Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is this kind of nfs speed just tiny bit outrageous?

James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com writes: On 1/3/2015 7:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Server OS: OI 115_a9 client OS: Gentoo linux (up to date) On client: I recently decided I'd like to write rsnapshot (using rsync) backups to an nfs mounted zfs share on OI nfs server. The first trial

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to completely disable keyboard shortcuts

Aside from ditching the gui desktop altogether; does anyone know if there is some way to disable all keyboard shortcuts provided by the gui? Many cannot be removed using Settings/keyboard shortcuts. Even some I set long ago still work after removing them from that gui keyboars sc tool.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to completely disable keyboard shortcuts

Michael Schuster michaelspriv...@gmail.com writes: I'd start with xmodmap (and xev to find out what the keys are doing). Why would I start there if I want to know if there is some way to disable and keyboard shortcuts set by the gui? Do you know if there is?

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to revert a permissive chmod

Is there some similarly all incompassing command to revert: /bin/chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow /some-dir back to a more default chmod 755 on directories and 644 on type -f files? (and no acls set) I mean short of using `find' in comination with chmod.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to revert a permissive chmod

Doug Hughes d...@will.to writes: Well, it's not the exactly same, but you could do chmod -R go-w . Has no effect on all the thousands of type -f files ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us writes: It order to escape this, you can install Perl from source code compiled with GCC. Expect it to be an adventure. hehe... thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

Can any cpan user tell me if there are things I can do so the cpan shell behaves more like a modern bash shell?... so that walking back thru history doesn't just insert a bunch of control char. Modern bash is very editable, and history wise, yet cpan is like using the ancient borne `sh' It makes

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

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Following update of an hipster install running as Vbox guest on an OI (151_9) installation, rebooted to new BE following upgarde, But it does not bring up X as in the past, so logging into my user at console and attempting to startx from there I get

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

Alexander Pyhalov a...@rsu.ru writes: You have to update virtualbox drivers (guest additions). Drivers from 4.3.22 work for me. --- System Administrator of Southern Federal University Computer Center Thanks. I'll try that now. ___

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

Following update of an hipster install running as Vbox guest on an OI (151_9) installation, rebooted to new BE following upgarde, But it does not bring up X as in the past, so logging into my user at console and attempting to startx from there I get this error: , | xauth: creating new

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A little coaching on purchase of hp xw8600

I own 1 hp 8600 running OI 151_09 I'd like to have a twin and shopping on ebay. My current xw8600 came from ebay with 2x Xeon and 32 GB ram I'm not finding a ready made twin but see a few 2x Xeon xw8600's . What I don't feel confident about is how to ramp up the RAM. This particular

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

John D Groenveld jdg...@elvis.arl.psu.edu writes: In message 54e6e89a.5090...@2e-systems.com, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Ad ministrator] writes: On 02/20/15 08:36 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/31.4.0esr/contrib/solaris_pkgadd /firefox-31.4.0esr.en

[OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs list when change after deletions

Running 151_9 I got a notification that a zpool was nearing the full mark. zfs `list -r p0' showed 825 gb in use and 89 gb left. After checking it out I deleted about 260gb from one of zfs fs on `p0'. I have yet to see any change in what zfs list -r `p0' shows. still showing 825gb in use and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Time-slider percentages

On OS's like OI 151_a9, when the `time-slider' app from menu System/administration/time-slider is in working order, I'm curious why the percentage allowed for snapshots is so high? On my setup, `the time-slider manager' allows 70-90 % of disk space to be set for the storage of snapshots... above

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Time-slider percentages

Alexander Pyhalov a...@rsu.ru writes: That seems like an awfully high percentage... even at the lowest setting of 70%. It seems you misunderstand this setting. It says clean up snapshots when 70% of filesystem space is used, Gack! Yes I did... thanks for clearing it up.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

