Re: Since upgrade to OpenBSD 7.5 the FreeRADIUS EAP authentication no longer works

2024-04-17 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/17/24 16:34, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-04-17, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: One idea if you have old devices that cannot upgrade to a newer SSL/TLS protocol would be to run some kind of proxy between the client and the radius server (stunnel?) Don't know how well this plays with

Re: Since upgrade to OpenBSD 7.5 the FreeRADIUS EAP authentication no longer works

2024-04-17 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/17/24 15:19, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-04-17, Federico Giannici wrote: Since we upgraded from OpenBSD amd64 7.3 to 7.5 (passing through 7.4) the FreeRadius EAP authentication no longer works! We are using a custom version of FreeRadius (because we had to do some little changes

Since upgrade to OpenBSD 7.5 the FreeRADIUS EAP authentication no longer works

2024-04-17 Thread Federico Giannici
Since we upgraded from OpenBSD amd64 7.3 to 7.5 (passing through 7.4) the FreeRadius EAP authentication no longer works! We are using a custom version of FreeRadius (because we had to do some little changes and a module of our own), and everything worked correctly for many years. Now, with

Re: Upgraded to 7.5: vfs.ffs.dirhash_dirsize no longer exists and large directory ere veeery slow

2024-04-11 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/11/24 16:15, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 03:36:29PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: On 4/11/24 14:12, Nick Holland wrote: On 4/11/24 05:47, Federico Giannici wrote: We have a server with A LOT of files in some directories (an email server in maildir format). Since we

Re: Upgraded to 7.5: vfs.ffs.dirhash_dirsize no longer exists and large directory ere veeery slow

2024-04-11 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/11/24 14:12, Nick Holland wrote: On 4/11/24 05:47, Federico Giannici wrote: We have a server with A LOT of files in some directories (an email server in maildir format). Since we upgraded from OpenBSD amd64 7.3 to 7.5 (passing through 7.4) it became very very very slow to access

Upgraded to 7.5: vfs.ffs.dirhash_dirsize no longer exists and large directory ere veeery slow

2024-04-11 Thread Federico Giannici
We have a server with A LOT of files in some directories (an email server in maildir format). Since we upgraded from OpenBSD amd64 7.3 to 7.5 (passing through 7.4) it became very very very slow to access these large directories! Up to 7.3 we used the following sysctl settings and everything

Re: kate no longer start after upgrade to 7.4

2023-10-21 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/20/23 19:31, Federico Giannici wrote: I just upgraded my OpenBSD 7.3 amd64 to 7.4. I used the usual procedure, the one in the upgrade FAQ. After the upgrade kate (KDE texteditor) no longer works! If I execute "kate -v" here it is the output: kate:/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.

kate no longer start after upgrade to 7.4

2023-10-20 Thread Federico Giannici
I just upgraded my OpenBSD 7.3 amd64 to 7.4. I used the usual procedure, the one in the upgrade FAQ. After the upgrade kate (KDE texteditor) no longer works! If I execute "kate -v" here it is the output: kate:/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.17.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.18.0 : WARNING:

Re: Problems with IO::Socket::SSL since upgraded to 7.2

2022-12-11 Thread Federico Giannici
On 12/11/22 11:34, Stuart Henderson wrote: The security level stuff was only recently added to libressl, it is still hidden behind #ifndef for libressl in p5-Net-SSLeay. I think you can set it in the ciphers string though, if it is ADH maybe you need something like "ADH:ALL:@SECLEVEL=0" (though

Problems with IO::Socket::SSL since upgraded to 7.2

2022-12-10 Thread Federico Giannici
Since I upgraded from OpenBSD 7.1 to 7.2 (amd64) I'm no longer able to use IO::Socket::SSL perl library to connect to some devices (Mikrotik routers, via their API). This is the only debug info I was able to obtain: DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:842: local error: SSL connect attempt failed

Supposed way to have a login without password but still able to login via ssh?

2022-09-26 Thread Federico Giannici
I have a login that I want to be able to access only via ssh with a certificate (in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). So I have disabled the password ('*') but left a valid shell. Something like this in /etc/master.passwd: mylogin:*:1001:1001::0:0:My login:/home/mylogin:/bin/sh But in this way

"set -o multiline" in ksh?

