Re: Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Alexander Hall
On 01/02/14 11:50, Alexey Suslikov wrote: Theo de Raadt cvs.openbsd.org> writes: This requires an upgrade of the bootblocks and at least /etc/rc (which saves an entropy file for future use). Some bootblocks will be able to use machine-dependent features to improve the entropy even further (fo

Re: Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
>Theo de Raadt cvs.openbsd.org> writes: > >> This requires an upgrade of the bootblocks and at least >> /etc/rc (which saves an entropy file for future use). Some >> bootblocks will be able to use machine-dependent features >> to improve the entropy even further (for instance using >> random inst

Re: some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 16:55, Marc Espie wrote: > Oh come on, that's a bug, and really poor style. > > You're going to call err() when there's no meaningful value in errno ? > That's really a bad example, if nothing else. ok, sure, make it errx. but next somebody is going to want to rewrite it

Re: some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:53AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 14:40, Marc Espie wrote: > > Revisiting the error messages: > > - pass the filenames to the low-level functions, so they can tell you > > what's going on. > > > > - FIX readall and writeall. The logic *is* wrong

Re: some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 14:40, Marc Espie wrote: > Revisiting the error messages: > - pass the filenames to the low-level functions, so they can tell you > what's going on. > > - FIX readall and writeall. The logic *is* wrong. Just because they > return something != len, doesn't mean they return -

MacbookAir5,1 screen goes blank during install of OpenBSD 5.4-release

2014-01-02 Thread Scott Bonds
While installing OpenBSD 5.4-release or OpenBSD 5.4-current on my MacbookAir5,1 my screen goes blank after a variable period of time, usually between 1 and 60 seconds. While the screen is blank, the installer is still responsive, i.e. if I was at the shell when the screen went blank and then I

some error fixes in signify

2014-01-02 Thread Marc Espie
Revisiting the error messages: - pass the filenames to the low-level functions, so they can tell you what's going on. - FIX readall and writeall. The logic *is* wrong. Just because they return something != len, doesn't mean they return -1. Okay ? Index: signify.c

Re: Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:50, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > I have a question. > > Having no interrupt (and such) entropy means less entropy. > > From other hand, there are lot of speculations about some > hardware entropy sources are suspected (proven?) bad (or > intentionally hijacked?). > > So qu

Randomization from the bootblocks

2014-01-02 Thread Alexey Suslikov
Theo de Raadt cvs.openbsd.org> writes: > This requires an upgrade of the bootblocks and at least > /etc/rc (which saves an entropy file for future use). Some > bootblocks will be able to use machine-dependent features > to improve the entropy even further (for instance using > random instruction

Re: Snapshot install54.iso does not boot under qemu/kvm

2014-01-02 Thread Darren Tucker
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > the 2013-12-31 snapshot iso images don't work for me under qemu 1.7.0 > / linux 3.12.6. They get this far and then reboot: I had the same problem too and it was just fixed by jsing@ in sys/arch/i386/stand/libsa/random_i386.S rev 1.3 (confirm

Snapshot install54.iso does not boot under qemu/kvm

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, the 2013-12-31 snapshot iso images don't work for me under qemu 1.7.0 / linux 3.12.6. They get this far and then reboot: loadrandom: cd0a:/etc/random.seed cannot open cd0a:/etc/random.seed loadrandom: error -1 booting cd0a:/5.4/i386/bsd.rd: 6038744+426300 [72+233616+222178]=0x699c6c entry p