Re: cryptic pkgin SSL cert error

2024-04-23 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 at 15:24, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 03:17:14PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > > However, while better checking of trust anchors is a better end state > > - assuming I am understanding the situation correctly: in an > > effect

Re: cryptic pkgin SSL cert error

2024-04-23 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 at 12:45, Greg Troxel wrote: > > David Brownlee writes: > > > Do you have security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl installed? (which > > should provide a full set of certs in /etc/openssl). Alternatively > > what do you have in /etc/openssl > &g

Re: cryptic pkgin SSL cert error

2024-04-23 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 at 02:27, beaker wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a 9.3/i386 VM on which I recently ran > $ sudo pkgin update ; sudo pkgin upgrade ;sudo pkgin autoremove > > which worked but subsequent attempts to use pkgin report the following error: > > -- > $ sudo pkgin update > cleaning

Re: Windows and a mouse

2024-02-13 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > Can a mouse be tested? > > How do I know the problem is caused by the mouse , or X11 ? Ideally by swapping something - test the mouse on another system, or another mouse on the problem system, or test boot a different OS. David

Re: -10, spurious reboots and instability

2023-12-31 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 16:29, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > > David Brownlee wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 08:25, BERTRAND Joël > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Yesterday, I have changed my system disk (raid0). Thus, syst

Re: -10, spurious reboots and instability

2023-12-28 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 08:25, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > > Hello, > > Yesterday, I have changed my system disk (raid0). Thus, system has > rebuilt a 1 To raid1 volume and system has crashed three or four times. > > First time : > > [ 5235.028358] uvm_fault(0x8190fbc0,

Re: Is use of 'binary' mode necessary to open files on NetBSD?

2023-12-02 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023 at 03:49, Mayuresh wrote: > > I am using gcc 12.1 on NetBSD 9.3 amd64 in a c++ application that complies > using standard std20. > > There is this c++ standard library class ifstream. Using method > ifstream::open files are opened. > > So far I was under an impression that on

Re: 10.0 ipv6 "autohost" behavior

2023-11-14 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 01:19, vom513 wrote: > > Hello all, > > So back a while I had tried out a 10.0 snapshot (before the recent RC1). I > noticed that IPv6 didn’t work as it had been for me on 9.3 for example. I > was going to post a message/question but never got around it. > > After

mariadb not starting from rc.d - changed behaviour in netbsd-10?

2023-10-21 Thread David Brownlee
Anyone have any thoughts why rc.d/mariadb now fails to start when called at boot, but runs fine if run after? This looks to be a change in netbsd-10 behaviour as it used to work on this system. Adding " > /dev/null" to command_args avoids the issue, so I'm assuming something-something-SIGPIPE on

Re: How to get some needed binaries for vintage NetBSD 1.5.3 installation (to prepare a system update to NetBSD 9.3)

2023-10-10 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 05:58, Dennis wrote: > > I am trying to update a MicroVAX 3100, running an old NetBSD 1.5.3. Idea was > to add NetBSD 9.3 on another disk. > > So I attached an additional hard drive to the machine and wanted to partition > that disk and create filesystems on it. On one

Re: syncthing: too many open files?

2023-08-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 at 09:37, nia wrote: > > Has anyone ran into syncthing spamming the following in its log > when faced with a large directory (1402 files, 173 subdirectories, > ~22.8 GiB)? > > Listen (BEP/tcp): Accepting connection: accept tcp [::]:22000: accept4: too > many open files > >

Re: ZFS Bogosity

2023-08-13 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 22:16, Jay F. Shachter wrote: > > Esteemed Colleagues: > > I have a multiboot computer on which Solaris, Linux, and NetBSD 10 > BETA have all been successfully installed (I couldn't install NetBSD > 9.3) and they are all sharing storage on a ZFS pool, because all three > of

Re: would anybody use binary packages for NetBSD/i386 10?

