Re: 7.7 stick copy failure

On 7/9/25 18:01, Dan wrote: Just to mention, I found the time to make an other copy that went up smoothly. No idea about the problems of the first copy. Dan -- Blog: https://bsd.gaoxio.com - Repo: https://code.5mode.com Please reply to the mailing-list, leveraging technical stuff. dan

Re: Prb updating stable to 7.7

On 7/5/25 11:38 AM, dan wrote: Hello, Updating stable to 7.7 I continue to get this: https://gaox.io/l/77upd1 Any suggestion before to start from a fresh copy? ok, so your subject line is incorrect -- you upgraded to 7.7 (maybe) from something, on some platform on some hardware. But your actu

Re: does openbsd support file history?

On 6/26/25 17:33, Ethan Azariah wrote: do any openbsd filesystems support any sort of file history, whether through snapshots or as a log structured filesystem or any other way? No, but your backup system should give you the ability to recover historic versions of files. Maybe not with the gr

Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

On 5/10/25 14:45, Lloyd wrote: I've run across this a few times, where I've improperly shut down a VM (tapped the wrong button for power off vs ACPI shutdown) and ^^ well, an alarm bell just went off in my head. :) this lead to an unbootable image with the message before boot: booting hd0

Re: cvsweb

On 4/6/25 12:15, 4 wrote: as i understand that the ability to view changes between versions was not secure enough and he decided to remove it? it's a heavy blow :( i've been coming every day for many years to see if ugen has been fixed not a security issue at all. Apparently so-called AI bot

Re: Left with an unusable motherboard after running fw_update and then installing intel-drm

On 4/2/25 16:11, Quincy Lawd wrote: Greetings, I have a fairly old motherboard, ^^ <- there's first clue. ... Now only today, I had a mediatek wifi card laying around and ran fw_update and it fetched something like "intel-drm" drivers and mtw and downloaded them

Re: CVS Web crippled

On 3/14/25 18:47, Nick Owens wrote: ... sorry to hear about AI's latest victim. i had this problem on my gitea instance running on openbsd, where the crawler decided to follow every link to every revision of my mirrors of openbsd src and linux, and i "fixed" it with robots.txt which the particula

CVS Web crippled

hello. As you may have noticed, cvsweb.openbsd.org has been having issues. This time, it is due to effectively a Distributed Denial of Service, though I don't actually believe it is /deliberately/ malicious. Speculation is someone is trying to feed a so-called AI application from cvsweb. While

Re: BSD hacking new personal computer tower configuration ?

On 3/5/25 05:26, sylv...@saboua.me wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing parts to an all-purpose *BSD personal computer. My budget is ~€3000 (+1k). Ideally I would like it not too noisy while staying as cool as possible (I live in a studio), and dual screen monitor (I'm thinking of one HD screen to a

Re: USB-to-SATA adapter not appearing on OpenBSD 7.6

On 2/12/25 16:53, Filip Cernoch wrote: Hello, to transfer some backup onto my OpenBSD machine, I got myself a USB-to-SATA adapter, however when I connect the my HDD over the adapter to my machine, it doesn't appear anywhere. Neither in "sysctl hw.disknames" nor is there any new message in dmesg.

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

On 1/5/25 07:13, Kyo Ichikawa wrote: ... However, there is one thing I would like to mention. I’m sure this has been requested many times, but having an open-vm-tools package would be a great help. in what way? Tell us the PROBLEM you are trying to solve, rather than your perceived solution. N

Re: Partition resizing:

On 11/15/24 01:30, Janne Johansson wrote: 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. this is a GREAT time to test your backup and restoration process! But thi

Re: CVSWeb Offline

On 11/4/24 20:04, Aaron Mason wrote: Hi all No idea if anyone is aware, but CVSWeb is throwing 500 errors. There is something going on causing the httpd process to crash erratically. The system will restart on its own when this happens, but it could take up to five minutes. I've changed it t

Re: Disconnecting the mouse triggers unrecoverable error loop

On 10/26/24 09:48, David Colburn wrote: Has no one ever seen this problem before? Nothing I notice in BIOS would appear to have any impact. Might upgrading to 7.6 solve the problem? Thanks! On 10/23/24 21:31, David Colburn wrote: When I use a KVM to switch mouse and keyboard between computer

