4AM -0600, Raymond, David wrote:
> > At some point (I can't put my finger on exactly when this started), an
> > existing firefox instance hangs after my laptop is put to sleep and then
> > wakes from sleep. Websites in existing tabs still work, but searching
> for
> >
At some point (I can't put my finger on exactly when this started), an
existing firefox instance hangs after my laptop is put to sleep and then
wakes from sleep. Websites in existing tabs still work, but searching for
another webpage in an existing tab or opening a new tab is when the hang
I noticed for the past week or so that firefox hangs on return from a sleep
on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon version 4. This is true on both 7.3 and 7.4
stable. Other processes eg chrome, epiphany, don't.
Not sure what additional info to provide.
David J. Raymond
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ick " file
transfer" and shotwell then loads the pictures. This may be a
peculiarity of Pixel phones or Android 13 which libgphoto doesn't
understand -- some initialization issue.
Dave Raymond
On 8/7/23, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> On Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:06:26PM -0600, Raymond, David w
Hello,
I am trying to import photos using Shotwell over a usb connection with
the file transfer option. When I connect my phone to the usb port with
Shotwell running and select this option, Shotwell recognizes the phone
but says that there are no photos to transfer. The transfer works on
Arch
OK, thanks, good to know.
Dave
On 4/3/22, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2022/04/03 14:02, Raymond, David wrote:
>> So, to clarify, if I upgrade to a snapshot after upgrading to 7.0
>> stable, what happens when 7.1 stable comes along? Can I get to that
>> stable release fro
So, to clarify, if I upgrade to a snapshot after upgrading to 7.0
stable, what happens when 7.1 stable comes along? Can I get to that
stable release from a previous snapshot?
Dave Raymond
On 4/3/22, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2022-04-03, Steve Fairhead wrote:
>> On 07/11/2021 10:35, Steve
I do internet banking with epiphany.
On 1/7/22, Raymond, David wrote:
> I use epiphany quite a bit, and like it a lot, though there are
> websites on which it crashes. It uses the same toolkit as midori and
> in my opinion has a somewhat better user interface. Don't know
> whet
I use epiphany quite a bit, and like it a lot, though there are
websites on which it crashes. It uses the same toolkit as midori and
in my opinion has a somewhat better user interface. Don't know
whether it works on i386 at this point.
Dave Raymond
On 1/7/22, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> On Fri,
I tried to import a .jpg file into shotwell from the file system, but all
files (as opposed to directories) are grayed out and inaccessible in the
shotwell import menu. Is this a bug or a feature?
I'm using an up-to-date stable 6.9 version of the os with shotwell-0.30.11.
David J. Raymond
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>
> On 3/22/2021 4:34 PM, Raymond, David wrote:
>> This is odd, as I have 3 X1 laptops, gens 1, 4, and 5 and
>> suspend/resume works fine on all of them. However, I am s
This is odd, as I have 3 X1 laptops, gens 1, 4, and 5 and
suspend/resume works fine on all of them. However, I am still on
openbsd-6.8.
Dave Raymond
On 3/22/21, Mark Hesselink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sending the below bug report to misc@openbsd.org as I have
> deliberately not configured my
I use an HP Color Laser Jet Pro MFP M283fdw on OpenBSD and it works
well with cups. The generic postscript driver works with it on cups,
so openbsd lpd should work as well. HP also has some cheaper
monochrome laser printers in the same line.
Dave Raymond
On 2/7/21, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Sep
Regarding youtube videos on chromium, I had the same problem on the
epiphany browser. The solution in that case was to install optional
gstreamer packages. I don't know if all of these are required:
gstreamer-0.10.36p13 framework for streaming media
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13p16 ffmpeg element
Questions about lpr printing:
I tried putting a filter that drives an HP Deskjet printer (works with
lprng on linux) as an output filter in printcap and it didn't work.
Would it be more proper to put it as an input filter? I am still on
version 6.7 of the OS. (I saw a recent post indicating
I am running openbsd on a laptop with 2560x1440 pixels and X11 handles this
just fine. However, I do reduce the effective resolution to 1600x900 to
avoid the tiny font problem. I add the following (named 10-screen.conf) to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, however you can do this on the fly with programs
I noticed that trying to load an attachment to Gmail in Firefox leads
to a basically empty menu for selecting the file to be loaded? What
gives? Is this something to do with pledge/unveil? Is there a way to
do this?
