qemu spinning in ___lwp_park50 on XP install

I'm trying to install XP into qemu-1.3.1 under NetBSD/amd64 6.1 and qemu invariably becomes unresponsive part way through the install. The window will still repaint if I move another window over it, but it will not respond to ^C and ktruss shows a loop of 7673 3 qemu-system-i386

Re: XBMC?

I ported an earlier version to run under NetBSD, but the build logic back then was... hacky to say the least - #ifdef APPLE inside #ifdef LINUX. Unfortunately without 3D accelerated X it wasn't much use for anything :) The main xbmc build system has been cleaned up a lot since then so I would

Re: building Linux shared libraries

Extract a Linux install with compiler into /emul/linux and adjust PATH as required? :) On 15 April 2014 17:38, Steve Blinkhorn st...@prd.co.uk wrote: Can someone guide me to a least-effort way of building Linux-format shared libraries on NetBSD? I have a small module that has spent all of

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

On 11 April 2014 17:23, Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org wrote: Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org writes: Installation goes like a charm, using this (slightly shortened) command: qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda disk.img -cdrom sparccd-5.2.2.iso \ -boot d -nographic Ideally,

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

at NetBSD and see why -nographic and emulated tcx have issues... :) On 21 April 2014 11:31, Andreas Gustafsson g...@gson.org wrote: Torbjörn Granlund wrote: David Brownlee a...@absd.org writes: (NetBSD 6.1.3 causes a crash in also this newer qemu.) That is the more interesting question

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

On 23 April 2014 11:32, Michael macal...@netbsd.org wrote: Hello, On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:32:19 +0100 David Brownlee a...@absd.org wrote: tcx0 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0x80 level 5 (ipl 9) (8bit only TCX)tcx0: SUNW,tcx, 1024 x 768, id 0, rev 0, sense 0system[0]: trap 0x29: pc=0xf00abe2c

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2014/04/thread1.html#014442 On 29 April 2014 12:14, Michael macal...@netbsd.org wrote: Hello, On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:41:33 +0100 David Brownlee a...@absd.org wrote: My question was more why does NetBSD try to attach tcx0 on a machine with serial

Re: timeout on siside0

On 22 May 2014 12:49, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: Since I have the system installed, at least now I can give a precise dmesg output. I'll include it below. As you will see, this system has a primary and secondary IDE bus. The primary has 2 disks attached. The secondary has the CD

Re: timeout on siside0

On 22 May 2014 18:25, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:44:23PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: On 22 May 2014 12:49, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: Since I have the system installed, at least now I can give a precise dmesg output. I'll include it below

Re: Change install kernel from kern-GENERIC.tgz for custom media

On 28 May 2014 23:30, William D. Jones thor0...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to install NetBSD on an old 486 to bring it back to life (for fun). Because the default installation media created a kernel which was too big, I needed to create my own custom boot media (two

Re: Reliable way to run emulated Linux under NetBSD

On 14 August 2014 18:16, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote: Hello, So nobody actually uses qemu? I will give a try to XEN. I use qemu on my laptop to boot occasional WindowsXP VMs for IE6/7/8 testing (thankfully much less now than I ever did). I have a 3Ghz i7 K875 NetBSD/amd64 6.x box

Re: pkgin fails to install in the install kernel

It was using more than 640M of VM? While I agree not having a failure reported as success would be the top priority, the thought that it was using that much VM during install is... scary. What arch is this on? i386 has a set_swap() in sysinst to use swapspace if less than 32M of ram, but amd64

Re: pkgin fails to install in the install kernel

On 16 November 2014 13:50, Andy Ruhl acr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:49 AM, David Brownlee a...@absd.org wrote: It was using more than 640M of VM? While I agree not having a failure reported as success would be the top priority, the thought that it was using that much VM

Re: Low power machine

On 20 November 2014 09:18, Christoph Kaegi k...@msw.ch wrote: On 19.11-19:05, Dustin Marquess wrote: Sorry if this is slightly OT. I'm looking for recommendations for an enclosed, stable low power draw machine that is NetBSD-friendly to install in a remote location for

