Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem with no randomness provider // on even new laptops ( Dell )

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Lowe
Its almost certainly not even unsafe, it just means that due to the race we needed random data in boot before we could have any. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg: No image found

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Lowe
One possibility: One of the recent pre-stable updates came with an image format update, which older pkg won't be able to read Another possibility: The same update is umask-sensitive, so if you have a restrictive umask, /var/pkg will become unreadable (making it 0755 again should wake things

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg: No image found.

2012-05-11 Thread Richard Lowe
That sounds like the pkg in the zone didn't get updated, and doesn't speak the new image format (which the pkg in the GZ updated it to). -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Richard Lowe
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: > UFS root should still work, also NFS root (convenient for ZFS debug work:) > As concepts within illumos, yes. With the full OI distribution, doubtful. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool upgrade in OI151a5?

2012-07-04 Thread Richard Lowe
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > I downloaded a PDF on the new zfs feature flag stuff.  I'm not sure what > 5000 means, but I'm not worried now.  I don't think I'll upgrade the data > pool yet though. 5000 is an arbitrarily high number, to provide separation between the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] error execv: Permission denied

2012-07-18 Thread Richard Lowe
The version of gcc 4.4.4 in a5 was packaged incorrectly, and as botched file permissions. Don't use it, use gcc-3. Jon, any chance of getting this fixed before it bites more people? (Also: is the package really 'gcc'? that's unfortunate, I thought it was being kept to the side for the 151 builds?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing boot driver

2012-08-24 Thread Richard Lowe
When you've installed the system, you should be able to install the driver into the root we created (mounted at /a, I believe), You then should be able to run add_drv -R /a ... I think the bootarchive will be automatically recreated when you reboot, but you could run bootadm update-archive -vR /a t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] adding aok=1 and set zfs_recover=1 to live CD's /etc/system as well?

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Lowe
Assertions are a necessary aid to debugging, do not disable them in a default environment, be in the live CD or post-install environment. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/lis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beadm broken - multiple active environments

2012-10-03 Thread Richard Lowe
Is there any possibility that you've cloned a zone onto that data pool? zfs list -o name,org.opensolaris.libbe:parentbe,org.opensolaris.libbe:active,org.opensolaris.libbe:uuid Would probably be useful output to see. It's telling you what it claims to be, that you have a single zone with multipl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "bad mutex" crash?

2012-10-28 Thread Richard Lowe
If you save the dump (savecore), extract it (savecore -vf vmdump.0 -d .), and run mdb (mdb unix.0 vmcore.0) What does: f7f9a9c5::whatis say? The stack looks reasonable enough that I'm wondering if you have a module loaded someone's stripped that's actually at fault, rather than it bei

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "bad mutex" crash?

2012-10-28 Thread Richard Lowe
Sorry, you have to run savecore twice. Once: # savecore should write out the vmdump.0 The second # savecore -vf vmdump.0 Will extract it. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "bad mutex" crash?

2012-10-29 Thread Richard Lowe
Ruled out what I was wondering. I'd file an illumos bug describing the configuration, etc, and make the crashdump available somehow. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "strange" linking error

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Lowe
This looks a lot like: https://www.illumos.org/issues/3436 I have no idea whether that fix is in OpenIndiana. One workaround is to stop using ld -r. I have no idea what your build process is doing though, because it appears to believe it's building an archive library, but is using ld -r, so is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unexplained system shutdown

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Lowe
Did the system reboot, or turn itself off? If it rebooted: When it came back, did it say it panicked? Anything in 'fmadm faulty'? Does running 'savecore' produce a dump? If it powered off: I have for a while had a suspicion that we may sometimes shut ourselves down based on thermal info,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is this comment on Bug #372 supposed to mean???

