Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Che Kristo
I'm not in the "bugster sucks" camp either :-) ... just having two separate tools for the same things that irks me. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 14:02, Steven Stallion wrote: > Che Kristo wrote: > > Correct, hopefully not for too much longer > > Why? I guess I'm not firm believer in the 'bugster sucks'

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: > Now then ... since the OpenSolaris.org website is entirely in the hands of > Sun employees ... will someone put the README.opensolaris back ? please ? > > --> this thing looks dead : > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris That's up to the ON gatek

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Che Kristo wrote: > Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/ ??? Community members can file bugs there, but for most of the OS, bugs won't get worked on until they land in bugster since most OS engineers simply don't see bugzilla bugs. (In part because of organizatio

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Steven Stallion wrote: > Any ideas on when this issue might be addressed? In the meantime, what > is the best method for creating a new bugster entry? website-discuss would be the best place to ask about fixing website issues. As for creating bugster reports, the options for people outside Sun ar

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Any input would be helpful. >> >> I just watched a nightly run for 5:07:45 ( see bottom of this message ) >> and bomb out with many thousands of errors. There is no >> README.opensolaris >> to be seen anymore ( see below ) so I had to guess that Sun Studio 12 >> update 1 w

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
Che Kristo wrote: > Correct, hopefully not for too much longer Why? I guess I'm not firm believer in the 'bugster sucks' philosophy... Until ON moves over and webrev supports linking to Bugzilla, I don't see a compelling reason to transition. Steve ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread John Martin
Orvar Korvar wrote: Will it be possible to port it to OpenSolaris? It will depend only upon the license they choose, right? http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html Open source UI, but this will still depend on a closed source library. Functionality will depend on wh

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Che Kristo
Correct, hopefully not for too much longer On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:48, Steven Stallion wrote: > Che Kristo wrote: > > Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/??? > > Last I checked ON issues are still tracked in bugster... > > Steve > ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
Che Kristo wrote: > Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/ ??? Last I checked ON issues are still tracked in bugster... Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] Disk locating in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10

2009-11-03 Thread autumn Wang
It is very useful James. BTW, I also found another open source which can blink disk: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdparm.html Another question I have is: When I add a new disk (hot-plugin), it seems it will not be mapped automaticly. It seems I have to do "stmsboot -d" and "stmsboot -e". That means I

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver & the extra repository

2009-11-03 Thread Marion Hakanson
f.laa...@ieee.org said: > Yes, they do officially support Solaris starting with the 29160 (sol7 and > 8!). Of course, that's an LVD adapter. If you so unlucky as to have a > single-ended SCSI backup unit as I do, and still want to use OpenSolaris to > drive it, your only recourse is to bet on SXCE

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Che Kristo
Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/ ??? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:24, Steven Stallion wrote: > Any ideas on when this issue might be addressed? In the meantime, what > is the best method for creating a new bugster entry? > > Steve > __

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Che Kristo
IMHO the best approach would be to integrate the skype ibraries with an existing client such as pidgin rather than separate out skype as a separate application. Of course the devil will be in the details and we need to wait and see how this pans out. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:15, Alan Coopersmith

[osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
Any ideas on when this issue might be addressed? In the meantime, what is the best method for creating a new bugster entry? Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: > Any input would be helpful. > > I just watched a nightly run for 5:07:45 ( see bottom of this message ) > and bomb out with many thousands of errors. There is no README.opensolaris > to be seen anymore ( see below ) so I had to guess that Sun Studio 12 > update 1 was the w

[osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Orvar Korvar
Will it be possible to port it to OpenSolaris? It will depend only upon the license they choose, right? http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list op

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Qs about hardware for a home server

2009-11-03 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:58 AM, bonso wrote: What I would like to know is... 1- Is it posible to check if ECC is active and working or will you just have to trust that the board/BIOS maker dont tell fibs and know how to code? I tried with Linux but dmidecode --memory says there is no ECC ac

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Orvar Korvar wrote: > Will it be possible to port it to OpenSolaris? It will depend only upon the > license they choose, right? > http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html Any license that qualifies as "Open Source" for an application should allow shipping on OpenSolaris -

[osol-discuss] TCP offload engines for iSCSI...

