Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-15 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 08:57:38PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Tue 14 Nov 2023 at 08:13:22 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > Try disabling drmkms at userconf: > > > > disable i915drmkms* > > > > It is not the "same" Intel driver in fact ;-) > > Thanks for the tip. I tried it but unfortunately

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-15 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:46:13PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Wed 15 Nov 2023 at 18:36:10 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > After disabling i915drmkms*, you could modload i915drm (the old > > module). > > Ah, interesting idea! Unfortunately this leads to double definitions of > some symbols: >

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-17 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 10:51:32PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 16:44:30 +1030, Brett Lymn wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:46:13PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > > > > > > That resulted in both undefined and double defined symbols... > > > so I tried the more oldfashioned way of ed

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

2023-11-17 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > 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 th

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-18 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 11:14:12AM +, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 17/11/2023 21:57, Brett Lymn wrote: > > > > Very interested in the results of this. I haven't had decent X since I > > updated. Vesa works > > but the resolution is pathetic and suspend/resume does not work. > > > Well my

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-18 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 03:13:32PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Fri 17 Nov 2023 at 13:04:48 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > There are two things that you could verify: > > > > 1) That the legacy drm kernel module is also loaded; > > It looks like it is: > > $ modstat|grep drm > drm

Re: buildworld failure due to md5 not supported by openssl3

2023-11-22 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 04:21:01PM +0100, Ede Wolf wrote: >[...] > My mk.conf should be rather unspectacular as well: > > > # cat /etc/mk.conf > > CPUFLAGS = -mcpu=21164a > > # world related stuff: > > NETBSDSRCDIR=/data/src > BSDOBJDIR=/data/obj > INSTALLWORLDDIR=/data/install > DESTDIR=/dat

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-23 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 04:45:20PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:34:22PM +, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > > And translated it into the patch attached to this message. A kernel with > > this patch boots and runs X successfully Still see a little bit of cache > > tearing but

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-23 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:34:22PM +, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 18/11/2023 11:34, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 11:14:12AM +, Mike Pumford wrote: > > Yes, there has been a major refactoring in the Linux code regarding > > headers for example. The whole Linux dr

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-26 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 03:44:05PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > 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

How to add to an existing PR?

2023-11-30 Thread tlaronde
I may be dumb, but I don't find anywhere a way to _add_ to a PR... Do one have to send a mail to pr--@gnats.netbsd.org ? Or do we have to install pkgsrc databases/gnats but, in this case, what are the identifiers for the database (host:port) to be put in /usr/pkg/etc/gnats/databases---after modif

Re: How to add to an existing PR?

2023-11-30 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 03:09:52PM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote: > The trick is to post to gnats-bugs@ (IIRC) with a subject line like > > Re: pkg/54321 > > This will turn into a PR update and be sent to all subscribers of the PR. Ok, thanks! Will try that, T. Laronde > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 a

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-30 Thread tlaronde
attached my Xorg.0.log for reference. -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C [ 4365.591] X.Org X Server 1.21.1.8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [

How to get psychedelic video and crash: chmod

2023-12-04 Thread tlaronde
I was testing i915 (i965) and radeon Xorg configurations, and rendering a simple mp4 video wouldn't work, either with xine(1) or vlc(1). I suspected ffmpeg4; then libvdpau and then something else, and so on and so on, until vlc messages gave me the hint: the permissions on /dev/dri/card0 were not

X11: db of working/not working

2023-12-06 Thread tlaronde
I think it should be of interest to gather data about what hardware is working and what hardware is not working related to X11 (this means then too DRMKMS). Vocabulary: - Integrated GPU: GPU on SoC or mother board, sharing cache and main memory with CPU; - Discrete GPU: GPU

Re: X11: db of working/not working

2023-12-07 Thread tlaronde
[If the intention was not clear: this is just my data, and others could perhaps add their data too, for users---searching what works---and developers. "i915" or "radeon" doesn't mean a lot: there is a huge variety of variants masquerading behing these generic names.] One important addition below:

Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

2023-12-07 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > HMM , I solved prob? ... > > > tlarnde mentioned change -- chmod 640 card0 . > So I did this. It looks like many errors in /var/log/messages went away. It is the reverse. For me, the problem was that the /dev/dri/card0 had 64

Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

2023-12-07 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:11:27PM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I tried one thing today: > > chmod 640 card0 The correct permissions are 660. But this has nothing to do with the error messages coming from the kernel about PUSHBUFFER. FWIW, I had various errors with warm reboot (just rebooting, wit

Re: NetBSD-10.0RC

2023-12-07 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:03:55PM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > Got a result: > > cd /dev/dri > chmod 640 card? # all 4 card devices No! chmod 660 /dev/dri/card* chmod 660 /dev/dri/renderD* It's 660 NOT 640. > > > I need to change all 4 cards in my system. > I tried this on renderD1??? ; dont

Re: fake daemons, honeypots?

