i ultimately wanted to try martin reindl's alpha patch on my pws500au
(even if i wouldn't have scored extra anyway), when i realized my
alpha was hosed, so i grabbed the sept 10 snapshot, installed it fine,
cvs'd src/, compiled a generic kernel, and upon reboot:
This problem is caused by a
Can anyone confirm that an Adaptec AHA-1542 works with anything since
3.6? I found that support for it was silently broken sometime in 3.x,
even though it's listed as supported hardware for x86.
I'm afraid the driver does not work, unless your machine has 16MB of
memory (or less). Fixing this
Oct 14 OpenBSD born, Saturday 16:36 MST, 1995
Nah, today is Niklas' birthday. Or his weddings' anniversary. I never remember.
Miod
This is really bad that your laptop is dead..
but I personally always wonder how it can be that such over-qualified person
can't even earn enough money for a laptop?! I mean it's not a airplane...
I'm not a super hacker but I was able to get money to buy a pretty
PowerBook5,7 when I needed
# fdisk -i wd2
# disklabel -E wd2 (created 'a' partition)
# newfs wd2a
[...]
wd2a: id not found writing fsbn 488397104 (wd2 bn 8796581419375; cn
547561868 tn 158 sn 1), retrying
It looks like you are indeed running a -CURRENT (or fairly recent) kernel,
but with an older userland.
Are you
wd2a: id not found writing fsbn 488397104 (wd2 bn 8796581419375;
cn 547561868 tn 158 sn 1), retrying
It may be trivial but I wonder where in the line you highlighted is the
clue that gave you the answer.
During the 4.1-4.2 development cycle, the disklabel layout has been
modified to allow
I have just received and installed a Sun Blade 1000. This machine is
not included on the sparc64 port page, perhaps it should be added?
It is listed on sparc64.html, as ``Sun Blade 1000/1500/2000/2500''.
It seems everything works, however, the graphics card is somewhat
wasted as it cannot be
It's not a bug, see mount(2).
You meant mount(8).
Miod
I bought a PGX64 graphics card hoping to have accelerated X on my sun
blade 1000. Unfortunately it cause a panic. Here's the details:
Does it panic if you use the glass console instead of the serial console?
Miod
I bought a PGX64 graphics card hoping to have accelerated X on my sun
blade 1000. Unfortunately it cause a panic. Here's the details:
Does it panic if you use the glass console instead of the serial console?
Afraid so.
I only put the serial line in so I could copy and paste it into the
I think this is the device:
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Correct.
reg 0800
02000810 0100
02000818
I'd like to know why /dev/cd0a and /dev/rcd0a device files (at my
machine) refer to the same physical device, given that one is not a
symlink to the other one, and vice-versa, and also given that cd0a is
a block device and rcd0a is a character device.
The kernel handles two kinds of device
wait that is no better!
how about:
unshaved bloody communist!
This statement is offensive to creatures like me, whose main food
source is fresh blood.
Miod
Due to different reasons I bought MS Wireless Desktop (keyboard +
mouse; Well, I don't like very much of their software, but AFAIK
their hardware is good enough). While keyboard works fine, mouse
produces headache. I'll try to skip most of simptoms, going
straight to information gathered.
I've different behavious depending on the device used:
(My / uses 1002232 blocks):
'dump -0auf /dev/rst0' works but:
'dump -0auf /dev/rst0n' asks for a second tape!?
Non-rewinding tapes are nrst0, not rst0n.
And you want to delete that /dev/rst0n file you've just created which
has filled
1.) Do you plan to distribute several MTAs, like NetBSD currently does? Or
do you already (first check said no, but maybe I missed something)?
There are no such plans; other MTA are available in the ports tree.
2.) Do you plan to distribute PAM in base?
No. OpenBSD uses so-called ``BSD
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#36 comes to mind. Currently,
OpenBSD includes XFree86 4.4.0.
No, currently, OpenBSD includes X.org 6.8.2. OpenBSD has NEVER included
XFree86 4.4.0, which is not considered free enough. What has been
included in 3.6 was all the ``old-license'' XFree86 code,
I can't imagine that make release is not working anymore so I'm probably
overlooking something.
I'm doing everything as per release(8) and
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release but errors about missing
files show up.
Any ideas?
These errors are harmless. Depending upon the
I think he means the blowup when it tries to make floppyC
I think he means the error he pasted, which aren't related in any way to
the building of floppyC.
More coffee?
Miod
When I run 'wsconsctl -a' the mouse stops to work
both under console and X.
I receive this message:
wsmouse_input: evar-q=NULL
When I kill wsmouse or X, I receive:
wsevent_fini: already invoked
I confirm the problem, I'll try to fix it ASAP when I am back home this
week-end. Sorry for the
I don't want to ask OpenBSD.org-developers because they always think
they are right. I want to have a talk with developing users which have
experience with compiling to subarchitectures.
As one of the aforementioned developers, who makes mistakes and often
acknowledges them (but not all the
I don't know if idea is correct, as you did not paste any error
messages. I had added this on my list of ``things to check on a rainy
day''.
sys/arch/i386/conf/Makefile.i386:1.26
I remember this. But this was with a much older compiler, and not with
i_4_86 selected. Thus worth having a
(Besides, isn't it less talk, more code? Of course I'm probably
better at talking than coding.)
Actually, I don't know why, but people keep getting the sentence wrong,
for no good reason.
The real sentence is ``less talk, more cheese''.
Note that, I have a list if you somehow can't find
http://www.perl.com/download.csp#srclic
It is NOT gpl'ed.
According to this:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
it is GPL'd.
According to this very same file, it is not. It is dual-licensed, which
is VERY different
...ok, now i don't know what to think of it. The described behaviour was
observed on a Fedora Core 4 system (gcc 4, IIRC) - and right now i tried it
on a different linux system, with gcc 3.4 installed - and it works fine there
as well, with [9] set. Any idea what's causing this?
The
On sparc and sparc64 systems, the BSD disklabel can not describe a disk
geometry larger than 8GB, while individual disklabel entries can be
larger.
Everytime you run disklabel(8), it performs some sanity checks of the
disklabel entries against what it think is the correct drive geometry,
and
After I switched to OpenBSD, there are still some data in my old NTFS
partition. I've made the NTFS support into kernel, and successfully
mounted the NTFS partision.
The problem is, some filename of the data is encoded other than
ISO8859-1. In other UNIX-like systems, I could use savior
Hi all,
I'm trying to install 3.8 on a sunfire v120
I am able to net boot it from an i386 using linux and openbsd38.
Things seem ok up to booting bsd.rd, but then output stops after:
..
rd0: fixed, 6144 blocks
root on rd0a
rootdev=0x500 rrootdev=0x3d00 rawdev=0x3d02
(note that the
on my powerbook5,2 (G4 15), runs through booting fine, but at the
install,upgrade,shell prompt, the keyboard doesn't work ( but shift
still lights the LED)
Can you try the latest snapshot (January 30th)? If the built-in keyboard
still fails to work, can you plug an external USB keyboard to
i think we should rewrite the kernel in java since it has good support
for threads.
Remember we opted for C++ during c2k2 (or was it c2k3), but not until
ddb has proper name demangling code.
Miod
I was thinking there should have been something in the commit message
about Dave contributing to this fix. The entire xargs discussion wouldn't
have occurred if I hadn't used find in my reply to Dave regarding PF
or BPF.
Something like ``please do not feed the Feustel again''?
Miod
It won't be serving very much; I'm looking to replace my existing NSLU2
running Debian, which is doing thttpd, postfix, samba, nfsd, spamprobe, spey,
dovecot, and dnsmasq. (I'd actually quite like to continue using the NSLU2
but
it doesn't turn on automatically --- which is a pain in the arse
Has anyone using the Plextor PX-EHxxL landisk hardware gotten the power
toggle switch to fulfill its intended purpose?
Under the original Linux-based OS, the switch would send a signal to the
OS to start a shutdown procedure and once properly shutdown, the OS
would then power off the
I just thought of something which might be worth a try on systems that
show the bug during system builds; use nice(1) to lower the build
priority. It's a long shot, and I haven't tried it, but it *might* be a
useful work around. Then again, it might be a waste of time.
Just curious:
Of course I crash, I crash at every reboot, I got the problem
where the rebooting proces gets stuck at `syncing disks' after
which I have to m-c-ESC and then boot sync.
I have this on a i386 and I met someone on #openbsd who had it on
a sparc.
When will this bug be fixed?
It has been fixed
Of course I crash, I crash at every reboot, I got the problem
where the rebooting proces gets stuck at `syncing disks' after
which I have to m-c-ESC and then boot sync.
I have this on a i386 and I met someone on #openbsd who had it on
a sparc.
When will this bug be fixed?
It has been
I have a couple of Plextor PX-EH25L running a 4.1 snapshot from March 11,
2007 that panic when the power button is turned to the off position. If I
type in cont\r the shutdown continues on properly, including powering
off the system.
There was an unconditional Debugger() call in this
the attach as axe is mostly random, it sometimes attaches as axe(4)
and sometimes as uberry(4) in my DL145 G3...
uberry0 at uhub2 port 2
uberry0: ServerEngines SE USB Device, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2
uberry0: Charging enabled
And this is caused by a stupid bug in both axe and uberry. Thanks for
Is there any documentation on the exact functions of the flags that can be
passed to WD via config? I haven't found any, and I'm not a good enough C
programmer to tease them out of the source.
Unexpectably, these flags are described in the wd(4) manual page.
Miod
If OpenBSD is the most uber secure why does it run on Solaris?
If you actually really cared about this, you would have found the answer
in the FAQ by yourself.
Also, is someone going to change the topic on #openbsd on all servers
worldwide?
I don't know. I am not wasting time on irc.
Miod
Because every snapshot for every architecture is done on a different
tree, and some are even done 5-6 times a day. So this would require,
if I can guess this right, 2.6GB per day. Supplied over a T1.
Obviously a full tarball isn't the answer, but how about enough
information to reproduce the
Not any more: http://marc.info/?m=118046279204104
That is too bad since I am one of those rare people sniff
Good! You only have to buy a boat then, since you've already got the
boat anchor!
Miod
Hi
When OpenBSD 4.1 running in MP(bsd.mp) mode and I make wget -m loses the
connection of the network card vr0.
^^^
Have you considered buying a network card for your machine?
Miod
Yay ! Let's map everything uncached from now on! For great justice!
[I was tempted to write some stuff about how keyboard keycode translation
works in wscons, but it's not worth my time]
Miod
I just read the updated errata42.html and wanted to sync my tree so I
can rebuild the kernel. I got a message from CVS:
cvs server: sys/arch/sparc64/dev/sab.c is no longer in the repository
I can see no OPENBSD_4_2 tag on
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/sparc64/dev/sab.c
i think the issue is that having MLINKs for a particular shell is
not the correct fix. a better solution, as i see it, is to encourage
users to read the man page for the shell they're using, and to use
commands such as whence to find out what exactly they're executing,
and man/locate to
The binary definitely can create read files larger than 2GB on a
linux system. It's the p4d binary from Perforce under emulation that
I'm having a problem with. The 64bit calls are in the compat layer
(/usr/src/sys/compat/linux/linux_file64.c) ktrace shows calls to
fstat64(), but pread()
SO now do you want FireEngine? Or rather SMPng networking? Or
would you like ReallyHyperFastZoomStreamCyberWoosh?
Now that you've brought it up, I would really like a
ReallyHyperFastZoomStreamCyberWoosh TCP stack. Just make sure it
doesn't require 1.2Jigawatts of power and have interesting
Well then Afrikaans must be a slightly modified version of Flemish! :-)
Real flemish only sounds correct if altitude is close to or (preferrably)
below the sea level, though.
Miod
Nonsense, as long as you can plug in some plutonium, things should be
fine.
Are you tellin' me this sucker is nuclear?
