Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT postfix v.s Qmail

2012-04-24 Thread Gary Gendel
Dan, I've been using qmail since the end of the 80's Yes, greylisting is a powerful tool. I get that with spamdyke for qmail. Spamdyke and mailfront were the two biggest reasons that I stayed with qmail so long. I saw two greylisting packages for postfix when I was doing my searching. I'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT postfix v.s Qmail

2012-04-24 Thread Gary Gendel
indiana?" Mail number: 20 Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 In reply to: Gary Gendel With all this discussion about Postfix vs. Qmail, I started looking at what it would take to replace my Qmail installation with Postfix. I started looking at what it would take to replace spamdyke with postfix functionality

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qmail-to-go on openindiana?

2012-04-24 Thread Gary Gendel
With all this discussion about Postfix vs. Qmail, I started looking at what it would take to replace my Qmail installation with Postfix. I started looking at what it would take to replace spamdyke with postfix functionality. Most things have a direct correlation. One case so far, greylisting

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OMNIOS

2012-04-23 Thread Gary Gendel
Sounds like a minimal system, closer to SmartOS than OpenIndiana, but since most of their links were broken so it's hard to compare. On 4/23/12 9:27 AM, paolo marcheschi wrote: HI I see that there is a variant of opensolaris known as Omnios: http://omnios.omniti.com/ Is that related with Ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qmail-to-go on openindiana?

2012-04-22 Thread Gary Gendel
Which brings us back to qmail. I've been using it flawlessly starting on a Sparc IPC running SunOS before Postfix was a gleam in Wietse Venema's eye. The darn thing is rock solid, secure, lightweight, and fast. That said, I have nothing against Postfix other that I've never had a reason to l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qmail-to-go on openindiana?

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Gendel
Chris, There are no packages for Qmail that I am aware of. However, it's pretty trivial to build and install since it's dependencies are extremely small. I wrote some SMF scripts so I could use svcadm. I have two chains for incoming email. The first is on the standard port 25 and has no re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a

2012-03-27 Thread Gary Gendel
Dan, I can't give you specifics, but I went through a lot of pain early on until I found cards from LSI that worked really well. At the time, the best supported chipset was from Marvell. The Silicon Image chipsets worked unreliably and needed firmware reflashing to turn off RAID support. I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Routing and avahi questions

2012-03-26 Thread Gary Gendel
I have my OpenIndiana box providing wan/lan routing with firewall/nat. I was having some really slow wan performance so I started digging in. The performance issue was a compromised user account and a machine on the internet downloading everything from the account, pegging my upload bandwidth

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Metacity core dumps

2012-03-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Found an associated log file. It looks like the client may be misbehaving but it still shouldn't cause gdm and metacity to crash. On 3/25/12 7:59 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I have a vnc client that I was configuring and I noticed that metacity was core dumping. All I did was to get the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Metacity core dumps

2012-03-25 Thread Gary Gendel
I have a vnc client that I was configuring and I noticed that metacity was core dumping. All I did was to get the login screen to display and then close the client's session. I've enclosed the pstack output for a core file. The pstack output is the same for the other core dumps. Let me know

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting up sendmail with SSL support

2012-02-27 Thread Gary Gendel
My setup is a bit more complicated, but I've been running this setup (with tweaks and changes) since the early 90s on a sparc IPC. Dovecot, qmail (with patches), mailfront, spamdyke, spamassassin, sslserver, tcpserver. I use two interfaces... port 25 with full spam control, and port 587 with

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail dependencies

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I tried to start up smtp-notify, but it failed because sendmail-client wasn't running. This is a problem because I have a sendmail replacement (qmail) running. Once I modified the dependencies using svccfg to exclude sendmail-client and include qmail-smtp (which provides the sendmail eq

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a update?

2012-02-15 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/15/12 10:44 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 16:11, Gary Gendel wrote: On 2/15/12 10:03 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote: successfully updated as well. Fonts do seem much sharper. Very nice. Still have this funkiness where if I reboot (even without an update) the system kernel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a update?

2012-02-15 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/15/12 10:03 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote: successfully updated as well. Fonts do seem much sharper. Very nice. Still have this funkiness where if I reboot (even without an update) the system kernel panics right before or as X is loading, system restarts and then boots up fine. I suspect hardw

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I debug this?

