Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:25:46 -0700
Allie Daneman  wrote:

> Wow...time flies. Happy Birthday to the best OS in existence and as

a particular species of flies called "time flies" like arrows :-)))

> usual thanks go to the developers that make it happen, I raise a
> toast for another 15+ years ;)

Happy Birthday!  


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Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Allie Daneman
Wow...time flies. Happy Birthday to the best OS in existence and as usual 
thanks go to the developers that make it happen, I raise a toast for another 
15+ years ;)



Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Leonardo Carneiro
Wow, 15 is a long way. i was playing sonic & knuckles back in there

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Sevan / Venture37  wrote:
> Well done to all the developers who've put a lot of hard work into
> creating an fantastic OS, here's to the next 15 years.
> Happy birthday!
>
> Sevan



Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Sevan / Venture37
Well done to all the developers who've put a lot of hard work into
creating an fantastic OS, here's to the next 15 years.
Happy birthday!

Sevan



Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Andres Genovez
2010/10/18 STeve Andre' 

>  15 years!
>
> Will more years to work on!

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Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Tomas Vavrys
Live long and prosper!

2010/10/18 Benjamin GUILLER :
> 15 and *Only two remote holes in the default install* :)
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:13 PM, STeve Andre'  wrote:
>
>> B 15 years!



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Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread Benjamin GUILLER
15 and *Only two remote holes in the default install* :)

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:13 PM, STeve Andre'  wrote:

>  15 years!



Happy Birthday OpenBSD

2010-10-18 Thread STeve Andre'

 15 years!



Re: Snapshot: misc48.tgz missing

2010-10-18 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:10:39AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > > * Rene Maroufi  [2010-10-18 14:57]:
> > > > the latest snapshot has no misc48.tgz file. Is this file no longer in
> > > > the releaseset or what is wrong?
> > > 
> > > when you run -current (=~ snapshots), it is a good idea to follow
> > > source-changes. the misc set is history.
> > 
> > It remained in index.txt for a while, but now it is gone; that is good.
> > Still remains in SHA256, though...
> 
> Please donate 1 million dollars and we'll make instantly correct ftp
> servers.
> 
> Alternatively you could wait a while and try not to be the first one to
> post basically "the mirrors are slow".

Pure accident, no intent.

Since the SHA256 file has the same date as the rest of the files I assumed
it was intended to be consistent with the rest of the snapshot and ment
"I hope you have you noticed that the SHA256 file needs to be updated",
but ought to have known that I should not even suspect that the project
could miss something like that.

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bioctl doesn't show array status of Areca ARC-1680i

2010-10-18 Thread x...@bluemail.ch
Hi all

I'm running OpenBSD 4.6 i386 on an Areca ARC-1680i controller.
bioctl doesn't show the array status (online,

degraded, failed, etc.).

#bioctl -ihv sd0
sd0: , serial 101d703094702015

# bioctl arc0


bioctl: BIOCINQ: Input/output error

# dmesg | grep -i arc0
arc0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Areca ARC-1680" rev 0x00:

apic 8 int 16 (irq 10)
arc0: 8 ports, 256MB SDRAM, firmware V1.47 2009-07-16
scsibus0 at arc0: 16 targets
arc0: unable

to query firmware for sensor info

Any ideas?

Thx,
Andi



Re: Snapshot: misc48.tgz missing

2010-10-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Rene Maroufi  [2010-10-18 14:57]:
> > > the latest snapshot has no misc48.tgz file. Is this file no longer in
> > > the releaseset or what is wrong?
> > 
> > when you run -current (=~ snapshots), it is a good idea to follow
> > source-changes. the misc set is history.
> 
> It remained in index.txt for a while, but now it is gone; that is good.
> Still remains in SHA256, though...

Please donate 1 million dollars and we'll make instantly correct ftp
servers.

Alternatively you could wait a while and try not to be the first one to
post basically "the mirrors are slow".



Re: Snapshot: misc48.tgz missing

2010-10-18 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Rene Maroufi  [2010-10-18 14:57]:
> > the latest snapshot has no misc48.tgz file. Is this file no longer in
> > the releaseset or what is wrong?
> 
> when you run -current (=~ snapshots), it is a good idea to follow
> source-changes. the misc set is history.

It remained in index.txt for a while, but now it is gone; that is good.
Still remains in SHA256, though...

> 
> -- 
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(snapshot 4.8) acpi button (on/off) not found on Dell Poweredge R610.

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Hello,

I'm using a snapshot of 4.8/amd64 (october, 6) and I'm not able to
shutdown properly the box using the power on/off button.

