Re: panic: unix: lock not held

2024-05-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:15 AM Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2024-05-03, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > Hi all, > > Referring to the existing email chain on bugs@ > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171468519914343&w=2 > > > > Unable to boot to a prompt. Ho

panic: unix: lock not held

2024-05-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi all, Referring to the existing email chain on bugs@ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171468519914343&w=2 Unable to boot to a prompt. How do I recover by booting an older kernel? There is no /obsd to try out. Thanks

Re: iwm adapter loses connectivity to 2.4Ghz network

2023-04-08 Thread Amit Kulkarni
This might have nothing to do with OpenBSD. The router itself may need to be restarted. I restart my router every week, ISP has it listed on their website in FAQ. On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:10 PM wrote: > > I'm running 7.2 with an iwm(4) controller connected to a 2.4Ghz network. > > Every few days

Iridium video issues

2022-12-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi all, After upgrading to the latest GENERIC.MP #905 on amd64 I am seeing some weird video issues in Iridium, when loading gmail.com. Is it just me, they appear sometimes, and go away? That weirdness happens only for the first 30-60 seconds. Sorry for the vague report, not sure if it is related

Re: sysupgrade fails with "FAILED" when "verifying sets"?

2022-12-12 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 8:19 AM Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2022-12-12, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > retry, and all should be ok. > > No, there is a problem with the files. > Sorry for that Robb and Stuart.

Re: sysupgrade fails with "FAILED" when "verifying sets"?

2022-12-12 Thread Amit Kulkarni
retry, and all should be ok. On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:18 AM Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Today sysupgrade failed for me, but I'm not sure why? Here's the output: > > # sysupgrade -s -n > > Fetching from http://ftp.fau.de/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ > > SHA256.sig 100%

Re: sysmerge: what is [leave it for later] good for, actually?

2022-10-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
You chose later, so now do a "doas sysmerge", and merge it now? On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 2:18 AM Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Hi folks, > > sysmerge noted that I had modified my /etc/newsyslog.conf. Since I > didn't had time for this while other important services were not > merged yet I chose the def

Re: happy birthday theo

2022-05-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Happy Birthday to Theo! On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:46 AM Brodey Dover wrote: > > Happy Birthday Theo! > > On Thu, 19 May 2022 at 02:51, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > here's wishing theo deraadt a very happy birthday. > > wish you many more years of producing great software and being > > cantankerou

Re: OpenBSD ftp and libtls: how to use session resumption with -S

2022-05-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 3:27 PM Marc Espie wrote: > > On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 08:13:42AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2022-05-06, Theo Buehler wrote: > > > While we could readily make libssl fall back to the legacy stack if > > > SSL_OP_NO_TICKET is disabled, I don't think this optimizati

Re: OpenBSD ftp and libtls: how to use session resumption with -S

2022-05-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Agreed, pkg_add is super fast now. Thank you Marc! On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 4:07 AM Jan Stary wrote: > > On May 06 08:13:42, stu.li...@spacehopper.org wrote: > > On 2022-05-06, Theo Buehler wrote: > > > While we could readily make libssl fall back to the legacy stack if > > > SSL_OP_NO_TICKET is

Re: libdmx removal incomplete?

2021-11-28 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 5:17 PM Alexander wrote: > > Hi, > thanks to both of you. > > On 2021/11/26 6:51, Sebastien Marie wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 06:16:11PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > > I'm aware that I'm pretty late with this, still

Re: libdmx removal incomplete?

