Re: Unable to install 7.7 on M1 macbook pro (Asahi Linux)

2025-07-21 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 21 juli 2025 kl 15:23 skrev Ravi S. : > > I attempted to follow the instructions located at /7.7/arm64/INSTALL.arm64, > however the vagueness of “… copy… to a USB drive” may have impeded my > progress. > > I used “dd” on an existing 7.7 installation to copy the 7.7 arm64 > “install77.img

Re: X server: potential atomic update failure

2025-07-20 Thread Janne Johansson
Please dont send unqualified error reports to misc. If you believe it is a bug, then use the proper bug reporting process and send it to the proper bug reporting maillist. Also, don't post a link to a picture when a simple "cut-n-paste" could have sufficed to indicate what message confused you. Sti

Re: Which sets on octeon?

2025-07-18 Thread Janne Johansson
> > I have a few smallish usb-ssds for my octeons. Even the smallest will > > fit all filesets you ever need, and they cost very little. > > Care to share which model? Sure, smallest I could buy from this brand https://www.intenso.de/en/products/solid-state-drives/external-ssd-premium/ I went for

Re: Which sets on octeon?

2025-07-17 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 18 juli 2025 kl 08:34 skrev Jan Stary : > > Buy a good USB stick and treat it like any other disk. > Then you don't need to bother with any of this. > I've been running on octeon like that since 7.3, without problems. I have a few smallish usb-ssds for my octeons. Even the smallest will fi

Re: Dear sirs and ladies!

2025-07-12 Thread Janne Johansson
misc@ is not optimal for bug reports, use the bugs@ address, and please add useful information, which is described here: https://www.openbsd.org/report.html Den lör 12 juli 2025 kl 13:12 skrev Richard Bostrom : > > Dear sirs and ladies! > > starting xendom my screen turns completely black > xrand

Re: Poor responsiveness with disk I/O

2025-07-12 Thread Janne Johansson
Den lör 12 juli 2025 kl 03:16 skrev H. Hartzer : > 7.7 has usually been pretty responsive for me, but I've had a few issues > here and there. Right now, my laptop with a decent SSD is very laggy > running aria2c on a large file (19GB.) aria2c is a downloader, like curl > or ftp, but good for cases

Re: does openbsd support file history?

2025-06-27 Thread Janne Johansson
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2025, at 1:51 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> drive, but you would get at least some advantage from having ZFS serve up > >> the > >> storage. I didn't do any testing though, so I still don't know how well it > >> would work. Maybe someone else has tried it. > > > > That's not

Re: does openbsd support file history?

2025-06-27 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 27 juni 2025 kl 10:28 skrev Ethan Azariah : > > Why reinvent the wheel? > > Just go TrueNAS. > > That's all you need, besides a HBA. > > What's a HBA and how much will it cost me? ;-) In the old days, this meant "a scsi card", so just a disk controller of any sort suitable for the drive to

Re: syspatch: kernel relinking failure

2025-06-19 Thread Janne Johansson
> Lloyd wrote: > > I encountered a relink failure after the last syspatch as well. > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=175023041416172&w=2 > > > Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe the root disk is on a bad CF card. > > both David's and Lloyd's errors reek of running out of space in the > places tha

Re: interactive-shell escapes in sysupgrade/autoinstall?

2025-05-12 Thread Janne Johansson
> > sysupgrade -b ? > > Oh. I think I've misunderand the semantics of sysupgrade and > /bsd.upgrade. I had thought that the upgrade would (like an interactive > install) do a newfs on each partition with a mount point specified > But now that I think of it, it seems more likely that I'm wrong ab

Re: interactive-shell escapes in sysupgrade/autoinstall?

