After doing what you suggested, I was able to log back in and after removing "mediaopt monitor" from my hostname.iwm0 file everything seems to be working again; both booting and internet. Thank you so much.
Jul 30, 2023, 09:36 by j...@jsg.id.au: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 04:39:08PM +0200, 4s6e46s46s...@tutanota.com wrote: > >> Starting from 01.jpg to 10.jpg I have tried to provide the requested bug >> report information in the form of camera pictures about this bug or error >> message I am experiencing during the boot process. >> My OpenBSD is 7.3 after I had updated my machine to 7.3 with sysupgrade >> (just a regular update, not -current) >> >> My machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad x250 >> >> What I did prior to experiencing this error (I do not remember the exact >> sequence of events, but I believe it was in the following order): >> - doas syspatch ( it downloaded new 15 patches I believe) >> - then I replaced a line in my hostname.iwm0 with something else that I had >> copied from doing a search on how to write the hostname file, because I had >> forgotten the syntax. I did this because my internet was very slow. I had >> remembered that I have had this problem before, and that changing the >> hostname.iwm0 did at least improve my internet speed somewhat because the >> option or signal strength was limiting my speed somehow. I do not remember >> the exact line I copied, but I believe it had the word monitor at the end, >> media autoselect, 11 and a letter >> - doas sh -x /etc/netstart >> - doas rcctl restart openvpn >> - Then I did a reboot because something was not working. I believe I had no >> internet, and I was hoping a reboot might fix it. I also did have 2 external >> hard drives mounted and decrypted at the time, and forgot to demount them >> and remove them before rebooting via doas bioctl -d sdN. Not sure if this >> has any significance >> - then after rebooting I get the message in 01.jpg >> > > iwm_setrates+0x20: movq 0(%rax),%r14 > iwm_auth+0xc4 > iwm_run+0x59 > iwm_newstate_task+0xf1 > taskq_thread+0x100 > > appears to be > > struct iwm_softc *sc = IC2IFP(ic)->if_softc; > >> >> I believe I did have something like a "blue screen" crash during normal >> runtime usage at least once on this machine while running OpenBSD. >> >> I hope you can do something with this information. >> >> Is there anything I can do to fix this error and boot my OS again? >> > > to temporarily disable iwm, at the boot prompt: > > boot -c > disable iwm* > quit >