Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade
Hi All, Might be interesting to someone out there ;) I still have this little box, use it as a file server and still using oi_151a9. I have progressively been replacing the HDD with bigger and bigger drives and all still works well. I keep think of replacing the hardware but never yet really got around to it. I think since the original 2Tb HHDs I have increase it to 6Tb, 10Tb, then 14Tb in stages. I just replace my 3 disk raid5 pool, which used to have 3x14Tb with some new 3x20Tb Tosh disks. Last time it took 10hr each to re-silver the replaced disks from 10Tb to 14Tb, this time it took 33hr for each disk (ie 100hr to do all three over 5 days). I have tried to update the OS before and always it fails at some point, so in the end just stayed with what worked. On 2/12/15 10:36, david allan finch wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade? I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and rubbish but filling it up now is inevitable. What I would really like to do is to swap the disks out for larger one but I doubt that this is really practical as to make this work you need spare disk slots which I don't have. Another option might be to add a SATA card and add more disk that way. But I have no idea of where to start with this, and even if this microserver can do that. And a third is just to get a new server. I can't see any which have more than 4 drive bays do these exist (for reasonable money) or do you need to make your own? If so anyone got a recommendation? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken
On 10/6/22 10:36, Marcel Telka wrote: Maybe rebuild-index would work better than rebiuld-index. :-) I did spot that before I ran it, but as my first language is not Modern English but old-fashioned-westcounty-giberish I didn't think it should complain. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken
On 10/6/22 09:20, Predrag Zečević wrote: I would try: :; pfexec pkg refresh --full :; pfexec pkg rebiuld-index thanks. I just tried that, refresh gives the same error. I did this three times (refresh gives the error) and then tried the update and it gives the same error message. This is weird as yesterday I build a new VM and did pkg update and it worked, but today that new VM see the same error that my older VM does. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken
On 10/6/22 07:51, Predrag Zečević via openindiana-discuss wrote: The reference into VB's git seems to suggest that it was done in January? https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-extra/pull/921 I'm not seeing any issues with VB 6.1.38 on my OI servers, with a build from a week ago, but I'm not using shared folders at all. Host is OI (updated yesterday) and shared folders (to Win Guest) works: ; pkg list virtualbox NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO system/virtualbox 6.1.38-2022.0.0.0 i-- Running the update I see: david@hal9k:~$ sudo pkg update pkg: 0/1 catalogs successfully updated: 1: Invalid contentpath /var/pkg/cache/incoming-1975/update.20221006T06Z.C: CatalogPart failed validation: The signature data for the '/var/pkg/cache/incoming-1975/update.20221006T06Z.C' catalog file is not valid.. (happened 4 times) 2: Invalid contentpath /var/pkg/cache/incoming-1975/update.20221006T07Z.C: CatalogPart failed validation: The signature data for the '/var/pkg/cache/incoming-1975/update.20221006T07Z.C' catalog file is not valid.. (happened 4 times) :( ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken
Hi, Not quite sure what has broken it but, I installed the latest version of VirtualBox 6.1.38 and updated the client extension into my OpenIndiana VM client (it was the last build 2021Oct from the ISO). Around the same time I did a pkg update to the latest changes. Since then the Shared Folders have not worked. (The host is a windows 11 box there was also an microsoft update on that day which I initially wondered about). On boot of the VM I now see undefined symbol 'removectx' and 'installctx' from /usr/kernel/drv/smd64/vboxguest. There is also after that a whole host of messages about vboxguest as it tries to start the service. When I installed client extension there was an error message about vboxguest not installing correctly. Anyone got any clues what I did wrong or intrested in the dmesg error or the output of the errors in the installing of the client extensions? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue. May be I am using the Win32DiskImager wrong or there is an issue creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? On 07/07/21 12:08 PM, david allan finch wrote: On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning information. We would like to see something like: disk0: BIOS drive C (….) disk0p1: EFI 256MB disk0p2: …. and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does windows see any partitions there? I had put in an old disk that had been used as a raid for the boot drive. It was not formated. I found another and it now shows that as disk1 D with a two windows paritions. It must be booting, from the usb, as without the OI usb tumbdrive it says there is no bootable disk. As I seam to have something else coming up as disk0 C - there must be another M2 like drive which is has placed as C. I wonder if the USB boot assumes it is the second disk? So assuming that the M2 should be there only with the USB, I took out the phyical drive. It does the same. So that is not it. May be later I will try taking out the M2 as well. Thanks. ___ 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] warning - don't update OI
Is this the same as I could not get the USB install drive to boot? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Andreas Wacknitz" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" , "OpenIndiana Developer mailing list" Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021 08:55 Hi all, something bad has happened with the last updates and rendered two of my build servers unbootable. They are both stuck in the boot loader ("start not found") such that booting with an old BE won't fix that! SO DON'T UPDATE YOUR SYSTEMS FOR NOW! I fear that my update of binutils-2.37 may be the culprit. Regards Andreas ___ 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] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning information. We would like to see something like: disk0: BIOS drive C (….) disk0p1: EFI256MB disk0p2: …. and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does windows see any partitions there? I had put in an old disk that had been used as a raid for the boot drive. It was not formated. I found another and it now shows that as disk1 D with a two windows paritions. It must be booting, from the usb, as without the OI usb tumbdrive it says there is no bootable disk. As I seam to have something else coming up as disk0 C - there must be another M2 like drive which is has placed as C. I wonder if the USB boot assumes it is the second disk? So assuming that the M2 should be there only with the USB, I took out the phyical drive. It does the same. So that is not it. May be later I will try taking out the M2 as well. Thanks. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
Hi, I have not installed openindiana on real hardware for sometime, done it lots of times via a iso on virtualbox. I copied the latest usb image with Win32DiskImager on to a usb thumbdrive. When it boot I get: list of c: ... and disk-x illumos/x86 boot Can't find disk-1:/boot/loader I have tried disk-0:/boot/loader etc and it still does nothing. Can some one point me to what I am doing wrong? TIA ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to oi_151a9
Hi, I have an old server running oi_151a9 which I can't just update to a newer OpenIndiana yet (I have a plan to replace it with a newie machine once I have a free one which will use the latest build). I am having an issue with putty/fillzilla no longer working from windows and the command line ssh requires -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 to force it to use the old key exchange on the older OI. Is there a patch or a mod or config change I can make to the oi_151a9 which will update to the latest ssh code or like without having to update everything? Regards Dave ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test images of actual Hipster for download
On 04/06/21 02:32 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: A new release is due in about a month. Wicked. Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test images of actual Hipster for download
On 04/05/21 10:36 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Everybody should be aware that they are no official releases. I will keep them there for some days. Will there be a new release soon? I am thinking of building a new server. Regards ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?