Re: long-running future of OpenBSD

On 10/21/24 09:26, notpeter87 notpeter87 wrote: ... if anything would happen to Theo de Raadt, he is 56 years old according to wikipedia, what would happen to OpenBSD? will there be any other strong and technically good leaders for it? ... This is a valid question, but it needs to be asked in

Re: System upgrade just resinstalled old system

On 10/19/24 16:57, Peter Fraser wrote: I ran sysupgrade and was supprised to still be on the same version of OpenBad. The /var/log/messages shows: Oct 19 11:00:01 gateway syslogd[88983]: restart Oct 19 14:15:12 gateway sysupgrade: installed new /bsd.upgrade. Old kernel version: OpenBSD 7.5 (G

Re: Unexpected reboots after upgrading APU2 to 7.6

On 10/14/24 07:14, Ian Chilton wrote: 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 previously. On ope

Re: Crash when cold booting

On 10/11/24 12:26, Joe B wrote: Hello, Today i booted into openbsd and got this https://0x0.st/X6aV.jpg I don't know where to start and what to do.. IRC advised to file a report but i was wondering if anyone here can tell me what it is ? I rebooted and everything was

Re: Server inaccessible after upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6

On 10/10/24 14:14, Sebastien Marie wrote: Mark writes: Hi. I got 2 VPS, yesterday I upgraded one, from OpenBSD 7.5 to OpenBSD 7.6 (amd64), today I wanted to upgrade the remaining one, after "sysupgrade -nk" and "reboot", I cannot login to the system anymore (I manage only via SSH), Putty say

Re: Failed re-install with bsd.rd and full disk encryption

On 10/9/24 17:06, Thomas wrote: Hello all, I have attempted to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6 on a VPS with encryption. As /usr was too small (< 1G left), I chose to re-install and re-partition. I downloaded bsd.rd, checked it, etc. and rebooted it. Following the install steps, I was not offered the c

Re: Do Spectre-V4 mitigations protect VM guests?

On 10/8/24 07:50, Anders Andersson wrote: While reading the release notes for 7.6, the first change is "Implemented Spectre-V4 mitigations for arm64". There's now a number of Spectre-type flaws and mitigations, and I realize I don't know enough about them. An idle question that popped into my

Re: failed to install bootblocks

On 9/4/24 10:17, openbsd_fr...@mail2tor.com wrote: When installing I get failed to install bootblocks. Trying a second time using MBR it install but "default boot device missing". Any suggestions? Thank you. I suspect it is either something you have done wrong, or you have some unusual HW s

Re: Installation USB

On 8/27/24 02:18, openbsd_fr...@mail2tor.com wrote: I cannot install OpenBSD using flash usb media. The installer stops at (disk, http, nfs etc). After partioning. The install USB boots up and everythings goes well until I reach the part with the data sets. The installer cannot find usb media.

Re: How to trim SSD?

On 8/11/24 15:44, Oliver Peter wrote: Hi! How do you guys trim your SSDs? Or shall I ask "do you trim your SSDs at all"? Does OpenBSD have similar functionality like https://man.netbsd.org/blkdiscard.8 ? I recently rented a phys. machine and installed OpenBSD on it[1], smartctl already tells m

Re: Automatic Disk Partitioning

On 8/4/24 15:16, David Uhden Collado wrote: Hello, I have observed that the automatic partitioning feature of disklabel(8) does not allocate more than approximately 350GB to system partitions [1]. In my opinion, the tool should have been designed to use all available space on the storage device

Re: trying to boot on HP EliteBook 820 G1

On 7/24/24 08:24, Jan Stary wrote: On Jul 24 07:46:09, kolip...@exoticsilicon.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > The problem persists with every USB stick, > with each of miniroot75.img, install75.img > and a full usb stick install, on every USB port. Out of

Re: trying to boot on HP EliteBook 820 G1

On 7/22/24 09:22, Jan Stary wrote: I am trying to boot current/amd64 on this HP laptop from USB stick. Disabling the "secure boot" in BIOS, so that something else than the preinstalled windows is even allowed to boot, and choosing USB Flash Disk as the boot source, I see the usual Usin

Re: CD/DVD install failed

On 6/23/24 09:40, Anon Loli wrote: Installer medium is a BD-RE(I think) CD, everything worked up until this error while installing fileset base75.tgz: "Installing base75.tgz 100% |***..**| 408 MB.. gzip: stdin: crc error That's pretty clear. tar: End of archive volume 1 reached tar: Premature