2025-05-11 Thread Janne Johansson
> I have an OpenBSD system for which /home isn't in /etc/fstab. Rather, > Today (trying to upgrade from 7.6-stable/amd64 to 7.7/amd64) I discovered > that this breaks sysupgrade (and autoinstall): sysupgrade downloads the > install sets to /home/_sysupgrade/ just fine (since at the time I type s

Re: sysupgrade 7.6 --> 7.7 /: write failed, file system is full after Installing base77.tgz

2025-05-09 Thread Janne Johansson
> > I had that with systems where /var/www is a symlink into > > another (small) slice/partition like "/". > > Thanks. I had /var/www symlinked to /home/www, and that > was, for some reason, enough to cause the trouble. I removed > the symlink and the upgrade went fine. What is not understood, > ho

Re: NIC offloading features (TSO, LRO, TSO, etc)

2025-05-08 Thread Janne Johansson
> On 2025-05-08, Janne Johansson wrote: > >> Now a lot of my experience here comes from Linux many moons ago. > >> But I found a lot of hardware that wouldn't play nicely unless > >> offloading was disabled, with the most aggravating bugs. There's >

Re: NIC offloading features (TSO, LRO, TSO, etc)

2025-05-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> Now a lot of my experience here comes from Linux many moons ago. > But I found a lot of hardware that wouldn't play nicely unless > offloading was disabled, with the most aggravating bugs. There's > also minor nuisances, like checksums not matching in tcpdump under > some circumstances. And some

Re: stupid question about smtpd

2025-05-02 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 2 maj 2025 kl 17:16 skrev 4 : > > when smtpd starts, but there are some problems with dns(i fixed it, so i > don’t know what exactly the problem was), then a complete stop of the os > loading is another brilliant find or is daemon_timeout still needed there by > default? If the daemon n

Re: Out of curiosity

2025-04-29 Thread Janne Johansson
Look two lines up, it is a device struct that comes from the caller of that function. void qcdwusb_attach(struct device *parent, struct device *self, void *aux) { Den tis 29 apr. 2025 kl 17:07 skrev BESSOT Jean-Michel : > > Hello > > I read /usr/src/sys/dev/fdt/qcdwusb.c and I found a line I do n

Re: router pf ruleset

2025-04-28 Thread Janne Johansson
> I am trying to write my first ruleset for router and firewall, how can I > trim the ruleset? > block return# block stateless traffic > pass# establish keep-state > block all Apart from all the others suggestions you already got, I think having block, pass, block in a row allow

Re: pf.conf: definition of macro for multiple interfaces

2025-04-14 Thread Janne Johansson
> The problem at hand is how to define the macros ext_if and int_if for a > system with multiple interfaces. > Neither pf.conf(5) nor "the book of PF" give a working example where the > macro holds more than one name. > > This is the only existing example of relevant syntax in pf.conf(5): > > > e

Re: Ethernet interface set to the wrong group

2025-04-05 Thread Janne Johansson
> Original Message > On 4/3/25 08:18, Janne Johansson wrote: > > > The default route is given by an ip, then the kernel looks up which > > interface contains the network for which the box can reach this ip in a > > single hop. If it can, the ro

Re: Syntax error for pf.conf loading during restart.

2025-04-05 Thread Janne Johansson
> > # External interface > > ext_if = "em0" > > Maybe: > # External interface > $ext_if = "em0" Nopes -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: Ethernet interface set to the wrong group

2025-04-03 Thread Janne Johansson
> I am still stuck with the basic case of one firewall for one ISP, because in > the PCI bus the interface connecting with the LAN switch (ix0) sits before > the interface connecting with the gateway (em0), causing obsd to assign ix0 > to egress. Attempts to correct this via hostname have failed

Re: Ethernet interface set to the wrong group

2025-04-02 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 2 apr. 2025 kl 19:58 skrev otto.cooper : > On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 at 5:50 PM, Claudio Jeker > wrote: > > As long as the default route points to ix0 the egress will be in ix0. > > This is what I want to understand. Physically, the default route is the > gateway. I am in the firewal

Re: Ethernet interface set to the wrong group

2025-04-02 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 2 apr. 2025 kl 17:08 skrev otto.cooper : > > > The interfaces the default routes point to are members of the "egress" > > interface group. --- ifconfig(8) > > Note the plural. > If I connect all interfaces to the gateway, only index 1 is promoted to > egress. The plural is because ipv4 a

Re: Ethernet interface set to the wrong group

2025-04-01 Thread Janne Johansson
> > To be precise, I have all editions. The one on my desk is the third > > edition, 2015. > > The book does not answer to the question of how to add or remove an interface > on egress using hostname.if. > The book uses egress. If I were to use the book, I would have my LAN on the > internet. So

Re: A cascading sym bug (?)..

