[osol-discuss] Luupgrade problem - without problem?

2009-03-22 Thread Uwe Dippel
At LU from nv109 to nv110 on UFS, everything was okay (at least according to the messages at luupgrade -u -n nv110 -s /mnt and luactivate). At init 6 however, I got to see some bootadm: invalid option or missing option argument: -e 91 service stopped updating /platform/.../boot_archive updating /p

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-22 Thread Spoorthy H.S
Thanks a lot. :) I am able to install the package now.. Thanks Spoorthy Alfred Peng wrote: IPSmc doesn't exist in /release repository. I guess you'll have to add the blastwave IPS repo to the authority list: % pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:1/ blastwave And try

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-22 Thread Alfred Peng
IPSmc doesn't exist in /release repository. I guess you'll have to add the blastwave IPS repo to the authority list: % pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:1/ blastwave And try again: % pfexec pkg install IPSmc -Alfred Spoorthy H.S wrote: Here's the output of pkg autho

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-22 Thread Spoorthy H.S
Here's the output of pkg authority hpcu...@hpc2:~/SFE$ pkg authority AUTHORITY URL localrepo http://localhost:1/ opensolaris.org (preferred) http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/ -Spoorthy Shawn Walker wrote: Spoorthy Shankarmurthy

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Zhu, Lejun
Sorry, should be "zfs snapshot -r rp...@now" Zhu, Lejun wrote: > I just did it last week by another way (modified from > http://blogs.sun.com/slowhog/entry/install_opensolaris_side_by_side): > > - Physically connect your new HDD. > - zpool create newpool > - zfs snapshot rp...@now >

Re: [osol-discuss] forum search broken?

2009-03-22 Thread Ché Kristo
I'm hoping that the new web infrastructure that is being rolled out will fix this issue...it's extremely frustrating :-| -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] forum search broken?

2009-03-22 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I know it has never worked for me. And now the > "orange dots of new content" seem to be broken too. I > think perhaps a different forum software should be > used. Not only that, but I have found that recently my messages are cc'd to mysterious places. -- This message posted from opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Zhu, Lejun
I just did it last week by another way (modified from http://blogs.sun.com/slowhog/entry/install_opensolaris_side_by_side): - Physically connect your new HDD. - zpool create newpool - zfs snapshot rp...@now - zfs send -R rp...@now | zfs receive -dF newpool - Install

Re: [osol-discuss] All builds since 104 crash my system

2009-03-22 Thread Ché Kristo
Yes...there is an iso available from http://www.memtest.org/#downiso -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Jumpstart Help

2009-03-22 Thread Johnson, Je
Nicholas, Thank for getting back with me. Not sure where to add the driver in the Jumpstart configuration? The only error I see is the following: Can't load drivers for /p...@1f,0/netw...@b Can't load the root filesystem I'm not sure what's going on because when Jumpstart starts I

Re: [osol-discuss] All builds since 104 crash my system

2009-03-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
I guess I can just burn a cd and boot from the iso? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] All builds since 104 crash my system

2009-03-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
> Bad memory? It happens. Run memtest86+. Let it run > for a few hours. > > --ron Can you direct me to a pre compiled version? I tried to compile it from freshmeat but had no success -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.2

2009-03-22 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I am sure everyone has heard about this by now: future versions of Sun xVM VirtualBox will have an option that allows its users to upload the vdi images to Sun's Cloud so you can run your favorite operating system or operating systems on-line. (Please see the attached screenshot which was taken

Re: [osol-discuss] All builds since 104 crash my system

2009-03-22 Thread ольга крыжановская
Bad graphics card driver maybe? Which card do you use? On 3/22/09, Mike DeMarco wrote: > Including build 110. Since build 104 I have been unable to load the OS using > the graphics install as it tells me no screens found. when I install in text > mode the system installs fine but upon reboot th

Re: [osol-discuss] All builds since 104 crash my system

2009-03-22 Thread Ron Halstead
Bad memory? It happens. Run memtest86+. Let it run for a few hours. --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] APIC Error

