In my Chromebook's Linux container's servers directory, each provider has its own subdirectory, inside of which each server has its own directory.
The individual server directories each have a file named login. The first line of each login file (output by head -n 1) is the IPv4 ssh login command and the last line of each login file (output by tail -n 1) is the IPv6 ssh login command.
As long as I am in the right directory, and using sh or bash, I almost always can log in by ssh to any server with the same two keystrokes: Ctrl+r (reverse search through previous commands) and then backtick (`).
As you know, the backticks tell sh and bash to run as a command the output of what is between the backticks.
Of course, as you know, ssh has it's own built-in shortcut procedure that can be set up in a configuration file.
The new pcc seems to bootstrap successfully on NetBSD-current. The Github pcc sources were compiled first using NetBSD's native gcc, and then compiled again using the gcc-built pcc as the compiler to get a pcc-compiled, bootstrapped pcc.
netbsd$ date
Sun Apr 5 16:33:42 UTC 2026
netbsd$ pwd
/home/tom/PortableCC-compiles-itself/bin
netbsd$ ls
hello.c p++ pcc pcpp
netbsd$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello from bootstrapped PCC!\n");
return 0;
}
netbsd$ ./pcc -o hello hello.c
netbsd$ ./hello
Hello from bootstrapped PCC!
netbsd$ ./pcc -v
Portable C Compiler 1.2.0.DEVEL 20231021 for x86_64-unknown-netbsd11.99
error: no input files
netbsd$
Thanks to Anders Magnusson, the recent main pcc developer! Thanks to Linveo for sponsoring my NetBSD-current VPS!
My sponsored Linveo VPS continues to compile NetBSD-current every few days. No issues, certainly no problems!
I like Linveo so much that I actually bought and continue to pay for two additional VPSes from them, one for FreeBSD-current and another for OpenBSD-current.
This thread's offer of a free share of this thread's sponsored NetBSD-current VPS remains open. Please check the OP for details!
Happy Sunday! Happy Fathers Day to fellow fathers!
For the last year, going on two now, NetBSD-current updates and recompiles, almost always flawlessly, sometimes while I am sleeping. The setup here is mostly generic and unmodified, just to track what's going on in the neighborhood, and to have the sources handy and available.
This brings back memories of running and rebuilding NetBSD-current -- was it thirty years ago?
When I shut down the VPS, usually it is because I want to make a backup. Usually what I do is shut down the VPS internally and then also run shutdown from the control panel. The idea being that the control panel shutdown possibly is less likely to mess up the backup or even harm the VPS file system internally if the VPS already is shutdown internally and in the control panel when the backup starts. Maybe there really is no danger, so that I am taking unnecessary steps.
I haven't generally been using the control panel restart button. Just Shutdown and Boot.
Yesterday, there was, for the first time, a control panel shutdown failure (as usual, following an internal NetBSD shutdown). This failure manifested as stuck at 73% completion in the control panel log for a long time, about an hour. I did start a backup, after allowing what usually would be enough time (30 sec) for the control panel shutdown to complete, but without checking the shutdown log. The backup seemed to complete, and I received the email confirming the backup as completed. Later, when I checked the control panel log again, the control panel log reported the shutdown as FAILED.
Throughout the hour while the control panel shutdown seemed stuck at 73%, there seemed no way to reset the control panel. I tried reloading the page and logging out and logging in.
I imagined that installing Qemu-guest-agent might facilitate the control panel shutdown.
I never before saw the "power button pressed" message in this exact context. When I saw that message I assumed it was from Qemu-guest-agent. I didn't think about ACPI. There doesn't seem to be a "power button pressed" message in /var/log/messages:
netbsd# cd /var/log
netbsd# grep pressed messages
netbsd#
I am guessing that ACPI messages might not be included in /var/log/messages.
Maybe I should test the Shutdown from the control panel next? Any additional ideas for me, please?