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks. I'll give it a go and see if I get a core file. Interesting that I have per-process core dumps enabled but this one just didn't show up. On 2/8/12 8:30 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:27:03AM -0500, Gary Gendel wrote: I've got a service set up via s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I debug this?

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I've got a service set up via svc and within a few days it crashes. Even though fmd it says it dumped core I can't find it anywhere. I even added a cd into a directory and expected the core to go there, but no go. When I run it using the startup script outside of svc, it runs fine... N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] experimental or otherwise not recommended options for ZFS

2012-01-30 Thread Gary Gendel
Jan, I'm not sure that turning dedup or compression on is useful in your particular situation. Since the images are already compressed, re-compressing them only adds cpu overhead without much benefit. Also, Since images will have little opportunity for dedup (unless you tend to have multiple

[OpenIndiana-discuss] This doesn't seem right

2011-12-09 Thread Gary Gendel
Sorry for the repeat. I forgot to add the print statement: It looks like either gmtime or strftime is not functioning as I expect. In the following program, I always get the local time instead of UTC. #include #include int main() { char datebuf[64]; time_t now = time(0); struct tm *tm

[OpenIndiana-discuss] This doesn't seem right

2011-12-09 Thread Gary Gendel
It looks like either gmtime or strftime is not functioning as I expect. In the following program, I always get the local time instead of UTC. #include #include int main() { char datebuf[64]; time_t now = time(0); struct tm *tm = gmtime(&now); strftime(datebuf, sizeof datebuf - 1, "%d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/13/11 9:41 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: On 10/13/11 9:04 AM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Back on topic... My OpenIndiana ssh service seems to take a long time to connect with a client (long delay before the password prompt is displayed). It happens most of the time and feels like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/13/11 9:04 AM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Back on topic... My OpenIndiana ssh service seems to take a long time to connect with a client (long delay before the password prompt is displayed). It happens most of the time and feels like a network timeout issue. How can I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/13/11 8:47 AM, James Carlson wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: No, same LAN. Only thing in between is a gigabit switch. The OI is actually a virtual machine, and 3 other hosts (linux) are on the same hypervisor and my win7 workstation can hit them with no issues. Since it's saying it's a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Apache error on reboot

2011-10-11 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got a machine that I've been upgrading since about snv_64ish. Since upgrading to OpenIndiana (and possibly slightly before) apache doesn't come up after a reboot. Since I don't reboot this very much I keep forgetting about this problem. I've having frequent power failures lately which h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Announcing OpenIndiana Build 151a

2011-09-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Happy Anniversary! Thanks for the hard work of a small group that made this happen. On 9/13/11 11:37 PM, Albert Lee wrote: The wait is over. Today, the OpenIndiana project is pleased to announce the next development release of the open source, enterprise operating system. OpenIndiana build 15

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot archive repair oi-151

2011-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
*** Updated: I meant init 5, not init 6. I've been getting boot-archive timeout messages upon boot. I figured that I needed to update the boot archive manually. When I do, I get the following: # bootadm update-archive -v cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directory canno

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot archive repair oi-151

2011-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been getting boot-archive timeout messages upon boot. I figured that I needed to update the boot archive manually. When I do, I get the following: # bootadm update-archive -v cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directory cannot find: /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: No such file o

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Debug network slowdown

2011-08-30 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got a weird problem that I'm struggling to get a handle on. It's been going on for many months now. I've got a Sunfire V20z acting as a firewall router (as well as providing other services) (bge0 is the WAN and bge1 is the LAN). What I see is that a ping (let's say to yahoo.com), starts

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cloud printing in OpenIndiana??

2011-08-12 Thread Gary Gendel
On 8/12/11 10:40 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I think what is needed is an ipp proxy that will announce itself as an HP device and relay to the non-HP printer. I wonder if printing to the USB port of an Airport Express would get around that but I&#x

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cloud printing in OpenIndiana??

2011-08-12 Thread Gary Gendel
On a marginally related question... Does anyone know how to deal with non-HP printers for HP's ePrint technology? It seems that HP has a check to make sure the printer is an HP product (even though it meets the ePrint requirements). So, even though I have an ipp networked printer that supports

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-09 Thread Gary Gendel
Christopher, A silly question... Is this on a dual-boot system? I had a problem on one machine where booting windows would change the bios clock so bringing up OpenIndiana would be an hour off. I suppose this could be true of a virtual machine resetting the time as well. Gary On 7/9/11 9:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb

2011-05-31 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks. I found this bug in the database so I appended to it. Wonder why it was "temporarily" fixed in 148b. :( On 5/31/11 2:32 PM, Oscar del Rio wrote: On 05/31/11 02:05 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Seems that the bug in the usb library that I saw in 147, which was ok in 148, is b

[OpenIndiana-discuss] usb

2011-05-31 Thread Gary Gendel
Seems that the bug in the usb library that I saw in 147, which was ok in 148, is back in 151. Because of this, the apcusbd program crashes like it did in 147: (gdb) where #0 0xfee5c3ec in strtok_r () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0xfee5c37f in strtok () from /lib/libc.so.1 #2 0xfef42619 in usb_init

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Failure while upgrading OpenIndiana

2011-05-24 Thread Gary Gendel
I tried to upgrade with the following command: pkg image-update --accept --be-name snv_151 --require-new-be but it got hung. I tried it several times with the same result: DOWNLOAD PKGS FILESXFER (MB) mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbir... 206/878 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Gary Gendel
On 5/24/11 8:08 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 01:11 -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: On May 24, 2011, at 12:36 AM, "LinuxBSDos.com" wrote: List as many as you can and I'll still be able to prove that "most of the distros using sudo are derived from Ubuntu" is a statement of fact. Op

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Front panel shutdown

2011-05-18 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, Can anyone point me to information on how to get the front panel power button to work? I have a SunFire V20z that I would do a quick power-down by pressing the button with OpenSolaris but I just tried it when I had a power outage and I wanted it to shut down. However, it didn't acknowle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sound juicer doesn't propose mp3 as output?

2011-05-09 Thread Gary Gendel
You can try here: http://solaris.homeunix.com/ They provided gstreamer codecs and other packages. I'm not sure what the current state is. Gary On 5/9/11 6:53 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 May 2011, at 09:43, Ken Gunderson wrote: Yes, the lame encoder package, wh/is not available in openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qt 4 on OpenIndiana?

2011-05-06 Thread Gary Gendel
#x27;s new toolchain and IDE (Qt Creator), or was it just the libraries? On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I've built Qt3 and Qt4 for OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana with reasonable success. However, there are pre-built packages available via the OpenSolaris KDE project. Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qt 4 on OpenIndiana?

2011-05-06 Thread Gary Gendel
I've built Qt3 and Qt4 for OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana with reasonable success. However, there are pre-built packages available via the OpenSolaris KDE project. Gary On 5/6/11 11:42 AM, David wrote: Hello, Does Qt 4 run on OI? If so, are there any packages for the Qt SDK? Thank you _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-04 Thread Gary Gendel
ne for the advice. I was just curious. It's interesting to see that corruption of a single file can cause such a big issue. I let the person that created the package what happened so he can fix his install procedure. On 4 May 2011, at 00:21, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I installed a pack

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Gendel
On 5/3/11 9:02 PM, Albert Lee wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote: On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software manager

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software manager, etc.). The laptop is running the dev_il repository. How the heck to I recover from this? The only LiveCD I know of uses an earlier versio

[OpenIndiana-discuss] php iconv //TRANSLIT error

2011-04-28 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm trying to get z-push running and I have run into what seems to be a bug in oi_148 (dev_il). After looking at this in detail, it looks like the iconv call is failing. I put together a simple testcase: This displays "This is a test" in the browser as expected. However, fails, (as does

[OpenIndiana-discuss] update-refresh dependency

2011-04-26 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm using oi_148 from dev_il and I get the following cron job failure. Why does update-refresh require a running display? Regards, Gary Your "cron" job on phoenix /usr/lib/update-manager/update-refresh.sh produced the following output: /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.p

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunfire v20z success continued....

