Re: USB stick error message

2021-10-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Michael van Elst wrote: fn: diskn 1: NetBSD Error 3 The message comes from the MBR bootcode and says that the PBR bootblock has an invalid signature which usually means it hasn't been written. Is that a defect that is susceptible of a remedy that would not be

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Jared McNeill
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: You need to open the device to check to see if clocal is set. Yes. Is that a problem? With getty, it has to open the device anyway. And then it's just a question of doing a delay at close if it is not. Seems like the most natural thing. It

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2021-10-13 22:03, Jared McNeill wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Really? Because I would really think that clocal would be the absolute correct thing to check for, and if it is, then don't have a delay. And if it's not, then a delay is in order. And all kind of local

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Jared McNeill
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Really? Because I would really think that clocal would be the absolute correct thing to check for, and if it is, then don't have a delay. And if it's not, then a delay is in order. And all kind of local monitors and keyboards, who run getty should

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Jared McNeill
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Ah! Definitely agree there. getty should only really have a delay if it is a remote terminal, in fact. If you don't have modem control to start with, it has always been pointless to even have a delay, or play with DTR. But it's wrong to just adopt

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2021-10-13 21:56, Jared McNeill wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Ah! Definitely agree there. getty should only really have a delay if it is a remote terminal, in fact. If you don't have modem control to start with, it has always been pointless to even have a delay, or

Re: Some bug in libc/gen/fstab.c

2021-10-13 Thread Rhialto
On Wed 13 Oct 2021 at 21:44:37 +0200, Rhialto wrote: > soffice.bin: /etc/fstab, 9: Missing fields Strangely enough, the following simple test program has no complaints about my fstab file and prints a long list of integers... #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2021-10-13 18:25, Jared McNeill wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sure, if all serial port drivers were to implement this at close, then getty certainly could skip it. But the OP at the same time also question if people are using getty at all, in which case, what is the

Some bug in libc/gen/fstab.c

2021-10-13 Thread Rhialto
When I use the file requester in Firefox or LiberOffice, and I click on the "Recent [files]" button, these messages appear in my terminal, and the program crashes. soffice.bin: /etc/fstab, 9: Missing fields soffice.bin: /etc/fstab, 8: Missing fields soffice.bin: /etc/fstab, 8: Missing fields

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2021-10-13 16:00, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:42:55 -0400 From:matthew sporleder Message-ID: | Do you mean modem like a telephone modem or modem like a serial port? I meant telephone modems - they're what most uses DTR as a functional

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Jared McNeill
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sure, if all serial port drivers were to implement this at close, then getty certainly could skip it. But the OP at the same time also question if people are using getty at all, in which case, what is the problem with the delay in getty in the

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-13 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:42:55 -0400 From:matthew sporleder Message-ID: | Do you mean modem like a telephone modem or modem like a serial port? I meant telephone modems - they're what most uses DTR as a functional signal, and it is disabling that signal that all

Re: USB stick error message

2021-10-13 Thread Michael van Elst
poo...@ruptured-duck.com (Bob Bernstein) writes: >fn: diskn >1: NetBSD >Error 3 The message comes from the MBR bootcode and says that the PBR bootblock has an invalid signature which usually means it hasn't been written.