2023-08-13 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 at 13:32, Greg Troxel wrote: > > In contemplating bulk builds and resources, I wonder if there are still > people who: > > are running NetBSD/i386 (as opposed to amd64) > > are using the binary packges from quarterly branches on ftp.netbsd.org > > are running NetBSD 10

Re: seeking desktop hardware recommendation

2023-08-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 14:42, Robert Swindells wrote: > > Greg Troxel wrote: > > My system has a 2010 4-core CPU, 24G RAM and aside from being worried > > about thermal issues, my only real complaint is that I'd like more CPU. > > Once upgrading of course I want more RAM, but I'm not really

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-27 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 13:24, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Tobias Nygren writes: > > > I use this patch on my RPi4, which I feel improves things. > > People might find it helpful. > > That looks very helpful; I'll try it. > > > There ought to be writable sysctl knobs for some of the ZFS > > tuneables,

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-27 Thread David Brownlee
Potentially supporting datapoint: I've found issues with netbsd-9 with ZFS on 4GB. Memory pressure was incredibly high and the system went away every few months. Currently running fine on -9 & -10 machines with between 8GB and 192GB The three 8GB ZFS machines (netbsd-9+raidz1, netbsd-10+raidz0,

Re: uhive0,wms0, wmouse0 constantly detach and rettach

2023-06-21 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 08:06, cyrus torros wrote: > > I have this problem with netbsd my mouse device will constantly > detach and re-attach, causing disruptions and console spam. Displacing > the entire installer quickly and making it difficult to interact with. > > as well as making working in

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 19:36, adr wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023, David Brownlee wrote: > > Try: > > > > cd external/mit/ctwm > > make USETOOLS=no > > > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 18:36, adr wrote: > >> > >> Any advic

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-05 Thread David Brownlee
Try: cd external/mit/ctwm make USETOOLS=no On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 18:36, adr wrote: > > Any advice to build _only_ /usr/xsrc/external/mit/ctwm? > > adr

Re: Experience with NetBSD on 13-gen Framework 13 laptop

2023-06-05 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 16:37, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > > > > - X and console use 1024x768 or something rather than the native > > >resolution or whatever the UEFI firmware sets up/suggests. > > > > If you drop into the bootloader does "gop" report any other useful > > resolutions? - I hit

Re: Experience with NetBSD on 13-gen Framework 13 laptop

2023-06-05 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 13:11, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > > Hi all, > > Here's my experience with NetBSD on the recently released 13-gen Intel > Framework 13 laptop. I have the base i5 model. > > - 9.3 doesn't boot from USB, it fails to find the USB storage device. > - 10-current boots and

Re: TOTP apps, and WebAuthn recommended devices?

2023-03-23 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 13:51, Greg Troxel wrote: > > 2FA is increasingly required, which is fine, but I wonder about > strategies for coping as a NetBSD user. > > One thing is TOTP. There are Android apps from f-droid (which suits me > but not everyone), and there is vaultwarden which should

Re: "GENERIC.local" useless for items following its inclusion

2023-02-09 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 at 03:13, John D. Baker wrote: > > Being very annoyed by wscons on amd64-10.0_BETA (and -current) choosing > the "Boldface 16x32" font even on low-resolution displays, I figured I'd > simply disable it using the "GENERIC.local" config file that is conditionally > included by

Re: npf NAT stops working on external interface IP changed

2023-01-16 Thread David Brownlee
I have this as /etc/dhcpcd.exit-hook #!/bin/sh case "$interface" in lo[0-9]* | tun[0-9]*) exit;; esac /etc/rc.d/npf reload On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, 19:01 Jeremy C. Reed, wrote: > Last week, my NetBSD NPF router got a new IP address via DHCP. > > npfctl list showed many entries with the

Re: ratfor and f2C

2022-11-22 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:36, nierveze wrote: > > hello everyone,I'd like to install ratfor (I am now reading 'software > tools') and f2c on my very very old > > (by today's standards) toshiba satellite 220 with netbsd 1.3.2,I did not > find them on the accompanying cd. > > (the pc and that

Re: unable to set time very far in the future

2022-10-16 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 15:34, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > RVP wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2022, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > > > > - I just can't _set_ the clock to any value above > > > 68719476736. Anybody know why? > > > > > > > There is a check in the kernel. In sys/kern/kern_time.c: > > > > 190

Re: Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

2022-09-30 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 12:35, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? I suspect this might be the least generally relevant list in the thread :), but just because, Tasks for which I use a Windows/MacOS box (controlled from my NetBSD box

Re: ucom, umodem and conbee II

2022-09-04 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 12:14, Staffan Thomén wrote: > > Nevermind, I rewrote my program in C and umodem works perfectly fine, > although I do note that I had to use O_NONBLOCK, something the > GFCFlasher program explicitly omits. Glad to hear you found a solution. Could it be down to default