2011-04-23 Thread Gary Gendel
Alasdair, Success with 148 dev_il and the Thinkpad Z61 as well! It's nice to be able to install OpenIndiana after failed attempts with 148 and 148b. The Thinkpad is a bit starved for memory (1G) for OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana, but 148 dev_il boots up and shuts down in roughly half the time tha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunfire v20z success!

2011-04-17 Thread Gary Gendel
All, A big congratulations to the development team. My main SOHO server's OS has not been upgraded since os_134b because OpenIndiana failed to install for one reason or another. The last of the problems was with bge and usb drivers. I tried oi_148b and finally have OpenIndiana running. In

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broadcom GB NIC

2011-04-08 Thread Gary Gendel
On 4/8/11 1:18 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Apr 7, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: For instance Sun X2100. I still have quite a few around, bought in late 2005/early 2006. It looks like the V210& V240 have it as well. I wonder... Is this the Tigon3 chipset? Because I have an older

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

2011-03-28 Thread Gary Gendel
On 3/28/11 9:34 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: The problem is always legacy stuff. If you change the behaviors then expect that things that people wrote for Solaris to fail. For example, napp-it, webmin, etc. You are quite correct. The only acceptable solution for me is to put all the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

2011-03-28 Thread Gary Gendel
On 3/28/11 8:58 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: The shutdown command certainly is not broken. If indeed the Linux newbie must be catered to, then we can change the defaults, and tell them to "just use shutdown". This command does not do the expected thing and that is the problem. The GNU

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Gary Gendel
n the v20z? Jon On 28 February 2011 14:25, Gary Gendel wrote: Ooh! This looks just like what was happening when I tried 148 on my v20z. Looks like something in the 148 bge driver is wacked. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Ooh! This looks just like what was happening when I tried 148 on my v20z. Looks like something in the 148 bge driver is wacked. On 2/28/11 9:22 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 07:33 +, Chris Ridd wrote: On 28 Feb 2011, at 04:20, Ken Gunderson wrote: But one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-12 Thread Gary Gendel
Forgot... Here is the article that goes along with the script: http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/network-installer-for-openindiana/ On 2/12/11 7:32 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Marion, I have somewhat successfully brought up oi_148 on my v20z. I only had two issues that I didn't hav

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-12 Thread Gary Gendel
Marion, I have somewhat successfully brought up oi_148 on my v20z. I only had two issues that I didn't have the time to work out so I'm back on svn_134b 1) I couldn't get apcupsd to work. I'm sure this is due to some change in libusb. 2) There was something sucking up cpu but not showing up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-11 Thread Gary Gendel
This sounds more like the CD is corrupt and the drive is having problems reading the disk. Two things to try... See if it installs on another machine and try an external usb drive. In the past I found that the external drive to be much more reliable than the internal drive on the v20z. Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/9/11 5:56 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: On 08/02/2011, at 6:16 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Something that so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Something that someone mentioned in passing triggered a thought. My server gets it's ip address via DHCP from my ISP. Currentl

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Something that someone mentioned in passing triggered a thought. My server gets it's ip address via DHCP from my ISP. Currently I have a cron job that queries the address and, if it changed, update a DNS server externally. This way I can use mail and web services external to my network. Ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Gendel
I tend to agree with Matt. I've had several catastrophic power incidence on my server running OpenSolaris without incident (such as a UPS gone haywire). Since ZFS does transaction-safe reads and writes, the consistency on the disk has an extremely low probability of getting corrupt. But there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Performance problem with Flash & Firefox 4.0 b10

2011-02-02 Thread Gary Gendel
e) and it might well fix the issue, but I don't need FF 4 yet. On 1 February 2011 20:29, Hillel Lubman wrote: There was some thread about outdated NSS but it was related to Solaris 10. I reposted it to desktop-discuss too. Thanks, Hillel. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Gary Gendel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Performance problem with Flash & Firefox 4.0 b10

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Gendel
I've seen similar problems posted on the OpenSolaris discuss-desktop mailing list. You might want to see if they posted a solution. On 2/1/11 3:14 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: After upgrading to Frefox 4.0 b10 and Flash plugin 10.1 r102 on OpenIndiana oi_148, Flash started to consume close to 100%