2024-01-18 Thread tlaronde
greeting banners as appropriate to initiate use. > > I was looking for fake telnetd, imapd, ftpd for example. You can probably do it with inetd builtins. See usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.c:/biltin (FWIW, there is a reworked inetd version here, but for "biltin"s the version is the same:

Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-27 Thread tlaronde
Starting some operation as common user (for example compiling/building) before promoting to privileged (generally root) by su'ing or sudo'ing (for example to install) is common. But does somebody know of an established program or library that allows to start a process as root and to automatically

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-29 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:10:07PM +, RVP wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > > But does somebody know of an established program or library that allows > > to start a process as root and to automatically downgrade rights for > > tasks (I mean identified chunks of whate

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-29 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 06:26:53AM -0800, Alistair Crooks wrote: > As RVP mentioned, this is a SMOP, but if you're looking for an out of the > box utility, checkout djb's setuidgid (available in > pkgsrc/sysutils/daemontools) https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setuidgid.html Thanks. I will take a look.

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-30 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 15:23:24 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > The typical example is say, with pkgsrc (or any kind of packages > > system). One wants to build unprivileged, but installation may be > > privileged. So instead of runnin

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-31 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 07:19:57AM +, RVP wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > > That something can be written is sure. But I wondered if there was > > some attempt of some library (in whatever language) or some utility > > that will "fence" a root user, and will, allow

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-31 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:17:11PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:19:31 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > Subject: Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged > > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > > > On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 15

Re: EXT MAIL : Re: USB install is slow

2024-03-08 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 04:57:00PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 03:52:15PM +, Derrick Lobo wrote: > > I ended just untaring the sets and running etcupdate as that was much > > quicker > > Huh? If that was much quicker (you were running the same kernel, from the > ins

Re: Listing X11 grabs with XF86LogGrabInfo

2024-03-26 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 10:35:43PM +, RVP wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rob Whitlock wrote: > > > Is there some trick to enabling this functionality > > > > Yes. Try again after applying this patch (and restarting X). > > ``` > --- usr/X11R7/lib/X11/XKeysymDB.orig 2024-03-18 22:47:19.0

Re: Listing X11 grabs with XF86LogGrabInfo

2024-03-26 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:36:48AM +, RVP wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > > In current (it has been updated very recently) Xorg xorgproto > > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto), the > > Keysyms in include/X11/XF86keysym.h are: > > > > #define XF

Re: dhcpcd and IPv6 prefix delegation?

2024-07-06 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 10:21:19AM +0200, Lars-Johan Liman wrote: > Hi! > > _Finally_ my ISP has started to provide IPv6 support, and hands out > delegation prefixes in what seems to be a proper fashion. My router is a > PCengine with 3 ethernet interfaces running NetBSD 10.0-REL. > > Interface w

Re: Kernel crash AMD64 NetBSD10 install on Celeron

2024-07-29 Thread tlaronde
There were---and are--- problems with DRM on some boards and for example Linux may work on these simply because they disable DRM on boot... (meaning that some other OS succeeding may be simply because it doesn't attempt to drive the GPU). See: https://notes.kergis.com/netbsd_on_OVH_baremetal.html

Re: create /tmp with ffs vs. tmpfs ?