Re: amd64 current can't configure a FFSv1 disk

On 19 December 2014 at 20:56, MLH m...@goathill.org wrote: Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 06:40:48PM -0500, MLH wrote: I recently installed amd64 current NetBSD 7.99.3 (GENERIC) #0 Mon Dec 15 on a new disk running FFSv2: ... $ disklabel wd1 wd1: Device not configured

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

On 28 December 2014 at 16:48, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Having these (commented out) in amd64 and i386 GENERIC would have simplified this enormously. With a suitable comment ofc. Something like # Uncomment if pcmcia cards do not attach #options RBUS_IO_BASE=0xa00

Re: RAID Level 6

On 17 February 2015 at 18:30, BERTRAND Joël joel.bertr...@systella.fr wrote: Greg Oster a écrit : On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:40:03 +0100 BERTRAND Joël joel.bertr...@systella.fr wrote: Hello, I've seen that sys/dev/raidframe contains some code for raid level 6 but I haven't

Re: 7.0_BETA feedback sought

Just had a panic on an amd64 laptop running netbsd-7 as on 7th Jan. System was running a wildfly-8 java server, firefox browser, postgresql, (idle) mysql and a few xterms. Using the intel DRMKMS driver with NoAccel. panic below - I appear to have a netbsd.0.core.gz netbsd.0.gz panic: kernel

Re: using gcc -w

On 14 March 2015 at 11:41, Patrick Welche pr...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:27:47AM +, Patrick Welche wrote: Part of the point of build.sh is to build the compiler of the same vintage as the rest of the code. I am getting stuck trying to build ancient versions of NetBSD

Re: Prepping to install

On 11 May 2015 at 23:46, William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net wrote: Howdy, list :-). A (another ?) noob here. I am preparing to install NetBSD 6.1.5 on a new server, AMD C32 based, 4256EE CPU, Supermicro H8SCM mbd, 6 X 1 TB 2.5 HDD's, to be partitioned/RAIDed (software). Firstly, is this

Re: Prepping to install

On 12 May 2015 at 16:01, William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net wrote: On 05/12/15 02:32, David Brownlee wrote: On 11 May 2015 at 23:46, William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net wrote: If you are using RAID5 I would strongly recommend keeping to power-of-two + 1 components, to keep

Re: Prepping to install

On 13 May 2015 at 16:03, William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net wrote: On 05/13/15 08:48, David Brownlee wrote: On 12 May 2015 at 16:01, William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net wrote: On 05/12/15 02:32, David Brownlee wrote: On 11 May 2015 at 23:46, William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

On 16 June 2015 at 14:14, Stephen Borrill net...@precedence.co.uk wrote: I've been testing out wedges combined with RAIDframe on HDDs 2TB. I have: # gpt show wd1 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

On 16 June 2015 at 20:08, Michael van Elst mlel...@serpens.de wrote: a...@absd.org (David Brownlee) writes: In case its of any interest I've just recently setup a 'fully wedged' 2*6TB RAIDframe system on netbsd-7, and apart from RAIDframe and installboot still needing to learn NAME=3D syntax

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

On 17 June 2015 at 19:24, Christos Zoulas chris...@astron.com wrote: In article pine.neb.4.64.1506171043190@ugly.internal.precedence.co.uk, Stephen Borrill net...@precedence.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, David Brownlee wrote: OK, I've identified the problem (if not the solution

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

On 17 June 2015 at 22:36, John Nemeth jnem...@cue.bc.ca wrote: On Jun 17, 9:42pm, David Brownlee wrote: } The issue is less encoding which is the root partition, more how the } (very space limited) initial boot blocks can find it. } } Absent the workaround suggested by Stephen (of which I am

Re: Java ME toolchain on NetBSD

On 21 August 2015 at 10:23, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote: I have got a new fancy utility with support for Java ME applets. Is there a way to build j2me 'hello world' application on NetBSD? I don't need the newest toolchain, neither IDE with GUI - just plain command line compiler is