2009-11-03 Thread Erik Trimble
Can someone please tell me which TOE NIC cards are supported as of 2009.05 ? Or, at least, give me a pointer to where such info might be found... -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___

Re: [osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-03 Thread Stewart Walters
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Euan Thoms wrote: I don't know. But I, personally, prefer sftp. It works like or better than ftp, is secure, plus you can check things by executing host commands. With no disrespect, it doesn't work like that at all. It provides the user with a look-alike

Re: [osol-discuss] why OpenSolaris JeOS isn't support kvm?

2009-11-03 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dipper wrote: > OpenSolaris JeOS is support for VirtualBox,VMware,Xen and Virtual PC.but why > it is not support kvm? KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is Linux only technology. When it was invented the developers had no intention to port it to other operating sy

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Uros Nedic
I completely agree with you, Che. It looks like this news will tantalize many butnothing would happen since so-called 'libskype' will appear on OpenSolaris.Since it is closed binary only company able to port it is - Skype itself. UI isa metter of imagination and time, but main problem is, as it

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Che Kristo
>From what I understand there will be a closed "libskype" which could feasibly ported to OpenSolaris by Skype. Skype have in the past said that they are not against the idea of supporting our platform, it's just a matter of priorities for them. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 08:51, Orvar Korvar wrote: >

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Tomas Bodzar
https://imo.im/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.8 Beta1 available via the Network Installer

2009-11-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi Folks, After Belenix 0.8 Alpha which included exciting features such as the Google Widgets, Webkit, and KDE 4.2.4 -- all built with GCC 4.4.0 in addition to Gnome 2.26, BeleniX 0.8 Beta1 is now available with improvements (bug fixes and functionality) to the KDE 4.3.1 desktop and other apps and

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-03 Thread MD
Thanks John: The worst problem to troubleshoot is one that can not be readily reproduced. My new laptop "a clevo M580ETU" does show the problem in several facets. 1 large transfers makes the interface go away for approx 5 minutes. 2 every day use the system goes through long (10 second) pa

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver & the extra repository

2009-11-03 Thread Francois Laagel
> Hi, Hi Milan, > Francois Laagel píše v čt 29. 10. 2009 v 12:04 -0700: > > Can we expect the adp driver (present in SXCE build > 125) to be included into the OpenSolaris extra > repository at some point in the future? That driver > supports a bunch of old Adaptec HBAs--the AHA 2940 > (aka AIC786

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week

2009-11-03 Thread Ivar Janmaat
Thats good news! Now I only have to wait until the scsi bugs are fixed before I can probably use it. (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6893171) Hopefully this will be soon. Ivar Che Kristo wrote: Just a brief heads up that Fluendo will be releasing the DVD Player f

[osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Any input would be helpful. I just watched a nightly run for 5:07:45 ( see bottom of this message ) and bomb out with many thousands of errors. There is no README.opensolaris to be seen anymore ( see below ) so I had to guess that Sun Studio 12 update 1 was the way to go. So should I go back to S

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Stewart Walters
Ghee Teo wrote: Stewart Walters wrote: Mind you in my situation, my CUPS server is situated on a Debian Linux box and CUPS on Opensolaris is configured with a /etc/cups/client.conf file pointing to it. While I don't think it has an affect, I haven't ruled it out yet either. We don't use /e

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Ghee Teo
Stewart Walters wrote: Mind you in my situation, my CUPS server is situated on a Debian Linux box and CUPS on Opensolaris is configured with a /etc/cups/client.conf file pointing to it. While I don't think it has an affect, I haven't ruled it out yet either. We don't use /etc/cups/client.co

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Stewart Walters
Luca Morettoni wrote: On 11/ 3/09 03:03 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: Are you so happen to be on osol 126? If that is the case, you will also need to have SUNWgtk2-print-cups installed. Anyway, please check that you have, /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so installed SUNWgtk2

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Luca Morettoni
On 11/ 3/09 03:03 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: Are you so happen to be on osol 126? If that is the case, you will also need to have SUNWgtk2-print-cups installed. Anyway, please check that you have, /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so installed SUNWgtk2-print-cups and now all

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Ghee Teo
Luca Morettoni wrote: On 11/ 3/09 02:28 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: Try this: Just in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. Just adding the line gtk-print-backends="file,lpr,papi,cups" Just tested, but I got the same empty windows (only file and LPD printing). I put your line in .gtk... and into /

[osol-discuss] why OpenSolaris JeOS isn't support kvm?

