Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

Distributing an installation program that can wipe out the user's hard disk instantly on a single wrong keystroke, without so much as a confirmation prompt is so shortsighted and irresponsible that I can barely believe it. Doing an installation on a machine that you obviously care about, with

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is tempted to think that such a user-friendly installer would not harm one so easily... I disagree. I think the installer is fine the way it is and it was not the problem

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:19 PM, David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Donald Allen wrote: While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is tempted to think that such a user-friendly installer

4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

I'm an experienced hand with Linux (Gentoo, more recently Arch) and with FreeBSD. I've recently become interested in OpenBSD and have just done a test install of 4.5 on an old Thinkpad 600x (650 mhz, .5 Gb, 20 Gb 5400 rpm disk, 3com Megahertz pcmcia ethernet adapter) for purposes of evaluation.

Re: 4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.comwrote: I'm an experienced hand with Linux (Gentoo, more recently Arch) and with FreeBSD. I've recently become interested in OpenBSD and have just done a test install of 4.5 on an old Thinkpad 600x (650 mhz, .5 Gb, 20 Gb 5400 rpm disk, 3com

Re: 4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 13:12:26 you wrote: Update: rsync completed. I brought up X, Firefox, emacs and was downloading packages when the curse struck again. Little or no response to the mouse. ctrl-alt F2 got me to a fresh

Re: 4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

of the hardware. Thats a start. I'll include something I sent to Donald Allen, edited to make things a little more contextually relevant: The key problem would keep happening [the freezing/slowdown]. Mostly due to IRQ 11 being shared between USB, keyboard and PCMCIA. Large amounts of traffic through

amd64/grub package?

I've just installed OpenBSD 4.5, first on an i386 system and then on an amd64 machine. Both installations are dual-boot with Windows XP. The i386 machine, which I worked on first, was pretty straightforward -- I made a grub boot floppy so I was able to boot the system after installation, installed

Re: amd64/grub package?

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 architecture? And I would suggest that grub provides a simple solution to dual-booting

Re: amd64/grub package?

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: So, I'd like to ask

bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from amd64/install45.iso results in uhci3: host system error uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS drives on an LSI raid controller set up as

Re: amd64/grub package?

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Brian bwai...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: You have to install a second-stage bootloader, so why not use one bootloader to do the whole job rather than two? That's what. So port is over. No one

Re: amd64/grub package?

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2009-05-30, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 architecture? It doesn't build. If you add amd64 to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS and try it: Thank you

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009, Donald Allen wrote: Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from amd64/install45.iso results in uhci3: host system error uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:56 AM, David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009, Donald Allen wrote: Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from amd64/install45.iso results in uhci3: host system error uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted

A couple of Lenovo workstation oddities

As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS disks on an LSI raid controller, arranged as a raid 0. Two questions: 1. In the past, running Linux, I've backed this machine up (to a sata

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Gray j...@goblin.cx wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, eagir...@cox.net wrote: Why are you using the AMD installation with an Intel cpu? Probably because it's a better architecture.

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, eagir...@cox.net wrote: Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from amd64/install45.iso results in uhci3: host system error uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb

Re: A couple of Lenovo workstation oddities

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Vadim Zhukov persg...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:16:26 Donald Allen wrote: As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS disks

Re: A couple of Lenovo workstation oddities

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Donald Allen wrote: As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS disks on an LSI raid

Partition confusion

I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on a Thinkpad X61, dual-booted with Windows XP. XP is at the beginning of the disk, starting at sector 63. The XP slice, to use BSD terminology, is about 10 Gb (the disk is 100 Gb). The OpenBSD slice occupies the rest of the disk. During the OpenBSD install, I

Re: Partition confusion

6, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Owain Ainsworthzer...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:10:28AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on a Thinkpad X61, dual-booted with Windows XP. XP is at the beginning of the disk, starting at sector 63. The XP slice, to use BSD

Re: Partition confusion

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jacob L. Leifmanjac...@bitwise.net wrote: On 6 Jun 2009 at 12:11, Donald Allen wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Noodenlars.cura...@gmail.com wrote: Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? Hi -- Are you addressing