2022-08-08 Thread Federico Giannici
I recently switched my shell from tcsh to the default OpenBSD shell (ksh). What I really miss is multiline editing of current (very long) commands (ksh simply horizontally "scrolls", showing only a part of the command line). I know that in standard ksh this functionality is activated with

Re: Switching from tcsh to ksh and Aliases exportation

2022-07-30 Thread Federico Giannici
and all... Thanks On 7/30/22 11:46, Alexander Hall wrote: On July 30, 2022 9:18:34 AM GMT+02:00, Federico Giannici wrote: For historical reasons I always used the tcsh shell for my personal uses. Now I'd like to switch to the system sh (actually ksh), but I have a problem. Usually, on the

Switching from tcsh to ksh and Aliases exportation

2022-07-30 Thread Federico Giannici
For historical reasons I always used the tcsh shell for my personal uses. Now I'd like to switch to the system sh (actually ksh), but I have a problem. Usually, on the servers I manage, I switch to root with "su -m", so I can maintain my environment: path, prompt, aliases, etc. With tcsh it

Re: WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1

2022-05-10 Thread Federico Giannici
On 5/9/22 20:25, Gleydson Soares wrote: Now the question is: why WebAssembly is disabled by default under OpenBSD? Is there any contraindication to activate it? do you want to run someone else's binary on your browser? by disabling WebAssembly, the browser will have less shit running to

Re: WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1

2022-05-09 Thread Federico Giannici
On 5/9/22 18:40, Caspar Schutijser wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 01:16:15PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: I'm not able to use WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1 (amd64), no login page appears. Is there something bad in my configuration or is this a known problem? Thanks. That's

WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1

2022-05-09 Thread Federico Giannici
I'm not able to use WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1 (amd64), no login page appears. Is there something bad in my configuration or is this a known problem? Thanks.

Base httpd authentication against RADIUS server?

2021-10-20 Thread Federico Giannici
From the man page It seems that httpd in base can authenticate only against a standard passwd file. Is there no way (apart from modifying source and recompiling) to authenticate with something else, like a RADIUS server? Thanks.

Hot to use speakers from one sound card an mic from another?

2021-05-02 Thread Federico Giannici
SHORT VERSION: How can I make Chromium to use the speakers from the internal soundcard and the the microphone from an USB card? LONG VERSION: I'd like to use my OpenBSD 6.9 amd64 PC for videoconferencing using Google Meets in Chromium. The problem is that I have the speakers connected to the

Re: Unable to sysupgrade to 6.7!

2020-05-23 Thread Federico Giannici
On 2020-05-23 10:45, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: I was unable to upgrade my amd64 6.6 workstation to 6.7. Here is what happens: https://www.neomedia.it/tmp/67.jpg Then system reboot in an infinite loop (finally I changed the boot

Unable to sysupgrade to 6.7!

2020-05-23 Thread Federico Giannici
I was unable to upgrade my amd64 6.6 workstation to 6.7. Here is what happens: https://www.neomedia.it/tmp/67.jpg Then system reboot in an infinite loop (finally I changed the boot image to "bsd" and returned to previous 6.6). Other system infos at the end of the email. Anybody knows what

Can KDE's Kate e Juk coexists? (KF5 and KDE4)

2019-10-20 Thread Federico Giannici
I have just upgraded my desktop PC to OpenBSD amd64 6.6. I already installed Kate (kate-18.12.0p0, witch uses KF5). I'd like to use Juk too (witch uses KDE4), but I get these errors: casa:/home/giannici# pkg_add juk quirks-3.182 signed on 2019-10-12T12:14:24Z Can't install baloo-4.14.3p7

Re: Display flickers after upgrade to 6.6

2019-10-19 Thread Federico Giannici
On 2019-10-19 17:59, Federico Giannici wrote: On 2019-10-19 16:17, Andre Stoebe wrote: Hi, I ran into the same issue this morning. Disabling the compositor worked for me, but I noticed later that this is also documented in the package readme: Screen compositor = If you're

Re: Display flickers after upgrade to 6.6

2019-10-19 Thread Federico Giannici
On 2019-10-19 16:17, Andre Stoebe wrote: Hi, I ran into the same issue this morning. Disabling the compositor worked for me, but I noticed later that this is also documented in the package readme: Screen compositor = If you're using the modesetting X driver and experience

Display flickers after upgrade to 6.6

2019-10-19 Thread Federico Giannici
Today I switched my desktop PC, with Xfce, to OpenBSD amd64 6.6. Since the upgrade the display started to flickers. It seems to me that the desktop background flashes over the various windows. I vaguely remember that i read something about this problem in a message in these mailings a couple

OpenBSD 6.5 is much less responsive (high "spin" state)

2019-07-21 Thread Federico Giannici
Recently I upgraded an OpenBSD amd64 server from 6.3 to 6.5 (rapidly passing through 6.4). This a monitoring server with a lot of processes that send "ping" (both ICMP and UDP) packets to a great number of hosts. So there is a great number of processes but they spend most of their time waiting

openssl -noverify doesn't work since 6.4?

