Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

On 5/21/24 08:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-05-21, Nick Holland wrote: ... When I remove that disk the boot sequence stops and asks for a fsck I would like that this disk is mounted when it's present, but when it's not installed I don't want the boot sequence to stop Make it also

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

On 5/20/24 09:37, Jan Stary wrote: On May 20 13:22:26, mikyde...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hello, I have two use cases and problems with fsck. 1) When my openbsd boots after an outage, the system asks me to fsck /, /usr, /var or /home manually. So I do fsck /dev/sd0a And then I'm asked questions and I

Re: Favorite configuration and system replication tools?

On 5/7/24 19:25, Jo MacMahon wrote: I'm interested if anybody has solutions using just the base system - I would want something like etckeeper or git that was a true version control system, rather than dump(8)/restore(8) which are backup systems. I'm idly considering learning CVS for it, and

Re: Upgraded to 7.5: vfs.ffs.dirhash_dirsize no longer exists and large directory ere veeery slow

On 4/11/24 05:47, Federico Giannici wrote: We have a server with A LOT of files in some directories (an email server in maildir format). Since we upgraded from OpenBSD amd64 7.3 to 7.5 (passing through 7.4) it became very very very slow to access these large directories! ,,, You may be being

Re: OpenBSD 7.5 bsd.upgrade hangs after sysupgrade

On 4/7/24 10:42, Страхиња Радић wrote: Дана 24/04/07 12:46PM, Страхиња Радић написа: Ok. The alternative would be to find a way to make 7.5 efifb work on my laptop. The version of efifb from 7.4 works (that is how I installed 7.4 in the first place), unlike 7.5 efifb. I'd just like to add

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On 4/7/24 03:03, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello i have 1 DELL Latitude E4300 that had OBSD 7.3 working correctly, but i decided to do a clean installation of 7.5 deleting everything on it with a live cd linux; then tested 7.5 and it says NO disk. After that i tested Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD all

Re: Bridging firewall with online update/upgrade

On 4/3/24 12:19, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I am creating a bridging firewall with OpenBSD and the following hardware: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0B6J89MXJ?ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_asin_image=1. OpenBSD is already installed. I want to use ETH1 for the input from my ADSL modem, ETH2 and ETH3 for the

Re: Bash instead of ksh

On 4/2/24 15:34, Steve Litt wrote: ... Does "general shell" mean the interactive shell you use? If so, I think that's an excellent idea for non-root accounts. Ok, I'll bite... Why do you think that's an "excellent idea" -- something you would encourage people to do? What is it that you see

Re: Bash instead of ksh

On 4/1/24 12:24, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set it up that way? Bash is already installed. Easy to do, as several have explained how. ...BUT... I'd really suggest not doing that. If you are writing a script that requires

Re: UKC> disable "smth"

On 3/16/24 08:52, ofthecentury wrote: I boot with 'boot -c' and then enter 'disable mei' and then 'quit'. Pcidump still shows Intel MEI, just as it does when booting with default config. I don't think anything changed. In this case, correct. As was already pointed out -- devices exist or don't

Re: Saving UKC> list output

On 3/15/24 07:56, ofthecentury via misc wrote: When you want to turn off a device on OpenBSD you can do it at boot time with manual `boot -c` command. (Can also be automated) After entering entering `boot -c` you get UKC> configuration prompt. I type `list` and get a nice list of all drivers I

Re: many serial ports

On 2/8/24 04:00, Jan Stary wrote: What HW do people use to read data from many serial ports simultaneously? My use case is reading the output of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropalatography The device has eight serial port outputs; I need to read those at the computer side. Do I just stuff

Re: questions about RAID5C, RAID6, RAID6C, can Openbsd be a good storage-server OS?

On 2/4/24 14:02, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote: hello I will make a storage server, and RAID just has to be on it, right? mybbe... (more later) is RAID6 in work or maybe plans, I would like to know what about RAID5 + CRYPTO or RAID6 + CRYPTO? I read these

Re: Adaptec 8405 SGL drivers these days?

