Re: [indiana-discuss] issue with 101a: resume broken (worked in 100)

2008-11-12 Thread Free
hello all, (i'm posting to several lists) As i already said, suspend-resume works well in b100, but since upgraded to 101a_rc1b, the resume doesn't work, the disk seems to work permanently and the only choice i have is to poweroff the machine. i found this bug: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems with rc1b

2008-11-12 Thread Bart Smaalders
Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Some people probably feel the same way about zsh. I'm not one of them. > > By the way, I'd much rather have /bin/tcsh than /bin/ksh93. Is this a > case of unfair shell discrimination? :-) > > Give me a working /bin/tcsh, and I can work well enough to quickly > install

Re: [indiana-discuss] How to use os200811-global.usb ?

2008-11-12 Thread Jean Dion
Instead of have us finding how create bootable usb key for 2 hours, why no one write a tool and publish it on OpenSolaris website like other Linux distributions are doing? Here is one most Windows users would like to have for OpenSolaris http://lewk.org/blog/liveusb-creator-2.0.html I waste way

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:02:17PM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > about manually creating directories in /var/yp, etc. that NIS experts just > > rattle off, but that I've never done manually. > > ypinit -c will ask you the questions, set the appropriate files, > create directories, and enabl

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread mary ding
Haik: You can go ahead and file a bug with sysunconfig and lay out your workaround on what you did in /etc/nwam/llp. Haik Aftandilian wrote: > Mary, > > mary ding wrote: >> Dan and other: >> >> I filed bug 4645 when I use sys-unconfig. >> >> I had to do this to use DNS on my seperate subnet

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems with rc1b

2008-11-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Shawn Walker wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Garrett D'Amore >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The last issue on *this* rant, is the lack of tcsh. For well over a >>> decade tcsh has been available on just about every install of Solaris. >>> I have it as my d

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Haik Aftandilian
Mary, mary ding wrote: > Dan and other: > > I filed bug 4645 when I use sys-unconfig. > > I had to do this to use DNS on my seperate subnet and before I run > sys-unconfig, I had to disable nwam and switch to network physical so > that sysconfig will work correctly. > > # svcadm disable nwam

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Renee Danson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08:48PM +0100, Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > Sebastien Roy pe v st 12. 11. 2008 v 16:08 -0500: > > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 13:02 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > * Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 20:46]: > > > > I have to believe there's more to it th

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems with rc1b

2008-11-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The last issue on *this* rant, is the lack of tcsh. For well over a >> decade tcsh has been available on just about every install of Solaris. >> I have it as my default shell. If I ever did g

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems with rc1b

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last issue on *this* rant, is the lack of tcsh. For well over a > decade tcsh has been available on just about every install of Solaris. > I have it as my default shell. If I ever did get NIS working, I still > wo

Re: [indiana-discuss] package manager's performance

2008-11-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Wayne: > You are so lucky. On my machine it always takes a > long time to load the package list, and then more > time to load the descriptions for each package. And > during this period, the keyboard input is lost Funny thing. These were exactly the kind of problems I experienced with os2008.

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Sebastien, Sebastien Roy píše v st 12. 11. 2008 v 16:08 -0500: > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 13:02 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > * Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 20:46]: > > > I have to believe there's more to it than that; surely I have to svcadm > > > as > > > Milan notes, and then I

[indiana-discuss] Initial live boot takes a long time

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Fenwick
The first time I attempt to boot the live CD on a Sun x4100 there is a long delay, about 10 minutes, between seeing the message: Probing for Devices .. and Preparing live image for use. Eventually I see: WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10022,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1000,[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpt0

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
Dan Mick wrote: >> ypinit -c will ask you the questions, set the appropriate files, >> create directories, and enable services. (Turning a NIS client with an >> explicit list of servers into a broadcast client requires the fiddling >> you mention.) >> >> > > Excellent! I was not a

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
...and we're back to the reason I asked the question... Hopefully this will be resolved somehow before we release. mary ding wrote: > Dan and other: > > I filed bug 4645 when I use sys-unconfig. > > I had to do this to use DNS on my seperate subnet and before I run > sys-unconfig, I had to disa

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
> ypinit -c will ask you the questions, set the appropriate files, > create directories, and enable services. (Turning a NIS client with an > explicit list of servers into a broadcast client requires the fiddling > you mention.) > Excellent! I was not aware, and this is the obvious r

Re: [indiana-discuss] Support for Terratec DMX 24/96?

