From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) From: Bakul Shah In-Reply-To: <20140113235913.GA53894@Grants-MacBook.local> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:48:59 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <20140113235913.GA53894@Grants-MacBook.local> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti on OpenBSD: vtversion: bad format in version string Topicbox-Message-UUID: b38cbb28-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 13, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Grant Mather wrote: > 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. One suggestion is to use normal files for venti and see if that works. > 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". Have you tried diffing the two versions? Might tell you something. I use p9p venti on FreeBSD for my plan9 installs with no trouble so far. One more suggestion is to look at the data on the wire and compare with a working venti. > > Any help would be much appreciated it, I don't know what's going on. > > grm >