Re: Firefox on zLinux

2019-03-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 20:13, Mark Post wrote: > > On 3/13/19 11:39 AM, Adolph Kahan wrote: > > I am trying to get Firefox running on Linux on z and I keep getting > > Segmentation fault (core dumped). I have tried it on Clefos 7.5 and Ubuntu > > 18.10. Any ideas? > May I ask why you want to ru

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

2018-03-28 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 26 March 2018 at 15:45, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Dan, > > Thanks, that's helpful too. > > So I try "systemd-detect-virt" on a zLinux and get only get "zvm", which is > a start but not too helpful. > > What I'm learning is that /proc/sysinfo (and thus STSI) is arguably a > treasure trove of inf

Re: Up-to-date cargo & rustc on s390x

2018-02-06 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
0.23 ? Regards, Dimitri. > For a list/description of the 38k+ packages available see: > http://www.sinenomine.net/products/linux/clefos/packages > > On 2/6/18, 9:12 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Dimitri John Ledkov" > wrote: > > >Hello, > > >

Up-to-date cargo & rustc on s390x

2018-02-06 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, cargo and rustc on s390x are no longer building in either Debian or Ubuntu. cargo itself used to build, but fail all of its tests and it looks like it no longer builds at all. Which has caused rustc to drop out as well. Has anybody attempted to build / maintain / fix cargo & rustc on s390

Re: TERM=linux instead of TERM=dumb

2017-10-20 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On 18 October 2017 at 21:51, Dell Harris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out why TERM is being set to linux instead of dumb on > the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in the /etc/default/grub line of a system-z > guest on install of SLES 12 SP2. TERM=dumb is set in the parmfile but after

Re: Some General Linux on z questions

2017-03-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 15 February 2017 at 11:41, גדי בן אבי wrote: > Hi, > > I am starting to experiment with linux on z, and I have some questions. > > I currently have Ubuntu installed in an LPAR. > I have added kvm to this installation, and I can install guest operating > systems. > > I also have the KVM for z,

Re: Some General Linux on z questions

2017-02-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 15 February 2017 at 11:41, גדי בן אבי wrote: > Hi, > > I am starting to experiment with linux on z, and I have some questions. > > I currently have Ubuntu installed in an LPAR. > I have added kvm to this installation, and I can install guest operating > systems. > > I also have the KVM

Re: systemd-analyze

2016-10-27 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 27 October 2016 at 15:32, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > I heard about this new cool command and tried it, but it did not work: > > # systemd-analyze time > Bootup is not yet finished. Please try again later. > > How would I analyze systemd to know why 'bootup is not yet finished'? This > is SLES 12

s390-tools on github

2016-09-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, powerpc-utils are available from github. are s390-tools available there too? If not, could IBM please host and/or mirror s390-tools there? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: SLES 12 - to btrfs or not to btrfs

2016-08-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 16 August 2016 at 19:45, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Was wondering what other people have decided to do for their file systems in > SLES 12. > Stable tried and try ext3 or new function (and more space) with btrfs. Any > use of xfs? > It is a different kind of pokemon. Do you have softwa

Re: LinuxONE Community Cloud??

2016-07-18 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 18 July 2016 at 17:36, John McKown wrote: > I would like to "mess around" with Linux on z. I'm a z/OS sysprog & > Linux/Intel "power" user (I use Fedora). I can see where I can get a "120 > day free trial". But not one word on how much it is thereafter. Really, > IBM. I do _not_ respond

Re: UBUNTU on HERCULES

2016-06-23 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 23 June 2016 at 23:01, Tom Huegel wrote: > Thanks Mark, > I'm telling Hercules it is s z13 (2964 N30) but I don't know that Hercules > does anything with that other than reflect it in the STSI instruction... > How does UBUNTU determine the hardware level? > There is no special ways to

Re: How to unformat a dasd drive?

2016-05-19 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 19 May 2016 at 21:51, Mark Post wrote: On 5/19/2016 at 04:41 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > >> I did. Unfortunately, being ignorant of script writing on Linux, I don't >> know any more than I did before I read it. :-) > > Ah, well... In that case, I check to see if there's 1 or 3 numbers se

How to unformat a dasd drive?

2016-05-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, Is it possible to "unformat" a dasd drive such that on Linux it appears as "n/f" in lsdasd output? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist

Re: chzdev in SLES?

2016-05-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 4 May 2016 at 11:27, Mark Post wrote: On 5/4/2016 at 08:46 AM, Peter Oberparleiter > wrote: >> Please note that the zdev tools (chzdev, lszdev) included in s390-tools >> 1.33 are the result of a full rework. I'm confident that all major >> issues of earlier versions have been resolved by

Re: Debian install using LVM

2016-04-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 12 April 2016 at 16:22, Martha McConaghy wrote: > Mark, > > I've been using the installer, so I don't get to see the underlying config > files. I'll try it again and see if I can get to /etc/zipl.conf. The > installer doesn't say why it can't write out ZIPL, just that it cannot. I >

Re: Debian install using LVM

2016-04-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 12 April 2016 at 00:00, Martha McConaghy wrote: > I've been fighting with a Debian install all day and wonder if anyone else > has run into the same problem. I wanted to use LVM for the root filesystem, > so created a /boot partition and an LVM for the rest. Everything works fine > unt

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta for IBM LinuxONE and z Systems

2016-04-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 4 April 2016 at 17:15, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Tito. > > That is what my environment here is, too; a laptop zPDT box with the > latest version of the z1090 code.: >> >> z1090, version 1-6.49.17, build date - 12/07/15 for Linux on SuSE 64bit > > How could we get Canonical Ltd. to update

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta for IBM LinuxONE and z Systems

2016-03-31 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
m Should work as hostnames, with no further protocol/ports/etc. It would complete install over HTTP, using default port, on either ipv4 or ipv6. Regards, Dimitri. > Thank you, > Ray > > > On 3/31/2016 07:12, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> >> Hello, >> &g

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta for IBM LinuxONE and z Systems

2016-03-31 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
is a link to full downloads with all check sums and GPG signatures. Look for "If it doesn’t, or for alternative options ***visit the download page***". Click there to access check-sums & GPG signatures. Regards, Dimitri. > -Mike MacIsaac > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta for IBM LinuxONE and z Systems

2016-03-31 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, Last week Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta was shipped, with final expected on 21st of April. This release includes a port of Ubuntu to s390x architecture (zEC12 and up). I hope you find this post relevant, and if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask, I'll try to answer everything as best a

Re: OpenMainframeProject

2016-01-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 12 December 2015 at 14:08, Phil Tully wrote: > Yes I am involved with the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project. We have a > Technical Steering Committee which set the project direction. We expect to > have focus on projects that will benefit running open software on the > mainfra

Re: OpenMainframeProject

2015-12-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
I think the question is about Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project in partnership with a bunch of people. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/08/linux-foundation-brings-together-industry-heavyweights-advance https://www.openmainframeproject.org/ Regards, Dimitri. On