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Color console in OpenBSD and NetBSD

threebsd — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:24:53 +0000

FreeBSD by default sets the TERM variable as cons25, and you have colors. In NetBSD and OpenBSD, the TERM settings are vt100 and vt220, respectively. Just ‘export TERM=wsvt25′ and make it permanent by adding a line to your .profile .

Installing OpenBSD-current with an older version CD

threebsd — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:17:29 +0000

MY setup first: my good ole trusty Thinkpad T22, a 4.9-release install CD and the need for -current. I booted from the CD, chose HTTP as the install source and changed the location on the server from something like OpenBSD/4.9/i386 to OpenBSD/snapshots/i386. The installer will initially find only the kernel and the ramdisk: install them, ignore the errors, be patient and reboot from the HDD when the installer is done. From the boot prompt, type “boot bsd.rd”, choose Install and install from HTTP, again using OpenBSD/snapshots/i386. Note that this location may differ on certain mirrors. That’s it!

mouse issues on NetBSD-current

threebsd — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:03:38 +0000

If you can’t use your mouse in (modular) Xorg on NetBSD-current, do, as root

/etc/rc.d/wsmoused onestop
vi /etc/rc.conf #comment the wsmoused line if you have one

and start X again.

Happy New Year!

threebsd — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:06:00 +0000

…and best wishes. Take care of each other.

“shared object libcrypto.so.4 not found” with pkg_chk on NetBSD current

threebsd — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:17:31 +0000

If you get this error with a recently updated NetBSD current, just create a symlink from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.7 to /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4 . Possibly other packages are affected by this as well.

Howto: build your NetBSD system from source

threebsd — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:48:25 +0000

It seemed to me that the NetBSD’s documentation in the guide, although good, lacks the clarity of Open or FreeBSD’s documentation on the matter. So I wanted to share with you how I compile my system (-current, but this is mostly irrelevant). I will presume that you have already checked the sources, so now you can start.

# mkdir /usr/obj
/* after the first time, remember to do a 'rm -rf /usr/obj/*' */
# cd /usr/src
# ./build.sh tools
(add -U if this is an upgrade and -x if you want X as well;
 this applies to every command involving build.sh - skip the -x
in kernel-related issues)
# ./build.sh kernel=MYCONFIG (after this, if you need modules
built as well, see [1])
# mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
# cp sys/arch/YOUR_ARCH/compile/obj/MYCONFIG/netbsd /
# reboot
# cd /usr/src
# ./build.sh distribution
# ./build.sh install=/
# etcupdate
# cd /usr/tests
# atf-run | atf-report

[1] Build modules:
# ./build.sh modules
Install'em:
# cd sys/modules
# make install USETOOLS=no DESTDIR=/

That’s it, and it works for me. Hope it helps.

bwi(4) – related kernel panic in FreeBSD RELENG_9 ?

threebsd — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:44:33 +0000

By default bwi and bwn drivers are commented in GENERIC. If uncommented, the resulting kernel panics and thus doesn’t boot.

If, like me, you made the mistake of purchasing a laptop with a Broadcom 431x wi-fi card, can you confirm this?

PS: F*** Broadcom.

:)

threebsd — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:54:33 +0000

Error: Libraries in packing-lists in the ports tree and libraries from installed packages don’t match.

threebsd — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:32:49 +0000

I got this error while trying to compile mplayer on OpenBSD current. The solution is to use

make PKG_CREATE_NO_CHECKS=Yes install clean-depends

NetBSD and huge IMAP mailboxes

threebsd — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:36:23 +0000

I installed NetBSD 5.1, upgraded to STABLE and started installing necessary software. Among this, the Alpine mail client. Everything works good, as one can expect from NetBSD, but Alpine segfaults when trying to open the huge mailbox (~156000 e-mails). I asked on netbsd-users@ for help, and as expected, help came shortly. It was a system limit, just as I suspected. Since NetBSD is focused on portability, its stack size is set to 2048, which was a little small for Alpine. Doing

$ ulimit -s 4096

solved my issue. Hope it helps you.
[EDIT] On OpenBSD-current the default stack size is 4096, but Alpine dies with an “out of memory”
exception. Increasing the stack size to 8192 as it is on my Debian system, on which alpine works
just fine, didn’t solve my problem. Will keep you posted.
[LATER EDIT] It’s only PEBKAC, folks. Don’t be lazy like me and create a configuration
from scratch and all will be fine without you having to raise the stack size more than 4096.
I was inspired from here: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~csadmin/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_Pine_%28Alpine%29_for_IMAP_Gmail .