Re: sshd /var/empty

On 6/19/24 00:42, 4 wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:14 PM 4 wrote: i'm sorry, i'm not smart, but i have a several questions. imagine that we launch a ship far into space. we have only one communication channel with this ship, and one day, when the ship is already very far away from us, commu

Re: booting and RAID-5

On 6/15/24 09:05, Marco van Hulten wrote: Hello, I got a new amd64 system with 3 NVMe disks of each 2 TB, with the idea to put them in RAID-5. I did not realise until now that one cannot boot from RAID-5. Would a good approach be to create a root device on one disk (and maybe altroots on one o

Re: Edit: Installation amd64 7.5: How to access the distribution sets on the USB stick?

On 6/7/24 18:26, rfab...@mhsmail.ch wrote: Edit: I have just found in Michael W. Lucas' "OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems" that "the rd recovery disk image is the OpenBSD install environment", not the USB stick. But my question (see below) remains the same. Am 2024-06-07 23:21, schrieb rfab...@mhsma

Re: mounting audio cd

On 5/31/24 14:15, MIZSEI Zoltán wrote: Interestingly BeOS and Haiku lets you to mount an audio cd, it generates a vfs from the toc and shows the tracks as wav or flac (fixme), it does an automatic conversion behind the courtains if you copy a file from an audio cd. To each their own, I guess, b

Re: advice debugging lockups with swap-thrashing symptoms?

On 5/23/24 03:18, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-05-22, James Cook wrote: One of my OpenBSD boxes sometimes gets in a weird locked-up or almost-locked-up state. I'm wondering what I can do to debug it further next time it happens. ... I would also expect the cache number to be much higher. E

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

On 5/22/24 08:08, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2024 12:53:11 +0100, Nick Holland wrote: For reasons of multi-hour fsck's on a few systems, I'm looking at remounting the problem file systems as "rw" when writing is actually needed and "ro" after th

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

On 5/21/24 08:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-05-21, Nick Holland wrote: ... When I remove that disk the boot sequence stops and asks for a fsck I would like that this disk is mounted when it's present, but when it's not installed I don't want the boot sequence to stop

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

On 5/20/24 09:37, Jan Stary wrote: On May 20 13:22:26, mikyde...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hello, I have two use cases and problems with fsck. 1) When my openbsd boots after an outage, the system asks me to fsck /, /usr, /var or /home manually. So I do fsck /dev/sd0a And then I'm asked questions and I

Re: Favorite configuration and system replication tools?

On 5/7/24 19:25, Jo MacMahon wrote: I'm interested if anybody has solutions using just the base system - I would want something like etckeeper or git that was a true version control system, rather than dump(8)/restore(8) which are backup systems. I'm idly considering learning CVS for it, and I

Re: Upgraded to 7.5: vfs.ffs.dirhash_dirsize no longer exists and large directory ere veeery slow

On 4/11/24 05:47, Federico Giannici wrote: We have a server with A LOT of files in some directories (an email server in maildir format). Since we upgraded from OpenBSD amd64 7.3 to 7.5 (passing through 7.4) it became very very very slow to access these large directories! ,,, You may be being bi

Re: OpenBSD 7.5 bsd.upgrade hangs after sysupgrade

On 4/7/24 10:42, Страхиња Радић wrote: Дана 24/04/07 12:46PM, Страхиња Радић написа: Ok. The alternative would be to find a way to make 7.5 efifb work on my laptop. The version of efifb from 7.4 works (that is how I installed 7.4 in the first place), unlike 7.5 efifb. I'd just like to add tha

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On 4/7/24 03:03, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello i have 1 DELL Latitude E4300 that had OBSD 7.3 working correctly, but i decided to do a clean installation of 7.5 deleting everything on it with a live cd linux; then tested 7.5 and it says NO disk. After that i tested Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD all t

Re: Bridging firewall with online update/upgrade

On 4/3/24 12:19, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I am creating a bridging firewall with OpenBSD and the following hardware: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0B6J89MXJ?ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_asin_image&th=1. OpenBSD is already installed. I want to use ETH1 for the input from my ADSL modem, ETH2 and ETH3 for the ou

Re: Bash instead of ksh

On 4/2/24 15:34, Steve Litt wrote: ... Does "general shell" mean the interactive shell you use? If so, I think that's an excellent idea for non-root accounts. Ok, I'll bite... Why do you think that's an "excellent idea" -- something you would encourage people to do? What is it that you see bas