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Whapples
Thanks for passing on the message Will. I don't know about actually technically supporting it, but here is a bit more info about the card should it be useful. In linux the ice1712 alsa driver is the one I need to use. That ice1712 driver seems to work reasonably well for me (talking as an end u

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread mary ding
Dan and other: I filed bug 4645 when I use sys-unconfig. I had to do this to use DNS on my seperate subnet and before I run sys-unconfig, I had to disable nwam and switch to network physical so that sysconfig will work correctly. # svcadm disable nwam # svcadm enable network/physical:default

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Haik Aftandilian
> Milan Jurik wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > Dan Mick píše v Út 11. 11. 2008 v 20:31 -0800: > > > >> Is there a correct way to set up NIS with > OpenSolaris 2008.11? > >> > > > > what should be different against Solaris? > > In Solaris, I select it when I install. I thought > there might be

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 13:02 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 20:46]: > > I have to believe there's more to it than that; surely I have to svcadm as > > Milan notes, and then I have to do some > > selection of domain, and potentially servers, etc. I recall s

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 20:46]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: >> * Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 14:30]: >> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> Dan Mick pí?e v Út 11. 11. 2008 v 20:31 -0800: >>> Is there a correct way to set up NIS with OpenSolaris 2008.11? >>> wha

[indiana-discuss] Support for Terratec DMX 24/96?

2008-11-12 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I received a comment from a user on the Orca user's list today (I've BCC'd him to protect his e-mail address): "Whilst opensolaris is looking good, and I am considering using it on my laptop, there is one very big issue stopping me from wanting to use it on my desktop, it doesn't support

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 14:30]: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> Dan Mick pí?e v Út 11. 11. 2008 v 20:31 -0800: >> >>> Is there a correct way to set up NIS with OpenSolaris 2008.11? >>> >> what should be different against Solaris? If you disable nwam and

Re: [indiana-discuss] package manager's performance

2008-11-12 Thread Michal Pryc
Harry Fu wrote: >> Hi Harry, >> >> I just IPS-installed OpenSolaris.org 3.0.0 and its >> associated zh_CN, zh_TW, and ja_JP localization >> packages into my os200811_RC1 vdi (running in Vista, >> and the VirtualBox image is stored in a low-speed >> USB-powered HD). I actually found the response to

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Dan Mick píše v Út 11. 11. 2008 v 20:31 -0800: > >> Is there a correct way to set up NIS with OpenSolaris 2008.11? >> > > what should be different against Solaris? In Solaris, I select it when I install. I thought there might be an actual convenience fea

Re: [indiana-discuss] How to use os200811-global.usb ?

2008-11-12 Thread James Legg
Seb, I managed to boot my MacBook Pro an early 1.83Ghz CoreDuo Model with the USB stick ok, as I mentioned before using rEFIt as a bootloader to select the USB stick. Good luck! - James On 12 Nov 2008, at 09:47, Sébastien Stormacq wrote: > James, > > Nothing is wrong, this is just for the f

[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris newsletter

2008-11-12 Thread Roman Strobl
Hi guys, there is a new newsletter for the OpenSolaris distribution that our team contributes to: http://www.sun.com/emrkt/opensolaris/ignite Feel free to subscribe :) If you have any suggestions for content, please send them to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, -Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangeli

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 14:30]: > Hi Dan, > > Dan Mick pí?e v Út 11. 11. 2008 v 20:31 -0800: > > Is there a correct way to set up NIS with OpenSolaris 2008.11? > > what should be different against Solaris? If you disable nwam and enable > physical, you can use standard yp to

Re: [indiana-discuss] Nautilus in 101a unusable

2008-11-12 Thread Erwann Chenede
Hi James, James Gosling wrote: > Erwann Chenede wrote: >> Hi James, >> >>This is a known problem see 6763600 for details. I'm working on >> it. I will implement both a background thread >>and a preferences to disable it. > Any chance it'll make it into 2008.11? The whole facility is pre

Re: [indiana-discuss] Observations while testing 101a-rc1b iso standard image

2008-11-12 Thread Gilles Gravier
Title: E-mail Signature Sun 2006 About sudo and pfexec ... Pfexec leverages the role-based access control. Basically, it requests a specific priviledge and the system checks that you, as the user, has that priviledge, and then will run the application with the required priviledge. This allows

Re: [indiana-discuss] gnome save session

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
George Koutras wrote: > Hi, > > I have been looking around snv_b101 for save session option but I think > it has been removed. Is this the case or am I embarrassingly not > looking at the right place? Removed, due to upstream rewrite not including the save functionality: 6753114 session handl

[indiana-discuss] gnome save session

2008-11-12 Thread George Koutras
Hi, I have been looking around snv_b101 for save session option but I think it has been removed. Is this the case or am I embarrassingly  not looking at the right place? Thnx ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http:/

