Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update subcommand for pkg undocumented??

2014-02-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/ 3/14 09:31 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I can't find any mention of the subcommand image-update for pkg anywhere. Not in the Oracle IPS docs, not in the man page on OI151a7. Huh?? It was deprecated years ago in favor of the shorter and clearer "update" subcommand. -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 27 Openindiana is available/HTML5 Score/script to update

2014-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;s been in the news this week is a proposal from Mozilla that they don't even have a timeline for yet, not something that's already implemented and rolled out in a release. https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/13/more-details-on-directory-tiles/ -- -A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones

2014-02-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
how much longer you need to support those. Their support life runs out this year, and thus the flow of security fixes stops coming (for those paying for support at least - without support, you've got unpatched security holes either way). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ks to both for the confirmation. Coming from linux, I am used to just reboot for kernel updates. Same here - only packages tagged reboot_needed cause this, so all those updates have included changes to either the kernel or kernel drivers that are tagged as such. -- -Alan C

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Critical security issue notification

2014-04-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
many eyes make all bugs shallow" only applies when: a) many eyes are actually looking at the code, not just a few b) the brains behind those eyes understand complex topics such as deep crypto math, network protocols, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith- a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
And searching with archie! -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP trouble and 123 port

2014-04-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/25/14 11:06 AM, Edgar Matzinger wrote: You're correct. I don't get that SUN has put those files in a non-standard location It was the SVR4 standard once upon a time, but since no one uses any other SVR4-based OS'es any more, all SVR4isms now seem like Sunisms. -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] Firefox

2014-07-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ilers previously used don't support the required C++11 features. (C++11 is in Solaris Studio 12.4 beta & the latest gcc versions, but those aren't what previous Firefox releases had been built with.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

2014-07-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
p http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/zapping-server.html https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/375/how-to-enable-killing-xorg-with-ctrlaltbackspace -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libgnomeprintui-2.2

2014-07-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
interfaces and applications should now be using the more robust GTK+ based print interfaces. Solaris 11 includes GNOME 2.30, which is 10 full releases past GNOME 2.10. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE/SPARC: It was a mistake to keep the site online.

2014-09-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/23/14 08:05 AM, G B via openindiana-discuss wrote: yet OI won't remove someone from a mailing list for irrational behavior? Don't confuse neglect and lack of an active owner for someone consciously deciding to continue the status quo. Is there anyone around who still actively manages th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-10-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ight. People found more bugs after the first patch went out. There are 6 CVE's for bash announced in the last week after all. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-10-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell http://lwn.net/Articles/343924/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-10-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ions from 2.0 to 4.3, so that distros/packagers weren't forced to update to the latest just to get the fixes. There is nothing strange here, just don't expect to have the same software versions in two OS's released 7 years apart. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail on oi 151_a9

2014-10-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that release - i.e. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/ or http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/ to help see what release it was for. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail on oi 151_a9

2014-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/14/14 09:47 PM, Nikola M. wrote: On 10/13/14 07:05 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 10/13/14 08:30 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: You mentioned docs for solaris 11. How do I know when I'm looking at solaris 11 and not something a bit older? Solaris 11 docs have a new style with "Orac

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail on oi 151_a9

2014-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
de source code, documentation, etc. for the OS under development open source and redistributable - that ended after the Oracle acquisition with the return to the closed source/non-redistributable model of Solaris 10. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About moving to hipster

2014-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, but the only way to have the GUI with new upstream code would be someone stepping up to take ownership of keeping the GUI up to date with the private/uncommitted IPS internal interfaces it relies on. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle So

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About moving to hipster

2014-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/15/14 02:00 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 15/10/2014 21:05, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 10/15/14 12:00 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 15/10/2014 20:23, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, be warned that I just put the files that have been removed with the GUI deprecation, I did not have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSL 3 POODLE security bug

2014-10-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
efox/addon/ssl-version-control/ EFF's HTTPS Everywhere addon was also updated yesterday to provide an easy disable of SSL 3.0: https://www.eff.org/files/Changelog.txt https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Sola

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
y_bit#lp64-abi-changes lists some other differences between the 32-bit & 64-bit ABI's on Solaris/illumos OS'es (though illumos won't see the ASLR or ADI benefits, since those are post-closing additions to Solaris). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where Do I Get Source To Pic?