2024-08-12 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 07:30:20AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > 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,

Linux compat and swap

2020-04-22 Thread tlaronde
Hello, A closed source program exists freely downloadable for Windows and some version of Linux. I run it with Linux compatibility and emulation under NetBSD, and this program, that should simply take a line at a time from stdin and convert coordinates, leads, when there are too many lines (recor

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-23 Thread tlaronde
Hello Mike, On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:56:15AM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 23/04/2020 08:18, Sad Clouds wrote: > >On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:46:08 +0200 > >tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > >>(This can be also simply a memory leak in the program but since the > >>RAM is not exhausted...). >

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-23 Thread tlaronde
[Please forgive me to give supplementary information gathered for all answers and "before". And thank you to all for answering.] To be more precise: The node is not a desktop node but a server one (so there is no X11 running, so no firefox or whatever), with two main functions: 1) A file server;

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:56:08AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:56:15 +0100 > Mike Pumford wrote: > > > If you have both memory intensive and filesystem intensive processes > > running on a NetBSD system the kernel filesystem cache can end up > > evicting programs running i

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:40:10AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > > > I'm also still a bit puzzled by the behavior of the program since I use > > it as a filter and it should read one line at a time (and doesn't need > > to keep whatever information to correlate lines).

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 23/04/2020 11:48, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > >[Please forgive me to give supplementary information gathered for all > >answers and "before". And thank you to all for answering.] > > > >To be more precise: > > > >The node is

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-24 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:23:14PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 06:14:00PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 23/04/2020 11:48, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > >[Please forgive me to giv

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-24 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:11:03PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:18:10AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:50:38 -0700 > > "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > > > > > On the other hand the vm.*max percentages are just limits to how many > > > pages will be reclaimed

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-24 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 03:35:15PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:56:37 +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > Subject: Re: Linux compat and swap > > > > Does somebody know what are the main source files implementing it so > > that if no in depth documentation is available, the

Re: Shared object "libffi.so.6" not found after installing w3m-img

2020-07-03 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:53:29AM -0400, Bruce Nagel wrote: > After installing w3m-img recently (with whatever dependencies pkgin pulled in) > I get the following error when I try to run gimp: > > Shared object "libffi.so.6" not found > > When I check in /usr/pkg/lib I find that indeed i

Re: NetBSD 9.1 upgrade and file system crash - reboot fails

2020-11-02 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 11:13:01AM +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > Riccardo Mottola a écrit : > > Then this is the data for the third day (each time I did a power-off > > reboot, so it is not continuous operation, I shut down the laptop at night) > > > > SMART supported, SMART enabled > > id value t

Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

2020-11-12 Thread tlaronde
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 connected disks appear first hence, after successful boot

Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

2020-11-12 Thread tlaronde
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 is > > left on them before deciding what to do with them. > > > > I bought a PCI-E IDE adapter to be able

Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

2020-11-12 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > > > I bought a PCI-E IDE adapter to be able to connect them, since my AMD64 > > is SATA. > > Not what you asked, but there are USB to IDE adaptors, and these you can > plug in to the computer after yo

firefox and maxfiles and rlimit.descriptors

2020-11-14 Thread tlaronde
I have updated to 9.1 and have updated pkgsrc packages too amongst them firefox. The rendering with firefox seems to be highly file based: tiles being processed with temporary files. With html pages with a lot of files opened---typically news agregator with a lot of thumbs, a lot of js files, a lo

Re: firefox and maxfiles and rlimit.descriptors

2020-11-14 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 07:43:14PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > > >I have increased kern.maxfiles (the default of 956 being too low). > > >But how to increase proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.{hard,soft}? > >Whatever I give to soft, sysctl refuses with "i

Re: firefox and maxfiles and rlimit.descriptors

2020-11-15 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 10:59:15PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > > >> >But how to increase proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.{hard,soft}? > > >But this is the problem: ulimit -n doesn't accept it either. So I > >concluded that the limit set by the kernel imposes, l

Re: firefox and maxfiles and rlimit.descriptors

2020-11-15 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:02:09PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > So how can one increase the kernel limit so that ulimit -n can work with > > a greater value? (it doesn't accept anything else but 956, despite > > kern.maxfiles being increased). > > $ sysctl kern.maxfiles

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-17 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 05:33:55PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > This is using binary packages from > http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv7hf/9.1/All > > on NetBSD armv7 9.1_STABLE NetBSD 9.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Tue Nov 10 > 11:45:35 UTC 2020 > mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-19 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:03:12PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:22:11PM +0100, Bodie wrote: > > > I still wish to know whether strtab errors are necessarily from the > > > pkg layer or is something in the base wrong - and in turn armv7.img is > > > faulty. > > And any commen

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-19 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:04:42PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:03:12PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:22:11PM +0100, Bodie wrote: > > > > I still wish to know whether strtab errors are necessarily from the > > > > pkg layer or is something in th

