Re: NetBSD on a Soekris net4801

2017-02-10 Thread Mike Pumford
On 10/02/2017 19:26, u...@sdf-eu.org wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking of running NetBSD on a Soekris net4801. It has 128 MB RAM and 1 GB CF card. Does anybody have experience running NetBSD on these machines? Do I need a custom kernel for the AMD Geode CPU on the machines? Is there a good way to red

Re: NetBSD on a Soekris net4801

2017-02-10 Thread Mike Pumford
difference. I'll see if I've still got the code somewhere and if I have I'll post it. Mike Thanks, udon On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:18:05PM +, Mike Pumford wrote: On 10/02/2017 19:26, u...@sdf-eu.org wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking of running NetBSD on a Soekris net4801.

Re: creating a netbsd router

2017-07-15 Thread Mike Pumford
On 15/07/2017 11:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lagg&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html is the same thing.. No lagg (4) under http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi/apropos?lagg++NetBSD-current Name is

Re: failure to build Firefox 54

2017-07-19 Thread Mike Pumford
On 18/07/2017 20:47, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I did a complete pkg_rolling-update today, but firefox still fails. Any other has this issue? workarounds? Works on amd64. I did a chroot build of all my system packages for NetBSD 8 at the weekend and firefox54 built and runs just fine. I've got

Re: failure to build Firefox 54

2017-07-19 Thread Mike Pumford
On 19/07/2017 19:43, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi Mike, Mike Pumford wrote: Works on amd64. I did a chroot build of all my system packages for NetBSD 8 at the weekend and firefox54 built and runs just fine. I've got pkg_comp set up so I can try the same thing on i386 as well relatively e

Just spotted a version oddity with sshd on the various stable branches.

2017-09-16 Thread Mike Pumford
NetBSD 6.1-STABLE: # sshd -v sshd: unknown option -- v OpenSSH_7.5 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20170418, OpenSSL 1.0.1u 22 Sep 2016 NetBSD 7.1-STABLE: # sshd -V sshd: unknown option -- V OpenSSH_6.8 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20150403, OpenSSL 1.0.1u 22 Sep 2016 NetBSD 8.0-BETA: # sshd -v sshd: unknown opti

Re: Just spotted a version oddity with sshd on the various stable branches.

2017-09-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 18/09/2017 05:20, Soren Jacobsen wrote: On 09/16 19:50, Mike Pumford wrote: NetBSD 6.1-STABLE: # sshd -v sshd: unknown option -- v OpenSSH_7.5 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20170418, OpenSSL 1.0.1u 22 Sep 2016 NetBSD 7.1-STABLE: # sshd -V sshd: unknown option -- V OpenSSH_6.8 NetBSD_Secure_Shell

Problem with blacklistd

2017-12-29 Thread Mike Pumford
The -r flag of blacklistd fails to work on netbsd 7-stable. Looking at the code its because the restore was being run BEFORE the state database was opened. As far as I can tell there are 2 changes to fix this bug: blacklistd.c 1.34 -> 1.35 state.c 1.18 -> 1.19 While I could manually patch it a

Re: Problem with blacklistd

2017-12-29 Thread Mike Pumford
On 29/12/2017 19:38, Christos Zoulas wrote: Thanks, I've asked for a pullup! Excellent I'll keep a look out for it filtering through. Thanks. Mike

Re: NetBSD 7.1.1 instability - hangs

2018-03-09 Thread Mike Pumford
On 09/03/2018 16:14, m...@netbsd.org wrote: I strongly suspect you are running out of RAM due to lang/rust not respecting MAKE_JOBS and linking in parallel, killing Xorg. The rust compiler is multi-threaded so 1 process can use all the cores of the system all on its own. However if you have g

Re: NetBSD 7.1.1 cairo update issues

2018-03-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/03/2018 15:55, scole_mail wrote: Riccardo Mottola writes: Where is the issue? There is an unresolved PR for this http://gnats.netbsd.org/53099 I'm guessing you can see what the problem is in "config.log". Disabling the options dri and llvm allowed it to build for me. Its because

Re: NetBSD 7.1.1 cairo update issues

2018-03-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/03/2018 22:51, Mike Pumford wrote: The attached patch worked for me. I have a working cairo package (used by rrdtool and various other X11 utils all working on 7-STABLE. Hmm. Lets redo that patch as a unified diff. :( Mike Index: x11/xorgproto/builtin.mk

Re: Gah... How usable is www/firefox on NetBSD?

