Re: tried 3.0 not 3.7 and still can't get very far

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Darwin
You should find somebody local that has a bit of experience, as you are having problems that others do not have. btinternet.com is in the UK, so you might try our two UK user groups, at http://www.openbsd.org/groups.html#United (If you're in another country, go to the top of the page and find

Re: [PATCH] Fix interrupt handling in ral(4) for RT2661 under load

2009-12-30 Thread Ian Darwin
On Nov 23 Roland Dreir sent a patch for interrupt handling, but it doesn't apply on -current since the file rt2661.c changed slightly a few weeks earlier (1.51, date: 2009/11/01). This patch just changes Roland's patch to update against rt2661.c r1.51 from the OpenBSD repository instead of

Anybody got an Acer Aspire One AOD250 running OpenBSD? Does suspend/resume work?

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Darwin
I just inherited this AOD250 and put 6.4 up on it. Got it to the point where it mostly works, except suspend (zzz or lid close) doesn't resume - it reboots instead when you press a keyboard key. I'm unable to tell if the problem is hardware (eg specific to this one unit) or software (old

Re: [PATCH] Remove "Multibooting" in FAQ

2019-04-06 Thread Ian Darwin
On 4/6/19 1:45 PM, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: I run a dual-boot with Windows 10 on the same partition and the section that you want removed was extremely helpful at the time. That is_with_ softraid encryption of the OpenBSD partition. Setting this up is not for the faint of heart and you

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On 6/20/19 5:31 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: It just doesn't stop. Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: I'd say this whole project is your milking cow.(Having a good times biking??) You really don't move froward much. Except poor guy trying to fix net stack. You move around vars, back and forward. But

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Ian Darwin
On 5/23/19 7:51 AM, Roderick wrote: I wonder that no one noted this bugs before: are there no new people installing OpenBSD? Or it is a problem only with VMWare? Yes, the fact that nobody else has run into your problem suggest that it might in fact be your problem. Or your provider may be

Re: handling snapshot installation in production environment

2019-09-02 Thread Ian Darwin
> The sysupgrade tool is a nice way to install the newest snapshot, never > had a problem. But what is the correct way to install a stable release > on snapshot? Using the standard bsd.rd upgrade way? >From man sysupgrade: -r Upgrade to the next release. The default is to find out if

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:06:35AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > I know what you mean and you're right to a degree, but I'm currently > writing a couple of books with AsciiDoctor edited in Vim. And I use > VimOutliner for outlining. I'll try to remember and let you know when I > actually finish

Re: urtwn(4) gets wedged periodically

2019-11-13 Thread Ian Darwin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 01:25:46PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > > Can you give me the exact model of the one you bought recently? I have > > half a mind to just write > > off mine as a loss and buy something else. > > I am using this one: (the TL-WN725N N150 single band one) > >

Re: vi in ramdisk?

2019-11-15 Thread Ian Darwin
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:08:26AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > > I think, for editing config files, there are sure editors that > > > are simpler, smaller, not so powerful, but easier to use than ed. > > > > By all means, do not keep us in suspense and tell

Re: acme-client issue with domain w/ alternative name

2019-11-07 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 11:34:48PM +, Mik J wrote: > Hello, > What this does mean ?> Just to follow up: Of my two problem domains, one was > caused by pebkac pebkac = problem exists between keyboard and chair. In other words, user error

acme-client issue with domain w/ alternative name

2019-10-21 Thread Ian Darwin
Today acme-client renewed all but 2 of my domains; the two that have "alternative names" in the certificates. I cannot get it to renew those two. This is on amd64 on 6.6-current, updated today. My acme-config.conf is the latest example version, with the v2 URLs and with example.com replaced

Re: acme-client issue with domain w/ alternative name

2019-10-22 Thread Ian Darwin
On 10/21/19 19:38, Ian Darwin wrote: Today acme-client renewed all but 2 of my domains; the two that have "alternative names" in the certificates. I cannot get it to renew those two. This is on amd64 on 6.6-current, updated today. Just to follow up: Of my two problem domains, one

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

2020-03-02 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 12:28:25PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf > > format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for > > the BSD Specialist certification. Having a single document makes it > > easier

Re: Low throughput with 1 GigE interface

2020-01-30 Thread Ian Darwin
Peter wrote: > chi# iperf -c beta.internal.centroid.eu > > Client connecting to beta.internal.centroid.eu, TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 17.0 KByte (default) > > [ 3]

Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...]