2021-11-25 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> I'm aware that I'm pretty late with this, still I'd like to ask in case > this is not completely irrelevant. > > The last entry on https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html before > 'Roll current' was the libdmx removal: > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/www/faq/current.html?rev=1.1077 > > After the su

Re: -current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
check the fallout. Once the > fallout is mostly fixed, we'll do the switch to libc++ 11. Until then > snapshots are not harmed in anyway, apart from the libunwind update. > > Am Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:56:07AM -0600 schrieb Amit Kulkarni: > > Like naddy@ mentioned on

Re: -current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Like naddy@ mentioned on ports@ they are trying to figure out the fallout from the switch to LLVM 11 as system compiler. This is why the packages are being delayed. Please wait a while till it is sorted out. thanks On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:56 AM Steve Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > I hesitate to s

Re: MIdnight Commander won't run

2020-04-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Upgraded my router from 6.5 to 6.6. Followed the upgrade guide and installed > most, not all, of > the file sets. I did not install the games set or several of the X sets. Install all X sets, and then retry. mc uses X with some library somewhere to display it on screen. > > I ran pkg_add -u

Re: heads up: amd64 snap

2020-03-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 1:25 PM Sebastien Marie wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:03:10AM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > > Should I try to pull the boot > > hard drive into another running system, and then manually try to copy > > over a clean /bsd.mp on

Re: heads up: amd64 snap

2020-03-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:15 AM Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:03:10AM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How does this show itself? > > > > I have an older 2013 era system with Pentium G2020 or so (going from > > memor

Re: heads up: amd64 snap

2020-03-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi, How does this show itself? I have an older 2013 era system with Pentium G2020 or so (going from memory here, so might be wrong), which does not go into OpenBSD install. Just sits there with Dell logo. Only takes a Ctrl-Alt-Del command for a reboot, and if I try to enter into BIOS, it does not

Re: The difference between binutils and binutils-2.17?

2017-10-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Nan Xiao wrote: > Hi misc@, > > Greetings from me! > > I find there are binutils and binutils-2.17 in gnu/usr.bin/ dirctory > of OpenBSD source code. What's the difference between them? When I use > binutils command, such as "ar", it comes from binutils or > binuti

Re: lazy binding failed

2017-08-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> What am I missing that prevents the ports from correcting the issue? > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html 2017/07/29 - amd64 and i386: update all packages

Re: Removal of old libraries

2016-11-08 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Clint Pachl wrote: > Ax0n wrote on 09/03/16 13:12: > >> I've got a Toshiba NB305 netbook that's been my daily-use laptop for more >> than 6 years now. The last fresh install I did was OpenBSD 4.9-RELEASE in >> early May 2011. I've been quite happy with how it work

Re: LLVM license change

2016-09-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Ingo Schwarze [schwa...@usta.de] wrote: > > Hi Benjamin, > > > > kbenjamin Coplon wrote on Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 01:23:43PM -0400: > > > > > What does the OpenBSD community think about the LLVM proposal to move > > > to the Apache license?

Re: syslogd on 6.0-beta

2016-05-25 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Jeff Ross wrote: > > jross@fw:/home/jross $ tail -10 /var/log/messages > > May 21 04:00:01 fw syslogd: restart > > May 25 15:53:58 fw syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > > May 25 15:53:58 fw syslogd: start > > May 25 15:53:58 fw syslogd: recvfrom

Re: Subpixel / RGB antialiasing

2016-04-14 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Simon McFarlane wrote: > On 04/14/16 12:23, Matej Nanut wrote: > > Hello, > > > > OpenBSD's freetype library is built without the feature. > > > > If you have your source trees set up, you can rebuild it after > > uncommenting FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING i

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
2016 at 9:30 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > I see the writes are not being done to disk in case of a simple cvs > update, > > and the machine locks up for a solid couple of minutes afterwards also. > This > > happens in a dual CPU config with plenty of free memory, even with &

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
I see the writes are not being done to disk in case of a simple cvs update, and the machine locks up for a solid couple of minutes afterwards also. This happens in a dual CPU config with plenty of free memory, even with stefan, mpi and kettenis recent diffs. For a curious kernel reader, where could

Terribly slow disk on -current

2016-01-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
This has happened quite often in last few months that I post to ask if anybody else is experiencing the same issue? When I do a cvs update, while updating the ports tree, I cannot do anything else. I cannot even open a separate xterm. If I am in a browser (firefox or iridium), the system just lock

Re: i386 packages - snapshot 23/12/2015

2015-12-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-12-24, soko.tica wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've succesfully installed today the latest i386 snapshot on a usb flash > > disk (on amd64 box), but the packages (e.g. links+, xfe ) report > unresolved > > dependencies and bad major.