Re: xterm and desktop-file-utils dependency

2022-08-19 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 7 Aug 2022 at 01:54, Greg Troxel wrote > > David Brownlee writes: > > > In short - the change is small, relatively safe, should not result in > > any difference in final state for the general case where someone > > installs a package which uses share/

Re: xterm and desktop-file-utils dependency

2022-08-06 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 16:06, Greg Troxel wrote: > [pmc hat firmly off] > > David Brownlee writes: > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 18:38, Vitaly Shevtsov wrote: > >> Can desktop-file-utils be optional for xterm? Because this dependence > >> requires heavy gli

Re: xterm and desktop-file-utils dependency

2022-08-05 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 18:38, Vitaly Shevtsov wrote: > Can desktop-file-utils be optional for xterm? Because this dependence > requires heavy glib2 and it seems removing it from x11/xterm/Makefile > has no side effects. There are probably two obvious approaches to this. The simpler would be to

Re: how to limit /etc/daily to local only, and cleasring bad nfs mounts

2022-06-17 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 12:21, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > More by chance than from a deep understanding of the issue, I found a > way of restoring sanity when this happens. As superuser: > > 1. pkill -9 sendmail tee /bin/sh > 2. on each server providing nfs service: nfsd -r > > Step 1 just speeds

Re: how to limit /etc/daily to local only, and cleasring bad nfs mounts

2022-05-27 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 17:18, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > 1. How to limit /etc/daily,weekly,monthly so they do not cross nfs mount > points? One of my development systems crashes occasionally when left > running a long job after hours. It reboots itself, but nfs > connections to it are not

Re: Re: Re: hpcarm & HP Jornada 720: packages?

2022-04-18 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 08:13, Nino on NetBSD 5.0.1 wrote: > > Can I safely assume that these should be OK if I downgrade to NetBSD 8? > > http://iso.ee.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/8.0/All/ You should be able to run NetBSD-8 packages on a NetBSD-9 system - though not mix NetBSD-9

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-05 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 16:01, John D. Baker wrote: > > I routinely use 'evince' when I need to manipulate PDFs with fillable > fields. When I first started using it, it seemed the "check-mark" > glyph was missing and the result was a thin-outline box inside the > area the check-mark should

Re: groff issue after upgrade to NetBSD-9.2

2022-03-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 12:10, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > Thanks, helpful and enlightening, and I am pursuing the > Heirloom distribution. Shame about the name, though, sounds like > 'legacy' which has come to mean out-of-date. Troff is one of those > software designs that far exceeded in its

Re: Playing DOOM/NEODOOM

2022-01-27 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 at 14:43, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I found a came called NEODOOM that works with doomlegacy. > After a certain amount of time it likes to slow to a crawl, and > I need to stop to let things catch up. If I make the window smaller > (640 x 480) it still does the same thing. NEODOOM

Re: Question about /home

2022-01-22 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 17:20, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > is /home in the / directory? What happens if / is too small? > Can it be moved to /usr? > > I recall that /home had its own filesystem/sector once upon a time... There is a lot of flexibility in filesystem layout - you can make most any

Re: Raspberry Pi as wireless AP, with pluggable usb modem

2022-01-03 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 06:59, Jason Mitchell wrote: > > Hello, > > You need to run hostapd (included in NetBSD) to do WPA-PSK and dhcpcd to > assign ip addresses. Also, there's a flag in ifconfig to put the wlan in AP > mode. This link is old but seems to cover what you need to do to set up an

Re: Raspberry Pi as wireless AP, with pluggable usb modem

2022-01-02 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 16:25, Mayuresh wrote: > > Is it possible to set up RPI (3B) as a WiFi AP and use a USB device (a > modem or USB tethered phone) to connect to the internet? > > A different USB device may be used at different times, so the interface > may vary (or may sometimes be absent).

Re: Timer for X-windows?

