Re: objdump -D /bsd results in segfault

2013-01-01 Thread Philip Guenther
the unstripped binary under gdb and see what it shows... Philip Guenther

Re: objdump -D /bsd results in segfault

2013-01-01 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:52 AM, mxb m...@alumni.chalmers.se wrote: objdump gets segfault the dumping kernel. Any ideas? Works for me: $ objdump -d /bsd o Wrong option: it indeed segv's with the -D option

Re: Various system freeze

2012-12-30 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:30 AM, epsilon epsilo...@t-online.de wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 04:10:05AM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: Your case, as far as you described it, is not the same as frantisek holop's. Right. Not totally the same. But some similarities. sigh The _value_ of finding

Re: rsu problem

2012-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
that actually *provided information*. Why am I giving you priority over their query? Good luck! Philip Guenther

Re: Various system freeze

2012-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
is; does it freeze too? Philip Guenther

Re: cvs up failing on -current

2012-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
cvs release -d obj (if it asks if you want to remove the directory, say 'y') make obj (That removes 'obj' from the list of subdirs in the CVS/Entries file in the 'foo' directory.) Philip Guenther

Re: Realtek r8712u Wireless Dongle .. OpenBSD 5.2 i386 ..

2012-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
of WPA. Philip Guenther

Re: snapshots total freeze (linux emulation)

2012-12-28 Thread Philip Guenther
the actual values of wp-wp_mew_futex was (if it was NULL, then I have a guess as to the bug; if it wasn't NULL, then uh, good luck!) Philip Guenther

delay after preserving editor files [Was: rsu problem]

2012-12-28 Thread Philip Guenther
/vi.recover/ to see what files where half-edited and then use vi -r filename on each, either saving the contents or throwing them away with :q! Philip Guenther

Re: Kernel Debugging

2012-12-28 Thread Philip Guenther
run? Can it be debugged with a remote gdb? Can the in-kernel ddb still be used? Philip Guenther

Re: Goodbye to you my file descriptor - take 3

2012-12-28 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Maxime Villard rusty...@gmx.fr wrote: Well, as no one seems to give a fuck on tech@, I put a more glamourous title here. The fd/FILE part of your diff changes the behavior of pfctl to be incorrect when there are no states. Philip Guenther

Re: Goodbye to you my file descriptor - take 3

2012-12-28 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Maxime Villard rusty...@gmx.fr wrote: Le 29/12/2012 02:46, Philip Guenther a écrit : On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Maxime Villard rusty...@gmx.fr wrote: Well, as no one seems to give a fuck on tech@, I put a more glamourous title here. The fd/FILE part

Re: Compression is broken on (S)hell booting install52.iso

2012-12-26 Thread Philip Guenther
not supported # tar -jcvf archive.bz2 something tar: could not exec bzip2: No such file or directory Is this intentional? Yes. Philip Guenther

Re: snapshots total freeze

2012-12-25 Thread Philip Guenther
running 5.1? 5.2-release? An October snapshot? Philip Guenther

Re: snapshots total freeze

2012-12-25 Thread Philip Guenther
on it hanging? Since this doesn't seem to affect developers, you're going to have to do the science. Philip Guenther

Re: Kernel Debugging

2012-12-23 Thread Philip Guenther
it and dump memory and register when it blows up. Philip Guenther

Re: nfs 4

2012-12-22 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Does OBSD support NFS 4 ? If not, is there plans to do so ? It does not currently. I don't think anyone is working on it. Philip Guenther

Re: trivial with echo command

2012-12-17 Thread Philip Guenther
you say wow, converting them would be a fucking waste of time!? Really? Philip Guenther

Re: Terminal emulators can't read .profile

2012-12-11 Thread Philip Guenther
, but for that to have any effect on a non-login shell started by a terminal emulator, the ENV variable has to be set in the environment of the terminal emulator. Philip Guenther

Re: blackhole option unsupported in named.conf

2012-12-06 Thread Philip Guenther
' ... Is it missing in OpenBSD implementation? Is there any way out of this? Like adding anyone else to allow-query structure? No, it's not missing: # grep blackhole named.conf blackhole { clients; }; # named-checkconf ./named.conf # Philip Guenther

Re: Problem building -current userland

2012-12-04 Thread Philip Guenther
anyone can say other than try again; good luck! Philip Guenther

Re: Strange c++ compilation

2012-12-01 Thread Philip Guenther
followed modern best practices by only putting extern function declarations in just one header file? Philip Guenther ** some developers have much harsher language for this...

