Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel hardware
The "Mitigations" section (3) of this Intel whitepaper is pretty informative: https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/Intel-\ Analysis-of-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channels.pdf Regards, Marion > From: Alan Coopersmith > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 13:42:17 -0800 > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel hardware > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana , > "Tim Mooney" > > On 01/ 4/18 01:32 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: > > Intel's "Newsroom" response page is pretty terrible, in that regard. > > > > > > https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/ > > Intel posted statements with a little more detail after the embargo broke: > > https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00088&languageid=en-fr > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/facts-about-side-channel-analysis-and-intel-products.html > > -alan- > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell r730xd + SATA
We worked around this issue in the R730xd by putting the SATA SSDs in the rear drive cage, and then the 2.5" SAS HDDs in the front 24 slots. Of course, this only works if two SATA SSDs is enough (we use them for log/cache only). BTW, SAS SSDs are super expensive, at least for this non-profit org. Regards, Marion > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > From: jason matthews > Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:30:05 -0700 > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell r730xd + SATA > > Nikola, > > I should add that when I can get a couple of dozen NVMe SSDs in a single > chassis I will be more than happy to stop pushing the envelope on > SAS/SATA storage. There are so few SSD SAS drives, none of which are > available from distribution at this point in time, that creative > solutions have to be found and that some times flies in the face of > conventional wisdom. > > Thanks for trying to help. Sorry if I was short. > > j. > > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade
ken mays via openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org said: > David, Get an external USB 2.0 4TB drive for under $130.Use it to offload > internal storage.Easy, portable, cheap. ~ Ken Has anyone out there actually got a drive > 2TB working via USB on an illumos distribution? My attempts so far have failed (oi151a7, oi151a9, and XStreamOS), with my 3TB drive in a USB-SATA enclosure appearing as a 2TB drive. The same drive/enclosure works perfectly when attached to MacOS-X via USB, and the same drive/enclosure works fine when attached by its eSATA connection to my illumos-based systems. https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.illumos.org.email.enqueue.archive.li stbox.com/msg00499.html Regards, Marion ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?
Thanks for the feedback.
I do have an oi151a9 machine at home, 32-bit. And FF 31.2.0esr does seem
to work OK on there, without the failures at downloading files. This is
true for the pkgadd version, by the way (same file I installed on my oi151a7
system with the problem).
I've attempted your flash trick on my oi151a9 system, but it doesn't
work for me. The flash plugin continues crashing even after first
visiting the .../flash/about page. Plugin version 11.2.202.223.
Thanks and regards,
Marion
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?
From: "Udo Grabowski (IMK)"
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:45:37 +0200
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana ,
"solaris...@yahoogroups.com"
There's no problem with firefox or thunderbird_31.2.0 on oi_151a9
(this mail is written on TB 31.2.0 downloaded with FF 31.2.0...).
As usual, it seems to be a problem of the pkg version. Install
the tarball in /usr/local/ and point /usr/bin/{firefox,thunderbird}
to that binary. Never install something onto an existing package
directory. This problem reappears every couple of weeks here.
On 15/10/2014 06:30, Nikola M. wrote:
> Flash could be used if first you go to:
> http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and then flash would
> temporarily work in a browser.
There's an additional trick to make this permanent:
After going to that page, right click on the page's tab
and "pin" it, then leave firefox. After restart, the tab
permanently stays there, and you never have to go to that
page again manually (only after a real flash crash, which
is much more seldom than with previous flash versions).
Be sure to have the last flash version for Osol, that is
11_2_202_223 .
On 15/10/2014 04:06, Marion Hakanson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Today I installed the 31.2.0esr release of firefox, obtained here:
>
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/31.2.0esr/contrib/solar
> is_pkgadd/firefox-31.2.0esr.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2
>
> The system in question is running OpenIndiana oi151a7 (because it can
> still play flash videos), 64-bit.
>
> This version of firefox does not allow me to save downloaded files. The
> symptoms are that every download, or "Save As" action returns immediately,
> and the Download window just shows "Failed" for the item.
>
> I found via "truss" of the firefox process that it's logging some error
> messages in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/downloads.json file:
>
> UnixFile.read is not a function
>
> When I start firefox in safe mode from the command line, the failed
> download attempts log more details:
>
> *
> A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task.
>
> Full message: TypeError: UnixFile.read is not a function
> Full stack:
> EXCEPTION_CONSTRUCTORS.TypeError@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfi
> le_async_front.jsm:87:5
> post/<@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_front.jsm:453:11
> TaskImpl_run@resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:283:1
> Handler.prototype.process@resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm ->
> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:866:9
> this.PromiseWalker.walkerLoop@resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm ->
> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:742:7
>
> *
>
>
> I've reverted to the firefox-31.1.0esr build, and downloads are
> working fine with that version.
