Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

Hello, On Wed, 8 May 2024 10:14:55 + Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Michael wrote: > >> How do I enable radeonfb? Can I do it through configurations or do I > >> need to compile my own kernel to try? > > radeonfb* at pci? > > > > I

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

at pci? > drm did not configure, dmesg says. It's not a DRM driver, just an accelerated framebuffer console thing. If you have an iBook you probably used it. have fun Michael

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

gt; comparison with this specific one, I admit. Radeonfb should Just Work(tm) - it's used mainly on macppc and sparc64 but I'm pretty sure it's been run on at least some little endian hw before. have fun Michael

Re: netbsd crashes when using fat filesys

rhia...@falu.nl (Rhialto) writes: >$ sudo ./rump_msdos -o rw -o rump ./efi.img /tmp/t >rump_msdos: "./efi.img" is a relative path. >rump_msdos: using "/mnt/scratch/scratch/tmp/xcrash/efi.img" instead. >[ 1.000] entropy: ready >terminal 2: >$ cd /tmp/t >$ ls -l >total 4 >drwxr-xr-x 1

Re: netbsd crashes when using fat filesys

rhia...@falu.nl (Rhialto) writes: >I had something similar recently when doing a rename of a file on a FAT >file system (in this case my /efi file system). Fortunately I had it >mounted with -o rump, because it was 100% repeatable. >I filed http://gnats.netbsd.org/58146 for it. Maybe that's

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >I use the built-in GigE adaptor on the RPi 4B, because it's convenient as I >have wired ethernet most places. So I can't help with WiFi. Ethernet is also faster, even when the WiFi chip does 802.11ac. For Wifi on a RPI4b: With

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

most places. So I can't help with WiFi. I have been running an RPi 3 from a Lexar 64B Thumb Drive since June 2019 - no problem there, either. -Mike -Mike On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 2:04 PM Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 4/20/24 13:16, Michael van Elst wrote: > > tomd...@wavecable.com (

Re: need your advice before new Raspberry Pi purchase

0: SMBIOS rev. 3.3.0 @ 0x371d ... > Does HDMI output work or should I use serial console? traditional boot > vs UEFI difference in this matter? I'm typing this on a Pi400 with a monitor hooked to it. My Pi400 even came with a micro-HDMI to regular HDMI cable. have fun Michael

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: ># wpa_cli status >Selected interface 'bwfm0' >21:58:44.815: bssid=60:38:e0:db:a9:7a >freq=0 >ssid=tddhome >id=0 >mode=station >pairwise_cipher=TKIP >group_cipher=TKIP >key_mgmt=WPA-PSK >wpa_state=GROUP_HANDSHAKE >ip_address=169.254.135.120

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: >How do I setup wpa_supplicant? That depends on what you want to do. Here are some examples: https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_use_wpa_supplicant/ Greetings,

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: >On 4/18/24 22:00, Michael van Elst wrote: >> bwfm0: Firmware file default:brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin >> bwfm0: Firmware file model-spec: brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.bin >> bwfm0: Found Firmware file: b

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: >What is the wifi device in the RPi 4b? Driver? It's a chip similar to the one in the older RPIs: bwfm0: chip 0x4345 rev 6 bwfm0: Firmware file default:brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin bwfm0: Firmware file model-spec:

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 3:01 AM Liam Proven wrote: > I thought this might interest folks here... > > NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades > later > > Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types > >

Re: hostapd

mit DHCP packets. So the symptoms would point to an issue in the ARP or IP layer. -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: hostapd

pr...@welche.eu (Patrick Welche) writes: >The system httpd via inetd doesn't receive a web page request from the >device. >tcpdump shows the device requesting it, but no response. If httpd wouldn't run, the request would be answered with a TCP RST. If httpd does run, the request (SYN) is

Re: RC6 (and later)

I am not on the Release Team or involved except as a user --- however, I greatly approve of _RC6 release, AND the additional time it will take for people to beat on it before it becomes the 10.0 release. We have more hardware to properly work on now (just for starters, all RPi up to 4 at least),

Re: mbrlabel question

ea1...@gmail.com (Ramiro Aceves) writes: > The following options are available: > -f Force an update, even if there has been no change. > -q Performs operations in a quiet fashion. > -r In conjunction with -w, also update the on-disk label. > -s sector

'forgot' password ? Couldn't generate salt

I did a sysupgrade to amd64 to _RC5 (from _RC3), but it seems to have reset my passwords. The accounts are there, just the passwords have been changed. Tried logging in single-user as described in https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-boot.html # passwd root ... Couldn't generate salt.