Re: rsync for RPiB+

You might also want to look at dirvish for backup http://www.dirvish.org/ - it uses rsync to create multiple hardlinked directory trees of backed up files, so you only pay the disk space cost of changed files (plus inodes). Quite tasty :) On 5 August 2015 at 06:04, William A. Mahaffey III

Re: apm alternative on amd64, to check battery level

On 5 November 2015 at 08:57, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 5 November 2015 at 07:55, Mayuresh wrote: >> What command / tool can I use on amd64 to know the battery level? > > On my Thinkpad I use: > envstat -d acpibat0 > > But I would like to have a

Re: apm alternative on amd64, to check battery level

It uses APM_IOC_GETPOWER, which is provided on amd64. Certainly I've been using it on NetBSD/amd64 for at as long as I've been using amd64 :-p On 5 November 2015 at 10:30, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:32:58AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote: >>

Re: boot device unknown on netbsd 7.0

On 10 October 2015 at 11:07, Cayo Puigdefabregas wrote: > Hello, I try install netbsd 7.0 on my laptop with usb img install. > I'm get a problem with detected the root partition of usb stick. > My computer have ssd disk and I think that netbsd not found the correct >

Re: Firsts in NetBSD

On 7 January 2016 at 18:13, Swift Griggs wrote: > > > I'm writing some documentation for a class I'm teaching soon at my job. One > section covers various BSD's (each separate) contribution to features in the > collective endowment of Unix variants out there. > > Here are

Re: slightly OT hardware question

On 26 May 2016 at 07:19, Hal Murray wrote: > > > w...@hiwaay.net said: > > Does anyone onlist know of any small (RPi-ish), cheap boxen w/ 2 or more > > working RJ45 ports (100 Mbit is OK), FreeBSD or NetBSD compatible ? I would > > like to use them as a firewall & an

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

On 30 January 2016 at 20:26, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > I have tried this other time. (I tried it in the past also without success). > > The package is broken, and one file that tries to download from > Microsoft is not longer available. (mfc42.cab) > > After of

Re: Graphics wiki page

On 5 April 2016 at 18:02, Swift Griggs wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: > > It would be more fruitful to provide a page where people list hardware > > that works for them, http://dmesgd.nycbug.org is close. > > That's very cool. The idea, in general,

Re: light-weight office tools? (was Re: libreoffice-bin pango errors)

On 16 March 2016 at 16:51, Roy Bixler wrote:> > Glad to see that this works, but I suppose that means you've given up > on using lighter weight office tools. Gnumeric works well enough for > me on spreadsheets, but I've had less luck on Abiword's .doc support. > To sort of

Re: wireless configuration

On 28 April 2016 at 19:08, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Graham Jenkins wrote: >> >> riccardo.mott...@libero.it (Riccardo Mottola) writes: >> >>> >OpenBSD can do it and I love that. I would love that in NetBSD too. >>> >wpa_supplicant can remain for the more

Re: System fails to start dhclient at boot after upgrade 6.1.5 -> 7.0.1

On 6 July 2016 at 14:05, wrote: > I have just upgraded my server from 6.1.5 to 7.0.1 and I'm having > trouble with dhclient. My expectation is that the rc system will launch > dhclient early in the boot process and wait for it to finish before > moving on. This does not

Re: configuring remote headless servers

On 31 August 2016 at 11:34, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > Following on from the recent saga of upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0 which > assiduous readers may recall, the servers were re-installed in their > racks in the data centre. All was well with one of them but the > other apparently

Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

On 11 September 2016 at 23:13, Michael van Elst wrote: > lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: > >>> That's why it might be interesting to find out why ahcisata fails for you. > >>Are there any kernel debug facilities on the installation distro? > > Not much. You can

Re: Hypervisor advice

On 29 July 2017 at 18:50, Andy Ruhl wrote: > I've had a NetBSD/i386 machine that's been running since the late 90s > and various hardware iterations. I think it's time to move it to a > virtual machine. I need new hardware as well. It has about a 10 year > old AMD processor and

