[osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install
os b133 Hello I'm a bit in a catch22 situation. For my card - FX 5700LE - I need the 173.14.25 driver. I downloaded the driver from NVIDIA. # sh driver.run givs me the error, that the NVDAgraphics package can't be uninstalled. Okay, # pfexec pkg uninstall NVDAgraphics tells me that the package isn't installed. So it seems I have to uninstall the package nvidia. Right, when I try that, the error message is, that the package can't be uninstalled and I should try it in a different boot env. Fair enough, so I left X and switched to init 1. Same problem here. Hum. How to solve the prob? Thank's in advance jens57 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Missing drivers in OpenSolaris.
On 16/02/2010 02:49, Anon Y Mous wrote: The missing driver in OpenSolaris that ticks me off the most (as a sysadmin) is the missing baseboard management controller (bmc) driver. This bug here really rained on my parade: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6799081 Agree. -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris.org says Invalid account state: Inactive. ?
i Hope somebody can help me this is regarding my logon information on https://auth.opensolaris.org/ OpenSolaris.org - password reset doesn't even work i Found this thread on http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=457624 so I am now following their instruction, don't know anything else Thank you SO MUCH in advance for the help! -seth -- * * * -- Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. - Ellen Goodman ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b134 Genunix site iso failing boot
I have installed the Genunix website iso on my computer and it is failing at boot. I select the boot environment and it goes the the Cylon screen and then reboots. I have had b133 running great but this came out today so and was wondering if anyone else had tried this and had the same problem? the live cd works good but I would like to run it from the hard disk. I know that I and update through a b133 install but I have the time and nothing to save on my system so I thought is would be better to just full install. Open to suggestions. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b134 Genunix site iso failing boot
You mean you : 1. booted successfully the livecd 2. installed successfully from the desktop env 3. rebooted 4. got the grub menu screen 5. choosed the normal boot item and that it fails to load ? try to boot in text mode / single mode : - edit the grub entry (type e) - add -s at the end of kernel line - on same line replace console=whatever by console=text then esc and type b (for boot) and see what happens. It would be interesting to see where exactly in the process it stops and reboot -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install
Thank you! Hum... j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm list BEActive Mountpoint Space Policy Created ---- -- - -- --- opensolaris - - 20.48M static 2010-03-05 14:00 opensolaris-1 - - 13.75M static 2010-03-05 16:11 opensolaris-2 - - 313.49M static 2010-03-05 18:37 opensolaris-3 NR / 6.36G static 2010-03-09 13:22 j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm create opensolaris-3-nvidia j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm mount opensolaris-3-nvidia /mnt j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphics Creating Plan pkg: 'NVDAgraphics' matches no installed packages j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphicsr Creating Plan pkg: 'NVDAgraphicsr' matches no installed packages j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec /bin/sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25.run --extract-only j...@opensolaris:~$ cd NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25 j...@opensolaris:~/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25$ pfexec pkgadd -R /mnt -d NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in /home/jens/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25/NVDAgraphics Where is my fault...? Thank's again! jens57 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install
On 03/ 9/10 04:13 AM, Jens Richter wrote: os b133 Hello I'm a bit in a catch22 situation. For my card - FX 5700LE - I need the 173.14.25 driver. I downloaded the driver from NVIDIA. # shdriver.run givs me the error, that the NVDAgraphics package can't be uninstalled. Okay, # pfexec pkg uninstall NVDAgraphics tells me that the package isn't installed. So it seems I have to uninstall the package nvidia. Right, when I try that, the error message is, that the package can't be uninstalled and I should try it in a different boot env. Fair enough, so I left X and switched to init 1. Same problem here. Hum. How to solve the prob? Thank's in advance jens57 Starting with b133, the IPS package name changed. See comment #10 of: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12196 Use the instructions in comments #5 and #6 with the new IPS package name to uninstall the bundled driver and install the legacy driver. I have IPS packages of the R173 and R96 legacy drivers but it turns out there are complications hosting these driver in a way where the bundled and two legacy driver exclude each other so that only one driver can be installed at a time. We are still trying to come up with a solution. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install
Thank you! Hum... j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm list BEActive Mountpoint Space Policy Created ---- -- - -- --- opensolaris - - 20.48M static 2010-03-05 14:00 opensolaris-1 - - 13.75M static 2010-03-05 16:11 opensolaris-2 - - 313.49M static 2010-03-05 18:37 opensolaris-3 NR / 6.36G static 2010-03-09 13:22 j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm create opensolaris-3-nvidia j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm mount opensolaris-3-nvidia /mnt j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphics Creating Plan pkg: 'NVDAgraphics' matches no installed packages j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphicsr Creating Plan pkg: 'NVDAgraphicsr' matches no installed packages j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec /bin/sh NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25.run --extract-only j...@opensolaris:~$ cd NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25 j...@opensolaris:~/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25$ pfexec pkgadd -R /mnt -d NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphic sr pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in /home/jens/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.25/NVDAgraphics Where is my fault...? You need to specify the directory (current directory) pfexec pkgadd -R /mnt -d . NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphic ^ - missing argument Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b134 Genunix site iso failing boot