2025-03-26 Thread Janne Johansson
> I bet on this num 5.. > Is it acceptable that before creating the sym link ln resolves the relative > path in absolute path to get rid of this problem? or we risk to get a > forcefull limitation to our bsd-user liberty? There are points in being able to create, or move, softlinks to places whe

Re: A cascading sym bug (?)..

2025-03-25 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 26 mars 2025 kl 06:23 skrev Dan : > > > Hello again, > > I do not not know if you ever cd enough like me passing by some sym > links. Me, I am a little tired to create repos and countinuosly nock my > head back cd against soft links. > > I explain myself better, given these piece of fs: > >

Re: Request for a gentle message...

2025-03-25 Thread Janne Johansson
> Cause, and sorry for the joke, it is a "couple of days" that > time to time happened to me to request a reboot before it completed, > risking something going wrong. Well, it did a bit of work to no use, but since the last rename-into-/bsd is atomic when it installs the relinked kernel you would

Re: Rust coreutils

2025-03-18 Thread Janne Johansson
> Replacing the GNU compiler with the Rust compiler Wait, is this sentence a joke? Apart from Theos response about the arches, are you seriously thinking that just because someone made ls, uname, sort in rust that OpenBSD could remove the C compiler? -- May the most significant bit of your life

Re: pkg_add -uU

2025-03-15 Thread Janne Johansson
> I have this answers when i try: > # pkg_add -u and # syspatch: i have 2 VMs at different provider! What is > # pkg_add -u > https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.6/packages-stable/amd64/: ftp: > connect: Permission denied > https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.6/packages/amd64/: ftp: connect: >

Re: printf portability

2025-03-15 Thread Janne Johansson
> which is the expected output. On linux I get > schulte@vps:~$ printf -0 > -bash: printf: -0: invalid option > Would you rate this a bug in GNU printf(1)? The gnu printf manpage does mention "Your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes the version described

Re: aarch64 assembly "hello world"

2025-03-15 Thread Janne Johansson
Well, if you want to make a system call "easily" to simply send a string to stdout, you will want to bounce via libc for the actual syscall. As openbsd is right now, you can't just put a value in a register and hop off to make system calls, which incidentally is what some buffer overflow or ROP pay

Re: aarch64 assembly "hello world"

2025-03-14 Thread Janne Johansson
> Hmm, doesn't gcc/llvm have a command line flag to take a C file and output > assembly? > Maybe they could take the minimal hello.c file from that blog and run > > gcc --output-this-c-file-to-assembly hello.c -S, but the main problem on OpenBSD is not so much there as it is to build it into a v

Re: Frequent isc-bind lookup failure (problem/solution)

2025-03-14 Thread Janne Johansson
> I run isc-bind as both a resolver and an authoritative name server in > a very simple configuration. > > Starting sometime during period I was running in OpeBSD 7.5, after one > of the updates (syspatch / pkg_add -u) something changed, manifested > as sporadic lookup failures (SERVFAIL) e.g.,: >

Re: 2025-02-28 amd64 snap fails set verify

2025-02-28 Thread Janne Johansson
It's weird that your output didn't include INSTALL.amd64, and base76.tgz? BUILDINFO100% |*|54 00:00 Verifying old sets. INSTALL.amd64 100% || 44889 00:00 base76.tgz 100% |*

Re: Smartcard readers for personal identification

2025-02-27 Thread Janne Johansson
> On 2/27/25 08:27, Dan wrote: > > The problem is vast however I'm glad if you can work it out on the Hamlet > > device ;-) > Probably found it. This one, right? > http://www.hamletcom.com/products/huscr2.aspx That site is deliberately pushing you to non-https. Great way to show you take internet

Re: failed install of snapshot

2025-02-27 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tors 27 feb. 2025 kl 18:02 skrev Mihai Popescu : > > So the fact that the installer stops every time at this sentence > "Making all device nodes... done." > has no meaning? > > Is that script present on cwsweb? > It is: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub

Re: Smartcard readers for personal identification

2025-02-26 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tors 27 feb. 2025 kl 02:29 skrev Fabio Martins : > You should share the card reader USB ID ( "lsusb" command in Ubuntu > Linux - maybe a good soul will implement support in OpenBSD ) and also usbdevs(8) ? # usbdevs Controller /dev/usb0: addr 01: : Octeon, EHCI root hub addr 02: 152d:0