2009-11-03 Thread dipper
OpenSolaris JeOS is support for VirtualBox,VMware,Xen and Virtual PC.but why it is not support kvm? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ntpd v4 IPS pkg?

2009-11-03 Thread John Beck
Andre> Is there a ntpd v4 IPS pkg? Andre> Tried a couple of different search techniques but came up Andre> blank? Only v3? [opal:23] pkg info SUNWntp Name: SUNWntp Summary: Network Time Protocol Daemon v4 Description: Network Time Protocol v4, NTP Daemon and Utilities (4.2.5)

[osol-discuss] Cant install 10_SunAlert, insufficient Swap, SPARC

2009-11-03 Thread Everett Batey
Looking for history on the Sun { 10_, 9_, 8_ } SunAlert_Patch_Clusters (huge, over 1+GByte) fails to successfully finish the "Pre-Patch" to renovate (tar, untar, zip, unzip, patchadd, patchrm, etc). Pre-patch has to be manually installed, piece by piece . I have NO Sun support to overcome this.

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Luca Morettoni
On 11/ 3/09 02:28 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: Try this: Just in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. Just adding the line gtk-print-backends="file,lpr,papi,cups" Just tested, but I got the same empty windows (only file and LPD printing). I put your line in .gtk... and into /etc/.../gtkrc but it d

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Ghee Teo
Luca Morettoni wrote: On 11/ 3/09 01:31 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: Stewart Walters wrote: Hi Ghee, * The build is snv_111b (OpenSolaris 2009.06). * /usr/sbin/print-service -q displays "active print service: cups" This shows that you have switched over to CUPS as the print system. You sho

[osol-discuss] Hats off to the team !

2009-11-03 Thread john kroll
I'm not sure about even mentioning this for fears snv_126 will regress if it even gets to the opensolaris.org download page but. For the first time ever the dell dimension e521 I've been working with, configured a bfe driver out of the box or the snv_125 build. Did not have to install the third

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Qs about hardware for a home server

2009-11-03 Thread Mike DeMarco
> Hello everyone, > > First post here so I hope it ends up in the right > forum, not all my questions are related to OSOL as > such but I hope that is OK. Right then, on to my > scenario and questions. > > I've been running 2009.06 on my home server since > well june and it works like a charm, t

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs on multiple machines

2009-11-03 Thread Mike DeMarco
No. You must have a device owner as one host. Using SunCluster you would be able to see the storage pool on two systems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Luca Morettoni
On 11/ 3/09 01:31 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: Stewart Walters wrote: Hi Ghee, * The build is snv_111b (OpenSolaris 2009.06). * /usr/sbin/print-service -q displays "active print service: cups" This shows that you have switched over to CUPS as the print system. You should *NOT* use Solaris L

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Ghee Teo
Stewart Walters wrote: Hi Ghee, * The build is snv_111b (OpenSolaris 2009.06). * /usr/sbin/print-service -q displays "active print service: cups" This shows that you have switched over to CUPS as the print system. You should *NOT* use Solaris LP Print Manager to create queue for CU

[osol-discuss] zfs on multiple machines

2009-11-03 Thread Miha Voncina
Hi, is it possible to link multiple machines into one storage pool using zfs? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-03 Thread Henry Pepper
I don't know. But would rsync be what you are in need of? Henry ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-11-03 Thread Stewart Walters
Hi Ghee, * The build is snv_111b (OpenSolaris 2009.06). * /usr/sbin/print-service -q displays "active print service: cups" * Files $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc are not present by default. Having created them and added the gtk-print-backends line as you list does not

Re: [osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Euan Thoms wrote: >> Is there an option for no-clobber (does not overwrite existing files) in the >> command scp? "man scp" doesn' t reveal anything. I got one hit in google >> which indicated that there wa

Re: [osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Euan Thoms wrote: > Is there an option for no-clobber (does not overwrite existing files) in the > command scp? "man scp" doesn' t reveal anything. I got one hit in google > which indicated that there was but perhaps that was the GNU version of scp. I don't kno