Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about to build a new OI server - suggestions?

2024-09-19 Thread Carl Brewer via openindiana-discuss
On 20/09/2024 2:36 am, Gordon Ross wrote: I'll plug Dan McD's very helpful blog post on this: https://kebe.com/blog/?p=502 because I followed it and have a similar setup running now. Here's mine: https://gordon-ross.blogspot.com/2024/09/home-data-center-40.html Cool, thank you. Pretty similar

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about to build a new OI server - suggestions?

2024-09-18 Thread Carl Brewer via openindiana-discuss
Hi, I'm about to build up a new OI server to run as a local VM host and CIFS fileserver on my LAN. I have been doing this for ~30 years now with various flavours of UNIX, but OI/OS since um, 2000 or so, when it was open sourced anyway, so I've been around, but only casually. I use, and pref

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/11/2023 8:00 pm, Gea wrote: I suppose the disk is simply bad, try another one. There is only a 2TB restriction with some older controllers ex LSI 1068 btw why do you want to use large disks for rpool as you "should" not place data onto beside the OS. Usually I use a cheap 100G+ SSD for r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] container with same ip

2023-11-16 Thread Carl Brewer
On 16/11/2023 12:47 pm, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: much thanks to all of you for everything so far but that's much more than i need. all i want is 1 zone that runs stuff which is available through the "real" nic's ip. and right now i'm facing much more trivial problems like: what's the root passw

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Revisiting a KVM switch issue

2023-11-12 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, A couple of years ago now (202109) I managed to break an install of OI Hipster on a reasonably modern desktop motherboard, when I tried to use a cheapy KVM switch on it once I put it into my data rack. The thing would not boot (or at least, I couldn't see it on the KVM switch and it d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox status? -- please test 6.1.46

2023-09-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 20/09/2023 5:01 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: On 9/8/23 09:28, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: I have uploaded a package 6.1.46 on http://pkg.toc.de/userland which have passed my smoke tests. Please test and report results. Hello Carsten! Thanks for your efforts, virtualbox G

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox status?

2023-09-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 25/08/2023 9:17 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: YES, the GUI still doesn't work, HEADLESS does. Some (x11-)libs are not gcc-10 yet.. (i had at least one lib where 'gmake test' did have no positive tests :-/) Is this now a "Wait for us to fix it" issue? I don't have the skill or resources (AF

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox status?

2023-08-24 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey everyone, Before I break a server .. Is VirtualBox running ok on current OI? Last I saw, Russell was having trouble with it in July. Thank you! Carl ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] list archives?

2023-07-21 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/07/2023 3:31 am, Till Wegmüller wrote: On 21.07.23 02:22, Carl Brewer wrote: Given the apparent reluctance to maintain this mailing list (despite the benefits - open, it's an automagic archive, it's enough of a barrier to entry to stop modern spammers but everyone has emai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] list archives?

2023-07-20 Thread Carl Brewer
Given the apparent reluctance to maintain this mailing list (despite the benefits - open, it's an automagic archive, it's enough of a barrier to entry to stop modern spammers but everyone has email) etc etc What -should- we be using to report issues & help each other? Carl ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Warning: icu upgrade immanent

2023-06-10 Thread Carl Brewer
On 11/06/2023 12:15 am, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 09.06.23 um 16:56 schrieb Andreas Wacknitz: I will start to merge an icu upgrade soon. That will make it necessary to rebuild a lot of other packages. Until everything has been rebuilt it is not safe to update your installation. A notice will be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-10 Thread Carl Brewer
On 11/05/2023 3:05 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: On 5/10/23 22:42, Gary Mills wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 10:31:09AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: Is anybody running OI on a computer that does not have a console? I have a system that I installed with the GUI image, and with an HDMI console and USB k

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-10 Thread Carl Brewer
On 11/05/2023 6:42 am, Gary Mills wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 10:31:09AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: Is anybody running OI on a computer that does not have a console? I have a system that I installed with the GUI image, and with an HDMI console and USB keyboard and mouse. Now I'd like to use th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] list archives?

2023-05-09 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/05/2023 5:43 pm, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi, Yeah sorry about that. I wanted to change the lists host as to not conflict with GitHub pages anymore but alas GNU mailman is not wanting me to do that. I'll have to check how to change anything there. Personally I would prefer to migrate to t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/05/2023 4:07 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: The old thread about this has the subject : "A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel" It should be in the archive somewhere. Here : https://www.mail-archive.com/openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org/msg25

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] list archives?

2023-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/05/2023 4:08 pm, Espen Martinsen wrote: ... as found in the archive :-) https://www.mail-archive.com/openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org/ That'll do it. Maybe whomever runs the list, can fix the footer to have that in it? openindiana-discuss mailing list openind

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
The old thread about this has the subject : "A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel" It should be in the archive somewhere. Carl ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/05/2023 11:38 am, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 08:17:42AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote: Three of them. Have been running OI since it was OS, oh, almost 20 years now? One of my three is about that old too. Rock solid. I found I had to use an HDMI "dummy" to get the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] list archives?

2023-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey, The link at the bottom of these emails, https://www.openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss Goes to a 404 from Github. Any clues as to where I can get the archive from now? Carl ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/05/2023 1:31 am, Gary Mills wrote: Is anybody running OI on a computer that does not have a console? I have a system that I installed with the GUI image, and with an HDMI console and USB keyboard and mouse. Now I'd like to use this system without all of them. Three of them. Have been runn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What would the steps be needed to host a website on OpenIndiana?

2023-02-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23/02/2023 9:58 am, Mike Carroll wrote: That is a very true statement that it ranges from simple to complex. I am just really looking for a static site setup to host a personal site with a domain that I purchased. Just HTML and CSS, and not much more than that-so security is essential but w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What would the steps be needed to host a website on OpenIndiana?

2023-02-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23/02/2023 6:17 am, Mike Carroll wrote: I know I need the necessary software life php, mariadb, etc. I am specifically not sure where to start looking for the information on nameservers and stuff. Given that to host a website could mean anything from a basic flat HTML server (eg Apache, ng

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 7.0.4?

2023-01-15 Thread Carl Brewer
work on it tomorrow, thank you Greeting Till [0] https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/ced366e8e9a0a065ec50a3b5e08ae4415df9b9b8/components/sysutils/virtualbox On 15.01.23 03:00, Carl Brewer wrote: Hey, Virtualbox 7 was released not long ago, now at 7.0.4, in oi-userland it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 7.0.4?

2023-01-14 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey, Virtualbox 7 was released not long ago, now at 7.0.4, in oi-userland it's 6.1.40. Anything I can do to help get it going? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/10/2022 7:06 pm, david allan finch wrote: On 10/6/22 07:51, Predrag Zečević via openindiana-discuss wrote: The reference into VB's git seems to suggest that it was done in January? https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-extra/pull/921 I'm not seeing any issues with VB 6.1.38 on my OI serv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-05 Thread Carl Brewer
On 5/10/2022 11:22 pm, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 00:28 david allan finch wrote: Not quite sure what has broken it but, I installed the latest version of VirtualBox 6.1.38 and updated the client extension into my OpenIndiana VM client (it was the last

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] borg missing msgpack dependency?

2022-10-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/10/2022 6:33 am, Marcel Telka wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 11:18:54PM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote: I'd love to send a PR, where's how to do it documented? Just look at https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland and create usual github PR there. I'm sorry, I have no id

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] borg missing msgpack dependency?

