Fwd: snapshot sysupgrade, /pub/OpenBSD/7.3/packages/amd64/: no such dir

Did snapshot sysupgrade On reboot in tty0: syspatch: Error retrieving https://mirror.ihost.md/pub/OpenBSD/7.3/packages/amd64/SHA256.sig: 404 not found Issuing pkg_add -u: https://mirror.ihost.md/pub/OpenBSD/7.3/packages/amd64/: no such dir I see other mirrors https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD

Re: Thinkpad T530 touchpad 3-taps word-wise selection not working

> I'm preparing a patch. A word of gratitude. The patch didn't get into 7.1 release, pity, but I just tried 2022.10.05 snapshot and the issue is gone. I confirm that all selection methods work as expected. Thank you Ulf and whoever participated, you are awesome

Request additions to qbittorrent-nox port README

I have had 2 issues with `qbittorrent-nox`, both are OpenBSD-specific and IMHO it would be appropriate if README described them. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-nox/pkg/README?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup I emailed Elias M. Mariani (package m

Thinkpad T530 touchpad 3-taps word-wise selection not working

Mouse/touchpad text selection modes: character-wise 1 button press, then drag 2 taps, then drag word-wise 2 button presses, then drag 3 taps, then drag line-wise 3 button presses, then drag 4 taps, then drag With touchpad physical buttons, all modes work fine, whereas when tapping: cha

Re: flood of dashes and a beep ??? what are they?

I may have presented my question in a confusing way, mixing in 2 PCs, 2 dmesg'es and a variety of issues. Excuse me. > it's unusual that > some ports show up under ahci(4) and some under pciide(4). You must have two > separate SATA controllers with separate config sections in the BIOS. 2 PCs, one

Is it true that `dd` is almost not needed?

The article: https://eklitzke.org/the-cult-of-dd The content of the article: The Cult of DD Mar 17, 2017 You'll often see instructions for creating and using disk images on Unix systems making use of the dd command. This is a strange program of [obscure provenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D

flood of dashes and a beep — what are they?

I believe it was the nVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset of Asus M2N-E motherboard that caused 3 kinds of errors, one kind being a multitude of: wd0(pciide1:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 16384 c_skip: 0 pciide1:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 wd0a: d

Re: Weird shutdown behavior

My hunch was that `shutdown now` to `shutdown -p now` works same as `halt` to `halt -p` Which is wrong, as `shutdown now` doesn't shutdown the system/machine but only system services: "When the shutdown command is issued without options the system is placed in single user mode at the indicated tim

Weird shutdown behavior

Freshly installed `install70.iso` and a few packages, X not launched. `shutdown -r` reboots fine; `halt` halts fine; `shutdown -p now`, `halt -p` and `shutdown now` give problems. On the next power on after `shutdown -p now` or `halt -p`, upon pressing the power button, it starts, fans, LEDs, eve

boundend less than total sectors — amd64, install70.iso, new HDD

Questions recap: 1. Is it `OpenBSD` tools' fault or is it the HDD's fault, so should I replace the HDD under warranty? 2. Can I rest assured that my install will work fine? After unpackaging a newly bought HDD, S.M.A.R.T. was checked — all new and OK, then `Hard Disk Sentinel` from under `Windows`

Re: "ERR M" on booting installation USB on Athlon

> I'm guessing that your BIOS is enumerating the flash drive as a floppy disk > device rather than a hard disk. You might be able to change this behaviour > in the BIOS. My floppy disk & USB related (AFAIK) BIOS settings are: Legacy Diskette A: [Disabled] USB Controller [Enabled] USB 2.0 Con

"ERR M" on booting installation USB on Athlon

Tried to install amd64 "install70.img" from a microSD on an old PC: CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard: Asus M2N-E Chipset: nVIDIA nForce 570 SLI, AMD Hammer USB1 controller: nVIDIA nForce 570 SLI (MCP55P) - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller USB2 controller: nVIDIA nForce 570 SLI (MCP55P) - EHCI USB 2.0 Con

Re: Installation partitioning: core dump and /var size

> a crash dump is roughly the size of your physcial mem. Actually > the max for /var is 4G *plus* 2x physical mem. So the table in the > man page is not completely right. This is precisely what I was after, thanks to Otto Moerbeek. But I'd like to add a comment for clarification. No need for repl

Installation partitioning: core dump and /var size

Also asked on: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/676245/openbsd-core-dump-and-var-size I'm trying to figure out my partitioning which leads to https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION which says: "/var13% of disk. 80M – 2x size of crash dump" But how do I know