threebsdBy 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.
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
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 .
Hello everyone. This blog is intended to deal with my experiences with BSD systems, in the hope they will help someone someday.