2014-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
source to pic? Thank you in advance for any and all replies. https://gnu.org/software/groff/ Solaris never included pic in it's nroff packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer OpenSSH causes probs for OI ssh

2014-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n_SSH, which is a fork of OpenSSH. OI should be using the version from the illumos gate. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] use cases of Sun Studio-compiled C++ libraries on OI

2014-12-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/28/14 06:25 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: If it’s C++, the name mangling is different; look up the options for the Sun > and GNU versions of nm respectively, use each version of nm with its > demangling option, and whichever has sensible output corresponds to the > compiler used. Even wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] use cases of Sun Studio-compiled C++ libraries on OI

2014-12-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 7/14 02:50 PM, James Carlson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/7/2014 5:26 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: Wouldn't this break the binary compatibility guarantee that Solaris had been traditionally marketed on? I'm no kernel engineer, so I wouldn't know. No. Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Creating packages

2014-12-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.html#PKDEVglyus -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Firefox 35.0b6

2014-12-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
OI. You'd be better off building the pulseaudio spec file from https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-desktop~spec-files That's also where you'll find the 126 patches applied to Firefox to produce the Solaris packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help on Intel NUC device drivers...

2015-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/21/15 12:34 PM, William Dowling wrote: If you want solid info then try the illumos-developer mailing list. Otherwise a few things you could try: 1: Read Oracles documentation on Device Drivers https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29051/toc.html There's also a companion Device Driv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

2015-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/ 1/15 11:19 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Another option would be to use Solaris 11 Express if it still exists anywhere - it's old, but not as old as snv_65. I think it still had sun4u support, but I could be mistaken. I don't think it's still available, but yes, Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 (

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does OpenBSD support ZFS?

2015-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/ 2/15 04:02 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: One of the members of this mailing list has recently written about upgrading his Sparc computer from Solaris 11 to OpenBSD, because (highly ironically), new versions of Solaris 11 do not support his Sparc hardware. I don't see the irony there -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Firefox

2015-02-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/ 3/15 10:15 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Now I would like to know how on Earth the Oracle people are compiling firefox when basic things do not work as they should? Tons of local patches: https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-desktop~spec-files/file/e9ce74c46890/base

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Firefox

2015-02-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
~spec-files/file/e9ce74c46890/patches -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 64 bit Firefox

2015-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/ 7/15 06:57 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Don't let me put you off, but I'm just wondering what problem it solves? It makes sure you can never accidentally load a binary plugin, even if a user stashed an old copy of Flash in their home directory, since they're only produced for 32-bit Firefox,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Final dependancy library for VLC

2015-03-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ot just the path to find them? That's what I usually see in pkg-config output. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, to the common long term support vs. rapid release model option found in many OS distros. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get into X following updage (hipster)

2015-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s releases. When you upgrade to a new Xorg release you must update all modules as well. This happens automatically for modules provided with the OS, but not for add-ons like VirtualBox - if you use it's modules, you must install a new version of them to get support for the new Xorg ABI. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 4/27/2015 11:26 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: I seem to remember somebody talking about somewhere on the web where Oracle/Sun leaves patches for Firefox. But I can't find it. Was I dreaming or does that place exist? They are part of the Solaris Desktop source repository: https://java.net/pro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
7;s applied, since the version numbers in the patch names are often meaningless, since the patches didn't get renamed when carried forward to new versions. You might find it easier to browse the version at: https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-desktop~spec-files or you can hg clone it to look

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
learn about spec files, mercurial and how to find my way around the Solaris desktop source code.. Can you suggest where to go for tutorials and docs? Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 28 apr 2015 08:54 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com>>: On 04/2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hg repo or not. -alan- On 04/28/15 07:58 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: Is the desktop dying, then? Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 28 apr 2015 16:52 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com>>: There's still some info on https://java

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/28/15 08:44 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: So the desktop will stay alive until sunrays are finally eol-ed? Are you asking about OpenIndiana or Oracle Solaris? At this time we have no plans to EOL the Oracle Solaris desktop - it's what our developers still use, as well as some of our custo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/javase/8-compatibility-guide-2156366.html#A999476 search down for "Removal of 32-bit Solaris" where it says: "The 64-bit binaries do not contain deployment tools such as Java Web Start and Java Plug-in, therefore desktop integration is no longer required."

