Re: softraid(4)/bioctl(8) vs. non-512-byte sectors disks

2015-10-08 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 8 October 2015 at 07:13, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > mcmer-open...@tor.at (Marcus MERIGHI), 2015.10.08 (Thu) 12:26 (CEST): >> kwesterb...@gmail.com (Kenneth Westerback), 2014.03.19 (Wed) 17:09 (CET): >> > Alas, softraid only supports 512 byte block devices at the moment. >&

OpenBSD Foundation GSOC 2015

2015-03-04 Thread Kenneth Westerback
The OpenBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. As such if you are a student who qualifies to apply for GSOC, you will be able to find us in Google's Summer of Code Application process.For details on the applicatio

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-06-28 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 28 June 2014 13:55, frank ernest wrote: > Hello, I'm ballsystemlord from the Opensuse forums and I've been reading > a lot about how systemd is unportable, even for use with some linux > programs and the systemd devs are not concerned about it. I, as a single > person, can't possibly hope to ma

Re: PXE auto_install

2014-06-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 June 2014 11:10, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > The new OpenBSD auto_install with PXE works like a charm and just have 2 > questions regarding the install.conf file I did not manage to find out yet: > > 1) how can I install the bsd.mp instead of the standard bsd image? bsd.mp should be copied an

Re: dhclient question

2014-06-23 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 23 June 2014 06:24, Avi Cohen wrote: > Hello > In my application (it is a router in the access) I'm initially running > dhclient daemon without any interface specified for dhcp. > Then - on user request - we add interfaces to dhclient.conf on run-time > > I have 3 questions - that I'll

Re: signing release files

2014-06-17 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 17 June 2014 07:37, Nick Holland wrote: > On 06/17/14 02:40, Jiri B wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:47:03PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >>> [diff to easily allow different keys] >>> >>> I think focus has been lost. >>> >>> What's the point of signing releases? To say "This came from the >>

Re: Wrong Shutdown

2014-05-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On May 26, 2014 9:53 AM, "Walter Souza" wrote: > > Why OpenBSD has no interest in using journal file system? > OpenBSD has great interest in using journal filesystem. Nobody has sent us the diffs that would add one. Ken > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > I h

Re: Snapshot and packages

2014-05-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 May 2014 09:59, Stan Gammons wrote: > > On 05/24/2014 08:51 AM, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> >> On 24 May 2014 09:31, Stan Gammons wrote: >>> >>> I thought I understood the different flavors of OpenBSD but apparently >>> not since I keep getting

Re: Snapshot and packages

2014-05-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 May 2014 09:31, Stan Gammons wrote: > I thought I understood the different flavors of OpenBSD but apparently not > since I keep getting version errors when I try to add packages to sparc64 > snapshots. The packages I'm trying are from the /snapshot/packages/sparc64 > folder on the same mi

Re: Get rid of /bsd: arp info overwritten for ?

2014-05-21 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 21 May 2014 07:20, bodie wrote: > On 21.05.2014 12:50, bodie wrote: >> >> On 21.05.2014 11:18, bodie wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> testing http://marc.info/?t=14002453903&r=1&w=2 further and now I >>> hit issue with corporate WIFI. I can connect perfectly fine to 2 of >>> them provided with WP

Re: smtpd stops immediately after starting in -current

2014-05-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 May 2014 15:19, Norman Golisz wrote: > Hi Gilles, > > On Sun May 18 2014 13:45, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> can you share your configuration file ? >> >> i'm unable to reproduce no matter what i try :-/ > > I'm also able to reproduce this crash: > > $ echo test | mail norman && sudo smtpd -dv >

Re: smtpd stops immediately after starting in -current

2014-05-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 May 2014 07:52, Gilles Chehade wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:37:26AM -0400, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> On 18 May 2014 05:37, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:40:13PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 17, 2014, a

Re: smtpd stops immediately after starting in -current

2014-05-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 May 2014 05:37, Gilles Chehade wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:40:13PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: >> On Sat, May 17, 2014, at 05:30 PM, Allan Streib wrote: >> >> > Just upgraded to -current from my local mirror. Was previously working >> > with a recent-ish -current (late April or early