Re: [indiana-discuss] Nautilus in 101a unusable

2008-11-12 Thread James Gosling
Erwann Chenede wrote: > Hi James, > >This is a known problem see 6763600 for details. I'm working on > it. I will implement both a background thread >and a preferences to disable it. Any chance it'll make it into 2008.11? The whole facility is pretty much unusable as it is. > > Th

Re: [indiana-discuss] Nautilus in 101a unusable

2008-11-12 Thread James Gosling
Alfred Peng wrote: > James Gosling wrote: >> Nautilus in 101a is totally unusable: when opening any directory, it >> goes to sleep for *minutes*. I haven't tracked it down completely, >> but I believe that it has to do with the new "restore" facility >> scanning the ZFS snapshots on my machine:

Re: [indiana-discuss] NTFS mounting rw on opensolaris 2008.11

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:25:26AM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:51:39PM -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > http://blogs.sun.com/gerhardhofweber/entry/ntfs_mounting_rw_on_opensolaris > > > > I have not tried it yet, but will in the very near future. > > I should take a

Re: [indiana-discuss] NTFS mounting rw on opensolaris 2008.11

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:51 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > http://blogs.sun.com/gerhardhofweber/entry/ntfs_mounting_rw_on_opensolaris > > I have not tried it yet, but will in the very near future. > > The instructions seem to be very thorough. Thanks a whole bunch! I should warn you that fuse

Re: [indiana-discuss] nvidia driver 177.80 spoils fast reboot

2008-11-12 Thread Sherry Moore
> I often see this after a "nightly" onnv-gate compilation has finished > and I "bfu" upgraded the system, and I try to restart into the new kernel > using a fast reboot (that is, after heavy use of the machine). > > The bfu upgrade process does update the boot_archive, three times in a row > (aft

Re: [indiana-discuss] NTFS mounting rw on opensolaris 2008.11

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:51:39PM -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > http://blogs.sun.com/gerhardhofweber/entry/ntfs_mounting_rw_on_opensolaris > > I have not tried it yet, but will in the very near future. I should take a look at it sometime. It'd be nice if this could use the Solaris ID mapping A

Re: [indiana-discuss] [eeepc-discuss] Installation Failed on EeePC900 (OS2008.11 RC1 101a)

2008-11-12 Thread Masafumi Ohta
Rob-san I haven't tried to install onto SDHC lately,so will let me try this weekend. (I have new A-data 16GB SDHC,I will use for it) if you got the CR number for it,please let me know. Thanks a lot, -masafumi On 2008/11/12, at 22:19, robs wrote: > Hi. > > I saw the same thing on my 900 whe

Re: [indiana-discuss] package manager's performance

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Fu
> Hi Harry, > > I just IPS-installed OpenSolaris.org 3.0.0 and its > associated zh_CN, zh_TW, and ja_JP localization > packages into my os200811_RC1 vdi (running in Vista, > and the VirtualBox image is stored in a low-speed > USB-powered HD). I actually found the response to be > quite acceptable

Re: [indiana-discuss] Problems with NVIDIA driver when cold booting

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Guido Berhoerster wrote: > * Jürgen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-11 14:32]: >> I think the following bug was filed for this issue: >> >> CR 6766472 >> *Synopsis*: MSIs do not function on some Nvidia boards > > Hm, I only get "this bug is not available". Searching for > "nvidia" on both bugst

Re: [indiana-discuss] Observations while testing 101a-rc1b iso standard image

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Frische
1) see the release notes. for now, the official minimum is 768. 2) i found this bug http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4762 . you might want to monitor it. 3) on solaris you have to use pfexec instead of sudo. you can use sudo, but you'd have to configure it yourself. regards, Andr

Re: [indiana-discuss] set up NIS

2008-11-12 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Dan, Dan Mick píše v Út 11. 11. 2008 v 20:31 -0800: > Is there a correct way to set up NIS with OpenSolaris 2008.11? what should be different against Solaris? If you disable nwam and enable physical, you can use standard yp tools. Best regards, Milan

Re: [indiana-discuss] [eeepc-discuss] Installation Failed on EeePC900 (OS2008.11 RC1 101a)

2008-11-12 Thread robs
Hi. I saw the same thing on my 900 when I tried 101a as well. I messed around a bit with the Software Install setting in the BIOS, changing it from START (which had seemed logical) to FINISHED... and it came up a bit more, but still has hung a number of times when I've tried to install onto a