2019-07-07 Thread Federico Giannici
Hi. I have just upgraded an amd64 system from OpenBSD 6.3 to 6.5 (passing from 6.4, to be sure). It seems that since OpenBSD 6.4 the -noverify option in openssl doesn't work any more. Here is the OpenBSD 6.3 output (openssl-63 is the openssl binary from 6.3): aragorn:/home/giannici#

Re: Filesystem corruption on OpenBSD routers after power outage?

2019-06-05 Thread Federico Giannici
Is there any way to tell the boot script to use the "-y" flag in fsck? If something goes wrong with simple fsck, I always simply do a "fsck -y". There is no other option for me. So, it would be VERY useful if this could be done automatically instead of interrupting the router startup.

GIVE UP: Re: SOLVED: Re: No more KDE's dolphin after upgrade to 6.5

2019-04-30 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/29/19 10:48 AM, Federico Giannici wrote: On 4/26/19 9:47 PM, Rafael Sadowski wrote: It looks like you mixed packages for 6.4 and 6.5 and/or -current. Another try: run "pkg_add -X" to remove all your installed packages and install step by step what you need! I tried that

SOLVED: Re: No more KDE's dolphin after upgrade to 6.5

2019-04-29 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/26/19 9:47 PM, Rafael Sadowski wrote: On Fri Apr 26, 2019 at 05:47:11PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: On 4/26/19 4:10 PM, Rafael Sadowski wrote: On Thu Apr 25, 2019 at 01:34:24PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: Similarly to konsole, KDE's dolphin no longer works too after upgrade

dump | restore crashed with OpenBSD amd64 6.5

2019-04-26 Thread Federico Giannici
Since I upgraded to OpenBSD amd64 6.5 I wasn't able to do a disk mirroring with a dump | restore without producing system panic like this: https://www.neomedia.it/images/IMG_20190426_183116.jpg I use the following script, executed after a boot in single user mode: newfs -q /dev/rsd2a if mount

Re: No more KDE's dolphin after upgrade to 6.5

2019-04-26 Thread Federico Giannici
On 4/26/19 4:10 PM, Rafael Sadowski wrote: On Thu Apr 25, 2019 at 01:34:24PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: Similarly to konsole, KDE's dolphin no longer works too after upgrade of amd64 from 6.4 to 6.5. It seems that dolphin was switched to KF5 too, ma I wasn't able to install the new

Re: No more KDE konsole after upgrade to 6.5

2019-04-25 Thread Federico Giannici
Downloaded all distribution from "mirrors.ircam.fr". On 4/25/19 2:03 PM, sven falempin wrote: From where did you load up the base65.tgz ? On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 5:01 AM Federico Giannici wrote: I just upgraded my home amd64 from 6.4 to 6.5 and now KDE's konsole no lo

No more KDE's dolphin after upgrade to 6.5

2019-04-25 Thread Federico Giannici
Similarly to konsole, KDE's dolphin no longer works too after upgrade of amd64 from 6.4 to 6.5. It seems that dolphin was switched to KF5 too, ma I wasn't able to install the new package: casa:/home/giannici# pkg_add dolphin-kf5 quirks-3.124 signed on 2019-04-15T12:10:16Z Can't install

No more KDE konsole after upgrade to 6.5

2019-04-25 Thread Federico Giannici
I just upgraded my home amd64 from 6.4 to 6.5 and now KDE's konsole no longer works. The binary seems to be there and upgraded: casa:/home/giannici# ll /usr/local/bin/konsole -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 13056 Apr 14 20:14 /usr/local/bin/konsole* But it seems to refer to a library that no longer

Re: Unable to do "su -m" in OpenBSD 6.4

2018-10-20 Thread Federico Giannici
OK, thank you. I'd like to know if a syspatch is expected with this fix, or I have to compile "su" by myself from sources. Thanks. On 10/20/18 6:47 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: You've found an unveil bug in su. It needs to allow read access to /etc/shells also, for this specific !altshell +