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/23/15 06:43 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: I am running Solaris 11.2 on one of my computers, the latest version of Solaris available for download from Oracle (at least, as of a month ago, when I downloaded and installed it). That's the latest stable release available, though 11.3 beta w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Studio on OpenIndiana

2015-09-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/ 8/15 09:30 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: Where can I find sources for NetBeans, https://netbeans.org/ the compiler, and dbox?? debugger? Sources for the Studio compilers and dbx debugger were never released. -alan- ___ openindiana-di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana-discuss Digest, Vol 62, Issue 15

2015-09-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/14/15 07:24 PM, Ramesh Chari wrote: Reg SFElibreofficeToday i was able to install SFElibreoffice successfully... rvc@openindiana:~$ pkg info SFElibreoffice But where is the executable installed ? i am unable to locate in /opt/ or /usr/bin... "pkg contents SFElibreoffice" should list a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Personal announcement: update on donations and good News: Can directly continue with DRM/GEM/KMS without interruption due to having to serve pizza

2015-11-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
their port (big thanks to Ken for bugging Alan Coopersmith long enough and hard enough, and to Mr. Alan Coopersmith for being once again on our side [after the same took already place with openXsun in summer 2010 ]). Thanks - but while I supported the publication of the DRM/KMS sources, I didn&#

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xorg sucks!

2015-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 3/15 03:51 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Yesterday I checked the latest nVidia driver and it has support for Xorg 1.20 and we still use Xorg 1.7 I wonder where they got their time machine from - X.Org just barely released Xorg 1.18: http://lists.x.org/archiv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xorg sucks!

2015-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 3/15 09:07 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: I wonder where they got their time machine from - X.Org just barely released Xorg 1.18: This is of course irrelevant to my problem but that's what they state in their site: Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 20 (xorg-server 1.18). So this wa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

2015-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 6/15 12:59 PM, Private openbabel wrote: Dear Bob, I would like to see a foundation registered in the UK in early 2016 to receive donations and sponsorship similar to Libre Office.This will help with some of the development objectives outlined. Will it? Are there going to be enough dona

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/12/15 07:03 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Both of these appear to be due to incorrectly configured mail clients. The second may be a matter of (bad!) taste. The first, being uncommon, is more than likely a problem with the client. And as annoying as both may be, is it worse than making the list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mailservers and clients that work on OI

2015-12-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Enterprise Linux 6 http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/communications-messaging-server-ds-520401.pdf http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/communications/unified-communications/messaging-server/overview/index.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Network card "Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V" support (OI, Hipster)

2015-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/28/15 06:57 AM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: Hi all, I have PC with "Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V" onboard network card and it is not recognized by OI (Hipster) installation... When looking at this list: http://illumos.org/hcl/ it is true - no such card the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] FAQ update

2016-01-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/ 7/16 01:11 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, If someone wants to give it a shot, this page needs love: http://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/ because it is fairly outdated... Most of the OpenSolaris consolidation links pointing to hub.opensolaris.org can be replaced with links to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inputs for FAQ on the Intel DRM/KMS work

2016-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/ 9/16 07:49 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: Please reply with responses to the above and with further questions and answers, if any. Places you may find some answers include: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Solaris-DRM-KMS-2015 http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2015/Program/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inputs for FAQ on the Intel DRM/KMS work

2016-01-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/ 9/16 09:33 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 01/ 9/16 07:49 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: Please reply with responses to the above and with further questions and answers, if any. Places you may find some answers include: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Solaris-DRM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana Hipster

2016-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/22/16 01:23 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana...: On the other hand, to properly utilize the attractive feature of transparently supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit systems via isaexec, When there was a giant corporation funding de

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/31/16 07:13 AM, Jay F. Shachter wrote: "Does Openindiana provide a SPARC release?" -- maybe you could direct the interested reader to Solaris-like systems that do support SPARC. To the best of my knowledge, the only open-source Solaris-like system that supports SPARC is the ancient and unsu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Update on XNV and JDS consolidation migrations

2016-02-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/ 7/16 05:09 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: - there are 24 components left for packaging in x-S12, some of them not present in OI, I do not know if some of them are irrelevant: ./accessx This is a motif client for configuring accessibility settings - the GNOME preferences panel does a better

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More recent modsecurity pkg

2016-05-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for them shared on the above site where OI can see & use them) - but it's the ~30% that aren't that most people complain about. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Community interest in illumos PF port?