Re: firefox-26.0p1.tgz signature verification FAIL

2014-05-14 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 14 May 2014 11:26, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014/05/14 11:21, Ted Unangst wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:44, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> >>> $ \time -l signify -C -p /etc/signify/openbsd-55-pkg.pub -x SHA256.sig >> > moo-1.3p1.tgz >> >>> Signature Verified >> >>> moo-1.3p1.tgz: FAIL >>

Re: Unable to set the server to download the sets with autoinstall

2014-05-08 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 8 May 2014 05:33, Xavier Claude wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use autoinstall with OpenBSD 5.5 but the Server line in > the configuration file is not read set according to the install.conf > and instead is used for the ntp server. > > Here is my install.conf file: > System hostname = testbs

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-04 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 4 May 2014 14:47, Andreas Bartelt wrote: > On 05/03/14 20:22, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> >> On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt wrote: >>> >>> On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 3 May 20

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt wrote: > On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> >> On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote: >>> >>> On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 3 May 20

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote: > On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> >> On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: >>>> >>>> So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change) >>>>

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: >> So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change) >> causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does this when you >> 'Label' it. The OpenBSD installer does it for you when you >> select 'Whole disk'. Nothing obviously to do with

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-01 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 1 May 2014 14:59, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: >> Can you provide a hex dump of the MBR Linux produces? The evidence would >> seem to point at the boot code stored in the MBR. To which I made a >> recent minor tweak. So you might also try a 5.4 install to see if it >> works. > > Below are the hexdu

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-04-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 Apr 2014 03:28, "Martijn Rijkeboer" wrote: > > Hello, > > I've got a weird disklabel related problem (or so it seems). When I > partition my harddisk with fdisk and add an OpenBSD (A6) primary > partition the system can still boot, but once I place a disklabel > on the partition (disklabel -

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-04-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 Apr 2014 15:57, "Kenneth Westerback" wrote: > > > On 30 Apr 2014 15:39, "Martijn Rijkeboer" wrote: > > > > > Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel > > > plus fdisk and disklabel output after se

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-04-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 Apr 2014 15:39, "Martijn Rijkeboer" wrote: > > > Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel > > plus fdisk and disklabel output after setting the label but before the > > (failing) reboot. > > Below you will find the dmesg and output from fdisk and disklabel before

Re: A misconfigured disklabel can crash the kernel on listing its mounted directory contents (5.4)

2014-04-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
I'm pretty sure that Linux does not manufacture disklabels that are compatible with OpenBSD. And visa versa! And if you're creating/mounting filesystems you are *not* an unprivileged user and you *definitely* can crash systems if you're not careful. :-) That said, if you can provide details on the

Re: How to apply a patch in OpenBSD?

2014-04-16 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 16 April 2014 19:20, Liviu Daia wrote: > On 15 April 2014, ohh, whyyy wrote: >> Hey, Thanks! yes, it looks like the sys.tar.gz was missing.. I created a >> small howto for it (for patching 5.4): >> cd /root && ftp http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/src.tar.gz && > [...] > > Nit

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2014 Fundraising Campaign.

2014-04-11 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 11 April 2014 11:15, Jan Stary wrote: > On Apr 11 11:46:12, openbsd.as.a.desk...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> - >> 1) >> If I search for "openbsdfoundation" on: >> >> - Facebook >> - Twitter >> - Youtube >> - Instagram >> - Flickr >> - Slideshare >> - etc.. >> >

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 9 April 2014 12:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: > Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, > LPAR) in the future? > > I've recently been working with this hardware and it's pretty amazing. > I can't speak to its future market share but there seems to be a lot > of propaganda

Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

2014-04-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 April 2014 22:04, Martin Braun wrote: > As we all know on the front page of OpenBSD it says "Only two remote holes > in the default install, in a heck of a long time". > > I don't understand why this is "such a big deal". > > A part from the base system in xBSD, OpenBSD - so far - also contai

Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets

2014-03-27 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 27 March 2014 11:30, Boris Goldberg wrote: > Hello misc, > > Thursday, March 27, 2014, 9:14:00 AM, Jiri wrote: > > JB> Could you please elaborate why not sftp for sets (and/or > JB> for pkg_add)? > > I'll rephrase: can someone besides Theo elaborate? It was an obvious > mistake to reply to hi