Re: Ext2/3 mount trouble

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bill Maas b...@stsx.org wrote: Hi Ted, On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Bill Maas b...@stsx.org wrote: I posted a message earlier about a kernel panic occurring when I accessed a file on some of my

Re: Slow umass(4)

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Pfaff tpf...@tp76.info wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:58:56 +0200 Thomas Pfaff tpf...@tp76.info wrote: Getting really slow performance on umass(4) devices. It takes about 20 minutes to write 1.4G, while the same job takes about 2.5 minutes on Ubuntu

Re: Slow umass(4)

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Pfaff tpf...@tp76.info wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:58:56 +0200 Thomas Pfaff tpf...@tp76.info wrote: Getting really slow performance on umass(4) devices. It takes about

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. A clear example of how thing should be done. I will agree with this. As will I. After years of frustration with various Linux distributions and wireless, I'd deferred dealing with

URL issue/Congratulations

I just noticed that if you go to openbsd.org rather than www.openbsd.org, you get the old home page, indicating 4.5 as the current release. www.openbsd.org returns the new home page, with 4.6 as the current release. I don't know if this is intentional (I suspect not), but thought I'd mention it.

Minor install issue

When doing a clean install of 4.6 on a machine with a 20 Gb Windows partition at the beginning of a 60 Gb disk, I needed to create the OpenBSD (A6) partition. I did so in CHS mode. When it prompted me for the starting sector of the partition, it offered [1] as the default. When I hit 'enter', it

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 at 1:46 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez gonz...@sepp0.com.ar wrote: 2009/11/3 Claire beuserie claire.beuse...@gmail.com: Hi, On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Theo de Raadt

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Henry Sieff henry.si...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP] I realize that I'm preaching to the choir -- you know all this. But I think it's a mistake for (especially) the OpenBSD community

Re: Brief powerdown on reboot

as to what in my configuration might be causing this. In the meanwhile, I'd appreciate any other suggestions. Thanks -- /Don Allen On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 08:58:10AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: I'm running 4.6 stable on a Lenovo S10 Workstation (dmesg output below). If I 'sudo reboot

Re: Brief powerdown on reboot

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: If I read yor report correctly this was fixed past 4.6. Try booting a -current kernel and see if it works. Clues: 1. Logged in as me

Documentation suggestion

I'm running 4.6 stable on 5 systems, 3 of them with multiple processors (amd64). On one of the multiprocessor systems, I just noticed (from the output of 'top') that the stable kernel I'd built for it was not a multiprocessor kernel. The documentation on building a stable kernel on

Re: Documentation suggestion

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running 4.6 stable on 5 systems, 3 of them with multiple processors (amd64). On one of the multiprocessor systems, I just noticed (from the output of 'top') that the stable kernel I'd built

SMP

My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers consider it a priority to improve this? (I am NOT complaining. I completely understand that OpenBSD is a

Re: SMP

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If yes it is, do

Re: SMP

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, and...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers

Re: SMP

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly I agree with you that a blazingly fast but unstable and/or insecure system isn't worth much in most, if any, settings. On the other hand

Re: SMP

Thanks to everyone who took the time to weigh in on this. Perhaps most useful to me are the comments of those who have used OpenBSD for heavy database work (I intend to use Postgresql) and have gotten satisfactory results. To Daniel -- I don't think we'll be working for or with each other in the

Re: OpenBSD culture?

[begin quote] On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de wrote: What detail in the original reply Theo sent to the OP (and quoted it later on this list) was rude? The lack of an answer. He could have said Yes. Check your nearest search engine for details. Which

Re: OpenBSD culture?

Donald Allen wrote: After getting subjected to some of this nonsense personally, having asked a question on openbsd-tech (and was in the midst of a useful exchange with Bob Beck until it was interrupted out of the blue by someone who apparently enjoys behaving like an unruly 10-year-old

Re: OpenBSD culture?

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Artur Grabowski a...@blahonga.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the compliment, but I'm a *lot* older than nine. Yet you still believe that it's ok for guests to tell the hosts how to behave

Re: OpenBSD culture?