On 1/26/24 00:37, Kevin wrote: Hey gang, Looking at a server whose only option for storage comes via an Adaptec 8405 SGL. Given the battles between OpenBSD and Adaptec for documentation that pre-date the Hoover administration, I'm curious if this card is supported. Let's be clear: it isn't

Re: GENERIC.MP#1600 last snapshot cvs cant create tmp subdir

On 1/17/24 12:07, Todd C. Miller wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:11:36 -0500, "Sven F." wrote: well i tried anoncvs.spacehopper.org after the fail and then anoncvs.comstyle.com ( default one is in the trace, is "anon...@obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu:/cvs" ) I can confirm the problem with

Re: Communication between hosts on different network interfaces

On 1/6/24 15:09, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: Dear colleagues, I have various network appliances that I don't really trust, like a printer. I have these plugged into an unmanaged switch and connected to network interface igc2. I want to allow the igc1 network to make web requests to the igc2

Re: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu are all back up and running. Snapshots and packages should be up to date, now, too. My apologies for the inconvenience. Nick. On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org

Re: man.openbsd.org timing out via HTTP & HTTPS

On 12/29/23 17:55, Eric Pruitt wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 02:46:39PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote: Not much to add to the subject. For a couple days now, I've tried connecting via HTTP & HTTPS from various points around the internet and they all time out. Sounds like something hung or

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

suck. :) These are not official, but they are run by one of the people who run the official sites. They will go away once the official site is back up and running. Nick. On 12/23/23 11:16 AM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org

Re: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu will be unavailable for site maintenance starting Thursday, December 21 about 6:00am ET (UTC-5) and hopefully be back up and running by Saturday, December 23, 6

Re: Post (snap) update emails: fsck errors and (in)security output

On 12/20/23 06:02, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: ... Reply-To: Hi All, A couple of questions ... I have "ROOTBACKUP=1" in /etc/daily.local to replicate my root partition as described in the FAQ (https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#altroot) I noticed after an update to a new snapshot

man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu will be unavailable for site maintenance starting Thursday, December 21 about 6:00am ET (UTC-5) and hopefully be back up and running by Saturday, December 23, 6:00am ET. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: a couple question about my fde setup

On 11/19/23 18:09, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi all a couple question about my fde first, i have fde setup using a keydisk on my laptop, encryption and decryption works fine when i reboot with the key inserted it doesn't find the key, i have to shut the machine down and restart it then the key is

Re: Three more orphan packages

On 11/16/23 18:12, Daniele B. wrote: Just found out that in my system persist the following stuff: in /etc/passwd: user _nagios I don't really think you want users deleted when you uninstall a package. Things may be invisibly (to the package manager) be connected to that user. in /var:

Re: Upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4 with sysupgrade

On 11/16/23 20:25, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote: Hello, I’m planning to upgrade my router from 7.3 to 7.4 using sysupgrade, but I’ve one concern. Some time ago, I upgraded a RPi4 from 7.2 to 7.3, and X got installed, even though it wasn’t before the upgrade. I thaught sysupgrade only upgraded the

Re: Slow relink in 7.4

On 10/17/23 05:07, David Higgs wrote: I have an underpowered amd64 VPS and attempted to (auto)upgrade it to 7.4. Everything went swimmingly until it attempted to relink the kernel, at which point it (seemingly) hung. With previous releases, I would expect the host to become unresponsive for a

Re: OpenBSD 7.4

On 10/12/23 13:54, Karel Lucas wrote: Is it already known when openBSD 7.4 will be released? I would like to know that, because of a project I am working on. The answer to your question is already out there, but I offer this procedural tip: IF you wish to follow releases, start your project

Re: sftp activity logging?

On 8/31/23 17:29, myml...@gmx.com wrote: Hi All, I am setting an openbsd 7.3 stable system to serve files via ssh's sftp subsystem. Does openssh have a native way to audit what files were downloaded/uploaded with user/timestamp information? If not, are there any recommendations? Thanks in

Re: I nuked my filesystem

On 9/26/23 21:42, sprits killshot wrote: I did the thing. dd'd a 5gb img to my ssd instead of my usb and I want to die. dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sd1c I am using a CRYPTO RAID partition and luckily I'm smart enough not to nuke that. My ssd is 2TB so I believe it uses FFS2 by default. I'm

httpd stopping

Hello, Twice in the last couple weeks, I've had httpd fall over on me. Only clue I've got is this in /var/log/messages: MASTER $ grep httpd daemon Sep 23 05:24:06 node2 httpd[69989]: logger exiting, pid 69989 Sep 23 05:24:06 node2 httpd[80972]: parent terminating, pid 80972 Sep 23 05:24:06 node2

Re: man.openbsd.org is down?