Re: NetBSD on Amazon EC2

On 4 November 2017 at 13:40, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Please check the following thread: > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2017/10/23/msg009097.html There may be an additional wrinkle with AWS moving from XEN to KVM for some instances "AWS has revealed it has created

Re: swap space in file on inconsystent file system

On 7 June 2018 at 14:03, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > I have a remote server (about to be replaced, but still in service and > needs to stay that way until a replacement is fully commissioned) that > has just developed a single bad sector. The result has been that > automatic backups using rsync

Re: swap space in file on inconsistent file system

On 14 June 2018 at 16:46, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > You wrote: >> >> On 7 June 2018 at 14:03, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: >> > I have a remote server (about to be replaced, but still in service and >> > needs to stay that way until a replacement is fully commissioned) that >> > has just developed a

Re: Arduino connect to NetBSD box woes

On 3 May 2018 at 07:13, wrote: > Hah I solve my own problem after reading through the POSIX serial > communication. Here is the solution for those who are in same boots: > > /* Output options -> Auto add CR LF */ > toptions.c_oflag &= ~OPOST; > toptions.c_oflag &= ~ONLCR;

Re: NetBSD 8 on Old ThinkPad - strange mouse issues

On 5 August 2018 at 07:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi David! > > > On 02/08/2018 16:16, David Brownlee wrote: >> >> On 30 July 2018 at 18:53, Riccardo Mottola >> wrote: >>> >>> 2) with a little more heavy usage (I was removign packages, updatin

Re: NetBSD 8 on Old ThinkPad - strange mouse issues

On 30 July 2018 at 18:53, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi All! > > I just upgraded to 8.0 on my "super vintage" IBM ThinkPad 600... my oldest > x86 laptop with NetBSD. > 6.x worked very well on it! I upgraded to 7.x some weeks ago and had issues > with X11, which I reported here but got no answer.

Re: reading older disks

On 22 August 2018 at 08:20, John Nemeth wrote: > On Aug 22, 9:12am, Benny Siegert wrote: > } On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:36 PM Mike Pumford > wrote: > } > Not really its been a pretty universal experience of very old systems > } > for me that they don't like being stressed or powered off. :( > }

Re: PCI passthrough not working with bhyve and NetBSD

On 8 July 2018 at 22:58, Farid Joubbi wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > After reading it, I realize that the learning curve for me to understand > what is going on is a bit too steep. > I know only some basic C programming from university courses several years > ago. > This kind of learning was

Re: Gah... How usable is www/firefox on NetBSD?

On 12 July 2018 at 15:43, John D. Baker wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2018, John D. Baker wrote: > >> I use firefox52 (so I can have working gtk2 instead of broken gtk3) with >> little problem on NetBSD/amd64-8.0_RC1. >> >> It only occasionally dumps core and quits, usually only after some >> web site

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 02:46, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I don't have a setup to build there, I am trying RelEng kernels. > I could use those to bisect - but I have worse news. Even NetBSD 8 > release is actually unreliable. So it did work, but I tried again and > got a black screen... so it is

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 22:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi, > > David Brownlee wrote: > > > > >> I don't have a setup to build there, I am trying RelEng kernels. > >> I could use those to bisect - but I have worse news. Even NetBSD 8 > >> relea

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 23:54, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Those ThinkPads do not have a current setup to buidl on, however I have > one 64bit which runs NetBSD current on which I could (and did in the > past) cross-compile kernels for x86, incase somebody suggest a single > patch to test. >

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 22:20, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi David, > > David Brownlee wrote: > >> So I conclude that having the system mounted on USB causes issues (which > >> manifests themselves slightly different on different computers) and > >> while it

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 11:08, Don NetBSD wrote: > > On 9/18/2018 3:54 AM, David Brownlee wrote: > > Just some musing about handling drive mappings: > > > > For sd devices you could use "scsictl sdX identify" to map back from > > sdX to (scsibus, target,