2021-10-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 21:15, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > On 10/24/21 11:06 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis (GSG) wrote: > > > > Am 23. Oktober 2021 04:55:21 MESZ schrieb Simon Burge : > > > > #!/bin/sh > >> $* > >> > >> > >> osd_cat is in pkgsrc/x11/xosd > >> > > I've used xmessage for similar tasks

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

Re: NetBSD on a NUC

2021-09-28 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 20:59, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > A few years ago I was given an Intel NUC > running Windows 10, and I used it for quite > awhile since it allowed me to enjoy Adobe > Acrobat and Epson's Scan Utility. I was very > familiar with both of those products. > > Earlier this year

Re: disk scrubbing

2021-08-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 13:32, Patrick Welche wrote: > > Any thoughts on the pros and cons of > ># cgdconfig -s cgd0 /dev/sd0e adiantum 256 < /dev/urandom ># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rcgd0d bs=64k progress=512 ># cgdconfig -u cgd0 > > vs > ># dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rsd0e bs=64k

Re: LTO support

2021-08-12 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 08:11, Pouya Tafti wrote: > > I'm looking for a low cost offsite backup solution for my teeny local NAS > (couple of TiB of redundant ZFS RAIDZ2 on /amd64 9.2_STABLE) for disaster > recovery. Seemingly affordable LTO-5 drives (~EUR 250; sans libraries) pop > up on eBay

Re: cgd + zfs

2021-07-19 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 09:29, Pouya Tafti wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:55AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > > Depending on your upgrade plans you may want to consider one 6x1TB > > RAIDZ2 rather than 2 4x1TB RAIDZ2 - you end up with the same amount of > > usabl

Re: cgd + zfs

2021-07-15 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 06:13, Pouya Tafti wrote: > > (Apologies in case this is not the right mailing list.) > > *tl;dr* Is it sensible to use zfs on top of cgd or are there drawbacks w.r.t. > zfs expecting raw I/O? > > (Too many) details follow. > > I plan to re-purpose a circa 2012 Supermicro

Re: procfs difference between NetBSD and Linux

2021-06-20 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 23:05, Mark Davies wrote: > > > On 2/06/21 8:32 am, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > I force-downgraded samba 4.14.4 to 4.13.9 (itself released recently, > > 11th of May). It works as expected. > > The cvs diff with respect to the current pkgsrc version is attached, > > in case

Re: What is a good pkgsrc package to use for file encryption and decryption?

2021-03-10 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 08:43, Brian Buhrow wrote: > > hello. I'm considering a project that might involve storing > encrypted blobs on cloud > servers such as Google Drive or Amazon Glacier. I'd like a package that I > can use to encrypt > the blobs before they're transmitted to their

Re: ZFS native block size changed in recent netbsd-9?

2021-02-13 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 19:13, David Brownlee wrote: > > Has the native disk block size reported via sata devices changed > recently in netbsd-9? It has! Test booted a netbsd-9.0_RELEASE and netbsd-9.1_RELEASE kernels on a sample server (otherwise running netbsd-9.1_STABLE). T

Re: Cannot export/import ZFS pool

2021-02-12 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 12:39, Stephen Borrill wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 11:56, Stephen Borrill > > wrote: > >> > >> NetBSD 9.1_STABLE NetBSD 9.1_STABLE (XEN3_DOMU) #0: Sat Jan 9 19:31:08 > >> U

Re: Cannot export/import ZFS pool

2021-02-12 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 11:56, Stephen Borrill wrote: > > NetBSD 9.1_STABLE NetBSD 9.1_STABLE (XEN3_DOMU) #0: Sat Jan 9 19:31:08 > UTC 2021 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/xen/compile/XEN3_DOMU > amd64 > > zfs.kmod has been built with MAXPHYS=32768 as it's a -9 DomU > > #

ZFS native block size changed in recent netbsd-9?

2021-02-09 Thread David Brownlee
Has the native disk block size reported via sata devices changed recently in netbsd-9? ZFS was set up on two netbsd-9 servers a while back. They have been tracking the netbsd-9 branch and recently started to report a block size mismatch. zdb shows all pools on both systems have "ashift: 9". Both

Re: Bump [q] gradle on NetBSD 9.1 (amd64) with OpenJDK 11 -- does not work

2021-01-21 Thread David Brownlee
Just a "me too" comment. I'm using openjdk8 on NetBSD/amd64 for a wildfly gradle project in IntelliJ. Any attempt to use openjdk11 fails - wildfly starts but cannot accept any http connections - gradle build hangs - intellij randomly hangs/cannot connect debugger to running java

Re: Any package to populate image from raw data?