[indiana-discuss] Observations while testing 101a-rc1b iso standard image

2008-11-12 Thread Torsten Blix
Hi all, I tried out the 101a-rc1b iso standard image (live CD) inside VirtualBox on Windows Vista (64bit). I noticed a couple of things: 1) The (VirtualBox) standard of 512 MB RAM for the virtual machine does not go well together with the live CD image. OpenSolaris boots OK into the graphical

Re: [indiana-discuss] nvidia driver 177.80 spoils fast reboot

2008-11-12 Thread Juergen Keil
Sherry Moore wrote: > This is a known limitation. Currently I keep track of the physical > pages of the new kernel and boot archive using a contiguous array under > physical address 1G for simplicity. I did notice that on certain > systems, after the boot archives are updated, we consistently fa

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 2008.11 snv_99 on Asus Eee PC 1000h

2008-11-12 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Masafumi Ohta pisze: > hi Pawel-san > > Eee 1000h and Atom-based notebooks now don't work internal network > equipments.but you can use external usb-based wifi adapters; > http://masafumi-ohta.blogspot.com/2008/07/report-opensolaris-installation-on-my.html > or you should buy Eee 701 or 900 which

Re: [indiana-discuss] Problems with NVIDIA driver when cold booting

2008-11-12 Thread Guido Berhoerster
* Jürgen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-11 14:32]: > I think the following bug was filed for this issue: > > CR 6766472 > *Synopsis*: MSIs do not function on some Nvidia boards Hm, I only get "this bug is not available". Searching for "nvidia" on both bugster and bugzilla doesn't return this

Re: [indiana-discuss] Nautilus in 101a unusable

2008-11-12 Thread Erwann Chenede
Hi James, This is a known problem see 6763600 for details. I'm working on it. I will implement both a background thread and a preferences to disable it. Thanks, Erwann James Gosling wrote: > Nautilus in 101a is totally unusable: when opening any directory, it >

Re: [indiana-discuss] How to use os200811-global.usb ?

2008-11-12 Thread Sébastien Stormacq
James, Nothing is wrong, this is just for the fun :-) Seb --- Sébastien Stormacq Senior Software Architect GSS Software Practice, Sun Microsystems Luxembourg On 12 Nov 2008, at 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just out of interest - whats up with booting from the CD/DVD on the > MacBook Pro

Re: [indiana-discuss] How to use os200811-global.usb ?

2008-11-12 Thread mail
Just out of interest - whats up with booting from the CD/DVD on the MacBook Pro - I have managed that a couple of times with an original 2008.05 disk. I am using rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) as a bootloader on my Mac - I'll have a go with my USB stick tonight and see what happens. -Jam

[indiana-discuss] RC1 on Eee 901

2008-11-12 Thread Masafumi Ohta
I tried to install RC1 on my Eee 901,It went almost good,but wifi and wired haven't worked yet and now have no workaround.(have to use some usb-based wifi adapters) Ralink wifi problem on Eee 901 has CR 6732657,I hope it will be solved soon.. Regards, -masafumi __

Re: [indiana-discuss] T60p, ATI graphics, and build 101a

2008-11-12 Thread Jedy Wang
CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:03 -0800, Michael Schuster wrote: > All, > > I'm still seeing the problem with this laptop that when I close the lid, > graphics don't come back properly - rather, I see meaningless blocks of > colour (a bit like 80x25 graphics "characters"). > > T

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems with rc1b

2008-11-12 Thread Ché Kristo
Whilst I appreciate that some people prefer not to have graphical boot please consider that a user with the unix knowledge to understand text dialogue during boot up would have the necessary intelligence to locate information on how to disable "happy face". I agree with your idea of having a "ho

Re: [indiana-discuss] Installation Failed on EeePC 900 (OS2008.11 RC1 101a)

2008-11-12 Thread Masafumi Ohta
> > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:36:09 +0800 > From: "Qingye Jiang (John)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [indiana-discuss] Installation Failed on EeePC 900 (OS > 2008.11 RC1 101a) > To: indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub displays "Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure"

2008-11-12 Thread Nils Goroll
Gerard, do you happen to have gzip compression enabled for you rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-X ? If yes, disable compression or use lzjb (same as compression=on). I have documented a procedure which did work for me here (not using milax, but an opensolaris distro): http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Nautilus in 101a unusable

2008-11-12 Thread Alfred Peng
James Gosling wrote: > Nautilus in 101a is totally unusable: when opening any directory, it > goes to sleep for *minutes*. I haven't tracked it down completely, but > I believe that it has to do with the new "restore" facility scanning the > ZFS snapshots on my machine: there are currently 607