[osol-discuss] StormOS Hail Beta 2 out!

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew Stormont
Hi everybody, The StormOS Hardy Hail Beta 2 is now available for download herehttp://stormos.org/node/59. StormOS is the first desktop distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2 which combines the power of the Solaris kernel with the ease of use of Ubuntu. It aims to be a lightweight OS with

Re: [osol-discuss] No VirtualBox guest graphical login

2009-07-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
Ron Halstead wrote: Guest: OS2009.06 snv_117 (Indiana) Virtual Box: 3.0.0 r49315 Host: SXCE snv_117 (Nevada) VB 3.0 Guest Additions are installed. All services are online, both host and guest. I get a text login prompt. I logged in and checked to see if gdm is

[osol-discuss] System Disk Full

2009-07-07 Thread Joe
Hello i have a problem, and i realize what i did wrong. I never cleaned up the old boot environments using beadm because i wanted to go back to something prior if the installed application didnt work. For example, a sun studio. Anyway, i have 6 boot environments now and my system disk is

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris issue with the ar command

2009-07-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote: I have been investigating a performance issue on OpenSolaris/x86, which will probably happen to other architectures (sparc, arm ..) related to the memory management while working with huge files with 'ar'. The result of the investigation exposes

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris issue with the ar command

2009-07-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
The result of the investigation exposes that GNU ar is 40 times slower than the Solaris one on a native Solaris system ... $ time ar t libtest.a /dev/null real0m47.793s user0m43.318s sys 0m4.032s ... The 'top' trace of the running process gives this output: $ while : ; do

Re: [osol-discuss] System Disk Full

2009-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
Joe wrote: Hello i have a problem, and i realize what i did wrong. I never cleaned up the old boot environments using beadm because i wanted to go back to something prior if the installed application didnt work. For example, a sun studio. Anyway, i have 6 boot environments now and my system

Re: [osol-discuss] No VirtualBox guest graphical login

2009-07-07 Thread Ron Halstead
Alan, Are you referring to When the OpenSolaris Live CD is booted under VirtualBox, the Xorg server is not started automatically.? I have no problem booting from the iso in VirtualBox and installing to hard disk. Its booting from the hard disk that is giving me the problem. Please note, I am

Re: [osol-discuss] No VirtualBox guest graphical login

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ron Halstead wrote: Alan, Are you referring to When the OpenSolaris Live CD is booted under VirtualBox, the Xorg server is not started automatically.? I have no problem booting from the iso in VirtualBox and installing to hard disk. Its booting from the hard disk that is giving me the

[osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
[I'm reposting this from the desktop-discuss forum, since although it's gotten 54 views there, it has gotten no replies.] When I try to spell-check in Emacs, I get the following message: Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell Emacs under Fedora Linux uses aspell. Googling, I

[osol-discuss] Adaptec SAS 2405 - anyone ?

2009-07-07 Thread roland
Hello, is anybody using this controller with opensolaris/snv ? http://www.adaptec.com/de-DE/products/Controllers/Hardware/sas/entry/SAS-2405/ does it run out of the box ? how does it perform with zfs? (especially when using it for zfs/nfs esx setup) the driver from adaptec is for solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] System Disk Full

2009-07-07 Thread Joe
thanks to Mr Walker, i was able to at least see all my be's but i cant seem to do anything with them. Here is my output from the terminal window. Any ideas? I really just want to clean up the disk so i can boot back into it and do the manual cleanup. The disk is a 76 GB WD Raptor

[osol-discuss] Using Sun Fire V240 with OpenSolaris

2009-07-07 Thread Hillel Lubman
I've got a used Sun Fire V240 server and want to try to test it with OpenSolaris. But there is no video card there installed (I don't have experience with servers, it's possible to access it through serial port probably, but I prefer to put a video card there). Specific Sun PCI video cards for

Re: [osol-discuss] No VirtualBox guest graphical login

2009-07-07 Thread Will Fiveash
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:51:36AM -0700, Ron Halstead wrote: Guest: OS2009.06 snv_117 (Indiana) Virtual Box: 3.0.0 r49315 Host: SXCE snv_117 (Nevada) VB 3.0 Guest Additions are installed. All services are online, both host and guest. I get a text login prompt. I logged in

Re: [osol-discuss] No VirtualBox guest graphical login

2009-07-07 Thread Darran Kartaschew
@willf I had a similar problem with Virtual Box 3.0 Guest Additions not installing a valid xorg.conf file. To fix it, goto /opt/VirtualBoxAdditions and run x11config15sol.pl as root. restart X and you should be fine with the screen resize and mouse integration. Also can you post if the VB

[osol-discuss] Heads Up: Program Removals in SXCE 118 (Xsun, Xnest, kdmconfig, sdtaudiocontrol...)

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
[This was written before we knew SXCE 118 was not going to be released. It applies equally to all releases following 118 as well though... Apologies for the silliness - clearly when I wrote it I was too excited to be able to finally excise the now-extraneous Xsun.] A number of EOF'ed programs

Re: [osol-discuss] Heads Up: Program Removals in SXCE 118 (Xsun, Xnest, kdmconfig, sdtaudiocontrol...)

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Alan Coopersmithalan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: [This was written before we knew SXCE 118 was not going to be released. It applies equally to all releases following 118 as well though... Apologies for the silliness - clearly when I wrote it I was too excited

[osol-discuss] Netbeans Test Farm Remote Development Hosts

2009-07-07 Thread Jim Walker
Introducing remote development host support using Netbeans 6.7 in the OpenSolaris Test Farm. This allows OpenSolaris developers to use the Netbeans IDE on their desktop to develop their software, then compile and execute it on a remote test farm servers and virtual machines. This normally reduces

Re: [osol-discuss] Using Sun Fire V240 with OpenSolaris

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Hillel Lubmanshtetl...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a used Sun Fire V240 server and want to try to test it with OpenSolaris. But there i no video card there installed (I don't have experience with servers, it's possible to access it through serial port

Re: [osol-discuss] Using Sun Fire V240 with OpenSolaris

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Martin Bochnigmar...@martux.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Hillel Lubmanshtetl...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a used Sun Fire V240 server and want to try to test it with OpenSolaris. But there i no video card there installed (I don't have experience

Re: [osol-discuss] Using Sun Fire V240 with OpenSolaris

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Hillel Lubmanshtetl...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a used Sun Fire V240 server and want to try to test it with OpenSolaris. But there is no video card there installed (I don't have experience with servers, it's possible to access it through serial port