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?
Greetings, Today I installed the 31.2.0esr release of firefox, obtained here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/31.2.0esr/contrib/solar is_pkgadd/firefox-31.2.0esr.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2 The system in question is running OpenIndiana oi151a7 (because it can still play flash videos), 64-bit. This version of firefox does not allow me to save downloaded files. The symptoms are that every download, or "Save As" action returns immediately, and the Download window just shows "Failed" for the item. I found via "truss" of the firefox process that it's logging some error messages in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/downloads.json file: UnixFile.read is not a function When I start firefox in safe mode from the command line, the failed download attempts log more details: * A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task. Full message: TypeError: UnixFile.read is not a function Full stack: EXCEPTION_CONSTRUCTORS.TypeError@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfi le_async_front.jsm:87:5 post/<@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_front.jsm:453:11 TaskImpl_run@resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:283:1 Handler.prototype.process@resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm -> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:866:9 this.PromiseWalker.walkerLoop@resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm -> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:742:7 * I've reverted to the firefox-31.1.0esr build, and downloads are working fine with that version. Regards, Marion ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tools for hardware discovery and reporting
Hi Harry, I like "prtconf -Dv" myself. But you can also find useful info in the boot-time stuff in /var/adm/messages; "prtdiag -v" and "scanpci" are sometimes helpful as well. For disks, "cfgadm -alv" can be informative, as can "format -e" (but be careful with that one). For the LSI 1068-based HBA's (mpt driver), "raidctl" could be of use. And sometimes you can find (from LSI directly) an old copy of sas2ircu, MegaCLI, and/or the MegaRAID Storage Manager for Solaris, which may still run on an illumos-based system. Anyway, for the purpose you describe, "prtconf -Dv" should do. Search its output for the "mpt" driver and devices. Regards, Marion = Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tools for hardware discovery and reporting From: Harry Putnam Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:50:24 -0400 (12:50 PDT) To: What tools are available to openindian that are designed to discover and report on the systems hardware. I mean besides the ever usefull 'Device driver utility'? What I'm after currently is to see what the OS thinks of all the SATA and SAS ports on my motherboard (mobo is part of HP xw8600) It appears to have 14 ports in all... a mixture of sata and sas. The `Device driver utility' reports this concerning Storage: --- --- ---=--- --- --- Storage LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS mpt Intel corp 631xESB632xESB/3100 chipset SATA IDE Controller pci-ide Intel corp 631xESB632xESB IDE controllerpci-ide --- --- ---=--- --- --- I'd like to latch onto something that enumerates the individual ports without having to monkey around and having to boot it with windows ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] smb/server not getting a socket - service fails
rea...@newsguy.com said:
> From: /var/svc/log/network-smb-server:default.log
> [ Mar 28 13:27:06 Executing start method ("/usr/lib/smbsrv/smbd start"). ]
> smbd: NetBIOS services started
> smbd: kernel bind error: Address already in use
> smbd: daemon initialization failed
> [ Mar 28 13:27:06 Method "start" exited with status 95. ]
Harry,
This error message in general means that the socket is already in use.
In practice, it usually means the service is already (still?) running,
but it could also mean that something else (maybe "samba") is making
use of the socket.
You may find a clue using "netstat -a" (or "-an"), and look for ports
445, 137, 138, 139 being in use. 445 would be used by both the
kernel CIFS (smb/server) and by samba, for example. So only one such
service could be running at a time.