2016-05-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ckage installs the tools that will assist you in the migration of IPFilter configuration to PF. Note: Manual intervention will be required to ensure PF rules implement the desired network policy." -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Orac

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Community interest in illumos PF port?

2016-05-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/13/16 09:32 AM, Nikola M wrote: On 05/13/16 06:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 05/12/16 10:50 PM, Nikola M wrote: I would also like to see an announcement about ipfilter deprication in S11 yet. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/end-of-notices/eonsolaris11-392732.html &quo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] struct msghdr and _XPG4_2

2016-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/16 12:15 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. It seems illumos/Solaris is the only OS which doesn't have msg_control and msg_controllen in struct msghdr by default. For Solaris 11.x & earlier, yes. Is it because of some standard requirements or just historical artifact? Can we somehow al

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does It Happen To All Of Us At Some Point?

2016-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
mail folders of people who get infected. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What changed my files timestamp?

2016-06-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
useful for debugging, but not auditing, as LD_PRELOAD is ignored by setuid programs, and can be unset in the environment by anyone. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://bl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Developer Studio 12.5 for free...

2016-06-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 06/30/16 07:21 AM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: Hi all, just learned that Oracle gives Studio 12.5 for free: Download Options for Oracle Developer Studio Current Release - Oracle Developer Studio 12.5 Provides perpetual no-cost license for production use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

2016-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
uld be to wrap the first chunk of that in OsSigHandler inside an "if (signo == SIGQUIT)" block.) Still, that backtrace looks like some invalid function pointer got put into the list of callbacks for the wakeup routine - either directly or by something else overwriting a crucial bi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] updating/modifying gnome-terminal title from the command line?

2016-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
%h] ' endif endif endif -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE

2016-09-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/ 1/16 08:50 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: ...unless... we can get OpenWindows back. That would be highly unlikely. -alan- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

2016-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/17/16 11:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Note that on Solarish OS'es, the backtrace will sometimes warn you about the last linker lookup failure, even when it's not relevant - it could be the driver looked for that symbol, didn't find it because your Xorg is an older relea

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

2016-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/13/16 03:38 PM, Lionel Cons wrote: On 14 September 2016 at 00:34, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/17/16 11:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Note that on Solarish OS'es, the backtrace will sometimes warn you about the last linker lookup failure, even when it's not relevant - it co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running Martin's Virtualbox pkg, failing to compile keymap while using vncserver

2016-09-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/22/16 01:02 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: XKB: Failed to compile keymap Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. For this you need to have installed x11/keyboard/data-xkb & x11/keyboard/xkbcomp - I didn't see either in your package list. If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE GPU not supported on hipster

2016-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GNOME3

2016-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/ 3/16 08:24 AM, ken mays via openindiana-discuss wrote: Although, GNOME 3.22.1 has descended upon us... Yes, but 1 year behind is a much smaller problem than 5.5 years and a major release behind. It shouldn't take us 5 years to update again now. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] p7zip

2016-12-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/8/2016 10:07 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On another hand, is there a particular benefit of patching older versions in > userland as cve fixes come out, rather than taking the newest release > (assumed to include all bugfixes known to authors)? That is a very risky assumption to make - many pac

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana upgrade

2016-12-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/31/16 05:00 AM, russell wrote: Hi Alex, I tried a pkg image-update -v --be-name openindiana-hipster-NN this morning which did actually complete okay with information about gnu/tar. After booting from the new environment and then attempting a pkg update -be-name openindiana-hipster-NN+1 I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 11:52 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc/oracle-sparc/sparc-roadmap-slide-2076743.pdf Really? 2034 still seems so far away now... http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 12:13 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Why "The End is near"? Sounds the SPARC platform will be continued beyond 2020, right? Obviously I do not care about SPARC machines... But I see no Solaris 12... It seems that Solaris 11.4 will be the last release of Sola