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 06:51, Don NetBSD wrote: > > On 9/24/2018 4:14 AM, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 11:08, Don NetBSD wrote: > > > > I have no idea whether this would actually map to your real > > requirements, but a possible workflow cou

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 22:34, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi All > > I did a Big ACPI/SLEEP compariso (or at least, tried to): > [...] > > So I conclude that having the system mounted on USB causes issues (which > manifests themselves slightly different on different computers) and > while it

Re: rcvar for locate.updatedb

On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 07:28, Jaromír Doleček wrote: > > Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 08:16, Robert Elz a écrit : > > Aside from the inertia criteria, which is probably really what > > it is, I'd have thought a better test than "critical" would be > > "probably useful to the majority of users -

Re: fpr(1), asa(1)

On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 11:53, Rhialto wrote: > > I have various files around with carriage control. You get them from > emulators/hercules, for instance. So at the very least they should be > packaged. IIRC OpenBSD refactored the code a long time back to make one of them provide both

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

Just some musing about handling drive mappings: For sd devices you could use "scsictl sdX identify" to map back from sdX to (scsibus, target, lun) numbers and then onto each drive's physical location. The drives would need to be labelled via GPS and the software set to mount via named slices for

Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

, atomicules wrote: > > Nice! Thanks for this. > > On 03-Feb-2019 16:45:38, David Brownlee wrote: > >The script I sent assumes /current already exists and that you're running > >amd64. I've attached an updated version which should handle that, plus will > >run as root without

Re: minidisplay-port on T440s working?

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:10, wrote: > Hi, > > while the VGA port on my T440s laptop is working, the > minidisplay port is not working (at least with an > amazonbasics Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable. > > With not working I mean: VGA is recognized by xrandr, > minidisplayport isn't. > > Any idea

Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:36, Ron Georgia wrote: > > " Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your card?" > A most excellent question, with a relatively embarrassing answer: I am not > sure how to keep NetBSD-current, current. I am part of the NetBSD-current > mailing list and read

Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

8.0, then I follow (or > run) the script you included, is that correct? > > On 2/1/19, 8:59 AM, "David Brownlee" wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:36, Ron Georgia wrote: > > > > " Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your

Re: current transaction too big to flush

On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 13:52, Dima Veselov wrote: > > Greetings, > > the problem is still there and I even have a single file > which can not be deleted via standard rm command > causing kernel panic. What can be done there? Current > situation make WAPBL filesystem unusable. I also can not >

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 23:33, Chris Humphries wrote: > > Suggestions weren't mind-blowing or anything, but the usual suspects: > Thinkpads and people saying some random laptop mostly works for them. > > Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they > do they're silent

Re: current transaction too big to flush

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 14:38, Dima Veselov wrote: > > this maybe caused by nature of the file. All these files were > created with torrents, which may made them very > defragmented. Might help to set the torrent app to preallocate space? (not a fix, but possibly a workaround and an interesting

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 18:16, Mike Pumford wrote: > > On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58PM +0800, Travis Paul wrote: > >> You mentioned that you were looking for an amd64 board. Have you looked > >> at the PCEngines APU2 boards[1]? I have not personally

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 13:44, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: > > On 07/05/2019 13:23, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 18:16, Mike Pumford > > wrote: > >> > >> On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58P

Re: Rust with 9 Beta

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 18:43, Tobias Nygren wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:27:15 +0200 (CEST) > Havard Eidnes wrote: > > > Now, with that said, the rust bootstrap kits currently don't name the > > NetBSD OS-version they were built against, and possibly they should. > > However, I suspect that

Re: sync netbsd drive with Windows 10

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.htmlOn Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 14:49, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Bob Bernstein writes: > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, David Brownlee wrote: > > > >> I've had good experiences running syncthing to sync data between a > >> set

Re: portable USB disk installation

On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 05:41, orr721 wrote: > > Unfortunately I can confirm the ROOT. alias in fstab does not work in > 8.1 and there is no mention of it in the getfsspecname man page. > > I will try to move to -current. Would recommend trying the latest netbsd-9 beta from

Issues with booting from named wedges, raidframe & NetBSD-9 (Regression from NetBSD-8)