2022-09-30 Thread Carl Brewer
On 29/09/2022 4:50 pm, Marcel Telka wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 12:29:31AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote: I just bumped a ~12 month old OI Hipster that had Borg installed on it to the current pkg contents. Ran borg, saw this : root@hog:/slow/backups# borg Traceback (most recent call last

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell UEFI BIOS update and OpenIndiana

2022-09-27 Thread Carl Brewer
On 27/09/2022 6:47 pm, s...@pandora.be wrote: The Dell UEFI BIOS 1.17 for Dell Precision seems to work fine for me (UEFI) with Secure Boot disabled (which I think is the default for Dell Precision). Is someone keeping a list of supported / tested BIOS firmware versions ? For me Dell BIOS 1.1

[OpenIndiana-discuss] borg missing msgpack dependency?

2022-09-26 Thread Carl Brewer
I just bumped a ~12 month old OI Hipster that had Borg installed on it to the current pkg contents. Ran borg, saw this : root@hog:/slow/backups# borg Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 38, in from . import helpers Fi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

2022-09-26 Thread Carl Brewer
On 27/09/2022 12:17 am, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 26. Sep 2022, at 16:41, Carl Brewer wrote: On 26/09/2022 9:13 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: To add to the list of Heisenbugs It works. I pulled it out of my rack, set it up on a table, and the BIOS found all 5 HDDs and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

2022-09-26 Thread Carl Brewer
On 26/09/2022 9:42 pm, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: Is this UEFI boot or BIOS boot? If it is UEFI boot, you need to make sure the secure boot is disabled - we do not support it. Secure boot was confirmed as disabled. I think, and this box did this a long time ago, similar/s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

2022-09-26 Thread Carl Brewer
On 26/09/2022 9:13 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: To add to the list of Heisenbugs It works. I pulled it out of my rack, set it up on a table, and the BIOS found all 5 HDDs and was happy to use them to boot. Erm?! The only thing that happened, was ~10 mins of downtime and an HDMI instead of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

2022-09-26 Thread Carl Brewer
On 26/09/2022 4:41 pm, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: This is what I've just done : jack@openindiana:/jack$ su - Password: The illumos Project illumos-bdc24928e6 August 2021 root@openindiana:~# root@openindiana:~# root@openindiana:~# root@openindiana:~# zpool status no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

2022-09-25 Thread Carl Brewer
On 25/09/2022 6:59 pm, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 25. Sep 2022, at 02:33, Carl Brewer wrote: I have a ~3 year old PC, generic motherboard, OI hipster 'something', that last night, I had to force a reboot on, because a zpool scrub was jammed up and nothing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

2022-09-24 Thread Carl Brewer
I have a ~3 year old PC, generic motherboard, OI hipster 'something', that last night, I had to force a reboot on, because a zpool scrub was jammed up and nothing would kill it. The scrub was on a raidz pool, not the boot drives, so I figured it would probably be ok. I was wrong! On reboot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SciPy compilation problem fixed

2022-05-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 15/05/2022 7:34 pm, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Please see: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/15203 When they said it was a new O/S ... um ... direct lineage to SunOS 5.0, 1980's. "new" heh! Carl ___ openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SciPy compilation problem fixed

2022-05-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 15/05/2022 7:34 pm, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Please see: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/15203 Nice! ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] services dependency cycle

2022-05-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 8/05/2022 2:16 am, Till Wegmueller wrote: Thank you very much. The problem with the live media seems to be the modifications to the services during building as it's special. On installed systems it's metainit. So we can note that here for the future and know what it it. Also you can look

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] services dependency cycle

2022-05-06 Thread Carl Brewer
HTH Carl root@dumper:/export/backups/fw/fs/home/private# svcs -l svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default fmri svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default name read/write root file systems mounts enabled true stateonline next_state none state_time April 22, 2022 at 06:26

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] services dependency cycle

2022-05-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/05/2022 7:55 am, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 09:43:40PM +0200, Stephan Althaus wrote: Sorry, i don't have a system with a BE that contains the service metainit, i tried several.. i looked into some snapshots where i did find a log but not the manifest.. Maybe someone else ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI server failed overnight - some help restoring it!

2022-04-21 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/04/2022 6:06 pm, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 21/04/2022 06:56, Carl Brewer wrote: ... I've got an OI box that's been running for 11 years, totally bombproof. I would recommend to check the onboard battery (or batteries ?). Maybe your just loosing the BIOS content each time

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI server failed overnight - some help restoring it!

