Re: [osol-discuss] Can opensolaris do CDP

2010-07-23 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> now i know how to do auto-snapshot on opensolairs. > Can anybody tell me if opensolairs has any tool to > implement CDP? Continuous data protection? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@o

Re: [osol-discuss] Can opensolaris do CDP

2010-07-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> now i know how to do auto-snapshot on opensolairs. > Can anybody tell me if opensolairs has any tool to > implement CDP? > thx a lot. By what definition? AFAIK, the extreme definition implies being able to restore to any single completed write operation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_

Re: [osol-discuss] Can opensolaris do CDP

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> now i know how to do auto-snapshot on opensolairs. >> Can anybody tell me if opensolairs has any tool to >> implement CDP? >> thx a lot. > > By what definition?  AFAIK, the extreme definition > implies being able to restore to any sin

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro, teamwork and being clear

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 23/07/2010 03:33, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I don't know, but probably more people contributed to SFE and/or /contrib in the last couple of years than to Blastwave. Without getting into pointless comparisons (I've used both), the problem I have with /contrib is the huge bottleneck that

[osol-discuss] Technical contact for OSOL mailing lists

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Taylor
Hello, I'm trying to find the technical contact(s) for the OSOL mailing lists, I've been having quite a few issues with bounced email from this list (and other OSOL lists), and checking our mail server logs it is always because of DomainKey (DKIM) rejection. Believe it might have something

Re: [osol-discuss] [xen-discuss] Xen EOF?

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Looking at the fact, that OVM is free, and has a way better graphical management system, and also comes with already predefined "Images", I don't see that many problems. Who would really be using ZFS in the Dom0, if you build bigger environments? You would place the binaries/images on some network

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread A Hettinger
I am one of those approvers. Last I looked I had at least commented on anything mentioned in both SJ-Discuss and Porters-Discuss as ready for review. I will review my emails, but unless some have come in over the last week, there are none that have not been either approved (with or without my v

Re: [osol-discuss] Technical contact for OSOL mailing lists

2010-07-23 Thread Elaine Ashton
On Jul 23, 2010, at 6:39 AM, Daniel Taylor wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find the technical contact(s) for the OSOL mailing lists, > > I've been having quite a few issues with bounced email from this list (and > other OSOL lists), and checking our mail server logs it is always because of

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Mays
Hi Peter, GNU/kFreeBSD relates moreso to the Nexenta community (OpenSolaris kernel/Ubuntu (Debian) userland) - which also is known as GNU/Solaris. To help create the next community distro, I'd talk to Nexenta. Take a look at Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2 and see what can be improved from it. Th

[osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
If a community-friendly spinoff is going to spinoff, I hope the mailing list for that is created before the deadline when Oracle decides to terminate the Opensolaris community. Is somebody working to create a community distro mailing list? Personally, I want this mailing list back, for peop

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread A Hettinger
Apparently I missed the memo the Oracle was dropping this site. If it turns out I didn't miss the memo, and this is something you are completely making up, please stop. This is the type of stuff that gets posted on slashdot then I have to go around the office and explain that it's just someone

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC building help

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Mays
Hello, VLC packaging is handled over in desktop-discuss. For DVD playback, we use VLC and Mplayer (people like a few choices). VLC 0.8.6/1.1.1 and Mplayer 1.0.0 were ported for Solaris 10 and OSOL 2009.06. Check the VLC spec-file for recent updates to v1.1.1. Some changes may take advantage of

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
A Hettinger wrote: > Apparently I missed the memo the Oracle was dropping this site. > > If it turns out I didn't miss the memo, and this is something you are > completely making up, please stop. Oracle has made no announcements of ending opensolaris.org. Oracle has announced that the separate

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro, teamwork and being clear

2010-07-23 Thread Brian Utterback
On 07/22/10 04:24, Dennis Clarke wrote: Update 10 ? Really ? The marketing people at ORacle are worse than the ones at Sun. We have no clue when an update is coming or a damn thing but at least there are readme files that leak out from time to time. I don't understand your point. Hasn't it

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Miner
On 07/22/10 05:56 PM, Jason wrote: At a previous job most of their Sparc systems were upgraded from Solaris 2.6->8->10 via live upgrade. Obviously new systems got the latest standard, and not every system that went from 2.6->8 was still around to do the 8->10 upgrade, but at one point we had aro