2020-12-31 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 16:54, Mayuresh wrote: > > I recently wrote a pyusb based driver to interact with an X ray camera. > The driver gives me a byte array of a 16 bit grayscale image. I want to > put this byte array into an image format. No specific format required as I > can always convert it

Re: zfs/zpool and local disk vs netboot?

2020-12-27 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 13:36, John D. Baker wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, David Brownlee wrote: > > > Does the pool show up under different devices - does a simple 'zpool > > import foo' work? > > What do you mean by "under different devices"? > >

Re: zfs/zpool and local disk vs netboot?

2020-12-27 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 07:39, John D. Baker wrote: > > Since the zfs/zpool is as yet unused, I forcibly re-created it under > -current and copied the resulting "zpool.cache" file to the 9.1 system. > > Rebooting 9.1, the zpool shows up and is mounted just as before. > > Rebooting -current, 'zpool

Re: NetBSD 8 VPS server refusing to reboot: please help

2020-11-30 Thread David Brownlee
While they may not be the cheapest (starting at $10/month) I've used Panix for reliable NetBSD xen hosting for the last... decade or so https://www.panix.com/v-colo/plans.html They have NetBSD amd64 & i386 images listed from 5.0.2 through to 9.1 David On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 10:34, Matthias

Re: .cshrc elm and PIDs

2020-11-23 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 13:10, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > I monitor incoming emails on several user accounts in xterms stacked > in one icewm workspace. Being long in the tooth I use elm for email > and csh as my shell, and have done since the Dawn of Time. > > If a system reboot is needed,

Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

2020-11-12 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 15:12, wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:26:47PM +, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 13:42, wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have some IDE disks that I'd like to read in order to know what

Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

2020-11-12 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 13:42, wrote: > > Hello, > > I have some IDE disks that I'd like to read in order to know what is > left on them before deciding what to do with them. > > I bought a PCI-E IDE adapter to be able to connect them, since my AMD64 > is SATA. > > The problem is that the pciide

Re: sponsor NetBSD for 2020 https://github.com/sponsors/NetBSD

2020-11-10 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 18:25, wrote: > The usual way that TNF funding of projects work is that a developer will > come to TNF with a proposal for the project to fund their work. > Actively seeking out developers when nobody has come forward is a > challenge, because the sums of money are usually

Re: too many inodes error from fsck

2020-10-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 20:13, Greg Troxel wrote: > > David Brownlee writes: > > > I have a filesystem failing fsck with "bad inode number 34610688 to > > nextinode" and its not in a convenient place to copy all data off to > > rebuild, so I'd like to inve

Re: too many inodes error from fsck

2020-10-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 at 20:42, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > On Oct 3, 5:08pm, net...@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: too many inodes error from fsck > > | I tried it, but I read that message as saying that an unknown inode has a > | link to an invalid inode in a linked

Re: Drive ID changed

2020-09-28 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 18:57, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > David: > > I finally got it. The following line became a problem: > > ROOT.b swapswapsw 0 0 > > I got the message: > > ... reported failures > /etc/rc.d/swap1 > SEE /var/run/rc.log Could you confirm what NetBSD

Re: Drive ID changed

2020-09-28 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 12:04, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > WOW! Martin. Thanks. > > This is nothing like NetBSD 5.0 . > Its like learning a new system... You can also use the special "ROOT" token in /etc/fstab - eg: ROOT.a / ffs rw,log 1 1 ROOT.b swapswapsw

Re: dhcpd on 9.0_STABLE amd64

2020-06-29 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 13:04, Uwe Klaus wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Jaromír Dole?ek wrote: > > > I'd recommend switching over to (also built-in) dhcpcd. > This is a DHCP client, isn't it. > I need a reliable DHCP server. I've had very good experiences with dnsmasq from pkgsrc - which can

Re: Providing temporary storage space to a VM: qcow, nfs etc

2020-06-25 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 04:32, Mayuresh wrote: > > I am using a Linux guest as a pkgsrc build server and the host isn't > particularly rich in disk space. So can't completely reserve all the space > required, but spikes in usage during compilation are accommodatable. > > I was using qcow2 disk

Re: Optional crunchgen base (Was: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?)

