Re: rump_server(1) and vether(4)

2024-09-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Sad Clouds writes: > Hi, current documentation at: > https://www.netbsd.org/docs/rump/sptut.html > > suggests using tap(4) and bridge(4) on the host, then within rump > server virt(4) can be used to provide connectivity via tap(4). > > However, NetBSD-10 tap(4) man page states: > > CAVEATS > Star

Re: Boot VM from a zvol using qemu and nvmm?

2024-09-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Jeff Rizzo writes: > Thanks for the response! > > On 9/14/24 11:03 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> I have a xen system with images on zfs, and have also been able to boot >> GENERIC instead of xen, and then run qemu, using the same image zvols. >> >> from my

Re: Boot VM from a zvol using qemu and nvmm?

2024-09-14 Thread Greg Troxel
I have a xen system with images on zfs, and have also been able to boot GENERIC instead of xen, and then run qemu, using the same image zvols. from my qemu script IMG=/dev/zvol/rdsk/tank0/vm/n9-amd64 /usr/pkg/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 3000 \ -vnc 127.0.0.1:${vnc_port} \ -nographic

Re: MBR -> GPT migration questions

2024-09-04 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann writes: >> 2) is there any benefit to doing this migration ? > > No, unless you want to share the disk with other operating systems and > create additional "foreign" partitions on it. Or you want to move the disk to some machine which boots EFI and not mbr. I personally leave sy

Re: Slow TCP throughput/Out of Order Packets in NetBSD 10.0

2024-09-02 Thread Greg Troxel
Kevin Bowling writes: > I have noted slow TCP performance to distant hosts on NetBSD 10.0. > For instance cloning pkgsrc-wip from git is 4-8KBps on an > unconstrained system and network that should be capable of MBps. > Taking a look at netstat -s, I noticed a lot of out of order packets > which

Re: Occasional weird TCP behavior

2024-08-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Brian Marcotte writes: > On the client machine, I saw this: > > client server > -- > SYN > RST,ACK *** > SYN,ACK > RST > > That "RST,ACK" was not actually sent from the server, it was sent from a > third host. Wow, I didn't see that com

Re: cannot see ssid from hostapd

2024-08-25 Thread Greg Troxel
matthew green writes: >> I needed to ifconfig up the interface being used by hostapd, once I did > > don't feel bad. i don't understand the rules about when things are > up or not by default and it seems that this problem happens about > every 5 years for me... Indeed. I think the rules are:

Re: NetBSD EC2 Images

2024-08-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Jan Schaumann writes: > https://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/bsdec2_image_upload/ > is largely accurate and can help anybody create an AMI > (I have my own write-up that mirrors that wiki page to > a large part at > https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html), > so the basic step

Re: Best way to completely test (non-SMART) drive in NetBSD ?

2024-08-18 Thread Greg Troxel
What I do is write the entire disk and read it back. I wrote a program, which I should perhaps package, that writes mostly zeros but each block has the block number. on read it looks for that. however, I have essentially never, maybe never in doing these tests, had issues with a read returning

Re: create /tmp with ffs vs. tmpfs ?

2024-08-12 Thread Greg Troxel
Steve Rikli writes: > 1) is my understanding correct? I.e. does tmpfs use main memory for >backing, rather than swap or something else? It uses virtual memory which can be paged. So if you have swap space configured, it can be bigger than physical memory. However, things in /tmp will compe

Re: Need advice on ZFS

2024-08-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Ted Spradley writes: > Should I trust NetBSD's ZFS with my user's data? > > I understand that our ZFS isn't being kept up as well as FreeBSD's, > that's why I have FreeBSD on one box on my home network, but I'd like > to keep all *my* hosts on NetBSD (my users run Windows). I have one > user (my

Re: Kernel crash AMD64 NetBSD10 install on Celeron

2024-07-29 Thread Greg Troxel
not really fixing your crash but try disable intelfb0* at the boot prompt. This is a standard workaround for issues with graphics hardware. It will leave you with very basic console graphics, but I'm guessing you plan to just not use the monitor except for configuring. (I don't mean to say fix

Re: system updates

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Troxel
Will Senn writes: > Thanks for the explanation. So, I downloaded the USB installer for > NetBSD 10.0 from the website. It's dated 3/28. I take it that this is > the "formal release" (following > https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html). When 10.1 comes out > it will be on the "stable" or

Re: system updates

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Troxel
Also, you can use INSTALL-NetBSD from etcmanage, which you might take as an example and really read it before using it.