On 01/20/21 12:50 PM, Michael Schuster wrote: what you're describing is memory overcommit, which Solaris never did (at least not while I was at Sun). Good. BTW HP or IBM Unix was the first one I saw do this and they even had special signals, to tell you. Sorry you app had to die as we lied about how much memory you could have. It was v annoying. If memory serves, pages weren't cleaned at reservation (ie when "malloc" was called), but only when actually accessed ("zfod" - zero fill on demand). Memory*did* have to be accounted for ("reserved" as the name says), so you'd know at malloc-time if you were out of memory, and not when someone tried to access it later. Thanks for the clarifications. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?
On 01/19/21 06:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have always noticed that Solaris (and OpenIndiana) is slower to fork processes than Linux or FreeBSD. It seems slower to enlarge the process address space as well (perhaps because it does not lie). This is because Linux lies to an app about new page allocation, until you attually write to a page it doesn't attually exist at all, Solaris (at least used to) allocates a page and cleans it (or make it sparse). This means it is possible on Linux to look like you have lots a memory and then suddenly runout. Solaris also use a copy on write system at forking (which I think Linux copied), that is why they are so much faster than Windows, which attually has to start a new process and copy the whole address space todo a fork, which is why it just easier to just start a new process rather than fork/exec on windows. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?
On 01/19/21 06:40 PM, Araragi Hokuto wrote: 2) What interface are you using, video console, terminal emulator under X, or something else (through ssh, etc)? I have found that some terminal emulators are quicker than others. I normally switch to xterm when I find I have an issue with terminal speeds and it so much better. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNLA Server
On 02/03/20 05:30 PM, Michal Nowak via openindiana-discuss wrote: media/minidlna was packaged recently. Let us know how it works for you. Thanks. I descovered that my server is still on oi_151a9 even though I thought I had updated it. So that started a process of me trying to update and descovering I need to purge old boot images as the boot was full and the descovery of beadm. I will give it a try once I am on the latest version of openindiana. Regards ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNLA Server
Hi, Is there a package for a DNLA server? What is the best one to build if there isn't one already done? Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install
On 08/19/19 05:50 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: ... Thanks for all that. I have a 160Gb disk so that should be good. If I can find a second one in my stack of old disk I will look at trying to set up the mirror. Currently I am missing an ATX 8pin extra 12v connector for the motherboard, so my playing with a mining motherboard to make a mega file server will have to stop for the day. Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install
Hi All, I am just about to build a new system: What is the realistic small disk you can use to install on? What is the recommened size assumimg all no OS stuff will be on another pool? (ie to take into account updates etc) Can you install a new system with a mirror as the boot drive? (I kind of think that Solaris didn't allow this) Can you extend the root pool by adding more disks after installation? (stripes seams to imply you can) Regards and Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard
Has anyone tried this motherboard with openindiana or have any ideas of issues etc? *Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard* https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075D7R8DL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade
On 13/02/2015 08:42, Volker A. Brandt wrote: I assume you have the 4 disks in some sort of RAID configuration. If you want to sweat it, you can pull one drive out and have it re-silver the replacement drive, repeat for the second drive, etc. If you do this I would run a scrub before pulling each drive, just in case. If you have some particularly important stuff I would copy it somewhere. +1 I have done this on a proper server Sun server in the past and I will try this. Does any one have any idea what the largest drives the N54L can take? Regards david ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade? I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and rubbish but filling it up now is inevitable. What I would really like to do is to swap the disks out for larger one but I doubt that this is really practical as to make this work you need spare disk slots which I don't have. Another option might be to add a SATA card and add more disk that way. But I have no idea of where to start with this, and even if this microserver can do that. And a third is just to get a new server. I can't see any which have more than 4 drive bays do these exist (for reasonable money) or do you need to make your own? If so anyone got a recommendation? Thanks D ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue
On 04/11/2014 09:07, david allan finch wrote: we stuck with 64bit compiles sorry 32bit compiles ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue
On 04/11/2014 03:36, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: While it would be nice if Solaris software was all 64-bit, in actual practice I notice no difference in day to day use between systems with 32-bit applications and 64-bit. Only certain memory-hungry applications will significantly benefit. We spent some time investigating this 10 years back and found that for most apps that don't require the 64bit address space that they ran slower compiled for 64bit. 64bit file access was of some us to us but the we stuck with 64bit compiles and I expect that until CPU cache sizes increase a lot more there will be no gain outside the OS (and DBs etc) for 99% of current apps. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss