of my HP nc6320 if a Developer would like to play directly with the hardware to assist others in the community with the issue. I'll be at BSDCan 2014 and can bring it along. Otherwise, please let me know if/how I can be of any help. Take care Steve Quinn