On 9/23/23 13:42, S V wrote: Any info on man.openbsd.org state? It is down for me and web checkers. It is back up now. Seems my monitor's alert to text me is handled as spam by my cellular service now. Sorry for the downtime! Nick.

Re: desire for journaled filesystem

On 9/6/23 08:23, John Holland wrote: Janne- Thanks for all that useful information. others- this is a thinkpad, that's not on all the time, so a cron backup is not that good. I actually back up manually, currently using "borg" for that. I mostly just do email and web on it so there's probably

Re: volatility or something like that in the future ?

On 8/19/23 06:05, whistlez wrote: ... I honestly don't understand this hatred. ... Dude, for a self-proclaimed sensitive person, you are really very offensive, and begging to have your tender little ass handed (verbally) to you on a platter. You are spending a lot of time telling very skilled

Re: Stuck in X start and crash loop

On 8/17/23 12:10, l...@ena.re wrote: Hey, I am new to OpenBSD. I run 7.3-stable. My understanding after reading X(7), Xsecurity(7) and xenodm(1) is that one can set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to specify the location of the file, which by default, is located at $HOME/.Xauthority.> In

Re: Mouse not working via KVM switch

On 8/14/23 13:37, Karel Lucas wrote: HI all, On a recent install of openBSD I can't get the mouse to work through my KVM switch. I work with various computers via a KVM switch on 1 monitor with a keyboard/mouse combination. Only on the PC with openBSD the mouse does not work, the keyboard on the

Re: nsd listening on localhost is zone transfer possible transfer ?

On 8/4/23 13:23, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi everyone i have unbound setup on port 53 and nsd listening on localhost port 53530 i have set up another dns server as a secondary am i correct to assume that i can't zone transfer because as the nsd's are listening on localhost the primary can't reach

Re: Installing openBSD

On 8/3/23 16:48, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi, My openBSD installation was successful! I first removed all partitions except for the EFI partition, which I left. Second I created one openBSD partition(type A6) on the freed space, after which I partitioned that partition with auto layout. Then I

Re: Installing openBSD

On 7/30/23 13:30, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I'm going to install openBSD on a small PC that currently has PfSense on it. This PC boots this OS via (U)EFI, and therefore has an EFI partition on the existing SSD. The current partition table looks like, as shown by openBSD fdisk:  0: efiboot0

Re: How to customize disk partition in UEFI？

On 7/22/23 15:44, ykla wrote: For OpenBSD installation, I choose custom disk in partition. And I set the first partition is MSDOS and mountpoint is /boot/efi and the second partition is /, the last partition is swap. And I continue install openbsd, but at least it warning me that boot install

Re: Concise passage in OpenBSD documentation about motivation

On 7/18/23 13:26, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: Dear colleagues, About 20 years ago I read in some OpenBSD documentation, likely the installation instructions, that we want people to copy our OpenBSD even if to use it even in proprietary products, because the alternative is that incompetent people

Re: Intel DRM error on T 440

On 7/6/23 01:46, Jonathan Drews wrote: uname: OpenBSD 7.3 GENERIC.MP#1125 amd64 I get the following error message when my Thinkpad T440 wakes up: drm:pid73944:intel_dp_aux_wait_done *ERROR* [drm] *ERROR* AUX A/DDI A/PHY A: did not complete or timeout within 10ms (status 0xa01300e1) I have

Re: encrypted_hdd_data_recovery(OpenBSD_7.3)

drive", which will have its own disklabel, and you can mount those partitions. Nick. Please. Thanks in advance On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 4:33 PM Nick Holland wrote: On 6/17/23 08:40, soko.tica wrote: > Hello list, > > I have managed to screw by > #fsck_ffs /dev/sd1a > &

Re: Which hardware for a firewall?

On 6/20/23 13:13, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I'm going to create a firewall with openBSD, and would like to use the ARM64 or ARMv7 distribution for that. Unfortunately I don't know what hardware I can get for this, and that's the reason for this mail. Can someone point me to a suitable

Re: Wrong SHA256 sums for latest snapshot

On 6/19/23 14:38, Benjamin Stürz wrote: Hi misc@, I have issues installing the latest snapshot from cdn.openbsd.org. Snapshots change frequently. They take time to distribute around the world. Content Delivery Networks pull from lots of different sources and cache various things at various

Re: encrypted_hdd_data_recovery(OpenBSD_7.3)

On 6/17/23 08:40, soko.tica wrote: Hello list, I have managed to screw by #fsck_ffs /dev/sd1a the root partition of my unmounted HDD (OpenBSD 7.3 stable, possibly not fully updated). It crashed during boot due to the power outage, than it was unable to boot and required fsck_ffs, and I

Re: media on full screen in current

On 6/12/23 07:54, Pau A.S. wrote: Hi, ... This has led to a FS corruption which I do not know how to fix, only in one partition. Upon boot, the system runs fsck on them but the output is that they are clean with some level of fragmentation. In any case, /usr/local is corrupted. Is there a way

softdep / softraid RAID1 issue?

Hiya. tl;dr version: multiple machines with softraid RAID1 & softdep have file systems freeze when doing lots of I/O, possibly involving adding and removing links from the same files at the same time. Workaround found. Need help finding better diagnostic information. long version:

Re: carp flapping

Followup... On 5/12/23 08:17, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2023-05-12, Nick Holland wrote: ... I had several other people suggest network problems. I'm not going to say "impossible" or even "unlikely", but my understanding is that the two machines are both plugged

Re: carp flapping

On 5/12/23 03:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2023-05-12, Nick Holland wrote: Here's the problem I've seen: I have my two machines flipping state randomly(?). This bothers me because that means it is breaking people's downloads. Longest period betweek flips was less than two weeks. So

carp flapping

Hi, I have a couple identical servers that provide a few services (not FW or gateway -- http, ftp, etc.). Figured they would make a great CARP pair, so if the primary broke, the secondary would take over immediately. It would also make maintenance windows shorter...make changes on secondary

Re: What is the best way to move a VM to a bigger image?

On 5/6/23 12:54, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote: Hello, I made a silly mistake when I set up my VM and my disk image is too small for my next operation. My plan is to give the new image to the VM, run a minimal install on it so I get the boot loader installed. Also disklabel will be good. After that I

Re: Very slow smtp connection to mail.openbsd.org

On 5/3/23 18:30, S V wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup my own mail server and while I can send email to any already tested and interesting for me domains. I always get "delayed" with misc@openbsd.org: Connection closed unexpectedly while trying openbsd lists. I telnet to 25 port and see that it

Re: openbsd firewall configuration for extreme hostile environment

On 4/26/23 08:46, jonathon575 wrote: Greetings, I have OpenBSD configured strictly as a dedicated firewall. Only BSD, BSD.rd, BSD.mp, and Base are installed (supposedly, this is the minimum installation). Blocked All, and only few selected out going IP addresses are allowed (strictly vpn ip

Re: SATA disk identify taking 10 seconds to give me output

On 4/20/23 05:56, Raja Sekhar wrote: Hi, I am running OpenBSD_7.1 on VMWare workstation16. It has two hard disks(wd0 & sd0) I am trying to get hard disk information using the following command. *$atactl identify* If I use the disk wd0, I am getting output immediately. If I use the disk

Re: File system is full after using dd

On 4/15/23 10:14, Lorenzo Torres wrote: Hello, I've run the dd command to wipe the data of an SD card:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdb1c bs=1MAfter quite some time it crashed ^^ bzzzt. game over. saying that the / filesystem is full and even after a reboot the same

Re: Help for another wiped out disklabel

On 4/13/23 16:08, Greg Thomas wrote: Thank you! I gave it one more shot before attempting the script and I'm back in. I figured I'd try 0 for the beginning of the partition. grits# disklabel sd1 # /dev/rsd1c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: Ext SSD duid: 2eeb6058175bf1f7 flags:

Re: Unable to receive dhcplease from ISP

On 4/1/23 19:57, Bill A wrote: Hi all, I ran into this issue today when I decided to do some maintenance on my home network. My laptop runs OpenBSD 7.2. I attempted to get a dhcplease from Spectrum Internet with a direct connection to my em0 ethernet interface. I got no response. I'm having

Re: Home folder default permission

On 3/23/23 14:36, Matthew Weigel wrote: On 2023-03-23 11:53 am, ch...@qatland.com wrote: I did not look at the code at all for this. Only using existing programs. If this should not be working then a patch will be needed somewhere. I didn't give it a try, but I took your report at face

disk integrity checking

(this is a request for a "that's stupid", not a suggestion of something people should do at this point) An idea that's been floating around in my head, inspired by the ZFS "scrubbing" idea: rather than build that "check your data" process into the file system, just do something periodically like

