NetBSD install and usage by the blind

2016-04-07 Thread Adam Thompson
Hi all, As a long-time user of unix-like systems (primarily Linux, with a few others as well) I'm interested in setting up a machine with NetBSD. However I'm blind and can't find any examples of either accessibility options in the installer or an automated installation method wich isn't for Qemu

Re: scp dropping connections

2016-04-07 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: > >I attached gdb on sparc64 to sshd process and after 30 seconds got the > >following > Do you have a NAT/firewall and you don't have keep state in your pass rules? I've also seen misconfigured NIDS system that are setup for TCP "shootdown" (ie.. sendi

Re: Graphics wiki page

2016-04-07 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: > Others have recommended using such a live image when purchasing hardware > like a laptop at a store. That is exactly what I do. I take a USB stick with a copy of NetBSD installed on it into the store and boot it up. Then I simply run startx and watch t

Re: scp dropping connections

2016-04-07 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <20160407221122.5a987a60d8b1205bf3a42...@googlemail.com>, Sad Clouds wrote: >On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:46:51 +0200 >Martin Husemann wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:35:59PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: >> > sshd: bl_init: connect failed for `/var/run/blsock' (No such file or >> > direct

Re: scp dropping connections

2016-04-07 Thread Sad Clouds
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:46:51 +0200 Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:35:59PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > sshd: bl_init: connect failed for `/var/run/blsock' (No such file or > > directory) > > That is the connection to blacklistd (which you probably are not > running). Should b

Re: Graphics wiki page

2016-04-07 Thread coypu
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:23:38PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > What might also be nice would be USB image which could try to fire up > X11 and some relevant app or apps to allow people to perform a quick > "smoke test" to quickly get *some* data points... There is ./build.sh live-image. I think

Re: Graphics wiki page

2016-04-07 Thread David Brownlee
On 5 April 2016 at 18:02, Swift Griggs wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: > > It would be more fruitful to provide a page where people list hardware > > that works for them, http://dmesgd.nycbug.org is close. > > That's very cool. The idea, in general, reminds me of the supported

Re: scp dropping connections

2016-04-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:35:59PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > sshd: bl_init: connect failed for `/var/run/blsock' (No such file or > directory) That is the connection to blacklistd (which you probably are not running). Should be unrelated. I don't see any such issues on my sparc64 machines. Marti

scp dropping connections

2016-04-07 Thread Sad Clouds
I've just upgraded my sparc64 machine to latest NetBSD-7 and unable to scp large files to this machine, as ssh keeps dropping connections after some time. src.tar 9% 262MB 1.2MB/s 1.3MB/s 36:01 ETA Connection to ultra10 closed by remote host. lost connection I see the following in the logs