Running OI a9 on HP xw8600 Following a hard shutdown from power outage; attempted boots produced an error message indicating a problem with the onboard battery and that the date was way off. On booting to bios I discovered the date was on zeros all around. AFter resetting the date to its (then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.net writes: As a start: Once in grub, edit boot line to 'text mode' and verbose. This will get you a bit down the road toward diagnosis. Lou Picciano I don't seem to be getting far trying above. Probably due to not really understanding what you mean. On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru writes: 8 августа 2015 г. 10:03:34 CEST, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com пишет: Running OI a9 on HP xw8600 Following a hard shutdown from power outage; attempted boots produced an error message indicating a problem with the onboard battery and that the date was way

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com writes: On 8/8/2015 6:02 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Top image is initial screen; I pressed `e' on last item That brought bottom image up where I pressed `e' and added textmode,verbose on each line where you see a green dot. (in rotation) The flags make

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com writes: On 8/8/2015 6:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I added this to the end of kernel line: [...]spc-m textmode,verbose Then pressed enter, then pressed b The boot attempt ended exactly as I've described. That is, It goes to the boot progress

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net writes: if you think the cmos battery is bad then the sata config might have reverted to legacy mode or compatibility mode from ahci (or vice versa). this might account seeing grub but not file systems. this needs to be addressed before proceeding. First,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.net writes: Harry, First, apologies. I should have provided you that explicit GRUB boot line, then stuck with you! No matter, you're further along now... I'm gonna use the Occam's Razor approach, and bet that you've blasted your SATA settings - and that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT how to test a monitor

Gary Mills writes: >> >> Cutting to chase: Monitor suddenly will not produce a computer screen >> from any host. All parts; hosts, kvm, monitor and keyboard have been in >> use in this arrangement for same period of time. > > Try a hard reset on the monitor, meaning that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] using touch ... whats wrong here

Not particularly and OI question but that is where I need this technique to work. I'm hoping some of you old shell hands will see the problem. I hope not to be exibiting true ignorance... but here I go. I keep messing with one forumlation of find cnmd that seems like it aught to work... What

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using touch ... whats wrong here

v...@bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) writes: > Hi Harry! > > >> find scripts/perl/ -cnewer NewerThan -and ! -cnewer ButNotNewerThan > > Stupid question: Which find are you using? The -cnewer construct gnu find ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using touch ... whats wrong here

Thanks for the good input... yes I see it is `-newer' I was after... not -cnewer. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for experienced user input on specific Machine purchase

Hoping a few here may have experience with this hardware and can speak from experience about installing OI and using as a home NAS. My skill level is weak but I have done something very similar on one previous occasion. (With plenty of help from this list) Am I likely to be walking into known

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to get bios version on running OI.

Can anyone advise me about how to acquire bios version on OI running on HP xw8600 with 2x xeon hardware? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to get bios version on running OI.

Stephan Budach <stephan.bud...@jvm.de> writes: > Am 16.02.16 um 05:53 schrieb Harry Putnam: >> Can anyone advise me about how to acquire bios version on OI running >> on HP xw8600 with 2x xeon hardware? >> >> >> > Just issue smbios on the termi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fresh hipster install important tool no workee

Aurélien Larcher writes: harry wrote: >> I used this iso: oi-hipster-gui-20160421.iso >> Am I wasting my time with the mentioned iso... is there a more recent >> one? > > Yes testing ISOs have been announced >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Not proposing a flame war ...What are the pros in favor of hipster

I am so far from knowledgable about the differences between the various Solaris branches is the only reason for asking this question. I'd like to hear a bit about the pro's of hipster as compared to Solaris 11.3. Maybe a few pointer showing where the real differences are and what they mean.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] to update oi to hipster or install hipster ...

"Hetrick, Joseph P" writes: > Hi, > > I would be very aware of the issues with zfs send/recv I have posted > here and to illumos discuss before performing either activity. If you > have an OI 151aN series install I would be cautious thinking you can > zfs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] basic nfs on oi

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > When I try the same from hipster I get: > > sudo mount -F nfs d1:/pub /nfs/d1-pub > > nfs mount: d1:/pub: No such file or directory Please disregard my flayling . . I was trying to mount a symlink to a directory. d1:/pub

[OpenIndiana-discuss] basic nfs on oi

I've been attempting to mount an nfs share from a linux host on a vbox install of hipster (from the recent new *.iso's posted). First I tested to make sure the share was being exported by mounting the share from another linux host as client. I was able to mount it with no problems. When I try

[OpenIndiana-discuss] to update oi to hipster or install hipster ...

Running oi build 151_9 (not hipster) Hardware: HP xw8600 workstation with 2x XEON 5460 3.00ghz cpus and 32 GB ram. My setup is very small beer compared to many on this list. I only have a few zfs FS carrying data on a mirrored pair of disks that contains rpool. Maybe about 125 GB I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] basic nfs on oi

Jerry Kemp writes: > Sorry, please disregard reply. > > I didn't see that the OP had resolved his issue a dozen or so post later. > Your post was still helpful since I did not think to use the showmount command you suggested... thanks

[OpenIndiana-discuss] fresh hipster install important tool no workee

Just installed hipster in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host. I used this iso: oi-hipster-gui-20160421.iso It's been disappointing. Seems that updating to latest image is not possible: A command like `pkg image-update -v' Just sets and never returns or shows any activity. But it is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about VT-x or AMD-v on HP-wx8600 workstation

I've been running openindiana on an HP xw8600 for some time. It has the most recent (2012) BIOS version published (most recent far as I know, after googling a bit). (If this is wrong please let me know) NOTE: BIOS Configuration: Hewlett-Packard 786F5 v01.46 09/20/2012 With Virtualbox, since

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is there a handy way to add users?

"the outsider" writes: > Does useradd fail at creating the user? Or is the user directory not > created? > > Otherwise: > mkdir -p /home/{username} > useradd -G {staff} {username} > > passwd { username} > > chown -R {username} : { staff} /home/{username} > Seems to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any way to get a higher screen res in latest hipster

Fiddling around with a new install from OI-hipster-gui-20161030.iso, I don't see a way to get a screen resolution higher than 1024x768. (The install is oih as guest in virtualbox) The default Mate terminal takes half or more of 1024x768 I found the screen settings in Mate config tool but see no

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is there a handy way to add users?

The useradd tool seem not to be able to add users when a home dir is stipulated. I know there has been a bug filed some time back. Am I likely to end in a mess if I just edit /etc/passwd/group to add a user? Are there other things to edit beyond the two mentioned above?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about VT-x or AMD-v on HP-wx8600 workstation

"Alex Smith (K4RNT)" writes: > Hello there, > > http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01316837 Egad! > My research points me to the BIOS setup screen (F10 on boot), choosing > Security, OS Security, Intel Virtualization instructions. > My only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSSH GSS-API-key-exchange

"Udo Grabowski (IMK)" writes: [...] > +1 for keeping and off by default - this is, e.g., needed > where you login against a Windows central IDM infrastructure. I don't have any kind of vote here... however, have had man problems with the current default. My other lan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

Thank you both for the techniques. I think it used to take a few more steps to make it possible to ssh to root. Last time I did that it involved editing a pam file /etc/user_attr. Maybe more but that was a good while ago. I see its been made simpler. Or maybe I was all wet back then too.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anything special todo to used discs on fresh install

Setup: running oi-151_9 on: Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I'm about to try installing hipster from the 161030 gui iso on the above hardware that has been running build 151_9 for something like 2 yrs maybe more. I've had some good helpful posts on how to get this

[OpenIndiana-discuss] import of zpools not exported

Is there a way to import zpools that I forgot to export before shutdown and fresh install. Or will it be best to mount one of the mirrored discs from old install somewhere and just rsync stuff to new zfs fs. No need in this case of worry about snapshots and such plus there is not much data

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

This is my first actual usage of send/receive. I see the examples given here: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/gbchx.html#gbinw host1# zfs send tank/dana@snap1 | ssh host2 zfs recv newtank/dana Note the `#' sign .. so root is sending, however in all of my installs,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > I think what Timothy C has in mind is dropping mbuffer/tamp and using > ssh for the whole thing > > zfs send p/fs@now | ssh RECV_HOST zfs recv p/fs OOps that should have read ... I think what G

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> writes: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > >> Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > >> > Just a thought here, you may w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

James Carlson via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> writes: > On 03/27/17 04:40, Harry Putnam wrote: >> My rendition: >> >> zfs send p0/vb/vm@170326_1 |tamp|mbuffer -s 128k -m1000m -0 >> recv-host:31337 | mbuffer -s 128k -m 1999m -I 31337

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > I tried this at ~/.ssh/config on source host. The host named > in the config is the destination host that is running the rsync cmd. > > Host g1 <= name of linux host > HostName g1.local.lan <=same linux host >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: > On 2017-03-27 07:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give >>> arcfour a try and se

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is hipster repo slow for pkg commands

Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > >> [Note: comments below NOT to be seen as load complaining] >> >> Running pkg update I've noticed that is seems really slow.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about pkg list for building gnu stuff from source

Can anyone offer a list of pkgs one would need in order to be able to compile the odd gnu type packge from source I have installed gcc-5 and automake and I see make is already onboard. I haven't attempted any builds as yet but I hoped someone would know off the top of there head what packages

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

I continue to have a problem understanding the output of zfs list. I've googled up a couple of what seem to be thorough explainations but somehow am still not getting it. Or maybe this is just what it looks like, that is, a lot of space gone to parity striping. NameUSEDAVAIL REFER

[OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Trying to learn how to use mbuffer and tamp to do zfs send/receive rather than ssh which is pretty slow even on my home gigabit lan at home where there is very little traffic. So far using ready made examples from posters on this group or a few I found online I've constantly run into `connection

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> writes: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> On the vm, I've created discs like so: >> >> 2 @ 96G >> 2 @ 116G >> 2 @ 216G >> >> These have just over 2x v

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

jason matthews <ja...@broken.net> writes: > On 3/24/17 3:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I continue to have a problem understanding the output of zfs list. > > You may want zpool list, depending on what you trying to get. Let's > see what you have done. please show us:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> writes: > On 03/22/17 04:43 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm working on updating a host from 151_9 to latest hipster. > > If you do have backups, try using hipster-2015 as the intermediary > step to update old /dev installs and then from that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> writes: > On 22.03.2017 21:40, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> The current rpool was created about a 1.5 mnths ago (Using the 161030 >> iso) Installation is updated as of today. >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> writes: > On 03/23/17 03:37 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I was hoping to keep it kind of simple and just try to mirror rpool >> with a pair of smallish discs. So rpool will just be Siamese twins. >> > > If you do a clean install

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> writes: > On 03/23/17 01:37 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I was hoping to keep it kind of simple and just try to mirror rpool >> with a pair of smallish discs. So rpool will just be Siamese twins. >> >> Since the discs are 160 GB whic

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> writes: > On 03/22/17 07:40 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> So, I've ordered 2 new 160 gb sata wd diskcs ($16 per disc) to avoid >> possible problems with boot loader mayhem using my current discs. And >> also since I was warned off using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ways to move from sliced rpool to gpt/EFI rpool

Nikola M writes: > On 03/22/17 02:21 PM, Carsten Grzemba wrote: >> Is there a way to migrate a sliced (mirrored) rpool on disks with >> msdos partition table to gpt partioned disks (EFI lable) >> with loader? > > Yes, you fully reformat one drive and do fresh install on it,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

Jason Matthews writes: >> > > Re busy > What about loop back mounts? > Any shares of any type? > Anything like that? > > Re failed service > The local fs error maybe because the system is trying to mount a fs on > top of a non-empty directory or equivalently two file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Geoff Nordli writes: > Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give > arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. > > Geoff I made an attempt to see about the various speeds available with different Ciphers were like I didn't use any solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Geoff Nordli writes: [...] > > Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give > arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. > Can that be done on ssh command line or must be done in ssh_config? ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

Geoff Nordli writes: [...] >> Ok now back to the troublesome snapshot: In the console shell again >> zfs destroy just plain will not remove this snapshot and hence the fs >> itself. zfs message >> ontinues to say the snapshot is busy. >> >> Surely there is someway to get this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

jason matthews writes: Sorry that I slaughtered your nifty commands so bad. I haven't been able to get copy paste working on the vm that is the target and so have been torturing things with my poor typing. This time I scpped your message across to both hosts so no bunky

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > As you see the default Cipher was barely a minute faster than > the arcfour over 28.7 GB of data. > > Absolutely NOT a diffinative test in any way but should at least show > that on this network arcfour is likely to be no faste

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > As you see the default Cipher was barely a minute faster than > the arcfour over 28.7 GB of data. > > Absolutely NOT a diffinative test in any way but should at least show > that on this network arcfour is likely to be no faste

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

[Test conducted 170330] An attempt to measure the difference using mbuffer/tamp compared to hipsters latest version of ssh: pkg list|grep ssh service/network/ssh 7.2.0.2-2017.0.0.4 = Send HOST: A vbox vm running hipster on a windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

Jonathan Adams writes: > Do you have any info on just how much of the time difference is just down > to the SSH header overhead? > > Do you know how long this takes in comparison to starting an rsyncd server > and sending/receiving via rsync with compression on? No to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is hipster repo slow for pkg commands

[Note: comments below NOT to be seen as load complaining] Running pkg update I've noticed that is seems really slow. Maybe a local network mess I've made? or is the repo pretty slow? During pkg update (last was Mar 3) I see speed measured in 700-900 k/s during pkg downloads, shouldn't I be

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

Cleaning out a machine I'm about to bring down and reinstall hipster in place of 151_9 that has been running there. I found one stubborn snapshot that zfs destroy just will not remove. Tried -f flag -r and -R flags The zfs message says the snapshot is busy. I could not find any evidence of it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive .. I expected .zfs directories

I just completed my very first send/receive. I was suprised to find no .zfs directories once the recv completed. Did I do something wrong or is that normal? Am I supposed to create them? Here is what I did in general. On send-host I had two fs p0/vb p0/vb/vm Sent/recv'ed p0/vb and then ditto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive .. I expected .zfs directories

Doug Hughes writes: > silly question: is the filesystem mounted on the receive side? if > you just sent it, you'll want to mount it. Yes, for a silly pilot. You nailed it .. I was to dopey to notice it was not mounted. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] import of zpools not exported

Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Is there a way to import zpools that I forgot to export before shutdown >> and fresh install. >> >> Or will it be best to mount one of the mirrored discs fr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] WAS Re: Major troubles burning DVD [PLEASE IGNORE]solved

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > Attempting to burn the latest hipster iso (the gui) to dvd on windows > 10 platform. > > I've gone thru several disks ending in a bad write each time. These > are disks I've used over time... many times without problems. > >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

I'm working on updating a host from 151_9 to latest hipster. Following along at https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Hipster Create backup. Really. Uninstall all packages from opensolaris.org publisher pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster -G

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preparing used disks for hipster install on x86-64bit

Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> writes: > On 04/ 9/17 05:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> 3) It's been said here that the 161030 media will handle creating a >> mirrored rpool. >> >> But when I used that media to install to a vm, I never saw >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM/CPU usage and ZFS send/receive

Nikola M writes: > Please see if you can make your subjects in ML messages On-topic, > because I welcome general hardware talk, but we are actually more > Openindiana/illumos Solaris-derived related then just hardware > related. First, thanks for answering with all the good

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Preparing used disks for hipster install on x86-64bit

Sorry to keep hammering on this, but I am still thoroughly confused about how to prepare used disks for use as rpool under hipster. I realize it is Sunday and most of you will be relaxing a bit and probably not pounding away at newsgroups... but hopefully there will be a few kind souls watching

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About newly installed 3tb discs - should I be worried

Hardware: HP xw8600 2x Xeon 5470 - cpu 3.33 Ghz 2 750 Mirrored and 2 3tb mirrored Following a fresh successful install of hipster on the hardware above, I've pulled my old 1 tb discs for use elsewhere and installed 2 new 3tb discs. On bootup I went to BIOS to see if things appeared ok... what I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How reformat a hdd to new state