Regards,
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana and Sun DSEE 6.3.1+
jimkli...@cos.ru said: > Thought I'd prefer to use the "proper" configuration, including the stock > up-to-date mps libraries, apparently they have obsoleted something that DSEE > wants... Hi Jim, When time permits, you might consider migrating to Open DJ. It is the descendent (via OpenDS) of the old Netscape/Sun DS line, and it's a lot less painful to install and configure. We're running OpenDJ on both Solaris-10 and on OmniOS, having migrated from Sun DS on Solaris-9. Regards, Marion On 2013-12-23 20:01, Jim Klimov wrote: > Hello all, > >We had a POC recently to see if an old Solaris 10 server can be > migrated into OI with its tasks and packages (as native OI zones > with some porting of older packages for vendor software), and the > project was quite successful in terms of functional equivalence. > >However, one of the old installation's tasks was to run the Sun > DSEE server stack, stuck at 6.3.1 as seems to have been the last > release available from Sun at free-to-use demo-project licensing. > After migration into the new OS the server seems to work, but the > logs of its LDAP DS instance are filled with errors like these: > . . . ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Remote KVM, SOL, virtual media and power management on generic PCs
jimkli...@cos.ru said: > . . . >Are there any cheap (within approx $100) solutions for remote KVM, SOL, > virtual media and power (reset, on/off) management on generic PCs? Something > that the IPMI-enabled servers have, but usable with an ordinary PC, probably > as a PCI (legacy PCI 2.2 or newer PCI-E) card that looks to the computer like > a video card and USB hub with keyboard, mouse and storage, and optionally as > a serial port for SOL emulation? Or some external box that would intercept > the video output (DSUB15/DVI) and plug USB cables into the PC's inputs, and > add the short-circuiting headers onto power and reset jumpers on the > motherboard? > . . . >I see that there are some solutions from SuperMicro AOC lineup, and ASUS > as well (the said computer's Mobo is an ASUS P5B-Delixe/WiFi-AP) but I can't > make out from the internet documentation whether these would work on generic > desktop computers, or require some BMC, or some special connectors, or other > components on the motherboard. > >Any insights, or links to Amazon/eBay offers, are welcome :) Hi Jim, Sorry this is so delayed. I see nobody has responded (at least, not in the mailing-list archives). At the price of $100, I think I'd be shopping for a replacement motherboard that has an SOL-capable IPMI/BMC onboard, rather than trying to find something external. The cheapest external single-port KVM-over-IP things I've seen (brief bit of Googling) are in the $200 price range, and those can't control power without some additional hardware options. Maybe you can find a surplus/used server motherboard that will fit into the case you have, and work with the CPU/RAM, etc., with the BMC on it. I'm not sure any of the below will have the capabilities you want, but perhaps they will get you started: http://ark.intel.com/products/46543/Intel-Server-Board-S3210SHLC http://oemxs.us/shopping/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30966 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-S3200SHV-Server-Board-LGA775-ATX-DDR2-Rack-Pedestal-Customer-Return-/380560938791 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon3000/3200/x7sbl-ln2.cfm Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root
simon.to...@gmail.com said: > Running with less memory maybe? ZFS has a well-deserved reputation for being > memory hungry, something which keeps Solaris and Illumos out of the cloud > business - as the Amazon sales people say you can have six Linux VMs with > ext4fs for one Solaris VM with ZFS in the same memory footprint. My experiences over the years since ZFS was first released contradict the above statements. I have bare metal servers running Solaris-10 with ZFS root and only 1GB of RAM. I have desktop machines running Solaris-10 and OpenIndiana with ZFS root and only 2GB of RAM, and all of these systems remain quite usable to this day. I have several 4GB servers which started out running Solaris-10 FCS on UFS, and were later converted to Solaris-10 on ZFS. Those servers are doing the same jobs as before, are no slower, and are far easier to manage, with ZFS. By default, ZFS will attempt to use all available RAM, if it's not being used for anything else, so it can look to the uninformed like it's "hogging" all the RAM. But it generally gives up that RAM if an application needs more, and it's easy to set a limit on ZFS usage if needed. These are my experiences, interpret them however you like. When ext3/ext4 and the rest have block-level checksums and snapshots, then I'll consider trusting my and my customers' data to something other than ZFS. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub
jimkli...@cos.ru said: > I don't think I've ever used installgrub -m flag... maybe it is what blocks > you from installing to cXtYp0? Does installation to the disk itself (cXtY) > also fail? axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr said: > No, that does not work either: > # /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4d0p0 > raw device must be a root slice (not s2) > Unable to gather device information for /dev/rdsk/c4d0p0 > > I need to specify s0... > # /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4d0s0 > stage2 written to partition 1, 277 sectors starting at 50 (abs 61432610) > stage1 written to partition 1 sector 0 (abs 61432560) > > Note that however, I still don't have my grub back after reboot. Yes, you have to specify the s0 partition -- whatever shows up when you run "zpool status -v rpool". I always use the "-m", but I've not used it in a multi-OS situation like yours, and it seems likely to overwrite any Windows or other OS boot-blocks. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151a8 vs firefox audio (also flash)
