Re: ath stops working until a manual scan

Stefan Sperling, 15 Oct 2014 17:36: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 05:22:00PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: ath started misbehaving really bad recently. it works for a couple of minutes and then i have to do ifconfig ath0 scan, and starts working again. Can you elaborate on what recently means

pool_do_get panic

i had no visible ddb prompt unfortunately, so no show registers, etc but i managed a boot dump blindly. (i did not have enough space at reboot time, so i ran savecore manually later) $ sudo savecore /var/crash savecore: reboot after panic: pool_do_get: mcl2k free list modified: page 0xd7e2c000;

Re: HEADS-UP: issues with chromium in -current

Marc Espie, 23 Oct 2014 12:14: This has been discussed internally, but chromium is partly broken these days. Most specifically, windows refresh does strange things under some circumstances. my funny story is with dual head under openbox. when i switch back to the virtual desktop where

X11 screen blanking issue

on a thinkpad X60s this works: xset dpms force off this doesnt: xset +dpms xset dpms 0 0 300 anybody has an idea how can i make the screen blanking work? OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #442: Thu Oct 23 13:25:47 MDT 2014 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. is that expected? -f -- if you stand up to be counted someone will take your seat.

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

Christian Weisgerber, 24 Oct 2014 21:46: On 2014-10-24, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. is that expected? Yes. MPlayer disables screen blanking. When you watch a movie, you usually don't press keys or move the mouse, but you

mutt and gmail

i'd like to ask other gmail on mutt users if they experience a Mailbox closed issue if they have it open for longer stretches of time. reopening the mailbox works but it is kind of a PITA. after making a debug enabled mutt, its debug log reveals the following: [2014-10-25 15:44:16] SSL error:

Re: pool_do_get panic

a similar panic. looks like i am off to memtest86 savecore: reboot after panic: pool_do_get: mcl2k free list modified: page 0xd8af7000; item addr 0xd8af7800; offset 0x0=0x80 != 0x416a2108 savecore: writing core to /var/crash/bsd.1.core savecore: writing kernel to /var/crash/bsd.1 (gdb) file

Re: mutt and gmail

Dmitrij D. Czarkoff, 25 Oct 2014 22:21: FWIW I use mbsync (from mail/isync) to sync Gmail to local maildir, and have my mutt set up to work in maildir only. I set up cron to call mbsync on schedule, and I from then I totally forgot about the crappiness of Gmail's IMAP interface. thanks for

panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size

memtest did not reveal errors. unfortunately i got another panic, during some routine file operations. (after the 2 previous panics, fsck required manual running, and even multiple runs, so maybe this one is choking on fsck's best efforts, i dont know.) savecore: reboot after panic:

Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size

Philip Guenther, 26 Oct 2014 14:23: From the backtrace, either a bogus block number ended up in a single-indirect block, or the filesystem superblock was corrupted. Or something is scrambling memory. I think you're correct that this filesystem has been damaged by whatever memory corruption

lost+found disappeared

what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). should i recreate it by hand? shouldn't fsck create it? especially when there were a lot of UNREF files and an unclean shutdown... (just had a panic

Re: lost+found disappeared

Alexander Hall, 30 Oct 2014 00:48: On 10/30/14 00:11, frantisek holop wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). A reinstall does not render you any lost+found directories

Re: lost+found disappeared

Philip Guenther, 29 Oct 2014 21:26: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:11 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). How confident are you

Re: lost+found disappeared

Jan Stary, 30 Oct 2014 10:25: Ah, so you completely reinstalled? Then you have a fresh system where there are no lost+found directories. These are only created when fsck needs to reattach UNREF files. these are the last lines of fsck i can see: /dev/sd0a (65714a12cd3919f3.a): UNREF FILE