Setup: oi bld 151_9 running on: Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB ram I'm about to do fresh install on hardware cited above, of 161030 .. or might use the 170314 hipster that was offered for test only recently. (I've been running the test iso since it was offered with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

Timothy Coalson writes: Thanks for the excellent input. I like the details. [...] >> root # time zfs send p0/tst.2/isos@170330 | tamp | mbuffer -s 128k -m >> 1000m -O oi0:31337 >> > > tamp is compression, which takes cpu time. Since your network is gigabit > and you are

[OpenIndiana-discuss] mirroring rpool oi html pages

Reviewing the oi wiki pages before trying this out I wondered if the material here: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2.1+Post-installation Is still up to date? There has been quite a lot of talk of using whole discs everywhere possible... no slices, yet it appears that is what is being said

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

[Sorry to have messed this up on first go around.. still not sure how I managed to get the wrong subject in to the original post] Originall posted under subject: Subject: What do I need to install so that ~/.inputrc Which is completely unsuitable to the actual subject. Hopefully I haven't

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What do I need to install so that ~/.inputrc

When I tried install vbox-5.1.18 with `pkgadd -d': I get this error: Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 5.1.18,REV=2017.03.15.16.41.114002 Oracle Corporation ## Executing checkinstall script. Checking package dependencies... ## Missing packages: ## IPS : system/library/gcc/gcc-c++-runtime or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

Jerry Kemp writes: > I'm not running hipster yet. I need to figure out a new ATX board to > upgrade to before I move from older code to hipster. I used versions of Vbox from earlyish 4.0.X all the way up to 5.0.28 on older code too. oi bld 151_9. The first big

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

Geoff Nordli writes: > basically the answer is this: > > build# pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.1.18-SunOS-amd64-r114002.pkg . all > Transferring package instance > build# rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall > build# sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What is state of KVM on latest hipster

Since I appear not to skilled enough to get a working vbox running, I wondered if other vm options might be in better shape. Can anyone say what the state of KVM is on latest hipster? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

Alexander Pyhalov writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> I don't understand what is different about hipster that it just >> absolutely cannot handle the pkgs on offer at Vbox. I mean the ready >> made binaries. >> > Alexander P replied: > Hi. > This is not about OI, it's about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] metainit service not running

> Hi Brogyi > > Could it be that you ran into https://www.illumos.org/issues/7797? > Is your Installation up to date? > Would be interesting to know if that is the case. Excuse me barging in but I hit that issue on boot up with at least 2 hipster hosts.. one hardware 1 vm Both are thoroughly up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM/CPU usage and ZFS send/receive

Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> writes: > On 04/ 9/17 04:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> PS - I'm on 151_9 getting it ready to reinstall from hipster.. not on >> it because I want to continue using it. But thanks for the comments >> on that as well. >> >> I m

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

Wanting to get vms running that I brought over when making the move to hipster from 151_9... I found first that newer vbox versions are a no-go for now. So, went back to 5.0.28 and I can see it wants to install .. it went like this (large chunks elided): root # pkgadd -d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] metainit service not running

Andreas Wacknitz writes: > You will have to manually remove the remnents of it by issuing > svccfg delete metainit > After that it may also be necessary to run > svcadm clear metainit Thanks. Here, `svcadm clear' complains of not having a matching pattern. Which, of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A rather dopey problem with Mate panel

On a fresh install of hipster from iso on vbox vm. Hosted on an OI host running 151a9... After getting things going... I follishly assumed the setting that causes the panel at screen bottom to hide until you mouse over or near it. Like it is supposed to do I think. would just work. But anyway,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] well travelled Q about mving from oi_151a9 to ?

setup: SunOS 2x 5.11 oi_151a9 i86pc i386 i86pc Running on HP xw8600 2x of these: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz XU1 PROCESSOR I've been running build 151a9 for a good while but starting to see problems with compatibility in some areas... had a few go arounds with ssh, and now the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about exporting rpool

cjt <chelj...@prodigy.net> writes: > On 04/07/2017 11:39 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Mine are exact mirrors of 2 disks. I just want to make sure this bit >> from `man zpool' is not referring to those kind of shared disks. And >> that I do NOT have to b

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