Greetings, Related to an earlier discussion, I've upgraded my home system (32-bit) from oi151a7 to oi151a8, and am experiencing the flash player crash in firefox that others have mentioned (firefox v22 from mozilla/contrib/, and also v10.0.12ESR that comes in oi151a8). This mostly affects YouTube videos, which of course are very common, but I've also noticed that using the HTML5 version of YouTube helps with some videos. However, I'm getting no audio when firefox plays these HTML5 video streams (this used to work with oi151a7). I do have a couple flash-to-html5 extensions that I'm trying: http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-to-HTML5/ The 2nd one works pretty well, but it also fails to play audio in oi151a8, while the audio works just fine under oi151a7. And yes, audio works in oi151a8 using apps other than firefox (audioplay, rhythmbox). Anyone else had firefox/audio problems with oi151a8? Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Adobe Flash crashes with Firefox 20 & 21 on OI_151a8
ironsides.med...@gmail.com said: > Unfortunately, rolling back to Firefox 17 ESR did not help. Same symptoms. > YouTube was working fine before, on 151a7... That's why I posted the dumps, > I thought maybe they would be helpful to the OI devs. I guess I can't roll > back, as I have enabled the new compression feature flags on rpool. > > Anyway, I have been hoping for a while that flash player is finally laid to > rest. For now I'll just use a VM when I need YouTube. > > If anyone else has any other ideas, I'll be glad to try them! There is a firefox add-on called "shumway" which can play some Flash stuff by converting it to HTML5 (or something like that). It works for me on oi151a7 for some Youtube videos, though not for all of them. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware recommendations for OI desktop system
On 20/05/2013 21:20, Tim Mooney wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether either of these systems would work (functioning > storage controller, video, and audio) with OI: >... Hi Tim, It's slightly older, but I run oi151a7 (and earlier) on a Dell OptiPlex 980. Graphics cards that have worked for me, XFX nVidia GeForce 7300GT, and ASUS nVidia GeForce GT610 (both are no-fan GPU's). I think the main trick with this type of machine is be sure to set SATA into AHCI mode in the BIOS. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress
gbul...@sonicle.com said: > Hi everyone, at Sonicle we've almost finished rebuilding a brand new IPS repo > with updated packages from latest illumos kernel, updated userland > components, X11 1.13.1, updated pkg commands. We wanted to rebuild everything > from available sources, to remove any possible dependency from old packages > derived from OI. This repo will be available soon on our public > pkg.sonicle.com/xstreamos publisher, then a pkg update will do the job over > any previous XStreamOS installation. Then, I'd like to announce that we're > also working on a Desktop version of XStreamOS. We've chosen, first, do > deliver the LXDE desktop as a lightweight frontend. So we have already > packaged all the gnome and other dependencies in our userland. The desktop > already works, and is nice. To make it usable, we're packaging all the > typical application one may need on a fresh install (file manager, text > editor, calculator, terminal, and so on). We've also already packaged both > Firefox 20.0.1 and Thunderbird 17.0.5, and they work great on illumos. We > have plan to pre-package open-office or libre-office, pdf readers, media apps > and so on. We would like your suggestions for what you would expect to have > on a Desktop distro of XStreamOS. Glad to hear it, good work! On my wish-list: a stable release with a regular update/security-fix schedule, similar to what we see from OmniOS on the server-centric side. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] self encrypting disks
richard.ell...@richardelling.com said: > Soon, many, if not all, HDDs will be shipped as self encrypting. AFAIK, there > is no OI project for managing the keys, however. I'm interested to know what > the demand for these tools might be. > -- richard Hi Richard, We have over 100 such disks (Seagate drives in Dell MD1200 enclosures) running on Solaris-10 and OpenIndiana servers (mostly the latter). Being able to turn on the drives' encryption would be useful to us, both for meeting potential requirements from "above", and for saving the cost of the "keep your hard drive" add-on to our Dell service contracts. BTW, some encryption requirements I'm aware of include the need for some kind of centralized reporting functionality. I.e. without that in place, the data isn't considered to be encrypted. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A poor SPARC user's introduction
msoko...@ivan.harhan.org said: > Then I was pleasantly surprised to see that the OpenIndiana community is not > totally x86-exclusive, and there was a SPARC release made a week or so ago by > some wonderful fellow. But again, the ISO file is DVD-sized, not CD-sized - > hence the same problem as with Oracle's version. > > I wonder, what would it take to produce a distribution of OI for SPARC that > fits on a CD? Assume that it's going to a server that will be used with a > serial console, no monitor or keyboard ever, hence no need for any desktop > GUI components. (The ability to use a serial console instead of a keyboard/ > monitor for operations such as initial OS install is one of the main reasons > why I need SPARC rather than x86. I love my real DEC VTxxx terminals, and > hate PeeCee keyboard/video/mouse stuff with a passion.) Been there, felt that pain. As Jim has already mentioned, it might be faster to setup your Bobware server as a DHCP/TFTP/NFS server, and net-boot your SPARC from that. No need for any special distribution. I guess an old-enough SPARC might need RARP/BOOTP/TFTP if it doesn't know "boot net:dhcp ...". BTW, and I'm not trying to talk you out of your psychoemotional aversion to x86, but I've got dozens of x86/x64-based systems running Solaris/Illumos and using their serial consoles. Works for Sun, Dell, and SuperMicro hardware, in my experience. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 hang on OI151a5
pulask...@yahoo.com said:
> How do you determine what interrupts the drivers use?