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

kevin.bowl...@kev009.com (Kevin Bowling) writes: >Servers tend to have BMCs, so you can execute 'ipmitool sensors' and >'ipmi sel elist' to get the information out. ECC information is usually not provided by sensors. ECC errors may be listed in the SEL, but even this usually occurs only when

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >I've been running ECC in the Windows box for years, it seems like a 'no >brainer' for servers. Servers usually run for years, and Stuff Happens over >the years [1]. >But I'd prefer a reliable, unhackable, trustable compute

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

ri, Feb 16, 2024 at 7:09 AM Hauke Fath (SPG) wrote: > On 2024-02-16 01:14, Michael van Elst wrote: > > We should have EDAC drivers that should at least report events, > > but so far there is nothing... > > Sounds like a SoC project? > > Cheerio, > Hauke > > >

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

h...@spg.tu-darmstadt.de ("Hauke Fath (SPG)") writes: >one my favourite blogs is sporting a page on AMD ECC RAM support >, >Is this of any relevance to NetBSD, or do we just not bother? We should have EDAC drivers that

Re: Raspberry Pi Zero W almost useless

ower supply to fix a little thing like the ZeroW, you know ;-) Just use the hub to power the Pi. I used to do that wit the Pi1 and 2. have fun Michael

Re: Raspberry Pi Zero W almost useless

ea1...@gmail.com (Ramiro Aceves) writes: >Oh yes, that would be a right technical fix for the problem but it's a >bit of an aberration in terms of cost and size to use a powered HUB with >its own power supply to fix a little thing like the ZeroW, you know ;-) RPI0-3 models all have issues

Re: NetBSD 10.0 RC_3 GENERIC amd64 home built kernel doesn't boot

fekete.zol...@minux.hu (=?UTF-8?Q?Fekete_Zolt=C3=A1n?=) writes: >Hi There, Hi, maybe you can provide more information. >I have a laptop from 2013, and I'm playing around with it. >I've just compiled a kernel with the command: >./build.sh -T ../tools -O ../obj -U -N1 -j2 kernel=GENERIC is

Re: shrinking a filesystem using resize_ffs(8)

jscha...@netmeister.org (Jan Schaumann) writes: >Hi, Hi, >$ sudo newfs -C 2 /dev/rvnd0a There is no '-C'. Maybe -O 2 ? But resize_ffs doesn't support shrinking FFS2 and should complain when you try. >[ back to two '1048576' sized partitions ] >$ sudo fsck_ffs -y -f /dev/rvnd0b >[ all ok ]

Re: Keyboards

e mechanical keyboard to take with you when you travel so you can use a "real" keyboard instead of the one on your laptop. Like I said, deep, deep hole. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX

Re: Keyboards

om 1993. Bought it for about 10 bucks on a flea market in Berlin in the early 2000s. These things are practically indestructible. have fun Michael

Re: WireGuard setup in NetBSD 10

k...@krot.org (Kirill Miazine) writes: >> Maybe he still has auto_ifconfig=NO ? >no, he didn't... but issue was if_wg not being loaded upon boot -- but >loaded when ifconfig wg0 create was called. The perils of the module autoloader.