...Mr. Fusion? ;)
Not until there's a Chorus about it.
Miod
http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html
oh, and before you started to read, to be more comfortable just do
s/linux/openbsd/g
You mean
%s/linux/openbsd/g
not if you're using sed... which is case sensitive, so you might want
to do something
Are there any people using OpenBSD on MVME68K platforms?
Aye.
I just was tinkering with the parallel port on a MVME167
and got it working. If there's any interest, I'll think
about constructing something - no guarantees how soon.
Well, I don't think anyone uses these castrated 34 pin
Hi guys,
Yesterday I installed OpenBSD 4.3 release from CD. I copied both
PORTS_TA.GZ and SRC_TAR.GZ to /tmp. I extracted the ports to /usr/, and
while extracting src, I tried to make libsndfile in the ports tree. I
got Abort trap. I tried other commands as well but I got the same.
Shell
Oh, I wanted to ask this for quite some time:
Can I create this volume header without an IRIX installation?
The disk in my O2 died, I have another SCA disk (from a Sun), wiped clean.
And my old IRIX CDs have read errors, so I can't even install IRIX from
scratch just to prepare the disk.
The
Here i am again with my new old sun ultra 1 boxes.
When playing with i386 boxes, i used to let a initial 63 sectors for
the boot procedure. So, i never used my whole disk. For sun, i don't
know whether i have to let some space or may just go using from sector
0.
You can start at sector 0.
My Intel network card, which works under 3.8, is not detected in the
March 2 snapshot (I tried some previous snapshots as well, same issue).
Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated!
Looks like a fuck-up on our side for 3.9. Can you try the following diff
and report whether your
I am trying to connect two sun boxes by means of serial console and
could not. This is my session output:
# cu -l /dev/cua00 -s 9600
/dev/cua00: Device not configured
link down
Check the relevant serial port manual page (zstty, com, sabtty) for the
device names. Not having seen the dmesg,
Here is what i am trying on my local system:
# tip -v -19200 ttya
connected
Default speed unless changed is 9600 bps, not 19200. Also, you might
want to try cu instead of tip (cu -e -o -s 9600 -l /dev/ttya) in case
your tip configuration is wrong.
Miod
Hi,
last weekend, I noticed that after a
$ wsconsctl keyboard.map+=keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
on my PowerBook G4 the capslock key did *not* any longer behave
like a control key. Instead it just has *no* effect at all, which
isn't very surprising when looking at akbd_capslockwrapper()
I am unable to provide a dmesg at the moment however it is finding com1
on i/o address 2e8
which doesnt look right to me.
The manual page for the com driver will tell you which device nodes to use.
Miod
What I can see on the screen is all the boot arguments at top (from
the environment).
OpenBSD/sgi Arcbios boot
Boot: pci(0)scsi(0)cdrom(4)partition(0)/bsd.rd
Loading ELF64 file
0xfff... Loading symbol table
Start at 0x
ARCS32 Firmware Version 1.10
SR=34010080
Found SGI-IP32,
my next mission is to get X running on 'silikon'. I haven't found any
specific documentation about that at all...
There is currently no X server support on sgi O2. This is being worked
on, but don't hold your breath.
Miod
Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
n
Type help for more information
ok boot net bsd.rd
[...]
Can't open network device `le(0,0,0)'
You really need your PROM to be permanently set to forth mode for this
to work. Make sure sunmon-compat? is set to false in the PROM
[ music |Aqua Barbie Girl ]
April Fools is one thing but someone around here has a really twisted
sense of humor.
Yes, this is obviously a fake, since there is an humppa cover of this
tune.
Miod
I recently reinstalled a laptop (Compaq Evo N610c) with the latest
snapshot. Ever since, the system occasionally crashes when starting
xdm. I set up serial console to another machine and started rebooting.
The problem appears to be related to the timeout changes, the panic
message is :
panic:
I have 2 ethernet's connected to a sundance expansion board, but
ethernet's are not recognized. I'm using OpenBSD 3.9 and default
kernel.
You forgot to tell us which architecture you are running OpenBSD on
(something an unabridged dmesg would have told us).