2018-05-02 Thread Mike Pumford
On 02/05/2018 19:16, Roy Bixler wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:32:16PM +, m...@netbsd.org wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:31:20PM +, m...@netbsd.org wrote: Hi Mayuresh. I set: browser.remote.autostart = false to avoid the crashes. Sorry, that's browser.tabs.remote.autostart=f

Re: samba and Windows 10

2018-05-19 Thread Mike Pumford
On 18/05/2018 03:02, Michael van Elst wrote: k...@azeotrope.org (Dave Huang) writes: They did force it off in a recent Win10 update, you can turn it back on in the registry. Samba4 does handle SMB2. Samba4 works with the latest win10 build. (at least it does for me here. No registry changes

Re: sshguard fails to start

2018-05-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/05/2018 18:03, Mayuresh wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:20:22PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: # /etc/rc.d/sshguard start Starting sshguard. # /etc/rc.d/sshguard status sshguard is not running. # /etc/rc.d/sshguard rcvar # sshguard $sshguard=YES Ok, here is a clue: # sshguard sh: cannot o

Re: sshguard fails to start

2018-05-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/05/2018 12:27, Patrick Welche wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:03:34AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote: While it worked okay I found that the number of firewall rules it produced crept up to be stupidly large over time. This plus the startup anoyance made me switch to blacklistd. I'm still

Re: Blocking offending IPs : How many are too many to handle for npf?

2018-05-24 Thread Mike Pumford
On 24/05/2018 03:05, Mayuresh wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:55:23AM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: You could collect data for a few days and then make some entries permanent :-) Sure. May be I'd look forward to blocklistd to add 1 more column in its conf: "no. of repeat offences before be

Re: NetBSD block vs raw disk I/O

2018-08-11 Thread Mike Pumford
On 11/08/2018 17:09, Martin Husemann wrote: Don't think I had to tweak anything special on the host or in virtual box. No but one thing you do have to tweak on Linux if using dd to benchmark disk performance is the command line parameters. By default dd on linux doesn't actually wait for t

Re: NetBSD block vs raw disk I/O

2018-08-13 Thread Mike Pumford
On 12/08/2018 16:34, Sad Clouds wrote: OK, I cloned NetBSD VM, kept everything the same, but installed Debian with XFS file system. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=out bs=1M count=1 conv=fsync this gives 682 MB/sec which is what I would normally expect Just dug into my IO settings a bit. My NetB

Re: reading older disks

2018-08-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/08/2018 17:50, st...@prd.co.uk wrote: A bit of a coincidence for two disks to fail and a memory fault to develop all at the same time, while the disk I was copying to was unaffected? Not really its been a pretty universal experience of very old systems for me that they don't like bein

Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-10 Thread Mike Pumford
On 10/09/2018 01:49, Don NetBSD wrote: I'm not concerned with automatically detecting insertion/removal; that's the job that the operator performs (above) -- along with the tagging of the media, etc. I've done a lot of work with SAS disk enclosures that support SES. They often have an SES c

Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-11 Thread Mike Pumford
On 10/09/2018 23:39, Don NetBSD wrote: On 9/10/2018 11:33 AM, Mike Pumford wrote: On 10/09/2018 01:49, Don NetBSD wrote: I'm not concerned with automatically detecting insertion/removal; that's the job that the operator performs (above) -- along with the tagging of the media, e

Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-23 Thread Mike Pumford
Due to a disk failure I'm having to do a full raid1 reconstruct on one of my systems and the performance seems much slower than last time I did it on this system. I'm seeing a write speed of 7MB/s which means my 2TB reconstruct is going to take 72+hours! Last time I did it it took about 3 hour

Re: Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/11/2018 19:30, Mike Pumford wrote: Due to a disk failure I'm having to do a full raid1 reconstruct on one of my systems and the performance seems much slower than last time I did it on this system. I'm seeing a write speed of 7MB/s which means my 2TB reconstruct is going

Re: Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/11/2018 20:01, Michael van Elst wrote: mpumf...@mudcovered.org.uk (Mike Pumford) writes: I'm seeing a write speed of 7MB/s which means my 2TB reconstruct is going to take 72+hours! Last time I did it it took about 3 hours if I'm remembering correctly. Just updated this