2022-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/04/2022 2:53 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: Glad you have your system running again! Me too! As you might know in the meantime, these are hints for working with a non-starting system: zpool import shows all your pools on a boot with an USB image zpool import rpool beadm list beadm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI server failed overnight - some help restoring it!

2022-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/04/2022 9:35 am, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, I have an OI server from ~2 years or so ago that went down overnight - it has 5 HDDs, 2 as a ZFS mirror (root) and 3 as a ZFS raidz array.  I can see all 5 drives when I boot off an OI USB boot image, but I can't see anything mor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] help restoring a boot block?

2022-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/04/2022 10:48 am, Carl Brewer wrote: My OI server fell over last night, for reasons unknown, and now the BIOS doesn't see any boot devices. I booted it off an OI USB drive, and I can see and mount the zpools, so they're ok (at least superficially) using zpool import -ad /d

[OpenIndiana-discuss] help restoring a boot block?

2022-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
My OI server fell over last night, for reasons unknown, and now the BIOS doesn't see any boot devices. I booted it off an OI USB drive, and I can see and mount the zpools, so they're ok (at least superficially) using zpool import -ad /dev/dsk I have 2 zpools, a zfs mirror for root and a zf

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI server failed overnight - some help restoring it!

2022-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I have an OI server from ~2 years or so ago that went down overnight - it has 5 HDDs, 2 as a ZFS mirror (root) and 3 as a ZFS raidz array. I can see all 5 drives when I boot off an OI USB boot image, but I can't see anything more than the output from format, which sees that all 5 exis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2021-12-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/12/2021 12:47 pm, Judah Richardson wrote: I've been having an odd problem over the past few months in which my OI Hipster installation becomes unreachable over the network after a certain length of uptime. I haven't been able to determine exactly what this length is, but I usually become aw

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CDE...

2021-12-19 Thread Carl Brewer
On 20/12/2021 1:55 pm, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: The more options the better :) In the old days, of SunOS 4.x and 5.x default admin task on setup rm -rf /usr/openwin install X11R5 :) Done. Then you could get some work done!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird network issue, choosing a default interface

2021-12-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 8/12/2021 10:21 am, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: I had kind of assumed you had ruled out an incorrect subnet mask as the source of the issue, Me too! but I'm glad you found it and have things fixed up! Yes, thank you :) Carl _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird network issue, choosing a default interface

2021-12-07 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day Tim, On 8/12/2021 9:41 am, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: I have a dual-homed OI workstation with the 2nd NIC on a non-routeable private network too, and I have IPv6-specific routing issues every time the workstation is rebooted.  My issues are (I think) coming because of OI's

[OpenIndiana-discuss] weird network issue, choosing a default interface

2021-12-07 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey, I have a weird problem I don't quite know how to fix. I have an OI server, with two ethernet interfaces, 203.6.241.37 on e1000g0 and 192.168.2.4 on rge0. The 203.6.241 network is a real one, the 192.168, as you know, goes nowhere except local LAN stuff. Weird thing : hog:/slow/backups

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 is here

2021-12-06 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey Jason, On 7/12/2021 4:26 am, Jason Martin wrote: "The new images are interesting for people with newer hardware that hasn’t been supported in the past." Latest VirtualBox no extensions on this machine: Can you confirm that VB 6.1.30 is working on the latest pkg update? Thank you Carl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update to problem with VB 6.1.28 after upgade

2021-12-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/11/2021 7:22 pm, Predrag Zecevic wrote: 6.1.30 was released a couple of weeks ago, the changelog doesn't seem to be relevant, but it might help? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI snapshot release?

2021-11-21 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/11/2021 6:44 am, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Hi, I have created the snapshot images on October 31st, and put them on the download server but haven't found enough time to write an announcement and the release notes. You can find them here: https://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/latest/ Than

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI snapshot release?