Re: WireGuard setup in NetBSD 10

mar...@duskware.de (Martin Husemann) writes: >On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Kirill Miazine wrote: >> Does your custom kernel provide some wg devices initially? >No, but "ifconfig -C" lists wg as a clonable device, so /etc/ifconfig.wg0 >is loaded. Maybe he still has auto_ifconfig=NO

Re: Network and port redirection with QEMU not working with package compiled on 10.0_RC1

baba...@babafou.eu.org (Marc Baudoin) writes: >Has anybody got a working QEMU (at least network-wise) compiled >on NetBSD 10.0_RC[12]? No problems here, neither with qemu-8.1.0 (2023Q3) nor qemu-8.1.3 (2023Q4): Host: NetBSD tazz 10.99.10 NetBSD 10.99.10 (TAZZ) #311: Sun Dec 24 15:24:24 UTC 2023

Re: Prob using CPIO

tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: >I zip up much music: > find . -depth -print | cpio -ov > file.cpio >To unzip it , I must undo *cpio severa times severa times: > cpio -iv < file.cpio Your 'zip' packs the local directory including the cpio file that is being created. You don't have

Re: After -10 patch that fixes kern/57669

joel.bertr...@systella.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=c3=abl?=) writes: > I have seen Michael has applied patch to fix ccb_timout to -10 kernel. >Thus, I have rebuilt my tree to have a unpatched kernel and I cannot now >access to my NAS over iSCSI. Of course, I have reinstall

Re: Are The Packages Gone Again?

j...@m5.chicago.il.us ("Jay F. Shachter") writes: >I was able to reinstall ghostscript (as I stated). The others -- >ImageMagick6, atril, gv, libspectre and okular -- are gone. At least there was no problem to build them. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11102472 Sep 29 14:25

Re: Are The Packages Gone Again?

j...@m5.chicago.il.us ("Jay F. Shachter") writes: >Are the NetBSD 10 packages gone again? I recently removed ghostscript >with the intention of re-installing it (gs was complaining that there >was no libtiff.so, which is preposterous, because there was, but I >didn't want to argue with it).

Re: iscsid - lfs and ipv6 issues

mount a root filesystem. So no idea yet what error is triggered. On the other hand, attempting to use LFS showed errors with handling block sizes and running the filesystem tester (fsx) somewhen paniced the system. Whatever was "fixed" in LFS was not good enough :-/ Greetings, --

Re: CGD - unable to open after closing, using '-V gpt', argon2id and adiantum

luisvmen...@yandex.com (Luis Mendes) writes: >== Now, trying to open the container again: >cgdconfig -V gpt cgd0 NAME=nvme-crypt /etc/cgd/nvme-crypt >After entering the four zeroes password, there's the message: >"cgdconfig: verification failed, please reenter passphrase". >What is wrong with

Re: iscsid - lfs and ipv6 issues

On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 07:47:47PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > Using getaddrinfo() would be much better of course. That's what I have now -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lu

Re: iscsid - lfs and ipv6 issues

k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: >That looks to me as if it should work, and is a lot cleaner, though >I doubt there's a great need to remove the [] if they were given. getaddrinfo() doesn't strip or handle brackets.

Re: iscsid - lfs and ipv6 issues

k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: > | The address parser looks broken. >It certainly is, it is horrid. >and the relevant function is get_address() Maybe the patch below. It's still a bit naive (you can bracket anything, not just ipv6 literals). The address string is later used in

Re: iscsid - lfs and ipv6 issues

lis...@nebelschwaden.de (Ede Wolf) writes: >I am having two issues with iscsid/iscsictl. First, it seems, I cannot >mount an lfs formatted iscsi lun, no matter wether this drive is >gpt/wedge or plain disklabelled: ># mount -t lfs /dev/dk0 /import/ >mount_lfs: /dev/dk0 on /import: Operation

Re: rc.local nightmare

ea1...@gmail.com (Ramiro Aceves) writes: >My script says on the console "Network connectivity to $TARGET is OK." >several times before the script dies. So ping works fine. (I have set >INTERVAL=3 seconds just to speed things up during testing. Your script shouldn't create output from a

Re: NetBSD 10 Beta: Updating The Base System

stays the same. Greetings, -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Bluetooth status, compatible USB Bluetooth adapters?

dyo...@pobox.com (David Young) writes: >By the way, to interoperate with Bluetooth Low Energy devices, is >anything beyond a compatible USB Bluetooth adapter needed? For example, >kernel or utility changes? So far we don't support BLE at all. Devices that talk only BLE cannot be used. My

Re: Where are the 10.0 packages?

j...@m5.chicago.il.us ("Jay F. Shachter") writes: >system a dhcp client of the other laptop), and I cannot, because the >packages are no longer at >http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/10.0/All where >they used to be. netbsd-10 got a second flag day, first when updating

Re: UEFI installation

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >For the EFI partition, what are the rules? It seems like > the size is at least X and less than Y 100MB is the minimum, some systems reject smaller EFI partitions. It also should be FAT32.