Unable to do "su -m" in OpenBSD 6.4

2018-10-20 Thread Federico Giannici
Today I upgraded my desktop PC from OpenBSD amd64 6.3 to 6.4. Up to 6.3 I was able to simply execute "su -m" to become superuser while keeping all my enviroment. Now under 6.4 I'm no longer able to do it: casa:/home/giannici> su -m Password: su: permission denied (shell). In the man page of

No kio in Kate with OpenBSD 6.4

2018-10-20 Thread Federico Giannici
Today I upgraded my desktop PC from OpenBSD amd64 6.3 to 6.4. Now it seems that Kate (the KDE's text editor) is no longer able to open "sftp:" files (that is, it's no longer able to use kio). Please note that other KDE programs (Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, etc.) are still able to correctly

Re: Chrome crashes with 6.2 (Please update official download sites!)

2017-10-27 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/26/17 13:26, Cág wrote: Federico Giannici wrote: Since I upgraded from OBSD 6.1 to 6.2 (amd64), at least half the time I launch Chrome it crashes (with a "use after free"). We had a discussion in the ports@ list a couple of days ago: https://marc.info/?t=1508598637000

Chrome crashes with 6.2

2017-10-26 Thread Federico Giannici
Since I upgraded from OBSD 6.1 to 6.2 (amd64), at least half the time I launch Chrome it crashes (with a "use after free"). Here is an example: casa:/home/giannici> chrome [99256:2090071984:1026/093638.414135:ERROR:process_metrics_openbsd.cc(258)] Not implemented reached in bool

dump to remote system

2017-10-14 Thread Federico Giannici
I'd like to do a"dump" of a filesystem to a remote machine. The dump command man page says to use "-f user@host:file", but sniffing the network traffic I have found that it tries to connect to the 514 TCP port, the rsh protocol port. But it seems to me that rsh has been removed from OpenBSD

Re: OpenBSD 6.2: okular crash if passed any file

2017-10-12 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/12/17 09:53, Dorian Büttner wrote: On 10/11/17 20:03, Federico Giannici wrote: Hi. I just upgraded to OpenBSD 6.2 (amd64). Everything seems OK... apart from okular (the KDE files viewer). Am I the only one with is problem? I'm using snapshots and I've seen this for say 3 months or so

OpenBSD 6.2: okular crash if passed any file

2017-10-11 Thread Federico Giannici
Hi. I just upgraded to OpenBSD 6.2 (amd64). Everything seems OK... apart from okular (the KDE files viewer). If it is launched with any file as argument it works ok, and a file can then be opened with the "Open" menu: casa:/home/giannici/Work> okular okular(34478)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton)

Re: Hot Spare in Softraid?

2017-08-12 Thread Federico Giannici
On 08/12/17 20:48, noah pugsley wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Federico Giannici <giann...@neomedia.it> wrote: Is it possible to set a "Hot Spare" chunk for a RAID1 Softraid? From the "bioctl" man page seems that this functionality is available f

Hot Spare in Softraid?

2017-08-12 Thread Federico Giannici
Is it possible to set a "Hot Spare" chunk for a RAID1 Softraid? From the "bioctl" man page seems that this functionality is available for "RAID controllers" only. Is it correct? Thanks.

How to syspatch from a different server?

2017-05-15 Thread Federico Giannici
We use an internal server to speedup the upgrade of OS and packages of all our internal machines (all amd64). We simply set /etc/installurl in every machine to point to our server were there are the OS tarballs and packages. Anyway we'd like to use the standard OpenBSD servers for syspatch as

Segmentation fault of X under 6.0

2016-10-23 Thread Federico Giannici
Since I upgraded my PC to 6.0 (amd64) the X server has began to crash almost once a day, usually after a while of minutes (it's variable, usually around 30-60 minutes after the boot). Video card is an "ATI Radeon HD 4350". No custom X configuration file. Before the upgrade to 6.0 (from 5.9)

How to analyse excessive PF states?

2016-10-22 Thread Federico Giannici
We have a firewall with OpenBSD 6.0 amd64 that handles about 1.5 Gbps of traffic. I noticed that from a few weeks the number of states is increased from around 250.000 to almost 2 millions (no change in PF config)! At the same time the firewall started loosing a few packets (around 1-2%,

iKVM with noVNC (was: Re: 6.0-stable panic)

2016-10-01 Thread Federico Giannici
On 09/30/16 03:40, Stuart Henderson wrote: (supermicro branded java crap). Other than serial-over-lan, ports/net/noVNC is fairly likely to work for connecting to KVM on this machine. Then it's html5+websockets crap instead, but at least it's a bit less unpleasant than java. That's really

Re: How to analyse dlopen() failure?