Re: Recommended ANSI C language coding standard compliance checker

2012-11-27 Thread Philip Guenther
have to be checked *and balanced* by a brain. I recommend the book The Practice of Programming, by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, for those interested in these sorts of considerations. Philip Guenther

Re: X app 'cant open display', In X as reg. user launching xapp from su xterm.

2012-11-27 Thread Philip Guenther
) manpages. Philip Guenther

Re: ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s:1755: Error: no such instruction: `stac'

2012-11-26 Thread Philip Guenther
of the trunk. Philip Guenther

Re: libiconv openssl expat

2012-11-24 Thread Philip Guenther
for about 8 years, so how exactly have you been installing OpenBSD without them? Furthermore, you should be using packages and ports, which handle dependencies and compilation paths for you. Philip Guenther

Re: mountd needs to reboot to change mapall argument

2012-11-10 Thread Philip Guenther
the *complete* output from start, making changes to /etc/exports and HUP'ing it, etc. Philip Guenther

Re: Slow VPN Performance

2012-10-24 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Michael Sideris urg...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the NFS defaults which means, according to the man page at least, that it should go over TCP. Hmm, I don't believe that to be the case. What man page text are you seeing says the default is TCP? Philip

Re: How to delete this partial package?

2012-10-23 Thread Philip Guenther
find anything, do a read check by dd'ing the raw partitions to /dev/null and see what that turns up. Philip Guenther

Re: sigaltstack and siglongjmp

2012-10-21 Thread Philip Guenther
have a test for this going forward... Philip Guenther

Re: Signal handling questions

2012-10-13 Thread Philip Guenther
contexts on the stack before invoking any handlers, and then userland will process them in LIFO order. OpenBSD doesn't support signal queuing; a signal sent to a process while that signal is already pending for the process will be ignored. Philip Guenther

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-09 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Yes, it is a relic. You may take action against it, Ted. Don't forget to also remove the shutdown(8) bits that use it. Philip Guenther

Re: man 2 sigprocmask

2012-10-06 Thread Philip Guenther
for the calls that the system libraries actually use, and even there the guarantee is only for a couple releases. For example, the sigreturn() in the OpenBSD 5.0 amd64 libc will not work against a 5.2 kernel. Philip Guenther

Re: man 2 sigprocmask

2012-10-06 Thread Philip Guenther
errno handling. Yes, exactly. Philip Guenther

Re: Outdated #SendmailDNS FAQ entry?

2012-09-25 Thread Philip Guenther
. Philip Guenther

Re: Compiling from the source on -current Failed

2012-09-24 Thread Philip Guenther
*more* important to get testing of a fix on the 99% that it *shouldn't* affect than on the 1% that it fixes. If you run a snapshot and it breaks, let us know. If you immediately rebuild, then, well, *yawn*) Philip Guenther

Re: Ldaps authentication from a php web page

2012-09-22 Thread Philip Guenther
that set up into the chroot, with /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and /ec/openldap/ssl/CA.crt inside the chroot. Philip Guenther

Re: Ldaps authentication from a php web page

2012-09-22 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Mik J mikyde...@yahoo.fr wrote: De : Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com Since you have a working set up outside of the chroot, I would think the easiest thing would be to copy that set up into the chroot, with /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and /ec/openldap/ssl/CA.crt

Re: problem setting inet6 route

2012-09-01 Thread Philip Guenther
the ethernet address of your box so that it can send the packets to it? Philip Guenther

Re: i want emulate middle button back

2012-08-22 Thread Philip Guenther
the multiplexing of mice and middle button emulation in the same spot, so that distinct mice can have distinct emulation settings, though I can't remember if that's the wscons layer or the X server... Philip Guenther

