Re: Getting "Boot error" after replacing a disk in softraid

2024-04-23 Thread Brian Conway
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned on in the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI: sd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0: naa.5002538e304456ac Brian Conway

Re: OpenBSD Installation Doesn't Detect NVMe SSD, but Detects My USB Drives

2024-04-15 Thread Brian Conway
end including some actionable information, such as: - make and model of the NVMe drive - OpenBSD installer dmesg with the drive not recognized - FreeBSD or Linux dmesg with the drive working Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: / not in RO after change in fstab

2024-04-12 Thread Brian Conway
3e3bc8e95c1301f8e/etc/rc#L428 If you plan on bypassing that, you're wading into unsupported land. For example, you'll have an unpleasant time with a read-only /dev. Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: ipv6 assistance

2024-04-06 Thread Brian Conway
Pv6 for the WAN interface and DHCPv6-PD for internal interfaces. I haven't confirmed any of that, as I'm not a customer. You should be able to translate most Xfinity guides for use with OpenBSD, I would think. Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: Bash instead of ksh

2024-04-02 Thread Brian Conway
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, at 10:08 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > What is it that you see bash doing so much better than stock pdksh? Multiline command editing. (I don't use bash, but it would be a nice feature.) Brian

Re: Request for a check 'relinking in progress' before a reboot

2024-03-23 Thread Brian Conway
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, at 6:10 PM, Dan wrote: > Hello, > > To avoid prbs with the relinking of the kernel happening in background > I propose to set a little check during the shutdown to avoid to interrup it.. > > Thnx! > > -Dan I have frequently rebooted or shut down shortly after boot, for

Re: New (for me,) dmesg warning during system bootup.

2024-02-25 Thread Brian Conway
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024, at 4:27 PM, Avon Robertson wrote: > I have noticed several posts related to endbr64 in the last week, so I > thought this might be of interest to someone. > > Performed a 'sysupgrade -s' earlier today to: > kern.version=OpenBSD 7.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #25: Sat Feb 24 20:50:14

Re: KeyTrap DNS vulnerability

2024-02-14 Thread Brian Conway
gister.com/2024/02/13/dnssec_vulnerability_internet/ -current and both -stable branches have been updated: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=2=1=CVE-2023-50387=b Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: Single partition fs layout

2024-02-13 Thread Brian Conway
sd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: New postfix-3.8.20221007p12 broken TLS for Gmail servers?

2024-02-02 Thread Brian Conway
.com[209.85.167.45] >> ehlo=1 starttls=1 commands=2 >> >> Before updating the package, I had postfix-3.8.20221007p11, and it had no >> such problem. > > Why do you run such an outdated postfix snapshot? That is the latest version that is supported/available in packages-stable: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/packages-stable/amd64/ Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: Communication between hosts on different network interfaces

2024-01-06 Thread Brian Conway
On Sat, Jan 6, 2024, at 2:09 PM, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: > I also tried setting different subnets. > > /etc/hostname.igc1: > inet 192.168.2.1/24 > > /etc/hostname.igc2: > inet 192.168.3.1/24 This is what I have done, with a pf rule to block connections originating from my less-trusted

Re: Installing openBSD

2023-07-31 Thread Brian Conway
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, at 12:00 PM, ykla wrote: > Any manually created efi > partition system will not be recognized. I can assure you, it will (when done correctly). I have done so manually/scripted with EFI+GPT and EFI+MBR many times. An example of the less common EFI+MBR approach for the

Re: High ACPI CPU load

2023-07-17 Thread Brian Conway
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023, at 5:38 PM, Julian Huhn wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 06:05:06PM +, Mike Larkin wrote: >>On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 04:34:20PM +0200, Julian Huhn wrote: >>> Since I got many DMARC rejection mails and therefore don't know how many >>> people this mail reached at all, once

Re: patch-008 missing in CVS repo

2023-07-13 Thread Brian Conway
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023, at 9:13 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 08:49:06AM -0500, Brian Conway wrote: >> I'm seeing the same. The commit email for 7.3-stable is here: >> >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=168919043301821 >> >> But exec_elf

Re: patch-008 missing in CVS repo

2023-07-13 Thread Brian Conway
see similar results when I try pulling from a couple anoncvs mirrors. Perhaps a bug or oops in the CVS update process? Brian Conway Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: RSS or Atom syndication for security advisories?

2023-05-22 Thread Brian Conway
On Mon, May 22, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Xavier wrote: > I don't know if you say it seriously. If you do, I think it's the best. > Perhaps you could write some semantic file and convert them to desired > format (html, RSS, etc.). > I saw the www repo >

Re: 7.2 panic and "reorder_kernel: failed" ...