I have a 'root on RAID1' setup NetBSD-8 box upgraded to NetBSD-9 which no longer auto boots. There are six disks in the machine, but the relevant dmesg entries are: wd0: 5589 GB, 11628021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 11721045168 sectors dk0 at wd0: "raid0part0", 134217728 blocks at

Re: sync netbsd drive with Windows 10

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 18:07, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Request for Suggestions: > > I am gathering what will ultimately be about 100G of files on my > amd64 Netbsd (an old eMachine windows box itself) system's > original HD. > > That system as well as my Windows 10 (running off a NUC) are > cat-5

Re: ZFS status

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 18:58, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > - If you make a zfs filesystem on a disklabel partition (eg wd0f) and > > the disk moves zfs does not seem to be able to find it again. > > Do you mean if the disk is removed from the system and then plugged > there again? Or if another disk

Re: ZFS status

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 11:36, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > On feb 24 23:39, David Brownlee wrote: > > [...] > > > Or if another disk is plugged in that appears as a lower numbered > > device, for example making the disk switch from wd1 to wd2. > > Ok! > > > Apo

Re: EST available frequencies drops during operation

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 06:14, Matthias Petermann wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > on my Lenovo X230 (Intel Core i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz) with NetBSD > 9.0_RC1 (amd64) I have made a strange observation several times. > Especially under high load (the CPU temperature was well over 90 degrees >

Re: ZFS status

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 10:45, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Hi, anyone knows the current status of ZFS for recently released > NetBSD-9? There is a message on the console - "WARNING: ZFS on NetBSD > is under development". OK, but what does this mean? There is a good > chance it may lose/corrupt data, or

Re: Looking for java an android devs on netbsd environment

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 15:27, John m0t wrote: > > Hello; > > I am trying to set a full production system to do android and java > development in NetBSD. > > Is anyone doing it right now or ever done it before? > > I need to know if these things work on netbsd: > > a. android studio > > b. adb

Re: NetBSD-9 GPT on disks smaller than 2TB

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 10:58, Michael van Elst wrote: > > cryintotheblue...@gmail.com (Sad Clouds) writes: > > >Hi, assuming I'm using a system that doesn't require UEFI and disks are > >smaller than 2TB in size. Is there any advantage of using GPT vs the > >old disklabel scheme? Also if I want

Re: IntelliJ won't run under NetBSD 9.0

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 15:07, John m0t wrote: > > I investigated long and hard. > here is the report: > https://gist.github.com/j-fuller/d49abdf8b0cd90f9645cbf73d7023b9a#file-gistfile1-txt > any ideas? ( :-) ) As a data point I'm running IntelliJ 2019.3 under pkgsrc/openjdk8 I have a tiny

Re: too many inodes error from fsck

On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 20:13, Greg Troxel wrote: > > David Brownlee writes: > > > I have a filesystem failing fsck with "bad inode number 34610688 to > > nextinode" and its not in a convenient place to copy all data off to > > rebuild, so I'd like to inve

Re: too many inodes error from fsck

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 at 20:42, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > On Oct 3, 5:08pm, net...@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: too many inodes error from fsck > > | I tried it, but I read that message as saying that an unknown inode has a > | link to an invalid inode in a linked

Re: Drive ID changed

On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 12:04, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > WOW! Martin. Thanks. > > This is nothing like NetBSD 5.0 . > Its like learning a new system... You can also use the special "ROOT" token in /etc/fstab - eg: ROOT.a / ffs rw,log 1 1 ROOT.b swapswapsw

Re: Drive ID changed

On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 18:57, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > David: > > I finally got it. The following line became a problem: > > ROOT.b swapswapsw 0 0 > > I got the message: > > ... reported failures > /etc/rc.d/swap1 > SEE /var/run/rc.log Could you confirm what NetBSD

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 11:55, Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:03:41 +0100 > David Brownlee wrote: > > > If you do find fans spinning more than you like it may be worth > > replacing it/them with quieter/more efficient models - I did this for > > th