Thanks for your question! I really, really appreciate your kind help!
netbsd# date
Sun Jul 5 22:02:07 UTC 2026
netbsd# # Trying control panel Shutdown
netbsd#
*** FINAL System shutdown message from [email protected] ***
System going down IMMEDIATELY
power button pressed # Don't recall seeing this message before installing Qemu-guest-agent
Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed by remote host.
Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed.
chronos@penguin:~/2026/netbsd$
@cmeerw said: I don't have qemu-guest-agent installed and I also get "power button pressed" when restarting from the control panel. I think that's using ACPI.
I will post more details later this evening or tomorrow about whether the compile completes.
Remember that this is an Offer thread? Thanks again to Linveo for sponsoring this VPS! If anyone is interested in sharing this VPS for free and helping me learn about NetBSD, that would be great!
NetBSD pkgsrc's `pkg_rolling-replace" usually just works. Yesterday, however, there seemed to be a stubborn pkgsrc dependency error:
netbsd# pkg_rolling-replace -rsuv
===> Building binary package for perl-5.44.0nb1
=> Creating binary package /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/perl-5.44.0nb1.tgz
===> Replacing for perl-5.44.0nb1
===> Updating using binary package of perl-5.44.0nb1
/usr/bin/env /usr/sbin/pkg_add -K /usr/pkg/pkgdb -U -D /usr/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/wor
k/.packages/perl-5.44.0nb1.tgz
pkg_add: Can't open +CONTENTS of depending package p5-Net-Domain-TLD-1.75nb9
pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
*** Error code 1
Stop.
netbsd#
Here's why the dependency error was described above as "stubborn";
netbsd# date
Tue Aug 11 22:46:44 UTC 2026
netbsd# cd /usr/pkgsrc
netbsd# pkg_admin rebuild-tree
pkg_admin: Dependency p5-Net-Domain-TLD-[0-9]* of p5-Email-Valid-1.204nb3 unresolved
Done.
netbsd#
The dependency error eventually seemed to get fixed after some fun troubleshooting:
netbsd# date
Tue Aug 11 22:48:50 UTC 2026
netbsd# cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/p5-Net-Domain-TLD
netbsd# make install CLEANDEPENDS=yes
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20211023: found digest-20220214
===> Installing binary package of p5-Net-Domain-TLD-1.75nb10
netbsd# cd /usr/pkgsrc
netbsd# pkg_admin rebuild-tree
Done.
netbsd# cd /usr/pkgsrc/lang/perl5
pkg_add -K /usr/pkg/pkgdb -U work/.packages/perl-5.44.0nb1.tgz
netbsd# date
Tue Aug 11 22:54:35 UTC 2026
netbsd# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc/lang/perl5
netbsd# make clean
===> Cleaning for perl-5.44.0nb1
netbsd#
After perl had been installed and cleaned, pkg_rolling-replace finished successfully:
The clean finished, but I didn't post until now. Am I slower than a pkgsrc mega-clean?
netbsd# date
Wed Aug 12 01:00:28 UTC 2026
netbsd# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc
netbsd# time make clean CLEANDEPENDS=yes
[ . . . ]
===> Cleaning for zola-0.22.0
165193.93 real 114710.62 user 97052.25 sys
netbsd# echo $?
0
netbsd#
Now, following a backup and a clean and a few days relaxing, this LinveoNetBSD sweetie VPS is yet again updating and re-compiling.
On Sunday I saw a locale issue which hasn't happened previously:
netbsd# date
Sun Aug 23 17:11:42 UTC 2026
netbsd# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc
netbsd# /root/update-pkgsrc.sh
[ . . . ]
===> Checking for vulnerabilities in py313-sphinx-9.1.0
===> Overriding tools for py313-sphinx-9.1.0
===> Extracting for py313-sphinx-9.1.0
tar: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
*** Error code 1
Stop.
I kind of cheated:
netbsd# date
Sun Aug 23 17:24:37 UTC 2026
netbsd# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
netbsd# nohup time pkg_rolling-replace -rsuv
[ . . . ]
RR> Re-checking for unsafe installed packages (unsafe_depends_strict=YES)
RR> Packages to rebuild:
rr> MISMATCH_TODO=[]
rr> REBUILD_TODO=[]
rr> UNSAFE_TODO=[]
RR> No more packages to replace; done.
