[osol-help] SOLVED: Previously functional osol system now hangs on boot
I disconnected from my motherboard the cable for the front panel USB ports. This made the problem go away. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] Previously functional osol system now hangs on boot
Hello all, A system on which I've been running osol without major problems for almost two years now hangs, about the time when it tries to go into multi-user mode, I think. I can boot into single-user mode, and "zpool status" reports no errors. I have an error message coming up which was not produced before: WARNING: /p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@2 (ohci0): Connecting device on port 5 failed If I do a verbose boot, at one point, the above message is preceded by "usba:". I'm running snv_134. I also still have an snv_133 boot environment, but when I try to boot into that, exactly the same thing happens. Also, when I tried to boot the osol 2009.06 live CD-ROM, I ended up in the GRUB command-line interface, whereas before it booted fine. However, a LInux live CD-ROM boots without any problems. I'm pretty sure that the problem is hardware related. The USB ports in the front of my x86_64 PC do not work. Yesterday, I stuck a USB stick into them, with no response. Then I stuck it into a rear USB port, and the stick got mounted. It was at this time that I noticed the above error message for the first time, when I did "dmesg". Today, although I had not logged out or rebooted my computer for several days, when I went back to my computer, I noticed that it had logged me out, and the Gnome display manager was prompting me to log in. But when I tried to do so, I could not enter my user id using the keyboard. It was then that I rebooted, to find that I can only boot into single-user mode. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can boot into multi-user mode, and have GUI functionality again? I don't need USB disk drive functionality. I have a USB keyboard, but it works in single-user mode. Is there perhaps some service or services that I can disable? Any help, suggestions for troubleshooting, or explanations for what might be going wrong would be much appreciated. At this point, the only solution I can think of myself is replacing my case and/or motherboard. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] ntp4 (ntp4.2.5-best2-i386.pkg) service cannot be started
You can try running ntpd directly with "/usr/lib/inet/ntpd --nofork" and see what happens. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Is xVM on Solaris 10 or not?
You can't run Solaris as dom0, because it has not been paravirtualized: [url=http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/guest-compatibility/]Guest types known to work and not work at OpenSolaris.org[/url] -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Packages needed for scientific computing and LaTeX
As for LaTeX, TeX Live can be installed using the [url=http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html]TeX Live installer[/url]. It's not that hard to do if you're already familiar with TeX. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] blastwave and sunfreeware ips repositories down?
I'm not sure if Blastwave are ever going to properly support IPS. I've gone back to using their SVR4 packages. Their servers for SVR4 packages are working fine. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] how to move to a larger partition
Yes, the relevant zfs commands are snapshot, send, and receive. See the zfs man page. As I learned from [url=http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=413236]this other thread[/url], there's something to be said for having a second zpool on the same disk for data. 30 gb is pretty minimal for a root zpool, but you might be able to get by with it until you get another drive. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Two zpools on same disk deprecated ?
I'm sorry: I guess I gave incorrect information in that [url=http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=112068&tstart=0]other thread[/url]. The author of the blog entry I refer you to there apparently has two zpools on the same disk, as described in that entry. He has a second zpool for the same reason you do: "There is also a separate zpool that contains data that needs to be preserved in case a re-installation of Solaris is required." (Personally, I have enough confidence in the osol update process that I am willing to forgo a separate data zpool, so that I can have one zpool take up the whole disk, increasing flexibility.) When I wrote that having two zpools on the same disk is deprecated, I think that what I was thinking of is that you can't have two Solaris boot partitions on the same disk. Also, using more than one partition on the same disk for THE SAME zpool is deprecated, I believe. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] how to move to a larger partition
You can't grow the 30gb partition to take up the free space, since you can't grow the physical devices that belong to a zpool: you can only add storage to a zpool by adding devices. The best thing would be to delete the 30 gb partition (copying any data you want to preserve) and create a new 200 gb partition using parted, and reinstall OpenSolaris. (I don't know if the the installer will create a new partition from free space, so you might as well create the new one when you delete the old one.) If you don't want to do that, you might try creating a new 170 gb partition and adding it to your existing root zpool (again, backing up any data you want to preserve, since this procedure is not officially supported), but even if that works, it is not recommended to have more than one partition belonging to a given zpool on the same drive. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] How to install opensolaris in existing slice
You can install osol in your existing zpool on s6 as described [url=http://blogs.sun.com/bobn/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_coexistence_in]here[/url]. Otherwise, you can see if the osol installer will do an install on s0, creating a new zpool. I'm pretty sure that installing osol in a UFS file system is not supported. In any case, having two zpools on the same drive is deprecated. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer
For the record, MPlayer works fine under OpenSolaris on my desktop machine with my new 23 inch monitor, with absolutely no configuration required. I've never been inclined to run osol on laptops though, because I think that's overkill, but mostly because I want suspend and hibernation to work. Linux is good for that sort of thing. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer
I wonder why - it worked for me. I just didn't like their version because it doesn't have x264 encoding enabled. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer
That link gives instructions for building MPlayer-1.0rc2. The MPlayer download page describes that version as "outdated", and recommends using a current Subversion snapshot, which is what the original poster was trying to do. If MPlayer-1.0rc2 is all you want, you might as well download the binary from Blastwave: there's no point in compiling it yourself. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer
This has been discussed in [url=http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=395495#395495]this thread[/url]. I'm attaching a patch for the problem. I've submitted the patch to the MPlayer developers [url=http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-July/061837.html]here[/url]. This has also been [url=http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4572]reported as a bug of the GNU assembler[/url], but the maintainers of binutils do not appear interested in making GAS for Solaris targets behave like GAS for Linux and BSD targets. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org solaris-divide+ginstall.diff Description: Binary data ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] I think I should forget about OpenSolaris... opinion?