Re: i386 packages - snapshot 23/12/2015

2015-12-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Stuart Henderson > wrote: > >> On 2015-12-24, soko.tica wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I've succesfully installed today the latest i386 snapshot on a

Re: broken bsd.rd build on amd64?

2015-10-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > cc -static -L. -nopie -o instbin instbin.o dd.lo mount_cd9660.lo md5.lo > > df.lo mount.lo mount_ext2fs.lo arch.lo sync.lo restore.lo stty.lo ln.lo > > disklabel.lo pax.lo ping.lo cat.lo ifconfig.lo ls.lo ping6.lo sysctl.lo > > date.lo kbd

broken bsd.rd build on amd64?

2015-10-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
cc -static -L. -nopie -o instbin instbin.o dd.lo mount_cd9660.lo md5.lo df.lo mount.lo mount_ext2fs.lo arch.lo sync.lo restore.lo stty.lo ln.lo disklabel.lo pax.lo ping.lo cat.lo ifconfig.lo ls.lo ping6.lo sysctl.lo date.lo kbd.lo fdisk.lo mount_msdos.lo grep.lo umount.lo mount_udf.lo fsck.lo more

Re: update/upgrade

2015-09-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > qua...@sneakertech.com (Quartz), 2015.09.21 (Mon) 02:43 (CEST): > > >As it was already stated in @misc, > > > > I don't think I got that message. (?) > > > > >mtier is probably as safe as relying on > > >openbsd code. > > > > I'm not worrie

Re: Problems building userland

2015-09-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > How are you guys able to build userland? I double-checked that the > > > > > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/Makefile?rev=1.125

Re: Problems building userland

2015-09-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:35:07AM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How are you guys able to build userland? I double-checked that the > > > > > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~chec

Problems building userland

2015-09-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hello, How are you guys able to build userland? I double-checked that the http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/Makefile?rev=1.125&content-type=text/plain is still referring to ${SUDO} here is the result. # make build cd /usr/src/share/mk && exec /usr/bin/sudo -E make ins

Re: improving browser security

2015-03-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> At the risk of feature creep: > There was a thread on this list about browser installation > such that it would, for each user be sandboxed in a clean room, denying any > scripts access to the users files. I don't know if this is at all > appropriate for > this project, and I just throw it out t

Re: postgresql-server exiting abnormally after upgrade to -snapshot

2015-02-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2015-02-16 16:24, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2015-02-15, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > > > > > > Am I mistaken in understanding that this is an issue with postgresql > itself, > > > and not a local configuration error? > > > >

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

2015-01-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Predrag, > > Predrag Punosevac wrote on Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:24:00PM -0500: > > > I was following this discussion with the great interest but without > > intend to participate in it until today. > > > > Namely one of my OpenBSD servers

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

2015-01-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I was following this discussion with the great interest but without > intend to participate in it until today. > > Namely one of my OpenBSD servers (5.6 sparc64) runs Mollify and last > night I received an e-mail from an angry user who c

Re: OpenBSD on Intel Galileo

2015-01-13 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Dude...the reason is given right there, in the message. why not publish the hack , for education purpose ? > > > > > I fear I do not have the diffs and blobs anymore.

Re: Major KDE4 problems

2014-11-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
If you want the best KDE4 experience, use a more modern machine within the last 3 years. AFAIK, Dell Optiplex GX 270 is atleast 8 years old. From reading KDE blogs, some parts of KDE4 have switched to using the graphics card for rendering using QML, and the CPU is fallback option. I don't see a sep

Re: The rant about browsers

2014-08-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 08/23/14 10:30, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > Hello Everybody. > > > > Before anything I want to say big thanks to the developers of OpenBSD, > > for maintaining it. After some ~10 years of being the loyal OpenBSD > > user, I never had any

