Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-14 Thread Jared McNeill
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: remote, there needs to be a delay, and I still think getty is the place where that makes sense to have. Thanks for the feedback Johnny. We will have to agree to disagree on this point. I've committed the change to getty so please let me know the ne

Re: USB stick error message

2021-10-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Michael van Elst wrote: Are you sure you started the 'a' partition at 63 like in the example ? I think the question is did I perform ALL the steps listed in that section of the wiki page? Just now, executing the last one, I ran into an error I did not see before: --s

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2021-10-14 10:08, Jared McNeill wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Right. Maybe I should have been clearer. Is that a problem? getty opens the device, and does the initial prompting. It then exec login, and when the child eventually exits, it waits a while before opening

Re: USB stick error message

2021-10-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Michael van Elst wrote: Are you sure you started the 'a' partition at 63 like in the example ? I "think" I did, but I wouldn't bet my life on it! All I can do is repeat the experiment, perhaps with a little bit (or a lot!) more attention to the details. Thank you. -

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2021-10-13 23:18, Jared McNeill wrote: 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. Se

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

2021-10-14 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 20:55, Rhialto wrote: > > 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 >

System Reset when starting X

2021-10-14 Thread Riza Dindir
Hello All, I am having a system reset (before that the system freezes for a bit) when starting X. Here is the backtrace from "crash". Crash version 9.2, image version 9.2. System panicked: trap Backtrace from time of crash is available. crash> bt _KERNEL_OPT_NARCNET() at 0 ?() at b2012bbdc000

Re: USB stick error message

2021-10-14 Thread Michael van Elst
poo...@ruptured-duck.com (Bob Bernstein) writes: >I followed the Netbsd-Wiki article "how to install netbsd from >an usb memory stick," specifically the section labeled "Make the >Memory Stick bootable" found here: >https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_from_an_usb_memory_stic

Re: proposed change to getty

2021-10-14 Thread Jared McNeill
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, Johnny Billquist wrote: Right. Maybe I should have been clearer. Is that a problem? getty opens the device, and does the initial prompting. It then exec login, and when the child eventually exits, it waits a while before opening the device again. So far, so good. So get