Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-compilers] gcc 4.3.3 for OpenSolaris x86

2009-04-08 Thread Andre Lue
phigamma, Took a bit of your advice and having a go with binutils. However I cannot compile ffmepg svn 18335 with the new ld from bintutils. Can you please have alook and tell if you can where this is oging wrong. I'm using /tmp/gcc/bin/ld but cannot figure out where or why it calls

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
That's all you needed to supply. The CR was closed by renaud.ma...@sun.com, who noted in the evaluation that vold is gone, Tamarack replaced it, and that Tamarack *does* handle ZFS storage pools. The CR was then updated by artem.kachitch...@sun.com, who noted that Tamarack did do

Re: [osol-discuss] bash signal handling

2009-04-08 Thread Scott Rotondo
Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Rotondo scott.roto...@sun.com writes: casper@sun.com wrote: The most broken part of bash is its signal handling: cd /net/somehost/file/dir ; rm -rf * somehost hangs; now you type a ^C to interrupt the cd. What happens? bash-3.2$ sleep 10; echo foo

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-compilers] gcc 4.3.3 for OpenSolaris x86

2009-04-08 Thread Lurie
Took a bit of your advice and having a go with binutils. However I cannot compile ffmepg svn 18335 with the new ld from bintutils. Can you please have alook and tell if you can where this is oging wrong. I'm using /tmp/gcc/bin/ld but cannot figure out where or why it calls /usr/ccs/bin/ld

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/sun-microsystems-ente rprise-technology-enterprise-tech-sun.html I'm not a Sun Microsystems employee, but from my perspective as an outsider, and considering the end results, I would tend to agree with everything in that article. In fact, the article only

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-08 Thread Tim Scanlon
ooreron said: One led by Schwartz who believes Sun should sell and the other led by McNealy who doesn't. I agree with Mr. McNealy based on the concrete understanding that this would be in the best interests of the national security of the United States. This is why I suggested Sun seek out

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun vs. ________

2009-04-08 Thread Tim Scanlon
ILOM ftw. I have seen Dell racks blow breakers out of the electric junction box and imbed the resulting shrapnel in the walls on the other side of the electric closet. There's nothing quite like watching a large explosion to help clarify your choices in hardware. Tim -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] bash signal handling

2009-04-08 Thread Casper . Dik
No, I wasn't expecting a response from any particular person. I was just honestly wondering if this is a controversial point. If not, I'm a little surprised that no one has modified bash to behave more like other shells in this respect. Bash doesn't handle signals properly in interactive

Re: [osol-discuss] APIC Error

2009-04-08 Thread Ghee Teo
John Smith wrote: same problem here during install. APIC Error interrupt on cpu 1. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 80. I also see this problem with solaris nevada 111 on MacPro running native. Though, the rest works nicely. I don't have to install sound driver separately. The only driver I have

Re: [osol-discuss] KVM-switch rebooting system

2009-04-08 Thread Sean Bushby
artem, I'll enable that and take it from there. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM, UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/sun-microsystems-ente rprise-technology-enterprise-tech-sun.html I'm not a Sun Microsystems employee, but from my perspective as an outsider, and considering the end results, I would

Re: [osol-discuss] KVM-switch rebooting system

2009-04-08 Thread Sean Bushby
I think the USB sticks might be a false alarm. I switched back and forth numerous times lastnight after that and was fine. Switch to desktop, finished up and went to bed. This morning it had rebooted. Very strange. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Hanma
I have a question. How can I use pkgadd? Can you give me an example with *.tar.gz or other packages? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Durrant
Hanma wrote: I have a question. How can I use pkgadd? Can you give me an example with *.tar.gz or other packages? man pkgadd -- === Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant ===

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux prospers, Solaris dies?