Re: Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

On 2/15/23 04:54, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:28:57AM +0100, Gábor LENCSE wrote: Hi Lars, > I downscaled from 8 to 4 vCPUs and from 8 to 4 gig RAM - and the two obsd > now seems to hold the packages decently. As for performance optimization, I think the direction is good,

Re: Calculating VMs/CPU

On 2/4/23 17:31, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello misc i am building an only VMD server: How could calculate the relation: CPU, Ram, Storage, VMs please? Thanks. PD: I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 4 i3 cores, 500GB disk. 8GB Ram. This is kinda virtualization 101 stuff, not really specific to

Re: Max number of NICs

On 1/23/23 17:54, Lars Bonnesen wrote: How many physical NICs can you add to an OpenBSD host (vmx) I am asking because I am running an OpenBSD on a VMware host but apparently OpenBSD can only see 8 of them. Can I raise the limit somehow? Regards, Lars. may years ago (back in the 3.x days,

Re: Query on openrsync(1)

On 1/10/23 03:49, Abhishek Chakravarti wrote: OpenBSD newbie here. While trying to backup my OpenBSD configs to my Arch Linux box, I noted a discrepancy between the openrsync(1) manpage examples and what I encountered. The steps to reproduce are as follows: ``` $ uname -a OpenBSD

Re: CARP and DHCP

On 1/6/23 02:31, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 5:14 PM Nick Holland wrote: hiya. Goal: home (i.e., DHCP external network config) redundant firewalls with CARP and PFSYNC. Totally doable. I've been running it like that for the last 7 years at home. My ISP doesn't like

Re: (video) obsd install initial boot process slowed down

On 1/5/23 02:22, Sylvain Saboua wrote: https://youtu.be/lzGT1TAGG1Y OpenBSD 7.2 (GENERIC.MP) #758: Tue Sep 27 11:57:54 MDT 2022 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8449818624 (8058MB) avail mem = 8176320512 (7797MB) random: good seed from

Re: 回复: Softraid crypto metadata backup

On 1/2/23 23:54, Nathan Carruth wrote: Thank you for the response. I am with you 100% on backups. My real question was, How does one backup crypto volume metadata? Given that it can be backed up, clearly it should be, but there is no information in any of the cited documentation as to where the

Re: obsd install initial boot process slowed down

On 1/4/23 01:13, Sylvain Saboua wrote: Hi, my openbsed (encrypted) install is functionning really well, apart from one thing, that would signal a bug or smth: The initial boot process, right after I type the security key in, which displays cyphers aligning in between rotating semicolumns (I

Re: Softraid crypto metadata backup

On 1/2/23 22:22, Nathan Carruth wrote: Does a softraid(4) crypto volume require metadata backup? (I am running amd64 OpenBSD 6.9 if it is relevant, will probably upgrade in the next few months.) I understand FreeBSD GELI (e.g.) requires such a backup to protect against crypto-related metadata

CARP and DHCP

hiya. Goal: home (i.e., DHCP external network config) redundant firewalls with CARP and PFSYNC. Long ago, I think the word was "CARP and DHCP network configs don't work well together". A bit of searching man pages isn't showing me anything. A bit of googling is showing some old solutions that

Re: sysupgrade fails with "FAILED" when "verifying sets"?

On 12/12/22 07:22, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: Hi All, Today sysupgrade failed for me, but I'm not sure why? Here's the output: [ ... ] There is a problem with the distribution network currently. Hopefully will be resolved soon. Doing a quick check, looks like only amd64 is

Re: Configure OpenBSD for remote server rarely used

On 11/27/22 12:10, James Johnson wrote: Thanks for your response. I am not intending to switch the machine. In terms of resources, I am mainly concerned about hard drives and cpu being worn down unnecessarily. I am not sure how much of a concern this should be though. The CPU isn't going to

Re: Keyboard won't work during OpenBSD 7.1 or 7.2 installation.

On 11/22/22 00:54, Clint wrote: Dear Sirs, My name is Clint Wu, I had been told the DMP’s EBOX-336x mini PC (product page ) can run OpenBSD 7.1. ... My keyboard stop working at this stage. Did any one report this problem before? Can

Re: Ctrl key doesn't interrupt boot

On 11/14/22 06:40, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, according to boot(8) holding the Ctrl key is supposed to interrupt boot before /etc/boot.conf is read. But it doesn't. I see boot's message on VGA that it switches over to serial (as mentioned in boot.conf), and then it doesn't boot for a reason

Re: Can I undo OpenBSD GPT partition table and recover my data? was: Triple booting Windows/Debian/OpenBSD?

