Dear all;

I did attempt to get NetBSD running with Gentoo on a spare Alpha I had
lying around a couple of years ago.  I have since then moved to where
there's 120V in the wall sockets, and the cheap PSU I used to house the
board cannot deal with it.  I still haven't found the time to buy a new
power supply, and hence the alpha is currently serving as a door stop.


On 08/14/09 06:58, Alexis Ballier wrote:

> On 08/13/09 19:56, Patrice Clement wrote:
>
>> I'm currently facing PAM problems. I remember Johan Hattne sending
>> me an email about PAM patches especially for NetBSD. Johan, if you
>> read me, your help would be much appreciated !
>
> Just in case, you're using sys-auth/openpam, right?

I seem to recall the NetBSD people introduced new functionality into
OpenPAM without which NetBSD won't work.  I've haven't been following
NetBSD or OpenPAM very closely since I gave up on my alpha, so I'm not
sure how much help my old patch would be.  But you can make your own!
Just make a diff between the sources of sys-auth/openpam and
corresponding sources in the NetBSD tree.


On 08/14/09 06:58, Alexis Ballier wrote:

> On 08/13/09 19:56, Patrice Clement wrote:
>
>> Another problem I face is Kerberos libraries compilation. It fails to
>> compile with this error:
>> http://pastebin.org/8892
>
> Sounds like openssl related; what provides /usr/include/openssl/evp.h

I vaguely recall having problems here as well.  As Alexis points out, I
think it turned out to be related to OpenSSL.  It may be worth checking
_very_ carefully that your openssl build went fine.  As I remember it,
it all seemed to compile OK, but due to something being misdetected or
something in one of those early perl scripts a lot of it was actually
garbage.

If you really want, I'll try to get the alpha running again.  Maybe you
could help me get it to boot to multiuser?  I never did figure out how
to get the rc system and baselayout and whatnot to agree with NetBSD (I
particularly remember that there was no fuser on NetBSD and porting it
from FreeBSD was not trivial).

// Cheers; Johan