2009-04-08 Thread Mykola Maslov
Have you met some kind of resistance in a company, when you suggested Solaris instead of Linux? Why this resistance? Frankly, Linux is not on par with Solaris, and also Solaris is cheaper than Linux, and still Linux prospers. The same with FreeBSD, which is more stable and also free. Still it

[osol-discuss] Exit Level

2009-04-08 Thread Kalai
Hi , Could you pls clarify me the following question 1)Is the state of SVC is dependent with exit level.If so how? Also how to use the different exit level. 2)When i exit the method with 98,the service state is going to maintenence.But 98 is for SMF_EXIT_MON_OFFLINE. 3)How can i change the state

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
Same here. Instead they complain about me because the (mis-)believe I'm trolling or flaming. They cannot see that I tried to help them. Like MANY OTHERS. I'd make one small change though: I wouldn't lay off any engineers. I'd fire or demote all of middle management. And enjoy every

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Hanma
I read it and tryed to install, but it writes - no packages were selected from /var/spool/pkg. What I must to do? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Durrant
Hanma wrote: I read it and tryed to install, but it writes - no packages were selected from /var/spool/pkg. What I must to do? Read the 'Sources' section: By default, pkgadd looks in the /var/spool/pkg directory when searching for instances of a package to install or

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Michal Pryc
Hanma wrote: I read it and tryed to install, but it writes - no packages were selected from /var/spool/pkg. What I must to do? pkgadd -d path/to/folder/with/packages SUNWexample Where SUNWexample is the name of the package or: pkgadd -d path/to/folder/with/packages all best Michal Pryc

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Hanma
what kind of package there must be? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
I have a question. How can I use pkgadd? Can you give me an example with *.tar.gz or other packages? Use pkgutil DO NOT be confused by this : http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pkgutil.1.html see :

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd

2009-04-08 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Hanma dante...@mail.ru wrote: what kind of package there must be? please, read a solaris manual. SXCE packages are in SVR4 format, read pkgadd(1M), pkgrm(1M) for more information opensolaris 2008.11 are in pkg format, read pkg(5) for more information -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] APIC Error

2009-04-08 Thread Ron Halstead
The Gnome / X not starting and the APIC error are not related. A couple of builds ago (now at 111), Alan C told me that there were some fonts missing in gnome which caused the X problem. I tried his fix and it has been working since then. I understand the fix was in snv_110. The APIC thing is

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-08 Thread Octave Orgeron
I do agree that Sun and the US would be better served by Sun getting assistance from the US government. And that money should go directly into marketing, sales, getting channel partners up to speed, and keeping engineering teams intact (and bring back those that were lost). Then Sun should

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-08 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
ooreron said: One led by Schwartz who believes Sun should sell and the other led by McNealy who doesn't. I agree with Mr. McNealy based on the concrete understanding that this would be in the best interests of the national security of the United States. This is why I suggested Sun seek

Re: [osol-discuss] bash signal handling

2009-04-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
casper@sun.com wrote: Bash doesn't handle signals properly in interactive shells. Bash also does not handle signlals properly in non-interactive shells. If you call bash -c cmd, bash sets up process grous and thus you cannot simply abort layered make calls by typing ^C. My smake for

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread Rallavagu
when a company is struggling, there are millions of analysts and experts who come up with zillions of reasons for not doing well. Very conveniently these reasons come up only after the fact. Martin Bochnig wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
when a company is struggling, there are millions of analysts and experts who come up with zillions of reasons for not doing well. Very conveniently these reasons come up only after the fact. No, that's not true in this case; you can easily find my writings on the subject dating at least

Re: [osol-discuss] KVM-switch rebooting system

2009-04-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Sean Bushby sean.bus...@gmail.com writes: I think the USB sticks might be a false alarm. I switched back and forth numerous times lastnight after that and was fine. Switch to desktop, finished up and went to bed. This morning it had rebooted. Do you have any problems with the KVM itself?

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux prospers, Solaris dies?

2009-04-08 Thread Dave
Utterly mad. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Issues installing OpenSolaris build 111

2009-04-08 Thread Bryan Boden
Hi, Has anybody been able to install OpenSolaris build 111 on an Hp xw9400 with 16gb mem, Quad core procs and 140 gb sata drive. Thanks, BB ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Jones
Think the short ansawer is Linux is an easier name to rememberthis sounds flippent but Opensolaros is a brand name not pushed or marketed for sometime by Sun and has dropped off the radar for some as a legacy mainframe dinasure..Decision makers want to prove themselves by having something

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread homerun
Greetings Mostly here is written about problems. Now i have to say something positive. Update Manager noted new release and i did update from b110 based preview. Now after reboot , system is clearly noteable faster than ever before !! So keep up good work ! -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Jones
Think the short ansawer is Linux is an easier name to rememberthis sounds flippent but Opensolaros is a brand name not pushed or marketed for sometime by Sun and has dropped off the radar for some as a legacy mainframe dinasure..Decision makers want to prove themselves by having something