2020-01-08 Thread Ian Darwin
> - If we could clean-room implement a BSD-licensed > EXT3/EXT4/BTRFS/XFS/JFS/whatever, following style(8), would there be > interest in supporting that in OpenBSD? And which "we" are you referring to here? Did you mean yourself, or are you hoping that "somebody" will do it? > There's merit in

Re: Hyperbola Gnu Linux changing to Bsd

2019-12-30 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 19:57, Nick Holland wrote: most of them are stupid words. I just spot checked one of the "license problems" they think they spotted in the OpenBSD tree. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/arch/landisk/include/endian.h?rev=1.2 What exactly are

Re: Hyperbola Gnu Linux changing to Bsd

2019-12-30 Thread Ian Darwin
On 12/30/19 15:02, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote: The TL;DR version is that taking code or any other body of work that is offered to you under a permissive license and making your changes to it available only under a more restrictive one may be legal in some or all jurisdictions, but it

Re: More than 16 partitions

2020-04-23 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:42:53PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: > > So, can I setup openBSD labels on x86_64 without legacy/GPT partition > > first ? > > IIRC yes you can, as long as you don't need to boot from that disk. Easily confirmed (a few false starts deleted from this transcript): $

Wyse C90 (i386) early panic 'pci_make_tag bad request' after "acpi0: sleep states"

2020-10-14 Thread Ian Darwin
When trying to boot -current i386 from a clean install on the internal flash drive, this thing panics on the same line as the 'acpi sleep states' after 'S5'. As a workaround, I can load pxeboot with a boot.conf to boot bsd. My guess would be that pxeboot passes control to the kernel with some

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

2020-08-26 Thread Ian Darwin
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:37:24AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: > "... he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his > email message to HTML-ise... That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty > high..." > > Wow. Life's rough. Surely easier than RTFMing to find out how to send

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Ian Darwin
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 01:37:35PM +, Henry W. Peterson wrote: > But then I would need to have every computer's serial port connected > the whole time, right? As far as I know serial ports are not > hot-swappable. Nope. I have two APUs and only one is ever connected, since I have only one

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Ian Darwin
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 03:56:29PM +, Henry W. Peterson wrote: > It is not a problem for me to write commands on the boot prompt after every > turning on, that would eliminate the need to modify /etc/boot.conf, right? > Althogh I didn't know modifying that file affected the boot prompt

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Ian Darwin
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:14:13PM +0200, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > I am running: > kern.version=OpenBSD 6.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #69: Tue Sep 15 12:34:41 MDT 2020 > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > I just tried to use sysupgrade and I notice

Re: Article OpenBSD: Not Free Not Fuctional and Definetly Not Secure and BSD, the truth blog

2020-05-28 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 02:21:49PM +1000, Aaron Mason wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM Quantum Robin > wrote: > > While surfing on the Google to learn more about OpenBSD, I encountered this > > one: "OpenBSD: Not Free Not Fuctional and Definetly Not Secure ( > >

Re: home printer

2020-09-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 03:07:19PM -0700, Sean Kamath wrote: > > > > On Sep 17, 2020, at 09:48, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > That answer [HP] used to be spot on until about the year 2000. > > I concur. I used to work at a printer company that competed directly with > them. Was that Imagen, by

Re: nsd Will Not Start At Boot

2020-07-06 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 04:57:20AM +, ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com wrote: > I have tried putting "rcctl enable nsd" in the /etc/rc.conf.local file. > That did not help. I presume you meant "using rcctl enable nsd to update /etc/rc.conf.local", not actually what you wrote. > If I try to

armv7 on Asus Chromebook C100P

2020-06-28 Thread Ian Darwin
Has anybody installed OpenBSD on these chromebooks? Asus sold a lot of them, and they are losing Google's support next month so there should be a lot available cheaply if you just want something to travel with for email/web/chat.

Re: Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

2020-06-08 Thread Ian Darwin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:49:41PM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:38:55 -0400 > "Eric Furman" wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > [...] > > > > This is why if you are serious you use a degausser. > > > > The truly serious use a

Re: i386 "panic: pci_make_tag: bad request" after acpi sleep states

2020-12-29 Thread Ian Darwin
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 09:42:59AM -0500, Bryan Steele wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 01:20:29PM -0500, Ian Darwin wrote: > > Kernel is OpenBSD 6.8-current (GENERIC) #561: Sun Dec 27 18:29:43 MST 2020 > > > > Machine is a Wyse C90 - orignially sold as a "t

Re: Programmed wakeup from suspend/hibernate

2020-12-24 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 11:51:26AM +0100, Gabriel Hondet wrote: > Hi, > > How can I program my computer to automatically wake from suspend to ram > or suspend to disk at a certain time? > > My goal is to suspend a server every day from, say, 11 pm to 7am. For suspending at night, use see the

i386 "panic: pci_make_tag: bad request" after acpi sleep states

2020-12-28 Thread Ian Darwin
Kernel is OpenBSD 6.8-current (GENERIC) #561: Sun Dec 27 18:29:43 MST 2020 Machine is a Wyse C90 - orignially sold as a "thin client" - tiny machine, no serial port (ps and trace typed in). HW Info at https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/cx0/ Was planning to use it as a wifi bridge, so tiny