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http
I have several Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 7 systems running OpenBSD 6.6 and
6.7, and they work great. 6.6 had some minor issues with Ryzen 3
graphics but these appear to be resolved in 6.7.
Dave Raymond
On 6/23/20, Joe Barnett wrote:
> On 2020-06-23 08:56, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can
Bingo! You are right on, as /home is an nfs mount. Unmounting it
allows sysupgrade to work.
Thanks!
Dave Raymond
On 6/17/20, Florian Obser wrote:
> Wild guess, /home is an nfs mount or mounted read-only? That's not going to
> work unfortunately.
>
>
> On 17 June 2020 22:23:13
home
internet provider.
Any hints? Might there be some protocol that is blocked by the
university network? When I boot bsd.rd directly (after having been
locally verified), the upgrade works fine.
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I like clementine as well but it disappeared from the compiled ports
going from 6.5 to 6.6. I went to musique, which is much simpler but
does the job. I haven't migrated to 6.7 yet.
Dave Raymond
On 6/4/20, Why 42? The lists account. wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> My preferred music player application
I run Vega 3 graphics on desktops. There are a few quirks, the most
important being to turn off the hardware cursor. If I read the
upgrade notice for 6.7 correctly, the cursor problem may be fixed in
that version.
Don't know about wireless. You may have to get a usb wireless dongle.
I had
I use dnsmasq (an openbsd package) on the gateway for my lab ethernet
network and it works great with minimal configuration as a local DNS
server. At home I have a Synology wireless router which does the same
as long as you tell it to make DNS reservations. Your mileage may
vary with cheaper
Hmm... Why would I want e2fsprogs on OpenBSD??? Oh, I see,
libreoffice drags it in. One more thing I wish I could dispense with.
Dave
On 4/17/20, Bryan Steele wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:11:15AM -0600, Raymond, David wrote:
>> I noticed that chattr exists on OpenBSD. The
I noticed that chattr exists on OpenBSD. The man page says it applies
to Linux file systems (ext* etc). Two questions:
1. Does this also apply to OpenBSD's fast file system? (The man page
would suggest not.)
2. If not, is it of any use on OpenBSD?
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Amen to all that. Arch Linux worked for me for many years, but the
Arch philosophy of adopting bleeding edge software has become
increasingly difficult to deal with, given the corporate takeover of
Linux. Started out with BSD in the early days, moved to Slackware,
Debian, and then Arch. Finally
Theo,
Thanks for your explanations. I appreciate the efforts of you and
your colleagues in keeping OpenBSD as up to date and secure as
possible. That is one of the main reasons I am using it.
Dave Raymond
On 4/12/20, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Raymond, David wrote:
>
>> That said
My problem with iridium is that it is based on an older version of
chromium and I am not sure that they keep up with inevitable flow of
security fixes. That said, I am a bit nervous about OpenBSD's lags in
keeping up with browser security fixes. (I'm not criticizing -- I
understand that OpenBSD
I am trying to install X11 on a new machine (Zotac box running quad
core Celeron with Intel HD graphics). X11 fails to launch with a
message about not being able to find a console driver, as the Xorg log
file shows below:
[ 199.973] (==) Log file:
I am trying to get X11 working on a Zotac box with a quad core Celeron
processor, ZBOX-CI323NANO with "Intel HD graphics" (no further info).
No dice. Starting xenodm from boot results in a hang with a blank
screen. Running startx after boot produces some output to stderr and
an Xorg log file
You might try an alternate desktop/window manager such as lxqt or
icewm and see if the problem persists. When I tried XFCE on my X1
carbon laptop, XFCE was not so nice, though I can't remember the
details at this point.
Dave Raymond
On 3/5/20, Why 42? The lists account. wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
On my X1 Carbon running openbsd 6.6, the console works fine with the
non-X version of emacs except that the meta key is not set. One can
emulate the meta key by typing escape followed by x, but this is a
pain. Maybe there is some mechanism for setting the alt key to meta
in emacs on consoles,
Thanks for the heads up on current vs 6.6.
On 2/22/20, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 07:40:23PM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>> Thanks, I will give that a try.
>
> Also 'ifconfig nwid' still works and will override any join commands.
>
> Details are in
Thanks, I will give that a try.