Re: lost+found disappeared

Otto Moerbeek, 30 Oct 2014 12:59: fsck_ffs only creates lost+found if it needs to link a lost file, but it does not do that in preen mode. Preen mode is used by the rc script. thank you for the explanation. from the man page it seemed that preen mode is identical to normal mode except 1) uses

troublesome threesome: home network woes

i have network problem i am trying to solve but i am stuck. any ideas to track this down are welcome. my home network (wifi, dhcp): router (D-link DI-524): 10.10.10.1 openbsd (current) notebook: 10.10.10.60 linux mint (r17) notebook: 10.10.10.33 the problem: connecting from openbsd to linux is

Re: troublesome threesome: home network woes (yes, it is a router issue)

frantisek holop, 30 Oct 2014 20:31: i have network problem i am trying to solve but i am stuck. any ideas to track this down are welcome. i fished out some cables et voila, when both notebooks are connected as god meant it, the router is happy: ethernet openbsd - ethernet linux: 64 bytes

Re: troublesome threesome: home network woes (maybe not (only) a router issue)

there must be something more than what meets the eye: i fished out another home gateway, a huawei this time. interestingly the symptoms are very similar (well, it also probably runs some version of linux). openbsd wifi - huawei - linux wifi: 64 bytes from 192.168.1.66: icmp_seq=356 ttl=64

Re: troublesome threesome: home network woes (the surprising finale)

so i went a bit crazy and fished out 2 more home routers, one more usb dongle (only supported on linux) and a windows machine. quite a lan party i am having. using the 4 routers helped me rule out the router. and using another usb dongle on linux helped me confirm it is definitely not an openbsd

Re: making firefox less insecure

Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount, 16 Nov 2014 15:55: Seems heavy, and probably harder to set up and maintain than (e) and (f). Sure it's harder to set up, but believe me, after setting up the maintenance is almost zero. I restart every week that server as read-write to patch it as if the

ffs and utf8

i have written for myself a small python3 script that removes accented characters and all utf8 symbols from filenames, a kind of utf-8 to ascii sanitizer. while working on it, i created some strange test cases (e.g. »´ÁÉǑÄ«) for filenames and i was pleasently surprised that the files were

Re: ffs and utf8

frantisek holop, 29 Nov 2014 13:02: while working on it, i created some strange test cases (e.g. »´ÁÉǑÄ«) for filenames and i was pleasently surprised that the files were created/read/renamed/deleted without problems. i think i should clarify this a bit: they show perfect in midnight

Re: ffs and utf8

Ville Valkonen, 29 Nov 2014 14:08: Are you aware of 'detox' package? $ touch »´ÁÉǑÄ« $ detox * $ ls A_A_A_A_C_A_A_ $ touch »´ÁÉǑÄ« $ my_silly_script $ ls aeoa perhaps with some massaging detox can be made to work like my script, i dont know. but that is actually besides the point. i wrote my

Re: ffs and utf8

Paolo Aglialoro, 29 Nov 2014 13:56: Shouldn't in 2014 the aim having all working in utf-8? sure. but i like my filenames ascii and whitespaceless. shows my age. -f -- what a nice night for an evening. -- steven wright

Re: ffs and utf8

Joel Rees, 01 Dec 2014 22:04: Hmm. What would you suggest doing with the following file name? ／ｅｔｃ (You may need a Japanese font to display it.) If you try to normalize it on a *nix box, it will hopefully conflict with your system file permissions. But, then what do you do with it?

Re: ffs and utf8

Stefan Sperling, 29 Nov 2014 18:17: Are you aware of 'detox' package? There's also converters/convmv $ touch »´ÁÉǑÄ« $ convmv * wrong/unknown from encoding! $ convmv -f utf8 -t latin1 * Starting a dry run without changes... iso-8859-1 doesn't cover all needed characters for: ./»´ÁÉǑÄ« To

Re: hw.setperf affects only 1 (of several) cores?