2021-11-21 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I may have missed it, and there's nothing on https://www.openindiana.org/category/news/ - has there been a snapshot release of OI? A 2021.10? I know I needed a specially brewed snapshot earlier this year to work with a modern motherboard and CPU combo, thanks to Andreas I got one. Is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Success with HDMI "dummy" was Re: resolved - sort of, now a reproduce-able bug was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/09/2021 8:34 am, Carl Brewer wrote: Some more groveling around, and I think I may have found a solution. You can get HDMI "dummy" plugins, that fool the graphics card into thinking it has a monitor attached. I got one today, plugged it in to my NVidia 1030's HDMI p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] resolved - sort of, now a reproduce-able bug was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 7/09/2021 1:25 am, s...@pandora.be wrote: It's good news that you solved the problem. Can you please submit the hardware components to the HCL (OpenIndiana Hardware Compatibility List) ? The GUI DDU doesn't work, it doesn't submit the list, and I'm not sure what format to send what it sh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] resolved - sort of, now a reproduce-able bug was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-05 Thread Carl Brewer
Some more groveling around, and I think I may have found a solution. You can get HDMI "dummy" plugins, that fool the graphics card into thinking it has a monitor attached. Hopefully I can get one locally to try. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] resolved - sort of, now a reproduce-able bug was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-04 Thread Carl Brewer
Ok, the trigger for the fault, reproduce able, is to boot the box without anything plugged into the HDMI port on the GFX card. That seems to break something in the BIOS, then the only way to get it to start X11 without a kernel panic is to restore the BIOS from a previous saved version. Tried

[OpenIndiana-discuss] resolved - sort of, was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
I ran out of options, so I reverted the BIOS back to a saved config from weeks ago, and ... it worked! *I* did not change the BIOS. WTF?! Am going to see what happens when I plug the KVM switch in again.  It must have done something weird to something. The KVM switch is a little magic box wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
I tried using nvidia-xconfig to generate an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 and then hand-adding the speeds that my monitor supports. The monitor is an AOC 27V2Q, which, according to supports 30-88kHz horizontal and 50-75 Hz vertical so my xorg.conf file, now shows (I hand-added the vendor name, mo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
Still beating my head against this, I checked the NVidia drivers According to the machine : dmesg | grep -i nvi Sep  4 11:35:11 skaro pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nvidia255 Sep  4 11:35:11 skaro genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia255 is /pseudo/nvidia@255 Sep  4 11:35:11 skaro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/09/2021 12:36 am, s...@pandora.be wrote: # scanpci | grep UHD Intel Corporation CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] So in my case the 'scanpci' tool from OpenIndiana detects a UHD Graphics 630 in addition to the NVIDIA adapter. Did you check 'scanpci' and grep Intel ? Yes, but not r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
This is the panic message : root@skaro:/var/log# fmdump -Vp -u 017daaba-0d44-c582-d73d-b554bcf017a5 TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID Sep 04 2021 09:50:42.514056000 017daaba-0d44-c582-d73d-b554bcf017a5 SUNOS-8000-KL   TIME CLASS 

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/09/2021 12:36 am, s...@pandora.be wrote: You wrote that you are running a Intel i5-10400F CPU. That is a 6 core CPU according and the specs do not list an integrated Graphics card so I think it is an Intel CPU *without* integrated graphics : That's correct.  That's why I'm using Nvidia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 3/09/2021 9:35 pm, Tony Brian Albers wrote: Have you tried just booting with lightdm disabled, logging in through the cli and running startx? It did a pretty good kernel panic! This is weird. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

2021-09-03 Thread Carl Brewer
I've almost finished setting up my new i5/NVIDIA 1030 server. latest pkg image-update today, my WD red pros arrived at last so I could build my ZFS mirror for the data store, it's all coming together.  I've turned off atime on rpool and my other zpools. Rebooted, everything seems fine. Every

