), retrying
Sep 5 16:56:49 trafalgar /netbsd: wd0: (uncorrectable data error)
The fsbn is mostly 1005056 but sometimes 1005086.
Server response time is impacted.
I've never had, so never tackled, this kind of issue before. Advice
much appreciated.
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that this server has been under heavy attack
(ssh mostly) for a couple of days from addresses in China.
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Is there a way of identifying the file that's affected from the fsbn?
Because it's the boot partition and the server is far away I need to
be sure the machine will come up in multi-user mode if I have to
reboot.
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You wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 05:35:0
to use RAID. The smallest replacement
I can find is 500Gbyte, and there are only two disk bays in the
chassis. I'm taking the opportunity to put much more RAM on them
at the same time.
Any advice as to the best way to proceed?
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the old disk, but I
tried changing to match what is on the old machine. I have vague
memories of seeing a similar problem around 15 years ago, but I have
no real grasp of what the issue may be.
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bombardment from .cn and .ru).
/etc/gettytab needed :sp#9600: adding to the Pc entry, and /etc/ttys
needed constty to be edited out.
Kind regards,
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You wrote:
>
> After paying more attention:
>
> things think that libc.so. is in /usr/lib sometimes, e.g.
>
nabled CSM (compatibility
support) and set everything to Legacy mode, hardware RAID is disabled,
the disk is first in the boot priority list, and clearly something is
being read from it, else the "NetBSD MBR boot" line would not appear.
Any suggestions?
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low me to carry on configuring with an
rlogin - it's very tricky via the USB caddy because all the device
names are wrong.
Does anyone know if this chip is supported/likely to be supported?
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You wrote:
>
> Date:Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:52:43 + (
only one, so I
assume this is com0). I this /dev/constty? Might I need to change
its permissions? The remote management controller believes I am
called admin, but at the point where I initially connect there is no
access to the NetBSD passwd file.
Thanks,
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For that I need network access to the console in
single-user mode.
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You wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:15:55PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:12:39PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > You have to tell NetBSD to
n remotely in
single-user mode (the real aim of this exercise).
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>
> Hi,
>
> lets take a tour into these things:
>
> Server have serial port and a special option to redirect screen.
> When redirection is on - BIOS is instructed to send all data from
>
it's been a long and frustrating
journey, alleviated only by the customary kindly helpfulness of the NetBSD
community.
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there may be an issue concerning the boot filter
(UEFI/Legacy) which I shall pursue - although so far as I am aware I
have done everything in Legacy mode.
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> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:31:28PM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > After various helpful discussions off-
the two are quick changes in /etc.
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?
Remedies?
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e
something obvious to most, or I'm just no using the right search terms
to identify the issue.
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n is there the fatal error. Also, if it weren't linked
with -lX11, why would the error message specify the libXext shared
library (which is present and apparently the correct version for
NetBsd 7.0). But
# strings /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.7 | grep XGetRequest
_XGetRequest
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linked, for NetBSD 7.0, not stripped
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You wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:48:36AM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > Libreoffice I have both done as a pkg_add from the binary on the
> > netbsd.org ftp site and as a local pkgsrc build. Firefox-59.0.2
sure there are no extra/newer X libraries. And that you
> don't have modular X installed from pkgsrc (X11_TYPE=modular).
X is stock off-the-ISO-image. Is there an efficient way to check for
extra/newer libraries? Of course what would be really nice would be
if someone else had had the
nto a sane condition without being able to
access it in single user mode (because there is no remote console
access).
How should I proceed?
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You wrote:
>
> On 7 June 2018 at 14:03, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > I have a remote server (about to be replaced, but still in service and
> > needs to stay that way until a replacement is fully commissioned) that
> > has just developed a single bad sector. The result has
nt machines I have four distinct ways of booting,
including from a DVD-RAM as a last resort, plus a proper remote
management console independent of the motherboard.
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions (and to the others who replied
off-list).