Complain to the VLC developers. From their mailing list, it's apparent that they think that OpenSolaris is a joke. Hence, they show no interest in making their code compile under Solaris, in contrast to the MPlayer developers. Thus, MPlayer compiles easily under OpenSolaris, but VLC doesn't. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Monitoring zpool?
> Should one of the drives in the zpool fail I want the system to pop the big > "red flag" on top of everything > (Gnome/VBox/etc) and warn me before the second drive dies and I lose my dear > MP3s. Indeed. That's something I want, too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris GRUB Loader
Configure the OpenSolaris GRUB to boot your Linux installation by adding an entry to /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst . Hopefully you made a copy of menu.lst from your Ubuntu installation which you have access to, the way you're supposed to if you're dual-booting osol. Otherwise, you'll have to experiment with grub in the command line to see what the commands are to get Ubuntu to boot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] DHCP client not getting renewed
I had the same problem: my firewall was blocking dhcp from getting new leases. I finally figured out how to fix that when I ran across this blog post: http://blogs.sun.com/tonyn/entry/firewall_configuration_in_opensolaris_2009 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Dual boot with Windows Xp (where SuSE once resided)
There's no reason to pre-commit either way. You can have OpenSolaris and SXCE within the same root zpool: http://blogs.sun.com/bobn/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_coexistence_in";>Solaris and OpenSolaris coexistence in the same root zpool I've used the technique described there to install SXCE onto my OpenSolaris box. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Dual boot with Windows Xp (where SuSE once resided)
I believe that the main complication is that, as far as I know, the OpenSolaris installation program cannot destroy existing partitions. You probably have several partitions for SuSE; OpenSolaris puts everything into one ZFS partition. The easiest thing to do would probably be to use fdisk from a Linux live CD to do the repartitioning, replacing your Linux partitions (including swap) with one Solaris partition. Then you can start the install, saying what partition you want OpenSolaris to install into. Alternatively, you could probably use format from the OpenSolaris live CD to do the repartitioning, but that takes some getting used to. See http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/partition.html";>Partitioning a Multiboot System. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] x86-64 64-bit mode
You might be interested in seeing whether your programs assemble under SunStudio. which can be downloaded as a package in OpenSolaris. To control whether gcc or SunStudio is used to build your programs, modify $PATH. You also might find the following helpful: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5138";>Solaris 64-bit Developer's Guide http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5477";>x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Change to releases since 2008.11?
I recall reading that starting with the official release of 2008.11, official updates will only be released with future official releases, e.g., 2009.4 or whatever. Now that the dev repository (http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/) has been introduced with the release of 2008.11, packages from successive releases of Nevada (e.g., snv_105) get placed in the dev repository. I also was not able to get ¨pkg image-update¨ to update using the packages in that depository. To do that, I had to use, as I recall, ¨pkg install entire¨: the dependencies specified in the entire package will force the updates to get installed. However, you have to be careful: ¨pkg image-update¨automatically creates a backup boot environment of your current BE, but ¨pkg install¨ does not, so you have to do that by hand. The easiest way to do this is ¨beadm create ¨. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Play Video Files in OpenSolaris - DVD, .avi, .wmv, .mpeg etc
The package of mplayer in the Blastwave repo plays region-encrypted DVDs, as well as every video format I've tried. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] It is possible to Install Belenix and opensolaris in the same disk?