Re: issues on 9.4 while upgrading pango - missing cairo

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > Fails again though:In file included from > /home/pkg-workdir/devel/pango/work/pango-1.52.1/output/g-ir-cpp-nucj60fk.c:4:0: > /home/pkg-workdir/devel/pango/work/pango-1.52.1/pango/pangocairo.h:26:10: > fatal error: cairo.h: No such file or directory >  #include This is

Re: ure0: Questionable Performance

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Troxel
matth...@fastmail.us writes: I am amused by "older laptop" and "USB-C". Those don't go together! I call anything new enough to have USB-C "relatively new". > $ ifconfig ure0 > ure0: flags=0x8843 mtu 1500 > capabilities=0x3ff00 > capabilities=0x3ff00 > capabilities=0x3ff0

Re: issues on 9.4 while upgrading pango - missing cairo

2024-07-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > find /usr/pkg/ -name cairo.h > /usr/pkg/include/cairo/cairo.h > > this looks identical to what I see on a "working" 10.0 system > > In the command line I see: > -I/usr/pkg/include/cairo > > which looks correct and mathing to the file I found! two things to check/try:

continued zfs-related lockups

2024-07-09 Thread Greg Troxel
I have having continued zfs-related lockups on two systems and am posting some anecdata/comments. I am building a LOCKDEBUG kernel to see if that changes anything. Both systems are up-to-date netbsd-10. System 1 is bare metal, 32G ram. System 2 is xen, 4000M RAM in the dom0. Issues described a

Re: Failed to build OpenSSH

2024-07-05 Thread Greg Troxel
janic...@posteo.de writes: > Hello, > > After the latest CVE: > > https://bsdsec.net/articles/netbsd-security-advisory-2024-002-openssh-cve-2024-6387-regresshion > > I tried to update OpenSSH, following the given instructions: > > # cd src > # cvs update -r netbsd-10 -d -P crypto/external/bsd/open

issues with newer intel CPUs?

2024-07-03 Thread Greg Troxel
I am about to get a box with an i7-12700 (12th gen). These seem to have regular vs low-energy cores or something. I plan to run NetBSD 10. I don't really care if the scheduling is off and this leads to some jobs running on slower cores, as it will be mostly running domUs to build packages and ne

Re: properly way of setting premissions for devices in /dev/

2024-07-02 Thread Greg Troxel
Ramiro Aceves writes: > original files permission: > > crw--- 1 root wheel 72, 0 Jun 30 19:58 ugen0.00 > crw--- 1 root wheel 72, 1 Jun 30 19:58 ugen0.01 > > files after permissions change: > > crw-rw 1 root wheel 72, 0 Jun 30 19:58 ugen0.00 > crw-rw 1 root wheel 72, 1 Jun 30 19:58

Re: pkg_rolling-replace and mismatched version

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > sudo pkg_add -v /usr/packages/All/perl-5.38.2.tgz > pkg_add: no pkg found for '/usr/packages/All/perl-5.38.2.tgz', sorry. > pkg_add: 1 package addition failed > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   18M May 17 18:32 perl-5.38.2.tgz run "tar tfvz" on it and see what's inside.

Re: pkg_rolling-replace and mismatched version

2024-06-06 Thread Greg Troxel
It sounds like you are not having a pkg_rolling-replace problem, in that the underlying make replace does not work. Please see the pkg_rolling-replace man page where it asks that problems with a make replace (that was ordered reasonably) not be reported as pkg_rolling-replace issues. I would sugg

Re: Memory leaks in c/pthread libraries

2024-06-05 Thread Greg Troxel
Brian Marcotte writes: > Since upgrading to NetBSD-10, we've seen memory leaks in several > daemons which use libpthread: > > gpg-agent > opendmarc > dkimpy_milter (python3) > syslog-ng (in some cases) > mysqld > mariadbd > > In most cases, the daemons leak as they are use

Re: Mailing List Oddity

2024-05-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Andrew Ball writes: > Why is there a regional-london mailing list but no regional-uk? -Andy I would not assume there is any particular reason. There is a regional-boston list but it has not, in the last many years, had any useful traffic. I think it got deleted but I'm not sure. And I was pr

Re: getconf LONG_BIT in NetBSD

2024-05-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Not that this is super helpful, but posix says: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ All of the following variables shall be supported: The names of the symbolic constants listed under the headings ``Maximum Values'' and ``Minimum Values'' in the description of the

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-05-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Liam Proven writes: > Step 1: a binary interoperability standard, so apps from any BSD can > execute on any other BSD (on the same CPU architecture, obviously.) This is not so much about the binaries about about the ABI for libc and other core libs. But I suspec this works better than you thin

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-05-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Havard Eidnes writes: >> I think I may have struck a nerve. > > I'm not sure I understand what that's getting at. It's not a > particularly "sensitive topic" to me or us in general, I would > think. The fact that english is a second language for me may > prevent me from interpreting this commen

Re: $squid is not set properly

2024-04-30 Thread Greg Troxel
> Greg Troxel wrote: >> Almost certainly, you have squid installed via pkgsrc, or you have a >> leftover /etc/rc.d/squid because you used to. > > oh, got you! Squid was there. Actually, I really had the package > installed and left unused. Possibly some testing. The logs

Re: $squid is not set properly

2024-04-30 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > Hello, > > on boot, I see this message: > /etc/rc: WARNING: $squid is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). > > > but I have no squid related lines in my /etc/rc.conf and I don't use > squid, so I don't think I need it (or does the system need it?). Almost certainly, you

Re: OAUTH TOTP

2024-04-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Staffan Thomen writes: > It used to be that google authenticator didn't automatically back up > your secrets, so you had to be very careful to copy them over when you > got a new phone and if your old phone was unusable you were hosed. > This has since been fixed, and it will back them up to the

Re: OAUTH TOTP

2024-04-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Benny Siegert writes: > The cheapest way to have TOTP is to install Google Authenticator on > your phone. Be careful when you choose a TOTP program that you are able to back up the seeds yourself, and that the program does not send the seeds to the cloud not adequately protected in the name of c

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Don Lee writes: > Mr Nestor has given me a good path for my needs. I’m wondering if I > can apply any of my resources to TNF efforts. I was thinking of > setting up a machine here, but I might do better by simply giving a > machine to TNF. (The NetBSD Foundation?) > > NetBSD has been good to me.

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Don Lee writes: > I have extra static IPs, and several PPC Mac mini machines. I wonder > how hard it would be for me to set one up with enough disk space to do > bulk builds. Would that even be helpful? I imagine that to be useful, > a machine would have to have some administrative massaging to s

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Don Lee writes: > I have a PPC Mac Mini running NetBSD 8.2. It’s stable and functional. It > serves me well. > > I have been using pkgin to install packages and update them with "pkgin > upgrade”. > > My recent attempts to upgrade have been ended by pkgin telling me: > > +mercy$ pkgin upgrade >

Re: cryptic pkgin SSL cert error

2024-04-23 Thread Greg Troxel
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 > > For netbsd-10 /etc/openssl is populated by the OS, but doing that > would be a breaking change on n

Re: Mail delivery from Postfix to remote IMAP

2024-04-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Rhialto writes: > The trouble with plain forwarding is that my mail server's domain name > doesn't match the domain name in the From: header, and doesn't match the > envelope FROM domain, and it doesn't match the SPF policy of the sender > domain etc etc. Those are things that are checked by DKIM

Re: How to remove old libraries ?

2024-04-03 Thread Greg Troxel
BERTRAND Joël writes: > My server runs NetBSD for a very long time (if I remember, first > installation was done with NetBSD 4.0). Motherborad was changed, raid1/5 > volumes also... But installation was done a long time ago and upgraded > from sources. Many others have the same sorts of fe

Re: changed major shlib versions in netbsd-9

2024-03-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann writes: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 03:46:21PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> Or, do we claim that these libs are private to bind, and thus this is >> not an ABI change? > > We do, but it is phishy. There was a recent discussion to move it to > some more pri

changed major shlib versions in netbsd-9

2024-03-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Perhaps my build is messed up, but I just updated along netbsd-9 and netbsd-10 and rebuilt. On -10, I got new shlib versions for bind and unbound libs. That's ok because 10 is not yet released. On -9, I see in my destdir: -r--r--r-- 1 gdt wheel 143494 Mar 26 12:59 /usr/obj/gdt-9/destdir/a

Re: How Does One Build Libdvdcss?

2024-01-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Glad it was useful. Not that you did, but note that TNF asks that help to locate this program not be provided in PRs or commmits, and it follows not on the mailinglist. And if you don't like this, write to your congresscritter. Since you're in .il.us, this is your problem too...

Re: How Does One Build Libdvdcss?

2024-01-07 Thread Greg Troxel
"Jay F. Shachter" writes: > How does one obtain libdvdcss on NetBSD? If I am not mistaken, the > procedure involves: > >cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/libdvdcss >make install clean > > But (also if I am not mistaken), one must first make some sort of > change in /etc/mk.conf before issuing th

Re: Network and port redirection with QEMU not working with package compiled on 10.0_RC1

2024-01-03 Thread Greg Troxel
I really doubt reinstalling is necessary. When you upgrade packages, make sure you have every single package from a consistent build - same branch, same OS version. diff your /etc from unpacking the etc.tgz and xetc.tgz sets someplace else. Understand the differences. I try to minimize them if

firewall by mac address, ignore in dhcpd?

2023-12-15 Thread Greg Troxel
I have a system with a wm(4) interface, and a vlan. I have wifi where one ssid goes on trunk and one goes on a specific other vlan tag, configured as vlan0. dhcpd serves one subnet to wm0 and another to vlan0. For reasons that are not clear, I am seeing packets from hosts that should be on the v

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Benny Siegert writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:52 AM wrote: >> p.s. NetBSD does have ZFS, but I haven't tried it, and I seem to recall >> some discussion of stability issues. > > I have been using it for a few years, never had any stability issues. > However, root on ZFS remains a bit challen

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Brett Lymn writes: > Sure, there are some instances where separating /var and /var/tmp and > even /var/mail are a good thing but it really isn't a must do. Agreed; I didn't mean to say it was mandatory. I was objecting to "it's never a good idae". >> correct size for /var depends on what you p

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Benny Siegert writes: > The correct size is "not on its own partition". Why not have /var > along with / on the same filesystem? That's a matter of opinion. Traditional practice was to separate it, to protect / from filling up, and to keep fs churn on / down for greater likelihood of things be

Re: pkgconf freetype and flags

2023-11-29 Thread Greg Troxel
nia writes: >> > we see that for freetype -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib is missing and this causes >> > me various issues during configures and builds. >> >> This is the typical bug. >> >> You can look at the freetype2 package and the file from upstream and how >> LDFLAGS get substituted in. >> >> Basica

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-25 Thread Greg Troxel
Mike Pumford writes: > On 24/11/2023 16:28, Patrick Welche wrote: >> I notice that my artifacts (8th gen) disappear really quickly / >> hardly exist if the system is under load. Otherwise, they also self >> clear after about a second. Someone (tnn? rvp?) mentioned the >> possibility of cache line

Re: recent strange sudo behavior, probably due to /dev/pts

2023-11-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Greg Troxel writes: > After a lot of investigating including writing a quick read/printf > program to examine the sudo timestamp files, the problem appears to be > that the timestamp records are "TS_PPID" rather than "TS_TTY". The > parent is something deep i

Re: recent strange sudo behavior, probably due to /dev/pts

2023-11-17 Thread Greg Troxel
tlaro...@kergis.com writes: > FWIW: In the "tty" entry there is: "If no terminal is present, the behavior > is the same ass ppid." Could it be that the tmux instances are not > recognized as terminal / tty anymore ? > > In doc/CHANGES: > > tmux(1): Import version 3.3a [wiz 20230628] Interes

recent strange sudo behavior, probably due to /dev/pts

2023-11-17 Thread Greg Troxel
My system is netbsd-10. It was installed around 2003 and has been updated since then, both to each NetBSD stable branch, and to new disks usually via dump/restore and sometimes rsync. Other than the problem I am describing in this message, occasional hangs that I blame on ZFS, and X display glitc

Re: network adapters, IP addresses, ports, domain names

2023-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes: > So can two different IP addresses on the same adapter each use the same > port number each for its own distinct purposes? It's not that IP addresses use ports. It's that one progam can have a listening socket bound to addra:p and another can bind to ad

Re: NetBSD as an NTP stratum 1 server

2023-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Manuel Bouyer writes: >> If the concern is to keep time sync when the Internet is down, 1 ms of >> fuzz is ok. If you are trying to build something to distribute time to >> other people, and especially to be a public stratum 1, then it's not ok. > > Sure; my feeling (but I may be wrong) is that