Re: Vision 2020: Making OpenBSD the world's fastest OS

2014-06-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Lastly, I will remind you that the "fastest" OS compared to OpenBSD > is very likely less than 15%. Say its 25% even, and you could get > faster hardware to accomedate that. > Come on, that is a false assertion. OpenBSD does have its warts, like everybody else out there. They are different wart

Re: Strange route entry from China

2014-05-13 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Johan Ryberg wrote: > Hi, > > Please forgive my ignorance. > > I have a small lab and I noticed this IP in the routing table: > 61.174.51.232, resolves to > 232.51.174.61.dial.wz.zj.dynamic.163data.com.cn > > # route -n show > Routing tables > > Internet: > Destin

Re: # rm ../snapshots/i386/INSTALL.linux

2014-04-10 Thread Amit Kulkarni
nowadays in the days of UEFI, it is just plain wrong. that document will probably be deleted. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Fung wrote: > out of sync? > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/INSTALL.linux

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY < open...@e-solutions.re> wrote: > Hi > > There's no anymore multilanguage pages ? > > Regards, > > Wesley > > They are gone... There are huge bunch of commits starting from this one. I thought it was a subtle April fool's joke but apparently

Re: Should Android have used OpenBSD instead of Linux?

2013-11-26 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 02:00:53PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > | So the next question is, why would someone want to switch to OpenBSD > | on one of these platforms? > > Because phone software is absolutely awful today. There is no > exc

Re: mongodb

2013-11-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Chris Smith wrote: > Mentioned previously: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Stuart Henderson > wrote: > > Note that the mongodb port is currently broken (and has been since > 5.3-ish iirc). > > Wondering if mongodb is operational with -current? > > No

Re: update to errata

2013-11-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Marko Cupać wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:00:48 -0500 > josh Grosse wrote: > > > OpenBSD is source code maintained. There is the -stable branch, which > > includes errata and any patches against -release that are not published > > as errata. See FAQ 5.1 for

Re: UEFI

2013-11-05 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> > > My laptop has <> BIOS. > > > What do you recommend to get openBSD on it ? > > > > It's not entirely uncommon to have a (sometimes quite well hidden) > > option to choose 'legacy mode' or similar over UEFI mode. > > > > But you should be prepared to dig out the long form user or service > > ma

Re: Freescale i.MX 6

2013-09-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Christer Solskogen < christer.solsko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > There was a mention of this platform earlier, but is this platform > usable yet? I'm getting myself a Utilite, and was hoping I could use > OpenBSD in it. This is ARM, but as far as I understood th

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:50 AM, James Griffin wrote: > * James Griffin [2013-09-23 10:32:20 +0100]: > > > * Roelof Wobben [2013-09-22 12:03:10 +]: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Before I try OpenBSd I have two questions. > > > > > > 1) The manual says that I can use pkg -upgrade > > >But

Re: A suggestion for snapshots

2013-09-06 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Lars Engblom wrote: > Quite often the snapshot of the packages and the base system are out of > sync, because naturally, the base has to be built before packages. > > For example in this moment, as I write this, Firefox can not be installed > in a new system install

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > In my experience, now that video is out of the way, the thing to look > > out most for is getting a well supported built-in wireless card. > > That's starting to become difficult when buying new laptops because > > most drivers are lacking

Re: cvs -z compression to reduce network traffic

2013-07-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 03:06:03 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:25:34PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are the various cvs mirrors allowing compression? I tried with cvs -z 5. I > > currently sync from anoncvs3

cvs -z compression to reduce network traffic

2013-07-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi, Are the various cvs mirrors allowing compression? I tried with cvs -z 5. I currently sync from anoncvs3.usa and I think it doesn't, atleast the option of tcpdump -A didn't show me any decompression activity, just ssh packets being sent. top also didn't show any unzip or tar in the -I option...

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:53 AM, James Griffin wrote: > Hi > > I've got a machine which is dual-booting Windows 7 and OpenBSD current. > I am currently downloading the latest snapshot ready to upgrade but I > would like to know if this will affect the dual-boot set up. I put > my openbsd.pbr file

Re: 5.2, i386, small kernel crash

2013-02-08 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to make a kernel config which only includes what I need. It's > attached. > > The resulting kernel crashes in vga_pci_attach() when it writes to > do_real_mode_post. > do_real_mode_post is in the text section, so shou

Re: How do I compile 32-bit binaries on amd64 OpenBSD?