Re: ZFS Bogosity

asier method though. > > Yes, that seems not to have any real downsides and would make it behave > as expected. SMOP -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: ZFS Bogosity

rrange for "volume labels" to be visible in the filesystem (e.g. use devpubd to create symlinks for wedges, or invent a device filesystem that is filled by the kernel) and let zfs scan these. Makeing zfs scan disklabel partitions derived from hw.disknames seems to be the e

Re: ZFS Bogosity

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >David Brownlee writes: >> https://gnats.netbsd.org/57583 >Do you think this is just a bug that it fails to look at wd3e >etc. wrongly if there is /dev/zfs? The code scans all devices in the specified device directory, unless it's /dev/. Then it uses

Re: would anybody use binary packages for NetBSD/i386 10?

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >it was underpowered, that I might or might not ever power up again, and >if I did I wouldn't use ftp.n.o packages on it. What else? Self-compiling on a system you already consider outdated? :) Binary packages are more important on systems that we consider

Re: NetBSD 10 BETA successfully installed, does not recognize my wireless network device

j...@m5.chicago.il.us ("Jay F. Shachter") writes: >else. According to the output that I obtain when I boot my computer >into OpenBSD and invoke the "pcidump -v" command -- and I have to >engage in this roundabout procedure because I do not see a pcidump >command, or anything resembling it, on my

Re: Network interface slowness

joel.bertr...@systella.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=c3=abl?=) writes: >CISCO FTTH adapter > || > || >netbsdLinux > | > | > lan >On NetBSD (-10) or workstations on LAN: >- 400 Mbps downlink; >- 4 (!) Mbps uplink, yes, 4 Mbps. What happens when you unplug one of the

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: >> t...@netbsd.org (Tobias Nygren) writes: >> >>>There exists ZFS code which hooks into UVM to drain memory -- but part >>>of it is ifdef __i386 for some reason. See arc_kmem_

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

t...@netbsd.org (Tobias Nygren) writes: >There exists ZFS code which hooks into UVM to drain memory -- but part >of it is ifdef __i386 for some reason. See arc_kmem_reap_now(). That's an extra for 32bit systems (later code replaced __i386 with the proper macro) where kernel address space is much

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:26:57PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > > > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > > > >>I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they > >>did, th

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they >did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There is of course >a long tradition of improvements from various *BSD being applied to >others.) The FreeBSD code is already there

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

to force ZFS to > give up its pool usage. At least not in the current incarnation. There are lots of tunables though that are supposed to limit ZFS memory usage, but so far we do not expose these (FreeBSD does). -- Michael van Elst Internet: mle

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > RAM and/or responds to pressure. That's why we see almost no reports > of trouble expect for zfs. There is almost no pressure on pools and several effects prevent pressure from actually draining pool caches. There is almost no pressure on vcache and

./build.sh -O ../obj tools producing error

Hi, fresh download; /usr/src nonexistent, /usr/obj nonexistent # cd /usr # cvs checkout -A -P src # cd src # ./build.sh -O ../obj tools gives me: << stuff >> cc -o nbmake arch.o buf.o compat.o cond.o dir.o for.o hash.o job.o lst.o main.o make.o make_malloc.o meta.o metachar.o parse.o str.o

Re: NetBSD & disks with 4K sector size

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: >> The xbd driver lies about the sector size and always reports 512byte >> sectors. If you pass through a 4k sector host disk, this make some >> I/O operations fail. >What do you sug