On 2/21/20, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2020-02-21, Raymond, David wrote:
>> I have a problem when I have two wifi services available, say, a hotel
>> wifi and my cellphone hotspot. Suppose I put the hotel wifi in my
>> hostname.xxx
I have a problem when I have two wifi services available, say, a hotel
wifi and my cellphone hotspot. Suppose I put the hotel wifi in my
hostname.xxx file and run sh /etc/netstart and I don't like the
results. Removing the hotel wifi from the hostname file, replacing it
with my hotspot wifi, and
I have had good luck on OpenBSD with a variety of HP printers using
the hplip package and cups. (To use the latter, put /usr/local/bin
before /usr/bin in your PATH to avoid confusion with lpr programs.)
The xsane package does scanning on HP printers that have this
function. I have connected them
ror typically occurs
after the job is running for 12-24 hrs. Any suggestions for better
diagnostics welcomed.
Dave Raymond
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associative
cpu7: DTLB 64 4KB entries fully associative, 64 4MB entries fully associative
cpu7: sm
SSIZE_MAX or could this
be a bug? I am handling partial reads and writes correctly as far as
I can see. Chopping big writes into chunks smaller than 32000 seems
to solve the problem.
Dave
On 1/16/20, Martin Wanvik wrote:
> tor. 16. jan. 2020 kl. 14:52 skrev Raymond, David :
>&g
Yes, my code deals with the short reads and writes.
On 1/16/20, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 06:48:30AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>
>> Hmm
>>
>> Thought I found a 2^15 -1 version of SSIZE_MAX in the includes, but I
>> guess I was mistaken.
&
Hmm
Thought I found a 2^15 -1 version of SSIZE_MAX in the includes, but I
guess I was mistaken.
The real issue is whether doing write(2) to a TCP/IP socket bigger
than 2^15 - 1 bytes causes problems. I am not very experienced in
this area.
Dave Raymond
On 1/15/20, Bryan Steele wrote:
>>
I am confused about SSIZE_MAX and read(2)/write(2). The POSIX
SSIZE_MAX is something like 2^15 -1. This seems to be a real
limitation when writing to a TCP/IP socket, as I learned from
experience. However, much larger reads and writes seem to be possible
to files and UNIX sockets (pipes). This
Thanks, that helps.
On 1/14/20, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 05:37:55PM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>> Quick question: Can got (Game of Trees) be used on an existing git
>> repository or does it require a fresh start?
>>
>> Dave
>
> Comma
Quick question: Can got (Game of Trees) be used on an existing git
repository or does it require a fresh start?
Dave
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Why do I like openbsd?
I used linux for several decades and it has become harder and harder
to keep up with gratuitous changes and to keep my 20+ machines running
and updated. The last straw was usb mounting being broken in the
linux kernel for 6 months. Really! The whole linux enterprise
Thanks for the input on softdep. I read a lot on the pros and cons.
This certainly pushes me in the "con" direction.
I forgot to mention that I am using 6.6 stable, not current, so the
latest updates to softdep shouldn't be an issue.
Dave Raymond
On 1/8/20, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jan 08
. Rebooting cleans out /tmp.
I had /tmp mounted with the standard options + softdep. I eliminated
softdep and the problem appears to have gone away.
Any ideas on what is going on with softdep here? Dmesg shows a long
series of "/tmp file system full" messages.
Dave Raymond
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p
Guenther.
I am currently writing a tiny openmpi replacement in Go for the small
part of mpi that I actually use. I should be able to explore this
issue further and maybe even make my model work.
Dave Raymond
On 12/24/19, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 8:14 PM Raymond, D
I found unbound hard to use so I went back to dnsmasq (a package on
OpenBSD), which I had used previously on linux. Trivial configuration
and it works like a charm in providing DNS service for local and
remote systems behind a NAT firewall. (It gets local information from
the host file on the NAT
.
Dave
On 12/24/19, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 08:17:37AM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 5:04 AM Raymond, David
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The "timeout" error was numerically 60. Curiously, boards with RTL
>&g
The "timeout" error was numerically 60. Curiously, boards with RTL
8111GR chips did not produce these errors, but those with RTL 8111H
chips did. Unfortunately, this chipset seems to be in a lot of newer
motherboards.
I didn't use ktrace/kdump. The openmpi software returned the error
presented
run the GDS components with the enviroment set up like
> this. But who knows with a beast like openmpi.