Re: Bash instead of ksh

On 4/1/24 12:24, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set it up that way? Bash is already installed. Easy to do, as several have explained how. ...BUT... I'd really suggest not doing that. If you are writing a script that requires bas

Re: UKC> disable "smth"

On 3/16/24 08:52, ofthecentury wrote: I boot with 'boot -c' and then enter 'disable mei' and then 'quit'. Pcidump still shows Intel MEI, just as it does when booting with default config. I don't think anything changed. In this case, correct. As was already pointed out -- devices exist or don't

Re: Saving UKC> list output

On 3/15/24 07:56, ofthecentury via misc wrote: When you want to turn off a device on OpenBSD you can do it at boot time with manual `boot -c` command. (Can also be automated) After entering entering `boot -c` you get UKC> configuration prompt. I type `list` and get a nice list of all drivers I ca

Re: many serial ports

On 2/8/24 04:00, Jan Stary wrote: What HW do people use to read data from many serial ports simultaneously? My use case is reading the output of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropalatography The device has eight serial port outputs; I need to read those at the computer side. Do I just stuff

Re: questions about RAID5C, RAID6, RAID6C, can Openbsd be a good storage-server OS?

On 2/4/24 14:02, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote: hello I will make a storage server, and RAID just has to be on it, right? mybbe... (more later) is RAID6 in work or maybe plans, I would like to know what about RAID5 + CRYPTO or RAID6 + CRYPTO? I read these https://www.reddit.com/r/open

Re: Adaptec 8405 SGL drivers these days?

On 1/26/24 00:37, Kevin wrote: Hey gang, Looking at a server whose only option for storage comes via an Adaptec 8405 SGL. Given the battles between OpenBSD and Adaptec for documentation that pre-date the Hoover administration, I'm curious if this card is supported. Let's be clear: it isn't ab

Re: GENERIC.MP#1600 last snapshot cvs cant create tmp subdir

On 1/17/24 12:07, Todd C. Miller wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:11:36 -0500, "Sven F." wrote: well i tried anoncvs.spacehopper.org after the fail and then anoncvs.comstyle.com ( default one is in the trace, is "anon...@obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu:/cvs" ) I can confirm the problem with obsdacvs.cs

Re: Communication between hosts on different network interfaces

On 1/6/24 15:09, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: Dear colleagues, I have various network appliances that I don't really trust, like a printer. I have these plugged into an unmanaged switch and connected to network interface igc2. I want to allow the igc1 network to make web requests to the igc2 net

Re: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu are all back up and running. Snapshots and packages should be up to date, now, too. My apologies for the inconvenience. Nick. On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org

Re: man.openbsd.org timing out via HTTP & HTTPS

On 12/29/23 17:55, Eric Pruitt wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 02:46:39PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote: Not much to add to the subject. For a couple days now, I've tried connecting via HTTP & HTTPS from various points around the internet and they all time out. Sounds like something hung or accidental

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

don't suck. :) These are not official, but they are run by one of the people who run the official sites. They will go away once the official site is back up and running. Nick. On 12/23/23 11:16 AM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.o

Re: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu will be unavailable for site maintenance starting Thursday, December 21 about 6:00am ET (UTC-5) and hopefully be back up and running by Saturday, December 23, 6

Re: Post (snap) update emails: fsck errors and (in)security output

On 12/20/23 06:02, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: ... Reply-To: Hi All, A couple of questions ... I have "ROOTBACKUP=1" in /etc/daily.local to replicate my root partition as described in the FAQ (https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#altroot) I noticed after an update to a new snapshot vi

man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu will be unavailable for site maintenance starting Thursday, December 21 about 6:00am ET (UTC-5) and hopefully be back up and running by Saturday, December 23, 6:00am ET. Sorry for any inconvenience. N

Re: a couple question about my fde setup

On 11/19/23 18:09, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi all a couple question about my fde first, i have fde setup using a keydisk on my laptop, encryption and decryption works fine when i reboot with the key inserted it doesn't find the key, i have to shut the machine down and restart it then the key is det

Re: Three more orphan packages

On 11/16/23 18:12, Daniele B. wrote: Just found out that in my system persist the following stuff: in /etc/passwd: user _nagios I don't really think you want users deleted when you uninstall a package. Things may be invisibly (to the package manager) be connected to that user. in /var: /na