On 03/ 9/10 05:29 AM, Chad Welsh wrote: well i typed the -s after $ZFS-BOOTFS and text after console= and it will not leave the boot splash screen just hangs there. my grub entry is: before changes findroot (root_pool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm forground d25f00 background 115d93 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS, console=graphic module /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive after changes findroot (root_pool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris Remove these 3 lines so you don't even see the splashscreen: splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm forground d25f00 background 115d93 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS -s, console=text module /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive i hope this can help me fix this and anything else. -- Alan ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] Problems with iscsi initiator with opensolaris 2009.06
Just wondering if anyone worked out the problem with the slow reboot with iscsi. I am seeing this myself now. Andrew -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b134 Genunix site iso failing boot
I usually get rid of the splash screen by commenting out splashimage, background lines (btw your forground looks quite strange, I do not have it, comment it out as well) I maybe made a mistake, my grub says console=vga Good luck -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b134 Genunix site iso failing boot
well i typed the -s after $ZFS-BOOTFS and text after console= and it will not leave the boot splash screen just hangs there. my grub entry is: before changes findroot (root_pool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm forground d25f00 background 115d93 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS, console=graphic module /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive after changes findroot (root_pool,0,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm forground d25f00 background 115d93 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS -s, console=text module /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive i hope this can help me fix this and anything else. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install [solved]
Thank you so much! It works great now. Before (glxgears): 78 FPS, now: 1500 FPS, even faster than on my Linux partitions! Great job. Now I've to sort out why firefox takes ages to start...30secs or so. Best Regards, Jens -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install
On 03/ 9/10 10:23 AM, Jens Richter wrote: j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphics Creating Plan pkg: 'NVDAgraphics' matches no installed packages My previous message mentioned the package name change. The command for b133 and higher is: $ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall -r driver/graphics/nvidia ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
summary: A zfs fs set with smb and nfs on, and set chmod g-s (set-gid) with a local users uid:gid is being mounted by a remote linux host (and windows hosts, but not discussing that here). The remote user is the same as the local user in both numeric UID and numeric GID The zfs nfs/cifs share is mounted like this on a linux client: mount -t nfs -o users,exec,dev,suid Any files/directories create by the linux user end up with nobody:nobody uid:gid and any attempt to change that from the client host fails, even if done as root. Details: I'm not sure when this trouble started... its been a while, long enough to have existed over a couple of builds (b129 b133). But was not always a problem. I jumped from 129 to 133 so don't know about builds in between. I have a zfs_fs .. /projects on zpool z3 this is a hierarchy that is fairly deep but only the top level is zfs. (Aside: That is something I intend to change soon) That is, the whole thing, of course, is zfs, but the lower levels have been created by whatever remote host was working there. z3/projects has these two settings: z3/projects sharenfs on z3/projects sharesmb name=projects So both cifs and nfs are turned on making the zfs host both a zfs and nfs server. Also when z3/projects was created, it was set: chmod g-s (set gid) right away. The remote linux user in this discussion has the same numeric UID and GID as the local zfs user who is owner of /projects Later, and more than once by now, I've run this command from the zfs host: /bin/chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow /projects to get read/write to work when working from windows hosts. The filesystem is primarily accessed as an nsf mounted filesystem on a linux (gentoo linux) host. But is also used over cifs by a couple of windows hosts. On the linux client host, `/projects' gets mounted like this: mount -t nfs -o users,exec,dev,suid That has been the case both before having the problem and now. The trouble I see is that all files get created with: nobody:nobody as UID:GID, even though /projects is set as normal USER:GROUP of a user on the zfs/nfs server. From the remote (we only deal with the linux remote here) any attempt to change uid:gid fails, even if done by root on the remote. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Native support for USB 3.0 in OpenSolaris
Hi: Is USB 3.0 currently supported natively by OpenSolaris or will support be merged into the operating system down the line? I just recently ordered a Gigabyte motherboard with an onboard USB 3.0 xHCI controller. Heck, linux has native support for USB 3.0 as of 2.6.31. Just curious. Thanks! Matt -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install