2013-03-24 Thread Richard Lowe
I didn't think Milan was done updating JDS. I'd assume someone is very confused. Especially since "Update to this other piece of software" hardly resolves the bug in what _is_ shipping. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about devlopment tools

2010-12-04 Thread Richard Lowe
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > But is there not a pkg with a collection of the basic dev tools? developer/gnu should be there, I think -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] opensolaris b134b (/release) to openindiana b148

2010-12-24 Thread Richard Lowe
On Dec 24, 2010 11:07 AM, "Anil" wrote: > > Cool, thanks. One more question for everyone? > > Is it safe to upgrade global zone from 2009.06 -> 134 -> 148, but > upgrade the non-global zones from 2009.06 -> 148? (I am wondering if I > can skip the intermediate upgrade to 134 for zones) The global

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_147 repo image?

2010-12-25 Thread Richard Lowe
> There does not appear to be a way to tell pkg > "use exactly this version:timestamp". I think the "pkg update" changes of Shawn's allow that, but I don't recall when they landed. Really I thought giving the full FMRI to"install" worked, though. -- Rich _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] equivalents for SUNWcryr/SUNWcry?

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Lowe
You shouldn't need to do anything, the functionality formally provided by SUNWcry* (the encryption kit) was folded in the base OS a couple of years ago. Forcing an install would (I think) be a really bad idea. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing lis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] equivalents for SUNWcryr/SUNWcry?

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Lowe
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:51, Brett Dikeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Richard Lowe wrote: >> You shouldn't need to do anything, the functionality formally provided by >> SUNWcry* (the encryption kit) was >> folded in the base OS a couple of years ago

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] why is OI- illumos based 148a 805mb

2011-02-24 Thread Richard Lowe
> We should probably slim the LiveCD down a bit. Presumably if we built 151a > consolidations, > and used distro-const from 151a, we'd end up with a CD rather than a DVD. I suspect the locale changes necessary for use with illumos may push this around some. I had wondered if the over-size was par

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tabs no longer expanded when cutting and pasting

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Lowe
If this is the change reflected in the termio TAB* setting, this also breaks emacs TRAMP unless a workaround is applied. It's very annoying. If it _is_, 'stty tab0' restores the behaviour you're wanting (per terminal) -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-20 Thread Richard Lowe
::cpuinfo and ::stacks would be good to see. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Richard Lowe
The rationale included the words "SPARC V9 ABI", if I recall correctly. It's not changing. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot crash

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Lowe
If you're crashing, you want to add '-k' to the boot arguments as well as -v, etc. to load the debugger, which should give you time to read panic messages etc. If with -k it stops at the debugger, the most useful thing is probably to include the panic-related output from the debugger's $ /mnt Up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Stack not written error on install attempt

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Lowe
That's part of the messages you get if the systems panics prior to the dump device being configured. Boot with -kv added to the kernel$ line in the grub configuration (hit 'e' to edit.) And it should stop in the debugger and give you time to read the message. The '$http://openindiana.org/mailman/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] how does one disable zil in OI?

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Lowe
I think this got swallowed up by milek's work on making it an actual interface, try: zfs set sync=disabled (other values are "standard", and "always") I suspect it may not have made it into the manual pages we currently have. -- Rich ___ OpenIndian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Showing dependencies with "pkg info"

2011-07-21 Thread Richard Lowe
pkg contents -Ho fmri -t depend If the package isn't installed, you'll need to add '-r' You can filter the type of dependency with '-a' -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/lis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS normalization problem

2011-07-28 Thread Richard Lowe
The best thing to do is likely to file an illumos bug (http://illumos.org/issues/illumos-gate) and possibly post to develop...@lists.illumos.org. I'm not sure what the overlap of this list, zfs-code, and developers@ is. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151a - where are man pages ?

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Lowe
Illumos folded our ones into the same packages as the software. I thought OI followed, but a small number could have been misplaced. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] iprb and ncrs on 151a?

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Lowe
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:36, Peter Tribble wrote: > So I thought I would try 151a on a test system I've had sitting around > (it's a white-box pentium4 machine). > > Two issues I would like to sanity check before I submit bugs: > > 1. The network appears to be driven by iprb, and doesn't work. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151a - where are man pages ?