Re: broken system with unknow command

2012-08-14 Thread Philip Guenther
afterwards. Philip Guenther

Re: strange system resource limits

2012-08-10 Thread Philip Guenther
. That's an interesting demonstration of understanding. Philip Guenther

Re: top res column size column

2012-08-10 Thread Philip Guenther
() of a file or device count? (This *might* be a trick question.) Philip Guenther

Re: xsystrace do not exit

2012-08-09 Thread Philip Guenther
the xsystrace.timeout resource in your X server to some non-zero value...but beware that that timeout also limits your responses to systrace queries... is it normal? Yes. Philip Guenther

Re: Shellscript escaping problem

2012-08-05 Thread Philip Guenther
without thinking about and recognizing what made it bad was enough to let you create good stuff, then Sturgeon's law would be false. Philip Guenther

Re: ypldap

2012-08-05 Thread Philip Guenther
implemented maps. Philip Guenther

Re: Shellscript escaping problem

2012-08-03 Thread Philip Guenther
as warning. The beginner will be dazzled by the mess-o'-punctuation, but that doesn't help them see what they should do instead when they, in turn, find their own scripts crawling into the morass. Philip Guenther

Re: magic code in /src/sys/net/if_spppsubr.c

2012-07-25 Thread Philip Guenther
for IPv6 PPP compression would be nice... 2. see line (begin with ^L) 466 1145 1276 1991 2675 4116 4430 There are 1865 source files in the base tree that use ^L as a page break in source. if_spppsubr.c is one of 10 in the kernel. It's an accepted style and not a bug. Philip Guenther

Re: Strangeness while adding several IPv6 routes

2012-07-24 Thread Philip Guenther
completely, then run them in order at the command line to see what error messages they generate and what the state of the routing table is between them. Philip Guenther

Re: Unresponsive -current + rtorrent

2012-07-13 Thread Philip Guenther
a problem. Philip Guenther

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-05 Thread Philip Guenther
a hypothesis about the cause, figure out a way to test your hypothesis, then do it and check the result. Philip Guenther

Re: load now over 1.00 all the time (i386, MP)

2012-06-30 Thread Philip Guenther
at top right after boot shows that load was normal load averages: 1.14, 0.85, 0.43 but current load constantly being over 1.00, the averages eventually rise as well. Have you checked the output of 'top', perhaps with the -H option, and see what shows up as consuming CPU? Philip Guenther

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Philip Guenther
that charset, rather than the recipient's preference, when initially displaying a document. See section 3.7.1. Wait, was that a warning that an explicit charset parameter broke some older browsers? Huh... Philip Guenther

Re: trouble with wireless

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Jacob Wilson undidac...@gmail.com wrote: hello, trying to use an intel centrino w/ wimax               6150 on version 5.1, i have been trying to figure this out but               have had no luck dmesg?

Re: trouble with wireless

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Jacob Wilson undidac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Jacob Wilson undidac...@gmail.com wrote: hello, trying to use an intel centrino w/ wimax               6150

Re: trouble with wireless

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: BTW what is the reason for system showing PCI device as something under USB? What makes you think it's a PCI device? Something in the dmesg that you didn't show us? (Guess the dmesg is a boring game) Philip Guenther

Re: Following -current through a semi-automatic process: a strategy for encouraging user involvement?

2012-06-19 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: all of the calls in syscalls.master map to a unique function, and all of them start with sys_. it's true that nm won't tell me about argument changes. i just risk it a little by assuming no one's that evil Heh.

Re: CVE-2012-0217: SYSRET 64-bit operating system privilege escalation vulnerability on Intel CPU hardware

2012-06-18 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, bj.perso wrote: FreeBSD and NetBSD seem affected, how about OpenBSD ? Nope.  The necessary check(s) for setting bogus return addresses has been in place since, uh, 2004.  Ditto for always

Re: can i tune the bind/resolver timeout time?

