Re: Upgrade 6.1 -> 6.2: No /mnt/etc/myname

This is a complete guess, but is /etc/myname a symbolic link? If it is a symlink to an absolute path, that is unlikely to exist in the bsd.rd filesystem and would cause this error. If that's not it, please clarify what you mean by the "file is there". What command did you run, and what was its

Re: Blank screen after boot with Radeon HD 5450

On Sun, 28 May 2017 22:54:22 +0200 Steven McDonald <ste...@steven-mcdonald.id.au> wrote: > Re-reading your mail, it sounds like you installed the card into an > existing system. In that case, my question becomes "have you run > fw_update?" Just noticed the part of your

Re: Blank screen after boot with Radeon HD 5450

Re-reading your mail, it sounds like you installed the card into an existing system. In that case, my question becomes "have you run fw_update?"

Re: Blank screen after boot with Radeon HD 5450

On Sun, 28 May 2017 15:37:08 -0400 Maximilian Pichler wrote: > After the installation of a VisionTek Radeon 5450 graphics card my > machine gives a blank screen after booting. It still shows the normal > system messages (full dmesg below), with the last visible one being

Re: file systems

On Fri, 26 May 2017 11:35:49 -0300 Friedrich Locke wrote: > Hi folks, > > does anybody here run OBSD with a file system bigger than 10TB ? > How much time boot takes to bring the system up (i mean fsck) ? > Are you using ffs2 ? With softdep ? > > Thanks. This

Re: What does it mean this error when I try install a package?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:02:37 + "C. L. Martinez" wrote: > pkg_add -v python-2.7 There is no package called python-2.7. The package you want is called python-2.7.13p0. You have a few options: 1. pkg_add python, then select the version you want. 2. pkg_add

Re: It is possible to start xenodm on Radeon HD 8730M (or Intel HD Graphics 4000) ?

On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 15:04:18 +0500 "dmitry.sensei" wrote: > "ATI Radeon HD 8730M" rev 0x00 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured > inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel HD Graphics 4000" rev 0x09 > drm0 at inteldrm0 Your Intel card is supported via DRM, but your

Re: perl fctnl woes

Hi Tilo, On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:11:13 +0200 Tilo Stritzky lf...@gmx.de wrote: Am I doing something silly here? Or is there a bug? I see the same result on i386 and amd64. Same for /dev/sound. This works on a 5.5 release, but not on later releases or current. I've been able to reproduce this

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:11:20 +0330 Mohammad BadieZadegan mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: When I choose My OpenBSD at boot state it display me: *Loading.* *ERR M* ERR M means that the pbr successfully loaded a file into memory, but it wasn't a valid ELF executable. Most probably, this means

Perl bindings for libsndio

Hi misc@, I've begun working on some Perl bindings for libsndio. The reason I started was to be able to interface with sndiod's MIDI thru boxes directly from Perl, but I've implemented XS bindings for the complete libsndio API: https://github.com/stevenjm/perl-Audio-Sndio It's still far from

Re: cp from 4 different home folders without overwriting files with different content

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:39:18 -0500 Chris Bennett chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us wrote: But I don't want to overwrite any files with same name but different content. You could try GNU cp (gcp in the coreutils package) with the -n option: -n, --no-clobber do not

Re: Lock FVWM2 with nosuid mount option

On Sat, 23 May 2015 05:12:58 -0400 ertetlen barmok ertetlenbar...@safe-mail.net wrote: There is no solution for locking an OpenBSD Desktop while using FVWM2 and nosuid mount option enabled for all mountpoints in /etc/fstab? xlock is setgid auth, so you could add your user to the auth group.

Re: building userland failed with Unable to remove directory /./var/tmp: Directory not empty

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:18:13 +0100 Harald Dunkel ha...@afaics.de wrote: pax: Unable to remove directory /./var/tmp: Directory not empty *** /var/tmp was replaced with a symlink to /tmp between 5.6 and 5.7. Compiling from source isn't a supported way to upgrade from one to the other; this is

Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:44:47 +0200 Ruslanas Gžibovskis rusla...@lpic.lt wrote: So question is: What Virtualization solutions OpenBSD support? Anything that runs as a userspace process in non-accelerated mode and has been ported to OpenBSD (QEMU, for example). There is no support for Xen, nor

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:48:02 + Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves m...@mbg.pt wrote: I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the firmware of some devices. I found this strange... OpenBSD runs

goals.html: Clarify GPL policy

goals.html disagrees with policy.html as to the policy regarding inclusion of GPL code. Since that part of policy.html was updated more recently (2014 vs. 2003), here's a diff that makes goals.html more agreeable: Index: goals.html

pfsync(4) typo (sychronisation)

Spotted a missing n in pfsync(4): Index: share/man/man4/pfsync.4 === RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/pfsync.4,v retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -p -r1.31 pfsync.4 --- share/man/man4/pfsync.4 29 Apr 2010 08:45:44 - 1.31 +++

Re: *ERROR* radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware radeon-r300_cp

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 06:30:16 +0100 John Smith hufflep...@bsdmail.com wrote: Is there anyway I can prevent this seemingly harmless error? I don't use X and didn't select the X packages during the installation process. You can probably do it by disabling the drm and/or radeondrm driver with

devtree: A utility for printing device trees

Hi misc, I've written a small utility for pretty-printing a tree of system devices based on dmesg(8) output. It's nothing fancy, but my apropos(1) and web searches didn't bring up anything to do the job. I thought it might be of interest to other newcomers to OpenBSD like myself who are exploring

Re: weird ksh '~' substitution - ksh bug?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:47:54 +0100 LEVAI Daniel l...@ecentrum.hu wrote: $ cd ~/stuff/ ksh: cd: /home/daniell/~/stuff - No such file or directory [snip] It seems ~ is substituted in the first case Just a correction here: I don't think it's being substituted. Rather, the lack of a leading /