Re: syslog, ENOBUFS and non-C implementations

Kia ora koutou katoa, On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 11:19 +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote: > > Secondly: is it something particular we are doing on the NetBSD > end of things which contributes to this problem?  Doesn't other > OSes return ENOBUFS if syslogd isn't able to keep up by consuming > the messages

Re: GitHub mirror stopped mirroring

On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 16:17 -0800, Chris Hanson wrote: > It looks like there are CVS commits that haven’t made it to the > GitHub mirror yet. > > Anyone know what’s up with that? > >   -- Chris > The Mercurial mirror also hasn't been updated for a week. Ngā mihi, Lloyd

Re: Small mystery with grep -o -i

Kia ora koutou katoa, On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 22:13 +0100, Rhialto wrote: > T.. > he CHANGES file from upstream > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grep.git > lists: > > ... > > related to commit 70e236167c3973fc428d2b5b297218fde9b68e73, committed > 2010-03-17 And the source browser is at.

Re: mktemp POSIX (and Linux) divergence

Kia ora, In one out of one samples I checked, the result of mktemp was only checked for != NULL rather than a more robust check. That same sample (xsrc/external/mit/smproxy/dist/save.c) also preferred to use mkstemp. mktemp() got removed from POSIX because using it is just wrong. Given how much

Re: openssl3+postfix issue (ca md too weak)

Maybe rebuild Postfix with the option -DSSL_SECOP_PEER ? That causes Postfix to always set security level 0 when using TLS. Cheers, Lloyd

Re: openssl3+postfix issue (ca md too weak)

On 14/11/23 10:56, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: NIST has been sunsetting SHA1 for a long time, 2016 in fact. In many cases, there is a better trust chain for Comodo intermediary certificates and admins should be installing those. I'm not sure that's what Comodo has, even though it is the

Re: Problems with dhcpcd

On 20/10/23 00:32, Roy Marples wrote: I've just landed dhcpcd-10.0.4 into -current and pkgsrc which fixes this issue. Sorry for the delay. Let me know if it works for you! Thanks. I'll give it a go as soon as the change makes it into anonhg.netbsd.org, which might take a day or two.

Re: random lockups

On 19/10/23 02:12, Greg Troxel wrote: I realize this could be a vast number of things, flaky power, bad power supply, bad RAM, but it feels correlated with updating. I think this updated included a zfs actually-return-memory fix (which is very welcome but epsilon scary). Is anyone else

Re: Problems with dhcpcd

On 8/10/23 15:30, Lloyd Parkes wrote: I added some debugging to /libexec/dhcpcd-run-hooks and things started working ... better. I created an empty file called /var/log/debug and added "exec >> /var/log/debug 2>&1" to the top of /libexec/dhcpcd-run-hooks. With t

Re: Problems with dhcpcd

On 8/10/23 14:54, Lloyd Parkes wrote: That was all with dhcpcd 10.0.3. I'll try and look into the source code and see why the reason field might make a difference. It could just be something causing trouble in the early boot and the reason is just a coincidence. I added some debugging

Re: Problems with dhcpcd

On 7/10/23 05:01, Roy Marples wrote: So it took 12 seconds to complete the DHCP transaction and validate the addresses are good before applying the DHCP lease. Without -B, dhcpcd will fork to the background right away so any assignments from the DHCP lease won't apply right away. Is this

Problems with dhcpcd

Hi all, I've installed 10.99.9 from about a day ago onto an old Raspberry Pi and I just can't get it to correctly set its hostname from DHCP. (I have removed the hostname=rpi from /etc/rc.conf). What I have discovered so far is that if I manually run "dhcpcd -d" then no hostname gets set. If

Re: Error (cross) building tools from macOS

On 18/09/23 04:15, Benny Siegert wrote: Hi! I tried to build NetBSD-current from source on a Macbook Air M2. However, the tools build fails because gcc cannot find zstd while linking. My command line was: % ./build.sh -j 6 -N 1 -U -O ../obj -m evbarm -a aarch64 release Any ideas? Maybe

Re: Call for testing: certctl, postinstall, TLS trust anchors

On 4/09/23 08:47, Taylor R Campbell wrote: We're preparing to ship TLS trust anchors in base and configure them so that applications like ftp(1) and pkg_add(1) can do TLS validation out of the box. Nice. I will have to wait until after the repository conversion systems come back online.

