Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] strange reboot behavior: deadman timeout

2012-02-20 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On 21.02.2012 08:47, Lou Picciano wrote: All, Really stumped on this one: even after recent updates, we are unable to do a smooth software reboot; see a deadman timeout and CPU panic, followed by a core dump. Immediately thereafter, the machine _does_ reboot itself. Hmmm The machine ha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] strange reboot behavior: deadman timeout

2012-02-20 Thread Lou Picciano
All, Really stumped on this one: even after recent updates, we are unable to do a smooth software reboot; see a deadman timeout and CPU panic, followed by a core dump. Immediately thereafter, the machine _does_ reboot itself. Hmmm The machine has recently been upgraded to prestable-a1; pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Schuster
The last time I did something like that, I need to be root (or equivalent) ... did you do that? HTH Michael On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:28, Mark Creamer wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems to be working > properly (oi_151a with all current updates). The only issue I c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Please stop retrofitting packages to require live images

2012-02-20 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
> It looks like the issue is being triggered by the upload of the > 0.151.2 build. Our custom package provider is seeing the 0.151.2 "Not > Installed" return from "pkg info -r gcc@3.4.3" and is attempting to > run pkg install on gcc@3.4.3 again. Will debug here and see if there's > a cleaner way to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Please stop retrofitting packages to require live images

2012-02-20 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Rich, > > Do an install -nv, look at what would be changed. > > I highly doubt anyone is adding reboot-needed to random packages. It looks like the issue is being triggered by the upload of the 0.151.2 build. Our custom package provider is seeing the 0.151.2 "Not Installed" return from "pkg i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Please stop retrofitting packages to require live images

2012-02-20 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
> Rather than hacking around the problem by eliminating the useful BE > creation process, why not fix the broken Chef/Puppet behavior? > Modifying the current configuration makes no sense here. Because the BE behavior is not useful for us and never has been. We don't want to have to force reboots

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover pool from detached mirror?

2012-02-20 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Hi all, I saved some money to change out the dying SCSI disks in the HP xw8200. I found some Seagate 15k 146gb hd's on ebay, factory refurbished, and ordered them. 300eur later, they arrive. Now, I fit them in and add the first disk to the mirror, and everything goes fine. I install grub in it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Creamer
I have a Thinkpad T510 on which almost everything seems to be working properly (oi_151a with all current updates). The only issue I can't seem to get resolved is making the external monitor to work. If I open the NVidia configuration tool, I can see the monitor, but it shows "disabled." If I enable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing OI 151a on SuperMicro

2012-02-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
So far nothing works, but I no longer think it's related to any BIOS setting. I still wonder if there are any general advisory remarks on this subject?? Like ACPI on or off, AHCI or IDE, so on... I made my server boot faster by pruning the Boot device list. On 2012-02-20 16:58, openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-20 16:57, Jan Owoc wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: It is evident that ZFS is not very good to use without disk redundancy. In your case, you would have silent data corruption on-disk. This corrupted data would get passed to programs, that would try to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-20 17:05, Richard Elling wrote: On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Maybe the iostat "behavior" depends on the controller it monitors. Some controllers such as the AMD SB950 in my case may not be as transparent with errors as the LSI 1068e operating in IT mode. Still

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: > > Maybe the iostat "behavior" depends on the controller it monitors. Some > controllers such as the AMD SB950 in my case may not be as transparent with > errors as the LSI 1068e operating in IT mode. > > Still, I find this to be too much of a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: > It is evident that ZFS is not very good to use without disk redundancy. In your case, you would have silent data corruption on-disk. This corrupted data would get passed to programs, that would try to work with what they have. In some cases

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:05 AM, Gregory Youngblood wrote: >> It would be great if there were some kind of software that could be set up >> to generate .par2 files (with x% data redundancy) on-the-fly to protect >> files on hard drives without disk redundancy (RAID=0). > > What about telling zfs to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Gregory Youngblood
> It would be great if there were some kind of software that could be set up to > generate .par2 files (with x% data redundancy) on-the-fly to protect files on > hard drives without disk redundancy (RAID=0). What about telling zfs to maintain more than one copy? Not sure how well data is spread

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-19 21:23, Richard Lowe wrote: Vague recollection that the pool level is errors that weren't recovered, so possibly two of them on the device were ditto'd metadata? (I'm very unsure on both counts). Otherwise, as Chris said, iostat is particularly difficult to trust. No matter what th

[OpenIndiana-discuss] persistent infiniband MTU setting

2012-02-20 Thread Johan Guldmyr
Hello! This is with oi_151a2 on a HP DL360 G7 with a "592520-B21 HP IB 4X QDR CX-2 PCI-e G2 Dual Port HCA". I'm trying to set the MTU to the same on this host as it is on the existing nodes on the IB network. Setting it with ifconfig goes through, but "dladm show-linkprop -p mtu" still say