2023-04-30 Thread Brian Conway
sh 0x gapdummy.o >> ld -T ld.script -X --warn-common -nopie -o newbsd ${SYSTEM_HEAD} vers.o >> ${OBJS} >> root:[~]# > > What might that mean? Is it significant? I can't speak to the panic, but I think the relink error is just the background process getting killed when you rebooted the system immediately after finishing boot. Brian Conway RCE Software, LLC

Re: A messed-up fresh install due to a careless user

2023-04-29 Thread Brian Conway
s perfectely. > But the firewall needed to be disabled while the machine was on the LAN only. The default pf.conf is very sufficient for allowing incoming traffic in a LAN environment. Brian Conway

Re: PC Engines APU2 infinite loop rebooting immediate after kernel loads

2023-04-17 Thread Brian Conway
configurations. You could also try booting from a USB stick, I've run these devices with mSATA, SD card, or USB flash. Brian Conway

Re: File system is full after using dd

2023-04-15 Thread Brian Conway
reful to verify that when wiping. Brian Conway Lead Software Engineer, Owner RCE Software, LLC

Re: Recent changes in the FAQ.

2023-03-03 Thread Brian Conway
k -iy -g -b 960 sd0" > > -new- > "if you use GPT for UEFI booting, do: # fdisk -gy -b 532480 sd0" This is the commit (prior to the www update) and rationale: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=166843427315447 Brian Conway RCE Software, LLC

Re: PC Engines APU alternative for OpenBSD - 2022h2

2023-01-13 Thread Brian Conway
ption. Overall, I've enjoyed my AliExpress cheapies, but the firmware leaves a lot to be desired. They seem to be compiled with every option under the sun present, even if they don't apply to the hardware in question - other than the aforementioned serial BIOS redirection. Brian Conway

Re: poor routing/nat performance

2022-12-19 Thread Brian Conway
ive alternatives to the APU2+ platform, and there are plenty in the $100-200 USD range for amd64. Most of my APU2s have been retired to terminal/console server duty. > CPU bored, max. load 25% It sounds like 1 of your 4 cores is maxed, which would not be surprising. Brian Conway

Re: OpenBSD File systems , on Flash / SSD CPE (in sites with uncontrolled power (CPE customer sites)

2022-11-28 Thread Brian Conway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: > /dev/sd0a / ffs rw,softdep,noatime 1 1 > /dev/sd0d /usr/local ffs rw,wxallowed,nodev,softdep,noatime 1 1 softdep is a useful option for metadata-heavy workloads, but it is not a magical go-fast flag. While it's possible that characterization

Re: CyberPower cp1500PPFCLCD

2022-11-13 Thread Brian Conway
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022, at 3:49 PM, Kenneth Hendrickson wrote: > --- On Sunday, November 13, 2022, 01:56:12 PM EST, Peter Fraser > wrote: > >> I replace it with a new CyberPower cp1500PPFCLCD. > > You poor bastard. If this company has anything to do with the > CyberPower PC It does not.

Re: Slow clock on vmd guest, i386-specific

2019-01-10 Thread Brian Conway
Understood, thanks for the update. At least the i386 angle it will be a little more searchable now. Brian Conway On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:28 AM Mike Larkin wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 11:18:16PM -0600, Brian Conway wrote: > > After looking through the mailing list archives,

Slow clock on vmd guest, i386-specific

2019-01-09 Thread Brian Conway
on i386, and taking a peak at src/sys/arch/i386/i386 indicates that perhaps this isn't available? What's the preferred method to get such a guest in line? I've included various sysctl, ntpd, and dmesg output below. All systems are running 6.4-stable. Thanks! Brian Conway amd64 host

Re: NFS daemon is very slow in server-to-client direction in TCP mode

2016-04-14 Thread Brian Conway
I ran into that same behavior with a Debian client before lowering the readsize and writesize in the NFS mount options (they defaulted to 64K I believe). Try starting at 8096 and working your way up until you find the failure point. Brian Conway Software Engineer, Owner RCE Software, LLC I

Re: Does a softraid partition require an fdisk partition

2016-03-11 Thread Brian Conway
> Since the softraid volume doesn't have the base OS installed on it, and will > never be used as a "boot device," I think I am ok, but am not sure. You are correct. Brian