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-21 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/08/2021 7:32 pm, James wrote: On 19/08/2021 23:58, Carl Brewer wrote: Further to this - is it worth disabling atime on the ZFS root pool that's on the SSDs? I don't imagine it's a lot of data, but it would add up over the years. Do you ever look at the access times?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-19 Thread Carl Brewer
Further to this - is it worth disabling atime on the ZFS root pool that's on the SSDs? I don't imagine it's a lot of data, but it would add up over the years. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-18 Thread Carl Brewer
Further to this, it works with a pair of Samsung SSD 980 NVMe M.2 drives as a ZFS mirror for root, I used the text installed. Simple. Thank you Aurelian! Carl OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ openindiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-18 Thread Carl Brewer
I now have a pair of Samsung SSD 980 500GB NVMe M.2 drives as a ZFS mirror for root on this new machine.  It installed straight away with no dramas. It boots fast! Wow. Thank you all for your help and advice, esp Aurelian for the updated USB image. Any chance OI could do a release of it? Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-16 Thread Carl Brewer
On 16/08/2021 4:29 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hi! Remember that firefox likes if there is plenty of swap configured! It does not use much though. Not using FF, this machine is pretty-much a dedicated virtualbox host. The VM's will be on spinning HDDs i have 32GB ram and 32GB swap configure

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 16/08/2021 9:29 am, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Carl Brewer wrote: I am using a pair of Samsung 250GB M.2 SATA SSDs for boot for many years already (since 2015) with no issues. Are you putting swap onto something else or just letting it use the SSDs? Swap is using the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Success! Re: Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-15 Thread Carl Brewer
Now a lot of setup to do, but that's easy stuff. I will send in the hardware report using the DDU when it's all online. Except that the DDU doesn't submit, I've seen another thread here explaining why. In the interests of adding to the knowledge pool, what command should I use to genera

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/08/2021 11:37 pm, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2021, Carl Brewer wrote: Rather than use a couple of 1TB WD red pros or Blacks, is it a good choice to run a ZFS root mirror on a couple of SSDs? I figure I'd only need 250MB or so, all the data etc will be on spinning driv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-14 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/08/2021 4:45 pm, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?,...: I don't think there's any status monitoring software for them that would run on OI? I would certainly give smartmontools a try.  Most decent SSDs sho

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
Rather than use a couple of 1TB WD red pros or Blacks, is it a good choice to run a ZFS root mirror on a couple of SSDs? I figure I'd only need 250MB or so, all the data etc will be on spinning drives in a raidZ-something array, the root system - apart from swap, will be pretty static read-mo

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Success! Re: Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
Success! The USB image Aurelian gave me, combined with using the text installer on the "whole disk", has worked. I have a brand spanking new Intel i5-10400F on a Gigabyte B460M Pro motherboard, running OI. Thank you! Now a lot of setup to do, but that's easy stuff. I will send in the hardwa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
Aurelian's supplied me with a new cut of the USB image, which boots!  And the GUI works!  (Nvidia 1030). It all seems excellent! Thank you! Ran the GUI install onto a SATA HDD, seems good. The BIOS is now not recognising the SATA HDD as a boot option. It sees the drive in its list of SATA dr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/08/2021 7:23 am, Mike Carroll wrote: My answer might not be the "officially recommended solution" but couldn't you use a sata to usb adapter, connect it to VirtualBox and select the disk as an installation medium? Virtualbox, AFAICT, doesn't seem to allow me to use an actual drive ins

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 11:34 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hi Carl! Assuming still that it is a USB problem...(?) If you have a spare SATA drive, you could write the USB image to that drive and use that to boot - to circumvent all the USB stuff. i think i did that once some years ago. Interesting - how

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 10:36 pm, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 13. Aug 2021, at 14:21, Carl Brewer wrote: If it helps, here's a photo of the screen when it was looping http://aboc.net.au/oi_hang.png/image_view_fullscreen boot -rs, can it get to single user prompt? Trying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
If it helps, here's a photo of the screen when it was looping http://aboc.net.au/oi_hang.png/image_view_fullscreen OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org htt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 7:14 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: I have it doing a boot -m debug at the moment, it's ... taking a while! It's a PITA to type in, it seemed to be looping on milestone/devices - I guess not surprizing that it's unhappy on a new motherboard.   Is there somewhere han

