Re: [osol-discuss] svn 117 Firefox 3.5 beta 4 no http/ftp display

2009-07-14 Thread leon.sha
Hi Joerg, Maybe you set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .bashrc or .profile. Can you try to unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run firefox again in terminal? If it doesn't work. Then maybe you firefox profile is destroyed. Try to backup $HOME/.mozilla directory and start firefox again. Regards, Leon Sha Jo

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal OpenSolaris Install

2009-07-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Because it doesn't work with IPS packages, and the IPS-capable version wasn't > ready in time for the 2009.06 release. Well, that makes sense then, as the main feature Indiana has that none of the other OpenSolaris based distros have is IPS. Never understood why the text installer wouldn't wo

Re: [osol-discuss] No sound on 2009.6

2009-07-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
>Is this your problem? >Brian Brian, I'm actually not having any problems with the sound on any of my OpenSolaris boxes. I was just trying to help out some of the people like eldomir, anil2009, and ceezy10, etc. who were having problems in this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.

Re: [osol-discuss] Package Manager inconsistencies

2009-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
HeCSa wrote: Today I've added the entry http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10049 , because the Package Manager in snv_118 is not showing the correct "Downloaded" size, which grow, shrink, grow, shrink, grow again, etc. This happened today to me when using it to download the SunStudi

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal OpenSolaris Install

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: > You can do a minimal server install using the always awesome text installer > in Solaris Express or Solaris 10 (keep in mind that Solaris Express IS a > variant of OpenSolaris, although you have to sign up with Sun to download > it). > > When you do a text install, there

Re: [osol-discuss] update to specific dev branch

2009-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
John wrote: Hi, Is it possible upgrade to a specific Dev branch? For example, I would like to install 2009.06 and update to 117, not 118. At this time, an upgrade mechanism that lets you go to a specific build is not available. It is hoped that one will eventually be available, but it depen

Re: [osol-discuss] update to specific dev branch

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
Not that I am aware of, you could downlaod the 117 iso... http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-1002-117-x86.iso On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM, John wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible upgrade to a specific Dev branch? > For example, I would like to install 2009.06 and update to 117,

[osol-discuss] Package Manager inconsistencies

2009-07-14 Thread HeCSa
Today I've added the entry http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10049 , because the Package Manager in snv_118 is not showing the correct "Downloaded" size, which grow, shrink, grow, shrink, grow again, etc. This happened today to me when using it to download the SunStudio12u1. Best reg

[osol-discuss] update to specific dev branch

2009-07-14 Thread John
Hi, Is it possible upgrade to a specific Dev branch? For example, I would like to install 2009.06 and update to 117, not 118. Sorry if this has been asked before... Thanks, J. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal OpenSolaris Install

2009-07-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
You can do a minimal server install using the always awesome text installer in Solaris Express or Solaris 10 (keep in mind that Solaris Express IS a variant of OpenSolaris, although you have to sign up with Sun to download it). When you do a text install, there's a menu that lets you choose whi

Re: [osol-discuss] /var/pkg/download

2009-07-14 Thread Tony Curtis
> Yep, you can delete all directories with hexadecimal > names under > /var/pkg/download IF you take in consideration: > > many, if not most, of the blocks will be > consumed for older > snapshots/BEs. You'll have to remove the snapshots, > too -- beadm destroy > would be the correct w

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
I have a few blogs about getting multimedia set up which we could use: http://myunix.org/2009/07/13/dvd-playback-on-opensolaris-the-foss-way/ , http://myunix.org/2008/12/22/getting-software-for-opensolaris/ lets identify all of the areas of need and find existing blogs that cover the topic - we can

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread david
Does anyone have any comments on what I put in the initial ODT file? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread HeCSa
Same happened to me. The workaround works perfectly. Thanks a lot! Best regards, HeCSa. On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 00:25 -0700, Rob Johnston wrote: > Yeah - I hit that one, too. It's a known issue - see the following bug > report > for a workaround: > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug

[osol-discuss] Minimal OpenSolaris Install

2009-07-14 Thread Neil
I'm interested in installing minimal OpenSolaris as the only OS on HD with ZFS GUI. Any idea when this may become possible? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Site Maintenance 07/14, 1 hour @ 3:30am PT