Hello rugrat Mea culpa. I missed the 10th commandment. Anyway, it's works great now. Thank's again. Jens -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] pcn driver considered harmful
I have tried to work with the pcn driver on various machines for well over a decade and it has never worked very well. Also check the man page for pcn : Known Problems and Limitations oOccasional data corruption has occurred when pcn and pcscsi drivers in HP Vectra XU 5/90 and Compaq Deskpro XL systems are used under high network and SCSI loads. These drivers do not perform well in a production server. A possible workaround is to dis- able the pcn device with the system BIOS and use a separate add-in network interface. oThe Solaris pcn driver does not support IRQ 4. The pcn driver is not GLDv3 smart. Just avoid it. Please get the ae driver at : http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ See item #13 there It works on everything I have ever tried and that includes the obscure like very old Solaris 8 on very old hardware : $ uname -a SunOS titan 5.8 Generic_127722-03 i86pc i386 i86pc $ cat /etc/release Solaris 8 2/02 s28x_u7wos_08a INTEL Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Assembled 18 December 2001 $ ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4 mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 ae1: flags=1000843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4 mtu 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.35.42 netmask ff00 broadcast 192.168.35.255 $ modinfo | grep pcnet driver 101 feac77bf ade4 80 1 ae (pcnet driver v2.4.2) If you need it on an older release I'll be happy to build it for you. Dennis Original Message Subject: Re: [osol-help] Extremely slow and unreliable networking. From:Christ Schlacta aarc...@aarcane.org Date:Tue, March 9, 2010 11:26 To: Lee allise...@gmail.com Cc: opensolaris-h...@opensolaris.org opensolaris-h...@opensolaris.org -- I had a similar experience. Nothing fixes it. Turned out to be switching hardware needs a reset. Simple, onvious solution, but easily overlooked On Mar 8, 2010, at 23:50, Lee allise...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Really hoping someone out there can help. I am new to Solaris/OpenSolaris but have a reasonable amount of experience with Linux. I have recently installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86 on a HP Visualize P750 workstation. The system is booting and running fine with the majority of hardware and services operating correctly. However I am having problems with the network adaptor that I cannot find a solution to. The ethernet adaptor is an AMD PCnet32 LANCE and is using the pcn driver. The adaptor is able to obtain an IP address and other network configuration details via DHCP, however network performance is very slow and unreliable. Web pages do not load, and establishing an SSH connection to the linux box next to it takes around 5 minutes. The same network card has been tested on the same physical network using a Ubuntu live cd. Additionally I have tried another network cable and switch port. dladm show-ether yields the following: Link: pcn0 ptype: current state:unknown auto:no speed-duplex: 0M pause:none MTU is set to 1500 (shown by dladm show-linkprop pcn0) Not really sure where to go from here, but without a network connection the box isn't very much fun! Any advice or guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Lee ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] ldoms and fc tape libraries?
Hi all, is it possible to access fc tape libraries from within a guest ldom? Can one assign NPIVs to ldom guests and based on that assign LUNs and FC tape libraries to guests? in ESX4 there is Direct Path, in PowerVM there is a virtual FC is there similar functionality in LDOM? Thanks a lot for your help! Best, Svetoslav -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Build 134 Won't boot
This post will mimic http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=125445tstart=0 Instead of booting a Live CD I already have the 64-bit version of build 133 loaded so I used pfexec pkg image-update --be-name name and let it do it's thing. Usually there is about a twenty minute wait from the time the Update counter stops until it declares that it's safe to go ahead and reboot. This time after image-update finished it was only about a five minute wait. On rebooting I also got the cyclone screen and then an immediate reboot. I let it take the default boot menu item and then tried to hit escape to read the screen. All I got was another reboot. So I read through the other post mentioned above and tried adding console=text which resulting in funny startup graphics but it did boot all the way through to the desktop. So I read the rest of the aforementioned posting and made the changes to menu.lst ( commenting out the splash image, foreground, and background lines) and then it boot to a black/grey sceen and I selected the default boot option (134) and there were no graphics of any kind and it revealed a normal boot process. Just the usual 8-10 lines and then gdm started and everything's been smooth sailing after that. Without the three lines in menu.lst then booting is fine but the splash image/foreground/background leaves it in a text only mode which is fine for a workaround but this needs to be fixed before the next general release. thanks, alan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Build 134 Won't boot
After removing the 133 boot environment then the system went back to the non booting again. So I had to modify menu.lst again and set console=text and then all was well. alan Message was edited by: alan_pae -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Build 134 Won't boot
On 03/ 9/10 08:50 PM, alan pae wrote: After removing the 133 boot environment then the system went back to the non booting again. So I had to modify menu.lst again and set console=text and then all was well. Saved me tonight. I had just upgraded from b133 to b134 and also was getting rapid rebooting. Changed my boot environment back to 133, read your post, added console=text to menu.lst and lo and behold, it now boots. Thanks, Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