Re: Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-24 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/11/2018 22:20, Jaromir Dolecek wrote: Can you perhaps try interrupt count via intrctl? iirc someone complained about some interrupt storm coming from acpi. Didn't know about that one. That gives: interrupt id CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 device name(s) ioapic0 pin 9 0*0

Re: Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-24 Thread Mike Pumford
On 24/11/2018 09:19, Mike Pumford wrote: On 23/11/2018 22:20, Jaromir Dolecek wrote: Can you perhaps try interrupt count via intrctl? iirc someone complained about some interrupt storm coming from acpi. Didn't know about that one. That gives: interrupt id   CPU0  CPU1  CPU2 

Re: Recommendations for small router?

2018-11-26 Thread Mike Pumford
On 26/11/2018 03:54, Santhosh Raju wrote: Have you had a look at https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm More specifically https://pcengines.ch/apu4c4.htm The APU4C4 is quite nice in terms of specifications and it meets almost all of the requirements that you have mentioned. For storage you can use SD

Re: Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-27 Thread Mike Pumford
On 27/11/2018 21:27, Havard Eidnes wrote: It could be that the caching settings on the new drive is different from the old one. Check and adjust with "dkctl", using "getcache" and "setcache" as required. Just checked that and the settings are the same. I've also disassembled and re-assemble

Re: Poor raidframe reconstruct performance on 8-stable

2018-11-29 Thread Mike Pumford
On 27/11/2018 22:16, Mike Pumford wrote: On 27/11/2018 21:27, Havard Eidnes wrote: So for now just assume duff hardware. Sorry for the noise and thanks for the suggestions. Now confirmed as a very broken disk. Currently reconstructing a new raid1 onto a 4TB disk at 172MB/s :) Haven&#

error writing to stdout

2018-12-12 Thread Mike Pumford
Not sure if this is a netbsd issue or a pkgsrc issue. I'm seeing this increasingly as a failure when doing pkgsrc builds. Universally it seems to be thunderbird and firefox that blow up. gmake may be implicated. This is from a failing firefox build. gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/pkg_comp/ob

Re: error writing to stdout

2018-12-12 Thread Mike Pumford
On 12/12/2018 20:25, Mike Pumford wrote: Not sure if this is a netbsd issue or a pkgsrc issue. I'm seeing this increasingly as a failure when doing pkgsrc builds. Universally it seems to be thunderbird and firefox that blow up. gmake may be implicated. This is from a failing fi

Re: error writing to stdout

2018-12-13 Thread Mike Pumford
On 12/12/2018 22:26, Mike Pumford wrote: Following up on this I'm going to re-run the same build but this time without the output going straight to stdout as I have a suspicion that pipe output is stalling sometimes. I have seen other stalls when using pipes so this just contributes t

Re: error writing to stdout

2018-12-13 Thread Mike Pumford
On 13/12/2018 16:47, Jonathan Perkin wrote: I used to see this error a lot when running bulk builds where the output was being logged to an NFS share. Switching it to a local file system not only improved performance, it made this problem disappear. Well the last failing run with my log pars

Re: error writing to stdout

2018-12-13 Thread Mike Pumford
On 13/12/2018 17:37, Jonathan Perkin wrote: Yes, this section of pbulk: https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/pkgtools/pbulk/files/pbulk/scripts/pkg-build#L184-L192 Our change to allow writing to a local file system is here: https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/dea8f3bb0c0

Re: error writing to stdout

2018-12-13 Thread Mike Pumford
On 13/12/2018 18:01, Mike Pumford wrote: I've dropped pkgsrc-users as while its package builds that are causing the blow up this is clearly a system issue not a package issue. Okay. I've just dug into stdio and the kernel and one obvious thing is that libc calling write() does

Overriding console mode for KMS drivers

2018-12-22 Thread Mike Pumford
I have a need to override the mode auto detected by the KMS console drivers in 8.0. The system in question is attached to an old TV via a HDMI->Component converter. The converter advertises modes up to 180p but the TV is only actually capable of 576p. I can see that the variables to set the mod

Re: Booting NetBSD 8 install image on PC Engines apu2d4 via serial console goes blank

2018-12-31 Thread Mike Pumford
On 30/12/2018 15:59, J. Lewis Muir wrote: I'm trying to install NetBSD 8 on a PC Engines apu2d4 https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2d4.htm via a USB thumb drive with a NetBSD 8 install image https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images/NetBSD-8.0-amd64-install.img.gz Yes but you nee

Re: Ethernet auto-select and concurrent 10, 100 and 1000 connections

2019-02-04 Thread Mike Pumford
On 03/02/2019 12:07, Sad Clouds wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 11:27:07 +0100 tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: With all your help and from this summary, I suspect that the probable culprit is 3) above (linked also to 2) but mainly 3): an instance of Samba, serving a 10T or a 100T request is blocking o

Re: Ethernet auto-select and concurrent 10, 100 and 1000 connections

2019-02-05 Thread Mike Pumford
On 04/02/2019 21:45, Sad Clouds wrote: I've tried those options before, but performance gain was marginal compared to gigabit ethernet speeds, i.e. it went up from 13 MiB/sec to around 17 MiB/sec. But I guess 30% gain is better than nothing. I think Sun Ultra10 has 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus, so in t

Re: The state of SAS

2019-03-09 Thread Mike Pumford
On 09/03/2019 22:57, Staffan Thomén wrote: Hello list The machine has a SuperMicro-branded LSI MegaRAID 2108 card and it works fine with the mfi driver, although I don't seem to have any way of configuring it from a running system (bioctl can list the volumes and that's about it) which is a

Re: The state of SAS

2019-03-09 Thread Mike Pumford
Lets try that again with the quoting done right :) On 09/03/2019 23:57, Mike Pumford wrote: On 09/03/2019 22:57, Staffan Thomén wrote: Hello list The machine has a SuperMicro-branded LSI MegaRAID 2108 card and it works fine with the mfi driver, although I don't seem to have any wa

Re: The state of SAS

2019-03-12 Thread Mike Pumford
On 11/03/2019 15:11, Staffan Thomén wrote: Flashing sounds dangerous, and I expect I'd need at least a second card to get the existing data off my RAID sets unless there are firmwares that do both RAID and passthru. Yes you would lose access to the raid sets managed by the card and would h

Re: why 2 mails every time?

2019-04-22 Thread Mike Pumford
On 22/04/2019 06:11, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: why do i get 2 emails every time there's a reply to any email by me or to me? earlier i thought it was my mail client (mailx) which was doing something crazy, but it isn't so, a simply reply to netbsd-users goes out and sends me 2 copies of that same

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-04 Thread Mike Pumford
On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58PM +0800, Travis Paul wrote: You mentioned that you were looking for an amd64 board. Have you looked at the PCEngines APU2 boards[1]? I have not personally tried them but perhaps they fit your needs. Thanks. Looks intere

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-10 Thread Mike Pumford
On 07/05/2019 13:23, David Brownlee wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 18:16, Mike Pumford wrote: On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58PM +0800, Travis Paul wrote: You mentioned that you were looking for an amd64 board. Have you looked at the PCEngines APU2

Re: sudden appearance of timekeeping problems with netbsd-8 just after 8.1

2019-06-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 19/06/2019 14:10, Greg Troxel wrote: Patrick Welche writes: On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 04:56:33PM -, Michael van Elst wrote: g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: -timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 +timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequenc

Re: named limits

2019-07-24 Thread Mike Pumford
On 24/07/2019 12:24, Manuel Bouyer wrote: Maybe: start_precmd="set_limits" set_limits() { ulimit -s 131072 named_precmd } Or use the daemon class in login.conf if you are comfortable with the limits being raised for all things started by etc/rc.d scripts. Mike

Re: Device timeout reading fsbn ...

2019-10-01 Thread Mike Pumford
On 01/10/2019 14:36, Thomas Mueller wrote: Do you know when (what version) NCQ was introduced to NetBSD? Was it before or after 7.99.1? It went in after NetBSD 8.x was branched so I'd guess it would be somewhere in the 8.99.xx versions. It is in the 9.0_BETA branch as well. What is ata

Re: Problems with C++ compiler on 9.0_RC2

2020-02-06 Thread Mike Pumford
On 06/02/2020 11:40, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Marc Baudoin wrote: [...] I can't because I gave up on C++ some 20 years ago. Anyway, trying to compile pkgsrc/devel/cmake or pkgsrc/print/poppler fails every time for me as indicated in my previous message. It