2016-06-29 Thread Federico Giannici
On 06/29/16 18:58, Ted Unangst wrote: Federico Giannici wrote: Jun 29 17:18:37 eowyn2 openser: ERROR: load_module: could not open module : Cannot load specified object I repeat that: 1) The same source had no problem under OpenBSD 5.3. 2) All other modules are correctly loaded, only this one

How to analyse dlopen() failure?

2016-06-29 Thread Federico Giannici
I have a problem with dlopen() that I don't know how to analyse. Let's start from the beginning. I'm trying to upgrade an old VoIP server with OpenBSD 5.3 amd64, installing a completely new PC with OpenBSD 5.9 amd64 and reinstalling all the programs there. The problem is that, EXACTLY the

OpenBSD's unbound bug?

2016-06-02 Thread Federico Giannici
Since we switched from bind to unbound we experienced a problem: after a few days or weeks or normal working (monitoring stats with a "unbound-control stats_noreset" command every 5 minutes) unbound-control stops working: every unbound-control command we issue (apart -v) get no response and we

Re: Reached some limit with sockets?

2016-02-23 Thread Federico Giannici
On 02/22/16 18:46, Andrew Fresh wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 08:06:57PM +0100, Federico Giannici wrote: In a server (OpenBSD amd64 5.7) with many concurrent perl programs that have to open a lot of SSH connections, I get many errors like this: connect() on closed socket GEN136 at /usr

Re: Reached some limit with sockets?

2016-02-21 Thread Federico Giannici
On 02/21/16 01:05, li...@wrant.com wrote: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:06:57 +0100 Federico Giannici <giann...@neomedia.it> In a server (OpenBSD amd64 5.7) with many concurrent perl programs that have to open a lot of SSH connections, I get many errors like this: Have you tried connection s

Reached some limit with sockets?

2016-02-20 Thread Federico Giannici
In a server (OpenBSD amd64 5.7) with many concurrent perl programs that have to open a lot of SSH connections, I get many errors like this: connect() on closed socket GEN136 at /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/Net/SSH/Perl.pm line 216. Maybe at some point no more sockets can be opened

Suggested 1000BASE-LX adapter

2015-10-27 Thread Federico Giannici
I have to install in an OpenBSD 5.8 amd64 a PCI-E ethernet card supporting 1000BASE-LX (i.e. 1Gbps with Single Mode Fiber). Usually we use Intel cards (em driver) but I found that the only Intel LX card has a PCI-X bus! What reliable LX NIC with PCI-E do you suggest? Thanks.

Re: Suggested 1000BASE-LX adapter

2015-10-27 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/27/15 16:17, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Federico Giannici [giann...@neomedia.it] wrote: We do have an ix card, the Intel X520-LR1. I read that it is supposed to work as 1000BASE-LX too but we were not able to make it work! It never gives the link. If we try to set 1000BASE-LX as media type

Re: Suggested 1000BASE-LX adapter

2015-10-27 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/27/15 15:31, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Federico Giannici [giann...@neomedia.it] wrote: I have to install in an OpenBSD 5.8 amd64 a PCI-E ethernet card supporting 1000BASE-LX (i.e. 1Gbps with Single Mode Fiber). Usually we use Intel cards (em driver) but I found that the only Intel LX card

Re: Suggested 1000BASE-LX adapter

2015-10-27 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/27/15 16:33, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-10-27, Federico Giannici <giann...@neomedia.it> wrote: On 10/27/15 15:31, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Federico Giannici [giann...@neomedia.it] wrote: I have to install in an OpenBSD 5.8 amd64 a PCI-E ethernet card supporting 1000BASE-L

Interpretation of the max option of stateful tracking

2015-08-28 Thread Federico Giannici
I'm trying to use the max ⟨number⟩ option of the Stateful Tracking of PF (OpenBSD 5.7 amd64). I'm not sure how to interpret the phrase [it] Limits the number of concurrent states the rule may create. The limit is against the number of states created by ONLY THAT specific rule (I need this

Re: How to optimize PF queues handling?

2015-03-09 Thread Federico Giannici
On 03/09/15 15:24, Henning Brauer wrote: * Federico Giannici giann...@neomedia.it [2015-02-04 01:11]: I have done an experiment: I replaced in every rule the set queue XXX with tag XXX (XXX is always different so the PF optimizer doesn't collapse multiple rules in tables). In this way we found

How to optimize PF queues handling?

