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Jeremy C. Reed | 26 May 19:51

seeking NetBSD branded icons and artwork

(I originally sent an email like this over a week ago to netbsd-advocacy 
list. This email is slightly different.)

Do we have any branded NetBSD icons called gnome-main-menu.svg, 
novell-button.svg, start-here.svg, and distributor-logo.svg?

Anyone interested in providing these?

See the gnome-icon-theme, oxygen-icons, or tango-icon-theme (or upcoming 
elementary-icon-theme) packages for examples.  They may be the same 
image (symlink) or different images for each.

The sizes are:
22x22
24x24
48x48
64x64
128x128

But these would be fine also:
16x16
32x32
256x256
scalable

These svg (and png) files could be put into a package called 
netbsd-icon-theme. It already exists at pkgsrc-wip.

I am also looking for NetBSD wallpaper and other artwork like:
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Fredrik Pettai | 25 May 14:13
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Is there a BSD version of tracepath?

Hi,

I was looking for a tool for discovering the MTU on a routed path (with several hops), and "tracepath" seems
to be the right tool for that. However, tracepath is part of (Linux) iputils which seem to be just Linux
centric. 

Is someone aware of and similar tool for *BSD systems?

Re,
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Roger Pau Monné | 24 May 16:56
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Booting a NetBSD installer from pxelinux

Hello,

I've been trying to boot a netbsd INSTALL kernel from pxelinux, but so
far I haven't got much success. I've tried with 6.0BETA amd64 INSTALL
kernels and it seems to be compiled without MULTIBOOT options, which
makes them useless with pxelinux. I've tried adding "options
MULTIBOOT" to the sys/arch/amd64/conf/INSTALL conf file, but the
resulting kernel is still not booting with pxelinux. I'm using the
following pxelinux configuration:

label netbsd6-install
        kernel mboot.c32
        append rogerpau/netbsd-INSTALL

Which gives "Fatal: not a multiboot kernel." error when using amd64
versions, but with i386 I've got a little bit more success, I'm able
to boot the install kernel, that seems to come with multiboot
activated by default on config file, but since I'm on a serial console
I'm not able to see any output, and the machine reboots shortly after
booting the kernel, to get serial console output I've tried passing
"consdev com1", but I'm not really sure this is the correct syntax to
use with pxelinux.

label netbsd6-install
        kernel mboot.c32
        append rogerpau/netbsd-INSTALL consdev com1

Does someone know how to set the console output for NetBSD kernels
from pxelinux, and why amd64 kernels seem to be not multiboot valid
(at least for mboot.c32/pxelinux).
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Greg Troxel | 23 May 14:44
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GPT and raid seems ok, missing disks awkward


I ended up figuring out my issues, but I'm thinking this note may be
useful to others.

summary:
  Does raidframe on dkN via gpt work? (yes, it seems to)
  Does the "absent" keyword in raidctl still work? (yes, but with -C)

My system is up-to-date netbsd-5/i386.

I just got two 2T SATA drives, intending to migrate a system from 2 *
400G RAID-1 to a RAID-1 pair with the new drives.  (Not relevant, I
think: I got one Seagate and one Hitachi drive, both 7200 rpm, to reduce
the chance of correlated failures.)

I put the Seagate drive in an Aluratek docking enclosure, and it shows
up as sd4 and seems to work.

I used gpt create, gpt add, gpt label, and addwedge, and can access dk0.
It looks fine (yes, I started at 64 not 34 due to 4K sectors which I
probably have):

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34          30         
          64  3907029071      1  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
  3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
  3907029167           1         Sec GPT header
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Ji YongGang | 23 May 07:16
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How to install the i386 boot when upgrading from 5.1 to 6.0?

Hi all,

Recently I want to upgrade my thinkpad x60 from netbsd/i386 5.1 to 6.0
branch, so I cvs update the /usr/src

$ cvs up -dP -r netbsd-6

and following the instruction:

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-updating.html#updating-summary

After I build and replace the GENERIC kernel with new one, the
reboot step cannot succeeded.

The screen only display the first line message and reboot immediately.

I knew the new netbsd-6 kernel using modules under i386, so I try the
MONOLITHIC kernel, but it failed boot, too.

Then I copy the fresh 6.0 destdir.i386/usr/mdec/boot to /boot,
destdir.i36/stand/i386/6.0 to /stand/i386. Boot the system, this time
the screen show more one line:

Loading /stand/i386/6.0/modules/ffs/ffs.kmod

and reboot again.

Add -vx boot options, no verbose and debug messages appeared.

I also try the same upgrading procedure on another PC box, it has
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John D. Baker | 20 May 23:59

5.1_STABLE/i386 panic after recent pull-ups

Following the recent pull-ups to the netbsd-5 branch, I updated my tree
and rebuilt.  Since then, I've experienced panics logged on reboot as:

May 20 16:43:05 slate savecore: reboot after panic: panic: rename: EXDEV
May 20 16:43:05 slate savecore: writing compressed core to /var/crash/netbsd.2.c
ore.gz
May 20 16:43:23 slate savecore: writing compressed kernel to /var/crash/netbsd.2
.gz
May 20 16:43:23 slate savecore: (null): Bad address

The resulting compressed kernel file is only 10 bytes.  Attempting to
run 'gdb' on the core file with "/netbsd" as the kernel causes 'gdb' to
declare the core file to be an unrecognized format, not core file.