Re: Upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4 with sysupgrade

On 11/16/23 20:25, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote: Hello, I’m planning to upgrade my router from 7.3 to 7.4 using sysupgrade, but I’ve one concern. Some time ago, I upgraded a RPi4 from 7.2 to 7.3, and X got installed, even though it wasn’t before the upgrade. I thaught sysupgrade only upgraded the

Re: Slow relink in 7.4

On 10/17/23 05:07, David Higgs wrote: I have an underpowered amd64 VPS and attempted to (auto)upgrade it to 7.4. Everything went swimmingly until it attempted to relink the kernel, at which point it (seemingly) hung. With previous releases, I would expect the host to become unresponsive for a fe

Re: OpenBSD 7.4

On 10/12/23 13:54, Karel Lucas wrote: Is it already known when openBSD 7.4 will be released? I would like to know that, because of a project I am working on. The answer to your question is already out there, but I offer this procedural tip: IF you wish to follow releases, start your project on

Re: sftp activity logging?

On 8/31/23 17:29, myml...@gmx.com wrote: Hi All, I am setting an openbsd 7.3 stable system to serve files via ssh's sftp subsystem. Does openssh have a native way to audit what files were downloaded/uploaded with user/timestamp information? If not, are there any recommendations? Thanks in adv

Re: I nuked my filesystem

On 9/26/23 21:42, sprits killshot wrote: I did the thing. dd'd a 5gb img to my ssd instead of my usb and I want to die. dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sd1c I am using a CRYPTO RAID partition and luckily I'm smart enough not to nuke that. My ssd is 2TB so I believe it uses FFS2 by default. I'm hopeles

httpd stopping

Hello, Twice in the last couple weeks, I've had httpd fall over on me. Only clue I've got is this in /var/log/messages: MASTER $ grep httpd daemon Sep 23 05:24:06 node2 httpd[69989]: logger exiting, pid 69989 Sep 23 05:24:06 node2 httpd[80972]: parent terminating, pid 80972 Sep 23 05:24:06 node2

Re: man.openbsd.org is down?

On 9/23/23 13:42, S V wrote: Any info on man.openbsd.org state? It is down for me and web checkers. It is back up now. Seems my monitor's alert to text me is handled as spam by my cellular service now. Sorry for the downtime! Nick.

Re: desire for journaled filesystem

On 9/6/23 08:23, John Holland wrote: Janne- Thanks for all that useful information. others- this is a thinkpad, that's not on all the time, so a cron backup is not that good. I actually back up manually, currently using "borg" for that. I mostly just do email and web on it so there's probably n

Re: volatility or something like that in the future ?

On 8/19/23 06:05, whistlez wrote: ... I honestly don't understand this hatred. ... Dude, for a self-proclaimed sensitive person, you are really very offensive, and begging to have your tender little ass handed (verbally) to you on a platter. You are spending a lot of time telling very skilled

Re: Stuck in X start and crash loop

On 8/17/23 12:10, l...@ena.re wrote: Hey, I am new to OpenBSD. I run 7.3-stable. My understanding after reading X(7), Xsecurity(7) and xenodm(1) is that one can set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to specify the location of the file, which by default, is located at $HOME/.Xauthority.> In $

Re: Mouse not working via KVM switch

On 8/14/23 13:37, Karel Lucas wrote: HI all, On a recent install of openBSD I can't get the mouse to work through my KVM switch. I work with various computers via a KVM switch on 1 monitor with a keyboard/mouse combination. Only on the PC with openBSD the mouse does not work, the keyboard on the

Re: nsd listening on localhost is zone transfer possible transfer ?

On 8/4/23 13:23, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi everyone i have unbound setup on port 53 and nsd listening on localhost port 53530 i have set up another dns server as a secondary am i correct to assume that i can't zone transfer because as the nsd's are listening on localhost the primary can't reach th

Re: Installing openBSD

On 8/3/23 16:48, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi, My openBSD installation was successful! I first removed all partitions except for the EFI partition, which I left. Second I created one openBSD partition(type A6) on the freed space, after which I partitioned that partition with auto layout. Then I contin

Re: Installing openBSD

On 7/30/23 13:30, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I'm going to install openBSD on a small PC that currently has PfSense on it. This PC boots this OS via (U)EFI, and therefore has an EFI partition on the existing SSD. The current partition table looks like, as shown by openBSD fdisk:  0: efiboot0

