Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-29 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
>> OpenSolaris does not have an rxvt terminfo entry >> >> % ls -l /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt >> /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt: No such file or directory > Seem this is bug 6839489: > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6839489 Yes. That problem is exactly what

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug 6932552: B134 Splashscreen crasch Kernel must be fixed for 2010.3

2010-03-29 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Friday 26 March 2010 07:39:23 pm William Bauer's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > I just installed a VB guest running 64-bit v134, edited the boot screen and > booted text mode without error. > > My laptop had been upgraded through several dev releases and really > developed problems at v1

[osol-discuss] Korona, Kde, Dolphin and the time slider

2010-03-29 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, since I'm a kde-desktop user I'm really glad that there is some effort like the project Korona to keep KDE up-to-date on OpenSolaris, good job! However, I'd like to know if there is some port of the nautilus time slider on the dolphin file manager, that will bring KDE the same power as t

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

2010-03-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Ken Gunderson > > I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and > your email removed permanently. > > This is unacceptable. > > As someone that recently bought and installed Microsoft Windows Ultimate 7 > 64-bit edition I would rather look at t

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

2010-03-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
bsd wrote: > OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. This is an incorrect claim, Opensolaris runs zfs. Please try to avoid missleading claims. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de

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

2010-03-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> > Ken Gunderson >> >> I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and >> your email removed permanently. >> >> This is unacceptable. >> >> As someone that recently bought and installed Microsoft Windows Ultimate >> 7 >> 64-bit edition I would ra

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

2010-03-29 Thread Svein Skogen
On 29.03.2010 11:52, Joerg Schilling wrote: > bsd wrote: > >> OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. > > This is an incorrect claim, Opensolaris runs zfs. Please try to avoid > missleading claims. I suppose what he meant was "FreeBSD too has zfs" (but an olde

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

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Svein Skogen) wrote: > On 29.03.2010 11:52, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > bsd wrote: > > > >> OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. > > > > This is an incorrect claim, Opensolaris runs zfs. Please try to avoid > > missleading claims. > > I suppose what he

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

2010-03-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Svein Skogen wrote: > On 29.03.2010 11:52, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > bsd wrote: > > > >> OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. > > > > This is an incorrect claim, Opensolaris runs zfs. Please try to avoid > > missleading claims. > > I suppose what he meant

Re: [osol-discuss] Korona, Kde, Dolphin and the time slider

2010-03-29 Thread Calum Benson
On 29/03/2010 10:26, Luca Ferrari wrote: Hi all, since I'm a kde-desktop user I'm really glad that there is some effort like the project Korona to keep KDE up-to-date on OpenSolaris, good job! However, I'd like to know if there is some port of the nautilus time slider on the dolphin file manager,

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

2010-03-29 Thread Calum Benson
On 29/03/2010 06:07, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: Given that we presently have (1), it is perverse to hold to (2). Why should people go out of their way to be civil, when they know they will get censored? We already have (2) as well. It's embodied in the OpenSolaris Community Code of Conduct: <

[osol-discuss] passwd -x and -n bug

2010-03-29 Thread Christian Pélissier
Under Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_134 When setting min or max age for the first time, shadow last change is set to a random value (current date of hosts is correct and NTP synchronized). # passwd -s user user PS # passwd -x 365 user passwd: informations de mot de passe modifiées pour us

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

2010-03-29 Thread Fredrich Maney
The routines may be working properly on the Jive Forum, but they are not running at all on the email list. I agree with Paul and Dennis. Keep it civil and professional or go find someplace else to "participate". fpsm On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: >> These forums aren'

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

2010-03-29 Thread ken mays
As for this whole thread of discussion, the point of Oracle Solaris 10 being non-free seems like a trolling event. Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 (u8) is currently FREE to download. From a business point of view, if Oracle really pulled the plug on the downloads - what does that matter to us?!? I'd hop

[osol-discuss] b134 gdm fails

2010-03-29 Thread John Burns
Hi, I upgraded from b111 to b134 and although I can log in my desktop fails to appear. I note the gdm service goes into maintenance mode, and the gdm log file is full of: [ Mar 29 14:32:16 Executing start method ("/usr/sbin/gdm"). ] [ Mar 29 14:33:17 Method or service exit timed out. Killing c