Re: Problems with C++ compiler on 9.0_RC2

2020-02-06 Thread Mike Pumford
On 06/02/2020 23:30, Mike Pumford wrote: I'm not building 9.0-RC packages on i386 yet but I can say that on amd64 with 9.0 pkgsrc current from 02 Feb 0710am UTC and 9.0RC1 01 Feb 0745 UTC that cmake certainly works. These are builds in a chroot so they are guaranteed to have a totally

Re: Problems with C++ compiler on 9.0_RC2

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Pumford
On 2020-02-10 12:46, Marc Baudoin wrote: Martin Husemann écrit : On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 01:17:31PM +0100, Marc Baudoin wrote: lrwxr-xr-x 1 martin wheel 12 Jan 31 13:19 ./9.0/usr/include/g++/bits/gthr-default.h@ -> gthr-posix.h -rwxr-xr-x 1 martin wheel 0 Jan 31 13:19 ./updated/u

Re: Fwd: NetBSD 9.0 randomly boots

2020-02-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/02/2020 18:10, Maxime Villard wrote: Le 21/02/2020 à 10:57, BERTRAND Joël a écrit : Maxime Villard a écrit : Hi, 1) How much ram does your system have? 16 GB 2) If you add "#define NO_X86_ASLR" at the top of sys/arch/x86/x86/pmap.c, does     the system boot fine? I canno

Re: Hundreds of crypto file descriptors for Apache httpd

2020-03-11 Thread Mike Pumford
On 10/03/2020 10:57, Frank Wille wrote: Michael van Elst wrote: But is it normal to create more than 200 crypto file descriptors for each httpd process? Then I would have to recompile PHP with a larger FD_SETSIZE, as it seems? That seems excessive. My admittedly lightly loaded SSL server her

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-25 Thread Mike Pumford
On 25/03/2020 16:58, Havard Eidnes wrote: This has just got a lot worse. As of about 20 minutes ago I've had to completely disable dnssec validation on my NetBSD 8.1-stable servers as I had a complete loss of name resolution. Every domain was failing to resolve (e.g www.google.com). This was w

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-25 Thread Mike Pumford
On 24/03/2020 09:57, Havard Eidnes wrote: which doesn't match. This has just got a lot worse. As of about 20 minutes ago I've had to completely disable dnssec validation on my NetBSD 8.1-stable servers as I had a complete loss of name resolution. Every domain was failing to resolve (e.g w

Re: DNS Failures - All of a sudden today 20200325

2020-03-25 Thread Mike Pumford
On 25/03/2020 20:56, Havard Eidnes wrote: My caching dns failed unexpectedly today, apparently I was not alone: https://www.mail-archive.com/bind-users@lists.isc.org/msg28624.html From ISC: "We apparently let our signatures on dlv.isc.org expire." Ouch! I fixed this temporarily by adding:

Re: Looking for java an android devs on netbsd environment

2020-04-03 Thread Mike Pumford
On 03/04/2020 15:49, Greg Troxel wrote: "John m0t" writes: c. eclipse eclipse ought to work its a java application although I have no direct experience on NetBSD I've always found its ui so frustrating when I'm forced to use it that I'd never use it voluntarily (which covers all my Ne

Re: Generating static htmls with interactive plots

2020-04-06 Thread Mike Pumford
On 06/04/2020 11:30, g...@duzan.org wrote: => I have a NetBSD based web server which serves mainly static contents and => files. There is one requirement to include some time series plots with => some monthly data points - so, the plots do not need to take any => parameters from a browser and

Re: EST available frequencies drops during operation

2020-04-06 Thread Mike Pumford
On 06/04/2020 21:26, Matthias Petermann wrote: across a number of reports on the X230, where cleaning the fan and in particular the "re-pasting" of the heat pipe helped. That's exactly what I did yesterday with my device - 1.5 hours of work and now the temperatures are significantly lower. And

Re: Looking for java an android devs on netbsd environment

2020-04-07 Thread Mike Pumford
On 07/04/2020 08:17, John m0t wrote: https://0bin.net/paste/U0nua5ZwZOVrRE6f#B6ogE0SlRptwkE6WObF4KywuFVU+sSV3C0dhJjvIrSH On my previous NetBSD 9.0 install, I pkgin all the full suse emulation package(s) and I managed to even run idea-IU-193.6911.18 with its own JBR version. (man the font r