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 07/22/10 14:56, Jason wrote: I suspect they would be quite disappointed (to put it mildly) if there is no way to do something similar (at least an installer that can run in an older version to lay down the bits in unused space). The following worked for me to migrate development build server

[osol-discuss] Crash during zpool import

2010-07-23 Thread Martyn Klassen
My system crashed while deleting a zfs volume and went into an infinite reboot loop. Suspecting a problem with ZFS, I booted from the LiveCD to try to identify the issue. I tried to import one of the pools called backup zpool import -f backup The system crashed almost immediately. Is there some

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
There was, however, threat of moderating, and/or discontinuing the list as disciplinary measures as part of select interpretation and application of the site's TOS. To which someone on list did respond by setting up a list at Free Lists so as to as least have an archive. Mayhaps that was what

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread John Plocher
A reminder that we *do* have a distribution community here, with a distribution-discuss alias that is a good place to hold "community distro" conversations... http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss -John ___ opensolaris-d

[osol-discuss] Random system hang build 134

2010-07-23 Thread Som Pathak
Symptoms: 1. System remains pingable 2. When trying to ssh in terminal hangs after entering pass 3. At the console terminal hangs after entering pass 4. Problem persists after disabling snapshots/compression/dedup Solution: Hard reboot (A+F1 does not work) Configuration: Supermicro Mobo 24 x 2

Re: [osol-discuss] Random system hang build 134

2010-07-23 Thread Mike DeMarco
Do you have autofs turned on. Sounds like it is hanging when attempting to mount a automounted filesystem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Crash during zpool import

2010-07-23 Thread Mike DeMarco
You would have better luck posting this to the zfs list. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot import a zpool created with zfs-fuse - newer version of ZFS?

2010-07-23 Thread Mike DeMarco
Break the mirror move the disk over to the other server create a new zpool using that disk zfs send | ssh zfs receive bring over the other disk and add as a mirror. Pop open a beer and smile. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
Thanks, John. I'd been checking in on that from time to time but it didn't seem like much discussion was going on following the mentioning of such at governing board meeting a while back. You're indeed correct that that would be a good place for such discussion. I assumed, perhaps erroneously

[osol-discuss] Community distro mailing list

2010-07-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
If a community-friendly spinoff is going to spinoff, I hope the mailing list for that is created before the deadline when Oracle decides to terminate the Opensolaris community. Is somebody working to create a community distro mailing list? Personally, I want this mailing list back, for people w

[osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi, today, I put SchilliX-0.7.0 out. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/SchilliX-0.7.0.iso.bz2 ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/README.install Changes since SchilliX-0.6.7: - Updated to use OpenSolaris Nevada Build 130 - Updated to use new Schily

Re: [osol-discuss] Random system hang build 134

2010-07-23 Thread Som Pathak
I did... I have now disabled it... But there was no evidence that this could be the problem from the log files... I will keep the thread updated re: this action. thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
Cool;) My test box was just about to get fresh install of FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE, but I'll take Schillix for a quick test spin first. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Stefan Parvu
thanks. I never tried previously the distro, but I will install this into one of my test machines. Is star part of the distro ? Hope so :) Would be nice to have a list somewhere what we get as plus on top of build130, all tools. Cheers, Stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
P.S.; Joerg, did I miss it or are there no md5 hashes for this? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/24/10 03:48 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On 07/22/10 14:56, Jason wrote: I suspect they would be quite disappointed (to put it mildly) if there is no way to do something similar (at least an installer that can run in an older version to lay down the bits in unused space). The following wor

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Hi, Did a few quick tests under VirtualBox (for now). The 64 bit version did not play well, showing unresolved symbols and dropping to recovery console. The 32-bit version was OK, though: # uname -a SunOS unknown 5.11 schily130 i86pc i386 i86pc # ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 07/23/10 14:23, Ian Collins wrote: I guess that's with an older or same ZFS version not newer in order to be able to zfs send the filesystem. It could work for recent Solaris 10 updates as well, assuming there's another update with a zfs upgrade. When I did this I migrated systems from neva

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-23 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
> On b134 + 190.53 the playback will be choppy. > Update the driver to 256.35 in a new BE (changing only > the NVIDIA driver) and the playback will be smooth. Yes, with 256.35 drivers everything works fine now. Thanks! -- Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov. __

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread ken mays
--- On Fri, 7/23/10, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From: Joerg Schilling > Subject: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing > To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org, distribution-disc...@opensolaris.org > Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 3:52 PM > Hi, > > today, I put SchilliX-0.7.0 out. > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/24/10 09:47 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On 07/23/10 14:23, Ian Collins wrote: I guess that's with an older or same ZFS version not newer in order to be able to zfs send the filesystem. It could work for recent Solaris 10 updates as well, assuming there's another update with a zfs upgrade.