Re: network adapters, IP addresses, ports, domain names

2023-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes: > In a situation where a NetBSD machine (9.2 amd64 if it matters) has > multiple network adapters each with multiple IP addresses > corresponding to diverse domain names, to what are port numbers > uniquely attached? That question is too vague to be answe

Re: NetBSD as an NTP stratum 1 server

2023-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Brad Spencer writes: >> There is actually support for PPS with USB devices that put the pps >> signal on one of the modem pins, and I'm using it. I think that I added >> it a few years ago, and it was pretty easy. However, there are two I did, and it's been 9 years. >> issues: >> >> almost

Re: NetBSD as an NTP stratum 1 server

2023-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Brad Spencer writes: > No, there is no support for the /dev/ttyXX based IOCTLs that glue a PPS > signal to a TTY port [1]. If there is an output on your GPS device for > a pure GPIO style PPS signal, something that is either 5v or 3.3v in > nature and pulses once per second at a digital logic le

Re: [cross]compiling world and mk.conf

2023-11-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann writes: > Alternatively you can use conditionals in mk.conf, like: > > .if ${MACHINE} == "sparc" > CFLAGS+= -mcpu=v8 -mtune=supersparc > .endif > > or > > .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} != shark > MKKDEBUG=yes > .endif I would strongly recommend the .if method and having one file. I would

Re: pkgconf freetype and flags

2023-10-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > who sets what pkgconf returns for the packages? Is it upstream or does > it come from NetBSD? For packages: generally, upstream, and pkgsrc tries to fix it if it is not right. It is often not right... For the base system: it's really up to NetBSD. > I think there is

Re: bad cksum when npf is started???

2023-10-19 Thread Greg Troxel
George Georgalis writes: > I've been struggling to resolve an odd networking issue. > Initially I expected it was an npf.conf misconfiguration, > but that conf has been pared down to almost nothing, yet > when I load the config, networking stops. Now, I suspect the > issue is a vswitch breaking t

Re: Where are the 10.0 packages?

2023-09-28 Thread Greg Troxel
"Jay F. Shachter" writes: > I have just now been trying to install some packages onto my NetBSD 10 > system (which I don't often get to do, because it cannot see my > wireless device, but today I was able to give it Internet access by > connecting two laptops to an Ethernet hub, and making the Ne

Re: i915 drm error

2023-09-03 Thread Greg Troxel
In that case, it seems there is something unusual about the monitor, and that intelfb or X is misparsing it. Either that or our code is just buggy. I would suggest Configure a modeline in X explicitly, so parsing the EDID is out of the equation. Probably the fastest path to working. Add

Re: i915 drm error

2023-09-03 Thread Greg Troxel
bsd...@tuta.io writes: > Hi, > > I am on NetBSD 10 beta. I get a DRM error while booting. And when I start > Xorg, unsurprinsgly I get just a mere cursor and hangs. > 319 Sep  2 18:17:01 bsd /netbsd: [  30.8266723] intelfb0: framebuffer at > 0x90009000, size 3840x2160, depth 32, stride 15360 >

Re: Using cross compiler created by build.sh

2023-09-03 Thread Greg Troxel
Brook Milligan writes: > I am building software that targets an Arm board. When the OS is > NetBSD, I can use the cross-compiler created by build.sh to build > software for the board. > > However, I also need to build software for the same board but a > different OS, e.g., Debian. Can I use the

Re: syncthing: too many open files?

2023-08-26 Thread Greg Troxel
David Brownlee writes: > 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: accep

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Bruce Nagel writes: > pkg_admin rebuild: > > "pkg_admin: Package `openjdk17-1.17.0.6.10nb1' has no @name, aborting." Less drastically, you could pkg_delete -f openjdk17. > pkg_admin rebuild-tree: > > pkg_admin: Dependency poppler-22.10.0{,nb*} of poppler-cpp-22.10.0 unresolved > pkg_admin: Dep

Re: syncthing: too many open files?

