Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris-discuss Digest, Vol 67, Issue 69

2010-03-24 Thread shampavman.cg
Hi all, While trying to set the keyboard layout using the kbd -s layout name I see that no matter what I set the layout as , It defaults to US-english..(or so i guess!) Recently I tried kbd -s German. Exit status says 0, But , # eeprom |grep keyboard keyboard-layout=Unknown This is the same

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Haulyn Jason
On 2010年03月24日 12:40, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: And the forum's are now apparently now programmed to censor comments, although they don't even have basic functionality like displaying boldface. I can and bu_gg_er got turned into asterisks. Brilliant. That's not new, it's been censoring

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Erik Trimble
Haulyn Jason wrote: Many things changed, we must face to these, but, can anybody tell me, how can we still believe oracle will keep opensolaris as now? Who can make sure opensolaris will not change it's own way? is it the time to migrate from sun(now as oracle/sun) productions to linux,

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Erik, Bottom line: it's very premature to bail right now. That's a huge thing to do, given that what is said today may not be the reality tomorrow. I'm not saying sit on your hands and do nothing, but certainly jumping ship at the first sign of trouble is equally foolish. What you say is

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24.03.2010 11:13, Erik Trimble wrote: Haulyn Jason wrote: Many things changed, we must face to these, but, can anybody tell me, how can we still believe oracle will keep opensolaris as now? Who can make sure opensolaris will not change it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sean Sprague s...@cvok.co.uk wrote: What you say is absolutely correct; and OpenSolaris users should read it at face value. Oracle now has at its command the best set of developers/sustainers/supporters that exist, IMO; and unless Oracle is infinitely short-sighted, then OpenSolaris will

[osol-discuss] Strange startup messages on snv_134 February 2010

2010-03-24 Thread Dr Lou
Wow! We've just upgraded(?) to snv_134 (Feb 2010), and are seeing [i]both[/i] of the problems you describe: ON SSH: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 and the various hotplugging error messages. and don't have a /dev/ptmx directory [i]at all[/i] after our recent upgrade to snv_134 -

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange startup messages on snv_134 February 2010

2010-03-24 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 05:39 -0700, Dr Lou wrote: Wow! We've just upgraded(?) to snv_134 (Feb 2010), and are seeing [i]both[/i] of the problems you describe: ON SSH: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 and the various hotplugging error messages. and don't have a /dev/ptmx

Re: [osol-discuss] Need help debuggin hang issue on build 134

2010-03-24 Thread Ronny Egner
HI all, cpuinfo -v yields (see file cpuinfo.txt ). I noticed one interesting thing: When preparing to catche the hang i opened the console and pre-typed mdb -K to crash the system if needed to. When the system hang i pressed ENTER but nothing happened. While digging around in the core dump i

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-help] Strange startup messages on snv_134 February 2010

2010-03-24 Thread Dr Lou
Thanks for that tip - I'll certainly try it. For the moment, though, I can't even type into a terminal window. Weird, right? Of course, we do not (yet) have the 'root' role authorized to log in, so this is not an option. Additionally, cannot log in to an xterm session now. Not sure at the

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Mike DeMarco
I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] b134: i915 freezes OS for few seconds

2010-03-24 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, recently I've discovered that b134 sometimes freezes for few seconds -- usually after some GUI activity is performed or during it. First I've though this is similar to this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=126157tstart=0 but I'm not sure now since it does

Re: [osol-discuss] b134: i915 freezes OS for few seconds

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12528 which has been closed in favour of http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6936915 Brian Karel Gardas wrote: Hello, recently I've discovered that b134 sometimes freezes for few seconds -- usually after some GUI

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike DeMarco wrote: I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Because most of the Sun/Oracle people here are engineers and have absolutely no idea what's happening in the world of issuing licenses and selling support contracts - at

Re: [osol-discuss] b134: i915 freezes OS for few seconds

2010-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Already reported by a number of users, and reproduced by an external developer who found a fix, but not yet reproducible by the internal developer assigned to integrate the fix: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6936915

Re: [osol-discuss] When will opensolaris fix the poweroff problem?

2010-03-24 Thread Dr Lou
FWIW, we're seeing the same problem on a Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be present. Regards... Sean. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Casper . Dik
Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be present. This is just too funny. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:44 +0100, casper@sun.com wrote: Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be present. This is

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Mark, On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:44 +0100, casper@sun.com wrote: Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be

[osol-discuss] ZFS on a 11TB HW RAID-5 controller

2010-03-24 Thread Dusan Radovanovic
Hello all, I am a complete newbie to OpenSolaris, and must to setup a ZFS NAS. I do have linux experience, but have never used ZFS. I have tried to install OpenSolaris Developer 134 on a 11TB HW RAID-5 virtual disk, but after the installation I can only use one 2TB disk, and I cannot partition

[osol-discuss] Opteron erratum 123 mis-detected by OpenSolaris?

2010-03-24 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, I've tried booting OS 2009.03 and also textinstall of b134 on my 4x opteron 875 box and both kernels complains about opteron erratum 123 not being patched by bios. However I've contacted HP support and the guy there claims that their latest BIOS (which I'm using) patches this issue. So

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD64/NUMA: is it possible to limit amount of memory available to one CPU?

2010-03-24 Thread Karel Gardas
Erik, first of all for all those information provided. I do have some further questions below. For a 4-socket 800-series Opteron, there are two CPU groups - CPU0/CPU1 in group 0, and CPU2/CPU3 in group 1. Each group has local memory, which it can access at about 50ns speeds. Memory on

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD64/NUMA: is it possible to limit amount of memory available to one CPU?

2010-03-24 Thread Karel Gardas
Erik, thank you once again for very valuable recommendation. I'm distributed systems guy and plan to use the box for testing various messaging/rpc implementations with CORBA on the start going thorough various SOAs and MOMs. Now, with CORBA, MICO concretely (www.mico.org). Imagine this is just

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS on a 11TB HW RAID-5 controller

2010-03-24 Thread Karel Gardas
Is it possible for you to destroy virtual drive and present 12 discs independently to the OS? Someone is using a term JBOD for it. If so, then you might leave the RAID job to ZFS pool. Karel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] b134 freezes

2010-03-24 Thread Jouko Holopainen
B133 works perfectly (for the freeze/atge and wireless). I'll see what b135 does, provided I can upgrade to that (upgrade uses too much memory - known problem). The swap on zfs on sd unreliability remains, removing compression makes probability of unkillable process smaller but non-zero. Let's

[osol-discuss] webmin on blade

2010-03-24 Thread philo neo
hi i installed webmin on blade 1500 . pkg install SUNWwebmin /usr/sfw/lib/webmin/setup.sh parametre : /etc/webmin/webmin.acl parametre : /etc/webmin/miniserv.users svcadm restart webmin i can to loging webmin with firefox at remote blade 1500. but I find webmin the blade with only 5 or 6

Re: [osol-discuss] b134 freezes

2010-03-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/24/10 02:01 PM, Jouko Holopainen wrote: B133 works perfectly (for the freeze/atge and wireless). I'll see what b135 does, provided I can upgrade to that (upgrade uses too much memory - known problem). Upgrade generally only uses excessive amounts of memory when crossing a rename

Re: [osol-discuss] b134: i915 freezes OS for few seconds

2010-03-24 Thread edward shu
From the bug report, the bug will be reproduced several times a day under heavy activities. Compiz was launched on my M10 which I believe would cause heavy activities, but I didn't catch the freeze. The patch created by Jurgen is a possible fix for the potential bug and at least two users

Re: [osol-discuss] Need help debuggin hang issue on build 134

2010-03-24 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Ronny, How are you getting the crash dump if your system is hung and you are not getting into kmdb? To get into kmdb, you need to type f1-a on the console (based on the addresses, you are on x64, not SPARC). max Ronny Egner wrote: HI all, cpuinfo -v yields (see file cpuinfo.txt ). I

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug reporting

2010-03-24 Thread Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume
Imho I'm not sure how any of the above communication based on the present silence from Sun Oracle helps the project, because no engineer is supposedly - not looking at defects.OpenSolaris.org it makes sense to have a tool that keeps track of bugs on the project as long as anyone is putting man

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Henry Pepper
This being funny how? I would guess that some of the people on this list are using the OpenSolaris as a testbed for Solaris Next, to prospect options for their coming solutions for their commercial products. For some the possibility that only Sun HW is supported in the commercial product might be

Re: [osol-discuss] Read/Write NTFS Partitions

2010-03-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
I just tried this on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and it simply doesn't work. The system hangs and reboots when I try, does anyone know what's wrong? First it complained that I don't have permissions even though I used pfexec, this is not a big deal although I think unprivileged users should be able to

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Will Fiveash
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:22:45AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mike DeMarco wrote: I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Because most of the Sun/Oracle people here are engineers and have absolutely no idea what's

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD64/NUMA: is it possible to limit amount of memory available to one CPU?

2010-03-24 Thread Erik Trimble
Karel Gardas wrote: Erik, to be honest I quite don't get what you write here. The reason is engineering. 4 socket server means that 1 cpu is connected to another 2 and forms kind of ring. Nice simple picture is here: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/cpu/rmma-numa2.html Now, from this picture I

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD64/NUMA: is it possible to limit amount of memory available to one CPU?

2010-03-24 Thread Erik Trimble
Karel Gardas wrote: Erik, thank you once again for very valuable recommendation. I'm distributed systems guy and plan to use the box for testing various messaging/rpc implementations with CORBA on the start going thorough various SOAs and MOMs. Now, with CORBA, MICO concretely (www.mico.org).

Re: [osol-discuss] Read/Write NTFS Partitions

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
It's probably just a typo, but I noticed that you had to run pfexec mount -t ntfs-3g (long time since I've run that command, I may be slightly wrong. Either -t or -F, check the man page). Also, try mkdir a directory in /mnt that you can then use as a mountpoint. That's what mount is complaining