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tes of RAM, later upgraded to a whole MByte,
with a 40MByte drive. Eventually I ran twelve dumb terminals off it,
and it worked, but that was 35 years ago. But then I go back to the
time when dropping your deck of punch cards was tantamonn
Well because of the well-defined date/time of the inaccessibility of
our regular mail server, I was able to split the target /var/mail files
and drop in the files from the remote VPS without difficuilty.
Thanks for the help.
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You wrote:
>
> Steffen Nurpmeso wr
c to individual mail readers (being of
Jurassic vintage I use elm).
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OSs
on which success has been reported, but not NetBSD.
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ck, L. Ron Hubbard, all is forgiven.
Thanks, may give it a try if current approach fails.
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You wrote:
>
> Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > I run multiple web servers on several distinct machines in each of four
> > different domains, which makes the Letsencrypt pro
me an easier way forward than other examples
I had seen that were more complex and error prone.
I suppose having had a go at Python I might turn my gaze to Perl...
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You wrote:
>
> On 10/22, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > > On 10/22, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
>
22:d=1 hl=4 l= 609 prim: OCTET STRING [HEX
DUMP]:3082025D02010002818100C4DC77332949C3EB226D9503E8D072091868B6A2A5177F10D871B51864716AD629AA05B.
(continues for several lines' worth)
I think there actually must be something wrong with the private key,
but I can't w
und a successful conjunction of Google search
terms to throw up fellow-sufferers.
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You wrote:
>
>
>
> On June 10, 2015 1:07:48 PM EDT, [email protected] wrote:
> >I am trying once more to get dovecot working with TLS/SSL enabled,
> >similarly postscrip
/etc/ssl/certs/newpostfix.pem:-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-
/etc/ssl/private/newpostfix.pem:-BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-
You wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 06:34:25PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > The Postfix error is particularly odd: apparently Postfix is looking in
>
configuration (4): Device not configured
which I imagine is the source oof the problem. Can someone enlighten
me please?
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ss devices access it normally. But the router is too
modern to support WEP encryption. Is encryption likely to be the
problem? Other suggestions?
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0x01) at
pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured
refers to pci3, whereas from the driver name I would have thought it
should appear as a usb device.
If there is a place more suited to the discussion of driver-wrangling,
do please point me to it.
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The device is sealed so I can't look, but from Realtek's description
there appear to be different versions of the same chipset for PCI and
USB. I'm out of my comfort zone when it comes to knowing how the
hardware probe operates.
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You wrote:
>
> 2016-
as well?
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You wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:51:06 -0400
> Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> > [email protected] (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
> >
> > > vendor 0x10ec product 0x8179 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x01) at
>
kgsrc mwm binary fails in the same way. But twm works (does
anyone actually use twm these days?).o
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You wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
>
> > Can anyone suggest a good way forward with X11 window managers using
> > X11R& (I'm in the processw of moving to amd64 7.0). For many years I
> > have used IceWM, but the pkgsrc binary fa
n VPSs in their absence.
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before a certain stage had been reached.
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You wrote:
>
> => I have two servers I have just retrieved from their regular home in a
> => data centre some distance away. (Less tha opportune interventions by
> => the staff there meant they would not
partition, and set up a sensible
layour for the rest of the disk while keeping a bootable root
partition.
All thoughts welcome.
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You wrote:
>
> [email protected] (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > While I have them here I want to upgrade them to 7.0 (i
vice, root device, swap device etc.)?
It's been a long day, and I don't get to do this sort of thing very
often.
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x27;m about to start upgrading the 3.0 system to 7.0 - this already had
a working PAM configuration, which I don't want to trash...
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root filesystem, swap device etc., whereas I need
them to boot non-interactively.