2009-07-14 Thread Derek Cicero
We need to do some additional database maintenance, so the site will be down tomorrow morning, July 14th, for approximately 1 hour starting at 3:30am PT [6:30 am ET/10:30 am GMT]. Sorry for any inconvenience. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _

Re: [osol-discuss] Login on USB serial port

2009-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Hartzell wrote: > > If you have only one adaptor, you would get into problems as it may be > > impossible to define a login for a usually non-existing terminal device. > > > > Jörg > > > > I never thought of that, well at least it works with the cable reversed. > I just don't like pl

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows as VM on solaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Orvar Korvar
It is possible to install Windows in VirtualBox. The performance is normal Windows I think. Maybe benchmarks says it differs, but for normal use you will not notice. I am running windowsXP and Ubuntu at the same time. Full speed. Multi core are supported. Video: there is experimental 3D suppor

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows as VM on solaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Ian Collins
Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi, Is it possible to run Windows as a VM on OS, or SXCE? Very. In VirtualBox? In Xvm? Either. What is performance like? Fine. How does video work? What do you want to know? Can windows be made full screen so that noone using it would know it's a virtual machin

Re: [osol-discuss] Login on USB serial port

2009-07-14 Thread Robert Hartzell
Joerg Schilling wrote: Robert W Hartzell wrote: I'm trying to redirect the console login to a usb serial port instead of ttya but not having much luck figuring out which device to use for /dev/term/0. ls -l /dev/term 0 -> ../../devices/p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@2/dev...@6:0 a ->

[osol-discuss] Windows as VM on solaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Kyle McDonald
Hi, Is it possible to run Windows as a VM on OS, or SXCE? In VirtualBox? In Xvm? What is performance like? How does video work? Can windows be made full screen so that noone using it would know it's a virtual machine? How do you get back to Solaris? Some key combo? How is 3D graphics perfo

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris snv_118 does not boot as guest in Virtual Box 3.0.2

2009-07-14 Thread David . Comay
While running OpenSolaris snv_116 I did an upgrade which created a new BE running OS snv_118. I restarted OS and chose OS snv_118 to boot. What I see is the OS boot screen with the progress bar moving and it has been doing that for about an hour. Has anyone had success with this? A reminder th

Re: [osol-discuss] No sound on 2009.6

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Cameron
Anon Y Mous wrote: We've got a very detailed thread about sound issues in the newer builds of OpenSolaris going on here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=395746 Could you try the following test: 1) Try running gnome-volume-control. You will notice at the top there

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: > Sun / Oracle should just do the exact same thing that Red Hat does with Linux. > > Let's see here. Red Hat supports two distributions that are based on the same > code: > > Fedora is a rapidly changing community based distribution that is provided > free of charge and incor

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
Yup, ~80% of their customers are on Solaris. I think that pretty much settles it when you think about it. Oracle is in business to make money, not pander to the Linux folks. If their paying customers are on Solaris and they own it, it's the platform of choice, simple as that. Oracle will make m

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Orvar Korvar
Also, Ellisson said something about Oracle having more Solaris installations than Linux installations. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
It is extremely annoying that journalistic hacks attack something they know nothing about. I was considering putting a blog post out about it, but decided not to in the end as it's just a waste of time and Ben already go there before me:) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [osol-discuss] ssh issue with b118

2009-07-14 Thread Rob McMahon
On 14/07/2009 14:56, Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote: This sounds like bug 6853997 - see http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6853997 Try the workaround. If so, it's fixed in build 119. Brian The workaround ssh -Xf -o HostKeyAlias=hostname hos

Re: [osol-discuss] ssh issue with b118

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK
This sounds like bug 6853997 - see http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6853997 Try the workaround. If so, it's fixed in build 119. Brian Rob McMahon wrote: I've just updated to b118 (from 117), and something nasty seems to have happened to ssh. Each connection to a kno

Re: [osol-discuss] ssh issue with b118

2009-07-14 Thread Casper . Dik
I've just updated to b118 (from 117), and something nasty seems to have happened to ssh. Each connection to a known host comes back with, e.g., The authenticity of host '�t P� ()' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? This is a