2020-06-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 18:35, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [...] > Now I don't know what your storage situation is on your VAXen, but if > you can possibly afford to static-link your build you'll find things > start so much faster you'll be VERY surprised. I built a static linked NetBSD vax a while

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 11:55, Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:03:41 +0100 > David Brownlee wrote: > > > If you do find fans spinning more than you like it may be worth > > replacing it/them with quieter/more efficient models - I did this for > > th

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 22:07, Chris Hanson wrote: > > One of the drives failed and I’d set the drives up as a single volume, oops. > > I brought up Windows temporarily to do the one firmware update I didn’t seem > to be able to do any other way (the storage controller) and then reinstalled >

Re: NetBSD-9 GPT on disks smaller than 2TB

2020-04-21 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 10:58, Michael van Elst wrote: > > cryintotheblue...@gmail.com (Sad Clouds) writes: > > >Hi, assuming I'm using a system that doesn't require UEFI and disks are > >smaller than 2TB in size. Is there any advantage of using GPT vs the > >old disklabel scheme? Also if I want

Re: IntelliJ won't run under NetBSD 9.0

2020-04-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 15:07, John m0t wrote: > > I investigated long and hard. > here is the report: > https://gist.github.com/j-fuller/d49abdf8b0cd90f9645cbf73d7023b9a#file-gistfile1-txt > any ideas? ( :-) ) As a data point I'm running IntelliJ 2019.3 under pkgsrc/openjdk8 I have a tiny

Re: Looking for java an android devs on netbsd environment

2020-04-06 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 15:27, John m0t wrote: > > Hello; > > I am trying to set a full production system to do android and java > development in NetBSD. > > Is anyone doing it right now or ever done it before? > > I need to know if these things work on netbsd: > > a. android studio > > b. adb

Re: ZFS status

2020-02-25 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 11:36, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > On feb 24 23:39, David Brownlee wrote: > > [...] > > > Or if another disk is plugged in that appears as a lower numbered > > device, for example making the disk switch from wd1 to wd2. > > Ok! > > > Apo

Re: ZFS status

2020-02-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 18:58, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > - If you make a zfs filesystem on a disklabel partition (eg wd0f) and > > the disk moves zfs does not seem to be able to find it again. > > Do you mean if the disk is removed from the system and then plugged > there again? Or if another disk

Re: ZFS status

2020-02-21 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 10:45, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Hi, anyone knows the current status of ZFS for recently released > NetBSD-9? There is a message on the console - "WARNING: ZFS on NetBSD > is under development". OK, but what does this mean? There is a good > chance it may lose/corrupt data, or

Re: EST available frequencies drops during operation

2020-01-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 06:14, Matthias Petermann wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > on my Lenovo X230 (Intel Core i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz) with NetBSD > 9.0_RC1 (amd64) I have made a strange observation several times. > Especially under high load (the CPU temperature was well over 90 degrees >

Re: sync netbsd drive with Windows 10

2019-10-15 Thread David Brownlee
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.htmlOn Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 14:49, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Bob Bernstein writes: > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, David Brownlee wrote: > > > >> I've had good experiences running syncthing to sync data between a > >> set

Re: sync netbsd drive with Windows 10

2019-10-14 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 18:07, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Request for Suggestions: > > I am gathering what will ultimately be about 100G of files on my > amd64 Netbsd (an old eMachine windows box itself) system's > original HD. > > That system as well as my Windows 10 (running off a NUC) are > cat-5

Re: portable USB disk installation

2019-10-07 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 05:41, orr721 wrote: > > Unfortunately I can confirm the ROOT. alias in fstab does not work in > 8.1 and there is no mention of it in the getfsspecname man page. > > I will try to move to -current. Would recommend trying the latest netbsd-9 beta from

Issues with booting from named wedges, raidframe & NetBSD-9 (Regression from NetBSD-8)

2019-10-06 Thread David Brownlee
I have a 'root on RAID1' setup NetBSD-8 box upgraded to NetBSD-9 which no longer auto boots. There are six disks in the machine, but the relevant dmesg entries are: wd0: 5589 GB, 11628021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 11721045168 sectors dk0 at wd0: "raid0part0", 134217728 blocks at

Re: Rust with 9 Beta

2019-08-02 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 18:43, Tobias Nygren wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:27:15 +0200 (CEST) > Havard Eidnes wrote: > > > Now, with that said, the rust bootstrap kits currently don't name the > > NetBSD OS-version they were built against, and possibly they should. > > However, I suspect that