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-19 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:38:20PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Patches were commited on 27 Aug 2019 by Robert Swindells, and we were at > > 8.99 at this time. > > Ok, the pkg builder runs with a 9.0_STABLE userland, so i

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-19 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:01:55AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:25:33PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > It will allow you to know if the problem is with the packages > > Let me begin with that hypothesis. > > I'll try to do binary installation of firefox52 on a qemu

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-27 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 04:05:42PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 08:24:29AM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > You should first try to rebuild it with an up-to-data compiler > > framework before one could assert if there is indeed a problem. > > I built firefox52 from scratc

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-27 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:54:06PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:46:36PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > The strtab errors come from the linking hence from binutils. The only > > causes I can imagine is whether there is a lib used that has been > > compiled with

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-27 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:57:52PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:52:02PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > BTW, are these packages "cross-compiled" on a system with an arm > > processor that is not the target one (a more "muscled" machine than is > > generally avai

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-27 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 08:46:08PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:52:02PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Then Mayuresh has to verify that his versions of the packages were > > not built "long" ago. Because this is an "old" version of Firefox > > that is been used, hence

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-27 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:30:43PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 04:54:20PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > If on the remote NetBSD pkg directory there is the "good" version for > > your system > > I don't think I have that. There is just local device and there is the >

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-27 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:37:29PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 04:54:20PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Just to be sure: on your RPI, the kernel is 9.1 but the userland is not > > 8.x? > > I didn't build it. It is the released image of 9.1 from netbsd.org. > > Is the

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-28 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 09:41:21AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 07:39:44PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > $ file /usr/bin/ld > > > > If the linker is for 9.1 it will tell so. > > /usr/bin/ld: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically lin

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-28 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 08:41:50AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:29:13PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Concerning the core dumps, there is another thing to look at: > > > _FORTIFY_SOURCE. There are checks about the use of strings functions > > > that can cause an a

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-30 Thread tlaronde
Here what I have found: 1) There is no .strtab pb neither with a cross-ld or with the native ld on earmv7hf using the test that was sufficient to exhibit the problem before the fix of Aug 2019; 2) When installing firefox32, retrieving the package and all its dependencies from NetBSD packages 9_0_

Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

2020-11-30 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:43:50PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:49:53PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > 1) There is no .strtab pb neither with a cross-ld or with the native ld > > on earmv7hf using the test that was sufficient to exhibit the problem > > before the fix

Re: xhci "device problem, disabling port 5"

2021-04-25 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 09:32:27PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > On my new computer I often have trouble with USB sticks (I haven't tried > other devices yet). Sometimes it works, more often it doesn't. > I encounter this too. Have you tried: # drvctl -r umass0 to see if the reattachment succ

Re: toupper and warnings

2021-05-06 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 12:52:36PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: >[...] > Well I don't actually do that. > > Which is to say my implementation's goal is to turn them into properly > promoted values and access the flags array in such a way that this does > not and cannot "cause" UB. My implementati

firefox on NetBSD: files again

2021-05-31 Thread tlaronde
This may help others. Since my previous firefox installation on NetBSD x86_64/9.1 was starting not to display correctly some sites, I upgraded. Since with the huge dependencies of firefox, I seem to be unable now to compile from pkgsrc on my node---there is always several packages that fail to co

Re: firefox on NetBSD: files again

2021-05-31 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:46:11PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2021 09:33:18 +0200 > tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > Once more it is a problem of number of files a proc can open. What was > > enough for a previous version is not enough anymore because firefox > > renders pages with

Re: firefox on NetBSD: files again

2021-05-31 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 05:05:22PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 03:39:53PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > With my kernel compiled with maxusers 16, ulimit -n could not pass 956. > > And it was set to this maximum and firefox crashed. > > What NetBSD version are y

Re: ImageMagick Strangeness

2021-06-19 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 08:22:55AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I found something strange: > > If I run display or display6 , or I type in the entire path, both > versions work. If I add these to my .mwmrc, they both fail. Why? > > Here is the offending line: > >"ImageMagick"f.exec "/

Re: where is device manufacturer/model kept?