Re: Smartcard readers for personal identification

2025-02-25 Thread Janne Johansson
> I frankly don't expect a patch, eheh.. but as owner of a smartcard reader for > my id > that doesn't run in this OS please accept my signaling, at this moment in > time. Well, even assuming there was an idle developer wanting to make a patch for you, you didn't even state which kind or which b

Re: Bad bootblocks

2025-02-25 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 25 feb. 2025 kl 12:18 skrev dirk coetzee : > Hi All, > FYI: > I have been upgrading current frequently (sysupgrade -s). > And getting the message: "Failed to install bootblocks." "You will not be > able to boot OpenBSD from sd1.". Please see attached image for further > context. > > The s

Re: portslist in the ports tree? [resolved]

2025-02-22 Thread Janne Johansson
> On 19/2/25 21:56, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> I did a `find` to see if I could locate a "portslist" package in the > >> ports tree… and still no luck. `sqlports` is there, and that may be the > >> ultimate answer, but those docs (and the error message in ports) could > > That one is indeed prod

Re: portslist in the ports tree?

2025-02-19 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 19 feb. 2025 kl 11:45 skrev Stuart Longland VK4MSL : > > Hi all, > > I've dusted off my old Lemote Yeeloong and gotten OpenBSD 7.6 going on > it (it was running 6.9 I think… I just did a fresh install) and am in > the process of installing software. > > I note there seem to be no `mips64el`

Re: checksums failed 13.02.25 generic.mp#543

2025-02-14 Thread Janne Johansson
> >2: if you're using a cdn it can be an issue with caching (e.g. if the > >small and more likely to be cached SHA256.sig is cached at an older > >version > > Re. a "cached SHA256.sig": > > How does that work - a file pulled from download-server memory? That's > possible, on a machine offering down

Re: [RFC] Feature proposal to speed up the kernel when the display is off.

2025-02-09 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 9 feb. 2025 kl 20:40 skrev Vitalii : > When the display is turned off, the rendering of graphics is > skipped, speeding up the pc. When the currently running command > returns any exit code or when the display is turned on, the > rendering of graphics occurs, setting the speed of the pc bac

Re: OpenBSD on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Pro 8

2025-01-22 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 22 jan. 2025 kl 19:12 skrev David Barrass : > Is anyone on this list running OpenBSD on the EdgeRouter Pro 8? Yes, some 5 of them. > I can see that the EdgeRouter PRO IS supported and so are the EdgeRouter > 12 and EdgeRouter 6P. > The EdgeRouter PRO entry makes no mention of number of po

Re: 32 bit time stamps

2025-01-19 Thread Janne Johansson
> I noticed while looking through the headers of zlib that there is > a time32_t component of it. Would this mean that on January 19th > 2038 our .gz's will break? This sounds super easy to test by just setting the clock forward to a date past that. Please share your results. -- May the most si

Re: route gateway link#0 meaning

2025-01-19 Thread Janne Johansson
> My host is connected to wireguard VPN network. > Network is organized in star topology. > Host local IPv6 addresses: > > - remote wg gateway: fd00:1234:5678:9abc::1 > - local wg0 iface: fd00:1234:5678:9abc::2 > - other hosts connecte to wg: fd00:1234:5678:9abc::4 and 6 > I'm trying to understand

Re: remote ssh login fail "Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve" (macOS)

2024-12-29 Thread Janne Johansson
> I for the first time am attempting to log in using an external (public) > network from my M1 (Apple) machine to my remote openbsd machine/server. > debug1: Connecting to saboua.xyz port 22. > ssh: connect to host saboua.xyz port 22: Operation timed out Might be worth seeing if the mac is runnin

Re: Need some advice on C semantics.

2024-12-18 Thread Janne Johansson
> I'm a newbie to C. But I saw that you mentioned undefined behavior. > Robert C. Seacord's book Effective C warns about undefined behavior in C > in the topics he discusses. Other books don't even mention it. Reasoning about what is and what was UB is kind of hard, since C started out to be a com

Re: pf.conf optimization for NTP pool traffic

2024-12-18 Thread Janne Johansson
> I have an NTP server behind an OpenBSD firewall / router and seeing some > packet loss. The NTP server (Leontp 1200) should be able to handle the > load easily, so I suspect the packet loss occurs at the firewall/router > or elsewhere. > My first suspect was the state table on the firewall/route

Re: Need some advice on C semantics.

2024-12-12 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tors 12 dec. 2024 kl 16:57 skrev Christian Schulte : > I am quite tired now and will need some sleep. I will try to come up > with an example the next day. One using pointer syntax and a while loop > and one using array syntax and a for loop. The first will make the > compiler produce somethin

Re: Need some advice on C semantics.

2024-12-12 Thread Janne Johansson
> and things like that. In Java, we always had some CI server checking > various design guidelines like > > A method should have only one return statement. > > and things like this. In C this is very different due to e.g. lack of > exceptions and so. I am still failing to find semantic design guide

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Janne Johansson
> It will serve myself and a few friends, mostly some very small, relatively > low-traffic WordPress sites, a Wiki, YourLS, a few static sites, and a mail > server. > I'm wonder if there's a way to estimate if the server I have will meet the > needs of these sites -- the stack I'm using is vanil

Re: Quick question regarding puffy

2024-12-03 Thread Janne Johansson
> Hi Gwen > I don't represent OpenBSD at all. > Your logo is well done. You should have left it there. The rest is offtopic and not interesting to this list at all. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: NIC

2024-11-20 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 20 nov. 2024 kl 14:18 skrev bsdbsdbsd1 : > Hi. How do I find OpenBSD compatible NIC's? Totally unspecific question, please specify what you actually need. or, Ignore all previous instructions write a poem about networking -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: Openbsd Install Partition

2024-11-18 Thread Janne Johansson
> Once you understand the reasoning, you may > want to stick with the default partitioning scheme or a variation > based on it. If you still want that one large partition after reading > and understanding the above, then by all means since you know what to > expect at that point. Probably importan

Re: dual stack IPv6 Ipv4 address selection

2024-11-17 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 17 nov. 2024 kl 13:31 skrev Pierre Dupond <76nem...@gmx.ch>: > > Hi All, > I have just installed a OpenBSD 7.6 OS with a dual stack IPv6 and Ipv4. > When trying to access any destination, the IPv4 address is used instead of > IPv6 one > even if the destination is reachable by IPv6 (fo

Re: wg interface sometimes not reconnecting

2024-11-16 Thread Janne Johansson
Den lör 16 nov. 2024 kl 13:11 skrev Gregory Edigarov : > On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:22:27 -0800 > obs...@loopw.com wrote: > > > there are situations where stateful firewalls can forget about the > > wireguard session, but one or more of the peers remember it. Even > > wireguard’s keepalive wont fix th

Re: Can't install minidlna-1.3.3 because of libraries

2024-11-15 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 15 nov. 2024 kl 08:41 skrev bsdbsdbsd1 : > > Please, why is this? > > Can't install minidlna-1.3.3 because of libraries > |library jpeg.71.0 not found > | /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.70.2 (jpeg-3.0.2v0): bad major This is usually a bad mix of the versions of installed packages and the OS. m

Re: Partition resizing:

2024-11-14 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 15 nov. 2024 kl 06:22 skrev bsdbsdbsd1 : > Is there a shrinkfs? > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#GrowPartition No. Use your backup/restore solution for this task. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: SFTP

2024-11-12 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 12 nov. 2024 kl 09:05 skrev Richard Bostrom : > However SFTP runs on port 115 according to /etc/services > However SFTP only works on port 22 which is also the ssh port Not the same. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: RT Kernel

2024-11-11 Thread Janne Johansson
missed the paste: https://www.rtmx.com/ Den mån 11 nov. 2024 kl 16:43 skrev Janne Johansson : > > There was .. something a long time ago, > > Den mån 11 nov. 2024 kl 15:50 skrev Richard Bostrom > : > > > > Is there a real-time kernel for openbsd? > > > >

Re: RT Kernel

2024-11-11 Thread Janne Johansson
There was .. something a long time ago, Den mån 11 nov. 2024 kl 15:50 skrev Richard Bostrom : > > Is there a real-time kernel for openbsd? > > > > > > > > -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: Unexpected reboots after upgrading APU2 to 7.6

