Re: softraid(4)/bioctl(8) vs. non-512-byte sectors disks

2015-10-08 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 8 October 2015 at 07:13, Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote: > mcmer-open...@tor.at (Marcus MERIGHI), 2015.10.08 (Thu) 12:26 (CEST): >> kwesterb...@gmail.com (Kenneth Westerback), 2014.03.19 (Wed) 17:09 (CET): >> > Alas, softraid only supports 512 byte blo

OpenBSD Foundation GSOC 2015

2015-03-04 Thread Kenneth Westerback
The OpenBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. As such if you are a student who qualifies to apply for GSOC, you will be able to find us in Google's Summer of Code Application process.For details on the

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-06-28 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 28 June 2014 13:55, frank ernest do...@mail.com wrote: Hello, I'm ballsystemlord from the Opensuse forums and I've been reading a lot about how systemd is unportable, even for use with some linux programs and the systemd devs are not concerned about it. I, as a single person, can't possibly

Re: PXE auto_install

2014-06-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 June 2014 11:10, ML mail mlnos...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, The new OpenBSD auto_install with PXE works like a charm and just have 2 questions regarding the install.conf file I did not manage to find out yet: 1) how can I install the bsd.mp instead of the standard bsd image? bsd.mp should

Re: dhclient question

2014-06-23 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 23 June 2014 06:24, Avi Cohen av...@rad.com wrote: Hello In my application (it is a router in the access) I'm initially running dhclient daemon without any interface specified for dhcp. Then - on user request - we add interfaces to dhclient.conf on run-time I have 3 questions -

Re: signing release files

2014-06-17 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 17 June 2014 07:37, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 06/17/14 02:40, Jiri B wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:47:03PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: [diff to easily allow different keys] I think focus has been lost. What's the point of signing releases? To say This came

Re: Wrong Shutdown

2014-05-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On May 26, 2014 9:53 AM, Walter Souza wsouz...@gmail.com wrote: Why OpenBSD has no interest in using journal file system? OpenBSD has great interest in using journal filesystem. Nobody has sent us the diffs that would add one. Ken On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Theo de Raadt

Re: Snapshot and packages

2014-05-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 May 2014 09:31, Stan Gammons s_gamm...@charter.net wrote: I thought I understood the different flavors of OpenBSD but apparently not since I keep getting version errors when I try to add packages to sparc64 snapshots. The packages I'm trying are from the /snapshot/packages/sparc64

Re: Snapshot and packages

2014-05-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 May 2014 09:59, Stan Gammons s_gamm...@charter.net wrote: On 05/24/2014 08:51 AM, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 24 May 2014 09:31, Stan Gammons s_gamm...@charter.net wrote: I thought I understood the different flavors of OpenBSD but apparently not since I keep getting version errors

Re: Get rid of /bsd: arp info overwritten for ?

2014-05-21 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 21 May 2014 07:20, bodie bodz...@openbsd.cz wrote: On 21.05.2014 12:50, bodie wrote: On 21.05.2014 11:18, bodie wrote: Hi, testing http://marc.info/?t=14002453903r=1w=2 further and now I hit issue with corporate WIFI. I can connect perfectly fine to 2 of them provided with

Re: smtpd stops immediately after starting in -current

2014-05-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 May 2014 15:19, Norman Golisz li...@zcat.de wrote: Hi Gilles, On Sun May 18 2014 13:45, Gilles Chehade wrote: can you share your configuration file ? i'm unable to reproduce no matter what i try :-/ I'm also able to reproduce this crash: $ echo test | mail norman sudo smtpd -dv

Re: smtpd stops immediately after starting in -current

2014-05-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 May 2014 05:37, Gilles Chehade gil...@poolp.org wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:40:13PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014, at 05:30 PM, Allan Streib wrote: Just upgraded to -current from my local mirror. Was previously working with a recent-ish -current (late April or

Re: smtpd stops immediately after starting in -current

2014-05-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 May 2014 07:52, Gilles Chehade gil...@poolp.org wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:37:26AM -0400, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 18 May 2014 05:37, Gilles Chehade gil...@poolp.org wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:40:13PM -0400, Allan Streib wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014, at 05:30 PM, Allan