Re: NetBSD & disks with 4K sector size

g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >With any luck, this is supported and the xbd driver in NetBSD is just >not noticing the sector size variable and it's a fairly small matter of >programming. The xbd driver lies about the sector size and always reports 512byte sectors. If you pass through a

Re: NetBSD & disks with 4K sector size

li...@nerdbynature.de (Christian Kujau) writes: >So, my question is: does NetBSD work with 4k sector size disks? I found >two[1][2] threads from 11 years ago, but nothing conclusive and with >somewhat conflicting[3][4] information. The NetBSD Xen PV xbd device lies about sector sizes so that

Re: bioctl cosmetic issue

j...@ziaspace.com (John Klos) writes: >[ 1.033007] mfii0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i", >firmware 23.34.0-0019, 1024MB cache >Where is bioctl supposed to get the sector size? bioctl prints a struct bioc_vol which has the volume size in bytes. The calculation is done

Re: Call for testing: Diagnostics for broken downloads from NetBSD.org CDN

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 08:14:20AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > > Fastly caches data in segments: > > https://docs.fastly.com/en/guides/segmented-caching > Is a client that writes a partial file and exits considered buggy? May de

Re: Call for testing: Diagnostics for broken downloads from NetBSD.org CDN

riastr...@netbsd.org (Taylor R Campbell) writes: >We've been hearing reports of intermittent issues with broken partial >downloads via our content delivery network, Fastly, from >cdn.NetBSD.org, nycdn.NetBSD.org, and/or archive.NetBSD.org, >particularly of large files like the installer images.

Transparent Page Placement

TPP apparently improves 'hot' data locality with a low-overhead algorithm that has been implemented in mainstream Linux. https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/new-technique-for-memory-page-placement-integrated-into-linux-kernel

Re: touch screen support

dty...@anduin.org.uk (Dave Tyson) writes: >I guess these touch screens need some calibration to set the x/y bounds >and maybe some mods to the driver. Can anyone hit me with a cluebat as >to where to start... There are lots touchpads that need a more relaxed interpretation of their capabilities.

Re: How to use the 'ls' -M flag?

26, 2023 at 11:50 PM RVP wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2023, Michael Cheponis wrote: > > > I'm having no success trying to get ls to print file sizes, using the -M > > flag. > > > > The `thousands separator' char. is locale-specific. In the default C/POSIX > locale,

How to use the 'ls' -M flag?

I'm having no success trying to get ls to print file sizes, using the -M flag. -MModifies the -l and -s options, causing the sizes or block counts reported to be separated with commas (or a locale appropriate separator) resulting in a more readable output.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 and NetBSD 10.0_BETA - WiFi stops working after few hours and wonky USB keyboard

bbartlomiej.m...@gmail.com (Bartek Krawczyk) writes: >> Perhaps the device is going into power saving mode and your connection >> terminates? >There's "powersave off" in the ifconfig output and I've issued the >ifconfig bwfm0 -powersave command explicitly as well. No change. The default in

Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:27 AM Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Just xrandr for me. > > I don't use vmware, but for virtualbox I have "vesa 0x160" added to /boot.cfg to the boot normally line: menu=Boot normally:vesa 0x160;rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot With that, I don't need to use xrandr and I

Re: Prob with my speakers

tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: >Speakers where cracking a lot. I noticed that when I reboot >NetBSD I saw some info printed. >How to I catch this and send it in? Is it in a log I can view? The early messages should be in /var/run/dmesg.boot. Output from starting services is logged in

Re: libc license

I believe the font size of the printed documentation is not specified... I liked what Perry Metzger said about BSD vs 'other' licenses: "Instead of worrying that people are going to steal my code, with BSD, I *know* they will!" On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:55 AM r0ller wrote: > Hi All, > >

Re: Keeping NetBSD disklabel up to date

wolfg...@solfrank.net (Wolfgang Solfrank) writes: >> Or you can run mbrlabel (without -w) and replace the previous entries >> accordingly. >No, without -w, mbrlabel will just print out the modified disklabel, >but will neither change the in-core label nor the one on disk. Indeed. you print the