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Jones
Think the short ansawer is Linux is an easier name to rememberthis sounds flippent but Opensolaris is a brand name not pushed or marketed for sometime by Sun and has dropped off the radar for some as a legacy mainframe dinasure..Decision makers want to prove themselves by having something

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Jones
Think the short answer is Linux is an easier name to rememberthis sounds flippant but Opensolaris is a brand name not pushed or marketed for sometime by Sun and has dropped off the radar for some as a legacy mainframe dinosaur..Decision makers want to prove themselves by having something

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Jones
Think the short answer is Linux is an easier name to rememberthis sounds flippant but Opensolaris is a brand name not pushed or marketed for sometime by Sun and has dropped off the radar for some as a legacy mainframe dinosaur..Decision makers want to prove themselves by having something

[osol-discuss] Proper syntax to make syslog create a file

2009-04-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell me what I need to do in /etc/syslog.conf To make the system logger create a file if it isn't present. I wanted a general debug file so put this in /etc/syslog.conf *.debug/var/adm/debug When I boot up I get error about there being no /var/adm/debug present. If I

Re: [osol-discuss] Issues installing OpenSolaris build 111

2009-04-08 Thread John Brewer
Make sure the BIOS is updated, you can try enabling/disabling intel vt in BIOS or disabling usb legacy support ( may cause keyboard to not work in grub) Try booting with a unix option of -B disable-mybaddriver=true under grub e to edit the line after unix and can separate the options with a

Re: [osol-discuss] Proper syntax to make syslog create a file

2009-04-08 Thread Bartlomiej Pelc
It is required to create that files by hand. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Osol based app that bcks up windows machines to zfs

2009-04-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Opensolaris.11 buiid 110 I've wondered if there is an application available for OpenSolaris that is capable of backup (incrementally) windows machines across a network? My background is linux somay be I just haven't heard of the apps that can do this. Or maybe just don't know how to use

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Octave Orgeron
Very true. Sun has not really spent much money in the way of advertising Solaris or OpenSolaris. Sadly, I see more ads for Java than I do for other Sun products and that just doesn't make much sense. Sun should be advertising it like crazy. The fact that Toshiba is selling a laptop with

[osol-discuss] Two packages fail nv110-nv111

2009-04-08 Thread Uwe Dippel
SUNWgnu-idn SUNWmysql51test Just FYI, Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Two packages fail nv110-nv111

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Uwe Dippel wrote: SUNWgnu-idn 6819291 SUNWgnu-idn has bad prototype entry and cannot install in snv_111. SUNWmysql51test 6820402 SUNWmysql51test: postinstall script isn't JumpStart/Live Upgrade compliant -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread Ché Kristo
Positive news is good :) I noticed also that performance is slightly better and nothing broke. I think this build is the one off which 2009.06 will be based too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread Yong Sun
Looks like compiz is broken :( On 4/9/09 9:24 AM, Ché Kristo wrote: Positive news is good :) I noticed also that performance is slightly better and nothing broke. I think this build is the one off which 2009.06 will be based too. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread robs
See the attached email. --Robs Yong Sun wrote: Looks like compiz is broken :( On 4/9/09 9:24 AM, Ché Kristo wrote: Positive news is good :) I noticed also that performance is slightly better and nothing broke. I think this build is the one off which 2009.06 will be based too.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Yong Sun wrote: Looks like compiz is broken :( Have an nvidia card? Apply the workaround in the release notes: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=99516tstart=0 (look for bug id 6822628 in the known issues list). Fix is coming in the 111a respin for 2009.06. --

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Yong Sun wrote: Looks like compiz is broken :( Have an nvidia card? Apply the workaround in the release notes: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=9 9516tstart=0 (look for bug id 6822628 in the known issues list). Fix is coming in the 111a respin for 2009.06. --

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111 X86

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Re compiz is broken, I changed the Visual Effects from none to normal, and it instantly crushed my machine (hp6929, c2d, GM965, 4 GB), necessitating a cold reboot. nv_111a will also have a set of Intel graphics bug fixes on the kernel side: 6820590 Toshiba R500