Re: adding user to a group

2021-01-08 Thread Ian Darwin
On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > Todd C. Miller writes: > > > You need to login in again. Logging in via ssh, a virtual console, > > X11 or running su will set the groups list. Setting groups is a > > privileged operation so simply starting a new shell or

Re: chroot x11 via Xephyr

2021-05-03 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 08:51:51PM +, Karsten Pedersen wrote: > It is worth noting that you can move (not copy) UNIX sockets (again, > so long as they are on the same filesystem). > > So, once Xephyr has started up, you can move the socket from > "/tmp/.X11-unix/X1" into

Re: Installation overwritten... Accidental disklabel and newfs

2021-02-10 Thread Ian Darwin
> The device nodes don't exist until the install or upgrade program detects > the disk and creates them. > > Likewise for wd0 as although outdated for ahci disks. > > Dmesg identifies the disk as: > sd0 at scsibus0 targ0 lun0 ATA ST1000DM003... > sd0 953869mb > > This is why I had to run

Re: vmm/vmd disk issue

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Darwin
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:52:03AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote: > If I try to cp or dd the disk image on the host it fails > > dd if=disk.raw.old of=disk.raw.bak bs=1m > dd: disk.raw.old: Input/output error > 8858+0 records in > 8858+0 records out > 9288286208 bytes transferred in 102.048 secs

Re: 6.9 Current amd64 xfce seems to freeze and not respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes

2021-04-10 Thread Ian Darwin
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello, > > 1) issue does not occur with fvwm or with chrome running in fvwm > > so the issue seems to be confined to xfce, and I was running just 1 > xfce terminal session > 2) (so the issue is not related to chromium) > > > > I'm

Re: Are there any protection againts heisting the "shell builtin"s?

2021-09-08 Thread Ian Darwin
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:24:18AM +0200, jim hook wrote: > test$ cd > rmplayer > test$ > test$ type cd > cd is a function > test$ > test$ tail -4 .profile > cd() > { > echo rmplayer > } > test$ > test$ uname -mrs > OpenBSD 6.9 amd64 > test$ > > Thinking of that home dirs could be on a shared

Re: nvme boot

2021-10-15 Thread Ian Darwin
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 05:05:01PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Does any of the OpenSBD-supported platforms boot off nvme storage? > So far, I have been able to use nvme storage as a disk, > but not boot from it; but my HW is far from recent. The Framework laptop (https://frame.work) boots fine off

Re: how to recover a corrupted disk

2021-12-01 Thread Ian Darwin
On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 01:39:39PM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote: > Hello, > All partitions except for /dev/rsd1c and /dev/rsd1i are clean. > For /dev/rsd1c , I get "BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG". > For /dev/rsd1i, I get "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY". If that's the case, you are probably

Re: Install latest package without prompts on OpenBSD 7.0

2022-01-10 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 06:28:38PM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:15:25PM +0100, Andreas Kusalananda Khri wrote: > > Which one is the "latest" here? > > > > $ doas pkg_add bogofilter > > doas (kk@box) password: > > quirks-4.92 signed on 2022-01-07T13:45:06Z

Re: Install latest package without prompts on OpenBSD 7.0

2022-01-10 Thread Ian Darwin
> > > I am working on OpenBSD 7.0, x86_64. I'm trying to script an install > > > of developer tools I use, like GCC and Git. When I attempt to install > > > GCC I am prompted: > > > > > > $ sudo pkg_add gcc g++ > > > quirks-4.54 signed on 2022-01-09T19:08:35Z > > > Ambiguous: choose

Re: Please put vi in base

2022-03-12 Thread Ian Darwin
> Could we please get vi into base? Even the most basic version would do. um, vi has been in base for years. It has not been in the install media, which are chronically short out of room. I would not advise you to hold your breath for vi to appear there in the next week or so. It doesn't take

Re: How to track system changes?

2022-04-04 Thread Ian Darwin
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 08:32:01AM -0700, Eric Thomas wrote: > I want to have a high degree of confidence in my system's state > (packages that have been added, configs that have changed, permissions > changed, etc). I've read about "read only filesystems" and the > pro's/con's

Re: Howto do "a detailed cleanup with the aid of the sysclean package"?

2022-04-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:39:09PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > the upgrade guide claims > > A detailed cleanup can be done with the aid of the sysclean package. > > sysclean lists 4180 files and directories on my home server, including mail > directories, config files of

Re: Favorite configuration and system replication tools?

2024-05-07 Thread Ian Darwin
On 5/7/24 1:09 PM, Страхиња Радић wrote: Дана 24/05/07 04:08PM, Martin Kjær Jørgensen написа: I was wondering which programs you use for replicating/copying/syncing environments/configs on your openbsd systems with between your desktops (home or work) and laptops? git(1), rsync(1). git push