Re: GitHub mirror stopped mirroring

2024-01-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
ain. KRgds, C It doesn't seem to have made it to anonhg.NetBSD.org yet. The src repo there is still 11 days older, as is of course the GitHub version. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms

Re: Xen FreeBSD domU block I/O problem on -current only affects reads > 1024 bytes

2024-01-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:53:58 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: Xen FreeBSD domU block I/O problem on -current only affects reads > 1024 bytes > > With the gracious help of RVP I have been able to identify > better what is actually going wrong with FreeBSD's

Re: Status of NetBSD virtualization roadmap - support jails like features?

2022-04-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
s well. The impact inside the OS (kernel and userland) is quite high though, and is itself a form of complexity nightmare all its own, though perhaps not so horrible as Linux "cgroups" and some other related Linux kernel namespaces are. --

Re: Are NetBSD users interested extending options for patch?

2022-04-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
ed)? Perhaps as mentioned in a comment on that post it may be useful in some very specific cases where files aren't likely to move around too much and where all files are guaranteed to be uniquely named and never renamed despite being moved about between directories. --

Re: xterm-color256: Different behavior between NetBSD 9.2 and 9.99.93?

2022-02-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
we have merged all we can */ + /* XXX this doesn't do properly nested merging!!! */ while (merge_use(flags) != 0) ; -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms

Re: the entropy bug, and device timeouts (was: Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1)

2022-02-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:40:20 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: Subject: Re: the entropy bug, and device timeouts (was: Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1) > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:56:53PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > Well, if you have a hardwar

Re: the entropy bug, and device timeouts (was: Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1)

2022-01-26 Thread Greg A. Woods
ve a hardware RNG, or my patches, then that'll do something, but otherwise it's just useless noise and misdirection. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpKKAuRm57sa.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

the entropy bug, and device timeouts (was: Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1)

2022-01-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
issues could be related in any way to disk device driver timeouts. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp4T3nGPbUzd.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

2021-12-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 8 Dec 2021 11:36:17 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote: Subject: Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go? > > > > On Dec 8, 2021, at 10:52 AM, Greg A. Woods > > wrote: > > That's one bullet I've dodged entirely already since my oldest > > syste

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

2021-12-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
support for SA?) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpFm57bXUxlC.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

2021-12-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 8 Dec 2021 15:32:24 -, ya...@sdf.org wrote: Subject: Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go? > > > "Greg A. Woods" writes: no, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I am unclear if ipf has been removed by default from current. > Even in NetBSD 9, ipf

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

2021-12-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
ast until they are running a new OS with new pkgs. I'm beginning to think the only way to avoid that rabbit hole in order to get these upgrades done in the next week will be to shut them down and do the upgrades by mounting their filesystems in their dom0s. --

backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

2021-12-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
l still need to be very careful to preserve all old shared libraries. That makes the approach of building a fresh prototype somewhat more difficult, though ultimately perhaps safest as it can be fully tested before ditching the old system. -- Greg A. Woods

panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "kpreempt_disabled()" failed: file "/build/src/sys/arch/x86/x86/pmap.c", line 2431

2021-12-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
2021-12-05 19:27:12.065] Hardware Dom0 shutdown: watchdog rebooting machine This is an amd64 system running a 9.99.81 kernel and Xen 4.13.2nb2. Is it worth a PR? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Av

Re: sysinst extended partitioning won't set/do the "newfs" flag!