Marinos Yannikos, 23 Dec 2014 12:20: Practical implications: a Supermicro A1SAi based server sitting on my desk gets quite warm at 61°C when idle and supposedly clocked down to half the nominal CPU frequency at hw.setperf=0 (Linux: 43°C). this is a difficult issue, because as far as i know,

hotplugd attach into /etc/examples?

now that there is a dedicated place for examples, i think it would be easier to get started with hotplugd/attach with a file instead of copy pasting from the manual page... the only difference from the man page example is simple logging with logger(1) (to help add new devices), and commenting out

Re: hotplugd attach into /etc/examples?

Ingo Schwarze, 24 Dec 2014 11:34: now that there is a dedicated place for examples, You misunderstand. The point of creating /etc/examples was not to create a new place for documentation. The point was to be able to delete lots of junk from /etc/ without being held back by the

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

Mihai Popescu, 21 Jan 2015 14:34: but in my experience it is not that hard to get a corrupted filesystem with softupdates and i had to stop using it. but i seem to attract panics and page faults. in the recent past i had corrupted filesystems even without softupdates, up to a point

Re: PostgreSQL 9.4: initdb: invalid locale settings

openda...@hushmail.com, 21 Jan 2015 19:29: Why won't `postgresql-server-9.4.0` accept my locale? Just upgraded to 5.7 from 5.5. Whatever `postgresql-server` version was in 5.5 didn't have this problem. % su _postgresql % initdb -D /var/postgresql/data/ LC_ALL is not supported

Re: PostgreSQL 9.4: initdb: invalid locale settings

openda...@hushmail.com, 21 Jan 2015 20:41: Hello, On 21. januar 2015 at 8:26 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: LC_ALL is not supported yet, try LC_CTYPE. $ sudo su - _postgresql $ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data -U postgres -E UTF8 -A md5 -W

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

Alexandre Ratchov, 20 Jan 2015 10:17: in *my* practice, yes. I lost no single file last 10 years despite the frequent system crashes during kernel development experimenting. very nice, i dont doubt that. but in my experience it is not that hard to get a corrupted filesystem with softupdates

ehci_idone: ex=0xd90fd934 is done!

recently i have bought a cheapo usb hub, nothing fancy, just to keep the mouse, keyboard, wifi in one place. i have it plugged in at boot time. in dmesg.boot things look good. then hotplugd starts to run and receives all these devices. by the time i login, all the devices work but i have this in

suspend/resume regression

is anybody else seeing regression in suspend/resume? i am noticing that my 100% resume ratio is starting to decline. at resume time, the thinkpad half moon icon starts blinking and nothing else happens. not all resumes fail, but i cannot see a pattern. i suspend every night and resume every

mac mini - virtualbox - openbsd amd64?

has anybody tried running openbsd in virtualbox on a mac mini? is X11, etc feasable? -f -- if r is reverse, how come d is forward?

Re: ehci_idone: ex=0xd90fd934 is done!

i confirm that with the latest snapshot that includes the latest ehci fix these messages went away. thank you. -f -- doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Re: uxterm is showing UTF-8 chars with errors?

Thisis theone, 03 Mar 2015 16:55: $ touch árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép $ ls -lah -rw--- 1 user user 0B Feb 8 18:20 ??rv??zt??r?? t??k??rf??r??g??p $ I am using uxterm on OpenBSD 5.6. How can my uxterm show these accents in this way? Why doesn't it displays it as it is? look in the

Re: What happens to OpenBSD when Secure Boot becomes manditory?