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Tony Abernethy t...@servasoftware.com wrote: Donald Allen wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Artur Grabowski a...@blahonga.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the compliment, but I'm

Re: writing to usb very slow

Sounds like you are already on the right track, courtesy Peter Hansteen, so I'll simply support the direction you are going by telling you that I back up my systems (with a home-brew scheme that uses a combination of rsync and tar) to 7200 rpm SATA drives in USB shoeboxes with ext2 filesystems

Building foxtrotgps from source on 5.1

I just attempted to build foxtrotgps-1.1.1 from source on an i386 OpenBSD 5.1 stable system. The make fails: gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\/usr/local/from_source/share\ -DPACKAGE_PIXMAPS_DIR=\/usr/local/from_source/share/pixmaps\

Re: How-to: dualboot Windows 8.1 and OpenBSD 5.4

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 11/17/13 12:53, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote: Le 2013-11-17 20:27, dmitry.sensei a écrit : What about 1Tb disk? Is CHS mode correct for this disks? I done the test using Virtualization. Not tried with a

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not

Re: Patch to remove adult content from spamd(8) man page

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, J. Lewis Muir jlm...@imca-cat.org wrote: On 11/22/13 11:17 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: If it's offensive for you, compile your own spamd man page with the diff you so happily provided, and live the rest of your life happy. Remember to always take this pill

Re: System freeze after zzz

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Mike Larkin mlar...@azathoth.net wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:42:45AM -0500, Don Allen wrote: I'm running current (as of the 11/14 snapshot) on a micro-itx box I built around an Intel Atom d510mo motherboard. When I try to wake the system after zzz, my X

Re: Single process needing a lot of memory

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Simmons jsimm...@goblin.punk.net wrote: On Friday, December 13, 2013 01:23:15 pm Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:33, Jeff Simmons wrote: Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM! -- Bill Gates, 1981 I realize this is often quoted in jest,

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

I can't see the whole history of this conversation because the gmane site is down for maintenance at the moment. But I don't recall cygwin being mentioned and it's certainly another good alternative to samba, as it includes openssh. In theory, you can set up an sshd with cygwin. I say in theory

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tekk t...@parlementum.net wrote: I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is it that files will get clobbered if I use the same /home under a dual boot with openbsd? Your subject asks about the stability of the ext2 support in

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013, at 05:26 PM, Donald Allen wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tekk t...@parlementum.net wrote: I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is it that files will get

Re: [OpenBSD-5.4/amd64] Lenovo T430 hangs in X

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alexei Malinin alexei.mali...@mail.ru wrote: On 12/23/13 20:32, Remco wrote: Alexei Malinin wrote: Hello. My notebook hangs while working in X (at random times, several times per day). I could not find any information related to the above problemin

Re: [OpenBSD-5.4/amd64] Lenovo T430 hangs in X

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Alexei Malinin alexei.mali...@mail.ru wrote: On 12/23/13 21:14, Donald Allen wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alexei Malinin alexei.mali...@mail.ru wrote: On 12/23/13 20:32, Remco wrote: Alexei Malinin wrote: Hello. My notebook hangs while

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, vadi...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/2/14, Geoff Steckel g...@oat.com wrote: In return, of course, that Linux wouldn't mount an OpenBSD FFS. I used to have /home shared between OpenBSD and Linux a couple of years ago when I was migrating. It was FFS for the reason

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: Evan Root [cellarr...@gmail.com] wrote: Just so you all know, This thread makes me want to try out Ext on Openbsd reeeaalll bad. It receives virtually no effort, and its performance sucks. Although, linux ext2fs is very

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsdfoundation.org wrote: Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. In light of shrinking funding, we do need to look for a source to cover project expenses. If need be the OpenBSD Foundation can be involved in receiving donations to

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:32 PM, VaZub vasyl.zu...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, my bad - I assumed that it was only natural for newcomers to copy the file and edit it afterwards instead of creating it from scratch to override some values. Obviously, this assumption was based on my ignorance and

Re: 5.8 Stable kernel panic

and sorry for the false alarm. /Don Allen On 11/12/15, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:53:06PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: >> fdisk and disklabel output below. >> >> I should note that the panic is reproducible. I rebooted the problem &

Re: 5.8 Stable kernel panic

, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running 5.8 Stable. I plugged in one of my Toshiba USB disks with > the intention of beginning to backup the system. dmesg | tail did not > provide a device address; the line that mentioned

Re: 5.8 Stable kernel panic

One more thing: it just occurred to me to try a different USB drive, to see if the issue was specific to the Toshiba drive. I have a 1TB Seagate USB drive. I tried plugging it in and unplugging -- same thing, kernel panic.