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 7:06 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hi Carl! I am sorry to hear that you've this problems... I would suggest to try a USB-2 port, i have problems on one of my systems with USB since February or March... or try a 2020-10 image.. Thank you, Stephan, I'm letting a debug boot run at th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 6:59 pm, Peter Tribble wrote: As I recall, the keyboard prompt comes fairly late in the process - certainly after accessing the USB media to pull in /usr from it, so that would imply it's found the USB stick and is happy with it. The question then would be which smf service is gett

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 6:59 pm, Peter Tribble wrote: As I recall, the keyboard prompt comes fairly late in the process - certainly after accessing the USB media to pull in /usr from it, so that would imply it's found the USB stick and is happy with it. The question then would be which smf service is gett

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
The furthest I got was to use the minimal install 20210430 USB image, it booted, albeit slowly. I ran the boot in verbose mode, it got as far as prompting for the type of keyboard, which I confirmed as US English (47). It then sat there, I left it for 30 minutes, no change.  The screen respo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
I assume there's a way to make it be more verbose, so I can see where it's getting stuck, any hints? OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
It got stuck at Done mounting live image again. I gave up after ~10 mins of it just sitting there. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
Trying to boot multi-user, it got to a point where it said : Done mounting live image and it just sat there, for ~20 mins before I gave up and rebooted it. The keyboard was responding, but ^C and ^Z did not interupt. Now trying single user to see how far it will get. Is there a more recent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/08/2021 2:32 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: On 2/08/2021 8:02 pm, david allan finch wrote: I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

2021-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
I now have a brand spanking new Intel i5-10400F CPU, plugged into a Gigabyte Aorus B460M "pro" motherboard, with an Nvidia 1030 graphics card and 32GB of non-ECC RAM in two DIMMs, all good. It has a WD "Black" 1TB HDD that I will be using at first to set it all up on.  If I can get it to insta

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
On 2/08/2021 8:02 pm, david allan finch wrote: I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue. May be I am using the Win3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI install on current gen desktop motherboards?

2021-08-11 Thread Carl Brewer
On 11/08/2021 4:24 pm, aurelien.larc...@gmail.com wrote: Some illumos developpers seem to use recent Intel NUCs. I run a Dell R740xd2 with two Xeon Gold 5218R bought last autumn. Thank you Aurelien and Till, I will get a new i5 and see how it goes. If I get stuck, trying to install, expect

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI install on current gen desktop motherboards?

2021-08-10 Thread Carl Brewer
I originally posted this to OI-userland by mistake! G'day, One of my aging (10 years!) OpenSolaris/OI box needs to be replaced, it's a timebomb now. I'm looking at using a 10th or 11th gen Intel i5, probably a i5-10400F or 11400F, it's the sweet spot for value here. LGA1200 socket. Lookin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 6.1.22?

2021-07-22 Thread Carl Brewer
6.1.24 was released a couple of days ago, I can't see anything showstopping in the changelog. On 7/06/2021 5:32 pm, Predrag Zecevic wrote: On 05.06.2021 12:16, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Any news on this issue? Shall I merge the PR or close it? Andreas Thanks Andreas, I am using it, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 6.1.22?

2021-06-05 Thread Carl Brewer
On 5/06/2021 8:16 pm, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Any news on this issue? Shall I merge the PR or close it? I couldn't get it to compile, but that's not because of something wrong with it, just I don't know the magic to make it happen. +1 from me Carl __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 6.1.22?

2021-05-19 Thread Carl Brewer
On 19/05/2021 8:12 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hello! i am using this version for a week now, no issues here. @Carl: did you also had time to test version 6.1.22 ? No, I couldn't get it to compile, something I did wrong no-doubt. Carl ___ openin

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