Todd C. Miller, 02 Apr 2015 14:47: Please read those articles again, Secure Boot is *not* mandatory for Windows 10. The major change is that for Windows 8 Microsoft *required* hardware vendors to provide a setting to disable Secure Boot. To be certified for Windows 10, the hardware is no

lidsuspend results in reboot

since the apr 24 snapshot, doing a lidsuspend results in a reboot when raising the lid. this has worked as recently back as the 12 april snapshot. can anybody reproduce this? OpenBSD 5.7-current (GENERIC.MP) #834: Fri Apr 24 00:00:30 MDT 2015

Re: lidsuspend results in reboot

Mike Larkin, 29 Apr 2015 14:30: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:18:05PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: since the apr 24 snapshot, doing a lidsuspend results in a reboot when raising the lid. this has worked as recently back as the 12 april snapshot. can anybody reproduce this? Please

overheating thinkpad after resume

hello, i have hinted about this issue before, but it is becoming something that quite bothers me, so i thought i might ask for help. i have a thinkpad x60s. after resuming from lidsuspend, for no apparent reason the temperature keeps hanging around 70-71. if i make a reboot, it will go back to

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

Chris Cappuccio, 19 Jun 2015 09:59: The problem identified in this article is _NOT_ TRIM support. It's QUEUED TRIM support. It's an exotic firmware feature that is BROKEN. Suffice to say, if Windows doesn't exercise an exotic feature in PC hardware, it may not be well tested by anybody! the

Re: can't install 5.7 xhci problem

Martin Pieuchot, 16 Jun 2015 14:58: It has been researched by mikeb@ so far without any success. I don't have access to a machine with Intel 8 Series USB xHCI controller so I can't help. As a workaround you might try disabling xhci. sometimes the bios has an option for legacy usb, or xhci

partition alignment and advanced format drives

i was putting a 2.5 500G WD disk into a usb enclosure and i noticed that instead of technical information they used to put there (chs, lba, etc) most of the space was taken up by a notice about this being advenced format drive, and how speed will suffer if used with windows xp, etc, without

Re: Major improvement in CPU temperatures for -current

thinkpad x60s here, copying 130G from one encrypted softraid to another one: 86-89C down to 71-74C. now i need to buy an extra heater :( this is some great news for my testies, our great thanks in the name of the whole family :) -f -- one family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.

Re: partition alignment and advanced format drives

Theo de Raadt, 14 Jun 2015 12:15: some modern linux distros (and win7) use 2048 sectors as offset for their first partition, an alignment of 1MB. openbsd's fdisk uses 64. one thing it does not do is creating partition sizes divisble you have confused yourself. my mistake here, that

when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/ also note the part relating to ext4: I have to admit, I slept better before reading the changelog. fast, features, realiable: pick any 2. -f -- think honk if you're a telepath.

Re: acer travelmate b115-m boot panic

another try with XHCI_DEBUG kernel (otherwise vanilla GENERIC.MP), booted from the usb stick. this gets through the problematic point, the ports are not disabled. i am attaching furter info as well: pcidump -v: Domain /dev/pci0: 0:0:0: Intel Bay Trail Host 0x: Vendor ID: 8086

acer travelmate b115-m boot panic

hello, here is a partial dmesg from an acer travelmate b115-m. this is fairly new hardware and it almost boots up all the way. 1. wifi is atheros. sigh. will try to replace it (hopefully there is no whitelist like on lenovo) 2. notice that spdmem identifies 4G of RAM, but only 2 show up. 3.

Re: acer travelmate b115-m boot panic

and it looks like newer notebooks get this RTC clock_battery warning as well. -f -- i'm a virgin, but i'm just not very good at it.

Re: acer travelmate b115-m boot panic

frantisek holop, 30 May 2015 00:23: 4. IIUC, something is wrong with the usb hub and in the process the boot device is lost. i tried disabling xhci, no disabled port messages, however no usb at all. bios has no usb legacy options. according to the linux dmesg, some of the string descriptors

Re: Regarding the default /usr partitioning

Carlos Fenollosa, 29 Jun 2015 15:24: Hi Tim, this is true. However, at some point, even novice users might need to build a port to apply some errata. If that port is one of the big ones (php, in my case), they may realize that they don’t have enough disk space. everyone has different needs