On 11/3/22 10:14, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 12:27, Ottavio Caruso naively wrote: ... This is how it looks from Debian: Device Start End Sectors Size Type ... /dev/sda6 223012864 877277183 654264320 312G Microsoft basic data ... So I officially joined

Re: Installing OpenBSD on new Chromebook

On 10/29/22 10:11, Jeff Ross wrote: On 10/29/22 1:29 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2022-10-28, Gabriel Busch de Brito wrote: All of places I'm finding with directions on how to do this are from circa 2015 and do not work now. Anybody have a pointer to a more updated set of directions I

Re: softraid disk read error

On 10/18/22 09:35, se...@0x.su wrote: I have raid1 volume (one of two on PC) with 2 disks. # disklabel sd5 # /dev/rsd5c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: SR RAID 1 duid: 7a03a84165b3d165 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders:

Re: Swap on SSD's (with softraid 1+C)

On 9/7/22 09:05, Erling Westenvik wrote: Hello, ... My question is: Should I let swap be outside RAID altogether? Like "directly" on the physical disks as in sd0b and sd1b? I mean, why have softraid waste CPU cycles making swap content (if any) redundant? What do you people do? 1) if you are

Re: Is OpenBSD suited for old Dell Precision T5500 (Dual Xeon X5675, 72GB RAM)

On 9/7/22 08:09, Jan Stary wrote: > > 1) On initial boot (with 7.1 release, on a usb stick) it more or less > > immediately panicked into ddb when I tried to pipe dmesg into a file on > > the usb stick. I took out the NVMe-card, and whether or not that was the > > problem the machine anyhow

Re: Is OpenBSD suited for old Dell Precision T5500 (Dual Xeon X5675, 72GB RAM)

On 9/6/22 21:52, Erling Westenvik wrote: Hello, A friend donated an old Dell Precision T5500 workstation, a heavy bastard with dual Xeon X5675 and 72GB RAM which still packs a punch I believe. At least it does for me. I would like it to replace my old i7 3770k. However, I'm starting to have

Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

On 8/24/22 13:28, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi everyone after losing a considerable amount of data that i had accumulated over the last year or so by trying to remove a directory called '~' that i had created by mistake in a sub directory of my home directory with rm -rf ~ which of course started

Re: OpenBSD 7.1 : reorder_kernel: failed

On 7/29/22 7:29 AM, Nicolas wrote: Hello, I recently used the multiprocessor kernel on my OpenBSD 7.1 computer, using this command : cp bsd bsd.sp && cp bsd.mp bsd Since then, I have this message in /var/log/messages : Jul 25 20:17:05 server reorder_kernel: failed -- see

"cdio cddbinfo" broken?

I noticed that the cdio(1) cddbinfo command seem to no longer work. I don't think this is a snapshot breakage -- I upgraded a May 8 snapshot to Jul 23 snapshot, but I am pretty sure I had a failure on the May 8 snap just before upgrading, and I appear to have used it successfully on June 23.

Re: OpenBSD hardware accelerated video? (In X on Intel/AMDGPU/ARM64)

On 7/20/22 10:24 AM, Joseph wrote: Hi, Is there any hardware accelerated video decoding in OpenBSD today? E.g. in X on AMDGPU and Intel & ARM64 built-in graphics. My best understanding is that the X graphics rendering is indeed accelerated on those, but video decoding is not. HW accelerated

Mirror/website maintenance: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, *.cs.toronto.edu

Hello, Due to power maintenance, the following systems are expected be down 7:00am to 7:00pm EST on Sunday July 17: man.openbsd.org cvsweb.openbsd.org openbsd.cs.toronto.edu obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu Systems should come back up when the power work is completed, I'll be monitoring and verifying.