Re: firefox-26.0p1.tgz signature verification FAIL

2014-05-14 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 14 May 2014 11:26, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2014/05/14 11:21, Ted Unangst wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:44, Stuart Henderson wrote: $ \time -l signify -C -p /etc/signify/openbsd-55-pkg.pub -x SHA256.sig moo-1.3p1.tgz Signature Verified moo-1.3p1.tgz: FAIL

Re: Unable to set the server to download the sets with autoinstall

2014-05-08 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 8 May 2014 05:33, Xavier Claude cont...@xavierclaude.be wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use autoinstall with OpenBSD 5.5 but the Server line in the configuration file is not read set according to the install.conf and instead is used for the ntp server. Here is my install.conf file: System

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-04 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 4 May 2014 14:47, Andreas Bartelt o...@bartula.de wrote: On 05/03/14 20:22, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt o...@bartula.de wrote: On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt o...@bartula.de wrote: On 05/03/14 14:10

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 - 80 change) causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does this when you 'Label' it. The OpenBSD installer does it for you when you select 'Whole disk'. Nothing obviously to

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt o...@bartula.de wrote: On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 - 80 change) causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt o...@bartula.de wrote: On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt o...@bartula.de wrote: On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote: On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: So marking

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-01 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 1 May 2014 14:59, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: Can you provide a hex dump of the MBR Linux produces? The evidence would seem to point at the boot code stored in the MBR. To which I made a recent minor tweak. So you might also try a 5.4 install to see if it works. Below are

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-04-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 Apr 2014 15:39, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel plus fdisk and disklabel output after setting the label but before the (failing) reboot. Below you will find the dmesg and output from fdisk and disklabel

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-04-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 Apr 2014 15:57, Kenneth Westerback kwesterb...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Apr 2014 15:39, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel plus fdisk and disklabel output after setting the label but before the (failing

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-04-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 Apr 2014 03:28, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org wrote: Hello, I've got a weird disklabel related problem (or so it seems). When I partition my harddisk with fdisk and add an OpenBSD (A6) primary partition the system can still boot, but once I place a disklabel on the partition

Re: A misconfigured disklabel can crash the kernel on listing its mounted directory contents (5.4)

2014-04-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
I'm pretty sure that Linux does not manufacture disklabels that are compatible with OpenBSD. And visa versa! And if you're creating/mounting filesystems you are *not* an unprivileged user and you *definitely* can crash systems if you're not careful. :-) That said, if you can provide details on

Re: How to apply a patch in OpenBSD?

2014-04-16 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 16 April 2014 19:20, Liviu Daia liviu.d...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 April 2014, ohh, whyyy ohhwh...@postafiok.hu wrote: Hey, Thanks! yes, it looks like the sys.tar.gz was missing.. I created a small howto for it (for patching 5.4): cd /root ftp http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2014 Fundraising Campaign.

2014-04-11 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 11 April 2014 11:15, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Apr 11 11:46:12, openbsd.as.a.desk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, - 1) If I search for openbsdfoundation on: - Facebook - Twitter - Youtube - Instagram - Flickr - Slideshare - etc.. I get ZERO

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

2014-04-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 9 April 2014 12:24, Fil Di Noto fdin...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, LPAR) in the future? I've recently been working with this hardware and it's pretty amazing. I can't speak to its future market share but there seems to be a lot

Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

2014-04-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 3 April 2014 22:04, Martin Braun yellowgoldm...@gmail.com wrote: As we all know on the front page of OpenBSD it says Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time. I don't understand why this is such a big deal. A part from the base system in xBSD, OpenBSD - so

Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets

2014-03-27 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 27 March 2014 11:30, Boris Goldberg bo...@twopoint.com wrote: Hello misc, Thursday, March 27, 2014, 9:14:00 AM, Jiri wrote: JB Could you please elaborate why not sftp for sets (and/or JB for pkg_add)? I'll rephrase: can someone besides Theo elaborate? It was an obvious mistake to

Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets

2014-03-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 26 March 2014 13:46, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:41, Marc Espie wrote: One other reason is that our ftp *client* is a pile of crud. Almost anyone who approaches it runs away screaming (or becomes berserk, grabs an axe, and starts cutting madly at the

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
http://www.openbsd.org/report.html On 26 March 2014 16:59, Charlie Farinella cfarine...@appropriatesolutions.com wrote: I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes

Re: Suspend and Hibernate Issues with 3/5 Snapshot and ThinkPad T42p

2014-03-20 Thread Kenneth Westerback
5.2 to 5.5 is a big jump. Can you try 5.3 and/or 5.4 to narrow down when the problem began? Bisecting the tree would be the next step. :-) Ken On 20 March 2014 20:34, Daniel Melameth dan...@melameth.com wrote: With OpenBSD 5.2, I had no issue doing suspend and hibernate: when I closed

Re: softraid(4)/bioctl(8) vs. non-512-byte sectors disks

2014-03-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Alas, softraid only supports 512 byte block devices at the moment. Ken On Mar 19, 2014 11:36 AM, Marcus MERIGHI mcmer-open...@tor.at wrote: Reference: ``Softraid 3TB Problems'' http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=136225193931620 Difference: My HDDs show up as 4096 bytes/sector in dmesg.

Re: Unbound in base, yes, what about ldns?

2014-03-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 19 March 2014 18:09, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org wrote: Great to see Unbound in base, thanks. But what about ldns? I still have that installed as a package - removed the unbound package as per the -current instructions, but shouldn't the ldns package package be removed as well as

Re: Linux partition appears as ext2 partition in disklabel

2014-03-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 March 2014 12:49, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem. Recently I added following to my /etc/fstab: /dev/sd0i /mnt/arch ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I can't mount this partition using mount -a: $ sudo mount -a mount: /dev/sd0i:

Re: Linux partition appears as ext2 partition in disklabel

2014-03-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 March 2014 13:23, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote: Ted Unangst said: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 18:49, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem. Recently I added following to my /etc/fstab: /dev/sd0i /mnt/arch ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I

Re: Linux partition appears as ext2 partition in disklabel

2014-03-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 March 2014 13:59, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote: Kenneth Westerback said: delete the partition 'i'. You don't need it, as it will be automatically created when necessary. Something would have been added. Again, the output of 'disklabel -d sd0' would be useful. Ken

Re: sysmerge trouble

2014-02-24 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 24 February 2014 07:56, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: On 2014-02-24 Shawn K. Quinn skquinn () rushpost ! com wrote: Date: 2014-02-24 10:49:03 On Sun, Feb 23, 2014, at 03:45 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Took a while to submit this, but for the past ~ six weeks of

Re: DVD ISO and mount_udf: FSD does not lie within the partition!

2014-02-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 18 February 2014 02:57, Philippe Meunier meun...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Hello, I have problems mounting Windows 7 DVD ISO images on OpenBSD 5.4 stable. For example, you can download X17-59463.iso from http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/ # ls -l

Re: Xorg: Segmentation fault at address 0x28 w/ Intel HD Graphics 4600

2014-02-10 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 10 February 2014 13:11, RD Thrush openbsd-m...@thrush.com wrote: With a somewhat recent i7 desktop, using startx, X seems to run ok; however, at 1024x768 rather than the expected 1920x1200 resolution. ctl-alt-keypad+ or - have no effect on resolution. ctl-alt-backspace correctly reverts

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

2014-02-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
rc.conf(8) says create and edit a rc.conf.local. Not copy rc.conf. I'm not sure what the FAQ says but I'd think it would be similar advice. Ken On 9 February 2014 13:28, VaZub vasyl.zu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, There is a small nuisance I've stumbled upon during my first experiments

Re: new to OpenBSD and have a few questions

2014-02-09 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 9 February 2014 16:58, d...@genunix.com d...@genunix.com wrote: warning: really long post with some questions and thinking. Hello dear OpenBSD types. I have been using UNIX in various forms and flavours for a long time now and could even go so far as to say a very long time. Therefore it