2021-11-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:42:42 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: sysinst extended partitioning won't set/do the "newfs" flag! > > I'm having trouble getting the "new" sysinst, when using extended > partitioning, to set the "newfs" flag (and t

Re: very strange build failure in external/gpl3/gcc/lib/libstdc++-v3/include/bits

2021-10-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 8 Oct 2021 19:44:02 + (UTC), RVP wrote: Subject: Re: very strange build failure in external/gpl3/gcc/lib/libstdc++-v3/include/bits > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > If two identical 'mv' commands run in the same directory (with no other >

Re: very strange build failure in external/gpl3/gcc/lib/libstdc++-v3/include/bits

2021-10-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Thu, 7 Oct 2021 23:17:33 + (UTC), RVP wrote: Subject: Re: very strange build failure in external/gpl3/gcc/lib/libstdc++-v3/include/bits > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2021, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > It's almost as if the call to rename() in 'mv' succeeds, but returns an > > E

Re: very strange build failure in external/gpl3/gcc/lib/libstdc++-v3/include/bits

2021-10-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:25:31 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: very strange build failure in external/gpl3/gcc/lib/libstdc++-v3/include/bits > > I had a parallel build fail as follows yesterday. > > This same source tree has been built in the same way on the same ma

Re: Entropy error blocks lang/python38 installation

2021-06-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
sion. Previously no manual operations were ever necessary -- the blocking was never permanent. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpekRmVN6MUp.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: building netbsd-9 2 'sync' processes stuck in 'tstile'

2021-05-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
see the EXAMPLES section in crash(8).) That might help narrow down which locks are causing the problems... -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpIXyFj83E4R.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: building netbsd-9 2 'sync' processes stuck in 'tstile'

2021-05-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
or the slowness. The older system that's serving NFS has an uptime of 117 days and didn't seem to be suffering any ill effects during the slowness or since. (*) The "tstile" hangs caused by a deadlock were on a Xen dom0 where there were locking order problems in the xenstore interface and s

Re: booting xen [was Re: serial console puzzle]

2021-05-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
rent consoles simultaneously, so if I do go out into my machine room (i.e. garage) I can see the Xen message on the screen too. I really wish NetBSD could do that. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpQ7huxel1C6.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

2021-05-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
01 or so: RCS file: RCS/rsync-netbsd-cvs,v revision 1.1 date: 2001/06/06 17:52:06; author: woods; state: Exp; Initial revision This script can now be found here: https://github.com/robohack/rsync-netbsd-cvs -- Greg A.

Re: Xen FreeBSD domU block I/O problem on -current only affects reads > 1024 bytes

2021-04-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
2 bytes @ 28141568000: mismatch: /dev/da0[+1032] \x28 != /var/tmp/ckfile.1[ln#0][1032] \x22 blkchk: pread 8192 bytes @ 28141568000: mismatch: /dev/da0[+1033] \x28 != /var/tmp/ckfile.1[ln#0][1033] \x22 -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762

CVS (was: GCC 10 available for testing etc. in -current.)

2021-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
ently and easily keep my own local branches and do local commits (e.g. in the way you can do very easily and efficiently with Git), but it is still very much better than any other current alternative, including the current Hg and Git and Fossil conversions. --

Xen FreeBSD domU block I/O problem begins somewhere between 8.99.32 (2020-06-09) and 9.99.81 (2021-03-10)

2021-04-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
between 8.99.32 (2020-06-09) and 9.99.81 (2021-03-10). Unfortunately I don't have enough hardware that's Xen-capable and up and running well enough to allow me to do any brute-force bisecting. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:44:08 +0100, David Brownlee wrote: Subject: Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0 > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 08:41, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > What else is different? What am I missing? What could be different in >

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
in NetBSD current that could cause a FreeBSD domU to (mis)behave this way? Could the fault still be in the FreeBSD drivers -- I don't see how as the same root problem caused corruption in both HVM and PVH domUs. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: running xen on current

2021-04-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
emote access. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpW51GFrekcb.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-14 Thread Greg A. Woods
CG 37: BAD CHECK-HASH 0x37517da4 vs 0x40c2cf31 CG 38: BAD CHECK-HASH 0xc938c503 vs 0x9b844ab6 CG 39: BAD CHECK-HASH 0x60447f31 vs 0x23129481 CG 40: BAD CHECK-HASH 0x69bfbe19 vs 0xa81f5e9 CG 41: BAD CHECK-HASH 0xc0c3042b vs 0xbd37ebd1 CG 42: BAD CHECK-HASH 0x3eaabc8c vs 0xfadfd8d1 CG 43: BAD CHE