I see in my other 7.0 systems a /kern in the filesystem and in
/etc/fstab. Should I be setting this up (and how)>
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You wrote:
>
> On August 18, 2016 9:45:31 AM EDT, [email protected] w
I see in my other 7.0 systems a /kern in the filesystem and in
> /etc/fstab. Should I be setting this up (and how)>
>
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>
> You wrote:
> >
> > On August 18, 2016 9:45:31 AM EDT, [email protected] wrote:
> > >Still upgrading from 2.0
of the logical block driver: man 4 ld
>
> The system doesn't have a hardware raid controller on it does it??
>
>
>
> --
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> http://anduin.eldar.org - & - http://anduin.ipv6.eldar.org [IPv6 only]
>
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/bootxx_ffsv1
>
> cp -p /usr/mdec/boot /
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
> Version: GnuPG v1
>
> iEYEARECAAYFAle174EACgkQ+vesoDJhHiUo6gCgio7KLFvUm+L6xnuQmmfJmW5r
> tKcAoK55mI/ir/Y
-device and attaches ld*, but the disk have not been
configured properly for this. So I built a custom kernel, installed
new bootblocks, and everything is runing fine now.
Thanks to all who helped
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for shutdown(8) and fastboot(8) that
there is provision related to this kind of circumstance. Would it
simply be a matter of having an empty file named /fastboot in the root
directory? If it matters, these are i386 machines.
Any gotchas with this approach?
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the moment they're not practical.
o
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>
> [email protected] (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
>
> > Following on from the recent saga of upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0 which
> > assiduous readers may recall, the servers were re-installed in their
> > racks in the da
particular to watch out for (apart from getting the
config files right of course)?
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r VNC. I'm under some pressure,
because i have tax returns to file, and I can't read the PDF invoices that
need entering into accounting software.
I imagine this is something very obvious I'm missing in X11 configuration -
suggestions please.
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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?
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You wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 03:48:49PM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > 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 p
guide
anywhere?
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ed on
yourmachine.prd.co.uk.
I have restarted lpd on the target machine without the -s option.
In the remote /etc/printcap rp=colour, which is the printer name on
the local machine.
What am I missing?
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Is there any way to access the MAC addresses of network interface
devices programmatically?
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know which C library. Vim
fails to display Japanese characters in an xterm, but will if it is
called via a uxterm, which seems to have no manpage for NetBSD.
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k 022
I'm guessing that umask is internal to csh, so elm is the last process
to be started from .cshrc. But I'd like to understand what's going on
as well as fix it.
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ternal program over part of a vi buffer. It's not
restricted to vi-in-elm, so elm itself is probably not implicated.
I imagine it's left hanging around in a buffer in the shell and never
gets cleared deown.
Thanks for spending so many action potentials (and glial cell support
- never forget the glia) on my issue.
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Why does NetBSD not have either the preconv preprocessor or the -k
option to groff to cope with utf-8 input, the way Linux and MacOS
distros have? Or is one or the other present in a NetBSD version I
haven't installed yet?
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I can see in /var/run/dmesg.boot, immediately before the line
beginning "mainbus 0" a string identifying the machine's manufacturer
and model name.
Is there some way of accessing this string from a shell-level command?
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b4: single transaction translator
uhub4: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
uhidev0 at uhub4 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/15.00, addr 4, iclass 3/1...
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You wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
>
>
what I put in my (Tcl) script:
set vendorprod [split [exec /sbin/sysctl -n machdep.dmi.system-vendor \
machdep.dmi.system-product machdep.dmi.system-version] "\n"]
It turns out that different machines may have either of the last two
blank but not empty, with the product's name arbitrarily in one position or
the other.
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You wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 04:27:33PM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > FWIW this is what I put in my (Tcl) script:
> >
> > set vendorprod [split [exec /sbin/sysctl -n machdep.dmi.system-vendor \
> > machdep.dmi.system-product machdep.dmi.system-versio
t: if I mount_nfs a backup
copy of the same fonts directory on a remote server and point
groff_font/devps at that instead, everything goes back to normal.
Anyone have any insight into why migrating from 7.0 to 9.2 might cause
such a problem?
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se it extensively: I have substantial
software systems which emit *roff source files, it's not just a
manpage generator.
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You wrote:
>
> This is on amd64, but I doubt that that's relevant.
>
> I have an extensive collection of fonts for PostScript, so
> /u
e
handling is a real benefit: it was sweated labour converting our font
collection to be usable with groff (but it is a big collection).
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You wrote:
>
> --pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Mar__4_13:00:52_2022-1
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> At Fri, 4 Mar
s a looong time ago.
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at is sure-fire, and based on an understanding
of nfs clien-side behaviour. I can, of course, reboot, but this is a
customer-facing server in a remote data centre, which otherwise is
functioning properly.
This is 9.2 on amd64, but I don't belkieve for a moment that this is
version-related.
, when there is
significant nfs service between sites.
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You wrote:
>
> 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 crashe
You wrote:
>
> On 27/05/2022 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 n
, though whether I'm clever enough with grep to
write a RE for "a line starting with an alphanumeric followed by any
number of trailing lines beginning with a space character" is to be
doubted.
Any suggestions?
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re to start?
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r--r-- 1 root wheel 8184 May 12 2021
/usr/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.4
Kind regards,
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You wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
>
> > the cron/rsyncd.conf etc. config in place. I checked that everything
> > ran normally ba
fford to have them out of action for an extended
period, which is what happened with the three machines I have upgraded
so far.
Thanks again,
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You wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
>
> > Results are:
> > 1. cron: in pam_vprompt()
don't understand the crond behaviour - there is little in the
crontabs, there's no queue of jobs wiating to be processed - and
nothing I can seen in the results of a web search that seems to relate
to my situation.
Can anyone suggest a line of attack?
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ng us).
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>
>
> What VPS provider?
> xen?
>
> Distance to peers is highly unlikely to be the issue, unless you are
> complaining about 10 ms jitter in achieved timekeeping.
>
>
job. I get the impression that I need to build something like
dovecot - but what is the difference between dovecot and dovecot2?
I guess this is all obvious once you know it, but if there's a "how to
get started with port 587" guide, that would be really helpful.
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ume, a Unix socket that is not getting created.
I'm hoping these two errors are sufficiently diagnostic for me not to
have to bother the list with what I take to be consequential errors.
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looking in conf.d/10-master.conf for the
error, but lack of familiarity with the syntax of the conf files is
making it hard to see what's wrong.
Is there a way of getting a report of which services are defined so I
can test without exposing my live system to errors?
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know well. I'm wondering whether this
is maybe a bug in dovecot2 that has been corrected since the tarball I
started from (off the NetBSD.org site) was created.
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You wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > I am gradually getting do
ver.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Bartek Krawczyk
>
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going round in circles and making no progres.
This is NetBSD 4.01, with the SSL libraries updated to the latest
version for that release.
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You wrote:
>
> Hello again
>
> Having just now been confused by similar error to yours when setting up
> postfix certificates
sible
reading.
Permissions on the subdirectories are 0755.
Have I got faulty libraries, faulty data, or both?
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You wrote:
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
> [email protected] (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
>
> > This is still a live issue - ap
Thank you for a very helpful response - five-finver exercises in kleys
and certificates...
But my certificate and key pass your tests, so I'm really beginning to
wonder about the libraries.
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You wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Steve Blin
om a mirror site.
>
> And what NetBSD version and port is this?
NetBSD 4.01 on i386. I'm preparing for forthcoming upgrade of
systems, and the idea was to learn the ropes on familiar territory so
as not to go on wild goose chases in the uprated environment.
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lesystem).
Finally, with native X on 9.2, despite specifying a geometry of
1920x1080 in my startx script, I get a 1024x768 display. Why?
I'm about to replace all my old machines but need to feel properly in
controld when I do.
BTW, all machines amd64.
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