softraid mirror I/O error, cannot recover data

2013-04-04 Thread Juha Erkkila
Hello misc, I am having a problem with a mirroring softraid configuration. Every time I try to access a particular partition in softraid volume I start to get I/O errors so that softraid totally "breaks", that is, becomes non-operative. Note that it does very much look like that both of these dis

Re: softraid mirror I/O error, cannot recover data

2013-04-09 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:43:13AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-04-04, Juha Erkkila wrote: > > Hello misc, > > > > I am having a problem with a mirroring softraid configuration. > > Every time I try to access a particular partition in softraid > > vo

Re: /etc/daily bug? altroot vs DUIDs

2012-02-09 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:25:45AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Dave Anderson wrote: > >On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:42:07AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > >>> I've got a system running amd64/mp -current (latest source update on

Re: Why not update Groff?

2008-02-18 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:35:01PM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: > Why is Groff not updated? OpenBSD 4.2 has Groff 1.15 from 1999. > Some compatability issues? I've been thinking this too, and went ahead and tried doing it... It's a bit of a pain actually, some problems: the directory layout has c

Re: Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-04 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:07:22AM -0700, Rott_En wrote: > # Important Note: Under OpenBSD's current encrypted vnd filesystem > # implementation, when a system with a mounted, encrypted vnd filesystem > # is shutdown uncleanly, the encrypted vnd filesystem's structures get > # damaged and, since

Re: Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-05 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:47:28AM -0700, Rott_En wrote: > Is it a risk to attempt using your recommedation ? Am I risking the > integrity of my cryptofile container ? It is 90GB big and I dont have > any auxiliary backup medium so big, taking a backup of it is almost > out of hope. > > I can't lo

Re: Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-05 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:01:34PM -0700, Rott_En wrote: > I used "fsck -n" and then tried to mount the /crypto/home/cryptofile > partition container with no luck, same results stating: > > # sh cryptfs -m -p /home -f /crypto/home/cryptofile -d /dev/svnd0c > Encryption key: > vnconfig: VNDIOCSET: D

Re: Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-07 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:46:15PM -0700, Rott_En wrote: > Hello again. > I am not able to fix the issue, but here is the disklabel, maiby it > can help you figure out a solution. > > ... > > If I change "unused" to 4.2BSD fsck reports serval errors like > SuperBlocks are missing. Any advice is h

Re: tape,seagate,trouble

2006-04-25 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:00:51PM +0200, Mats wrote: > Under NetBSD dump/restore works fine, but not under OpenBSD. The > bios on the motherboard doesn't find the seagate, it says "not > detected". I have tried pnp and not pnp in bios without any differents. this is probably the atapi tape drive

Problem accessing ATAPI tape drive

2005-11-09 Thread Juha Erkkila
i've been using an atapi tape drive with OpenBSD, hardware support list and manpages don't make it clear they are supported, but mine has worked fine, until upgrading to 3.8.. i use it with dump(8), so now as i try to restore something from tapes, i get this: $ restore -Nrv Verify tape and initia

Re: crypto disk

2005-12-23 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:32:27PM +0100, Ed White wrote: > Quoting from: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6384 > > The biggest drawback of svnd is its lack of security in the general use case. > It is vulnerable to an offline dictionary attack. That is, you can generate a > database mapping known ci

Re: "DadOS" - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:04:36PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:45:46PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: > > Add dad to the operator group which can run /sbin/shutdown without sudo. > > That's not a very good idea. > > $ ls -la /dev/wd* > brw-r- 1 root operator

Re: Encrypting content/filesystem on DVD?

2006-01-26 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:45:10AM -0500, Paul Thorn wrote: > While the tar method would work if I split the data into smaller > segments, retrieval would be cumbersome at best, I fear. The > resulting encrypted tar files would need to be significantly < 4GB > for the same reasons that the large vn

Re: Privoxy lockups

2006-02-18 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:38:32PM +0100, Michael Frost wrote: > Using OpenBSD-v3.8 and v3.9-BETA on i386 together with tor, privoxy > stops working alfways after a few minutes up to a few hours. 'Stop > working' means either the privoxy process isn't running anymore (so it > needs to be restarted)

Re: radeondrm does not appear to work on IBM Thinkpad T43

2010-04-26 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:09:02PM +0100, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:15:38PM +0300, Juha Erkkila wrote: > > > > OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer > > Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads the logs they post to > mailing lists. &