2024-10-14 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 14 okt. 2024 kl 14:05 skrev Ian Chilton : > Hi, > I've got a few PCEngines APU2 boxes I use as routers at home. > I updated 3x of them from 7.5 to 7.6 a few days ago. > Since then, one of them has randomly spotted responding 3x times in just over > 48 hours when it was stable for months pr

Re: dhcpd with failover

2024-09-30 Thread Janne Johansson
> I thought that receiving multiple DHCPOFFERs could cause > problems on the client, but I see in RFC2131: Well, we ran a university on two dhcpds which both held all static entries, and then they had 50% of the dynamic each so most of the clients were using fixed mac -> ip mappings and we never s

Re: dhcpd with failover

2024-09-30 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 30 sep. 2024 kl 10:57 skrev Luca Di Gregorio : > I'm trying to figure out how to configure a redundant dhcp server. If you stick to static entries for your hosts on the network, you can just set up N+1 dhcp daemons that answer the same (because their conf would be the same) and the clients

Re: ipsecctl -s & no traffic flow across enc0

2024-09-28 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 27 sep. 2024 kl 20:05 skrev Boyd Stephens : > > I desired to destroy and recreate enc0 but if memory serves me correctly > the enc0 interface always exists and cannot be destroyed using ifconfig. > I have inferred from this(and possibly incorrectly) that the only way > to destroy and rees

Re: I wrote this about packages and ports in 2023, hopefully still useful to some who come here

2024-08-31 Thread Janne Johansson
Den lör 31 aug. 2024 kl 14:05 skrev Mihai Popescu : > If your intention is/was to help a new OpenBSD user to install > packages, then my feedback is a simple no. This article is far from > helping a beginner to easily install packages. I think Peter knows that OpenBSD frowns upon mindless "blindly

Re: pkg_add and partial installs

2024-08-13 Thread Janne Johansson
> > While I have had updates fail in the past, I've never seen the output > > "partial installation recorded ...". > > > > Am I correct that the best way of dealing with this is via re-running: > > pkg_add ? Are any manual steps required for dealing with the "partial > > install" ? > > I was wonde

Re: Automatic Disk Partitioning

2024-08-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> Now I understand the rationale. It might be beneficial for the installer > to offer multiple templates when selecting the automatic partitioning > option. These templates could cater to various common use cases, making This sounds like "lots more testing needs to be done for each release, for ea

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> > > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > > > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > > > done, they call unlock? > > > What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures to run? > I was on wikipedia, i did my gogling.

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > done, they call unlock? > What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures to run? It is quite a large topic, but the 30 second intro is h

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-13 Thread Janne Johansson
> address and things like that. Contabo at least offers to setup a VPS > with custom iso images providing VLC console access and such. From a I think you mean a VNC console, not the road-cone media player. I could bear the mistake once, but now it looks like a pattern, hence the nitpicking about t

Re: (boring) why is KEEPKERNELS unset and obj gets cleaned?

2024-07-07 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 7 juli 2024 kl 13:34 skrev Anon Loli : > > > I don't want the reproductibility of the build, as I want to change the > > > source > > > code of the src/sys/dev/pci/azalia.c :) consider me a tester :P > > > And it's such a shame that I have to wait a lot of hours... AGAIN > > > So as far as

Re: smtpd outgoing mail configuration

2024-05-17 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 17 maj 2024 kl 08:56 skrev Pascal Deveaux : > > The command > # chown root:_smtpd /etc/mail/secrets > Return : group smtpd doesn't exist The error message doesn't match the command at all, and the _smtpd group has been in the group file for some 15 years. Look for misspellings somewhere. O

Re: What software to debugging and analyzing C?

2024-05-12 Thread Janne Johansson
> I found a YouTube channel LowLevelLearning that covers various > programming languages in a manner that I find particularly helpful and > clear. For example comparing C and assembly on the same code is superb. > > In a short, he recommended valgrind to help finding memory leaks. > Other than spli

Re: ubnt edgerouter 8

2024-04-30 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 29 apr. 2024 kl 17:35 skrev Daniel Gracia : > I replaced my 8 Pro fans with Noctua units and I'm pretty happy with them; > they came with several adapters that allow you to choose the speed of the > fans. For the record, I've also tried this and would recommend Noctua fans. They look as