Re: Why can't a WireGuard interface route packets to itself?

PPPoE is a point to point protocol and the public IP addresses 114.23.17.255 and 114.23.164.222 are normal IP addresses. 114.23.164.222 is my local IP address and 114.23.17.255 is my ISP's IP address. Both can be treated as /32. AFAICT the important fact is that the route to 114.23.164.222

Re: Why can't a WireGuard interface route packets to itself?

On 31/07/23 02:18, logothesia wrote: Hi folks, I have a very simple WG network with only two machines: 10.0.0.1 (NetBSD), and 10.0.0.2 (linux). Indeed they can ping each other just fine, but attempting to ping 10.0.0.1 from itself yields the following error: % ping 10.0.0.1 PING 10.0.0.1

Re: modesetting vs intel in 10.0

On 9/07/23 10:06, David Brownlee wrote: What would be a good benchmark to stress the system a little? A while back someone mentioned pkgsrc/benchmarks/glmark2 and so I started using that. It seems reasonable. Cheers, Lloyd

Re: Redirecting 80 to 443

On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 19:54 +0200, Sagar Acharya wrote: > I'm using current httpd server shipped with NetBSD to host my website > at link below. It is awesome. I am shocked as to how complicated > server hosting is made by commercial companies! The NetBSD is very minimal and it is missing many

Re: current installation image fails to boot up

You can use "userconf" commands from the boot prompt to disable auto-detection of problematic devices. You should be able to interrupt the boot and disable ugen0 with the command "userconf disable ugen*". You can also put that command into boot.cfg so that you don't have to interrupt the boot

Re: httpd with tls on bootup

The manual page for httpd says that certificate needs to be in PEM format and that -I changes the port number. Perhaps using -Z to specify the certificate changes default port for you, perhaps it doesn't you'll have to experiment. On 29/05/23 03:55, Sagar Acharya wrote: Dear folks, I tried

Re: I can't cross build 10 on 10??

And now it works fine. The only change I made was to update my build host to the latest 10_BETA. I had already updated the base and comp sets on that host before I sent my first email because it smelled like tool(chain) confusion. Thanks for the advice even though I didn't end up needing it.

I can't cross build 10 on 10??

Hi all, I recently started trying to build 10_BETA for some of my non-amd64 platforms using my 10_BETA amd64 build hosts and it just won't work. It looks like something is going wrong with the host tools and they are trying to use host includes when they should be using in-tree includes. One

Re: Building old systems

On 20/04/23 10:34, Brook Milligan wrote: I am trying to build an old kernel with build.sh on a recent (9.99.108) amd64 system. However, compiling nbmake fails immediately with errors like /usr/bin/ld: buf.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first

Re: How to recover a root partition with damaged boot blocks

On 5/04/23 18:00, matthew green wrote: ps see "man 7 entropy" for how to fix the problem you observed. FWIW I have PR 57254 in Gnats that provides a patch to /etc/rc.d/entropy so that whenever the system boots with insufficient entropy appropriate messages are logged. It doesn't change

Re: ipmi0: incorrect critical max

On 22/03/23 03:45, Stephen Borrill wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2023, Lloyd Parkes wrote: On 18/03/23 05:14, Stephen Borrill wrote: On an HP Microserver Gen10 Plus, I found that soon after booting, I get the following alert: ...    Current  CritMax  WarnMax WarnMin  CritMin

Re: ipmi0: incorrect critical max

On 18/03/23 05:14, Stephen Borrill wrote: On an HP Microserver Gen10 Plus, I found that soon after booting, I get the following alert: ...   Current  CritMax  WarnMax  WarnMin  CritMin  Unit [ipmi0]    11-LOM-CORE:    59.253    0.000  110.471    degC

Re: GZIP warnings when building

Oh, it's used to pass the compression level though pax to gzip. That's explain it. Maybe we should switch to --use-compress-program="nbgzip -LEVEL"??? Cheers On 16/02/23 06:28, Martin Husemann wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 06:18:54AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote: I saw this to

Re: GZIP warnings when building

I saw this too. I think the way we select the gzip compression level (using the GZIP environment variable) is now deprecated for some reason. Cheers, Lloyd On 16/02/23 04:44, Martin Husemann wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 03:09:37PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: Hi, probably known and