2013-01-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: > Hi, > > Some programs like smlnj, which is SML by New Jersey, support only 32-bit > binaries. On Linux distros, I can use gcc multilib support. How do I do > that in OpenBSD? in general, if a port exists look at the Makefile for hints. sml

Re: out of swap

2013-01-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> This is current/amd64. Unlike in previous versions, >> some memory-heavy processes (such as in building some >> big port) get killed with >> >> UVM: pid 11422 (cc1plus), uid 0 killed: out of swap >> >> On this machine, I have _no_ swap. However, the machine has >> 1G RAM, and most of it is

Re: Disk accesses freeze for a lot of seconds

2013-01-06 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Maybe the following will help. > > See "Tuning for More" > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid > > I use mount options: noatime and async. > I don't use softdep for squid cache either. that is not good policy. you are asking for trouble.

Re: BSD licensed gnupg replacement question

2012-12-06 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Maximo Pech wrote: > It's incredible for me that OpenBSD, an operating system that claims to > have integrated cryptography (yes I know that the cryptography is on the > core OS layers) doesn't have in the base system a tool like gnupg, and > even more incredible,

Re: Problem building -current userland

2012-12-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> rebuild userland aborted with a slew of errors in > /usr/src/usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd/../dns.c. In case this was a short-term > glitch I re-updated my source tree at about 4pm EST and tried again, > with the same result. > > Is this a known problem, or have I managed to screw something up? I built

Crowding out OpenBSD

2012-11-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
https://lwn.net/Articles/524606/ don't have a subscription but for those who do, enjoy.

Re: *** Error 1 in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP (Makefile:816 'copy.o')

2012-11-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
try a cvs update again. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: > Hello, > > last few days I want to update the lastest current from cvs > (ftp5.eu.openbsd.org or anoncvs.spacehopper.org) and I allways had this > error. > > cc -D_LOCORE -x assembler-with-cpp -mcmodel=kernel -mno-r

dmesg of Xeon E3-1220V2 system

2012-10-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
FYI, attached is a dmesg and hw.sensors for a Dell PowerEdge T110 II OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Mon Oct 1 16:12:46 CDT 2012 r...@foo.lsu.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 4283289600 (4084MB) avail mem = 4146794496 (3954MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0:

Re: PCManFM crashing

2012-09-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Claudiu Tanaselia wrote: > Hello, > > I have Openbsd 5.1 (amd4) with fluxbox and pcmanfm installed both from packages. Right-clicking inside a running pcmanfm windows will crash the application with the usual "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Could anyone confirm

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

2012-08-10 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:47 AM, wrote: > Hi > > A client of mine asked me if I can develop a BSD project for them. I don't have much experience with BSDs, and I have been collecting some background information. > I was given the choice between OpenBSD and NetBSD. > Now, since portability is not

Re: [www.openbsd.org] Re: man pages with screen reader

2012-07-28 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> I fortunately have working eyes, but i fully understand blind people, and > completely don't understand why there is still no "braile terminal" > available. > > This (with classic unix software) would be IMHO golden solution for blind > people. > > I mean no full screen but just a braile printer

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> this is another problem. configure >> swap to be double the RAM size, or if you insist on loading the >> machine about 4 times the RAM size. you obviously forgot to or didn't >> want to configure swap. > > is the "twice the RAM" mantra still valid today? i have seen openbsd swap just once on 8

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> > Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in >> > >> > pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: 14 >> > pid 1872 (cron): user write of 118784@0x2b1e3000 at 30224 failed: 14 >> > >> > 14 is EFAULT as per sys/errno,h >> > - what can be causing it?

Re: Jun 28 & Jul 1 snapshot files hash not match.