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
http://www.openbsd.org/report.html On 26 March 2014 16:59, Charlie Farinella wrote: > I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years > old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The > installation goes normally until it tries to find the ha

Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets

2014-03-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 26 March 2014 13:46, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:41, Marc Espie wrote: >> One other reason is that our ftp *client* is a pile of crud. >> >> Almost anyone who approaches it runs away screaming (or becomes berserk, >> grabs an axe, and starts cutting madly at the rest of the

Re: Suspend and Hibernate Issues with 3/5 Snapshot and ThinkPad T42p

2014-03-20 Thread Kenneth Westerback
5.2 to 5.5 is a big jump. Can you try 5.3 and/or 5.4 to narrow down when the problem began? Bisecting the tree would be the next step. :-) Ken On 20 March 2014 20:34, Daniel Melameth wrote: > With OpenBSD 5.2, I had no issue doing suspend and hibernate: when I > closed the lid, it suspende

Re: Unbound in base, yes, what about ldns?

2014-03-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 19 March 2014 18:09, Chris Smith wrote: > Great to see Unbound in base, thanks. > > But what about ldns? I still have that installed as a package - > removed the unbound package as per the -current instructions, but > shouldn't the ldns package package be removed as well as I believe > unbound

Re: softraid(4)/bioctl(8) vs. non-512-byte sectors disks

2014-03-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Alas, softraid only supports 512 byte block devices at the moment. Ken On Mar 19, 2014 11:36 AM, "Marcus MERIGHI" wrote: > Reference: > ``Softraid 3TB Problems'' > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136225193931620 > > Difference: > My HDDs show up as 4096 bytes/sector in dmesg. > > Short:

Re: Linux partition appears as ext2 partition in disklabel

2014-03-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 March 2014 13:59, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Kenneth Westerback said: >> delete the partition 'i'. You don't need it, as it will be >> automatically created when necessary. Something would have been added. Again, the output of 'disklabel -d sd0'

Re: Linux partition appears as ext2 partition in disklabel

2014-03-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 March 2014 13:23, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Ted Unangst said: >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 18:49, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > I have a strange problem. Recently I added following to my /etc/fstab: >> > >> > /dev/sd0i /mnt/arch ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 >> > >>

Re: Linux partition appears as ext2 partition in disklabel

2014-03-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 March 2014 12:49, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Hello! > > I have a strange problem. Recently I added following to my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sd0i /mnt/arch ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 > > I can't mount this partition using "mount -a": > > $ sudo mount -a > mount: /dev/sd0i: fstab typ

Re: sysmerge trouble

2014-02-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 February 2014 07:56, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > On 2014-02-24 "Shawn K. Quinn" wrote: > Date: 2014-02-24 10:49:03 > >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014, at 03:45 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: >> > Took a while to submit this, but for the past ~ six weeks of >> > snapshots sysmerge fails thus: >> > >

Re: DVD ISO and mount_udf: FSD does not lie within the partition!

2014-02-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 February 2014 02:57, Philippe Meunier wrote: > Hello, > > I have problems mounting Windows 7 DVD ISO images on OpenBSD 5.4 > stable. For example, you can download X17-59463.iso from > http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/ > > # ls -l X17-59463.iso > -r

Re: Xorg: Segmentation fault at address 0x28 w/ Intel HD Graphics 4600

2014-02-10 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 10 February 2014 13:11, RD Thrush wrote: > With a somewhat recent i7 desktop, using startx, X seems to run ok; however, > at 1024x768 rather than the expected 1920x1200 resolution. ctl-alt-keypad+ or > - have no effect on resolution. ctl-alt-backspace correctly reverts to text > mode. I t

Re: new to OpenBSD and have a few questions

2014-02-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 9 February 2014 16:58, d...@genunix.com wrote: > warning: really long post with some questions and thinking. > > Hello dear OpenBSD types. > > I have been using UNIX in various forms and flavours for a long time now > and could even go so far as to say a "very" long time. Therefore it just > se