Re: mini itx from intel

thanks everyone for the dmesg. i bought 2 of these with 8G of RAM and intel SSD drives. they will be used as headless servers, so DRM is not an issue, i was aware of that. they are remote, so openbsd is not installed on them yet, and i had the techie remove the wlans, as they will be in a small

Re: mini itx from intel

frantisek holop, 02 Oct 2015 17:55: > thanks everyone for the dmesg. > i bought 2 of these with 8G of RAM > and intel SSD drives. and of course by "2 of these" i meant DN2820FYKH -f -- he has a train of thought. you have a tricycle...

mini itx from intel

does anyone happen to have any of these? http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-comparison.html plz send dmesg if possible. -f -- loose lips sinks ships

Re: no image on external monitor via HDMI output in X

try -current http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech=146073262518343=2 -f -- when you come to a fork in the road, take it!

Re: Is there such a thing as a fanless OpenBSD-capable laptop?

the acer travelmate b115-m is an el cheapo netbook with no moving parts if you stick an ssd in it. the sound of silence is very relaxing. it suspends, resumes, most things work; the clickpad and the wifi being notable exceptions. but there is no wifi card blacklist (eat shit lenovo) so problem

"Cleared:" in pfctl interface statistics

what is the purpose of the Cleared line of the interface statistics? if i read pfctl(8) correctly, only tables can have their statistics cleared/zeroed (the table command is "zero", and not "clear", perhaps because the latter could evoke "removing all elements of the table", although in other

Re: hardware recommendation for openbsd-based thin client?

i don't have experience with the compute sticks, but i would start with updating the BIOS. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25917/BIOS-Update-SCCHTAX5-86A- noah pugsley, 26 May 2016 20:59: > bios0: vendor Intel Corp. version "SCCHTAX5.86A.0014.2015.1119.1410" date > 11/19/2015 > bios0:

Re: Is there such a thing as a fanless OpenBSD-capable laptop?

Erling Westenvik, 14 Jun 2016 09:03: > With all due respect: This is not the place to ask for detailed specs > for a whole series of computers. You could easily have found answers to all > of your questions above if you had done some very basic homework: > >

Re: bluetooth audio -> usb dongle?

Edgar Pettijohn, 14 Jun 2016 17:41: > Someone answered a similiar question recently. I believe > the answer was "if the dongle handles the bluetooth" then > it will work. However, if it expects the OS to do any > part of the pairing, etc then it will not work. a quick search for "openbsd

bluetooth audio -> usb dongle?

i'd like to use a bluetooth wireless headphone with openbsd. is this possible with some usb dongle? -f -- i am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Re: Is there such a thing as a fanless OpenBSD-capable laptop?

ropers, 14 Jun 2016 03:37: > > the acer travelmate b115-m is an el cheapo netbook > > with no moving parts if you stick an ssd in it. > > > > Thanks for the addition and dmesg. Do you know if all the Travelmate B115's > are fanless or only the M models, not MP or P? What about the B116's and >

Re: Is there such a thing as a fanless OpenBSD-capable laptop?

Ulf Brosziewski, 15 Jun 2016 00:48: > Your feedback in bugs@ would be appreciated. Can you exclude that > it's a hardware failure? Some people claim that various Acer models > are prone to such failures because the touchpads have a bad > electrical grounding. i sent a reply to your bugs@ reply

turning off the touchscreen

i have installed openbsd -current on an older generation of dell xps 17. this model has a touchscreen, but a faulty one. no amount of calibration helps and needs to be disabled also in windows and linux. i am having difficulties disabling it in openbsd. please find the dmesg, and Xorg.log

Re: thinkpad X301: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active.

forgot to add: the drive is a MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-844 -f -- when childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Re: thinkpad X301: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active.