2012-07-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
2012/7/2 f5b : > download files from ftp.openbsd.org or ftp.usa.openbsd.org > > Jun 28 & Jul 1 snapshot files > found man52.tgz base52.tgz etc52.tgz game52.tgz hash did not match the > content in SHA256 file. > > bsd.* & x* files hash match SHA256 > > - > local files hash of Jul 1 amd64 snapsh

Re: C Programming Language - K&R books to be given...

2012-07-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > Hi misc@, tech@, > > If it is difficult to grab hold of a copy of K&R 2nd ed., please drop > me a private note -- I have a bunch of copies (5) which I can send > across your way as a gift. I'll probably ask you to cover the shipping > (~$6

Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> yes it is, and i am surprised it is ~ $50. it is such a small book. > > FWIW, you can read the C specification drafts online for free: > > C89: http://flash-go

Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>  Talk about learning C Programming and the K&R book being a good one.  Is > this the book? > > http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/0131103628 yes it is, and i am surprised it is ~ $50. it is such a small book.

Re: spamd greylisting: false positives

2012-05-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>>But why are you synproxying for spamd? > > Why shouldn't I? > > These guys do in their example. > https://calomel.org/spamd_config.html don't ever recommend calomel on a openbsd mailing list, search the archives for why. here's a hint: they work "spectacularly"

Re: undeadly

2012-04-26 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Gilles Chehade wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:52:03PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Lars Hansson wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> >> This is interesting too (first paragraph), from the Ion

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> I think I tried vmware player at one point and had absolutely dreadful > i/o performance, no idea if that is still the case. Virtualbox, see above ;) > No idea how well OpenBSD does in xen. Yep, atrocious i/o performance in VMWare Player as of 4.0.2. This was before rthreads though, I don't thi

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox "4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric" from > the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the install > process and learn how not to shoot myself in the foot. But virtualbox > reports it as having "aborted". > > I suspect a bug in the latest virt

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:19 AM, David Vasek wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Donald Allen wrote: > >> "While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears >> at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is >> tempted to think that such a user-friendly installer would not

Re: Long delay updating xenocara source tree?

2012-01-31 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: > Hey, > > Dave Anderson wrote [2012-01-28 15:13+0100]: > [.] >> I haven't yet had a chance to look into how cvs works beyond >> reading the man page, faq, etc. > > Also true for me. > >> >> I've run into this problem perhaps a dozen t

Re: n00b questions -- keyboard messed up

2012-01-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:07 AM, David Coppa wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Marc Espie wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:33:01AM +0100, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: >>> KDE also had a browser (konqueror). I don't know if KDE4 still provides >>> it. Konqueror, as shipped in KDE3, is

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> For those that happen to google this thread trying to find the >> solution: upgrading *would* have fixed his system due to the various >> steps done during upgrades, >> > BZZZT! WRONG! If the system rebooted clean [which this one did], the > problem would not have been found during a normal upgr

Re: VoIP Sophtphones

2012-01-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:36 AM, wrote: > Tomas Bodzar wrote: > >> OpenBSD 4.8 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. > > I will update to 5.0 or 5.1 later, but now I have a little stress > and other preocupations. To update twice a year means a little > work and care, and there are prio

Re: how to choose outgoing IPv4 address/interface ?

2011-12-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-12-30, Henning Brauer wrote: >> * [2011-12-30 05:21]: >>> why does OpenBSD choose vlan379 ? how can I make it use vlan200 for >>> all outgoing traffic except bgp communication ? >> >> for wildcard binds (INADDR_ANY aka 0.0.0.0, c

Re: out-of-date how to update port dependencies

2011-12-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, alokat wrote: > Hi, > I have a question about updating the openBSD ports. > > If I get an output like: > multimedia/xine-ui # 0.99.6p0 -> 0.99.6p1 > > I update this port with the following commands: > > cd /usr/ports/multimedia/xine-ui > make update > > But how ca

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> I'm 24 years old. I was a Linux hacker since I was 13. I am a bit of a >> guru > > [snip] > >> age, but at an older age I relearned it well. I am the guru sort of guy, I >> > A guru is someone who knows stuff. and somebody who doesn't come crying or complaining. Gurus help other lesser mortals.

