Re: DNS resolver retries configurable? (or: Anything to make DNS resolves always work!)

2013-12-20 Thread Mikael
Hi Matthew, Aha so the files of reference are asr.c ( http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/asr/asr.c?rev=1.31;content-type=text%2Fplain ) and res_send_async.c ( http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/asr/res_send_async.c?rev=1.19;content-type=text%2Fplain ) Do I

Re: One thinkpad still wanted

2013-12-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
You might want to take a look here http://shop.gluglug.org.uk despite the fact that this is an FSF shop. The Gluglug X60 laptops are refurbished models of Lenovo's ThinkPadÂX60. Gluglug has updated the computer by adding a modern wifi chipset, replacing the proprietary BIOS with a free software

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:04:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013, at 02:09 AM, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: Am 12/18/13 23:09, schrieb Evan Root: I have a perverted solution, use fat32. It's failures are very well understood. Inspired by 'perverted

Re: upgrade 5.2 to 5.4 x module mismatch

2013-12-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, I upgraded from OpenBSD 5.2 to 5.4 in a clean way: The system has essentially nothing installed (it is only very complicated to do a clean install to it) I know this is an unsupported step and that is written The Upgrade process is not designed to skip releases!

OT: Recommended wireless usb adapter as a hostap

2013-12-20 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, I would like to use my openbsd fw box to provide wifi access for friends, family, etc when they comes to my home. Due to hardware restrictions, I can only to add a wireless usb adapter to use as a hostap, an yes, I know that is not the best option, but ... Any recommendations about

Xorg on a Omnibook 800

2013-12-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, identified that I have a DRI2 stale module around, I'm trying to get X11 running on my strange beast: OmniBook 800ct. pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 VLSI 82C535 rev 0x03 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 VLSI 82C534 rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Maurice McCarthy contributed: I'm running Ubuntu Raring while I learn about OpenBSD (slowly as I'm too old to do anything quick) and I've lately found ntfs much quicker. As an experiment last night I tarred and gzipped 216G of video files across two USB3 hard

Re: upgrade 5.2 to 5.4 x module mismatch

2013-12-20 Thread Kirill Bychkov
On Fri, December 20, 2013 13:06, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, I upgraded from OpenBSD 5.2 to 5.4 in a clean way: The system has essentially nothing installed (it is only very complicated to do a clean install to it) Did you run sysmerge after update? I know this is

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-20 Thread ropers
On 17 December 2013 00:26, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Your subject asks about the stability of the ext2 support in OpenBSD, but your message says you have an ext3 partition you want to access. ext2 and ext3 are not the same thing -- ext3 is a journaled variant of ext2 that

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-20 Thread ropers
On 16 December 2013 23:48, Tekk t...@parlementum.net wrote: I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is it that files will get clobbered if I use the same /home under a dual boot with openbsd? It occurs to me sharing an ext3/ext2 /home between Linux and OpenBSD is a

Re: Xorg on a Omnibook 800

2013-12-20 Thread Alexey E. Suslikov
Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mottola at libero.it writes: To ease autodetection, I created a simple xorg.conf file with the following entry: imo, having xorg.conf means no autodetection. what does X says without xorg.conf?

Re: (5.4) System hangs during shutdown

2013-12-20 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em 19-12-2013 17:56, Adam Jensen escreveu: I've been using a KVM switch (USB keyboard and mouse) on a couple of machines recently and I noticed that when the Keyboard, Video, and Mouse connections are switched away from the OpenBSD machine, a USB disconnect is reported (as expected). When

Re: How to segregate forwarded and firewall-generated traffic in pf?

2013-12-20 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Camiel Dobbelaar c...@sentia.nl wrote: On 18/12/13 22:32, Camiel Dobbelaar wrote: On 18/12/13 14:50, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Camiel Dobbelaar c...@sentia.nl wrote: On 18/12/13 13:53, Maxim Khitrov wrote: When writing outbound

Re: DNS resolver retries configurable? (or: Anything to make DNS resolves always work!)

2013-12-20 Thread Nex6
* Mikael mikael.tr...@gmail.com [2013-12-20 09:58:39 +0200]: Hi Matthew, Aha so the files of reference are asr.c ( http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/asr/asr.c?rev=1.31;content-type=text%2Fplain ) and res_send_async.c (

panic on using tmpfs

2013-12-20 Thread Sergey Bronnikov
I have got kernel panic and message below on running fsstress over tmpfs. kernel diagnostic assertion dvp != vp failed: file ../../../../tmpfs/tmpfs_vnops.c, line 768 Panic can be easily reproduced by following steps: - pkg_add fsstress - mkdir /root/tmpfs - mount_tmpfs tmpfs /root/tmpfs -

No USB devices recognized (HP box, 5.4-stable)

2013-12-20 Thread Neil Hughes
I've got an HP dx5150MT minitower of 2006 vintage, and with OpenBSD 5.4 stable no USB devices are recognized whether they're attached before or after boot. No console message, nothing appended to dmesg. Same thing happens whether I use amd64 MP or SP kernel - I'm about to send dmesg reports

Re: Xorg on a Omnibook 800

2013-12-20 Thread Brynet
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:07:25AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: .. vga1 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 Neomagic Magicgraph NM2070 rev 0x01 .. I have one of these in an an old Dell laptop that was given to me. I would have settled with vesa(4), but none of the resolutions seem to fit the LCD panel

Re: How to segregate forwarded and firewall-generated traffic in pf?

2013-12-20 Thread Camiel Dobbelaar
On 20/12/13 16:56, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Camiel Dobbelaar c...@sentia.nl wrote: On 18/12/13 22:32, Camiel Dobbelaar wrote: I think a documentation fix for pf.conf(5) is all that can be done. The diff adds the following paragraph: When listening

When are default 'set prio' priorities set?

2013-12-20 Thread Maxim Khitrov
I was under the impression that the packet priority was always set to 3 prior to the pf ruleset evaluation (ignoring VLAN and CARP for a moment), and that 'set prio' on an inbound rule only affected returning traffic that matched the state entry. Here's an artificial example: pass out on $wan

Re: OpenBSD and Compute Engine

2013-12-20 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Thought I'd share a quick update here, since a few people have expressed interest: I've committed the dhclient patch and vioscsi driver. I expect the next set of OpenBSD snapshots that include these commits to work out of box on Compute Engine. There are docs online for how to use Cloud Storage

Man page improvement needed ?

2013-12-20 Thread sven falempin
Hello, PTHREAD_COND_WAIT(3) is precise but easy to misread. It first say it will unlock the mutex given as a second argument, and after talking about the rest say it will be locked again. This second lock it supposed to have a particular usage, reading documentation about this i found a

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2013-12-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of this is simply unsustainable. This request is the smallest we can make. --- Hi everyone. The OpenBSD project uses a lot of

Re: Man page improvement needed ?

2013-12-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 17:48, sven falempin wrote: PTHREAD_COND_WAIT(3) is precise but easy to misread. It first say it will unlock the mutex given as a second argument, and after talking about the rest say it will be locked again. This second lock it supposed to have a particular usage,

Re: One thinkpad still wanted

2013-12-20 Thread Bas Stolker
On 19-12-2013 15:37, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Jonathan Gray and Mark Kettenis are still missing one generation of Intel video. They need a Arrandale/Ironlake model. The Thinkpad x201 is the best laptop for this. They could use a laptop from a different vendor. To verify, pcidump -v