> I'm seeing this:
> "NOTICE: IRQ20 is being shared by drivers with different interrupt levels."
> But I haven't found out anything more.
echo "::interrupts -d" | mdb -k
Look for lines with more than one item in the "Driver Name(s)" column.
Then you may need to become an expert as interpreting what "prtconf -Dv"
prints out, in order to work out which physical device corresponds to
a particular driver instance.
> I'm also seeing this:
> # svcs sendmail STATE STIMEFMRI disabled 15:42:19 svc:/
> network/smtp:sendmail # tail /var/log/syslog Dec 18 16:28:02 openindiana
> sendmail[941]: [ID 801593 mail.info] qBE2SeLu002299: to=postmaster,
> delay=4+19:59:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=41943796,
> relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by
> [127.0.0.1]
>
> which seems to have appeared when I switched to 151a5.
Have a look at the /etc/mail/*.cf in your current and previous boot
environment's ("beadm list" and "beadm mount" will help). Maybe you
got a different sendmail config file. You may also find help by
following the breadcrumbs in /var/svc/log/*sendmail*.log
Regards,
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 hang on OI151a5
pulask...@yahoo.com said: > I just lost an hour's work on a wiki when X11 wedged on me just before I went > to save my work. Mouse was responding, but I could not move or iconify > windows. I was able to get the root screen window menu to work, but after I > managed to bring up the display item I could do nothing and after an hour of > waiting had to force a shutdown. > > 151a5 has done this to me now several times though I didn't lose a lot of > work as I did today. I never had the problem w/ 148. > > Does anyone know anything about this? I've posted a bug at Illumos, #3421. It sounds similar as, though perhaps not exactly the same as: https://www.illumos.org/issues/1625 Unfortunately, no progress has been made on fixing it, and I'm still experiencing the problem with oi151a7, and nVidia driver 304.51. I was able to reduce the frequency of its occurrence by turning off (in the BIOS) as many USB ports as possible which shared the same interrupt as the nVidia card. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate 3000GB Drive only shows 746GB
rhei...@dragonhearth.com said: > I'll see if I can swap the disk with one of my internals and see what > happens. I've also seen it happen that a disk got a reduced-size label (partition table) on it, after which OI/Solaris continues to believe that layout info until you somehow overwrite it. You may be able to wipe the table by: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0 bs=512 count=1000 Then hot-plug the drive, or reconfigure-reboot to force the OS to see the drive as a new one again. Then a "zpool create" on c4t0d0 (without the "s0") might put a fresh EFI label on there. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Laptop locking up, possibly on rge device - rings a bell to anyone?
jimkli...@cos.ru said: > . . . >Ultimately, after about one hour of such intermittent work with no actual > usage on my behalf, the LAN interface went down and did not come back up > until a full reboot (I did not try fastboot though). I have no idea if this > will be reproducible :) > . . . I wonder if this is similar to something I've seen, which I think was eventually categorized as an interrupt-sharing problem. On my systems, the graphics locked up, along with USB mouse, and on one of them an internal disk interface also had timeouts during the "freeze". All the affected devices were sharing the same IRQ. You can see what OI thinks your laptop is doing, interrupt-wise, via: echo "::interrupts -d" | mdb -k I'm not sure how one can fix it. I was able to disable enough USB ports in the BIOS on one machine to alleviate the IRQ-sharing, and the problem stopped happening there. Here's the (closed) bug report: https://www.illumos.org/issues/1625 Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot completely
openindi...@nedharvey.com said: > So, things like init 6 just reboot from the kernel upward. But sometimes you > want or need to reset the computer, make it go through BIOS and grub and > everything. > > If you login on the physical console, you can go to System / Shutdown, and > there's a checkbox, "Skip boot menu on restart" which controls this behavior. > But if you're connected into gnome via VNC, that menu isn't present. > > How do you fully reboot the computer, without the physical console? You could turn off "fastreboot" temporarily: svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" setprop config/fastreboot_default=fals e Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] quick boots are a pain in my arse
ja...@broken.net said: > I am seeking help in two regards. First, I would prefer to resolve the error > and in lieu of an actual fix, I would like to learn how I can alter the > transient boot environment to do a full reboot. I can't help with the error, but have you tried disabling fast-reboot using the following? svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" setprop config/fastreboot_default=false Seems to take care of it here, anyway. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4
ironsides.med...@gmail.com said: > I had to install 295.49 following the procedure from > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12196 > > I have a new boot environment with the updated drivers and it would appear > that the hard freezes have stopped. I wonder if the hard freezes were like what I have experienced in: https://www.illumos.org/issues/1625 If you're experiencing the same issue as the above, and if on your machine the nVidia card shares interrupts with your ethernet interface, you wouldn't be able to login from some other machine to do any diagnosis. > However, it is still littering my > console with these two messages in repetition: > > May 6 10:50:01 Wraith nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: > nv_devmap: devmap_devmem_setup() failed (22) > May 6 10:50:01 Wraith nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: > nv_segmap: ddi_devmap_segmap() failed (6) > > Can I do anything about that? On my systems, this started with nVidia driver version 295.40. If you revert to 295.33 the above messages go away. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive
dk...@elmira.edu said: > I have had usb ports hang till reboot as well. If I plug a drive into one > and try to unmount it I can't and when I try to attach something else to > that port it is no longer recognized. I just work through all of the usb > ports on my ultra20 and then reboot when I run out. I have a scanner that hangs its USB port regularly, but a reboot is not required to clear it up. I use "cfgadm -c disconnect" on the port, followed by "cfgadm -c configure" on it to bring it up again. I wonder if this would help with your situation. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Chrooting Bind9 under oi_151a
carlopm...@gmail.com said: > I am installing an oi_151a server to use as a bind9 caching name server. I > am searching docs about howto do this under openindiana without luck. > > Please any site that explains how to do this?? Run it in a non-global zone. If/when OI gets read-only sparce zones like Solaris-10 has, it would be even more secure. Here are some other references if you want to go farther than the above: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/browse_thread/thread/832 95dd027cc4b67 http://www.geekride.com/how-to-configure-chroot-jailed-dns-server-solaris-10/ Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana
kgund...@teamcool.net said: > But all that is neither here nor there. The point is that your idea > was/is lame. Yeah, but what do you think of my idea? > And that your mother probably dresses you funny... Not for several decades, she hasn't (:-). kgund...@teamcool.net said: > P.S.; In the event it may have been less than obvious... above was intended > to be taken with a sense of humor ;-P Phew, for a minute there I thought you might not entirely agree with me (:-). > ...Marion Hakanson wrote: > > I also happen to think "illumos" is an excellent name. Use it everywhere. OK, I may have exaggerated a bit. But I do like the name -- I think it's a clever play on words, in multiple directions. And the fact that most of my immediate family members are well-versed in the Harry Potter stories probably has nothing to do with it. kgund...@teamcool.net said: > I kind of like OpenIndiana, particularly when contracted to > "oi", as compared to Illumos in that at least it conveys that this is > supposed to be an "Open" project (although "Open" has been so misused by > marketroids trying to cash in on the Open Source phenom that in more > recent times its use has almost become a red flag, particularly > following the Orcale OpenSolaris fiasco). I'm enough of an old Unix geek that I dislike the "Indiana" name's association with a project that was an attempt to make Solaris more Linux-like. I'm also one of those who puts /usr/gnu/bin at the end of the PATH at install time (yet note that I do not remove it entirely), just so you know which segment of the target audience I'm in. Of course, my spouse is from Indiana, and that relationship is going pretty well, so you never can tell Never mind my opinion, however. We all know that I have no future in marketing, nor likely in any popular or for-profit enterprise of any kind. We now return you to your lameness-free content (:-) Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana
What's wrong with just "illumos"? If you need to distinguish, just use "illumos, the kernel" or "illumos, OS/Net" vs "illumos, the distribution". The original "OpenSolaris, the distribution" was based on "OpenSolaris, the kernel", and other distributions based on "Opensolaris, the kernel" did exist. One can even get more specific about distros, e.g. "illumos desktop", "illumos server", or "illumos live usb", if needed. Sure, OI-147 and OI-148 did not come from "illumos, the kernel", but it seems unlikely anyone is going to go back to a base of "OpenSolaris, the kernel" for OpenIndiana, once it's completed the shift to the illumos base. Do we really need a different name for the "main" distribution? I personally find it unnecessary, and it makes explaining to people what the heck OS I'm using a lot harder. I have to give a whole family tree history instead of just saying, "Illumos is the open source fork of Solaris 11." I also happen to think "illumos" is an excellent name. Use it everywhere. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] device support for multitouch?
Greetings, I'm trying to solve a bit of mouse-related finger pain, and using a trackpad seems to be helping. I have an Adesso (Cirque) Smart Cat device which functions as a three-button mouse with vertical scrolling on Solaris-10U6, but its horizontal scrolling does not work (no button events generated by the horiz. scroll stripe). FYI, Xorg.0.log reports finding 11 buttons, and ZAxisMapping is "4 5 6 7", but this is also true for my basic Logitech 2-button+wheel mouse, and the fact that the trackpad isn't sending button events for horizontal scroll seems to indicate that xorg.conf isn't the problem. I also have a machine with Build 148 on it (OpenIndiana), and an S11Express LiveDVD to see if those do any better, but if anyone has suggestions on how to get horizontal scroll working with this setup (Solaris 10 or later), I'd appreciate it. One other question: I'd really like to use a device which supports enough multitouch functionality to do two-finger scrolling (vertical and horizontal, if possible). I've seen reports that this works on some laptop trackpads with OpenSolaris/OI/S11Express. Does someone out there know of a device I can add to my desktop machine which will work like that? Maybe a Wacom Bamboo Touch device? Or something which is Synaptics based? Again, I can do Solaris-10, OpenIndiana, or S11Express to accomplish this, but I'd like to have a clue before I go buy something. Thanks and regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi dev 148 Live DVD fails, stable release?
hakan...@ohsu.edu said: > This seems identical to OpenSolaris bug id 6980491, which I can't get to > except in the Google cache. I don't think this has anything to do with what > kind of hardware I'm trying it on. Turns out I was a bit wrong about it being unrelated to the hardware. When I changed the ICH10R setting from "RAID" to "Auto/AHCI", the above bug went away. Not sure why, but there it is, in case anyone else see this. Still get no graphics, though, just a text login. Probably no working driver for the ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics cards (two of them). I'll try the text installer until I have the nVidia card in there. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi dev 148 Live DVD fails, stable release?
Greetings, I'm trying the OI build 148 Live DVD out on a new Dell Optiplex 980, and hitting a problem after selecting the default (first) grub item to boot up. The OS fails to come up, instead giving the error: ld.so.1: svc.startd: fatal: libfmevent.so.1: Open failed: No such file or directory ld.so.1: svc.startd: fatal: relocation error: file /lib/svc/bin/svc.startd: symbol _i_fmev_publish_nvl: referenced symbol not found (and repeats a couple more times). Then it asks for a username to login for system maintenance. This seems identical to OpenSolaris bug id 6980491, which I can't get to except in the Google cache. I don't think this has anything to do with what kind of hardware I'm trying it on. So, what should I be using if not build 148? 148a? 148b? How far are we from a new stable release, anyway? I find the lack of news a bit concerning. I do hear that all the action is on an IRC channel somewhere, but I'm afraid my workflow does not allow me to keep an ear open for realtime conversations. I find even RSS feeds too distracting -- give me plain old email, or a blog I can login to once in awhile, and I can keep involved that way. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z
g...@genashor.com said: > 1) I couldn't get apcupsd to work. I'm sure this is due to some change in > libusb. > 2) There was something sucking up cpu but not showing up in ps or > prstat. I think it was a service in quick restart mode. > > I used the net installer from here: > > http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_openindiana Thanks for the references to the net installer. When I get back to it on Monday, I'll probably try installing from USB as well. However, given that S11-Express 2010-11 installs from the CD drive just fine, and that it can also read the OI-148 CD just fine on this machine, it seems clear that there's something "wrong" in OI-148, not with the hardware. So, while a net-install or USB-install are workarounds, I am still looking for some advice on diagnosing and helping to fix this problem, so future revs of OpenIndiana will not have this obstacle. I'm offering our hardware and a bit of my time toward solving this problem. We've got six of these V20z's, and we're also feeling trapped in Oracle-land, so helping to improve the alternatives to the gold-plated offerings from Oracle seems like a worthwhile investment. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z
g...@genashor.com said: > This sounds more like the CD is corrupt and the drive is having problems > reading the disk. > > Two things to try... See if it installs on another machine and try an > external usb drive. In the past I found that the external drive to be much > more reliable than the internal drive on the v20z. I tested the disk on another machine already -- the checksum matches that of the original ISO image. No external CD drive's handy. Also, I was able to install Solaris 11 Express 2010-11 on this same V20z (from internal CD drive), and I then used that installed OS to read the OI-148 CD on the V20z's internal CD drive. This also passed the checksum test, although the read-speed did get a little dodgy (slower, intermittent pauses) out toward the end of the CD. So, I burned another copy (different color label, that should help :-), and this one read back fine on the V20z, without the speed slow-downs at the end. However, this also fails to install, giving the same bit of an ide-driver timeout warning message before hanging. I don't think we can blame this on a corrupted CD. The fact that the same V20z, when it's running Sol11x-2010-11 can read the OI-148 CD smoothly and without errors, indicates that the problem is not with the disk or with the drive. Is there anyone else out there who has got OI-148 running on a V20z? Installed it from internal CD drive? I'm intending to build this as our first AI install server for the Solaris-11 variants. This particular V20z has the most recent firmware available, and has been running Solaris-10 since it was purchased new, so hardware problems are unlikely. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z
Greetings,
I'm trying OI-dev-148 on a V20z, using the text-installer ISO burned
to a CD. The kernel boots up from CD, but things hang right after
the message:
Preparing text install image for use
Just for comparison, Solaris 11 Express 2010-11 text installer ISO does
not have the same problem.
