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

2012-06-19 Thread eagirard
At 2012-06-20 0:00:21, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote: Summary: I want to turn my main system into a semi-automatic follower of -current and I think this strategy may useful to the project. Is this something that is already being done? My rationale here is that it's a good thing for

fvwm will not start since 12 June snapshot

2012-06-16 Thread eagirard
Since the 12 June snapshot I have been unable to run fvwm, either from xdm or using startx. Dmesg and Xorg.log below. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL OpenBSD 5.1-current (GENERIC) #231: Tue Jun 12 18:31:26 MDT 2012 t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0:

halt -p not powering down Sony Vaio (13 Feb snapshot)

2012-02-20 Thread eagirard
halt -p clears the screen, quiets the disk, but the cpu fan runs on, the screen stays lit and the power light stays on. For hours. Have to mash the power button for aound 8 seconds to get it really shut off. apmd is enabled in rc.conf.local. Messages extract next paragraph. Dmesg below sig.

Re: Cannot upgrade Sony Vaio VPCCA using the amd64 RAM kernel

2012-02-18 Thread eagirard
List: openbsd-misc Subject:Re: Cannot upgrade Sony Vaio VPCCA using the amd64 RAM kernel From: Kenneth R Westerback kwesterback () rogers ! com Date: 2012-02-17 14:24:19 Message-ID: 20120217142418.GZ20102 () mac ! westerback ! ca [Download message RAW] On Thu, Feb 16, 2012

Cannot upgrade Sony Vaio VPCCA using the amd64 RAM kernel

2012-02-16 Thread eagirard
Grabbed the 15 February snapshot, but booting bsd.rd results in this: Using drive 0, partition 3 Loading... probing: pc0 mem[634K 511M 510M 2474M 12K 1M 12K 84K 4606M a20=on] disk: hd0+ OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.18 boot bsd.rd booting hd0a:bsd.rd: 2986868+717388+2861496+0+504624=0xaef670 entry point

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-06 Thread eagirard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: Mihai Popescu mihp...@gmail.com wrote: How did you install the firmware? I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and

Re: i386 and amd64 snapshots - kernel SHA256 mismatch

2010-10-16 Thread eagirard
From: Theo de Raadt deraadt () cvs ! openbsd ! org Date: 2010-10-16 0:29:52 I should have actually shown how much was mismatched...and it's more than just the kernel: ---(fine details skipped)-- JC

panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots

2010-10-03 Thread eagirard
I installed the 2 October snapshot yesterday, and after the reboot got a panic. I booted again from the RAMdisk kernel, point to the 3 October snaphot and ignored the hash mismatch, and panicked again. Trace and ps for each below. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL trace for 2 October

Re: panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots

2010-10-03 Thread eagirard
Subject:Re: panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots From: Theo de Raadt deraadt () cvs ! openbsd ! org Date: 2010-10-03 19:24:19 Message-ID: 201010031924.o93JOJb1029879 () cvs ! openbsd ! org [Download message RAW] I installed the 2 October snapshot yesterday, and

Re: panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots

2010-10-03 Thread eagirard
Updated. I very rarely install the last couple of years. Tobias Ulmer tobi...@tmux.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 01:35:06PM -0500, eagir...@cox.net wrote: I installed the 2 October snapshot yesterday, and after the reboot got a panic. You installed? Not updated? I

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2009-09-14 Thread eagirard
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Bolgheroni m...@dbolgheroni.eng.br wrote: Thanks to those that contribute money and buy CDs. I would like to buy CDs, but in Brazil these kind of products have a high tax fee applied when they hit the harbour. For a $50 CD, I'll probably pay almost

Java plugin

2009-09-13 Thread eagirard
Well, I built and installed the JDK (1.7) from ports. The FAQ is correct about it's taking a long time, and it took so much space that I ended up mounting an additional partition for /usr/ports, because /usr ran out of space the first time. But the predicted (by the FAQ) message on using the

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-06-02 Thread eagirard
Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from amd64/install45.iso results in uhci3: host system error uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS drives on an LSI raid controller set

Printing to Windows

2009-05-24 Thread eagirard
If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread eagirard
Dag Richards wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also running a Windows server VM \ for a custom app that requires it. So the idea was to have one box running ESXi \ and reduce

RIT's mirror

2009-04-25 Thread eagirard
This may not be technically the right place to discuss a mirror, but the mirror list has no traffic since 2004. The RIT mirror is providing 4.2 sets from it's snapshots directory. Should they still be listed? -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL

Re: ftp from script

2009-01-03 Thread eagirard
johan beisser j...@caustic.org wrote: On Jan 3, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: You're right. You're so right, in fact, that I'd already changed the code; even I noticed that my original was bad practice. You're doing this in perl, and not using Net::FTP? I'm

Re: ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread eagirard
That's good thing to know (!) Christoph Leser le...@sup-logistik.de wrote: Just my 1 cent on the perl script #!/usr/bin/perl `cd /path-to-dir`: `rm *`; will purge your working directory, not /path-to-dir, as each of the `command` constructs is executed in a process of its own

Re: ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread eagirard
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Christoph Leser le...@sup-logistik.de wrote: Just my 1 cent on the perl script #!/usr/bin/perl `cd /path-to-dir`: `rm *`; will purge your working directory, not /path-to-dir, as each of the `command` constructs is executed in a process of its

Re: USB disklabel trouble

2008-10-11 Thread eagirard
Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Edward F. Ahlsen-Girard wrote: | Ladies and Gentlemen: | | I wanted to use a 4GB thumb drive to move a complete partition from | one system to another, and needed to get a ffs volume on it. It was |

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-09 Thread eagirard
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:20:01PM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:44:08PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: or, quit using firefox. it's security record is rather lousy, wouldn't you agree? What alternatives to firefox do you suggest? On my main desktop, I use debian.