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox Sync

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/1/11 2:07 AM, Hillel Lubman wrote: On 02/01/2011 12:52 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: Hi, has anyone got Firefox Sync on Firefox 3.6.12 working, using oi_147 as the host platform? Cheers, Nope, it might have crypto module issues. If you really want to use Sync better install Firefox 4.0 (lat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Sorry, I mistyped... It should have said webmin (www.webmin.com). On 1/28/11 3:16 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/28/11 10:29, Gary Gendel wrote: Does napp-it suit the bill? How about Webmn? first time i've heard about napp-it and could not find anything on webmn I read some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Does napp-it suit the bill? How about Webmn? On 1/28/11 1:09 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/28/11 09:27, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: So I vote for (stable) Server GUI distribution of OI. A GUI server version seems good; it directly competes with other gui server OS. whatever was decide

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Personally, whether it's sendmail, postfix, qmail or something else I couldn't care less. We all have our MTA of choice. For the mail server I pull whatever it is it out to run spamdyke/qmail with an IMAP (dovecot) interface for access from all the other machines. I've done it dozens of time

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Yes. You can use the install_openindiana script from here: http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_openindiana This will create a new BE and install a fresh copy of indiana in it. It really is a life-saver. Gary On 1/25/11 8:27 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I have an installation of OpenSo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No keyboard during install of oi 148

2011-01-18 Thread Gary Gendel
Daniel, You are not alone. You can get past this by plugging in a USB mouse and keyboard, but be warned... I tried the following: a) Install from LiveCD using USB mouse and keyboard - Installs but boot hangs after "hostname" message. kernel debug messages don't show anything useful. b) Up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Guys, Kudos for the great discussion going on here. This is exactly the right discussion to get things moving forward. As for the "You should include ", this can go on forever and facture the community. As for choice of MTA, everyone has their own favorite (mine happens to be a spamdyk

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Gendel
Michelle, Though I generally agree with the advice that you received, I take an exception to the statement that checksums "always" indicate hardware or driver failure. As a long-time raidz user, I can attest to the fact that, occasionally, changes to the zfs code have wreaked havoc with raid

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with "File exists" error for a man page

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Gendel
get apcupsd running because it crashes in this library in a strchr() call when initializing the usb connection. It shows a SIGSEGV permission problem. I had to go back to 134b because I can't find who is using the cpus. Gary On 1/11/11 9:39 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I've been struggling to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with "File exists" error for a man page

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been struggling to update from snv_134b to OpenIndiana, but both 147 and 148 fail when trying to install SUNWxwpnm, the X-Window man pages. The crash comes because a file already exists. I don't know what file so I don't know how to get around it. Any ideas? -- The

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install to a new BE

2011-01-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Is it possible to do a fresh install to a new BE rather than image-update? This would make it possible to go back to the previous BE in case there was an installation problem? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Gendel
l be worth trying to control the keyboard and mouse over that interface. Jon On 6 January 2011 12:56, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I'm getting very frustrated with OpenIndiana installation issues. ?It works fine in a VirtualBox environment, but I haven't been able to try it on bare metal.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I'm getting very frustrated with OpenIndiana installation issues. It works fine in a VirtualBox environment, but I haven't been able to try it on bare metal. Thinkpad Z61p running oi_147: * LiveCD install doesn't recognize built-in keyboard or mouse. * If updated from repository, boot ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2011-01-04 Thread Gary Gendel
Jonathan, There are lightweight alternatives to Gnome available with a bit of work. KDE is pretty close to Gnome in terms of weight. I had used XFCE happily for awhile. It is lightweight and snappy and didn't bring my laptop to it's knees. It also has a CDE-like look and feel. http://hub.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Thinkpad Z61p problems

2010-12-28 Thread Gary Gendel
This laptop is happily running oi_147, but I has some serious problems with oi_148. 1) The oi_148 liveCD doesn't recognize the built-in keyboad or trackpad. 2) Trying to upgrade to oi_148 from the package manager complains with a message like "cannot upgrade a live image". 3) Upgrading to oi_14

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss libfmevent problem with installing

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Gendel
On 12/21/10 7:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:58:13 +1100 From: Andrew Myers To: "openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org" Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147 Message-ID:<094999e1-a6a2-47a7-9

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63

2010-10-25 Thread Gary Gendel
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