The machine is a Dell PowerEdge R610: 
bios bios0: vendor Dell Inc.
version "2.1.9" date 05/21/2010 bios0: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R610

full dmesg : http://user.lamaiziere.net/patrick/dmesg-open48.txt
acpidump : http://user.lamaiziere.net/patrick/acpidump.tar.gz

sensors:
# sysctl -a | grep sensor   
hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu1.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu2.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu3.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu4.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu5.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu6.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.cpu7.temp0=46.00 degC
hw.sensors.mfi0.drive0=online (sd0), OK

The button works fine on FreeBSD, tell me if a FreeBSD dmesg will
be useful.

Thanks, regards.



Re: Force passwordcheck in login.conf

2010-10-18 Thread Brad Tilley
One last note... it seems that OpenPAM on the other BSDs and LinuxPAM on
Linux systems address all of PCI requirement 8. However, they all seem
to differ slightly with their PAM implementations and PAM in general
seems overly complex (to me at least).

I mis-configured PAM on a test system (commented out one line in error)
and found that root could log in by typing *anything* and that the
normal root password still worked too.

Brad



Re: Packet priorization

2010-10-18 Thread Leonardo Carneiro
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Mark Beihoffer  wrote:
> Would not recommend.

Hi Mark. Why would you recommend against assign the traffic while it's
coming in by the external interface, even if the queues are assigned
in the internal interfaces?

> Mark Beihoffer
> Dragonfly Networks
> mbeihof...@gmail.com
> m...@dragonfly-networks.com
> (612)508-5128
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Henning Brauer wrote:
>
>> * Leonardo Carneiro  [2010-10-16 15:07]:
>> > Well, now i'm a bit confused. I'll apply the queues on the internal
>> > interfaces, but will assign the traffic when it came in by the
>> > external?
>>
>> yup. the assignment is "sticky".
>>
>> > I though i would have to make one rule to each internal
>> > interface when the traffic was going out by the internal.
>>
>> no, you don't have to. you could, tho.
>>
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Re: Force passwordcheck in login.conf

2010-10-18 Thread Adam M. Dutko
> Thanks. I'll add that as a possible solution for folks who wish to add
> Python to the base install.
>
> Brad
>
> >> http://www.deweyonline.com/files/openbsd/login_-custompasswd


Thanks for sharing.

I didn't see any explicit log file closing but then again sys.exit() should
clean up.



Re: Snapshot: misc48.tgz missing

2010-10-18 Thread Henning Brauer
* Rene Maroufi  [2010-10-18 14:57]:
> the latest snapshot has no misc48.tgz file. Is this file no longer in
> the releaseset or what is wrong?

when you run -current (=~ snapshots), it is a good idea to follow
source-changes. the misc set is history.

-- 
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BS Web Services, http://bsws.de
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Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting



Re: Snapshot: misc48.tgz missing

2010-10-18 Thread roberth
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:51:06 +0200
Rene Maroufi  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the latest snapshot has no misc48.tgz file. Is this file no longer in
> the releaseset or what is wrong?
> 
> Cheers
> Rene

"no more misc set"
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=128737559922378&w=2



Snapshot: misc48.tgz missing

2010-10-18 Thread Rene Maroufi
Hi,

the latest snapshot has no misc48.tgz file. Is this file no longer in
the releaseset or what is wrong?

Cheers
Rene
-- 
Reni Maroufi
i...@maroufi.net



Re: laptop disk shows wierd contents when moved to external enclosure

2010-10-18 Thread David Vasek

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:


Summary
---
My primary laptop ("nitrogen") died, so I moved its disk to a backup
laptop ("oxygen").  That laptop then died. :(  I have now moved the
former-nitrogen-disk to an external enclosure so that I can access my
files via USB from still another laptop ("silver").

When I connect the USB cable to silver I see the usual dmesg lines.
But the former-nitrogen-disk contents are "wierd":
* fdisk and disklabel look fine, but
* if I mount any one of the partitions,
 * 'df -i' looks fine (shows lots of space & inodes used)
 * but 'ls -a' and 'echo *' say there are no files present

If I try to fsck any of the partitions, I get the following error
# fsck -p /dev/rsd1a
CANNOT READ: BLK 128
/dev/rsd1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY.
# fsck -n /dev/rsd1a
** /dev/rsd1a (NO WRITE)

CANNOT READ: BLK 128
CONTINUE? yes

THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 
134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,

LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? no

#
What's suspicious is that I get this identical message (including the
exact same sector numbers) for *any* partition.  While I could certainly
imagine that whatever broke nitrogen and oxygen managed to corrupt the
disk contents, it seems implausible that it would garble the exact same
list of sectors on each of several different FFS partitions.

Instead, my symptoms look more like a disk-addressing mixup between
oxygen/nitrogen and the external enclosure.

Can anyone suggest (in more detail) what's going on here, and/or what
I can do to fix it (i.e., access the former-nitrogen-disk filesystems
from another laptop)?  I'd at least like to understand the problem a
bit before I go blindly poking around with fsck...


