Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-22 Thread Shao Xuan
Hi, I've been doing "prodreg unregister "Sun Studio 12 software"", then removing /opt/SUNWspro (since prodreg by itself gives me "Could not find prodreg GUI program: /usr/dt/bin/sdtprodreg"), and now I can reinstall Sun Studio 12. But I can't launch sunstudio after installation: yuri...@mars:/

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-22 Thread Shao Xuan
Hi halton, Yes, it's my mistake, sorry. :) Thanks, Shao -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Ian Collins
Uwe Dippel wrote: If now the elitism is great enough to require me to buy 'quality hardware' (search the archives if in doubt) and run another disk, sorry, but then I'll take out one of the 2 GB RAM strips, abscond the idea of buying and running (and powering) another hard drive, and preferabl

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Karel Gardas
The problem with x64 laptop to be used as an engineering workstation is that: 1) it does not provide ECC RAM 2) it is noisy (more than fine-tuned desktop) mainly due to (1) I rather use classic desktop now. Karel PS: niagara is not the option for the engineering workstation unfortunately due to it

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]I would encourage you to continue to test and document issues you encounter for the benefit of others and provide feedback about how OpenSolaris can be improved.[/i] I did it with a sigh during the last 2.5 years; despite of being deprived of my own bug reports, and despite of this not being a

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]So your alternative OS will preserve your data if the disk fails. I'm impressed.[/i] Did I say so? Reading is an art these days, isn't it! My alternative OS has so far never messed up my data *without the disk failing*, something that I can't conclude for here. Though it doesn't matter that mu

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Karel Gardas
[i]My alternative OS has so far never messed up my data *without the disk failing*[/i] How can you be so sure? My experience shows that disk start to mess up data a long time before it starts really failing. For example on my last ThinkPad, I used it 3/4 year and got strange segfault in one app

Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-22 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Shao Xuan wrote: > Hi, > > I've been doing "prodreg unregister "Sun Studio 12 software"", then removing > /opt/SUNWspro (since prodreg by itself gives me "Could not find prodreg GUI > program: /usr/dt/bin/sdtprodreg"), and now I can reinstall Sun Studio 12. But

Re: [osol-discuss] Impact of Oracle acquisition of Sun?

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Does anyone believe that Oracle's acquisition of Sun is a good thing? > I have many friends at the valley who say that Oracle acquires > companies and runs them into the ground. Obviously there is a great > strategic use of Solaris to compete against IBM. Has Oracle been a > good contributor to

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]How can you be so sure? My experience shows that disk start to mess up data a long time before it starts really failing. For example on my last ThinkPad, I used it 3/4 year and got strange segfault in one app. I rebooted forced fsck and viola file was corrupted due to failed sector.[/i] Than

Re: [osol-discuss] Impact of Oracle acquisition of Sun?

2009-04-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> Does anyone believe that Oracle's acquisition of Sun is a good thing? > MySQL is one of the most profitable segments of sun. Really? In monetary terms? Then - believe it or not - SPARC servers are a 100 times more profitable segment o

Re: [osol-discuss] Lags with OpenSolaris 2008.11 - help investigate

2009-04-22 Thread Axelle Apvrille
>Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "on" >Or: >Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" # default is "XAA" I tried both options, without success. I think this is a driver problem, or an Xorg.conf problem. As soon as I can I'll try with another video card. However, meanwhile, could somebody provide a working Xorg

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-22 Thread Dana H. Myers
Florian Ermisch wrote: Hi *, after managing to (live-)upgrade to SXCE 112 I'm running 2 "bash-3.2$ lzma -c /export/incoming/sol-nv-b112-x86-dvd.iso > /dev/null" and transmission with enough torrents to fill up my 12Mbit/s downstream (and enough to cause 400 to 2000 interrupts in 5 seconds acco

[osol-discuss] Multicast DNS problem

2009-04-22 Thread Amir Azarmi
I have 2 Apple Macs and new Opensolaris machine, the hostname of which is 'homer'. I have tried to switch on mDNS on the Opensolaris machine (homer) by enabling the multicast service on: svcadm enable network/dns/multicast and editting the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to contain: hosts: files mdns