Re: Keeping NetBSD disklabel up to date

bea...@sdf.org writes: >So it sounds like mbrlabel by itself would not have been sufficient for >avoiding this scenario; it's output still needs to be applied via the >disklabel tool; is that correct? Yes. > I'm sort of surprised as the mbrlabel(8) >manpage says > "mbrlabel is used to update

Re: Keeping NetBSD disklabel up to date

bea...@sdf.org (beaker) writes: >Is it safe and sufficient to run 'mbrlabel -fw ' on NetBSD >whenever there has been partition resizing (usually via Gpartd) >such that the disklabel no longer reflects the current partitioning >state? mbrlabel creates disklabel entries for MBR partition entries,

Re: FFSv2ea

clays.sh...@sdf.org (Clay Daniels) writes: >If I try this:    #gpt show wd0 >I get this:        GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 >Then the next installation I deliberately used the default of FFSv2, I >get the same thing. I'm sure I must be expecting the gpt command to do >more than it

Re: Is this normal floppy behavior?

0 filesys id msdos fstype 0x1000 flag255 filename length 0 owner 7 syncwrites 12 asyncwrites* -Mike On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 2:07 PM wrote: > > On 1/5/23 21:32, Michael Cheponis wrote: > >> fascinatingly, now, when I try to

Re: Is this normal floppy behavior?

ectory you're trying to umount." Naturally, I 'should' know that "Device busy" means "hey dude! you're in the directory you're trying to umount." gosh. ;-) On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 1:33 PM Christian Groessler wrote: > On 1/5/23 21:32, Michael Cheponis wrote: >

Re: Is this normal floppy behavior?

tingly, now, when I try to "umount" the filesystem: *# umount /a umount: /a: Device busy* This behavior seems incorrect. On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 5:26 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > Michael Cheponis writes: > > > There are a bunch of files on the floppy when mounted; I delete them all; &

Is this normal floppy behavior?

There are a bunch of files on the floppy when mounted; I delete them all; but then, there is a large amount of 'used' space! unmounting + remounting 'fixes' this problem. *# mount_msdos /dev/sd2a /a* *# ls -l /atotal 2drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel512

odd /dev/random behavior with dd ?

Hi, 'dd' seems to behave different if the 'if' is /dev/random than if it is anything else, e.g. /dev/zero: *# sh # dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.out bs=65536 count=11+0 records in1+0 records out65536 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (65536000 bytes/sec)# ls -l

Re: 'cd' if HOME is unset

cases, directory does not change when HOME is not defined. On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 9:47 AM Robert Elz wrote: > Date:Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:33:57 -0800 > From: Michael Cheponis > Message-ID: 5rw...@mail.gmail.com> > > | Maybe it should print

Re: 'cd' if HOME is unset

Maybe it should print "$HOME is not set" in that case? On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 2:52 PM Valery Ushakov wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 22:32:22 -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > > Robert Elz wrote: > > > Why bother? > > > > I happily admit that it's a rare edge case. I simply > > find it

Re: NetBSD-10.0_BETA: clock: unknown CMOS layout

dposto...@yandex.ru (Dmitrii Postolov) writes: >"clock: unknown CMOS layout" The message says that no century information is found in the CMOS RAM, the hardware clock itself seems to keep only 2 year digits. The century is then deduced as 1900 if the year number is less than 70 and 2000

Re: NetBSD-10.0_BETA: clock: unknown CMOS layout

dposto...@yandex.ru (Dmitrii Postolov) writes: >On boot of NetBSD-10.0_BETA the message "clock: unknown CMOS layout" is >printed. There is no this message at boot on NetBSD-9.x. It's a DIAGNOSTIC message, if you run NetBSD-9.x release, the kernel is built without DIAGNOSTIC checks and messages,

Re: resolv.conf

tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: >Spectrum upgraded. I start NetBSD, and /etc/resolv.conf has nothing. >How do I fix this? >Should there be any minimal resolv.conf settings??? You either get network settings automatically via DHCP (and that should include data for resolv.conf) or you have

Re: IBM IMM shared port

kab...@lich.phys.spbu.ru (Dima Veselov) writes: >I have an IBM x3200 M3 server with built-in IMM IPMI service >processor. This server have IPMI network port shared with first network >card. This setup is quite popular and I have several different servers >having no issues with that. While

Re: Debugging socket options

br...@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan) writes: > 18808 18808 guppy_basecaller CALL socketpair(1,5,0,0x7f7fdb98) socketpair(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0, ); > 18808 18808 guppy_basecaller CALL = >setsockopt(3,1,0x10,0x7f7fda14,4) setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PASSCRED, , sizeof(val)); I

Re: ldd-linux

xactly the version is was built for. Greetings, -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: timers slow (sleep 1 taking five seconds)

r...@reedmedia.net ("Jeremy C. Reed") writes: >acpi0: fixed power button present >timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 >hpet0 at acpi0: high precision event timer (mem 0xfed0-0xfed00400) >timecounter: Timecounter "hpet0" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 2000

Re: ldd-linux

br...@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan) writes: >All but one of these are provided by the emulators/suse131_base and = >emulators/suse131_glib2 packages; the missing one is libstdc++.so.6. = Hmm. emulators/suse131_base (from 2022Q3 release) comes with: /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6

Re: Local-only (non-ip) rpcbind(8)?

h...@spg.tu-darmstadt.de (Hauke Fath) writes: >> if (ipv6_only == 1 && >And here is where I naively would insert a commandline option flag to >disable all things non-local. Unless something like that already exists, >and I just didn't see it. >>

Re: Local-only (non-ip) rpcbind(8)?

h...@spg.tu-darmstadt.de (Hauke Fath) writes: >Hi, >can rpcbind(8) be set up to only use local transport, as opposed to >binding to interfaces? >The closest I seem to come to that goal is by specifying '-h 127.0.0.1', >which results in a pointless >Nov 18 15:45:05 HOST rpcbind: cannot bind

Re: switched from 9.99 to 9.3, init dies

riccardo.mott...@libero.it (Riccardo Mottola) writes: >After the upgrade (which I believe is partially a downgrade, I don't >know when 9.3 was forked) boot dies with "panic: init died" apparently >in snprintf. I would guess that "upgrading" killed your libc. You can try to boot with -a (ask)

Re: More floppy oddities

michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >--7795b905eda356fd >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" ># scsictl sd1 format >/dev/rsd1: Check Condition on CDB: 1a 00 03 00 24 00 >SENSE KEY: No Additional Sense > ASC/ASCQ: No Addi

More floppy oddities

# scsictl sd1 format /dev/rsd1: Check Condition on CDB: 1a 00 03 00 24 00 SENSE KEY: No Additional Sense ASC/ASCQ: No Additional Sense Information I don't know what that means. The console prints: [ 2207.9560928] sd1(umass1:0:0): medium error, data = 00 00 00 00 30 01 00 00 00 00 [

Re: noob Question: How to format a floppy on a USB floppy disk drive (on RPi 4) ?

Yes, the process for making a floppy useful to an OS is the same as any other computer media. The common "1.44" MB floppy is actually 2.0 MB (12 Mbits) worth of data. However, a controller chip (usually an NEC 765 or equivalent) is used to write certain patterns onto the diskette; for a standard

Re: noob Question: How to format a floppy on a USB floppy disk drive (on RPi 4) ?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 04:04:05PM -0800, Michael Cheponis wrote: > Nov 15 23:42:22 arm64 /netbsd: [ 1728677.3990874] sd1(umass1:0:0): not > ready, data = 00 00 00 00 3a 00 00 00 00 00 > Nov 15 23:42:22 arm64 /netbsd: [ 1729062.2630115] sd1: detached > Nov 15 23:42:22 a

Re: noob Question: How to format a floppy on a USB floppy disk drive (on RPi 4) ?

oot wheel 737280 Nov 15 08:06 f1* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 65536 Nov 16 00:00 f2* Thanks, again for any pointers / suggestions. On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 1:29 PM Michael van Elst wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:33:07AM -0800, Michael Cheponis wrote: > > *# scsictl sd1 format/d

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