David Coppa, 27 Apr 2016 15:58: > > the dvd drive lets out terrible shrieks at boot up > > time, and by timing out makes boot up longer. is there > > anything i can do about it? i'd prefer not to take out > > the drive as i have nothing to replace it. > > Maybe disabling cd*? > > # config -e

thinkpad X301: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active.

a newcomer to my menagerie. stuff mostly works (although did not wake up from zzz when booted from a usb stick). the dvd drive lets out terrible shrieks at boot up time, and by timing out makes boot up longer. is there anything i can do about it? i'd prefer not to take out the drive as i have

Re: github

Nick Holland, 07 Aug 2016 23:36: > > Is this http://[bullshit deleted]/openbsd the official OpenBSD github site? > > I find this part terrifying. > > Nowhere on the OpenBSD website mentions github as anything official. So > you just assumed that the seven letters, "openbsd", in that order,

terminals + tmux + vim: ESC + arrows unexpected behaviour

there seems to be some unexpected behaviour (at least for me) in terminal vim running under tmux: pressing ESC and right after that the arrow keys to move around (vim purist need not comment on this) get interpreted as different vim commands: for example UP will enter insert mode again, LEFT,

Re: terminals + tmux + vim: ESC + arrows unexpected behaviour

Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, 14 May 2017 14:28: > tmux has an "escape-time" setting: > > escape-time time > Set the time in milliseconds for which tmux waits > after an escape is input to determine if it is part > of a function or meta key sequences. The default >

timestamp of 'logfile turned over' lines

hello and happy new year, during the christmas holidays i have upgraded my openbsd servers to 6.2 and i have noticed that the timestamps for newsyslog 'logfile turned over' lines changed to something like ISO 8601: $ zgrep turned /var/log/messages* messages:2017-12-31T23:00:01.258Z selene

Re: sudoedit for doas?

Paul de Weerd, 01 Mar 2018 15:06: > Hi Nick, others, > | what is the reason for your obsession with sudoedit or visudo or > | anything other than just editing the $%&^& file, saving your change and > | testing them on another terminal window? Like is done on almost every > | other config file in

would like: unix user and softraid crypto sharing same password

hello, macOS has this rather user friendly operating mode where one is able to set the volume's FileVault (apple's full disk encryption) password to be the same as their user password and the password is asked only once. after bootup i get a login screen, enter my password, and voila, i am both

Re: would like: unix user and softraid crypto sharing same password

Mihai Popescu, 05 Mar 2018 00:07: > Did they remove the SHIFT key support on macOS? AH< SO THATS"S THE SECRET< I JUST NEED TO USE THE SHIFT KEY> THANKS COMRADE --

Re: py3-qt5

Daniel Jakots, 01 Mar 2018 21:50: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:40:57 -0500, Z Ero > wrote: > > > Not showing in pip3 --list after installed with pkg_add. Not available > > module. Why? > > > > pip and pkg_add are two different package manager. If you run pkg_info, > you

Re: [PATCH] Remove "Multibooting" in FAQ

tfrohw...@fastmail.com - Sat, 06 April 2019 at 17:45:42 > I run a dual-boot with Windows 10 on the same partition and the on the same partition? -f --

Re: [PATCH] Remove "Multibooting" in FAQ

Thomas Frohwein - Sat, 06 April 2019 at 12:54:54 > I remember the following as the steps not mentioned in the FAQ that helped me > get it to work. All with MBR and Windows 10. > > 1. Shrink the main partition in Windows disk manager and create a second >partition. the FAQ cannot deal with

Re: wsmouse: disable touch-panel

Timothy Brown - Mon, 10 June 2019 at 08:43:47 > Not too sure about a a config change to disable it. However on my crappy > work Dell laptop (XPS 9343), I can disable it in the BIOS. Have you looked > to see if you can do that? yes. it's not there. the bios is a sad piece of software in this

wsmouse: disable touch-panel

hello, i have a faulty touch panel in this notebook and i need to disable it. because of KARL and following -current in general i'd much prefer a non config -e solution. that leaves wscons and X.org. if i read Xorg log file correctly, x.org picks up touch panel from wsmouse. after reading

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