2023-08-26 Thread Greg Troxel
nia writes: > 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 > > It's unable to sync anything. >

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Brett Lymn writes: >> But dhcpd keeps track of previous leases long after their expiration; I >> have had entires in the lease file from 6 months ago. It will assign >> addresses from the pool that have never been used for a lease, and then >> I am pretty sure it will start reusing addresses pro

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Brett Lymn writes: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 09:41:48AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> > Is there a way to "free" their entries, to let dhcpd(8) forget about >> > them, so that the relative IP addresses are re-usable? Each device >> > which

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-22 Thread Greg Troxel
rockyho...@firemail.cc writes: >> But basically you shouldn't care, unless you want your IP address space >> tidy. If that's what you want, then you probably should configure your >> dhcpd: > [...] >> statically assign (NOT in the pool!) in dhcpcd addresses to specific >> devices based on IP

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-22 Thread Greg Troxel
rockyho...@firemail.cc writes: > II{R,U}C, dhcpd(8) actually uses a pseudo-static IP assigment policy: > it tries to relate the same MAC address always to the same IP address. > I have a NetBSD 9.0 machine which acts as DHCP server and it seems to > behave exactly this way. This is true. > Howev

Re: Samba, ZFS and xattr

2023-08-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Hauke Fath writes: > On 8/14/23 22:14, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: >>> supermicro# zfs set xattr=on pool0/backup/timemachine >>> property 'xattr' not supported on NetBSD: permission denied >>> >>> If I'm not mistaken, this should be the step to set xattr? >> According to Oracle's documentation, yes; it

Re: UEFI installation

2023-08-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Mark Davies writes: > What sort of Dell is it? We've got lots of them of various ages so > I'm fairly familiar with the BIOS settings. Any halfway recent one > will let you UEFI boot off anything, but the newer they are the more > restrictive they are in what they will legacy boot from. Recen

Re: UEFI installation

2023-08-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Thanks to martin@ and mlelstv@ for hints. I have updated the wiki page: https://wiki.netbsd.org/Installation_on_UEFI_systems/ please feel free to fix it or tell me I did it wrong; I try to update things after getting help to help the next person or future me after this is paged out.

Re: UEFI installation

2023-08-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann writes: > But the part that I don't understand: why can't you get your machine to > boot the USB install image in UEFI mode? With stupid x86 firmware everything > is possible but I would guess it is more likely that some setting should > allow booting from USB in UEFI mode. Maybe

UEFI installation

2023-08-14 Thread Greg Troxel
(I have a new 2019 Dell, and I'll post details in the thread where I asked about hardware after it is working.) Windows is set up to boot gpt/UEFI on the 1T low-end SSD that I have set aside. I'm thus trying to install onto a new 4T SSD. The BIOS situation is a little funky. It's clearly UEFI,

Re: ZFS Bogosity

2023-08-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Michael van Elst writes: >> Alternatively, I see that we add wedges to hw.disknames. My system has >> a NetBSD boot image on a flash drive this minute, and: >> hw.disknames = wd0 cd0 sd0 dk0 dk1 >> so if we add dk0, which is really no different logically than sd0a, it >> seems like we should ad

Re: 10 fails to build

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Paul Ripke writes: > I just finished an update build for netbsd-10 amd64 - apart from some > flist shenanigans, it went smoothly. Thanks. I also removed my tools objdir and restarted, and that didn't seem to fix it, and then I re-did includes. Now I have succeeeded to the point of flist shenan

Re: ZFS Bogosity

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > >>David Brownlee writes: >>> https://gnats.netbsd.org/57583 > >>Do you think this is just a bug that it fails to look at wd3e >>etc. wrongly if there is /dev/zfs? &

Re: ZFS Bogosity

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
David Brownlee writes: > https://gnats.netbsd.org/57583 Do you think this is just a bug that it fails to look at wd3e etc. wrongly if there is /dev/zfs? What is the point of /dev/zfs (is that how zpool/zfs control works?) and is there any reason this should matter? Do you think this is this j

10 fails to build

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
I'm doing an update build, but I did a cleandir in libc. This file fails and the rest of gdtoa seems troubled too. (up to date netbsd-10) ~/NetBSD-10/src/lib/libc > /usr/obj/gdt-10/tools/bin/nbmake-amd64 # compile libc/dtoa.o /usr/obj/gdt-10/tools/bin/x86_64--netbsd-gcc -O2 -std=gnu99

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

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Benny Siegert writes: > I would like to create NetBSD 10 based CI images for Go in the near future. > Having binary packages for i386 makes this immensely easier. Thanks. There are been several people who say they'd use them, so that seems enough not to rock the boat. You just never know unti

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

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > >>it was underpowered, that I might or might not ever power up again, and >>if I did I wouldn't use ftp.n.o packages on it. > > What else? Self-compiling on a system you already c

would anybody use binary packages for NetBSD/i386 10?