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-29 Thread Ashish Nabira
I also use opensolaris to run Postfix with mirrored disk. I hope you all followed mirroring of rpool properly. It works really well on my 2009.06 opensolaris. Ashish Nabira Enterprise IT Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. 7th floor , Prestige Obelisk, Kasturba Rd Bangalore, KN 560025 IN Phon

Re: [osol-discuss] study for Solaris admin certifications

2010-03-29 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi, Thank you for your responses advising me that i have to use Solaris 10 to study for the SCSA cert. Regards Edward -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Nawrocki
Hello all: As of late, I have begun to notice increasing levels of pessimism and grumbling amongst users (and former users) of OpenSolaris. As a glasses half-full type, I would like to remind everyone that whining and complaining about petty issues such as a delayed release for OpenSolaris an

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

2010-03-29 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi, I don't understand why at the actual forums of Solaris 10 OS, I did not find any complaints about Solaris 10 OS not being free anymore, but here at OpenSolaris forums that really pertains only to OpenSolaris OS is full of complaints about Solaris 10. I thinks this is a more appropriate p

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

2010-03-29 Thread Karel Gardas
Shawn, thanks a lot for your references. > I'm not aware of any known issues regarding this > erratum detection. > > However, the following bugs were filed (and resolved > a few years ago) > related to this erratum: > > > ttp://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug > _id=6295986 >

Re: [osol-discuss] passwd -x and -n bug

2010-03-29 Thread Oscar del Rio
On 03/29/10 09:15 AM, Christian Pélissier wrote: Under Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_134 When setting min or max age for the first time, shadow last change is set to a random value (current date of hosts is correct and NTP synchronized). # passwd -s user user PS # passwd -x 365 user pas

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 12:07 PM, Matthew Nawrocki wrote: Hello all: As of late, I have begun to notice increasing levels of pessimism and grumbling amongst users (and former users) of OpenSolaris. As a glasses half-full type, I would like to remind everyone that whining and complaining about petty issue

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-29 Thread Gary Gendel
Ashish, I don't think that anyone is upset about the boot pool mirroring capabilities. It works as advertised. The bug in question (which has a documented workaround) is that a disk failure will prevent opensolaris from booting. Obviously, this isn't the idea situation since half of the mirr

Re: [osol-discuss] passwd -x and -n bug

2010-03-29 Thread Christian Pélissier
Effectively the date is not a random one but the real date the password was last changed. This date is not displayed while Min, Max or Warn are not set. But it should be. # passwd -s user user PS # grep user /etc/shadow userl:l5Xx6f9ZIck.w:14542:: Date with 6445 value comes from the

[osol-discuss] pkg property pursue-latest

2010-03-29 Thread Brandon High
Is there any documentation about what the pursue-latest property for pkg does? I've noticed that it's set by default, but I can't find a description of what it does. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg property pursue-latest

2010-03-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/29/10 01:24 PM, Brandon High wrote: Is there any documentation about what the pursue-latest property for pkg does? I've noticed that it's set by default, but I can't find a description of what it does. This property is obsolete and will be removed soon. It is not implemented. -Shawn ___

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

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Wilson
So, I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse, but has anyone asked/ answered the question of getting support and patches running Solaris 10 on ESX on non-Sun hardware? I've got a semi-ranty email out to my Sun reps but haven't heard anything back yet. Thanks in advance, and again, my apologies

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug 6932552: B134 Splashscreen crasch Kernel must be fixed for 2010.3

2010-03-29 Thread Jürgen Keil
> After a while I was able to grab the screen immediately before the reboot and > the following is its content: > /kernel/misc/pci_autoconfig: undefined symbole 'class_pci_items' > /kernel/misc/pci_autoconfig: undefined symbole 'class_pci' > /kernel/misc/pci_autoconfig: undefined symbole 'pcie_get

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Nawrocki
Exactly! And there is nothing holding Oracle back from adopting the Red Hat / Fedora model of doing business. I actually would be surprised if Oracle did anything to kill OpenSolaris as it would be a tremendous blow for public relations. :) Matt -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Edward Martinez
> Hello all: > > As of late, I have begun to notice increasing > levels of pessimism and grumbling amongst users (and > former users) of OpenSolaris. As a glasses half-full > type, I would like to remind everyone that whining > and complaining about petty issues such as a delayed > release for Ope

[osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
I've installed snv_134 a few days ago and try to configure xdm for remote login. It looks like /usr/sbin/xdm is in its place and config files are under /etc/X11/xdm. But I cannot find xdm in 'svcs -a' output. cheu...@sun:~$ svcs -a | grep login disabled1:25:46 svc:/system/console-login:vt

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aleksey Cheusov wrote: > I've installed snv_134 a few days ago and try to configure xdm for > remote login. It looks like /usr/sbin/xdm is in its place and config > files are under /etc/X11/xdm. But I cannot find xdm in 'svcs -a' output. > > cheu...@sun:~$ svcs -a | grep xdm > cheu...@sun:~$ > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Rainer Orth
Aleksey Cheusov writes: > I've installed snv_134 a few days ago and try to configure xdm for > remote login. It looks like /usr/sbin/xdm is in its place and config > files are under /etc/X11/xdm. But I cannot find xdm in 'svcs -a' output. [...] > Do I need some additional package for running xdm

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Nawrocki
It could be that too many nerds and geeks believe in the slashdot god and panicked when slashdot announced the possible demise of OpenSolaris. Seriously people? You trust a source that is based on user contributions? :p Matt -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Aleksey: Do I need some additional package for running xdm as a service? Os this is just a bug in packaging xdm. P.S. I'm completely new to Solaris and OpenSolaris, so please be patient. I'm aware of gdm, but I don't need it. I'd like to stay with xdm. Refer here: http://bugs.opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
>> I've installed snv_134 a few days ago and try to configure xdm for >> remote login. It looks like /usr/sbin/xdm is in its place and config >> files are under /etc/X11/xdm. But I cannot find xdm in 'svcs -a' output. >> >> cheu...@sun:~$ svcs -a | grep xdm >> cheu...@sun:~$ >> >> Do I n

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Rainer Orth
Brian Cameron writes: > Refer here: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6885155 Interesting, thanks for the pointer. > I think it is a known deficiency that there is no SMF service that > can be used to run it as a service. I suspect you need to start it > up more by

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Cameron wrote: > If there are users out there with an interest in using XDM, it would > be good if there were an interest in getting some of the code upstream > into the xdm codebase to support things like logindevperm more out of > the box. I can integrate the code upstream once it's writte

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rainer Orth wrote: > I don't know how far Alan Coopersmith, the responsible engineer for that > CR, is with a putback. If desired, I could ask for a sponsor for the > service I have. I've made no progress in the last 5 years, and am not likely to soon. If you've got one done and want to have it s

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rainer Orth wrote: > This part is easily fixed. I've no idea if the X consolidation takes > contributions, just like ON, so this could come from the community. We do, we just don't get many requests. >> If there are users out there with an interest in using XDM, it would >> be good if there were

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Rainer: We're currently using xdm in a Sun Ray environment, and didn't have this issue so far. No idea why. Sun Ray does not use logindevperm for device management for Sun Ray clients. logindevperm is only used for the system console. So, the lack of logindevperm support is probably not su

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Beardsley
Hi I got Bordeaux on 18/03/2010, but not had much luck with it. It installed Ok after setting the path to pick up the gnu tar first, but when trying to setup IE 7 through Bordeaux, IE 7 does not have any navigation icons or tool bars. Tried IE 6 which was a bit unstable and does not support any

[osol-discuss] krtld: failed to open

2010-03-29 Thread Kitty Tam
I have a x4150 running 5.11: 5.11 snv_85 i86pc i386 i86pc After upgrading the SP FW, I wasn't able to boot it up. After the grub menu was displayed it complained: krtld: failed to open krtld: bind_primary(): no relocation information found for module /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix krtld: err

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Ben
I agree overall. My only concern is that if the community say something (e.g. Next stable release is 2010.02) that should be kept to as much as possible and any delays should be frequently communicated to the community. I've done my best to promote OpenSolaris where I am because I love the pr

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Jones
I have recently been testing the competition and always come back to opensolaris as a project which is professionally run and structured.I understand that we operate in a 'now' society but the development of a quality OS takes lots of time and hardwork.I am very encouraged by the progress this

[osol-discuss] Need a comprehensive subversion tutorial

2010-03-29 Thread jayson jamandra
Good day guys. I want to know if there are any step by step tutorials in implementing/installing/using subversion in opensolaris. What i need is from installation up to usage of subversion. thanks. BTW, Iam using tomcat server. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org