2012-06-17 Thread Philip Guenther
with search . in my resolv.conf to get that effect. Philip Guenther

Re: Mounting a partition, cdrom, usb as a user

2012-06-16 Thread Philip Guenther
mount somewhere they own and use a symlink Philip Guenther

Re: CVE-2012-0217: SYSRET 64-bit operating system privilege escalation vulnerability on Intel CPU hardware

2012-06-13 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, bj.perso wrote: FreeBSD and NetBSD seem affected, how about OpenBSD ? Nope. The necessary check(s) for setting bogus return addresses has been in place since, uh, 2004. Ditto for always returning from signal handlers using iretq instead of sysretq. Philip

Re: apmd closes/crashes on lid close

2012-06-03 Thread Philip Guenther
it the -d option to not go into the background) and see what signal kills it and where? Philip Guenther

Re: Laptop lid closing script

2012-05-30 Thread Philip Guenther
sensor there which you can monitor from userspace, but that's thinkpad-only. Philip Guenther

Re: More bgpd problems

2012-05-29 Thread Philip Guenther
] runs as, then set the kern.nosuidcoredump sysctl to 2. Philip Guenther

Re: Page fault trap when booting GENERIC.MP on Xen

2012-05-06 Thread Philip Guenther
the kernel, including additional MMU flushing from the core context switch routine...and completely different startup routines for additional CPUs. OpenBSD has not been ported this new platform. Philip Guenther

Re: systat total freeze

2012-05-06 Thread Philip Guenther
and so may fail if libkvm isn't in sync with the running kernel. If out of sync, netstat may coredump or simply fail, but that won't crash the kernel. A process not running as root should never be able to crash the system. Philip Guenther

Re: rfork(2) considered harmful? [Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src]

2012-04-13 Thread Philip Guenther
for. It served a good purpose by providing a hook for rthreads development, but at this point it was just increasing the complexity of the kernel. Philip Guenther

Re: Kernel roughing in tool

2012-04-13 Thread Philip Guenther
and assist people that do A? Or are you complaining that the other people are not volunteering to spend their time on giving that support *instead of* doing general development of OpenBSD? Is supporting other people doing A more important than what other people are doing right now? Philip Guenther

Re: how to get userland pthreads working?

2012-04-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Mo Libden m0lib...@mail.ru wrote: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:10:09 -0700 PQ Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com: ... Running -current with userland threads is not supported. If you need userland threads, you need to run 5.1 or earlier. That was what I really needed

Re: how to get userland pthreads working?

2012-04-10 Thread Philip Guenther
than the supported option of reloading your system from scratch, do not expect assistance from the OpenBSD development team. -- Philip Guenther

Re: how to use patterns with newsyslog ?

2012-04-03 Thread Philip Guenther
. is it possible to use patterns with newsyslog ? No. Philip Guenther

Re: udevadm equivalent

2012-03-28 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Beavis pfu...@gmail.com wrote: is there an equivalent to udevadm in OpenBSD or BSD in particular? What problem are you trying to solve? Philip Guenther

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Philip Guenther
(or the cat) from pressing a few buttons and getting into a console. Can't they do that by typing crtl+alt+F1 too? Philip Guenther

Re: OpenBSD sites' timezone

2012-03-22 Thread Philip Guenther
2012/3/22 f5b f...@163.com: 1. www.openbsd.org is UTC http://www.openbsd.org/51.html $OpenBSD: 51.html,v 1.17 2012/03/23 02:04:39 henning Exp $ man rcs Read the description of $Id$ (which is what $OpenBSD$ is a version of).

Re: STARTTLS DSA vs RSA

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Guenther
. Philip Guenther

Re: 5.0 Stable (amd64) build appears broken.

2012-02-21 Thread Philip Guenther
, something which building from source does *not* automatically do for you. Philip Guenther

Re: 5.0 Stable (amd64) build appears broken.