The machine:

NetBSD slate.technoskunk.fur 5.1_STABLE NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (SLATE) #38: Sun May 20 13:15:13 CDT 2012 
sysop <at> slate.technoskunk.fur:/d0/build/netbsd-5/obj/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/SLATE i386

Thinkpad T42 1.7GHz, 2GB.

Running at the time were 4 ksh instances each inside xll/rxvt-unicode,
one was running an ssh session to anther host, along with www/firefox,
all built from pkgsrc-2012Q1.

At the moment the panic occurred, x11/openmotif was being extracted in
the process of eventually building/installing print/xpdf.

I'll set ddb.onpanic=1 to see if I can get more data.  As it was, the
machine just froze for a few seconds and then rebooted.
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James K. Lowden | 20 May 23:28
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sbc better than soekris?

I could use some advice on replacing/fixing my router.  

I have a Soekris 4801 with an aging 2.5" 30 GB ATA drive that is
starting to worry me:

$ grep geode /var/log/messages
May 20 15:07:17 cherry /netbsd: geodeide0:0:0: lost interrupt
May 20 15:07:17 cherry /netbsd: geodeide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error:
missing interrupt, status=0x1

These errors send the OS into a tailspin.  The machine stops responding
even though das blinkenlights show the disk hard on.  Is there any
reason to think the above messages might be caused by anything other
than a disk headed south for the summer?  

The 4801 was the cat's meow in 2004, but it's getting old.  Is it
fair to expect another 5 years from the electronics, or is it time to
replace it?  If so, with what?  A friend mentioned a $99 tiny box, but
for the life of me I don't remember its name.  Nor his.  :-(  

Replacing a drive is an option, but only if it's a good one.  Afaict ATA
drives with a 5-year warranty don't exist anymore, whether spinning or
solid-state.  If I don't care about shock and vibration, is there any
reason to believe SSDs last longer than rotating media?  

Many thanks for the benefit of your experience.  

--jkl
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Mayuresh | 20 May 17:34
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Can't mount iso image on virtual node

I want to examine the contents of an iso I created for burning by mounting
the iso image.

I followed instructions from:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rmmedia.html#vnconfig

# vnconfig  -c vnd0 newsession.iso 

When mounting, I get invalid argument error:

# mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt/tmp
mount_cd9660: /dev/vnd0a on /mnt/tmp: Invalid argument

OS: NetBSD 6.0 BETA, GENERIC kernel

# disklabel /dev/vnd0a 
# /dev/vnd0a:
type: vnd
disk: iso partition
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 32
tracks/cylinder: 64
sectors/cylinder: 2048
cylinders: 55
total sectors: 114624
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
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Max León | 20 May 03:39

amd to mount external hard drive

Hello everyone,

I'm running NetBSD 5.1 at home as my core system.
I have a couple of external drives that currently are mounted on boot with
an fstab entry, which works well, but the other day the power went off for
quite a while and the UPS didn't last that long.

On boot, one of these drives needed to be checked by hand and I got cut off
from the server until I got back.
Now, if I use amd, then the machine will mount the external drives if they
are available and have no problems (I believe).
So I'll like to give it a try, but I have a minor problem...  Is not
working for me and I found the documentation a bit confusing.

Please comment on the following:

amd.conf
------ snipet ---------
[ /media ]
map_type = file
map_name = /etc/amd.media
------ end snipet ----

amd.media
-------- file starts -----------
/defaults    type=ffs;opts=rw,log,noatime

disk1         dev:/dev/sd1e
---------- end of file ---------
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Emmanuel Dreyfus | 19 May 17:10
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glusterfs on NetBSD status

Hello everybody

glusterfs on NetBSD is getting really usable on 6.0_BETA. As a stress test, I
ran a build.sh -Uo release on sources stored on a replicated and stripped
glusterfs volume (2 replicating severs each aggregating 2 disks). As you can see
below, the build took 74 hours to complete, which is not exciting, but it
completed without a hassle, and with one of the servers rebooting during the
operation.

For anyone willing to test, glusterfs is in pkgsrc. A client doesnot need any
special treatment. Running a glusterfs server requires a custom kernel with
extended attributes enabled (and it needs kernel sources from netbsd-6 as of
today, as the last pullups have just been processed)

make release started at:  Sun May 13 14:12:36 CEST 2012
make release finished at: Wed May 16 17:35:14 CEST 2012
===> Successful make release
===> build.sh ended:   Wed May 16 17:35:14 CEST 2012
===> Summary of results:
         build.sh command: ./build.sh -Uo release
         build.sh started: Sun May 13 14:12:17 CEST 2012
         NetBSD version:   5.1
         MACHINE:          i386
         MACHINE_ARCH:     i386
         Build platform:   NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386
         HOST_SH:          /bin/sh
         TOOLDIR path:
/gfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/obj/tooldir.NetBSD-6.0_BETA-i386
         DESTDIR path:     /gfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/obj/destdir.i386
         RELEASEDIR path:  /gfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/obj/releasedir
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