+ py313-qemu.qmp
+ py313-sphinx
+ py313-sphinx-rtd-theme
+ py313-sphinxcontrib-jquery
+ py313-urwid_readline
+ qemu-guest-agent
337.61 real 222.69 user 100.30 sys
I think these might be the excellent defaults from @cmeerw's excellent install image which Linveo kindly uses:
netbsd$ date
Wed Aug 26 00:50:12 UTC 2026
netbsd$ echo $LANG
netbsd$ locale
LANG=""
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=""
netbsd$
Maybe there still might be some advantages to the C locale, even now in the UTF-8 Era? Or maybe C.UTF-8?
Other the the above error, the August 23 rebuild went great! This VPS now yet again has newly updated and self-compiled NetBSD-current kernel, userland, and pkgsrc! This VPS has come in especially handy during the recent days when I have wanted to compare its default NetBSD builds with another not-quite-default NetBSD install.
Comments
Wow, that
got me confused for a bit. Had never thought you could use it in that context.
Hi @cmeerw!
In my Chromebook's Linux container's servers directory, each provider has its own subdirectory, inside of which each server has its own directory.
The individual server directories each have a file named login. The first line of each login file (output by head -n 1) is the IPv4 ssh login command and the last line of each login file (output by tail -n 1) is the IPv6 ssh login command.
As long as I am in the right directory, and using sh or bash, I almost always can log in by ssh to any server with the same two keystrokes: Ctrl+r (reverse search through previous commands) and then backtick (`).
As you know, the backticks tell sh and bash to run as a command the output of what is between the backticks.
Of course, as you know, ssh has it's own built-in shortcut procedure that can be set up in a configuration file.
Thanks!
Tom
Hopefully cmeerw's fix gets into NetBSD 11 so I could finally see a login prompt on my Linveo Intel VM
It is working amazingly on FreeBSD though and the uptime has been impeccable.
There seems to be a new version of the venerable pcc compiler available on Github at https://github.com/PortableCC.
The new pcc seems to bootstrap successfully on NetBSD-current. The Github pcc sources were compiled first using NetBSD's native gcc, and then compiled again using the gcc-built pcc as the compiler to get a pcc-compiled, bootstrapped pcc.
Thanks to Anders Magnusson, the recent main pcc developer!
Thanks to Linveo for sponsoring my NetBSD-current VPS! 
My sponsored Linveo VPS continues to compile NetBSD-current every few days. No issues, certainly no problems!
I like Linveo so much that I actually bought and continue to pay for two additional VPSes from them, one for FreeBSD-current and another for OpenBSD-current.
This thread's offer of a free share of this thread's sponsored NetBSD-current VPS remains open. Please check the OP for details!
Looks like my sponsored Linveo NetBSD-current VPS has the wapbl(4) journal that @cmeerw mentioned in the BSD thread:
It's been longer than usual since I updated and recompiled.
A little more up to date now. . . .
Happy Sunday! Happy Fathers Day to fellow fathers!
For the last year, going on two now, NetBSD-current updates and recompiles, almost always flawlessly, sometimes while I am sleeping. The setup here is mostly generic and unmodified, just to track what's going on in the neighborhood, and to have the sources handy and available.
This brings back memories of running and rebuilding NetBSD-current -- was it thirty years ago?
Thanks to Linveo for sponsoring the build VPS.
If someone wants to share this fine, free VPS . . . teach me something . . . please ask.
July 4 edition, everything renewed! Thanks to @linveo!
Free share of this fine, fast, Ryzen VPS is still available!
Best wishes!
Qemu-guest-agent installed! Can now reboot from the web Control Panel! Thanks @linveo!
Couldn't you do that before already without qemu-guest-agent?
I don't have qemu-guest-agent installed and I also get "power button pressed" when restarting from the control panel. I think that's using ACPI.