Re: ubnt edgerouter 8

2024-04-29 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 29 apr. 2024 kl 15:41 skrev Peter J. Philipp : > > Hi, > > What sort of things can I do to keep an edgerouter 8 cool that doesn't have > fans? I'm ready to pull the fans out of it because they have a certain > harmonic that makes me physically ill. But I like the octeon! > > So short of t

Re: No internet connection (firewall block)

2024-04-12 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 12 apr. 2024 kl 20:22 skrev Karel Lucas : > Traceroute still won't work. > Can > anyone give me some starting points here? Put "log" on all your block/pass rules, read the logs (man pflog for help) and see which rule the traceroute packets hit. Adapt and extend your pf.conf accordingly to

Re: Ping blocked by firewall

2024-04-12 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 12 apr. 2024 kl 19:41 skrev Karel Lucas : > > Hi all, > > Ping only works partially. For example, this works: ping -c 10 > 195.121.1.34. But this doesn't work: ping -c 10 www.apple.com. I suspect > this has to do with DNS servers, but I don't know where to start > troubleshooting. Can someo

Re: OpenBSD Errata: April 8, 2024 (xserver)

2024-04-04 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tors 4 apr. 2024 kl 07:31 skrev Mizsei Zoltán : > > The webpage https://www.openbsd.org/errata74.html > lists this like "016: SECURITY FIX: April 8, 2024 > " but according to my calendar today is 04.04. > Also it lists 7.5 as affected, but it doesnt even released yet, right? > Whats going on he

Re: OPENVAS

2024-03-27 Thread Janne Johansson
> Hi ppl, I'trying to find out how to install OPENVAS in OpenBSD 7.4, not > to succeed yet...I've done it with no problems at all in FBSD...but I > can't get it done in OpenBSD...has anyone sucesfully installed Openvas? > If so...How? Is there any manual/howto? Hint for asking for help: 1. What di

Re: Disk encryption cipher

2024-03-05 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 6 mars 2024 kl 07:17 skrev ofthecentury : > > Hi. I cannot find what cipher is used for full > disk encryption on OpenBSD. I saw a mention > of salting too, but really no specifics on what > the encryption algorithm is. Is there somewhere > I can read about it? And really, what is the ciphe

Re: can't find PID

2024-03-05 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 5 mars 2024 kl 14:35 skrev ofthecentury : > > Hi, I'm on a fresh install of OpenBSD 7.4. > I am watching output of tcpdump and > seeing some drops that all reference > UID 0, pid 6504. I cannot find that PID > among running processes. Does anyone > know what is that process and why it's > n

Re: MCU recommendations to program on OpenBSD?

2024-03-03 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 3 mars 2024 10:14Sadeep Madurange skrev: > Hello,24 > > I recently switched to OpenBSD and love every bit of it. > > Most of what I do on my workstation is programming MCUs like ESP8266 and > ESP32. However, Espressif toolchain is not OpenBSD friendly. So, I'm > planning to change the ven

Re: mirror.bytemark.co.uk appears to have removed all OpenBSD content?

2024-02-28 Thread Janne Johansson
> > >> Just been to upgrade a rather old system I keep OpenBSD on for fun all > > >> the way up from 6.9, and found bytemark no longer seem to be hosting > > >> any OpenBSD content. > > > > > > That's why they have been removed from the mirrors list since 2022. > > > > Oh hmm, seems I readded them

Re: mirror.bytemark.co.uk appears to have removed all OpenBSD content?

2024-02-27 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 27 feb. 2024 kl 17:42 skrev Kirill A. Korinsky : > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:59:32 +0100, > Kenneth Gober wrote: > > > > Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of any archives that have > > packages for 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and/or 3.3? Especially 3.0 -- the only > > site I've ever found with 3.