Re: mplayer problems

2011-12-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
even after latest kernel, userland, xenocara AND ports trees? please redirect ports stuff to ports@ in future On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Luis Useche wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Is anyone having problems lately with mplayer? After my last update of > packages mplayer alternates between these two

Re: usb device causes system crash (ucomstart: null oxfer)

2011-11-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> panic message: > > uvm_fault(0xd0a2c8c0, 0x1000, 0, 1) -> e > kernel: page fault trap, code=0 > Stopped at usb_allocmem+0x14f: cmpl%ebx,0(%eax) I also have a similar panic message. My solution is to disable ehci from my GENERIC. stupid but it works on this NVIDIA USB controller. jak

Re: Giving java apps more memory

2011-11-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Is this information helpful... >> >> john@rothbard ~$ ulimit -a >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >> data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 >> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited >> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 1354329 >> max memory size (kbytes, -

Re: cd boot panic on 5.0 but not 4.9 or earlier

2011-11-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> how "safe" are those two images? would it be ok to run on a production >> system or should I wait for the official 5.0 stable branch? >> > The only time -current is NOT to be trusted is in the middle > of a Hackathon, where you can watch commits flying in. > Watch, but wait till its over before

Re: Which version of Firefox most secure?

2011-11-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> 7.x.xx actual stable from Mozilla > > 7.x is no longer supported by Mozilla. 7.0.1 has 3 CVEs > If you don't have 8.0 on ports, go with 3.6.24 8.0 is in the process of being updated by nigel@, see his emails to ports@ in last two weeks or so. Tests and feedback is welcome from those running cur

Re: Recommended working IDE

2011-11-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
devel/geany? On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:51 PM, John Tate wrote: > Misc, > > I've had troubles with eclipse and anjuta. Eclipse does not want to > run, anjuta seems to be missing it's symbol browser in anjuta-extras. > Anjuta actually works, but when I open a project it gives me an error. > I've al

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

2011-11-12 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Gregor Best wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:27:27PM -0500, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: >> [...] >> Questions: >> * Are other Thinkpad T60 users seeing similar problems? >> [...] > > I'm using an R61i and I sometimes see that too. On my machine, it > usually happe

Re: Packages issues

2011-11-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Well, if you feel like untangling the dependency nightmare that comes with >> modern desktop systems, good luck ! > > Yes, the dependency chain for "modern" desktop is quite complex. > In our packages (at least for GNOME related stuffs) we are trying to find the good balance so that most expecte

Link failure c++: libgomp.spec: No such file or directory

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
while compiling for koffice, a component of KDE 4.7.2, I get this error c++: libgomp.spec: No such file or directory libgomp is the GCC implementation of OMP. it is triggering only when linked with -fopenmp grepping over /usr/src for libgomp, I believe some files related to OMP support were del

Re: Updating plus.html

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> I would say, you follow the github.com/openbsd repo, and do a git log. > > Just a question: i'm personally tracking > git://anoncvs.estpak.ee/openbsd-{src,xenocara}, a link which was > introduced by Stuart Henderson in a message some months ago. > > Is that github.com repo (beside the fact that

Re: Updating plus.html

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> > Hi, >> > If no-one else is updating this page, I will do it. Can someone tell me >> > what date the OPENBSD_5_0 tag was added so I know when to start from? I >> > couldn't figure out if this was possible from cvs. My plan is to go >> > through the source changes and plunder from the commit mes

Re: Updating plus.html

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Brett wrote: > Hi, > If no-one else is updating this page, I will do it. Can someone tell me > what date the OPENBSD_5_0 tag was added so I know when to start from? I > couldn't figure out if this was possible from cvs. My plan is to go > through the source changes

Re: Using TrinityDesktop to replace KDE3

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > Hello all. > > Someone of you could already know this, but me was just notified: > there exists Trinity Desktop - http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ - that > aims to keep KDE 3 platform alive. One of the goals they pursue is > co-existing with KDE

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