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Shudder. NO! :-) Aside from the very valid hardware concerns Nick mentioned, there are too many flag days of various kinds strewn along that path. Skip them all, start fresh with a -current snapshot. Ken On 6 February 2014 05:49, davy davy.van.de.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've recently

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 11:44, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Kenneth Westerback wrote: Shudder. NO! :-) Aside from the very valid hardware concerns Nick mentioned, there are too many flag days of various kinds strewn along that path. Skip them all, start fresh

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 12:31, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Kenneth Westerback wrote: Well, that would imply waiting for May 1 or whenever the physical CD's are available. 5.4 is available now, .. Starting now with a -current snapshot means getting everything

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 12:40, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: L. V. Lammert [l...@omnitec.net] wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, davy wrote: Can I do a 4.1 - 5.4 in one shot? Nope. One version at a time, .. though the better solution would be to do a fresh install and copy data. What I'm

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

2014-02-06 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 6 February 2014 12:40, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: L. V. Lammert [l...@omnitec.net] wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, davy wrote: Can I do a 4.1 - 5.4 in one shot? Nope. One version at a time, .. though the better solution would be to do a fresh install and copy data. What I'm

Re: dhclient

2014-02-05 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 5 February 2014 06:35, Holger Glaess gla...@glaessixs.de wrote: Am 03.02.2014 17:54, schrieb Kenneth Westerback: Reactivating the dhclient-script is not going to happen. I am interested in what you would see syntax in dhclient.conf looking like. Would multi-path routing modifications

Re: Is [binary] package signing planned?

2014-02-04 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 4 February 2014 11:25, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: 2014-02-04 Kim Twain kimtwa...@gmail.com: Does pkg_add automatically check these signatures, or, as of now, I'd need to manually download the packages, verify them with signify and then install them locally with pkg_add? In

Re: dhclient

2014-02-03 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Reactivating the dhclient-script is not going to happen. I am interested in what you would see syntax in dhclient.conf looking like. Would multi-path routing modifications to all routes be needed? How should this be combined with supersede/default/append commands for the relevant options? Would

Re: The unknown in i386-unknown-openbsd5.4

2014-02-02 Thread Kenneth Westerback
i386-donatetoopenbsdfoundationtoday-openbsd5.4? . Ken On 2 February 2014 12:10, Adam Jensen han...@riseup.net wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:17:08 + (UTC) na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote: At least it's consistent. FreeBSD's collection of -undermydesk- (gcc)

Re: newfs_msdos(8) creates faulty filesystems

2013-10-20 Thread Kenneth Westerback
Neither field is required. 'Free Space' in fsinfo can be -1 or just wrong, and 'Next Free Cluster' is a hint only. Hence in either case you can fix them up, or ignore their incorrectness and the filesystem is still considered ok. And since they are not required I guess newfs never bothered to

Re: OpenZFS announcement

2013-09-18 Thread Kenneth Westerback
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/About_OpenZFS Under 'Other' at the bottom: ZFS source code is copyright various contributors, and available under the CDDL open-source license. The second paragraph is amusing: OpenZFS is not associated with openzfs.org. Don't forget the dash in our URS: open-zfs.org

Re: Root file system is growing strangely

2009-12-19 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:50 AM, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/18 Daniel Zhelev dan...@zhelev.biz: after log in I sow that the root file system is over 100%. *Over* 100%? How is that even possible? Because this is Unix? Not a sarcastic reply, pointing out that this is a well known

Re: New Western Digital disks will have 4KB block size - issue?

2009-12-16 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: yes On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:30:46AM +0100, Robert wrote: Hi, I just read [1,2] that Western Digital (and probably others) will start to sell disks with an internal block size of 4KB instead of 512 byte. The

Re: New Western Digital disks will have 4KB block size - issue?

2009-12-16 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Kenneth Westerback kwesterb...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: yes On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:30:46AM +0100, Robert