@cmeerw
When I shut down the VPS, usually it is because I want to make a backup. Usually what I do is shut down the VPS internally and then also run shutdown from the control panel. The idea being that the control panel shutdown possibly is less likely to mess up the backup or even harm the VPS file system internally if the VPS already is shutdown internally and in the control panel when the backup starts. Maybe there really is no danger, so that I am taking unnecessary steps.
I haven't generally been using the control panel restart button. Just Shutdown and Boot.
Yesterday, there was, for the first time, a control panel shutdown failure (as usual, following an internal NetBSD shutdown). This failure manifested as stuck at 73% completion in the control panel log for a long time, about an hour. I did start a backup, after allowing what usually would be enough time (30 sec) for the control panel shutdown to complete, but without checking the shutdown log. The backup seemed to complete, and I received the email confirming the backup as completed. Later, when I checked the control panel log again, the control panel log reported the shutdown as FAILED.
Throughout the hour while the control panel shutdown seemed stuck at 73%, there seemed no way to reset the control panel. I tried reloading the page and logging out and logging in.
I imagined that installing Qemu-guest-agent might facilitate the control panel shutdown.
I never before saw the "power button pressed" message in this exact context. When I saw that message I assumed it was from Qemu-guest-agent. I didn't think about ACPI. There doesn't seem to be a "power button pressed" message in /var/log/messages:
I am guessing that ACPI messages might not be included in /var/log/messages.
Maybe I should test the Shutdown from the control panel next? Any additional ideas for me, please?
Thanks for your question! I really, really appreciate your kind help!
From control panel log:
Task Requested Duration Progress
Shutdown Sunday, July 5, 2026 3:02 PM 17 sec 100% Complete
Worked okay to Boot from control panel:
As usual it seems like @cmeerw is right!
The single log entry below seems consistent with the use of ACPI when I pushed the Restart button on the Control Panel.
Qemu-guest-agent doesn't seem to be doing much. Tagging @linveo in case he might be interested.
Since NetBSD 11 is out I decided to recompile my NetBSD Ryzen VPS at Linveo.
Today is August 3, longer than usual since the last compile:
The VPS is cooking quite well, as expected:
I will post more details later this evening or tomorrow about whether the compile completes.
Remember that this is an Offer thread? Thanks again to Linveo for sponsoring this VPS!
If anyone is interested in sharing this VPS for free and helping me learn about NetBSD, that would be great! 
Okay, compile of userland and kernel finished successfully! Yaaay! Thanks NetBSD!
New kernel and userland installed! Up to date again!
Thanks @linveo!
Nice VPS available to share for someone who wants to teach me more about NetBSD. 
NetBSD pkgsrc's `pkg_rolling-replace" usually just works. Yesterday, however, there seemed to be a stubborn pkgsrc dependency error:
Here's why the dependency error was described above as "stubborn";
The dependency error eventually seemed to get fixed after some fun troubleshooting:
After perl had been installed and cleaned, pkg_rolling-replace finished successfully:
Shutdown, backup, and reboot:
I decided to run
make cleaninside/usr/pkgsrc:Apparently there are about 22,000 packages? The clean inside /use/pkgsrc started yesterday and seems still running today:
As of just now, the clean is still running!
The clean finished, but I didn't post until now. Am I slower than a pkgsrc mega-clean?
Now, following a backup and a clean and a few days relaxing, this Linveo NetBSD sweetie VPS is yet again updating and re-compiling.
From the OP:
Thanks @linveo for sponsoring this excellent VPS!
On Sunday I saw a locale issue which hasn't happened previously:
I kind of cheated:
I think these might be the excellent defaults from @cmeerw's excellent install image which Linveo kindly uses:
Maybe there still might be some advantages to the C locale, even now in the UTF-8 Era? Or maybe C.UTF-8?
Other the the above error, the August 23 rebuild went great! This VPS now yet again has newly updated and self-compiled NetBSD-current kernel, userland, and pkgsrc! This VPS has come in especially handy during the recent days when I have wanted to compare its default NetBSD builds with another not-quite-default NetBSD install.
This free offer remains open!
Thanks Linveo! <3 Thanks @cmeerw! Thanks everyone! 