Snapshot install54.iso does not boot under qemu/kvm

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, the 2013-12-31 snapshot iso images don't work for me under qemu 1.7.0 / linux 3.12.6. They get this far and then reboot: loadrandom: cd0a:/etc/random.seed cannot open cd0a:/etc/random.seed loadrandom: error -1 booting cd0a:/5.4/i386/bsd.rd: 6038744+426300 [72+233616+222178]=0x699c6c entry

Re: Snapshot install54.iso does not boot under qemu/kvm

2014-01-02 Thread Darren Tucker
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Stefan Fritsch s...@sfritsch.de wrote: the 2013-12-31 snapshot iso images don't work for me under qemu 1.7.0 / linux 3.12.6. They get this far and then reboot: I had the same problem too and it was just fixed by jsing@ in sys/arch/i386/stand/libsa/random_i386.S

Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Alexey Suslikov
Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org writes: This requires an upgrade of the bootblocks and at least /etc/rc (which saves an entropy file for future use). Some bootblocks will be able to use machine-dependent features to improve the entropy even further (for instance using random

Re: Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:50, Alexey Suslikov wrote: I have a question. Having no interrupt (and such) entropy means less entropy. From other hand, there are lot of speculations about some hardware entropy sources are suspected (proven?) bad (or intentionally hijacked?). So question

some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Marc Espie
Revisiting the error messages: - pass the filenames to the low-level functions, so they can tell you what's going on. - FIX readall and writeall. The logic *is* wrong. Just because they return something != len, doesn't mean they return -1. Okay ? Index: signify.c

MacbookAir5,1 screen goes blank during install of OpenBSD 5.4-release

2014-01-02 Thread Scott Bonds
While installing OpenBSD 5.4-release or OpenBSD 5.4-current on my MacbookAir5,1 my screen goes blank after a variable period of time, usually between 1 and 60 seconds. While the screen is blank, the installer is still responsive, i.e. if I was at the shell when the screen went blank and then I

Re: some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 14:40, Marc Espie wrote: Revisiting the error messages: - pass the filenames to the low-level functions, so they can tell you what's going on. - FIX readall and writeall. The logic *is* wrong. Just because they return something != len, doesn't mean they return -1.

Re: some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:53AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 14:40, Marc Espie wrote: Revisiting the error messages: - pass the filenames to the low-level functions, so they can tell you what's going on. - FIX readall and writeall. The logic *is* wrong. Just

Re: some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 16:55, Marc Espie wrote: Oh come on, that's a bug, and really poor style. You're going to call err() when there's no meaningful value in errno ? That's really a bad example, if nothing else. ok, sure, make it errx. but next somebody is going to want to rewrite it

Re: Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org writes: This requires an upgrade of the bootblocks and at least /etc/rc (which saves an entropy file for future use). Some bootblocks will be able to use machine-dependent features to improve the entropy even further (for instance using random

Re: Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Alexander Hall
On 01/02/14 11:50, Alexey Suslikov wrote: Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org writes: This requires an upgrade of the bootblocks and at least /etc/rc (which saves an entropy file for future use). Some bootblocks will be able to use machine-dependent features to improve the entropy even