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 14:38, Dima Veselov wrote: > > this maybe caused by nature of the file. All these files were > created with torrents, which may made them very > defragmented. Might help to set the torrent app to preallocate space? (not a fix, but possibly a workaround and an interesting

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 13:52, Dima Veselov wrote: > > Greetings, > > the problem is still there and I even have a single file > which can not be deleted via standard rm command > causing kernel panic. What can be done there? Current > situation make WAPBL filesystem unusable. I also can not >

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 23:33, Chris Humphries wrote: > > Suggestions weren't mind-blowing or anything, but the usual suspects: > Thinkpads and people saying some random laptop mostly works for them. > > Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they > do they're silent

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-07 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 13:44, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: > > On 07/05/2019 13:23, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 18:16, Mike Pumford > > wrote: > >> > >> On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58P

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-07 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 18:16, Mike Pumford wrote: > > On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58PM +0800, Travis Paul wrote: > >> You mentioned that you were looking for an amd64 board. Have you looked > >> at the PCEngines APU2 boards[1]? I have not personally

Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

2019-02-20 Thread David Brownlee
, atomicules wrote: > > Nice! Thanks for this. > > On 03-Feb-2019 16:45:38, David Brownlee wrote: > >The script I sent assumes /current already exists and that you're running > >amd64. I've attached an updated version which should handle that, plus will > >run as root without

Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

2019-02-03 Thread David Brownlee
8.0, then I follow (or > run) the script you included, is that correct? > > On 2/1/19, 8:59 AM, "David Brownlee" wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:36, Ron Georgia wrote: > > > > " Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your

Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

2019-02-01 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:36, Ron Georgia wrote: > > " Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your card?" > A most excellent question, with a relatively embarrassing answer: I am not > sure how to keep NetBSD-current, current. I am part of the NetBSD-current > mailing list and read

Re: minidisplay-port on T440s working?

2019-01-25 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:10, wrote: > Hi, > > while the VGA port on my T440s laptop is working, the > minidisplay port is not working (at least with an > amazonbasics Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable. > > With not working I mean: VGA is recognized by xrandr, > minidisplayport isn't. > > Any idea

Re: fpr(1), asa(1)

2019-01-08 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 11:53, Rhialto wrote: > > I have various files around with carriage control. You get them from > emulators/hercules, for instance. So at the very least they should be > packaged. IIRC OpenBSD refactored the code a long time back to make one of them provide both

Re: rcvar for locate.updatedb

2018-11-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 07:28, Jaromír Doleček wrote: > > Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 08:16, Robert Elz a écrit : > > Aside from the inertia criteria, which is probably really what > > it is, I'd have thought a better test than "critical" would be > > "probably useful to the majority of users -

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

2018-10-31 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 23:54, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Those ThinkPads do not have a current setup to buidl on, however I have > one 64bit which runs NetBSD current on which I could (and did in the > past) cross-compile kernels for x86, incase somebody suggest a single > patch to test. >

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

2018-10-29 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 22:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi, > > David Brownlee wrote: > > > > >> I don't have a setup to build there, I am trying RelEng kernels. > >> I could use those to bisect - but I have worse news. Even NetBSD 8 > >> relea

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

2018-10-19 Thread David Brownlee
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 02:46, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I don't have a setup to build there, I am trying RelEng kernels. > I could use those to bisect - but I have worse news. Even NetBSD 8 > release is actually unreliable. So it did work, but I tried again and > got a black screen... so it is

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

2018-09-28 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 22:20, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi David, > > David Brownlee wrote: > >> So I conclude that having the system mounted on USB causes issues (which > >> manifests themselves slightly different on different computers) and > >> while it

Re: suspend-to-RAM intel-x86 issues and tests

2018-09-27 Thread David Brownlee
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 22:34, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi All > > I did a Big ACPI/SLEEP compariso (or at least, tried to): > [...] > > So I conclude that having the system mounted on USB causes issues (which > manifests themselves slightly different on different computers) and > while it

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

2018-09-25 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 06:51, Don NetBSD wrote: > > On 9/24/2018 4:14 AM, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 11:08, Don NetBSD wrote: > > > > I have no idea whether this would actually map to your real > > requirements, but a possible workflow cou

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