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-14 Thread Greg A. Woods
r a given guest would not advertise the feature at all. I've some other things to do before I can reboot -- I'll report as soon as that's done -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pg

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 13 Apr 2021 18:20:39 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0 > > So "17" seems an odd number, but it is apparently because of "Need to > alloc one extra page to account f

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:55:36 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0 > > Definitely writing to a FreeBSD domU filesystem, i.e. to a FreeBSD > xbd(4) with a new filesystem created on it, is impossibl

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
E? [yn] n SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD SALVAGE? [yn] n BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS SALVAGE? [yn] n 12076 files, 91642 used, 7647797 free (293 frags, 955938 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) * UNRESOLVED INCONSISTENCIES REMAIN * -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC

Re: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:23:31 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0 > > In fact it only seems to be fsck that complains, possibly along > with any attempt to write to a filesystem, that causes problems.

one remaining mystery about the FreeBSD domU failure on NetBSD XEN3_DOM0

2021-04-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*-386*) disklabel: boot block size 0 disklabel: super block size 0 # fsck -n /dev/vnd0f ** /dev/rvnd0f (NO WRITE) BAD SUPER BLOCK: CAN'T FIND SUPERBLOCK /dev/rvnd0f: CANNOT FIGURE OUT SECTORS PER CYLINDER -- Greg

Re: I think I've found why Xen domUs can't mount some file-backed disk images! (vnd(4) hides labels!)

2021-04-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 32740 files, 2349557 used, 1431650 free (538 frags, 178889 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack

Re: I think I've found why Xen domUs can't mount some file-backed disk images! (vnd(4) hides labels!)

2021-04-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
- I just can't explain it well enough yet. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpX0mMSVXy0W.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

I think I've found why Xen domUs can't mount some file-backed disk images! (vnd(4) hides labels!)

2021-04-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
se 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=28 SALVAGE? [yn] n PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=112 SALVAGE? [yn] ^Cda0: disk error cmd=write 8145-8152 status: fffe # * FILE SYSTEM MARKED DIRTY * # -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp0TQ7zS9Hhk.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
includes many of us. It doesn't have to be the default. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpiP2WuJhrQy.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:52:29 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: Subject: Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 03:12:45PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > Isn't it as simple as: > > > > > > dd bs=32 if=/dev/urandom of=/

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 6 Apr 2021 20:21:43 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: Subject: Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:54:51AM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > And the stock implementation has no possibility of ever providing an > > in

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
eeing would be one step closer, and should be extremely easy. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpOxcINx3I65.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
n.entropy.pending: (no description) 17:27 [1.833] # sysctl -d kern.entropy.epoch kern.entropy.epoch: (no description) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp6vc6Eur6UN.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:37:49 -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: Subject: Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering > > On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 03:32:08PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > BTW, to me reusing the same entropy on every reboot seems less secure. >

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
t; or whatever in front of it and hope that's enough and that it's still not too predictable. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpRUdV5ZZmgF.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
m already has. If interrupted, either the old seed or the new seed will be in place. The code seems to concur. Also the system re-saves the $random_file via /etc/security (unconditionally, i.e. always, but only if $random_file is set). -- Greg

Re: how do I mount a read-only filesystem from the "root device" prompt?