2023-08-13 Thread Greg Troxel
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 already, or who intend to move to it soon or after release If yo

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-09 Thread Greg Troxel
Bruce Nagel writes: > I confirmed that in the following files, PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb is the > file path set: > > /usr/pkg/etc/pkg_install.conf > /etc/mk.conf > /etc/pkg_install.conf That sounds good then. So you should have a package databsae in /usr/pkg/pkgdb (meaning a bunch of dirs wit

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Bruce Nagel writes: > Using either my original pkgsrc url that e.g. url I get this error when trying > to do 'pkgin upgrade': > > pkgin: empty local package list. > > 'pkgin list' gives the same: Requested list is empty. It is possible you have crossed wires about where your pkgdb is.I sugge

seeking desktop hardware recommendation

2023-08-07 Thread Greg Troxel
My hand-me-down old Dell gamer box is having thermal issues. (It's from 2010, so not a complaint.) I have been using hand-me-down boxes for a while, which means I accept hardware not knowing if it works with NetBSD, and usually it does because it's 5 years old when I get it, after my Windows-usin

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Bruce Nagel writes: > NetBSD Bast 9.3 NetBSD 9.3 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Aug 4 15:30:37 UTC 2022 > mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 > > packages are coming from: > http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.3/All OK, not super surprising, but co

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Bruce Nagel writes: > When attempting to upgrade libreoffice using pkgin, I am getting the following > before the (massive) list of packages to be updated: You didn't say what version of NetBSD, which arch, and where the binary packages you are using are coming from. > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7,

Re: Intermitent loss of WiFi

2023-08-04 Thread Greg Troxel
bsd...@tuta.io writes: > $ doas dmesg | grep -w iwm0 > [ 1.031913] iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: Intel Dual Band Wireless AC > 8265 (rev. 0x78) > [ 1.031913] iwm0: interrupting at msi3 vec 0 > [ 4.380047] iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 22.361476.0, address > [ 10910.342873] iwm0: autoco

Re: Intermitent loss of WiFi

2023-08-03 Thread Greg Troxel
bsd...@tuta.io writes: > I am on NetBSD 10.0 Beta. > I get intermitent loss of WiFi with my iwm driver. This sort of problem happens with some adaptors sometimes, but is not super common. I have a few urtwn(4) devices. One, on a 2006 macbook (i386) has been reliable. Another, on a RPI3 (earmv7

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-31 Thread Greg Troxel
I took your patch and have been adding comments to help me understand things, as well as debug logging. I also switched how it works, to have an ifdef for netbsd approch vs others, to make it less confusing -- but it amounts to the same thing. (I understand your intent was to touch as few lines a

Re: nvmm woes: won't load

2023-07-29 Thread Greg Troxel
"Jonathan A. Kollasch" writes: > All too old, need the Unrestricted Guest feature on Intel for nvmm. I updated the man page.

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-29 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > t...@netbsd.org (Tobias Nygren) writes: > >>There exists ZFS code which hooks into UVM to drain memory -- but part >>of it is ifdef __i386 for some reason. See arc_kmem_reap_now(). > > That's an extra for 32bit systems (later code replaced __i386 wit

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-29 Thread Greg Troxel
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 12:42:13PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:04:56 -0400 >> Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> > The upstream code tries to find a min/target/max under the assumption >> > that there is a

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Tobias Nygren writes: > n Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:43:45 -0400 > Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Thus it seems there is a limit for zfs usage, but it is simply >> sometimes too high depending on available RAM. > > I use this patch on my RPi4, which I feel improves thi

Re: nvmm woes: won't load

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
"Jonathan A. Kollasch" writes: > All too old, need the Unrestricted Guest feature on Intel for nvmm. Thanks - that's a huge clue, not turned up in my previous searching. Interesting -- that's not what the man page says, so I guess we should fix the man page. reading, it seems "Unrestricted Gue

nvmm woes: won't load

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
I am trying to run qemu/nvmm because of zfs memory problems. But I'd like nvmm to work anyway, so zfs is irrelevant here. I have a Dell Inspiron 560 from around 2010 (my computers were free to good home, so I'm not really sure). This is a netbsd-10 system that's up to date as of June 28. (Will

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > >>I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they >>did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There is of course >>a long tradition of improve

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Mr Roooster writes: > I'm not sure they did a lot more than expose the ARC limit as a sysctl. I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There is of course a long tradition of improvements from various *BSD being a

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