[osol-discuss] ssh issue with b118

2009-07-14 Thread Rob McMahon
I've just updated to b118 (from 117), and something nasty seems to have happened to ssh. Each connection to a known host comes back with, e.g., The authenticity of host '�t P� ()' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? I know the hos

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
There is no "enrollment fee", it is a community resource with less of the governance on osol.org...a scratchpad i guess On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM, john kroll wrote: > What is your tuition enrollment fee at genunix.com ?? Is it better than > Sun tech university? > -- > This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread john kroll
What is your tuition enrollment fee at genunix.com ?? Is it better than Sun tech university? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
Good idea...if no one does it over the next couple of days I will wikify it over at genunix when I get some free time On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 14 Jul 2009, at 04:44, david wrote: > > Thank you both for wanting to help. The Desktop community would be a good >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Calum Benson
On 14 Jul 2009, at 04:44, david wrote: Thank you both for wanting to help. The Desktop community would be a good place I think if they accept us. Also, sorry, I got an email that looked like you both had emailed me so I sent a reply. Then I came here and saw that the emails were really

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade OSOL2010.02-beta to GNOME 2.26.3

2009-07-14 Thread ken mays
--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Dave Lin wrote: > From: Dave Lin > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade OSOL2010.02-beta to GNOME 2.26.3 > To: "Jerry Tan" , "ken mays" > Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 3:57 AM > Dave Lin wrote: > > Jerry Tan wrote: > >> According

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Amitava Dutta wrote: > Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? > > asks Steven J Vaughan Nichols in ComputerWorld. > > People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. > Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own hous

[osol-discuss] svn 117 Firefox 3.5 beta 4 no http/ftp display

2009-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
On snv 117, Mozilla firefox comes up with a white screen and it seems that anything but file:/// URLs are just ignored. Did anyone see the same problem? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
Really I don't think there are many "attacks" on Solaris anyway, just a few vocal drongo's who think people wish to hear their opinions. On the whole I hear positive things especially since Solaris 10... On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:54 PM, david wrote: > Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-14 Thread david
Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? Nope. If Oracle means to "kill" OpenSolaris, what could they actually do? They could fire all the Solaris people and stop all corporate funding, sure but are they going to do that, no. The dude who wrote that article clearly is a big IBM fan an

Re: [osol-discuss] Login on USB serial port

2009-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert W Hartzell wrote: > I'm trying to redirect the console login to a usb serial port instead of > ttya but not having much luck figuring out which device to use for > /dev/term/0. > > ls -l /dev/term > 0 -> ../../devices/p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@2/dev...@6:0 > a -> ../../devices/p.

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade OSOL2010.02-beta to GNOME 2.26.3

2009-07-14 Thread Dave Lin
Dave Lin wrote: Jerry Tan wrote: According to gnome schedule, its 2.26.3 tarball due day is Jul 1st. Desktop will bump to that version also. it may be 119 or 120. I'm afraid not, Jerry. We have no plan to bump to 2.26.3 on stable branch as there is no release targets Gnome2.26.x. We are now mov

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread Rob Johnston
Yeah - I hit that one, too. It's a known issue - see the following bug report for a workaround: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9960 rob Konstantin Lebedev wrote: After updating to snv_118 there is an error at a loading stage: Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/fc

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread Konstantin Lebedev
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=107862 - Has just read. The problem is solved. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
Please read the release notes... On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Konstantin Lebedev wrote: > After updating to snv_118 there is an error at a loading stage: > > Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/fcoe_config:default: Method > "/lib/svs/method/fcoeconfig/" failed start with exit status 1

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread Glynn Foster
On 14/07/2009, at 7:10 PM, Konstantin Lebedev wrote: After updating to snv_118 there is an error at a loading stage: Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/fcoe_config:default: Method "/lib/svs/method/fcoeconfig/" failed start with exit status 127. Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/

[osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread Konstantin Lebedev
After updating to snv_118 there is an error at a loading stage: Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/fcoe_config:default: Method "/lib/svs/method/fcoeconfig/" failed start with exit status 127. Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/fcoe_config:default: Method "/lib/svs/method/fcoeco