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
hen necessary. An attempt to open a wedge > read-write on a read-only opened parent device then has to fail. Yes, this makes sense. > I'm testing a patch for that... Excellent! Thank you very much! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-767

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
: pid %d (%s) blocking due to lack of entropy\n", /* xxx uprintf() instead/also? */ curproc->p_pid, curproc->p_comm); if (ISSET(flags, ENTROPY_SIG)) { -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpF1LIq_XrV5.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
t be hiding out in my garage. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgps8MDVICM_D.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
ch the documentation and tools (specifically rndctl). That the core of it it is just a two-line patch makes this fix extremely satisfying. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpYuvFI

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
n to recommend a suitable value for rndctl_flags in /etc/rc.conf. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp1Of0SebF9S.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
have any worry whatsoever at the moment about one VM guest spying on, or influencing the PRNG, in another. Zero worry. They're all _me_. I don't need some theoretically perfect level of protection from myself. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
D > will however be ... a more challenging problem. Leaving things like that would be totally silly. With my patch the old way of gathering entropy from devices works just fine as it always did, albeit with the second patch it does require a tiny bit of extra configuration. --

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
my systems (virtual and real) actually have. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpkw5j9Fv1Vg.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
code I fixed with my patch that was at fault. I told the system to "count" the entropy being gathered by the appropriate driver(s), but it was being ignored entirely. After my fix the system behaved as I told it to. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 25

Re: how do I mount a read-only filesystem from the "root device" prompt?

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
READONLY)) - return EROFS; + return EACCES; DPRINTF(("xbdopen(%" PRIx64 ", %d)\n", dev, flags)); return dk_open(>sc_dksc, dev, flags, fmt, l); -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
en >if the Entropy Source is not operating as well as predicted. "design" != implementation -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpg86syab6rB.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
ws what they're doing, and better security > is available, at a price, but a nice happy medium is what fits me best. Indeed again. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp4TWUMkW

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 4 Apr 2021 09:49:58 +, Taylor R Campbell wrote: Subject: Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering > > > Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 12:24:29 -0700 > > From: "Greg A. Woods" > > > > Updating a system, even on -current, shouldn't cr

how do I mount a read-only filesystem from the "root device" prompt?

2021-04-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
root pointer). So I'm lost -- any hints? Is it from bounds_check_with_label()? How? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp1QhMimCiG1.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
ruct krndsource *rs, uint64_t value) { - rnd_add_data(rs, , sizeof value, 0); + rnd_add_data(rs, , sizeof value, sizeof value * NBBY); } /* -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp_AompQk1f3.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? or dom0!!!

2021-03-31 Thread Greg A. Woods
e problem -- the hardware should be providing plenty of entropy. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpfwaVZQJ63E.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? or dom0!!!

2021-03-31 Thread Greg A. Woods
opy.collection = 1 kern.entropy.depletion = 0 kern.entropy.consolidate = -23552 kern.entropy.gather = -23552 kern.entropy.needed = 256 kern.entropy.pending = 0 kern.entropy.epoch = 19 -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpMsnaVWfOo5.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? (causing python3.7 rebuild to get stuck in kernel in "entropy" during an "import" statement)

2021-03-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
ing possible, then I would have looked elsewhere to find out how to give the system more bits of entropy. As is in my Xen domU system the output of "rndctl -l" leads me to believe all of my devices are collecting both timing and value samples, and using either one or the other to gather ent

Re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? (causing python3.7 rebuild to get stuck in kernel in "entropy" during an "import" statement)

2021-03-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:53:43 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: Subject: Re: nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? (causing python3.7 rebuild to get stuck in kernel in "entropy" during an "import" statement) > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 02:40:18PM

nothing contributing entropy in Xen domUs? (causing python3.7 rebuild to get stuck in kernel in "entropy" during an "import" statement)

2021-03-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
202.264290] entropy: pid 7248 (cat) blocking due to lack of entropy [ 579669.831978] entropy: ready -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms At Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:06:19 -0700, "Greg A

python3.7 rebuild stuck in kernel in "entropy" during an "import" statement

2021-03-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
ey': AuthenticationString(os.urandom(32)), KeyboardInterrupt *** Error code 1 (ignored) *** Signal 2 *** Signal 2 -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpWjPEXKgaka.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: kern/54969 (Disk cache is no longer flushed on shutdown)

2021-03-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
30 2021]/dev/dk2 on /var type ffs (local, fsid: 0xa802/0x78b, reads: sync 1 async 0, writes: sync 2 async 0) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpeOBU3AaVgV.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

a reminder: upgrade Xen in single-user mode, or with Xen disabled!