2009-03-22 Thread Ron Halstead
I'm getting the following console message during boot on snv_109 and snv_110. Does anyone know what it means, is there a cure, should I even care? APIC Error interrupt on CPU 0. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 80 APIC Error interrupt on CPU 1. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 80 I tried /etc/system: set pcplus

[osol-discuss] All builds since 104 crash my system

2009-03-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
Including build 110. Since build 104 I have been unable to load the OS using the graphics install as it tells me no screens found. when I install in text mode the system installs fine but upon reboot the system will crash with what I can catch of it. SunOS -8000-06 type: error 1 event type 172

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
> You get a 60GB mirror. I suspected as much, hence my question. > Then, when you remove the 60G disk and your reboot or > export/import the > pool, then it will reevaluate the size of the vdev. > > It tried and it worked (and "zpool history" remembers > how I did it) Cool. That is a really use

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Harry Putnam
casper@sun.com writes: [...] > >>Is there a better way? > > > Yes. [...] > zpool pool attach olddevice newdevice (make a mirror) > > and later, after a reboot from the new mirror (and after installing grub) > > zpool pool detach pool olddevice Well, I'm still having trouble

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
>> That should work. If you fix all three disks, it is somewhat faster to >> attach and replace in one step (attach and replace run in parallel and you >> only need to read the zpool once). > >By `fix' above, I guess you mean create a solaris (non-efi) slice >right? I actually meant to say that

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Harry Putnam
casper@sun.com writes: >>2) Casper indicated a different 2 step procedure in the event where the >> newdevice needs to be bootable. That is the case for me. >> >> I wondered if I might be able to use the first technique anyway: >> >> > zpool pool replace olddevice newdevice >> >> An

Re: [osol-discuss] what kinds of situation will the read(fd, buf, cnt) return a negtive number?

2009-03-22 Thread Ian mao
Unthought of man. Thanks for your remind. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] harddisk powermanagement

2009-03-22 Thread Jan Humbel
hello I'm sorry but that change to power.conf didn't have an impact to the disk behavior. thanks alot for your answer. But i don't feel that the noise is coming from head parking because there is also lower vibration and lower general noise coming from the harddisk. Anyway this means i have o

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
>But what happens when you attempt to mirror a 60GB disk to a 500GB disk? >How does that work? You get a 60GB mirror. Then, when you remove the 60G disk and your reboot or export/import the pool, then it will reevaluate the size of the vdev. It tried and it worked (and "zpool history" remember

Re: [osol-discuss] I am impressed with shutdown

2009-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
> To the 'genius' who pared down the shutdown process > in snv_110, well done. The genius is Daniel Price, and you can read about the adventure to get there, at this URI: "Speeding to a halt" http://blogs.sun.com/dp/date/20090306 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
> >Can I use `dd' for that task or is that likely to > have problems with > >zfs? > > Possible, yes. Also, you need to copy everything. Doesn't dd(1) do a bitwise copy, so how would that work? > Yes. > > zpool pool replace olddevice newdevice Did anyone ever tell you that you're a geni

Re: [osol-discuss] output from prtvtoc

2009-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
Additionally, you might want to experiment with `zfs send`, but as I've not used this feature yet, I can't say whether that'll work for this particular scenario. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] output from prtvtoc

2009-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
You're stuck. There's no clean-cut way to do what you want; you can't copy the VTOC over, because of the geometry mismatch. The way to do what you want is with a combination of find(1) and cpio(1): Assuming that the 500GB disk is mounted on /mnt, ( find / -mount -local -depth -print | cpio -pv

Re: [osol-discuss] How to move the os to anther disk (no mirroring)

2009-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
>Sorry to keep on about this but, I'm right on the verge of doing it >now and of course getting a little gun shy. Two things come to mind. > >1) The existing boot drive with OS on it is a 25 gb slice of > c3d1(a 60 gb disk), so c3d1s0 > > The new device is a 500 gb drive all one newly creat