Re: [osol-discuss] Lags with OpenSolaris 2008.11 - help investigate

2009-04-22 Thread Jürgen Keil
> >Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "on" > >Or: > >Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" # default is "XAA" > > I tried both options, without success. > > I think this is a driver problem, or an Xorg.conf > problem. As soon as I can I'll try with another video > card. However, meanwhile, could somebody provid

Re: [osol-discuss] Multicast DNS problem

2009-04-22 Thread Rishi Srivatsavai
Amir Azarmi wrote: > I have 2 Apple Macs and new Opensolaris machine, the hostname of which is > 'homer'. I have tried to switch on mDNS on the Opensolaris machine (homer) by > enabling the multicast service on: > > svcadm enable network/dns/multicast On recent OpenSolaris builds I believe the

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-22 Thread Karel Gardas
[i]Tell you what is safer and consumes less energy: Remove one of the drives and make it a USB-drive. Run your preferred OS from a single drive with different partitions, and use a clever script to 'dump' the system partitions to your USB-drive at decent intervals (e.g. monthly), and do some tar

Re: [osol-discuss] Multicast DNS problem

2009-04-22 Thread Amir Azarmi
On the OpenSolaris machine the output is: r...@homer:~# /sbin/ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 rge0: flags=201004843 mtu 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.1.107 netmask ff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 0:1f:d0:27:c7:7e rge

Re: [osol-discuss] How to allow multiple users have different VNC sessions on OpenSolaris?

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Chen
nola, I tried the link, but his method does not work for nv112. Sigh. Tom -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to allow multiple users have different VNC sessions on OpenSolaris?

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Chen
Halton, I tried, but doesn't work on nv112 x86 servers. Sigh. Also, the Desktop Sharing method doesn't work if the remote server (to access)has no keyboard or mouse,i.e, if the remote machine is not log in, or if the log in menu is shown, then, all other users can not access it. Below is the

Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-22 Thread Shao Xuan
Hi, Thanks Moinak, now sun studio 12 can be launched with your help by installing SUNWmfrun. But the sun studio 12 can't display Chinsese characters (I can only see squares instead of Chinsese characters). The terminal output is as follows: yuri...@mars:/opt/SUNWspro/bin# ./sunstudio java.net.U

Re: [osol-discuss] EON live ZFS NAS appliance 0.59.0 available for download

2009-04-22 Thread Steven ZY OU
Hi I am not sure this is the right thread to feedback some issues cause i cannot found mailling list or feedback in Genunix.org website. Here is what i tested EON "eon-0.590-b110-32-smb.iso" and "eon-0.590-b110-64-smb.iso" and got some error msg. Just take a look the pic below: [b]eon-0.590-

[osol-discuss] pkg fix cannot fix pkg:/SUNWcsl

2009-04-22 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
it seems like half my system was broken after this many upgrades (from osol beta 2 to the latest dev) and yes, i did hit the Warning: package may contain bobcat! (http://xkcd.com/325/) message :) nice guys na...@saturn:/opt$ pfexec pkg fix [..] Created ZFS snapshot: 2009-04-23-04:41:23 ...

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] OpenSolaris TownHall - April 24th 8am-10am PT

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Call details: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Townhall_Apr_24_2009 On 04/13/09 01:50, Vincent Murphy wrote: All, It has been a while since the last Town Hall meeting, and a lot has gone on since then. We are planning the next Town Hall meeting for Friday April 24th from 8a

Re: [osol-discuss] Packages installation

2009-04-22 Thread Gohan Ray
Hi Jerry, Thanks for your reply.. I tried your command rhythm box opens and then this is what happens!! What can i do now? Rhythm box doesn crash.. its open and working fair but doesn play files.. See de screen shot in the link i have given below. gohan...@opensolaris:~$ % export GST_

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg fix cannot fix pkg:/SUNWcsl

2009-04-22 Thread Shawn Walker
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: it seems like half my system was broken after this many upgrades (from osol beta 2 to the latest dev) ... na...@saturn:/opt$ pfexec pkg fix [..] Created ZFS snapshot: 2009-04-23-04:41:23 . // ... DOWNLOADPKGS