Re: dead disk

2014-01-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:40 AM, emigrant wrote: > My Master machine is dead, exactly HDD(thank you God for CARP+pfsync) :). > > root@master[/etc]wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > type: ata > c_bcount: 16384 > c_skip: 0 ... > /: got error 5 while accessing filesystem > panic: so

Re: libpthread fifo fdlock

2014-01-26 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:44:14PM -0500, ido...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi misc@, > From http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=133217901415880&w=2 > > "The ``sleep until we have a writer'' behaviour of an open() on a fifo > does so with the file descriptor table locked, so if we are waiting for > another

libpthread fifo fdlock

2014-01-26 Thread idoadm
Hi misc@, >From http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=133217901415880&w=2 "The ``sleep until we have a writer'' behaviour of an open() on a fifo does so with the file descriptor table locked, so if we are waiting for another thread to be our writer we will hang forever. Found this using zotero and fi

Re: unreliable connections

2014-01-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > This could be an MTU or RWIN-related issue. Could my issue have anything to with the "miscounting bug for inbound with pf on" mentioned in the following commit? CVSROOT:/cvs Module name:

dead disk

2014-01-26 Thread emigrant
Hi, My Master machine is dead, exactly HDD(thank you God for CARP+pfsync) :). root@master[/etc]wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 16384 c_skip: 0 pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x20 pciide0 channel 0: reset failed for drive 0 wd0a:

Re: athn(4) questions about Tx power, Rx gain, and setting media (AR9220)

2014-01-26 Thread Márton Drótos
Hi Stefan, thank you for the response and the pointers. My replies are inline: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > I believe the rate adaptation code decides to drop performance > in noisy environments (i.e. most major cities where virtually > every flat is now hosting an

Re: Novena open computing platform + openbsd?

2014-01-26 Thread Fred
On 01/26/14 18:38, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: Hi All, Saw this and found it very interesting: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page In summary the intention is to create an open laptop computer e.g. - All the components should have a reasonably complete set

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Timo Myyrä contributed: > Now that OpenBSD has tmpfs I'd use that instead of mfs. > > I just added following on my /etc/fstab: > > none /tmp tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=1g,-m=1777 0 0 > none /var/cache tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=128m,-m=0755 0 0 > none /var/run tmpfs rw,nodev,

Novena open computing platform + openbsd?

2014-01-26 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
Hi All, Saw this and found it very interesting: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page In summary the intention is to create an open laptop computer e.g. - All the components should have a reasonably complete set of NDA-free documentation. - No binary blobs

Re: Question about debugging WLAN communication

2014-01-26 Thread jca
Eike Lantzsch writes: [...] > I just wonder why it works with my MACbook. > The latter sends a lot of "no-data" packets which the Samsung phone > does not. > Does the athn driver or hardware "think" that the phone is "sleeping" > and times out? athn(4) doesn't mention this, but ath(4) does:

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Timo Myyrä
26.1.2014 18:31, Илья Шипицин kirjoitti: hello, what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? Ilya Shipitsin Now that OpenBSD has tmpfs I'd use that instead of mfs. I just added followin

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 05:44:05PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > > > First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be replacing mfs (see > > mount_tmpfs(8)). > > A word of caution: So far, if pushed hard enough, tmpfs is > (1) losing files and (2) slower than act

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nick Holland wrote: > First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be replacing mfs (see > mount_tmpfs(8)). A word of caution: So far, if pushed hard enough, tmpfs is (1) losing files and (2) slower than actual storage on SSD. (I haven't tried with mfs.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: athn weirdness with two subnets

2014-01-26 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 01:22:17PM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > The following adapted to my network setup: > > #cat /etc/hostname.vr0 > dhcp > # cat /etc/hostname.athn0 > nwid mynetwork wpakey 'mypassword' > media autoselect mediaopt hostap chan 108 > #mode 11a (this is on 5GHz) > up > # cat /et

Re: Question about debugging WLAN communication

2014-01-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 26 January 2014 12:37:44 Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:06:51AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Does anybody know how to debug WiFi communications other than with > > this little gadget? > > Try something like this: > > tcpdump -y IEEE802_11 -i athn0 >

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/26/14 11:31, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: > hello, > > what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or > any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? > > Ilya Shipitsin > well... no. First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be rep

faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Илья Шипицин
hello, what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? Ilya Shipitsin

Re: athn weirdness with two subnets

2014-01-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Thanks to Peter N. M. Hansteen and to Stefan Sperling! On Sunday 26 January 2014 12:35:46 Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:56:37AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > Interesting. I was just about to try this when your response came > > in, (OpenBSD Manual 6.9 "A bridge acting as a

(off topic) Booth at SCaLE

2014-01-26 Thread Carl Trachte
The project has a booth at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) as it has in the past, I will be available to sit the booth and help out. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12 I've fallen out of touch with my previous contact and cannot get a hold of him. If anyone can point me in the rig

OpenBSD 5.4 as guest under VMWare Server 2 install fails

2014-01-26 Thread Nick H.
Hello, I tried installing OpenBSD 5.4 as a guest OS in a VMWare Server 2 (yes, old platform) and it fails early on during the install process. Since the VMWare console doesn't allow me to copy&paste the output, I took two screenshots (as per attachment but not sure if this lost support attachm

Re: athn(4) questions about Tx power, Rx gain, and setting media (AR9220)

2014-01-26 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:36:55PM +0100, Márton Drótos wrote: > This is a high power card, with 25dBm output power @802.11g 6Mbit and 22dBm > @802.11g 54Mbit, and is connected to a pair of 8dBi omnidirectional antennae. > However, both its range and its signal level at the same distance is similar

Re: Question about debugging WLAN communication

2014-01-26 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:06:51AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Hi! > > Does anybody know how to debug WiFi communications other than with > this little gadget? > Try something like this: tcpdump -y IEEE802_11 -i athn0 tcpdump -y IEEE802_11_RADIO -i athn0 As usual, see the tcpdump man page f

Re: athn weirdness with two subnets

2014-01-26 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:56:37AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Interesting. I was just about to try this when your response came in, > (OpenBSD Manual 6.9 "A bridge acting as a DHCP server") > but since athn0 does not come up unless I assign a network to it, I > doubt that only assigning an IP t

Re: athn weirdness with two subnets

2014-01-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Eike Lantzsch writes: > I realise that the Atheros drivers still seem to be quite finniky - at > least in hostap mode, or is this hardwired into the card? I've only used one athn card (a pci version, I forget the exact make and model but I can dig it out of the pile) and while it was possible t

Question about debugging WLAN communication

2014-01-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
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Re: athn weirdness with two subnets

2014-01-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 26 January 2014 04:29:54 Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em 25-01-2014 19:15, Eike Lantzsch escreveu: > > On Saturday 25 January 2014 11:11:43 you wrote: > > > > if you want athn0 and vr1 to be on the same network, bridge them > > together then assign an IP address to only one of the two. >

Re: Cannot make state when using 'user' option in pf.conf

2014-01-26 Thread Jiri B
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:03:59AM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > 2014/1/26 Jiri B : > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to understand why there's no PF state for a outgoing > > rule dedicated to dnscrypt-proxy (668) daemon. > > > > pf.conf says 'user' option needs effective ID... > > > > # ps -axo uid,rui