2012-02-21 Thread Philip Guenther
, go back and figure out what happened there. Read-only mount? Corrupt filesystem? Aliens? Philip Guenther

Re: ALIX segfaulting on current/i386

2012-02-19 Thread Philip Guenther
128MB of real memory. When this is happening, what's the output of swapctl -l? If that shows you are indeed into swap, then a failing CF card would be my guess. (Swapping to CF seems like a bad idea to me, but I'm not expert in that sort of hardware...) Philip Guenther

Re: ALIX segfaulting on current/i386

2012-02-19 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Feb 19 10:12:03, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On a recent install of current/i386 on an ALIX (see dmesg below), processes (such as a simple 'ls') started to magically

Re: Re : Equivalent of /etc/libmap.conf on OpenBSD

2012-02-09 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Mik J mikyde...@yahoo.fr wrote: But what would be the workaround to get a similar result ? You don't actually state what your *real* problem is, so I'll go with rebuild the involved software against the correct library. Philip Guenther

Re: sendmail TLS errors

2012-02-03 Thread Philip Guenther
back to a none TLS connection if the handshake occurs. Well, the handshake also fails whenever an attackers interferes with the connection. A revert to insecure when attacked behavior makes you secure except when it matters. Philip Guenther

Re: Long delay updating xenocara source tree?

2012-01-27 Thread Philip Guenther
as the -d option, IIRC. Personally, I use the rule of thumb of only using -d and -P when I have reason to believe directories have been added or removed, either from seeing the commit email or from a build failing because a directory is missing... Philip Guenther

Re: OpenBSD 4.4

2012-01-24 Thread Philip Guenther
be the first step... So, are you looking for something else? Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Guenther
: upgrading *would* have fixed his system due to the various steps done during upgrades, such as fsck being run and permissions being corrected when the sets are untarred. Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Guenther
an upgrade from 4.3 or 4.4 or 4.5 would have, by default, done a forced fsck of your filesystems. If you're interested in bringing your beliefs closer to reality, then I suggest you go pick up a copy of 4.4 or 4.5 and try the upgrade, or read the source for the upgrade script. Philip Guenther

Re: Where is appetalk NETATALK in GENERIC OBSD 5.0?

2012-01-18 Thread Philip Guenther
to receive and send the raw ethertalk frames, but since *Apple* moved to doing Appletalk over TCP/IP over a decade ago which doesn't require that, the utility of in-kernel ethertalk processing was not worth the pain it caused for the kernel net hackers. Philip Guenther

Re: Scannedonly (for samba vfs) make fails - pthread_spinlock_t definition missing(?) in libpthread

2012-01-15 Thread Philip Guenther
-or-enabled-by-default librthread). Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-14 Thread Philip Guenther
question about what user you think locate.updatedb runs as, something which does factor into being able to solve this... Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
how locate.updatedb is called from /etc/weekly! Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
Also, in order to help others when they encounter a similar issue, please be sure to post what the problem and/or solution were once you figure them out. Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues. So, you're saying that locate /usr | grep ^/usr | head returns nothing but Yep! As does locate /usr locate /home

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
the problem while walking through locate.updatedb manually... Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: ... Ah, but that's *not* how locate.updatedb is invoked by the cronjob! There's a reason I called out the need to mimic that when trying to replicate the problem while walking

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:08 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Agreed, .. but if locate.update does NOT run as root, that would seem to indicate some problem other than permissions. If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I

Re: Single Stepping Process in Kernel

2011-11-27 Thread Philip Guenther
the registers with ptrace(PT_GETREGS) and then uses ptrace(PT_IO) to get the instruction that faulted. Disassemble that to figure out what instruction it was and work out the exact address and data involved. Philip Guenther

Re: Trouble with large files in current snapshot

2011-11-27 Thread Philip Guenther
the regression. It was the wrap around check in vfs_vnops.c rev 1.69. Fix committed; again, thanks for the report and search results. Philip Guenther

Re: Single Stepping Process in Kernel

2011-11-27 Thread Philip Guenther
to solve. Philip Guenther

Re: Ksh command substitution

2011-11-25 Thread Philip Guenther
command (for example an awk or sed command)? Yes. Philip Guenther

Re: make cleandir deletes stuff that it shouldn't?

2011-11-20 Thread Philip Guenther
? No, it's not intended. Fortunately, there's an easy fix that everyone uses: make obj Philip Guenther

Re: src build failure in -current (23.08)

2011-11-10 Thread Philip Guenther
to pass the -S option to install. (had already tweaked the shared makefile bits but xinstall and some others needed the same change) Philip Guenther

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