Re: How to customize disk partition in UEFI？

On 7/22/23 15:44, ykla wrote: For OpenBSD installation, I choose custom disk in partition. And I set the first partition is MSDOS and mountpoint is /boot/efi and the second partition is /, the last partition is swap. And I continue install openbsd, but at least it warning me that boot install fai

Re: Concise passage in OpenBSD documentation about motivation

On 7/18/23 13:26, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: Dear colleagues, About 20 years ago I read in some OpenBSD documentation, likely the installation instructions, that we want people to copy our OpenBSD even if to use it even in proprietary products, because the alternative is that incompetent people w

Re: Intel DRM error on T 440

On 7/6/23 01:46, Jonathan Drews wrote: uname: OpenBSD 7.3 GENERIC.MP#1125 amd64 I get the following error message when my Thinkpad T440 wakes up: drm:pid73944:intel_dp_aux_wait_done *ERROR* [drm] *ERROR* AUX A/DDI A/PHY A: did not complete or timeout within 10ms (status 0xa01300e1) I have G

Re: encrypted_hdd_data_recovery(OpenBSD_7.3)

t, it will create a new "drive", which will have its own disklabel, and you can mount those partitions. Nick. Please. Thanks in advance On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 4:33 PM Nick Holland wrote: On 6/17/23 08:40, soko.tica wrote: > Hello list, > > I have managed to screw by &

Re: Which hardware for a firewall?

On 6/20/23 13:13, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I'm going to create a firewall with openBSD, and would like to use the ARM64 or ARMv7 distribution for that. Unfortunately I don't know what hardware I can get for this, and that's the reason for this mail. Can someone point me to a suitable platform

Re: Wrong SHA256 sums for latest snapshot

On 6/19/23 14:38, Benjamin Stürz wrote: Hi misc@, I have issues installing the latest snapshot from cdn.openbsd.org. Snapshots change frequently. They take time to distribute around the world. Content Delivery Networks pull from lots of different sources and cache various things at various t

Re: encrypted_hdd_data_recovery(OpenBSD_7.3)

On 6/17/23 08:40, soko.tica wrote: Hello list, I have managed to screw by #fsck_ffs /dev/sd1a the root partition of my unmounted HDD (OpenBSD 7.3 stable, possibly not fully updated). It crashed during boot due to the power outage, than it was unable to boot and required fsck_ffs, and I answered

Re: media on full screen in current

On 6/12/23 07:54, Pau A.S. wrote: Hi, ... This has led to a FS corruption which I do not know how to fix, only in one partition. Upon boot, the system runs fsck on them but the output is that they are clean with some level of fragmentation. In any case, /usr/local is corrupted. Is there a way

softdep / softraid RAID1 issue?

Hiya. tl;dr version: multiple machines with softraid RAID1 & softdep have file systems freeze when doing lots of I/O, possibly involving adding and removing links from the same files at the same time. Workaround found. Need help finding better diagnostic information. long version:

Re: carp flapping

Followup... On 5/12/23 08:17, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2023-05-12, Nick Holland wrote: ... I had several other people suggest network problems. I'm not going to say "impossible" or even "unlikely", but my understanding is that the two machines are both plugged int

Re: carp flapping

On 5/12/23 03:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2023-05-12, Nick Holland wrote: Here's the problem I've seen: I have my two machines flipping state randomly(?). This bothers me because that means it is breaking people's downloads. Longest period betweek flips was less than

carp flapping

Hi, I have a couple identical servers that provide a few services (not FW or gateway -- http, ftp, etc.). Figured they would make a great CARP pair, so if the primary broke, the secondary would take over immediately. It would also make maintenance windows shorter...make changes on secondary mach

Re: What is the best way to move a VM to a bigger image?

On 5/6/23 12:54, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote: Hello, I made a silly mistake when I set up my VM and my disk image is too small for my next operation. My plan is to give the new image to the VM, run a minimal install on it so I get the boot loader installed. Also disklabel will be good. After that I

Re: Very slow smtp connection to mail.openbsd.org

On 5/3/23 18:30, S V wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup my own mail server and while I can send email to any already tested and interesting for me domains. I always get "delayed" with misc@openbsd.org: Connection closed unexpectedly while trying openbsd lists. I telnet to 25 port and see that it