I'll suppose you are running an
Sorry, im running OpenBSD on i386 system. I dont have Sundance
Ethernet card.. I have two 3Com cards connected to Sundance Expansion
board.
Aha! It turns out your expansion box is not supported in the 3.9
release, but only in -CURRENT.
However, the changes are trivial to
Please pardon me if this has already been reported, but this problem
still persists in the release.
Of course it still persists in the release, since it was corrected after
3.9 was finalized; however, the fix has been commited to 3.9-STABLE.
Miod
Hello,
As you may have noticed, a new port has been added to OpenBSD's
portfolio: OpenBSD/aviion, addressing the older (Motorola-based) Data
General AViiON workstations - more recent models are x86-based and will
run OpenBSD/i386 flawlessly.
This port is unique amongst all the OpenBSD ports,
Would this be his box?
http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/88k/index.html
Yes, with an older kernel.
Miod
I got a Asus M6V notebook which has $SUBJECT audio hw. The kernel sees
it but no auich driver attached (ICH6). You guys have any idea what I
should do to fix it? I miss all my audio. Thx
flatline$ dmesg
OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006
[EMAIL
Intel 82801FB HD Audio rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 not configured
This chip is supported by the azalia(4) driver, which has been imported
post-3.9.
Then why do I see it in dev/auich.c? I thought that was the driver it
supported it.
[...]
246 { PCI_VENDOR_INTEL,
root device :
I figured out that if I tell it here the network interface that connects it
to the NFS server, it boots correctly.
root device : gem0
[...]
What do I need to do in order for the node to continue booting (using gem0
as the root device) without manual intervention?
This
I'm trying to do a 3.9 diskless boot of a Sun Netra T1 AC200 from an OpenBSD
3.8 i386 server. I have followed through diskless(8) and am able to boot
bsd.rd from the server. Trying to boot bsd (using 'boot net') fails towards
the end of loading the kernel:
[...]
I realized that I hadn't set
I've got a server that has been running fine with a bsd.mp kernel
from Apr 23. I took it up to -current on May 19th and it threw a panic on
boot. I booted from the old kernel and it was fine, so I cvsuped the
source and built -current again. Same thing.
This should be fixed with
this is an image of where the installation gets frozen.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j225/ddtrebel/DSC05922.jpg
There are a few video boards which are not supported correctly on
sparc64; yours is one of them.
You can either configure your machine for serial console, or boot with
the
I'd like to know if it's possible to configure `ls' to list files
using colors. I use ksh as default shell. I have also noticed that
when logged in the X server, when I open a xterm and do `su root' my
ksh doesn't read my profile. Reading OpenBSD's FAQ I've found the
following configuration:
$
I'm trying to use uisp ( from a package ) on my Ultra5 running OpenBSD
3.9 release, to program a ATtiny2313 connected on /dev/lpt0 ( I think,
) however uisp returns
/dev/lpt0: Device not configured
Failed to open ppdev.
Since the parallel port on this machine is supported in polling mode
only,
I saw just this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Data-General-system-board-for-Aviion-5500-005-039600_W0QQitemZ6888270148QQihZ013QQcategoryZ1244QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Would it help if someone bought that board for you? Preferrably someone
living in the USA...
Alas, it's no use - first,
Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:a File and args:
Boot load failed.
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
I didn't had this problem booting from CD (recorded from cd39.iso).
U5 and U10 can not
Normally, this would work (in different OS's):
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0
However, this command creates a file /dev/sd0 and fills it with random
data. I want to write this data to the disk instead.
The same thing happens when I use /dev/rsd0.
You want sd0c or rsd0c (hint: man 4
I have a question about a network card recently bought by one customer
and which is shown as not configured in dmesg, and the board seems to
have on the cd it came with drivers for win family, novell, linux and
freebsd but not openbsd, so I am wondering if there is any chance to use
it
I have installes OpenBSD 3.8. I exported a directory with
/mnt/gamma -maproot=root 192.168.1.14
line in /etc/exports
Next I tested the server with Nessus vulnerability scaner and it found a
hole in NFS:
[...]