Re: 10.0 BETA : Poor audio quality if 3.5mm jack is fully inserted

This could be a hardware issue and it could be a hardware issue that Linux is "fixing" for you. I have seen this exact broken behaviour before when connecting headphones to a headset socket or vice versa. I can't remember which way round it was. It is entirely reasonable for modern OSes and

Re: NetBSD 10.0_BETA envstat hangs

On 7/01/23 03:47, Mayuresh wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 10:12:27AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote: 2) For the the fact that the device appears to be getting attached to sysmon_envsys(9) even though device configuration failed. I filed for the other two, but did not find the word sysmon_envsys

Re: NetBSD 10.0_BETA envstat hangs

On 4/01/23 23:32, Mayuresh wrote: envstat hangs (doesn't come out with Ctrl-C) on a laptop with following description: # uname -a NetBSD asusn 10.0_BETA NetBSD 10.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 14:00:35 UTC 2022 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 #

Re: 10_BETA: Nice QOL improvements to the installer

On 22/12/22 02:33, Mayuresh wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 09:25:30AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote: I was installing on amd64 and the installer let me choose either MBR or GPT, I notice a separate image marked "bios" NetBSD-10.0_BETA-amd64-bios-install.img.gz NetBSD-10.0_

10_BETA: Nice QOL improvements to the installer

Hi all, It's been a while since I've run the NetBSD installer, so I don't now how recent the changes I've seen are, but I do like them. I was installing on amd64 and the installer let me choose either MBR or GPT, which is nice. The NUC I was installing on is old enough that it can only UEFI

Re: py310-pdf-parser doesn't install py_pdf_parser

On 6/12/22 22:35, Sagar Acharya wrote: I installed package py310-pdf-parser . It should install module py_pdf_parser as should be imported in python3.10. It throws an error No such module. You should normally provide more details, such as where you got the package from and a short

Re: getrandom() error with linux emulation

On 19/11/22 12:31, Brook Milligan wrote: I am running a linux application (no source code unfortunately) and encountering an error that seems from the message (which is cryptic) to be related to a getrandom() function call. This is with a NetBSD/amd64 9.99.99 kernel dating from August. I

ACPI problem post 9.99.79 on amd64

Hi all, I thought I ought to refresh the NetBSD running on my Xeons, but current kernels panic during boot. This affects 9.99.105 and a bunch of earlier versions, but I don't know how much earlier. I finally found a serial cable that works with our boot loader so I now have some console

Re: How to limit amount of virtual memory used for files (was: Re: Tuning ZFS memory usage on NetBSD - call for advice)

I wrote a quick and dirty program to trigger vast amounts of File memory usage only to remind myself of something important. Having File memory use all available RAM with only scraps left is not a problem by itself. The memory is there to be used and it is getting used. I used to have to

Re: macppc system wedging under memory pressure

You aren't the first person to have problems with memory pressure. We really are going to have to get around to documenting the memory management algorithms and all the tuning knobs. I used to use this page (https://imil.net/NetBSD/mirror/vm_tune.html), but I have no idea how current it is.

Re: Switching to the new DHCP from ISC?

On 3/09/22 22:40, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 10:00:04AM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: Does anyone know of a maintained DHCP relay implementation? The better question for me is: are DHCP relayer server still in use? DHCP relays are used a lot, but the ISC one probably

Switching to the new DHCP from ISC?

Hi all, Are there any plans to switch the DHCP server we have to the new Kea one from ISC? The relay that comes with it dumps core when relaying DHCP responses. I've fixed my copy of dhcrelay, but when I went to send the patch upstream, I saw this Please note that this project is

Re: Tuning ZFS memory usage on NetBSD - call for advice

It might not be ZFS related. But it could be. Someone else reported excessive, ongoing, increasing "File" usage a while back and I was somewhat dismissive because they were running a truckload of apps at the same time (not in VMs). I did manage to reproduce his problem on an empty non-ZFS

Re: HPE H240 in HBA mode

I have seen some somewhat official recommendations from HPE to leave such controllers in RAID mode and to then create an individual RAID 0 target for each disk. It seems more complicated than is needed, but it's what they said to do and it did seem to work. Cheers On 13/08/22 19:35,

Re: Broken references in manual pages

On 10/07/22 14:59, Robert Elz wrote: Fixing these things is a noble goal, but breaking the buikd to make that happen is not. I didn't envision breaking the build, but I also have to admit that I didn't envision how this wouldn't break the build either. Maybe a new build.sh operation?

