[9fans] Venti on OpenBSD: vtversion: bad format in version string

[Grant Mather <hcaulfield57@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone,

I am new to the list and to Plan 9. I have been trying to set up an
OpenBSD venti server for a few days now, but to no success. My
intention was to use it as the default venti server for my Plan 9
machine.

I partitioned the disk using fdisk to create one large OpenBSD
partition, and then created two paritions with disklabel, one for arenas
and one for isect. I followed the wiki page for setting up venti, and
have been able to get it working on Plan 9 and other OSes, but not
OpenBSD.

Using plan9port-20120508 that is provided with OpenBSD seems to have
venti working properly on the system, but it does not work across the
network, when trying to connect with vac/unvac to the server with a
different OS, I invariably get "vtversion: bad format in version
string".

Using the most up to date plan9port-20140107, I get the same vtversion
string when connecting from other OSes, and venti doesn't seem to even
work on the server, I in turn get "vac: could not connect to server:
Connection refused".

Any help would be much appreciated it, I don't know what's going on.

grm