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 22:07, Chris Hanson wrote: > > One of the drives failed and I’d set the drives up as a single volume, oops. > > I brought up Windows temporarily to do the one firmware update I didn’t seem > to be able to do any other way (the storage controller) and then reinstalled >

Re: dhcpd on 9.0_STABLE amd64

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 13:04, Uwe Klaus wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Jaromír Dole?ek wrote: > > > I'd recommend switching over to (also built-in) dhcpcd. > This is a DHCP client, isn't it. > I need a reliable DHCP server. I've had very good experiences with dnsmasq from pkgsrc - which can

Re: Providing temporary storage space to a VM: qcow, nfs etc

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 04:32, Mayuresh wrote: > > I am using a Linux guest as a pkgsrc build server and the host isn't > particularly rich in disk space. So can't completely reserve all the space > required, but spikes in usage during compilation are accommodatable. > > I was using qcow2 disk

Re: Optional crunchgen base (Was: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?)

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 18:35, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [...] > Now I don't know what your storage situation is on your VAXen, but if > you can possibly afford to static-link your build you'll find things > start so much faster you'll be VERY surprised. I built a static linked NetBSD vax a while

Re: NetBSD 8 VPS server refusing to reboot: please help

While they may not be the cheapest (starting at $10/month) I've used Panix for reliable NetBSD xen hosting for the last... decade or so https://www.panix.com/v-colo/plans.html They have NetBSD amd64 & i386 images listed from 5.0.2 through to 9.1 David On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 10:34, Matthias

Re: .cshrc elm and PIDs

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 13:10, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > I monitor incoming emails on several user accounts in xterms stacked > in one icewm workspace. Being long in the tooth I use elm for email > and csh as my shell, and have done since the Dawn of Time. > > If a system reboot is needed,

Re: zfs/zpool and local disk vs netboot?

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 07:39, John D. Baker wrote: > > Since the zfs/zpool is as yet unused, I forcibly re-created it under > -current and copied the resulting "zpool.cache" file to the 9.1 system. > > Rebooting 9.1, the zpool shows up and is mounted just as before. > > Rebooting -current, 'zpool

Re: zfs/zpool and local disk vs netboot?

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 13:36, John D. Baker wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, David Brownlee wrote: > > > Does the pool show up under different devices - does a simple 'zpool > > import foo' work? > > What do you mean by "under different devices"? > >

Re: sponsor NetBSD for 2020 https://github.com/sponsors/NetBSD

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 18:25, wrote: > The usual way that TNF funding of projects work is that a developer will > come to TNF with a proposal for the project to fund their work. > Actively seeking out developers when nobody has come forward is a > challenge, because the sums of money are usually

Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 15:12, wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:26:47PM +, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 13:42, wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have some IDE disks that I'd like to read in order to know what

Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 13:42, wrote: > > Hello, > > I have some IDE disks that I'd like to read in order to know what is > left on them before deciding what to do with them. > > I bought a PCI-E IDE adapter to be able to connect them, since my AMD64 > is SATA. > > The problem is that the pciide

Re: Bump [q] gradle on NetBSD 9.1 (amd64) with OpenJDK 11 -- does not work

Just a "me too" comment. I'm using openjdk8 on NetBSD/amd64 for a wildfly gradle project in IntelliJ. Any attempt to use openjdk11 fails - wildfly starts but cannot accept any http connections - gradle build hangs - intellij randomly hangs/cannot connect debugger to running java

Re: Any package to populate image from raw data?

On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 16:54, Mayuresh wrote: > > I recently wrote a pyusb based driver to interact with an X ray camera. > The driver gives me a byte array of a 16 bit grayscale image. I want to > put this byte array into an image format. No specific format required as I > can always convert it

Re: procfs difference between NetBSD and Linux

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 23:05, Mark Davies wrote: > > > On 2/06/21 8:32 am, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > I force-downgraded samba 4.14.4 to 4.13.9 (itself released recently, > > 11th of May). It works as expected. > > The cvs diff with respect to the current pkgsrc version is attached, > > in case

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