5.8 Stable kernel panic

I am running 5.8 Stable. I plugged in one of my Toshiba USB disks with the intention of beginning to backup the system. dmesg | tail did not provide a device address; the line that mentioned the device said 'not configured'. Without a device address, I couldn't mount the root partition. So I

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> But if we lose the project leader due to lack of exercise and food, >> that's not good for the project. You made it very clear in a previous >> message to this thread that no Foundation money comes to you. So while

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

"All I can do is buy the CD's and give some $ to the foundation. Any other suggestion is not productive." I don't think that quite covers it. Those of us who have the choice can send checks or Paypal money directly to Theo, as described on the Donations page. I think checks are preferable,

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >>"All I can do is buy the CD's and give some $ to the >>foundation. Any other suggestion is not productive." >> >>I don't think that quite covers it. Those of us who have the choice >>can send checks or Paypal money

Current kernel panic

I recently reported a 5.8 Stable kernel panic associated with use of a USB drive on a particular machine I have (a desktop, Asus motherboad, AMD processor). That report turned out to be my error, brought about a mis-config-ed kernel. After restoring the vanilla 5.8 Stable kernel, the easily

Re: kernel panic - panic: ehci_device_clear_toggle: queue active

The crash I reported a few days ago is the same: ehci_device_clear_toggle: queue active

diff man page typo

In the 'Output Style' section, the diff man page says "XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which line the change would bring file1 in line with file1." I think what is meant is "XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which

doas

My compliments to Ted Unangst and whoever else was involved in the creation of doas. sudo configuration is such an incredible hairball that I'll wager that few attempt to wade through the documentation to get things set up so that innocuous things are convenient and the rest is secure. I know I

Re: Kernel panic during installation

On Feb 12, 2016 05:08, "Stefan Sperling" <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > When attempting to install the 2/8 snapshot on my Thinkpad x-250, I chose > > to configure the wireless network interface (iwm).

Re: Kernel panic during installation

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Donald Allen [donaldcal...@gmail.com] wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2016 05:08, "Stefan Sperling" <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:42:21PM -

Re: Kernel panic during installation

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:47:16AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> > wrote: > > > > > Donald Allen [donaldcal

Kernel panic during installation

When attempting to install the 2/8 snapshot on my Thinkpad x-250, I chose to configure the wireless network interface (iwm). This resulted in the following: iwm0: could not read firmware iwm-7265-9 (error 2) panic: attempt to execute user address 0x0 in supervisor mode Problem in the iwm driver?

Re: GUI Designer

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Mariano Baragiola wrote: > On 02/22/16 11:21, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> >> Quick question for you guys. Â I recentlydecided to see if I could get >> away >> with runningOpenBSD on my office workstation. Â I gotthe idea after >> playing >>

Re: Kernel panic during installation

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:03:46PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > I just used this exchange as an example to a friend who buys everything > > Apple and then complains when their software is bug

Re: How extensive OpenBSD's write caching (for softdep or async-mounted UFS, as long as I never fsync() )?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Tinker wrote: > Did two tests, one with async and one with softdep, on amd64, 5.9-CURRENT, > UFS. > > (Checked "dd"'s sources and there is no fsync() anywhere in there. > > The bufcache setting was 90, 3GB free RAM, pushed 2GB of data using

Re: Silly typo in docs

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Murk Fletcher wrote: > Hi! > > Is it just me or should http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhyUse have > "other free UNIX-like operating system" in plural? The sentence describes users who ask "Is OpenBSD better than X?", where X is a

Re: faq12.html

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Rob Pierce wrote: > For your consideration. Looks to me like the original was talking about current, as in amperes; as evidenced by the subsequent sentence about the need for a powered USB hub to run devices that don't work when directly attached.