>
> I'll file a bug report with the PMIx developers, for now I've commited
> the update with your input. Thanks!
>
> Martin
>
> Am 19.12.19 um 13:48 schrieb Raymond, David:
>
Martin,
I have been using openmpi 4.0.2 on my computer system and I found a
bug that is provoked by running a job (a Go program interfaced to the
Clang MPI package) on multiple machines connected by ethernet. This
crashes the program with the following output:
I get similar stuff on console 1 but not on the others on all my
OpenBSD machines. As I use X windows and have clean consoles 2-4
available if necessary, I just ignore it.
Dave Raymond
On 12/16/19, putridsou...@gmail.com wrote:
> The error does not seem to be a faulty mouse and I
> don't use
3494
hw.setperf=100
hw.vendor=ASRock
hw.product=A320M-HDV R4.0
hw.uuid=7085c2bd-52e3---
hw.physmem=7425409024
hw.usermem=7425396736
hw.ncpufound=4
hw.allowpowerdown=1
hw.perfpolicy=manual
hw.smt=0
hw.ncpuonline=4
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in using softdep?
On SSDs in particular, is it worth setting noatime to reduce the
number of disk writes?
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I don't know whether this is pertinent, but I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon
(gen 4 I think) which ran the fan at full speed under Linux. A bios
update solved this problem. I have converted to OpenBSD (6.6 stable)
and the problem has not reappeared. It might be worth checking with
Lenovo to see if a
Arch Linux uses nano in its boot drive. Pretty simple, gets the job
done. (They also include vi.)
Dave Raymond
On 11/16/19, Roderick wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
>
>> I assumed that the canonical reference for ed was K, "The Unix
>> Programming
>
>
migrated to new media as they appear and prove
themselves. There is still the possibility of undetected bit rot
however...
Dave
On 11/15/19, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
> On 15/11/2019 10:11, gwes wrote:
>> On 11/14/19 3:52 PM, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
>>> On 15/11/2019 07:44, Ra
Andrew,
I hadn't heard about file corruption on OpenBSD. It would be good to
get to the bottom of this if it occurred.
Dave
On 11/14/19, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
> On 15/11/2019 04:45, Raymond, David wrote:
>> I have done similar things on Linux for years and am now d
I have done similar things on Linux for years and am now doing them on
OpenBSD. Sounds like what you want to do can be done with a simple
rsync script. OpenBSD ffs (ufs) should be stable, it has been around
for decades in various incarnations. I have never noticed bit rot in
this system, though
Thanks, that did the trick!
Dave
On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:24:36AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>
>> Hmmm
>>
>> On install of openbsd a second, non-boot 4 TB disk was initialized by
>> fdisk in the usual way. My intention wa
, but I didn't think one could actually create a file system on
the c partition.
Is there something I am missing?
Dave
On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>
>> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than th
Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB limit of ffs?
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At least with a total failure you know something is wrong, whereas
with a functioning but flaky SSD, you could be experiencing a slow
drip of bit rot. I guess that this is another possible reason to
avoid TLC and QLC drives.
Dave
On 11/8/19, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> Raymond, David [david.r
missing something?
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, Josh wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> was it related to the Sx bios functionalities?
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 11:20 PM Raymond, David
> wrote:
>>
>> I had the fan problem on an X1 5G running linux, but a bios upgrade solved
>> it.
>>
>> Dave Raymond
>>
I had the fan problem on an X1 5G running linux, but a bios upgrade solved it.
Dave Raymond
On 11/3/19, Josh wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've upgraded from 6.5 to 6.6 on my X1 6G and since then, I am unable
> to find the reason(s) of the high fan spinning.
> Is there a procedure to downgrade to 6.5 or
Thanks for the insight on SSDs -- sounds like there is not much of an
issue with modern drives.
Dave Raymond
On 11/3/19, gwes wrote:
> On 11/2/19 4:10 PM, Raymond, David wrote:
>> I recently installed OpenBSD on a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a solid state
>> drive and it works
You might try lyx. This is a front end for latex. You can write
without worrying about formatting and come back to that later. Also,
when you do the formatting, you don't have to worry about niggling
details as in word and its clones. Just declare chapters, sections,
etc.
Lyx is an OpenBSD
has
certain means for addressing this issue, such as fstrim as well as
various kernel options. Is there anything I have missed with OpenBSD
on this subject?
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