If you want to explore OpenSolaris, why are you installing two different distributions? Both OpenSolaris 2008.11 and BeeliniX come in the form of a live CD. Why not play around with the live CD of each distribution, see which is more to your liking, and then install just that one on your hard drive? You can then install the distro you didn't install on your hard drive into VirtualBox and play around with it that way. But to answer your question, since BeleniX is based on OpenSolaris, and the live boot technology of OpenSolaris derives from BeeliniX, I would say that the answer to your question is probably not, given my experience with the OpenSolaris installer. If you desperately want to install two distributions before you have explored either of them, however, you might try setting the first partition not to be a Solaris partition temporarily. That should force the installers to use the second partition. As far as having Nevada and OpenSolaris on the same disk goes, it is better to place them in the same partition but in different boot environments, as described here: http://blogs.sun.com/bobn/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_coexistence_in -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Remove WinXP partition
Sorry to jump in late. The instructions for removing the WinXP partition given above seem to be correct, but they won't do you much good, since ZFS won't automatically detect the free space. Furthermore, I don't believe that you can even manually make ZFS use the extra space, if you increase the size of the partition OS is installed in. Finally, you can't add a second OS partition, since there can be only one ZFS partition on a given hard drive. If you want to use all of your hard drive for OS, you will have to reinstall. (I have gone through this process myself, wiping out Fedora Linux from my hard drive, when I initially had a dual-boot setup.) Of course, copy any data you have to another disk first. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] mplayer and vlc MIA from Blastwave
It's very nice to know that mplayer compiles easily under OpenSolaris. But the binary from Blastwave works fine, too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] System won´t start
You might be able to use the 2008.11 live CD as a rescue CD. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] System won´t start
I read in the Solaris System Administration Guide: Basic Administration that there is something called "failsafe mode". I actually thought that that's what you get into with the "-s" switch, but it turns out you need to specify a different from the usual module line. But I looked at the relevant pages, and it doesn't appear that OpenSolaris comes with a failsafe boot archive. So that is a dead end. The manual is here: http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/817-1985/817-1985.pdf. I guess what you need is a Solaris rescue CD. You can try googling for that. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] System won´t start
Can you boot into single-user mode? You need to add "-s" to the kernel line that grub reads. How to do that is explained here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/fvzqr?l=en&a=view If you can, you should be able to run crle again to undo your change. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] How to swith layouts?
Use setxkbmap. See the man page. A list of the layouts supported is in /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Adding a new partition to the system
Re 1: I remember reading somewhere that you can't have more than one Solaris partition (ZFS partition, anyway) on a hard drive. I wanted to do the same thing you did, but ended up wiping out Linux from my hard drive and reinstalling OpenSolaris onto the whole disk. The preferred approach of course is to run Linux and Windows inside Solaris with VirtualBox. ;-) Re 2: Have you looked at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/newbie_faq/ ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Sound stopped working after update with Update Manager (OS 2008.11)
As far as I know, the only packages that are different between 2008.11rc2 and 2008.11 are the entire package and one other package which, like entire, is a "consolidation" package and does not contain any files but merely specifies dependencies. The first thing I would do is keep your old boot environment, and indeed boot into it. Verify that sound works there, as I think it should given what you said you did. Then update your system again, as per the instructions here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200805/image-update/ This would create another new boot environment. Now, reboot into that environment and see if sound works. Then, if you want, you can install SUNWgnome-media-mp3 and see if that breaks anything. Although, personally, I don't know what SUNWgnome-media-mp3 is for, since to get gstreamer working with mp3 you apparently need to follow the instructions described in this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=85323&tstart=0 Anyway, that's how I got Rhythmbox and Songbird to play mp3 files on my computer. I'm probably just as new to (Open)Solaris as you are, so I am no expert. But this seems to be a perfect opportunity to take advantage of the ZFS snapshot feature, which is what gives you multiple BEs. I have SUNWgnome-media-mp3 installed btw and did the same update you did (without even creating a new BE, since the update was trivial) and did not experience any problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Songbird in 2008.11
Another place this is discussed is
http://unixsadm.blogspot.com/2008/06/gstreamer-plugins-to-decode-mp3-files.html
The last comment tells you how to get the source so you can compile this
yourself, avoiding having to go through the shopping cart/checkout business.
(There is no up to date tarball at the link given; to get the up to date
source, you need to use Subversion.)
Another comment there suggests it is better to use Sun Studio than gcc to
compile. If you have Sun Studio installed, you can do this by setting the
environment variable CC to "cc" ("export CC=cc") and placing
"/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin" at the front of your PATH before you run make.
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