2021-06-28 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:51:42AM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > 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? ed

Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:40:08AM -0700, Michael Cheponis wrote: > VLC on non-NetBSD machines sometimes operates this way (stuttering / > freezing) so much so that I now use AnyDVD on Windows, which seems to have > taken the VLC codebase and fixed lots of things. > FWIW, I'm not a multimedia fan

Re: using Xine to play music

2021-07-28 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:39:33PM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > Thanks you two. I will write this down. I just increased 'kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs' > -- > still does the same thing. > I too am running NETBSD-HEAD (upgraded 10d ago). I have: kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs = 519681 and have no problem. But I'm on th

Re: using Xine to play music

2021-07-28 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 09:25:21AM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I tried the command "xine cdda:/dev/cdrom" #cdrom is a symlink to cd0 > It is considered like an URL so one has to double the leading slash: xine cdda://dev/cdrom (I spent some time finding that too. It is nowhere in the doc). Tip:

Re: LTO support

2021-08-12 Thread tlaronde
Le Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:58:11AM -0400, Greg Troxel a écrit : >[...] > > > FWIW, Plan9 has/had a WORM filesystem: Write Once Read Many, where > > storage was made with deduplication of blocks, meaning one could > > have too history of files, only saving the differences. Furthermore, > > in such

Re: LTO support

2021-08-12 Thread tlaronde
Le Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:30:01AM -0400, Greg Troxel a écrit : > > Pouya Tafti writes: > > > 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 (

Re: Firefox (other GTK3 apps?) sends PDF to PostScript printer

2021-08-13 Thread tlaronde
Le Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:20:26AM -0500, John D. Baker a écrit : >[...] > > The print dialog only offers Print to PDF, but down at the bottom there > is "Print using the system print dialog..." which brought up the familiar > print dialog I was used to. > > The result of "Print to LPR", however,

Sendmail with relay (SMART_HOST), STARTTLS and AUTH

2021-10-05 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I'm trying to set-up a node with sendmail(8). In order to not be blocked, eventually, by some firewall rule on port 25, I'm relaying mail to a smart host, listening on port 587 for STARTTLS, and I need to authentify using LOGIN or PLAIN mechanisme. For relaying, forwarding to port 587 and

Re: Sendmail with relay (SMART_HOST), STARTTLS and AUTH

2021-10-05 Thread tlaronde
Le Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:27:27PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm trying to set-up a node with sendmail(8). > > In order to not be blocked, eventually, by some firewall rule on port > 25, I'm relaying mail to a smart host, listening on port 587 for > STARTTLS, and I need t

Re: Sendmail with relay (SMART_HOST), STARTTLS and AUTH

2021-10-05 Thread tlaronde
Le Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:12:18PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer a écrit : > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:27:27PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to set-up a node with sendmail(8). > > > > In order to not be blocked, eventually, by some firewall rule on port > > 25, I'm rela

Re: Sendmail with relay (SMART_HOST), STARTTLS and AUTH

2021-10-05 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Le Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 12:26:30PM -0400, Jason Mitchell a écrit : > On 10/5/21 12:12 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:27:27PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm trying to set-up a node with sendmail(8). > > > > > > In order to not be bl

Re: Configuring a FireFox build with pkgtools

2022-02-03 Thread tlaronde
Le Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Todd Gruhn a écrit : > I want the FFox windows on the NetBSD build to act like the windows > on MS Windoze build. > > If I kill a window that was spawned by an ad, or search -- it kills the > entire FFox session nad main window. Then I must restart FFox. >

GPT and UEFI booting

2022-04-05 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On my workstation are several disks. The first one is legacy MBR partitioned. A second one has been partioned using GPT. The BIOS allows legacy+UEFI for booting. I boot generally from the first disk, where NetBSD is installed and I want to test UEFI, using the second one. I have added, vi

Re: GPT and UEFI booting

2022-04-05 Thread tlaronde
Le Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 08:54:16AM +0200, tlaronde a écrit : > Hello, > > On my workstation are several disks. The first one is legacy MBR > partitioned. A second one has been partioned using GPT. > > The BIOS allows legacy+UEFI for booting. I boot generally from the first &g

Re: GPT and UEFI booting

2022-04-05 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Le Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 08:28:56AM +, RVP a écrit : > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > But there doesn't seem to be an option to unset the active flag on the > > PMBR---and using fdisk(8) is _not_ the answer (I have tried it), since > > if one uses it and rewrite t

Re: GPT and UEFI booting

2022-04-05 Thread tlaronde
Le Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:54:40PM +0200, Martin Husemann a écrit : > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:28:16PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > No. This affects only a GPT partition not the "whole" pseudo-partition > > put as a MBR first slot. One can set these flags without flagging the > > PMBR a

Re: GPT and UEFI booting

2022-04-05 Thread tlaronde
Hello Robert, Le Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:59:46PM +0700, Robert Elz a écrit : > Date:Tue, 5 Apr 2022 12:54:40 +0200 > From:Martin Husemann > Message-ID: <20220405105440.ga20...@mail.duskware.de> > > | This is meant for expert use firmware bugs workarounds, and there

Trying to install NeBSD on bare metal through a Linux distro

2022-05-20 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I'm testing the use of a bare metal dedicated server. The provider (in this case OVH) presents some pre-built OS images to install, but NetBSD isn't one of them (in my case, even the FreeBSD installations that exist on other offers aren't proposed). Following the instructions found on: h

Re: Trying to install NeBSD on bare metal through a Linux distro

2022-05-21 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Le Sat, May 21, 2022 at 12:36:44PM +0300, Pierre-Philipp Braun a écrit : > On 20/05/2022 19:01, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > I'm testing the use of a bare metal dedicated server. > > > > The provider (in this case OVH) presents some pre-built OS images to > > install, but NetBSD isn't o

Re: mlterm 3.9.2 Failed to open pty

2022-07-21 Thread tlaronde
Le Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:36:04AM +, RVP a écrit : > On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, Mayuresh wrote: > > > No. Only users. I do not su to root, I ssh. What are the best practices in > > this regard - regarding a routine user should be wheel or not? > > > > I do the opposite: login as regular user, the

A simple POSIX.1 utility to create a xlsx package

2022-08-16 Thread tlaronde
Context: I needed to allow users to visualize and explore a sequence of records (tables), so that they could use existing software to manipulate them. They are mainly professional users using MS Office software, and having, of course, also browsers. Hence I first wrote an utility processing a CSV

Xeon E3-1225 v2 Ivy bridge and MB DH67BL support

2022-08-17 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Context: Some weeks ago my ISP, without notice, switched my connexion to IPv6-CGNAT so I lost the ability to reach servers I manage, that were calling back to my IPv4 dynamic address. So, in emergency, I rent a baremetal server from OVH, to get an IPv4 back. I tried to install NetBSD, usin

Re: Xeon E3-1225 v2 Ivy bridge and MB DH67BL support

2022-08-17 Thread tlaronde
Le Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 12:10:20PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com a écrit : > Hello, > > Context: Some weeks ago my ISP, without notice, switched my connexion > to IPv6-CGNAT so I lost the ability to reach servers I manage, that were > calling back to my IPv4 dynamic address. So, in emergency, I rent

Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-18 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I'm trying to install a NetBSD on a remote rented baremetal server (OVH), but have not IPMI access (I can not see the boot process). At the moment, I have installed a Debian image provided by OVH, resized its partition and installed NetBSD as a dual boot on the same disk (there are 3, but

Re: Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-18 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Le Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 09:52:43AM +, RVP a écrit : > On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > In order to suppress one possible cause of the problem, I'd like to > > suppress support for the framebuffer (the kernel booted at the moment > > is the GENERIC amd64 one). > >

Re: Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-19 Thread tlaronde
Le Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 07:52:14PM +, RVP a écrit : > On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > But the NetBSD kernel does not even crash (since I use the "boot once" > > feature, > > > > 1. Can you post the dmesg from Linux? You will find it at: http://downloads.kergis.com/mi

Re: Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-19 Thread tlaronde
Le Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:22:48AM +, RVP a écrit : > [...] > > Why not just replace /sbin/init with a script which a) writes out the > dmesg to /var/tmp/ b) replaces self with /sbin/init and c) reboots. > > Then, you can mount the FFS partition in Debian and check the log file. > The probl

Re: Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-19 Thread tlaronde
Le Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:37:34AM +, RVP a écrit : > On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > Le Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 07:52:14PM +, RVP a écrit : > > > > > > 1. Can you post the dmesg from Linux? > > > > You will find it at: > > > > http://downloads.kergis.com/misc/rpt.dm

Re: [SUCCESS partial] Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-20 Thread tlaronde
Le Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 07:52:14PM +, RVP a écrit : > On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > But the NetBSD kernel does not even crash (since I use the "boot once" > > feature, > > > The 9.2 GENERIC kernel does not boot on the machine. I compiled a customized 9.3 kernel dis

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