2015-02-03 Thread Federico Giannici
We are using an OpenBSD amd64 5.5-release as a firewall (the dmesg is at the end of this email). We are using a great number of queues to limit and assign bandwidth (about 2500 queues for both NICs). Currently we are handling about 500Mbps of traffic flowing the firewall but the CPU0 reaches

How to get the number of interrupts per second

2015-01-28 Thread Federico Giannici
I have to get (via command line) the number of interrupts per seconds in a given moment (OpenBSD 5.5 amd64). I noticed that the number shown by vmstat is different from the one shown from systat. For example, here are the interrupts shown from systat: Interrupts 16457 total 400 clock

KDE4 crashes in 5.6

2014-12-03 Thread Federico Giannici
Hi! I'd like to know if I'm the only one that have experiences crashes with KDE4 under 5.6-release amd64. Often, during the startup or shutdown of KDE4, the bug report window appears saying that Plasma Desktop Shell closed unexpectedly (Executable plasma-desktop, Signal Segmentation

Re: KDE4 crashes in 5.6

2014-12-03 Thread Federico Giannici
Of course, I had already done that. Thanks. On 12/03/14 12:58, Vadim Zhukov wrote: Also, make sure that you have your openfiles (for user) and kern.maxfiles (sysctl) limits bumped. -- Vadim Zhukov 03 дек. 2014 г. 13:14 пользователь Federico Giannici giann...@neomedia.it mailto:giann

Re: kde4-4.13.3p0 on OpenBSD 5.6 10/15/2014 AMD64 snapshot

2014-11-04 Thread Federico Giannici
Yes, I am experiencing random crashes in KDE4 too since I upgraded from 5.5. to 5.6. Anyway, I wasn't able to create a reproducible situation... Bye. On 11/04/14 01:10, Stan Gammons wrote: Does anyone besides me experience crashes with Dolphin on kde4-4.13.3p0? When I click on the kde crash

Re: Large number of netlivelocks

2014-11-01 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/31/14 09:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-10-30, Federico Giannici giann...@neomedia.it wrote: Hi. We noticed that in our firewall (an OpenBSD 5.5-stable amd64, demsg follows) there are a large number of network livelocks (kern.netlivelocks). We graphed them and noticed

Large number of netlivelocks

2014-10-30 Thread Federico Giannici
Hi. We noticed that in our firewall (an OpenBSD 5.5-stable amd64, demsg follows) there are a large number of network livelocks (kern.netlivelocks). We graphed them and noticed that they arrive even to 2000 per minute! They are related to the amount of traffic but not in a linear way. We'd

Re: Keyboard through IPMI lag/skipping keys

2014-10-22 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/22/14 12:18, Stuart Henderson wrote: Since OpenBSD doesn't have dual serial+tty consoles, you won't see much on the monitor after rebooting with that in boot.conf - if you need to skip this, hold ctrl down during boot (specifically, it needs to be down at the point where the boot loader

Re: Connection drop (i.e. IRC) caused by pf/pfsync/carp/...?

2014-10-11 Thread Federico Giannici
On 10/10/14 23:34, Stuart Henderson wrote: oops, missed your sysctl -a output (I wasn't expecting to see it, well done ;-) net.inet.ip.ifq.drops=140720 You would probably benefit from increasing net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen, maybe double it once or twice and see if net.inet.ip.ifq.drops stops

Re: New queueing system and HZ value limits

2014-08-22 Thread Federico Giannici
On 08/22/14 08:22, Henning Brauer wrote: * Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net [2014-08-21 19:13]: Unless I've mis-understood all the emails and reports about this, it affects low-bandwidth queues, not low-bandwidth interfaces. In other words, limiting traffic to 50Mbps on a 1Gb link will work

New queueing system and HZ value limits

2014-08-21 Thread Federico Giannici
We are using a firewall/qos server with a lot of HFSC queues. We have just switched to the new queueing system of 5.5. We'd like to get rid of custom kernels because now there is no longer the limit of 64 HFSC classes, but I have recently read that there are still limits to the efficacy of the

Re: New queueing system and HZ value limits

2014-08-21 Thread Federico Giannici
On 08/21/14 19:03, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-08-21, Federico Giannici giann...@neomedia.it wrote: We are using a firewall/qos server with a lot of HFSC queues. We have just switched to the new queueing system of 5.5. We'd like to get rid of custom kernels because now there is no longer

Does softraid RAID1 evenly distribute the read load?