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
"C. Bergström" wrote: > Did you pull the libc work from Garrett and drop that on there? No, I just created a halfway clean base for starting with the emancipation work. > Which compiler did you use to build onnv-gate? OS-12.1 > What are you doing for c++ and are the binaries from Solaris/Open

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ken Gunderson wrote: > Cool;) > > My test box was just about to get fresh install of FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE, but > I'll take Schillix for a quick test spin first. It still has no GDM and an old version of Xorg I compiled in late 2005. I hope that someone will compile a recent Xorg and GNOME. It ma

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stefan Parvu wrote: > thanks. I never tried previously the distro, but I will install this into one > of my test > machines. Is star part of the distro ? Hope so :) Star-1.5.1 is also available from Blastwave. The star on SchilliX has one new feature: 1) create a meta data only archive with st

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ken Gunderson wrote: > P.S.; Joerg, did I miss it or are there no md5 hashes for this? See the file README. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/24/10 10:40 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Ken Gunderson wrote: Cool;) My test box was just about to get fresh install of FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE, but I'll take Schillix for a quick test spin first. It still has no GDM and an old version of Xorg I compiled in late 2005. I hope that

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
Why? IPS was shoved down the community's throat in a heavy handed and decidedly not FOSS manner. Moreover, interestingly enough, the most popular, by far, thing to come out of Open Solaris is Nexenta, which is most definitely not IPS based. And ironically enough, using something more familiar

[osol-discuss] NIC is only functional when 'snoop' is running

2010-07-23 Thread Andrew Chace
My workstation is not on a UPS and experienced a hard-shutdown the other day due to a commercial power outage. It booted up cleanly afterwards; however, my NIC is does not seem to be functional unless 'snoop' is running. I've tried setting a static IP, using DHCP, triple-checked the subnet mask,

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 07/23/10 15:28, Ian Collins wrote: That's right, but I don't think you can specify the zfs or zpool version to the installer (an RFE maybe?) so the root pool will always be the latest version. you should be able to create an empty BE in a down-rev pool (with pkg image-create, as discussed i

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Mays
This is an idea, but SchilliX (or a fork of it) could remain a pure server-oriented core distro (without X or desktop cruft). The desktop stuff could come by way of IPS integration and/or CSW/SFW/other packages... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/23/10 04:41 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Why? IPS was shoved down the community's throat in a heavy handed and decidedly not FOSS manner. Sorry, but that's simply not true. The pkg(5) project has been one of the few projects that is actually very open. It was the first to use defect.open

Re: [osol-discuss] NIC is only functional when 'snoop' is running

2010-07-23 Thread William Bauer
I haven't seen this specific problem before, but have you tried things like touch /reconfigure and reboot, or unplumb the interface and reconfigure/reboot: ifconfig e1000g0 unplumb touch /reconfigure init 6 You may or may not need to replumb after this with "ifconfig e1000g0 plumb". Otherwise

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/24/10 01:23 PM, Ken Mays wrote: This is an idea, but SchilliX (or a fork of it) could remain a pure server-oriented core distro (without X or desktop cruft). The desktop stuff could come by way of IPS integration and/or CSW/SFW/other packages... The kernel distribution for Blastwave

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Stefan Parvu wrote: > Interesting. Do you have any comparative numbers between > OSOL and others: RHAT, Ubuntu for instance ? > > I had the impression SMF did improve things. As I read your post > it seems, sometimes in past but not anymore ... why is that ? > Pro

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread John Plocher
Ken, et al, >  IPS was shoved down the community's throat in a heavy handed and decidedly > not FOSS manner. What shoving? It seems to me that those of you who are wailing and moaning that you want a version of OpenSolaris with SVr4 packages are conspicuous by the absence of an OpenSolaris deri