Re: unbound eats up buffer space

2016-03-08 Thread Brian Conway
Are you using pf queues? I most frequently see that happen when there's no space left in a queue. `pfctl -v -s queue` Brian Conway On Mar 8, 2016 1:52 AM, "Marko Cupać" <marko.cu...@mimar.rs> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 5.8 i386 box as my home network gateway, wit

Re: openbsd 4.7 virtual machine on hyper-v

2016-03-01 Thread Brian Conway
If this is the de interface from hyper-v, there were fixes for it a release or two back. 4.7 is ancient, you need to upgrade. Brian Conway On Mar 1, 2016 7:10 AM, "Markus Rosjat" <ros...@ghweb.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > I ported a vm from vmware to hyper-v. the ma

Re: [SOLVED] with pain / was: APU2 WLE200NX ATHN0: Device timeout

2016-01-31 Thread Brian Conway
> I still experienced hangup on reboot after rebuilding 5.9-beta amd64 ... > So a switch has to be manually flipped for restarting the box after /bsd > upgrade. > > Do you have the same ? [OT] I experience the flaky reboot issue (usually after running for a few days) on my apu2b2 with 5.8-stable.

Re: xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory

2016-01-30 Thread Brian Conway
Have you read the xz man page, specifically on memory requirements? 9-extreme is probably not what you want - it's fairly insane/placebo. Full dmesg with memory information is needed beyond that. Brian Conway On Jan 30, 2016 7:18 AM, "Lampshade" <lampsh...@poczta.fm> wrote:

Re: bandwidth usage limits with pf, etc.

2015-12-31 Thread Brian Conway
systat will show you most of what pftop does, no package necessary. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/systat.1?query=systat=1 Brian Conway On Dec 31, 2015 2:30 PM, "Mark Carroll" <m...@ixod.org> wrote: > I was wondering recently what the biggest

Re: APU2: no boot from internal mSATA storage

2015-12-23 Thread Brian Conway
You probably need to contact the folks at PC Engines for a newer beta bios. I've seen rel-1.8.0-143, -181, and -190, and I recall at least one of them included updated boot support. There may be newer available as well. Brian Conway On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Kapfhammer, Stefan <

Re: APU2: no boot from internal mSATA storage

2015-12-23 Thread Brian Conway
Bios and APU2 flashing tools here (3rd post): http://www.pcengines.info/forums/?page=post=44BEA6F6-FC84-4F4B-BCE8-34A00764910B=DF5ACB70-99C4-4C61-AFA6-4C0E0DB05B2A Brian Conway On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Kapfhammer, Stefan <sk...@skapf.de> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > tha

Re: Understanding 'disklabel -T' math

2015-12-21 Thread Brian Conway
Great, thanks. I was about to make a diff for the -T template section below that and change "and percentage of disk" to "and percentage of remaining space", but that certainly clarifies it. Brian Conway On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wro

Understanding 'disklabel -T' math

2015-12-21 Thread Brian Conway
d unit issue, but no change. Thanks for any insight. Brian Conway OpenBSD 5.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #1757: Sat Dec 19 08:17:18 MST 2015 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 1056899072 (1007MB) avail mem = 1020792832 (973MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath

Re: home keys in tmux

2015-12-02 Thread Brian Conway
workarounds, of course. Brian Conway On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > Ax0n wrote: >> Do you have anything in your .tmux.conf? > > No, don't have one. (i don't want one)

Re: apu1d as an NTP server

2015-10-23 Thread Brian Conway
How large is your network? Brian Conway On Oct 23, 2015 5:42 PM, "Gene" <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, > > Has anyone here used the PC Engines apu1d system board as an NTP server? > > I'm looking at setting up some in house stratum-2 servers so I can be a >

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-06 Thread Brian Conway
There were also some excellent diagrams generated the last time this came up for discussion: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=141520160709490=2 FWIW. Brian

Re: UEFI boot attempt on AM1 platform with logs (9/16 snapshot)

2015-10-05 Thread Brian Conway
ev, BOOTARG_APIVER, marks[MARK_END], > + extmem, cnvmem, ac, (int)av); > +#else > + /* > + * Move the loaded kernel image to the usual place after calling > +* ExitBootServervice() > +*/ > + delta = DEFAULT_KERNEL_ADDRESS - efi_loadaddr; >

Re: mini itx from intel

2015-10-03 Thread Brian Conway
> We don't have a boot 'failure' per se (the board technically boots fine with > no display), rather if there's no screen attached during boot then it > completely disables video and never recognizes a screen attached later, ie; > you have to reboot to get video back. > > Do these 'dummy plugs'