I've added "-kv" and "-d" to the boot args, but at the point the
system hangs, the kernel is up, modules have all been loaded, and
devices seem to all be recognized. The CD activity light blinks
for awhile then the system just hangs. The SP power-off command
("platform set power state off") never returns, although adding
the "-f" flag does power off the system.
Once in awhile I do get a partial message about an ata timeout
associated with the CD drive. I've added one or the other or
both of the "-Batapi-cd-dma-enable=0" to the boot flags, or
setting "use_mp=0" at the debugger, but the behavior does not
change.
The system does respond to the console "Break" signal (I'm using
the Serial-over-LAN console in the SP) and allows use of kmdb,
but it doesn't tell me much that I find useful. Sometimes a stack
trace will show we're stopped in the mpt driver, but other times
we're not.
Let me know what I can to to debug further.
Regards,
Marion
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multipath IO Dual LSI 9211-8i
j...@xaccel.net said: > Upgraded to openindiana oi_148 and now unit boots all the way and seems to be > ok but the performance of the array has dropped from 500mps to 100mps. I am > testing 13) 600gig 15k drives with 2 SSD's (log and cache). When I do a test > I do see both controllers accessing the drives. Shouldn't one controller be > the primary and the secondary just waiting? With mpxio enabled, the default is to use round-robin load-balancing. On our Dell MD1200 JBOD's this makes things very slow. Try setting load-balance=none (in /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf). You can do this on a per-device basis, or system-wide. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63
alasdai...@gmail.com said: > We're going the spec files route, as this makes the most sense given the > options available. As previously mentioned, Guido is working on "OpenIndiana > Addon Consolidations" to provide additional software for the OS, you can see > the draft spec here: > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Addon+Consolidations I've seen earlier discussions in the list archives about either using or converting pkgsrc-built software for easy integration. I did not, however, see anyone mention that Joyent is already doing pkgsrc builds for their SmartMachine customer systems. There could be some synergy to take advantage of here, where the pkgsrc community has already done the work of making things buildable on Solaris/OS/OI, and Joyent appears to be an active participant in that pkgsrc-based effort. I have to say that I've used Blastwave, SFW, and TWW (thewrittenword.com) pre-built packages for Solaris for nearly a decade; I've done compiling myself for Solaris and other Unix OS's (prior to Linux coming along) for decades as well, doing it by hand, using RPM spec-files (yes, on Solaris, really), and the TWW "sb" utilities. I've looked through the pkgbuild spec-files and tools, and also the various FreeBSD approaches, esp. the pkgsrc tree and methodology. Since I have to support multiple platforms at work (university environment), the solutions which are cross-platform are the ones that I am drawn toward. For that reason I can't get too excited about the spec files route. It often happens that folks at our site need some different software (or version) than is provided by the community, and I'm happy to port it myself and then contribute that back to a community repository. But if I have to do it two or three different ways for the same piece of software, because every platform has chosen a different type of build or packaging system, I'm going to have a lot less time and energy to contribute to each community in turn. I'm not saying the spec-files route is a bad approach; I'm just saying that if OpenIndiana goes that direction, you won't get as much help from folks who think and work with cross-platform tools like I do. The Solaris-based platform is an endangered species here, and as much as I dearly love it, I simply cannot afford to focus my software-porting efforts on such a small customer-base. Regards, Marion ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