Re: System slowness and graphics-card

2020-04-07 Thread Mike Pumford
On 07/04/2020 15:11, Todd Gruhn wrote: The system I am using was assembled and purchase back in Aug 2019. Some things I noticed: 1) The graphics card (nVidia GEFORCE GTX 1660) needs to be booted using boot -c ; disable nouveau; quit Okay this means you are disabling the KMS driver

Re: NetBeans Unexpected error: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

2020-04-08 Thread Mike Pumford
On 08/04/2020 13:45, Greg Troxel wrote: However, many complicated systems don't use the system list of pre-trusted root certificates, but instead have their own scheme. firefox is like this. I have no idea about java, but I would not be surprised because java has a "we are the single consiste

Re: System slowness and graphics-card

2020-04-09 Thread Mike Pumford
On 09/04/2020 14:33, m...@netbsd.org wrote: I had the same issue before getting nouveau to work. Had a theory I never tested that it might be the xf86-video-nv driver causing these issues. I imagine the best experience you could have is by forcing genfb somehow and using the x wsfb driver. one

Re: System-slowness and graphics cards

2020-04-09 Thread Mike Pumford
On 09/04/2020 19:59, Todd Gruhn wrote: here is a portion of me Xorg.log.0 file: Does "No monitor specified ... " have anything to do with the slow X startup? I recalled that 10yrs ago I set a MODELINE to my X config, and X came up much faster. ANY CONNECTION? Not really. Mode stuff tends to

SMTP servers receiving from gmail

2020-04-14 Thread Mike Pumford
I've been tracking a problem where my NetBSD SMTP server was unable to receive e-mail from google getting failures reported as: read error: FAILED_PRECONDITION: read error (0): error Tracking it through with tcpdump showed that the google servers were making the connection, doing the STARTTLS

Re: SMTP servers receiving from gmail

2020-04-15 Thread Mike Pumford
On 15/04/2020 21:55, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 14 Apr 2020 at 18:44:54 +0100, Mike Pumford wrote: I have the reverse problem, more or less. When sending mail to a google server, it doesn't want to receive it. At least, when I'm using IPv6. In the past, it helped to force it to use IP

Re: SMTP servers receiving from gmail

2020-04-16 Thread Mike Pumford
On 16/04/2020 08:14, ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote: It might help to have a PTR record for the smtp clients' outgoing address; last time I had that problem with Google it had gone lost when switching nameserver machines and the backup wasn't up-to-date. However, SPF seems to work to pacify Goo

Re: How to set font size of xterm

2020-04-16 Thread Mike Pumford
On 16/04/2020 06:20, Fekete Zoltán wrote: The first approach I recommend is to start program xfontsel. There select a font you like, and copy its description. Then try it out like this: $ xterm -font *-fixed-*-*-*-18-* xterm also works with the true type fonts provided both in the core X d

Re: Patch to update Exim to 4.93.0.4

2020-04-16 Thread Mike Pumford
On 16/04/2020 12:32, Thomas Klausner wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:17:02PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote: Looks like I need to pull more fixes from the 4.93+fixes branch upstream. How do I ensure that the patches get applied in a particular order as from the research I've done

Re: SMTP servers receiving from gmail

2020-04-17 Thread Mike Pumford
On 17/04/2020 19:44, ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:52:37AM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: I doubt they demand either. You many not care about delivery to sites that do care but I've certainly had e-mail bounced or classified as spam due to the lack of a PTR reco

Massive interrupt storm when DPMS active

2015-09-19 Thread Mike Pumford
Running NetBSD-7.0-RC3 from a few days ago I've noticed that I get an interrupt storm but only when running X and DPMS has powered off the screen. When the screen is blank the interupt rate on pin16 is around 36000 per seconds as shown on this systat vmstat snapshot: 36374 ioapic0 pin 16 Wh

Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-10-30 Thread Mike Pumford
Greg Troxel wrote: Carl Brewer writes: I'm planning to bump two amd64 virtual servers from 5.2 to 6.1.5 or 7 tonight. In the past, I've over-written the kernel with the new version, rebooted, then untar'ed the OS tarballs, over-writing everything, then run postinstall to tidy up /etc, and it

Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-10-31 Thread Mike Pumford
Ottavio Caruso wrote: But ... why? Because 6.x isn't going to be supported forever and since my experience with the 7.x BETA was good I didn't see any reason to delay the upgrade on any machine where it worked. I still have one internet connected 6.x system (my firewall) but that to will go

Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-11-01 Thread Mike Pumford
Carl Brewer wrote: I ran the update last night, initially 5.2 -> 6.1.5, it mostly worked but when I rebooted after etcupdate'ing (which, has a _lot_ of "um? I dunno?" questions!) it wouldn't mount / r/w, kept complaining that /etc/rc.d/swap1 was finding /dev/wd0b busy. I could remount / and then

Re: How to allow root telnet to a NetBSD 6.1.5 box

2015-11-09 Thread Mike Pumford
Andy Ruhl wrote: A guy I worked with a while back insisted on using it because Windows doesn't have a built in SSH client. Even after someone sniffed his password and showed him. Unbelievable. Wow is he living in the past. Windows doesn't have a telnet client either in recent versions and quit

Re: How to allow root telnet to a NetBSD 6.1.5 box

2015-11-09 Thread Mike Pumford
Davis, Michael T. wrote: Actually, a telnet client is available in newer versions of Windows as a feature that can be enabled via the "Programs and Features" control panel. It is not enabled, by default. But I prefer PuTTY, as well. Well I've learnt something today :). Didn't realise that tel

Re: Massive interrupt storm when DPMS active

2015-12-28 Thread Mike Pumford
BERTRAND Joël wrote: Mike Pumford a écrit : Hello, Same observation here with a i7/4770 and a custom kernel built from CVS tree (netbsd_7). Do you have found any fix ? Actually its fixed for me in the netbsd_7 build I did on 21/11/2015 with sources checked out from that day. I

Re: Massive interrupt storm when DPMS active

2015-12-29 Thread Mike Pumford
BERTRAND Joël wrote: OK. I suppose this issue is related to Xorg and not to kernel itself as I have rebuilt a up-to-date netbsd_7 kernel yesterday. Do you have upgraded your Xorg installation ? > I did upgrade the userland to the same level as well but given the nature of the problem I so

Re: Massive interrupt storm when DPMS active

2015-12-30 Thread Mike Pumford
BERTRAND Joël wrote: Last question. Do you have filled a PR ? I haven't found any bug report, but maybe I haven't search with a good query ;-) No I didn't Life got busy after I encountered the problem and I never got round to doing it. More than happy for you to do it though. I will kee

Problem trying to use NPF

2016-02-28 Thread Mike Pumford
I'm doing some experimination with NPF in a VM to see if I can replace ipf on my external firewall but I'm running into a very simple problem. I can't get the rules to load at start of day. This looks to me like kern/49119 but on a NetBSD 7.0-STABLE system built from sources fetched yesterday.

Re: www/midori is handy when several other browsers fail to work with some sites

2016-03-13 Thread Mike Pumford
I've encountered https://finance.yahoo.com Well this one is wierdly broken. Firefox on Windows (44.0.2) works fine. Firefox on NetBSD 7 also 44.0.2 gets the mobile site. So this isn't so much a firefox issue as a firefox NetBSD issue that's very specific to this site. Have you made any atte

Re: What is the "[system]" process representing ?

2016-10-03 Thread Mike Pumford
On 03/10/2016 19:35, Swift Griggs wrote: Folks, I recently installed NetBSD on a Lenovo M83 Tiny machine and from time to time, I notice the "[system]" (appears to be a kernel thread?) getting up to 80% of the CPU while the box is doing nothing. No processes are active and a reboot clears t

Re: how to build 32-bit pkgsrc on amd64

2016-11-28 Thread Mike Pumford
On 28/11/2016 11:34, Ryo ONODERA wrote: Hi, If you can use chroot, pkgsrc/pkgtools/libkver and i386 sets will create i386 environment in chroot. For Example, # kver -p i386 -r 7.0 chroot /usr/chroot/netbsd-7/root-i386 /bin/sh on NetBSD/amd64-current will provide you NetBSD/i386 7.0 environment

Re: Talk to mouse || ID a mouse

2023-07-15 Thread Mike Pumford
On 15/07/2023 09:30, Todd Gruhn wrote: UH KAY. Found this: port 7 addr 9: full speed, power 98 mA, config 1, USB Receiver(0xc52b), Logitech(0x046d), rev 12.11(0x1211) port 8 powered port 9 powered port 10 powered port 11 addr 10: full speed, power 98 mA, config 1,

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-27 Thread Mike Pumford
On 27/07/2023 13:47, Michael van Elst wrote: Swapping out userland pages is done much earlier, so with high ZFS utilization you end with a system that has a huge part of real memory allocated to the kernel. When you run out of swap (and processes already get killed), then you see some effects

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-17 Thread Mike Pumford
On 14/11/2023 21:22, Brett Lymn wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 08:13:22AM +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: Just a note that i915drmkms won't apply workarounds to any generation below gen 8, it will probe and attach early versions but it is a bit hit and miss whether it will work or not due

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-18 Thread Mike Pumford
On 17/11/2023 21:57, Brett Lymn wrote: Very interested in the results of this. I haven't had decent X since I updated. Vesa works but the resolution is pathetic and suspend/resume does not work. Well my first attempt failed but reading the code a bit more I've just found a whole pile of e

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-18 Thread Mike Pumford
On 18/11/2023 11:34, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 11:14:12AM +, Mike Pumford wrote: On 17/11/2023 21:57, Brett Lymn wrote: Very interested in the results of this. I haven't had decent X since I updated. Vesa works but the resolution is pathetic and su

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-22 Thread Mike Pumford
On 18/11/2023 11:34, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 11:14:12AM +, Mike Pumford wrote: Yes, there has been a major refactoring in the Linux code regarding headers for example. The whole Linux drm-kms is a (fast) moving target... I found a better source for patch

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/11/2023 08:51, Martin Husemann wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 09:47:21AM +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: Smart move and great initiative! Please do send patches to tech-k...@netbsd.org in order for the developers working with drmkms to see them and, hopefully, apply them to the cvs sourc

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/11/2023 06:15, Brett Lymn wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:34:22PM +, Mike Pumford wrote: Yes! This makes X work for me too. I had gone down the rabbit hole of trying to get the drmkms to apply the workarounds for gen 8 to my gen 7 GPU in the hope that it would work - it did once

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-23 Thread Mike Pumford
On 23/11/2023 17:52, Rhialto wrote: I will check https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/blob/master/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c whco does show some differences in the GEN4_FEATURES macro. The first thing I checked was however some completely new field, so that would probably be irrelevant. Stil

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-25 Thread Mike Pumford
On 24/11/2023 16:28, Patrick Welche wrote: I notice that my artifacts (8th gen) disappear really quickly / hardly exist if the system is under load. Otherwise, they also self clear after about a second. Someone (tnn? rvp?) mentioned the possibility of cache lines not being flushed in this cont

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-26 Thread Mike Pumford
On 25/11/2023 21:39, Brett Lymn wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:44:10PM +, Mike Pumford wrote: I will clear out my debug statements and post a diff. They are pretty hacky but we can clean it up if they work for you. My research at the moment is there is no real work around list

pthread_sigmask unexpected error return

2023-11-29 Thread Mike Pumford
I'm getting some odd aborts of node when starting processes with spawn. Debugging the resultant core the abort is coming from the following section of code in libuv (1.47) Line 817: /* Start the child with most signals blocked, to avoid any issues before we * can reset them, but allow p

Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

2023-12-06 Thread Mike Pumford
On 05/12/2023 19:50, g...@duzan.org wrote: " What does print this ?" Funny -- I had a screen widget floating across the screen. The error " Recommended Mode 1920x1081 " was inside of this. Perhaps that is your monitor saying that it doesn't like the resolution of the signal it is getti

Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

2023-12-07 Thread Mike Pumford
On 07/12/2023 16:58, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: HMM , I solved prob? ... tlarnde mentioned change -- chmod 640 card0 . So I did this. It looks like many errors in /var/log/messages went away. It is the reverse. For me, t

Re: X11: db of working/not working

2023-12-07 Thread Mike Pumford
On 07/12/2023 10:15, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: [If the intention was not clear: this is just my data, and others could perhaps add their data too, for users---searching what works---and developers. "i915" or "radeon" doesn't mean a lot: there is a huge variety of variants masquerading behing

Re: RC4 still gives me trouble with i915

2024-02-08 Thread Mike Pumford
On 08/02/2024 16:08, Jörn Clausen wrote: Hello! For the last RCs, I've tested the live image for amd64 on my desktop machine, that has been running 9.x with X for years now. Whenever I start X11, either via "startx" or "/etc/rc.d/xdm onestart", the display gets unusable. I see fragments of

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