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Lowe
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:05, Cyril Plisko wrote: > cis:~$ pkg search zfs.1m > INDEX      ACTION VALUE                      PACKAGE > basename   file   usr/share/man/man1m/zfs.1m pkg:/system/manual@0.5.11-0.148 > cis:~$ pkg info system/manual > pkg: info: no packages matching the following patter

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unusual pkg error creating a zone

2011-09-24 Thread Richard Lowe
This might be #944 (https://www.illumos.org/issues/944), which has symptoms that are remarkably annoying to track to their cause. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unusual pkg error creating a zone

2011-09-25 Thread Richard Lowe
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 03:36, Ian Collins wrote: >  On 09/25/11 07:06 PM, Richard Lowe wrote: >> >> This might be #944 (https://www.illumos.org/issues/944), which has >> symptoms that are remarkably annoying to track to their cause. >> > It could be, but I wonder w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unusual pkg error creating a zone

2011-09-25 Thread Richard Lowe
> Alas the patch didn't do the trick.  It looks like the problem is with > packages from the OI repro: > > Creating Plan |pkg: No matching version of SUNWadmap can be installed: > pkg://openindiana.org/SUNWadmap@0.5.11,5.11-0.151:20110912T025048Z: This > version is excluded by installed incorporati

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice on oi151a

2011-11-08 Thread Richard Lowe
Sun C 5.10 is Studio 12u1. It seems to explicitly want something prior to that. I don't have answers to any other part, but installing 12u1 shouldn't help you at all, based on the above. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO Throttling

2011-11-18 Thread Richard Lowe
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:43, Geoff Flarity wrote: > Hi, > > Has the IO Throtting work that Joyent has done made it's way into > Illumos/Open Indiana yet? No. > Is this on the horizon? I'd like it, but there were a couple of performance concerns they were trying to work out with the other ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-05 Thread Richard Lowe
You need to have EPT, certainly. Joshua and I did some work to make shadow paging work again on the AMD, and got to the point where it did for he and I, but seemingly not for anyone else :\ It'd be a good place to start for anyone wanting to remove the EPT requirement though. -- Rich __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GCC Performance hit?

2011-12-09 Thread Richard Lowe
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 07:32, Robar Philip wrote: > > I’m not a chat room user so I’m wondering, has anyone looked into how much of > a performance hit (if any) illumos and OpenIndiana are going to take by > switching from Sun’s compilers to GCC? Yes. -- Rich _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE g++ and _RESTRICT_KYWD

2011-12-11 Thread Richard Lowe
That's a bug in spawn.h, already filed with illumos. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Matrox

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Lowe
constype will _always_ display vgatext for that board regardless of a correctly configured X. It's displaying the kernel driver attached to the framebuffer which is driving the console, not the X driver. The other response regarding explicit configuration, etc, is probably the best way to figure

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distro_const package caching

2011-12-20 Thread Richard Lowe
The most foolproof way is to pkrecv the packages into a local repository first -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] onu broken today for oi_151a

2012-02-14 Thread Richard Lowe
the traditional reason to back publish or republish package/pkg has been to fix bugs affecting upgrade, so this is intentional, though perhaps outdated. Its not a bug anywhere, though it'd be nice if onu checked ahead of time somehow to save trouble. Workarounds. - update pkg in the current BE.

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

2012-02-18 Thread Richard Lowe
This happens, pretty much always, because something on which the package depends would also be upgraded and _really does_ require a new BE. Do an install -nv, look at what would be changed. I highly doubt anyone is adding reboot-needed to random packages. -- Rich ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Lowe
Vague recollection that the pool level is errors that weren't recovered, so possibly two of them on the device were ditto'd metadata? (I'm very unsure on both counts). Otherwise, as Chris said, iostat is particularly difficult to trust. No matter what the error (even if, indeed, the drive or tran