This seems like an old (1999) hole. Is there any patch for it or did I do
anything
Mikrotik uses VIA RHINE chipset, so it must work :)
Why people would expect Via Rhine ethernet interfaces to work is beyond me.
Everyone should know that ``rhine'' is an abbreviation for ``avoid me at
all costs''.
Miod
Is there a sysctl flag one can set to make sure that a panic'ing kernel writes
a core? I have my ddb.panic set to 1 because I want the machine to come back
when I'm not around, but this doesn't seem to dump core.
Kernel crash dumps are silently disabled if swap encryption is used.
You need to
Hmm that's odd. I wonder why that is. I've done boot dump's before in DDB
and swapencrypt was enabled and it worked then.
It works if you explicitely request it from ddb. It doesn't if it comes from
panic().
Miod
question is already in the subject. I want to try the KDBG feature to
see whats wrong with my ral and some other things. It seems however that
i'm to stupid to disable DDB. My kernel config doesn't contain option DDB,
and config(8) generates it anyway.
It is very likely that your
a make obj and a make came up with this:
/usr/src/sbin/wsconsctl/keysym.c:51: error: storage size of
`ksym_tab_by_ksym'
isn't known
*** Error code 1
Any ideas? It happened on another 3.9 machine too.
You did not ``make depend''.
Miod
This is also what I experienced as a good size for a CF. By the way,
does it make sense to turn off swap to extend the CF's life time? I am
using that soekris only for ssh logins and won't need much ram
anyways... what's the emergency action by OpenBSD's kernel if it runs
out of RAM?
It will
dmesg (from disk B, they were all about the same):
Please provide the dmesg from floppy C, and then we might be able to help more.
Miod
could some one please explain what is means that snapshots are
*always* actually releases?
In /usr/src/etc/Makefile, there used to be two targets to create
tarballs to share a system with someone else:
- make snapshot, which would create rough tarballs of various filesystem
locations
i got after an cvs update to current an compiler error
[...]
cc1: error: unrecognized option `-Wstack-larger-than-2047'
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/fw (line 581 of Makefile).
any clue for me ?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20060727
Miod
man ucom says:
The portno locator can be used to decide which port to use for devices
that have multiple external ports.
[...]
Is the portno locator a real existing object or an abstract
concept? Is it a program, special device or a file?
``portno'' is an optional locator in the kernel
Anyone got any suggestions for getting this card started correctly? Seen
the question in older posts, but never an answer (running sparc64
generic). It seems supported in both the hardwarelist and generic kernel.
Can you try recompiling a kernel with the value of
QEC_XD_RING_MAXSIZE in
Anyone got any suggestions for getting this card started correctly? Seen
the question in older posts, but never an answer (running sparc64
generic). It seems supported in both the hardwarelist and generic kernel.
Can you try recompiling a kernel with the value of
QEC_XD_RING_MAXSIZE
Just the questions:
Am I doing some wrong here?
Yes, you are not reading the ``following -current'' faq
(http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html).
Miod
I have a US keyboard but the french one is loaded instead the US. I tape
a I have a q and so on. I have used the following command, as root:
#wsconsctl -w keyboard.encoding=us
but the keyboard remains a fr one.
Could you please help me with this issue? Could you also tell me what
have I
I cannot give trace and ps output because apparently the usb keyboard
is not supported (or does not work in ddb)
That's odd. It should work. Do you get ukbd attachment lines between
the ``root on'' line and the ``rootdev='' line?
Does anybody have an idea what can I do to get trace/ps output.
I did a checkout and tried to build current (on top of a snapshot) but
compilation breaks:
[...]
Is it a problem local to my laptop or anyone noticed the same ?
You forgot the ``make depend'' phase.
Miod
Sorry, FreeBSD seems to want Linux's fame and fortune and is gladly
giving away its history of a stable, clean codebase to get it. The
winning logo was honestly the last straw for me, though, so maybe that
says something about me...
Yes, it means you are mixing purely technical points with
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