Thanks much for reporting these problems and suggestions. Please file bugs for these. With the coreadm piece I realize what the problem is and will fix it asap. The spkg utility is written almost entirely in Python with a couple of shared library crypto modules for the ECC certificates and signatures.
The vlc issue seems more likely a Qt problem. The mplayer dvd thing requires a patch. Mplayer assumes old Solaris stuff via the volume manager (vold) whereas current OpenSolaris is more Linux-like with HAL and all. Vold is gone. So the Solaris support that assumes vold needs to change. Do you have the SUNWggrp package installed ? It installs /usr/gnu/bin/grep which is GNU grep and supports -q. Default PATH includes /usr/gnu/bin in the beginning. However if netbeans startup is resetting the PATH then that won't work. Point is why does Netbeans startup assume GNU grep ? Since Netbeans supports the Solaris platform maybe some platform check is doing the wrong thing on BeleniX. KDM background needs to be scaled, need to check the settings. You can try doing the following things: * First set a password for root if not already set. This is needed for kdesu to work. * Now in a terminal window su to root copy .fonts.conf from the desktop user's dir to /root: cp /export/home/<user>/.fonts.conf /root * Now you can go to System Settings -> Advanced -> Login Manager and configure KDM. The user specific filesystem should be done. It needs a small change in the install_belenix script. Since you have experience with Arch Linux I'd like to ask you a question. How do you compare Arch packaging and pacman vs RPM and YUM/Smart ? This is interesting to note for us since we are going to move away from the old and clunky SVR4 packaging to a modern piece (NOT IPS). We are looking at RPM, Deb others. There are pros and cons and we are trying to get all points on the table before we make a selection. On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nicolas Oury <nicolas.oury at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am new to Belenix and let me firs say that I am really impressed. > Coming from Arch Linux, I am very happy with the very fast spkg command line. > > Anyway I had a few problems with the beat and before reporting as > bugs, I wanted to check wether they were known or not. > > - vlc does not work. > vlc installs and starts, but when opening the menu to play a file, it > exits with: > > ?QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv > failed: No such file or directory > : Fatal IO error: client killed > > When using cvlc from command line to open a dvd (cvlc dvd://), the > following error occurs: > [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C" > [00000368] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module... > [00000378] dvdread demux error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/dsk/c8t1d0s2 > [00000380] main access error: no access module matched "dvd" > [00000377] main input error: open of `dvd://' failed: could not create > access: no access module matched "dvd" > ^C[00000366] signals interface error: Caught Interrupt signal, exiting... > > - mplayer installs fine and seems to work. But when opening a dvd: > > Playing dvd://1. > libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access > libdvdread: Can't stat /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 > No such file or directory > libdvdread: Could not open /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 > Couldn't open DVD device: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 (No such file or directory) > > (A bit the same problem, cannot find the proper dvd device) > > I don't know if it helps but I have a Serial ATA dvd drive. > > - netbeans group does not install anything. > ?Once installed netbeans base do nos start. > There is a first exception because it cannot find the local machine. > (Solved by putting it in /etc/hosts. Maybe the installer should do it.) > > Even after having solved the first step it does not like -q option to > grep and exits silently after a while. > > - KDM background is not large enough for my 1920*1080 screen. A bit of a > random > graphic card memory content shows on both side. > > - coreadm can not be started because the file/method does not exists > in the directory, but the service is still active and the service > manager complains about that. > > - HAL seems very slow to start and prevent KDM from starting. ?I had > the same problem in OSOL, so maybe there is not much to do about it. > It is even reported by ?'svcs -xv' between the login prompt and KDM > starting. > > - Last defect I found, the use account is put in a directory and not a > new ZFS file system, as OSOL does. > I maybe totally wrong, but I'd rather have a filesystem to ease > individual snapshots and settings. > > Thank again for the great work on this great OS, > Please tell me if I can help to diagnose/solve any of this, or any other > thing. > > Best regards, > > Nicolas. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