2013-11-07 Thread Federico Giannici
For a decision I have to do, I have to know if the RAID1 implementation in softraid evenly distributes the read load through all the disks. So, for example: with a two identical disks RAID1 implementation, can we roughly assume that write speed is almost the same speed of a single disk while

Re: C partition of type 4.2BSD

2013-08-10 Thread Federico Giannici
On 08/09/13 22:54, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:38:16AM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: I don't know how I made it (probably in previous releases of OS), but now I have a disk with the following disklabel: # /dev/rsd2c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: ST1000DM003

C partition of type 4.2BSD

2013-08-09 Thread Federico Giannici
I don't know how I made it (probably in previous releases of OS), but now I have a disk with the following disklabel: # /dev/rsd2c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: ST1000DM003-9YN1 duid: b0e3fc037df87899 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065

Re: Softraid disks status in daily?

2013-07-31 Thread Federico Giannici
I use a simple script in sensorsd. My suggestion was to have a simple way to be informed in every default installation. Thanks. On 07/31/13 15:11, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 09:36:37AM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: Hi. What about showing softraid disks status

Softraid disks status in daily?

2013-07-28 Thread Federico Giannici
Hi. What about showing softraid disks status in the daily script? It could be shown just after the disk usage (df -kl). I know the correct way to be notified when a disk has some failure is to use sensorsd, but it have to be setup and I think that it could be useful to have a default and

Disk accesses freeze for a lot of seconds

2013-01-06 Thread Federico Giannici
We have an OpenBSD 5.2 amd64 where every 5 minutes a few thousand of .rrd files from MRTG are written (actually, updated) to disk. The problem is that for a few seconds (15-20) every other access to the disk is totally blocked. So during those 15-20 seconds the access to the graphs is

Re: Disk accesses freeze for a lot of seconds

2013-01-06 Thread Federico Giannici
You was right: turning off softdep made the freezes much shorter. Thanks. On 01/06/13 13:49, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 12:22:44PM +0100, Federico Giannici wrote: We have an OpenBSD 5.2 amd64 where every 5 minutes a few thousand of .rrd files from MRTG are written

bad 5.1 package of poptop

2012-05-26 Thread Federico Giannici
The 5.1 package of poptop poptop-1.3.4p3.tgz (taken from 2 different official FTP sites) seems to be compiled for a platform after 5.1. If I try to install it an error appears about a c library version not present: # pkg_add poptop-1.3.4p3.tgz Can't install poptop-1.3.4p3 because of

Re: bad 5.1 package of poptop

2012-05-26 Thread Federico Giannici
Oops! I forgot to say it's amd64. Thanks. On 05/26/12 16:06, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:31:52PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: The 5.1 package of poptop poptop-1.3.4p3.tgz (taken from 2 different official FTP sites) seems to be compiled for a platform after 5.1. If I

Re: bad 5.1 package of poptop

2012-05-26 Thread Federico Giannici
On 05/26/12 16:41, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:31:52PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: The 5.1 package of poptop poptop-1.3.4p3.tgz (taken from 2 different official FTP sites) seems to be compiled for a platform after 5.1. If I try to install it an error appears about a c

KDE sftp: URLs in OpenBSD 4.9

2011-07-09 Thread Federico Giannici
Anybody can confirm that KDE sftp: URLs still work correctly under OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64)? Since I upgraded from 4.8 to 4.9 all the sftp://; URLs of KDE no longer work for me. I always get the error Error encountered while talking to ssh. I'd like to know if it's a common problem of 4.9 or is

Re: Two problems upgrading to 4.9

2011-07-08 Thread Federico Giannici
On 07/05/11 20:37, Mark Solocinski wrote: On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:26:56 +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: I have just upgraded my amd64 desktop pc from 4.8 to 4.9. I encountered two problems: 1) I have mouse.resolution=90 in /etc/wsconsctl.conf. Since the upgrade it doesn't seem to work anymore

Two problems upgrading to 4.9

2011-07-04 Thread Federico Giannici
I have just upgraded my amd64 desktop pc from 4.8 to 4.9. I encountered two problems: 1) I have mouse.resolution=90 in /etc/wsconsctl.conf. Since the upgrade it doesn't seem to work anymore. It's still there but seems to be ignored. If I set it manually by command line it works. 2) All the

panic: bad dir

2010-08-29 Thread Federico Giannici
A panic occurred to one of our servers. I never experienced this panic before, but I have to say that we recently upgraded that server from OpenBSD 4.4 to 4.7. The error was: /var: bad dir ino 3 at offset 81920: mangled entry panic: bad dir I have done two photos of the panic and of the

scsi_done() called twice with gdt driver in 4.7

2010-08-08 Thread Federico Giannici
Hi. We are upgrading all our PCs from 4.4 or 4.5 to 4.7. No problem at all with the first PCs, but we found a problem with a PC which have a gdt SCSI driver: every time we shutdown the machine, just after the usual syncing disks... done, it crashes because scsi_done() called twice! No crash