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

2014-02-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
rc.conf(8) says "create and edit a rc.conf.local". Not copy rc.conf. I'm not sure what the FAQ says but I'd think it would be similar advice. Ken On 9 February 2014 13:28, VaZub wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a small nuisance I've stumbled upon during my first > experiments with OpenBSD. > >

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 12:40, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > L. V. Lammert [l...@omnitec.net] wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, davy wrote: >> >> > Can I do a 4.1 -> 5.4 in one shot? >> > >> Nope. One version at a time, .. though the better solution would be to do >> a fresh install and copy data. >> > > What I

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 12:40, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > L. V. Lammert [l...@omnitec.net] wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, davy wrote: >> >> > Can I do a 4.1 -> 5.4 in one shot? >> > >> Nope. One version at a time, .. though the better solution would be to do >> a fresh install and copy data. >> > > What I

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 12:31, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Kenneth Westerback wrote: > >> Well, that would imply waiting for May 1 or whenever the physical CD's >> are available. >> > 5.4 is available now, .. > >> Starting now with a -current

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 11:44, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Kenneth Westerback wrote: > >> Shudder. NO! :-) >> >> Aside from the very valid hardware concerns Nick mentioned, there are >> too many flag days of various kinds strewn along that path. Skip t

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Shudder. NO! :-) Aside from the very valid hardware concerns Nick mentioned, there are too many flag days of various kinds strewn along that path. Skip them all, start fresh with a -current snapshot. Ken On 6 February 2014 05:49, davy wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently was asked to take over t

Re: dhclient

2014-02-05 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 5 February 2014 06:35, Holger Glaess wrote: > Am 03.02.2014 17:54, schrieb Kenneth Westerback: > >> Reactivating the dhclient-script is not going to happen. >> >> I am interested in what you would see syntax in dhclient.conf looking >> like. >> >> Wou

Re: Is [binary] package signing planned?

2014-02-04 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 4 February 2014 11:25, Marc Espie wrote: > 2014-02-04 Kim Twain : >> Does pkg_add automatically check these signatures, or, as of now, I'd need >> to manually download the packages, verify them with signify and then install >> them locally with pkg_add? > > In -current, if you don't use any fla

Re: dhclient

2014-02-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Reactivating the dhclient-script is not going to happen. I am interested in what you would see syntax in dhclient.conf looking like. Would multi-path routing modifications to all routes be needed? How should this be combined with supersede/default/append commands for the relevant options? Would i

Re: The "unknown" in i386-unknown-openbsd5.4

2014-02-02 Thread Kenneth Westerback
i386-donatetoopenbsdfoundationtoday-openbsd5.4? . Ken On 2 February 2014 12:10, Adam Jensen wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:17:08 + (UTC) > na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote: > >> At least it's consistent. FreeBSD's collection of >> -undermydesk- (gcc) >> -marcel- (gd

Re: newfs_msdos(8) creates faulty filesystems

2013-10-20 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Neither field is required. 'Free Space' in fsinfo can be -1 or just wrong, and 'Next Free Cluster' is a hint only. Hence in either case you can fix them up, or ignore their incorrectness and the filesystem is still considered ok. And since they are not required I guess newfs never bothered to fil

Re: OpenZFS announcement

2013-09-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/About_OpenZFS Under 'Other' at the bottom: "ZFS source code is copyright various contributors, and available under the CDDL open-source license." The second paragraph is amusing: "OpenZFS is not associated with openzfs.org. Don't forget the dash in our URS: open-zfs.org

Re: Root file system is growing strangely

2009-12-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:50 AM, ropers wrote: > 2009/12/18 Daniel Zhelev : >> after log in I sow that the root file system >> is over 100%. > > *Over* 100%? How is that even possible? > > Because this is Unix? Not a sarcastic reply, pointing out that this is a well known feature of ffs. Although

Re: New Western Digital disks will have 4KB block size - issue?

2009-12-16 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Aaron Mason wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Kenneth Westerback > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: >>> yes >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:30:46AM +0100, Robert wrote: &g

Re: New Western Digital disks will have 4KB block size - issue?

2009-12-16 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > yes > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:30:46AM +0100, Robert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just read [1,2] that Western Digital (and probably others) will start >> to sell disks with an internal block size of 4KB instead of 512 byte. >> >> The article