Hi Jonathan!

There are some USB <-> ATA bridge chips on the market that do not work 
well (or better to say: they do not work at all). Nonetheless, they are 
frequently used in cheap enclosures and adapters, especially in the very 
cheap ones. JMicron JM20337 is well known for this. In my experience - 
there were no visible problems when this bridge was connected to Toshiba 
drives, but it did not work with IBM/Hitachi and WD drives, both when 
powered through USB or independently. Symptoms were similar to what you 
see. Avoid it at all costs.


It also flooded the disk's SMART tables with a lot of ATA CRC Errors. If 
the bridge in your enclosure can do a known SCSI-to-ATA translation, you 
could try smartmontools from ports to check for such (or other) errors, 
something like

# smartctl -a -d usbjmicron /dev/rsd1c

You can also check readability of the sectors directly with dd(1) or 
install the drive inside the laptop. For basic checks, booted install CD 
could be sufficient, both fsck(8) and dd(1) are there.


Regards,
David



Re: -current/amd64 @ macbook3,1

2010-10-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 16 20:01:09, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:52:17PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> 
> > but the sizes are still not recognized:
> > 
> > h...@mac:hans$ video -v
> > video device /dev/video:
> >   encodings: uyvy
> >   sizes: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 
> > 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
> >   controls: brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness
> > Xv adaptor 0, Intel(R) Textured Video:
> >   encodings: yuy2, uyvy
> >   max size: 1280x800
> > using uyvy encoding
> > using frame size 0x0 (0 bytes)
> > video: /dev/video: returned size not as requested
> 
> 
> > Is this a video(1) problem?
> > Is it a uvideo(4) problem?
> > Is it a uvideo-firmware problem?
> 
> 
> > bLength=38
> > bDescriptorType=0x24 (CS_INTERFACE)
> > bDescriptorSubtype=0x05 (UDESCSUB_VS_FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
> > bLength=38
> > bDescriptorType=0x24
> > bDescriptorSubtype=0x05
> > bFrameIndex=0x01
> > bmCapabilities=0x00
> > wWidth=640
> > wHeight=480
> > dwMinBitRate=383976960
> > dwMaxBitRate=383976960
> > dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize=614400
> > dwDefaultFrameInterval=33
> > bFrameIntervalType=0x00
> > 
> > bLength=38
> > bDescriptorType=0x24 (CS_INTERFACE)
> > bDescriptorSubtype=0x05 (UDESCSUB_VS_FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
> > bLength=38
> > bDescriptorType=0x24
> > bDescriptorSubtype=0x05
> > bFrameIndex=0x02
> > bmCapabilities=0x00
> > wWidth=352
> > wHeight=288
> > dwMinBitRate=383976960
> > dwMaxBitRate=383976960
> > dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize=202752
> > dwDefaultFrameInterval=33
> > bFrameIntervalType=0x00
> > 
> > bLength=38
> > bDescriptorType=0x24 (CS_INTERFACE)
> > bDescriptorSubtype=0x05 (UDESCSUB_VS_FRAME_UNCOMPRESSED)
> > bLength=38
> > bDescriptorType=0x24
> > bDescriptorSubtype=0x05
> > bFrameIndex=0x03
> > bmCapabilities=0x00
> > wWidth=320
> > wHeight=240
> > dwMinBitRate=383976960
> > dwMaxBitRate=383976960
> > dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize=153600
> > dwDefaultFrameInterval=33
> > bFrameIntervalType=0x00
> 
> 
> it's a bug in uvideo(4).  bFrameIntervalType affects frame rates, not frame
> sizes.  patch below should fix it.

Almost; it recognizes some of the sizes,
but does not work with default parameters:

h...@mac:hans$ video -v
video device /dev/video:
  encodings: uyvy
  sizes: 320x240, 352x288, 640x480
  controls: brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness
Xv adaptor 0, Intel(R) Textured Video:
  encodings: yuy2, uyvy
  max size: 1280x800
using uyvy encoding
using frame size 640x480 (614400 bytes)
run time: 1287390581.343814 seconds
frames grabbed: 0
frames played: 0
played fps: -0.00

Indeed, zero frames are captured and played;
the video(1) window is just a black rectangle.

h...@mac:hans$ video -v -o video.raw
video device /dev/video:
  encodings: uyvy
  sizes: 320x240, 352x288, 640x480
  controls: brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness
using uyvy encoding
using frame size 640x480 (614400 bytes)
^Crun time: 1287390600.470376 seconds
frames grabbed: 0
frames played: 0
played fps: -0.00
h...@mac:hans$ ls -l video.raw
-rw-r--r--  1 hans  hans  0 Oct 18 10:30 video.raw