Video card not recognized when changed motherboard

2009-09-23 Thread Federico Giannici
Is it expected that a video card is seen by X when used with a motherboard and not seen when used with another motherboard (with exactly the same OS)? More details. I had an ASUS M2V motherboard with an ATI Radeon X300 video card. Then I changed the video card with an ATI Radeon HD 3450, no

Re: MySQL unable to bind

2009-08-31 Thread Federico Giannici
patrick keshishian wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Federico Giannicigiann...@neomedia.it wrote: We upgraded MySQL server from 4.1 to 5.0 in 3 servers. For various reasons (the most important is strict control of the versions) we always (since a lot of years) compiled the program from

MySQL unable to bind

2009-08-30 Thread Federico Giannici
We upgraded MySQL server from 4.1 to 5.0 in 3 servers. For various reasons (the most important is strict control of the versions) we always (since a lot of years) compiled the program from the sources. No problem at all with 2 of the servers, but we are unable to start the new server on the

Re: Urgent problem with an arc RAID controller

2009-08-04 Thread Federico Giannici
changed the size of the virtual disk (which seems unlikely to me but I guess it's possible) Federico Giannici [giann...@neomedia.it] wrote: This night we had some problems with an Areca ARC-1220 RAID controller (arc driver) installed in an OpenBSD 4.4 amd64. After the substitution of a couple

Urgent problem with an arc RAID controller

2009-08-03 Thread Federico Giannici
This night we had some problems with an Areca ARC-1220 RAID controller (arc driver) installed in an OpenBSD 4.4 amd64. After the substitution of a couple of HDs the system restarted (in rebuilding mode), but there was a problem: the RAID disk no longer boot!!! The system see the controller,

Re: sensorsd strange tokens values

2009-07-28 Thread Federico Giannici
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 27/07/2009, Federico Giannici giann...@neomedia.it wrote: I'm using for the first time sensorsd to monitor RAID controller status and motherboard temperature. A script of mine is called that sends me an email. System is OpenBSD 4.4 amd64. The problem

sensorsd strange tokens values

2009-07-27 Thread Federico Giannici
I'm using for the first time sensorsd to monitor RAID controller status and motherboard temperature. A script of mine is called that sends me an email. System is OpenBSD 4.4 amd64. The problem is the value of the %2 %3 and %4 tokens passed as arguments to the command. I thought that they

Re: Activation of TrueType hinting in 4.5

2009-06-21 Thread Federico Giannici
space, the characters seems to be more spaced, then under Windows. Is it a known difference? Is there a way to make bold fonts appear exactly as they do in Windows? Thanks. Federico Giannici wrote: For my work I have to look at web pages EXACTLY as they appear on Windows (with the same

Re: Activation of TrueType hinting in 4.5

2009-06-11 Thread Federico Giannici
Matthew Szudzik wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:12:17AM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: Now I tried to upgraded my desktop PC to OpenBSD 4.5, but I wasn't able to activate the TrueType hinting. Did you remove 31-nonmst.conf? See http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=124141462930332 Yes

Activation of TrueType hinting in 4.5

2009-06-10 Thread Federico Giannici
For my work I have to look at web pages EXACTLY as they appear on Windows (with the same appearance, dimension and spacing). With OpenBSD 4.1, I disabled fonts antialias and recompiled the FreeType library with the patented TrueType hinting. It worked perfectly, and msttcorefonts appear

How to enable the use of patented TrueType glyphs hinting?

2009-05-10 Thread Federico Giannici
I'd like to enable the use of patented TrueType glyphs hinting (for educational purposes only, obviously! :). I thought that I had to simply define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER in xenocara/lib/freetype/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h, but I found it already defined. So I tried to

mfs memory exaustion

2008-10-26 Thread Federico Giannici
We have an OpenBSD 4.3-stable server that uses mfs for the /tmp partition (to increase speed with little temporary files). After a lot of days of usage (currently 43) it results that the mfs partition is used for a large part, but there are almost no files there! Here it is the df output:

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