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 12:33 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Really? 2034 still seems so far away now... http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf (pg. 37) Well I do not see anything about Solaris 12 on page 37. The support life document doesn't say anything about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 08:58 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Will they still sell data machine, fishwork storage? Yes - those systems have their own roadmap, separate from the SPARC & Solaris roadmap. (But we're really getting off-topic here for the OpenIndiana mailing list.) -alan- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/19/17 12:38 AM, Fred Liu wrote: From that roadmap, my understanding is there is no on-premise and standalone Solaris and SPARC releases after 2017 and everything goes into cloud. Then you're misunderstanding the roadmap, which shows both on-premise & cloud releases going forward until at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/25/17 11:15 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near, Udo Grabowski said...: You need reliable sources: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/23/oracle_layoffs_in_hardware_div/> I haven't seen any posts to the list from Alan Coopersmith

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newly installed VirtualBox gives COM object error when launched

2017-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/ 6/17 08:13 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: So I guess there is still something weird with the GL libraries :) There will always be something weird with the GL libraries due to historical mistakes and lack of cross-vendor cooperation which led to requiring a completely different libGL for diff

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/ 7/17 06:10 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: apostolo@adalind>> ls -l /usr/X11/include/NVIDIA/GL/gl.h /usr/X11/include/NVIDIA/GL/gl.h: No such file or directory This can be solved by downloading the Linux NVIDIA driver which includes this file and glext.h, glx.h, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nonblocking i/o problem

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/ 9/17 02:08 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: As an aside, there are limitations. The conditions were always pretty strict, so that compatibility only applies to (a) Solaris itself, and (b) only those interfaces explictly marked as being compatible. Specifically those whose man pages have an attri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] many duplicates - Re: OpenIndiana Hipster at Servethehome (call for a regular minimal stable)

2017-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/27/17 05:05 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: Guenther, I don't know if it is just me, or the whole list, but I have received a couple dozen copies of this email. is anyone else seeing lots of duplicates? I am too (and not just this mail, but others from the OI lists as well) - I was starting to wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hijacking of Shift-F5

2017-05-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f desktop session startup. The man page lists the args to change which key it steals. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/17 02:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. -alan- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/17 02:13 PM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: On 05/25/17 14:10, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? Have you tried: uname -a The Solaris/openSolaris/illumos kernel doesn't change any of the values in uname between 32 & 64-bit kernels, much to the confu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 04:26 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Jonathan Adams writes: Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... sudo file `which file` /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging information available Er..

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris github repositories

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 05:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst writes: Sorry if you already know for this, I though it might be worth sharing: https://blogs.oracle.com/observatory/github-repos-with-software-for-solaris Thanks for that link... And thanks to Alan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Alan Coopersmith writes: For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our development trunk, though much less done in what's been released so far.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 09:19 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Aside from executables that reference timestamps (given that a signed twos-complement will overflow after Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 GMT), and for programs that will never need to manipulate files larger than 2GiB-1 (unless they use large file su

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-) It was considered at Sun in the late 90's but discarded as going full LP64 already provided a solution without c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 10:30 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: On May 31, 2017, at 13:01, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially dead?

2017-09-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
No. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: MATE + NVIDIA + 2 monitors :: full screen problem

2017-09-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/ 5/17 12:59 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote: Hi all, I have strange problem on my /hipster installation (since I have moved to Mate from Gnome). There were no changes on hardware in mean time: pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0605

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

2017-09-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/ 4/17 02:11 PM, Nikola M wrote: On 09/ 4/17 08:18 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: I would expect exactly that, to be able to run it on compatible but newer hardware, and at least on Oracle hardware, but yes, you are right - over time new hardware requires new support, drivers etc. There

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: question about /proc

2017-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/29/17 06:55 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote: Hi all, I got today alert (actually blinking TimeSlider icon) that root FS is more than 70% in use (that is my setup). Went to check what occupies so much space, and found: $ pfexec du -sch /* ... 76G /proc /proc i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Intro questions

2017-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/23/17 12:13 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: I did find that VNC has DirectVNC for working with the framebuffer ( http://drinkmilk.github.io/directvnc/) and am exploring it more now. I would be surprised if code written for the Linux DirectFB API's worked with the Solaris framebuffer devices,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2017/10 lightdm under VBox 5.1.28

2017-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f yet: cp /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindi

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