With the size explicitly specified as 320x240, it works:

h...@mac:hans$ video -v -s 320x240 -r 25
video device /dev/video:
  encodings: uyvy
  sizes: 320x240, 352x288, 640x480
  controls: brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness
Xv adaptor 0, Intel(R) Textured Video:
  encodings: yuy2, uyvy
  max size: 1280x800
using uyvy encoding
using frame size 320x240 (153600 bytes)
run time: 3.781438 seconds
frames grabbed: 65
frames played: 65
played fps: 16.924778

h...@mac:hans$ video -v -s 320x240 -r 25 -O video.raw
video device /dev/video:
  encodings: uyvy
  sizes: 320x240, 352x288, 640x480
  controls: brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness
Xv adaptor 0, Intel(R) Textured Video:
  encodings: yuy2, uyvy
  max size: 1280x800
using uyvy encoding
using frame size 320x240 (153600 bytes)
run time: 5.381154 seconds
frames grabbed: 93
frames played: 92
played fps: 16.910871
h...@mac:hans$ ls -l video.raw
-rw-r--r--  1 hans  hans  14131200 Oct 18 10:30 video.raw

The resulting video.raw file can be encoded with
ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt uyvy422 -s 320x240 -r 25 -i video.raw video.avi
and played with mplayer.

It also works with -s 352x288.  It works with both -e uyvy
(and -pix_fmt uyvy422) and -e yuy2 (and -pix_fmt yuyv422),
eventhough yuy2 is not mentioned as supported by video(1):

  "encodings: uyvy"

Without specifying a framerate (-r) for video(1),
the camera seems to choose 30 or 15 fps. Are these
some builtin defaults that I could read somewhere?

A (tail of) UVIDEO_DEBUG dmesg and a xvinfo(1) output follow.

Jan


uvideo0: uvideo_vs_alloc_frame: allocated 153600 bytes frame buffer
uvideo0: uvideo_close: sc=0x8020a000
uvideo0: uvideo_vs_cb: CANCELLED
uvideo0: uvideo_vs_cb: CANCELLED
uvideo0: uvideo_vs_cb: CANCELLED
uvideo0: uvideo_vs_free_isoc
uvideo0: uvideo_open: sc=0x8020a000
uvideo0: uvideo_find_ctrl: control not supported by device!
uvideo0: uvideo_find_ctrl: control not supported

Re: laptop disk shows wierd contents when moved to external enclosure

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:10:44 +0200
"Benny LC6fgren"  wrote:

> On 2010-10-17 12.57, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> > Summary
> > ---
> > My primary laptop ("nitrogen") died, so I moved its disk to a backup
> > laptop ("oxygen").  That laptop then died. :(  I have now moved the
> > former-nitrogen-disk to an external enclosure so that I can access my
> > files via USB from still another laptop ("silver").
>
> [snip]
>
> > What's suspicious is that I get this identical message (including the
> > exact same sector numbers) for *any* partition.  While I could certainly
> > imagine that whatever broke nitrogen and oxygen managed to corrupt the
> > disk contents, it seems implausible that it would garble the exact same
> > list of sectors on each of several different FFS partitions.
>
> As Otto mentioned, the sectors referenced are relative to the partition
> offset, so they would probably be the same (for equally formatted
> partitions) if few sectors are readable on the disk as a whole.
>
> > Further details
> > ---
> > * oxygen and nitrogen are both Thinkpad T42 laptops, and were running
> >4.6-stable/i386; dmesg below
> > * silver is an HP Pavillion dv4, freshly installed with 4.7-release/i386
> >from the CD set
> > * I know silver's USB system&  the USB cable are ok, because I just used
> >them (including the same USB cable) to recover a week-old backup copy
> >of my home directory from an (another) external USB disk
> > * the former-nitrogen-disk is a Hitachi HTS541616J9AT00 160GB 2.5" PATA
> >disk.  The external enclosure is labelled "Rocketfish RF-PHD25 2.5"
> >Enclosure kit for hard drives"; it (and the disk within) is powered
> >via the USB connection.
>
> Something I've noticed with several external USB enclosures is that they
> may require more power than the USB ports are able to deliver. If you
> have marginal power, the hard drive will most probably be less than
> cooperative with the host, in more or less subtle ways. (Such that one
> USB enclosure/disk may work and another fail on the same hardware, for
> example.)
>
> I suggest that you, if you haven't already, try to add external power to
> the USB enclosure (most 2 1/2" enclosures have an input for +5V), or try
> using a USB Y-cable that draws power from two USB connectors on the host.
>
> Another quirk that some laptops have is that max usable current can be
> different on different USB ports, so one quick thing to try is to test
> the other ports on the laptop as well.
>

The ports on the back of pcs supply more current than the front
ports too and so does usb2 than usb1.