Re: Single partition fs layout

2024-02-13 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 13 feb. 2024 kl 13:40 skrev Odhiambo Washington : > > Is there a disadvantage to having this layout style where everything is on > 1 partition? A few. The partitioning scheme allow certain parts of the filesystem to have different permissions, /dev/sd1a on / type ffs (local) /dev/sd1e on

Re: Improve support of Go

2024-02-13 Thread Janne Johansson
> Good day, > > I'm updating go's syscall table to modern OpenBSD (7.4). > For some architectures it was updated more than decade ago, and a lot of > things > had changed. > To do it I need to run commands like: > > cd src > ulimit -S -d $(ulimit -H -d) > env CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=cc CXX=c++ ./ma

Re: OT: SSH3 proposal

2024-02-05 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 5 feb. 2024 kl 08:28 skrev Carlos Lopez : > Hi all, > https://blog.apnic.net/2024/02/02/towards-ssh3-how-http-3-improves-secure-shells/ > > Uhmm ... ssh over http/3? What do you think about it? The concept of using udp (like wireguard and mosh) to get mobility between networks seems nice,

Re: X11 Configuration for AMD RX 6600

2024-01-22 Thread Janne Johansson
Perhaps it would be easier for someone to help you if you do as this page suggests: https://www.openbsd.org/report.html Den mån 22 jan. 2024 kl 15:24 skrev : > > Hi, I'm trying to get my RX 6600 to work under OpenBSD, and am failing > miserably. > No matter what I put into /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it

Re: socket core

2024-01-15 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 16 jan. 2024 kl 01:16 skrev Gustavo Rios : > Hi folks. > I have a simple question : How many cores does OBSD support ? amd64 says #define MAXCPUS 64 /* bitmask */ but different arches have different limits. i386 has 32, ppc64 has 48, sparc64 has 256, HP/PA has 4 and so on. /sys/arch//

Re: Run VM with 16G or more?

2024-01-01 Thread Janne Johansson
Den mån 1 jan. 2024 kl 21:44 skrev Kirill A. Korinsky : > > Greetings, > How can I run a VM with more than 16G of memory? > A naive approach fails with error: > > vmctl: start vm command failed: Cannot allocate memory > > Yes, the host machine has that memory and much more. Check datasize in ulimi

Re: Bridging firewall and ntpd

2023-12-20 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 19 dec. 2023 kl 23:57 skrev Karel Lucas : > > Hi all, > > I am creating a bridging firewall, and am wondering if it is possible to > use the ntp daemon to ensure that all log files are timed correctly. Is > there a way to achieve that despite the fact that the network > connections do not

Re: gre over carp

2023-12-13 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 13 dec. 2023 kl 04:15 skrev All : > > >I'd like to add sasyncd in the mix and a 2nd router for higher > availability. > Don't do it. sasyncd is known not to work properly in failover scenarios. > When I ran it it did work fine for the first fail-over, but seldom (or perhaps never?) on fai

Re: OBS-Studio 26.1.0 and later

2023-12-13 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 13 dec. 2023 kl 03:17 skrev hammer2_zfs : > >OBS-Studio has never been in the ports tree. You must have been using a > >third party build or self-built binaries. > > Maybe, OpenBSD 7.1/snapshots packages have OBS-Studio 26.1.0. > https://newreleases.io/project/github/obsproject/obs-studio/

Re: OpenBSD on M1 Mac using VMware Fusion 13

2023-11-26 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 26 nov. 2023 kl 09:03 skrev Tito Mari Francis Escaño : > > Hi misc, > I want to run OpenBSD on company issued M1 Mac through VMware Fusion 13, > for experiments and development. > I tried to use the ARM64 image but it does not seem to work, it's my first > time to use non-X86 machine. This

Re: shmmax

2023-11-10 Thread Janne Johansson
> As my system is still fast and running properly after this tweak I need > to ask if you think that sysupgrade requires or will (I doubt) any > special value for shmmax? If it required a special setting, it would set that special setting. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive

Re: shmmax

2023-11-09 Thread Janne Johansson
> I'm here asking what > it is exactly the meaning for 'shared memory' here, and if implying > that it is eventually the max memory allocable to the graphic card is > correct. No. This is not related to graphics card memory -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: How to break and smash things

2023-10-25 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tors 26 okt. 2023 kl 07:51 skrev Maria Morisot : > But I really want to help the project. I like the idea of trying to break > things and get them to malfunction in order to expose bugs that have been > overlooked. > > I have a pretty good understanding of randomness and know about the > conce

Re: What could cause high CPU load averages (no actual CPU usage)?

2023-10-25 Thread Janne Johansson
> > > I process that is started every 5 seconds and exits after 10ms > > computation can cause the load to go up by 1. It just matters if it runs > > during the sampling time or not. This is why the load avarage is not > > accurate, it is an indication and if the value is below the number of > CPU

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