Re: Broken references in manual pages

On 10/07/22 00:55, Roland Illig wrote: Shouldn't there be an automatic check for these?  Running this check after a "make distribution" should be fairly easy. That sounds like an excellent idea to me. Fixing the problems will be much harder than finding them, but there is no good excuse

Re: i386/amd64 image generated trough mkimage stuck on primary bootsrap at boot

On 8/07/22 21:01, RVP wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2022, br0nko wrote: 8 partitions: #    size    offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs] a:   2369473    63 4.2BSD  0 0 0  # (Cyl. 0*-   1156) c:   2312129    63 unused  0 0    # (Cyl. 0*-  

Re: i386/amd64 image generated trough mkimage stuck on primary bootsrap at boot

On 8/07/22 19:57, br0nko wrote: On Thursday, July 7th, 2022 at 11:25 PM, Mike Pumford wrote: On 07/07/2022 15:40, br0nko wrote: Hi, 0: NetBSD (sysid 169) start 63, size 1568384 (766 MB, Cyls 0/1/1-97/160/62), Active beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1 end: cylinder 97, head 160, sector

Re: Using NetBSD-current/amd64 on Sunfire X2200-M2 servers

I keep forgetting this. On 20/04/22 06:36, Brian Buhrow wrote: ... Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. You should be able to boot in single user mode and ask the kernel not to configure the bge driver. You should be able to run userconf in single user mode with "boot -sc" and

Re: Installing bootx64.efi on NetBSD current?

On 10/04/22 23:57, Martin Husemann wrote: I think I have just fixed this... I think you have as well. Thanks, Lloyd

Re: Installing bootx64.efi on NetBSD current?

On 9/04/22 23:25, Martin Husemann wrote: First question is if the files exist in that install medium - can you netboot into that netbsd-INSTALL.gz again, go to the shell and check contents of /usr/mdec? I did manage to find my way this far before getting distracted by a slightly more

Installing bootx64.efi on NetBSD current?

I installed NetBSD current from late March by net booting netbsd-INSTALL.gz on and amd64 system of mine. The net boot and disk boot were both done with UEFI and sysinst correctly offered to create GPT filesystems for me. Even though the FAT system partition was created correctly, bootx64.efi

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

On 25/01/22 17:57, Greg A. Woods wrote: I have fixes that restore the previous option to use "untrusted" hardware as an entropy source. They may need some updating to be truly complete in the most recent -current, as I'm still back at 9.99.81. The change was more subtle than that I think.

Re: Serious bugs in NetBSD-current, have they been fixed?

Hi Tom, On 25/10/21 14:01, Thomas Mueller wrote: One of these bugs relates to entropy and how it impedes building many packages in pkgsrc. I seemed to get around this bug on one computer but not the other. It's the old story that it's not a bug, but a feature. It's quite possible that it

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

On 27/07/21 12:19 am, Paul Ripke wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 05:53:19PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: That's 12GB of RAM in use and 86MB of RAM free. Sounds pretty awful to me. Sounds normal to me - I don't expect to see any free RAM unless I've just - exited a large process - deleted

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

It has been a very long time since I had to look at UVM stuff, but luckily past me post to https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2010/02/01/msg000364.html. Well done past me. Copying from that post, I was using vm.anonmin = 10 vm.filemin = 5 vm.execmin = 5 vm.anonmax = 90

Re: build.sh live-image

On 30/05/21 8:55 am, Rhialto wrote: Another thing I noticed is that /etc/rc.d/resize_disklabel looks at the wrong MBR partition to check for NetBSD: it looks at partition 1 but should look at partition 0. resize_disklabel is designed for use on the Raspberry Pi where the NetBSD partition

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

On 30/04/21 9:50 pm, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 05:31:53PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote:     ceph4% hg --version     Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.3.2) Please note that this is quite an old version and a lot of work on improving both CPU time and memory use has

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

On 30/04/21 8:36 pm, Hauke Fath wrote: Out of curiosity: Do you use a ZIL SLOG* volume with that setup? I remember cvs operations used to be a lot slower on spinning rust than on SSD. I'm not using a SLOG. I couldn't be bothered setting one up on my crash and burn systems. It doesn't seem

Problem reports for version control systems

Hi all, The problem reports people have in their emails are completely inadequate for trying to determine what is going wrong for people trying to access the NetBSD source. Since I was the first person to post an inadequate report in this first batch, I'll go first at trying to do better.