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Maximilian Pichler wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading to 5.9 (and thus Chromium 48 and Firefox 44) browser > performance seems degraded. Opening three different tabs with e.g. > newspaper websites results in a noticeable lag (up to several

Re: Xenocara :: enabling mouse instead of trackpad

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Jiri Navratil wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:21:00PM +, > 3ss7cb+angubqwtnb...@guerrillamail.com wrote: >> >> How should I set >> my mouse as favourite input system instead of the trackpad? >> >> I am runnning 5.9 >> with Xfce4.

Re: I am thankful for OpenBSD quality docs

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Suh wrote on Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:20:45AM -0400: > >> I've been playing over at Alpine Linux, to get support for a WiFi card >> that is not supported under OpenBSD. Their installation instructions >>

Re: Short maximum interpreter length

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Aioi Yuuko wrote: >> Why is MAXINTERP in only 128? I can think of a few: >> >> 1. It's been that way a while and nobody's complained >> 2. If someone's shebangs are longer than that, they're probably doing >> whatever

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Wait, what is the best guess now, did the recent scheduler patches that > were posted >here recently, remedy the speed issue altogether? > > Try and see for youself. I was doing that at almost each snapshot and > chromium

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > That is simply not true in general. If your application is > > processor-limited and written in an inte

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince, > Firefox crashes -- like pretty regularly. I switched from using Calc to > Gnumeric and that has helped some, but having my browser crash 10-15 times

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

ult' and others by > 'staff?' ulimit -a > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd <dan...@boydemail.com> wrote: >> > I have noticed a pattern lately. When I ope

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

I have also had problems with Firefox performance with OpenBSD (it's not a speed demon with Linux or FreeBSD, but it is faster on those systems). And I haven't found Chromium to be a good alternative -- too many crashes and "Oh, snap"s. But my experience with Firefox is that the problem is easily

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I was OK with the performance in Firefox (though it was pretty slow). What > was *really* bothering me was the crashing. Does 'noscript' solve that as > well? Firefox has been quite stable, with or without the

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Federico Carrone wrote: > After migrating from Linux to OpenBSD on my desktop performance was really > bad inside Firefox and Chromium in 5.9 specially on big websites like gmail. > It was not usable, on an 4 core machine and with 16GB

Re: Sleep, Thinkpad x250

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Mike Larkin <mlar...@azathoth.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 02:50:33PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> I have a Thinkpad x250 running 5.9 stable, up-to-date. This system >> will not re-awaken from sleep mode. No response to the power

Sleep, Thinkpad x250

I have a Thinkpad x250 running 5.9 stable, up-to-date. This system will not re-awaken from sleep mode. No response to the power button -- it just continues to sit there slowly blinking and does not respond to pings. Power cycling is the only way I've found to recover. dmesg below. I believe this

Re: github

> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:59:07 +0300 > From: con...@gmx.com > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: github > > On 16:43 Sun 07 Aug, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >>> Do you have any plans to move the OpenBSD source code repository >>> to github? >> >> Absolutely not. The OpenBSD repository will remain

Re: donations

But isn't it still better to send the money directly to you, since the Foundation doesn't support you financially? If I understand the different pots of money correctly, this gives you maximum flexibility to use what you need for your own support and if there is any excess, you can send it to the

Re: donations

rom: t...@parlementum.net > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: donations > > That works very differently as far as taxes go. Theo would have to start reporting > it as income if Canada works like the US, and things are interesting from there. > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 07:36:40A

Re: Slow wifi

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: >> (FreeBSD doesn't seem to know about iwm yet). After waiting a bit, I >> will again try installing -current on a USB drive to see if th

Re: Slow wifi

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:43 PM, George Pediaditis < g.pediaditis1...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for the reply. I will try it next week when i have more time. > If that doesnt work im thinking if its possible to go from current > back to stable. If i try current and i have problems. It looks >

Re: Slow wifi

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 09:17:38PM +0200, George Pediaditis wrote: >> hello >> Im having trouble with wifi. I cant download faster than 523.94kBit/s >> Im using the iwm0 driver. > > Please try -current. This problem should

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Folks, pay attention, please! The OP asked about a laptop. > Pansonic Thoughbook is not a laptop! It's a real desktop. > I think the folks *are* paying attention. For example:

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