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

2012-02-21 Thread Richard Lowe
If you get a crash dump, can you provide it? Is this a machine with an x2apic? If it is, have you disabled it? (there's at least one known issue with complete, solid, system hangs on machines with x2apics). That said, if you were triggering the deadman regardless something is clearly wrong that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] missing Description field in many IPS packages

2016-11-04 Thread Richard Lowe
Description fields are omitted when they would otherwise just duplicate the summary. -- -- Rich ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can't find /boot/zfsloader

2017-02-09 Thread Richard Lowe
Were there other messages prior to that one? This might be the bug that I encountered and Toomas (Cc'd) gave me a fix for. On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:07 AM Dirk Willems wrote: > Hello OI, > > Today I want to switch over from my ubuntu desktop to OpenIndiana. > But I experience some issue, I creat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: xargs coredumps

2017-06-16 Thread Richard Lowe
This version of illumos has the bad version of the fix for 8362 in it, which we backed out yesterday. Boot an old BE, update illumos again (presuming OI has rebuilt), and you'll probably be ok. -- -- Rich ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin /bin/ksh -c "rm -f"

2019-06-17 Thread Richard Lowe
This ksh93 having over-many broken builtins thing has bitten people before, especially this one which can cause problems in autoconf. Do we have a bug filed to remove them? We should. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Closed-Source Binary Blobs?

2019-07-04 Thread Richard Lowe
The relevant result of an illumos 'make closedbins' is: closed-bits/kernel/drv/lsimega.conf closed-bits/kernel/drv/usbser_edge.conf closed-bits/kernel/drv/amd64/lsimega closed-bits/kernel/drv/amd64/mpt closed-bits/kernel/drv/amd64/adpu320 closed-bits/kernel/drv/amd64/atiatom closed-bits/kernel/drv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Closed-Source Binary Blobs?

2019-07-13 Thread Richard Lowe
Ar Gwen, 5 Gorff 2019 am 03:27 Till Wegmüller ysgrifennodd: > What I am wondering is what those iconv .t files are. Sorry, I missed this. I _think_ these are translation tables for a keyboard driver. Possibly a very very very ancient keyboard driver. I do not know why they're still packaged. _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Closed-Source Binary Blobs?

2019-07-13 Thread Richard Lowe
I think that might have been the case with the old closed iconv(1), but we don't use that any longer. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Closed-Source Binary Blobs?

2019-07-13 Thread Richard Lowe
I filed 11466 remove old closed iconv tables (https://www.illumos.org/issues/11466) if someone wanted to take a crack at this. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When this misery end?

2021-01-10 Thread Richard Lowe
The linker generates output of the same form as its input (32 or 64bit, x86 or sparc). Anything happening other than that is happening through the compiler front end. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] safely cleanup pkg cache?

2021-02-20 Thread Richard Lowe
History is recorded for the user only. If you don't use it you could purge it. Flushing the cache on success is fine too, anything it needs again will just get redownloaded. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some internals questions

2021-04-22 Thread Richard Lowe
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 08:40 Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > Do kernel modules load in a consistent order? > No ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why are DOS executables being installed?

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Lowe
I don't know about python. eventlog.dll is weird smb compatibility. Gordon (cc'd) can probably fill you in on that. -- Rich On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 16:32 Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > I'm working on system image audit tools and found th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot hangs after configuring devices (last notice is of pseudo devices

2023-03-21 Thread Richard Lowe
A good thing to do is to get into mdb when it's hung, and see where we are with the ::stacks command. https://illumos.org/books/dev/debugging.html has other tips. I would add if you set the 1 bit of `moddebug` when you're in kmdb (I think moddebug/W 8001 is verbose and stop on _init, but I ten

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot hangs after configuring devices (last notice is of pseudo devices

2023-03-22 Thread Richard Lowe
The challenge of answering that is you often don't know the answer until you see it The ::stacks command will give you asummarized view of every kernel thread's stack the ::cpuinfo -v command will show you what the CPUs are doing now (or were doing, before you got into kmdb). Both or either might