Re: Installing sets from /

On 7/13/22 1:11 PM, Vincent Legoll wrote: Hello, I was trying to autoinstall OpenBSD 7.1 on a VM when I stumbled upon something unexpected (to my uneducated eyes) in the installer. What I'm trying to do may very well fall in the "unsupported" basket, just tell me. But still, I think I can at

Re: Fanless amd64 sytem recommendations

On 7/11/22 1:13 AM, B. Atticus Grobe wrote: I've been running a Hewlett-Packard HP t620 Quad Core TC for a couple of years now in that role, with the AMD GX-415GA SOC in it. It's the bigger brother of that found in the APU systems. The stock configuration usually has 4GB of RAM in them, with a

Re: Convert a Linux VPS to OpenBSD

On 6/20/22 11:47 AM, Étienne wrote: Hello there, This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD ISO image was available in

Re: Cannot configure wi-fi card

On 5/27/22 10:25 PM, Matsuda Kenji wrote: Hello. I just installed OpenBSD 7.1 and am having trouble setting up a wi-fi card. There is no wi-fi interface in ifconfig output. Dmesg says that there is some error configuring NIC: iwm0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC

Re: bsdtar -O | --to-stdout

On 5/26/22 4:55 AM, Dirty Dawn wrote: Hi, i'm looking for a way to reproduce -O flag in bsdtar/gtar using tar or pax but i didn't find one. There is a way to do that using standard tar or pax? Thank you It generally works better if you tell us what you are wishing to accomplish, rather than

Re: gpt+uefi boot+openbsd+linux

On 5/24/22 6:28 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote: May some one here suggest a documentation the explains this scenario ? I am in needof this. Thanks in advance! I've actually been experimenting with the UEFI OpenBSD and Windows combo, though I suspect it is applicable to Linux, as well. Warning: I'm

Re: calling all PFsync users for experience, gotchas, feedback, tips and tricks

On 5/11/22 3:32 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: Hello Folks, We are updating some course material for an upcoming PF firewall course, and I would like to put a call out to those who use PFsync in a redundant firewall cluster about your user experience, have you come across any edge cases? have you any

Re: OpenBSD ports require xbase set - still true?

On 5/9/22 4:56 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: Hello. Just a rant, not for ports@. I am installing OpenBSD 7.1 right now; this is only a VM, and i want to create / manage ports there. Until now whenever i wanted to do this i had to install xbase, otherwise the port makefile complained some. (I am

Re: HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

On 5/7/22 5:40 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 11:39:51PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: ... For giggles, I did a "gop" and a "video" at the boot> prompt, and both came back with no response, just another boot> prompt. just 'gop' amd 'video'? Th

Re: HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

On 5/6/22 2:30 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 5/6/22 12:48 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Florian Obser wrote: So, if you end up with a /bsd.upgrade on the running system that is still mode 0700, your bootloader is on the fritz. If you have a /bsd.upgrade that's 0600 your bootloader found the kernel

Re: HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

On 5/6/22 12:48 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Florian Obser wrote: So, if you end up with a /bsd.upgrade on the running system that is still mode 0700, your bootloader is on the fritz. If you have a /bsd.upgrade that's 0600 your bootloader found the kernel and tried to boot it, but the installer

HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

here's a weird one. HP T430 Thin Client, reloaded with OpenBSD. In it's intended use, it runs Linux in BIOS boot mode. OpenBSD's installer will boot that way, but the kernel is unable to see the 16g storage device. In UEFI boot mode, OpenBSD works well, including running X. This machine has

Re: Softraid on NVMe

On 5/6/22 9:03 AM, Proton wrote: Hi, I'm using softraid 1C on my remote dedicated server, built on two NVMe disks. It works really well from performance perspective and provide some data protection, but there is no way to check device health status because SMART doesn’t work. I guess bioctl

Re: creating new partition has corrupted the disklabel ("bad super block")

On 4/30/22 5:16 AM, Sylvain Saboua wrote: Hello I have recently got an upgrade for my laptop with a 1TB SSD drive. I successfully managed to install a dual boot between archlinux and openbsd, both on encrypted partitions. Everything was fine with both systems, until the final act of the dual

Re: Unusable resolution on a widescreen monitor during install

On 4/27/22 9:15 AM, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I have a lenovo thinkcentre machine connected to 24” LG screen (with 4k resolution), the installer boots fine using UEFI but it looks like efifb takes a strange “squared” resolution where bottom part of the console is below the screen so I’m

Re: clang 13 space issues with KARL

On 4/25/22 1:23 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Hi, I have an openbsd amsterdam vps and KARL is using up so much RAM that it causes the system to swap. I recently upgraded it to 7.1 and it's the first time I had a problem with this (that I noticed). I have tried to put KARL into a login.conf'ed

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