Re: GCC 10 available for testing etc. in -current.

On 19/04/21 10:21 am, Lloyd Parkes wrote: On 17/04/21 6:30 pm, Lloyd Parkes wrote: I am using the Mercurial repository at https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src for fetching the source code because it's nice and quick So I'm now downloading the source code through CVS instead of Mercurial because

Re: GCC 10 available for testing etc. in -current.

On 17/04/21 6:30 pm, Lloyd Parkes wrote: I am using the Mercurial repository at https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src for fetching the source code because it's nice and quick So I'm now downloading the source code through CVS instead of Mercurial because nobody else seems to be having the same

Re: GCC 10 available for testing etc. in -current.

On 15/04/21 2:19 pm, matthew green wrote: the steps are fairly simple: - update -currnet srcs - build.sh with no -u (update), and set -V HAVE-GCC=10 as a option. this ensures that everything is actually rebuilt with the new compiler. I'm guessing that should be "-V HAVE_GCC=10", but

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

With some trepidation, I'm going to dip into this conversation even though I haven't read all of.  I don't have the mental fortitude for that. I have two suggestions, one short and one long. Firstly, we could just have an rc.d script that checks to see if the system has /var/db/entropy-file

Re: How to determine if graphics is supported by radeondrm?

On 20/03/21 3:41 pm, Lloyd Parkes wrote: I also tried my Intel based laptop, but I only had an MBR image and HP seemed to have removed the old BIOS boot option in their newer firmware so I couldn't even boot the image. I just tried the 9.1 image on my ASUS UX550V laptop and it did load

Re: How to determine if graphics is supported by radeondrm?

HI all, On 18/03/21 10:03 am, Rhialto wrote: For example, if I look at an "AMD Ryzen 3" cpu, which supposedly has integrated graphics "AMD Radeon Vega 8, integrated GPU". Grepping -i for "Vega" in src/sys/external/bsd/drm2/dist/drm yields no results; I take it this is a bad sign? I booted a

Re: pkgsrc build hang of python38

On 2/03/21 6:51 am, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I thouht your cited entropy fix was a "once time" not to be reissued again (when? at every reboot? kernel update?) I don't think it is that user friendly to recularly "feed" this entropy... and it gets lost at the next reboot? Could we have a script

Re: pkgsrc build hang of python38

On 28/02/21 9:50 am, Riccardo Mottola wrote: python38 hangs during build. I tried several times, it hangs in exactly the same place again. I don't know of course where the issue comes from, since all is new now :) Do you have any console messages? Maybe messages about blocking the python

Re: zpool import lossage

This is all off the top of my head and while I use ZFS almost daily, not on NetBSD :-(, it's been a few years since I poked at the internals. Your action of creating a symlink seems like a reasonable workaround/solution to your issue. You should be able to create the symlink in any directory

Re: Running into unknown user errors while building -current for the Rasberry Pi

> On 29/12/2016, at 10:39 AM, Brian Buhrow wrote: > > hello. thanks for the feedback. The earlier post about looking at > the mtree source code gave a clue about what to do. The build is running > as root and not in a chrooted environment. So, mtree is doing lookups

Re: Running into unknown user errors while building -current for the Rasberry Pi

Hi Brian, Can you provide the snippet of the log from a build with -N 2 that shows the command line for nbmakefs? If you have trouble coming up with a log small enough for you to feel comfortable cross-posting, feel free to email it to me directly, or use something like pastebin. nbmakefs

Re: Building on OS X - how?

> On 16/08/2016, at 7:41 PM, matthew green wrote: > >> I've been trying to find when this breakage occurred, > > it happened when your port switched to GCC 5. sorry :-) Yeah. While looking for the “backend” directory I saw gcc.old and gcc. A quick look showed me they

Re: Building on OS X - how?

> On 12/08/2016, at 3:34 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > It's curious that this doesn't break the tools build, and doesn't > prevent using the built tools to build a kernel! If this can break > the cross-build of the target compiler, I think we must have suddenly > sprouted