Re: mini itx from intel

2015-10-02 Thread Brian Conway
, so you may luck out. Brian Conway Software Engineer, Owner RCE Software, LLC On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> wrote: > thanks everyone for the dmesg. > i bought 2 of these with 8G of RAM > and intel SSD drives. > > they will be used as h

Re: UEFI boot attempt on AM1 platform with logs (9/16 snapshot)

2015-09-23 Thread Brian Conway
> This picture shows > > Load address: Loader Data (2) 0xd0 for 4096KB FATAL > > This is what I want to know. 0xd0 + 4M is overlapping the kernel > area. > > I think the following diff or > > http://yasuoka.net/~yasuoka/BOOTX64.EFI > (updated) > > will fix the problem. Great,

Re: UEFI boot attempt on AM1 platform with logs (9/16 snapshot)

2015-09-22 Thread Brian Conway
> Can you try the diff following or > > http://yasuoka.net/~yasuoka/BOOTX64.EFI > > ? Then enter "machine memory" on "boot> " prompt and check the last line. > It shows whether the memory area for kernel is free or not. Like > > Load address: Conventional(7) 0x for KB > > is good

Re: rc.shutdown powerdown

2015-09-20 Thread Brian Conway
Powerdown went away in July 2014. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=140532869022004=2 Also, rc.shutdown doesn't exist by default anymore (/etc/examples). Brian Conway Software Engineer, Owner RCE Software, LLC On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Quartz <qua...@sneakertech.com> wrote:

Re: Cheap hardware for router, perhaps fileserver?

2015-09-19 Thread Brian Conway
Consider PC Engines APU series for relative low cost, fanless, and runs amd64. Soekris are also popular, and a bit more expensive. Brian

UEFI boot attempt on AM1 platform with logs (9/16 snapshot)

2015-09-17 Thread Brian Conway
rect removable serial.090c1000108230611421 sd1: 956MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1957888 sectors softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 5.8 installation program. (I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or (S)hell? Brian Conway

Re: Native EFI Bootloader Support

2015-09-10 Thread Brian Conway
I get similar behavior (EFI boot blocks run, boot loader 3.29 shows, but kernel fails to finish loading and reboots) on an Intel NUC DN2820FYKH using the latest snapshot (9/9) with install58.fs. I tried both bsd.rd and bsd for good measure. Installing via CSM works as expected. Firing up the same

Re: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

2015-08-16 Thread Brian Conway
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/octeon/INSTALL.octeon Brian Conway On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am contemplating buying a new machine which will act as a router/DNS caching server for my home network. Is anybody

Re: Repartitioning

2015-08-07 Thread Brian Conway
Yes. Use VBoxManage convertfromraw on the dd'ed image. Brian On Aug 7, 2015 11:37 AM, Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: You could also make a raw image of the disk and run a copy of that image in qemu on another computer, something which would give you a chance to do some experimenting

Re: 5.7-stable i386: crunchgen-produced programs segfault

2015-04-08 Thread Brian Conway
Thanks, working from /usr/src/distrib/special helped get things sorted out. Brian Conway On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: Brian Conway wrote: I get similar results when swapping in ls, pax, and so on. However, the make release process generates a working

5.7-stable i386: crunchgen-produced programs segfault

2015-04-07 Thread Brian Conway
dump on sd0b Brian Conway

Re: 5.7-stable i386: crunchgen-produced programs segfault

2015-04-07 Thread Brian Conway
Thanks, I'll start looking there. This is in the context of flashrd not being bootable on i386 at the moment: https://github.com/yellowman/flashrd/issues/30 Brian Conway Founder, Owner RCE Software, LLC On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: Brian Conway wrote

Re: useradd refusing encrypt output with 5.6

2014-11-22 Thread Brian Conway
(Apologies for potentially breaking threading, replying for a list archive.) I brought this up previously[1] and can confirm that it is fixed in 5.6-stable. Thanks to all. Brian Conway [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg133393.html

Behavior with nested vnd's/filesystems

2014-11-18 Thread Brian Conway
accepted changes to its filesystem despite being read-only. Thanks. Brian Conway

encrypt(1) + `usermod -p` compatibility in 5.6

2014-11-05 Thread Brian Conway
' # Incorrect usage on my part or something else? Thanks. Brian Conway

Re: encrypt(1) + `usermod -p` compatibility in 5.6

2014-11-05 Thread Brian Conway
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 12:35, Brian Conway wrote: As part of a larger build script, I'm pre-populating passwords with usermod. When upgrading to 5.6, I ran into the error below: 5.5-stable: # encrypt -b 8 onetwothree