Re: openbsd firewall configuration for extreme hostile environment

On 4/26/23 08:46, jonathon575 wrote: Greetings, I have OpenBSD configured strictly as a dedicated firewall. Only BSD, BSD.rd, BSD.mp, and Base are installed (supposedly, this is the minimum installation). Blocked All, and only few selected out going IP addresses are allowed (strictly vpn ip addr

Re: SATA disk identify taking 10 seconds to give me output

On 4/20/23 05:56, Raja Sekhar wrote: Hi, I am running OpenBSD_7.1 on VMWare workstation16. It has two hard disks(wd0 & sd0) I am trying to get hard disk information using the following command. *$atactl identify* If I use the disk wd0, I am getting output immediately. If I use the disk sd0,

Re: File system is full after using dd

On 4/15/23 10:14, Lorenzo Torres wrote: Hello, I've run the dd command to wipe the data of an SD card:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdb1c bs=1MAfter quite some time it crashed ^^ bzzzt. game over. saying that the / filesystem is full and even after a reboot the same happe

Re: Help for another wiped out disklabel

On 4/13/23 16:08, Greg Thomas wrote: Thank you! I gave it one more shot before attempting the script and I'm back in. I figured I'd try 0 for the beginning of the partition. grits# disklabel sd1 # /dev/rsd1c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: Ext SSD duid: 2eeb6058175bf1f7 flags: bytes/sector:

Re: Unable to receive dhcplease from ISP

On 4/1/23 19:57, Bill A wrote: Hi all, I ran into this issue today when I decided to do some maintenance on my home network. My laptop runs OpenBSD 7.2. I attempted to get a dhcplease from Spectrum Internet with a direct connection to my em0 ethernet interface. I got no response. I'm having

Re: Home folder default permission

On 3/23/23 14:36, Matthew Weigel wrote: On 2023-03-23 11:53 am, ch...@qatland.com wrote: I did not look at the code at all for this. Only using existing programs. If this should not be working then a patch will be needed somewhere. I didn't give it a try, but I took your report at face val

disk integrity checking

(this is a request for a "that's stupid", not a suggestion of something people should do at this point) An idea that's been floating around in my head, inspired by the ZFS "scrubbing" idea: rather than build that "check your data" process into the file system, just do something periodically like

Re: Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

On 2/15/23 04:54, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:28:57AM +0100, Gábor LENCSE wrote: Hi Lars, > I downscaled from 8 to 4 vCPUs and from 8 to 4 gig RAM - and the two obsd > now seems to hold the packages decently. As for performance optimization, I think the direction is good, a

Re: Calculating VMs/CPU

On 2/4/23 17:31, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello misc i am building an only VMD server: How could calculate the relation: CPU, Ram, Storage, VMs please? Thanks. PD: I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 4 i3 cores, 500GB disk. 8GB Ram. This is kinda virtualization 101 stuff, not really specific to

Re: Max number of NICs

On 1/23/23 17:54, Lars Bonnesen wrote: How many physical NICs can you add to an OpenBSD host (vmx) I am asking because I am running an OpenBSD on a VMware host but apparently OpenBSD can only see 8 of them. Can I raise the limit somehow? Regards, Lars. may years ago (back in the 3.x days, ii

Re: Query on openrsync(1)

On 1/10/23 03:49, Abhishek Chakravarti wrote: OpenBSD newbie here. While trying to backup my OpenBSD configs to my Arch Linux box, I noted a discrepancy between the openrsync(1) manpage examples and what I encountered. The steps to reproduce are as follows: ``` $ uname -a OpenBSD oberon.taranja

Re: CARP and DHCP

On 1/6/23 02:31, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 5:14 PM Nick Holland wrote: hiya. Goal: home (i.e., DHCP external network config) redundant firewalls with CARP and PFSYNC. Totally doable. I've been running it like that for the last 7 years at home. My ISP doesn&#

Re: (video) obsd install initial boot process slowed down

On 1/5/23 02:22, Sylvain Saboua wrote: https://youtu.be/lzGT1TAGG1Y OpenBSD 7.2 (GENERIC.MP) #758: Tue Sep 27 11:57:54 MDT 2022 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8449818624 (8058MB) avail mem = 8176320512 (7797MB) random: good seed from bootblo

Re: 回复: Softraid crypto metadata backup

On 1/2/23 23:54, Nathan Carruth wrote: Thank you for the response. I am with you 100% on backups. My real question was, How does one backup crypto volume metadata? Given that it can be backed up, clearly it should be, but there is no information in any of the cited documentation as to where the

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