2021-03-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
this next reboot all the right versions of the right bits started! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpNLASee644w.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: still a problem with gpt(8) reading from LVM volumes? (was: problems with GPT (and maybe dkctl wedges) on LVM volumes)

2021-03-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
/robohack/experiments/blob/master/tintervals-merge.py -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpGgb2m4wtXQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
is doing and why. > ps: attempting to follow fd usages inside sh > is not something for the faint of heart. Indeed. As I was staring at it a couple of weeks ago I was coincidentally reminded of Gosling Emacs -- maybe that sh code could borrow Gosling's skull and crossed bones comment from his

Re: sys.mk broken for single-suffix rules since 1.144 (2021/11/09)

2021-03-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
other third-party Makefiles (probably none within NetBSD itself though, though of course I'll have to scan my tree just to be sure I haven't forgotten fixing something somewhere). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack

Re: sys.mk broken for single-suffix rules since 1.144 (2021/11/09)

2021-03-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:44:31 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: sys.mk broken for single-suffix rules since 1.144 (2021/11/09) Sorry, make that 2020/11/09, of course :-) Also this only applies to a few platforms (i386, x86_64, and aarch64), and when the Makefile used someh

sys.mk broken for single-suffix rules since 1.144 (2021/11/09)

2021-03-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
RUN} + ${COMPILE_LINK.c} -o ${.TARGET} y.tab.c ${LDLIBS} +# XXX: disable for now +# ${CTFCONVERT_RUN} rm -f y.tab.c .y.c: ${YACC.y} ${.IMPSRC} -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpPGRHrsBSaZ.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

still a problem with gpt(8) reading from LVM volumes? (was: problems with GPT (and maybe dkctl wedges) on LVM volumes)

2021-03-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
this again on a newer, and less critical, Xen server. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpMHuyGSLKTh.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
the ulimit for open FDs is not kept lower than the number of currently open FDs); though I have not done any other kind of test to be sure the data sent to a multi-digit FD is actually received from the given FD. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
y stymied by another problem (I can't access the domU filesystem from the dom0, and until I can get a complete rebuild to finish so I can do a full reinstall of the domU, accessing the FS from the dom0 would be the only easy way I have of injecting changes to the test system since it has no networkin

problems with GPT (and maybe dkctl wedges) on LVM volumes

2021-03-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
/dev/mapper/rvg0-nbtest.0: addwedge: Inappropriate ioctl for device So it looks like I'm back to using plain MBR for domUs again, at least for my next round of Xen server rebuilds. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHa

odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
: 1615494985.880185, ulimit_redirection_interaction, failed, atf-check failed; see the output of the test for details -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpgCp7gHm4g5.pgp Description

Re: build of 2021/03/07 -current fails because of pthread_types.h (without MKLLVM!)

2021-03-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
rent mutex */ -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpyKO6vyn83x.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

build of 2021/03/07 -current fails because of pthread_types.h (without MKLLVM!)

2021-03-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
make realall *** Error code 1 Stop. nbmake: stopped in /work/woods/m-NetBSD-current-new/external/bsd/libc++/lib 11:32 [102] $ mynbmake -v MKDEBUG yes 11:32 [103] $ mynbmake -v MKDEBUGLIB yes 11:32 [104] $ mynbmake -v MKLLVM no 11:32 [105] $ mynbmake -v MKLLVMRT no --

netbsd-5 branch cannot be built with a recent 9.99.64 system (or perhaps any recent GCC?)

2021-02-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
ts of other new warnings from a newer compiler building the older toolchain! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp9gBzANraAN.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

one more possible speedup for "make -jN sets" in makesums

2021-02-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
. if ${.MAKE.JOBS} is set and greater than one in the makefile then pass a '-j ${.MAKE.JOBS}' option to the script). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp1PW6p7nzys.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: is this crash while coredumping known? (forget the link to NFS)

2020-07-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sat, 11 Jul 2020 23:29:05 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: is this crash while coredumping known? (forget the link to NFS) > > So it doesn't seem like this crash has anything to do with NFS after all. This crash is ongoing for me. I'll be away for a couple of week

Re: recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc()

2020-07-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
g on what the internal malloc() uses to obtain heap space). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpKFk8TXbGnF.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc()

2020-07-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:28:46 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Subject: Re: recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc() > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 03:05:17PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I think it is the foll

recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc()

2020-07-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
/mapmalloc.c:303: first defined here Should I send-pr this? Is there any possibility of an "easy" fix? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpvrEPlVbpjk.pgp Description: OpenP

Re: is this crash while coredumping known? (forget the link to NFS)

2020-07-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
ree space in /var/crash $ df -h /var/crash/ FilesystemSize Used Avail %Cap MountedOn /dev/dk2 3.9G 1.5G 2.2G 40% /var At Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:03:23 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: is this crash while coredumping to NFS known? &g

Re: USB console support "was: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1)

2020-07-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:16:26 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: USB console support "was: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1) > > Oh, and I wanted to mention something else that I'd forgotten about but > stumbled across a

USB console support "was: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1)

2020-07-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:13:03 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1 > > Or indeed any device with any kind of USB port, e.g. a laptop. Oh, and I wanted to mention something else that I'd

is this crash while coredumping to NFS known?

2020-07-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
CT LWP * NAME WAIT 29079>29079 7 0 100 8693578524c0 tpgsqltime I do have a full kernel core dump, but it's 32GB (345M compressed), and probably contains data I don't want to share. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +

Re: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1

2020-07-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
t of difference. Thank you for the idea though, and also thank you for pointing out the alternate framebuffer driver that might also be worth looking into. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pg

Re: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1

2020-07-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
nsole. E.g. on an EFI system, perhaps through a custom EFI driver? And for uBoot systems too? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpFUqYZ0ZSmB.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1

2020-07-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
t be a bit hard to arrange for in NetBSD. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpvllmWWoiDK.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

USB storage transfers halt when usbdevs is run: hardware bug or software bug?

2020-07-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
2.396989] dk6 at sd2: "EFI system", 262144 blocks at 2048, type: msdos [ 193342.396989] dk7 at sd2: "d3aa0396-d911-4aac-baa8-f2478557d31a", 7544832 blocks at 264192, type: ffs I'm guessing it's a software bug with bad locking order somewhere. --

Why is (nb)ctfmerge failing when linking larger kernels???

2020-07-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:57:08 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: weird occasional "Resource exhaustion" errors when linking GENERIC_KASLR > > I've been using a stock 9.0 amd64 install to build my -current tree and > found it failing with a "Resource exhaus

weird occasional "Resource exhaustion" errors when linking GENERIC_KASLR

2020-07-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: disk fixed sd0: 465 GB, 476416 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 975699968 sectors sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: disk fixed sd1: 544 GB, 557568 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1141899264 sectors -- Greg A.

postinstall removed yet another "obsolete" system library that was still used....

2020-06-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
nly protects things installed via pkgsrc, and there's still the risk of subsequently needing to install a binary package built for an older release which needs one of these "obsolete" files, but at least pkg_add can (be made to if it doesn't already) notice this and abort. --

Re: unable to boot NetBSD-9.99.64-amd64-install.img on a MacBook7,1

2020-06-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:03:39 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: unable to boot NetBSD-9.99.64-amd64-install.img on a MacBook7,1 > > At Tue, 09 Jun 2020 22:01:41 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > Subject: unable to boot NetBSD-9.99.64-amd64-install.img

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