Re: [osol-discuss] bluetooth project

2009-10-05 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Looks like there were no announces since February and no blog posts ever. Not very alive-and-kicking. Tomas Bodzar wrote: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/bluetooth/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg(5) Search was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Rudimentary is relative. For example: * can you search in aptitude for the package that contains the a specific architecture version (sparc, i386, etc.) of a specific file? Besides of OpenSolaris, OsX is the only system where application being delivered as one package for all supported

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Vlasov
UNIX admin wrote: And the GNU tools are mostly inferior products in terms of performance: for example, GNU AWK is slower than System V AWK (this has been chewed into oblivion on the Usenet); or GCC generates slower code than any vendor's compilers (Sun Studio will trod GCC into the ground in

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux prospers, Solaris dies?

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Vlasov
OK, now we have THE freak. Bisu July wrote: [...] -- | Regards, | Alexander 'Sasha' Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem on Ultra 20 after zfs root snv_110 install (?panic)

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Exactly. Please hit `e' to edit grub menu entry, hit `e' once again after selecting appropriate line (appropriate one is one containing `kernel') and append flags at the end. When done editing, hit `b' to boot. Aric Gregson wrote: --On April 3, 2009 11:52:34 AM +0200 Alexander Vlasov

Re: [osol-discuss] When can we expect nv111?

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
already available (at least internally) Cyril Plisko wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: If memory serves right, it is 1 fortnight since the nv110. Usually, the update came before/early in the weekend (as of our time zone). Or will it be skipped?

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Have you tried aptitude? Shawn Walker wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk wrote: ... The user side experience of IPS is no doubt very good but is no different from a good Linux package manager like Smart/Yum (with the exception of ZFS

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Lurie wrote: Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches. This is called moving forward, IPS is based on new novel ideas, a secure package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install scripts, That's why lots of packages deliver

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Knowing your SunID it would take 5 minutes. Bugster supports reported email as search criterion. roland wrote: i added a bugreport to bugster for this yesterday. unfortunately, i dumped the response mail with the bug-id and now i cannot find my own bugreport anymore. (did somebody delete

Re: [osol-discuss] When can we expect nv111?

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
In this case you probably have to wait a bit until official push to external mirrors. Sorry. Uwe Dippel wrote: [i]already available (at least internally)[/i] But I am NOT 'internal'; only a member of the dreaded (?) community. And it is NOT available on the 'usual' site. So the answer is?

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
last update'. Some search abilities of aptitude aren't even applicable in pkg since pkg doesn't have appropriate concepts (like priorities; pkg only supports `preferred' and `other' repos, no arrangement by-priority) James Carlson wrote: Alexander Vlasov writes: Have you tried aptitude? I sure

Re: [osol-discuss] fun with aptitude [was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun]

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
James Carlson wrote: Alexander Vlasov writes: That's really strange. Have you read /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README? I didn't specify what problems I had, so I guess I don't see why it's necessarily strange. Correct. But discussion was about search capabilities, at least Shawn Walkes

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem on Ultra 20 after zfs root snv_110 install (?panic)

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Basically, U20 is supported and should work fine -- and it does, we have lots of them. You should probably boot solaris with -kdv flags and take a look at kmdb output aric wrote: I am having lots of problems with my machine. Yesterday I had a crash (black screen) and afterward it would load

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 110 ends up at 'opensolaris console login' prompt

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Which hardware do you use? Are you running Xen? please provide svcs -xv output. Robert Buick wrote: After upgrading to 110 and running pfexec init 6, the system reboots and ends up at the 'opensolaris console login:' prompt the display is: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_110 64-bit

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 110 ends up at 'opensolaris console login' prompt

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Robert Buick wrote: Alexander Vlasov wrote: Which hardware do you use? Are you running Xen? please provide svcs -xv output. Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G Socket AM2+ motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 BE-2400 SKT AM2 2.3 GHz processor Not running Xen running svcs -xv returns to the command

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 110 ends up at 'opensolaris console login' prompt

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Fine, we probably have two bugs here: 1. svcs hasn't noticed Xserver crash 2. Xserver dumps core on specific hardware If it's possible, please try another graphic card; in any case, please save core file somewhere and, if you want to help us to improve, please report those two bugs, attaching

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 110 ends up at 'opensolaris console login' prompt

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Alexander Vlasov wrote: Fine, we probably have two bugs here: 1. svcs hasn't noticed Xserver crash Not a bug - SMF doesn't start nor monitor the X server - SMF starts gdm, which handles those responsibilities for X servers. Will it survive underlying x server crash

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Laptops was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-01 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Currently there are lots of open issues with those notebook models. Shawn Walker wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Fredrich Maney fredrichma...@gmail.com wrote: I don't believe the issue is that he is using a Mac laptop, but that he is using OSX instead of

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Laptops was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-01 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Alexander Vlasov alexander.vla...@sun.com wrote: Currently there are lots of open issues with those notebook models. With those? Which? The Toshiba ones? Exactly. 6820704 6820111 6820128 6818475 6772156 6818462 bugzilla 7785 I

Re: [osol-discuss] Petition

2009-03-31 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Well, feel free to consider this flame, but I haven't seen any business decision being influenced by online petition. Octave Orgeron wrote: I don't mean to stir up any flame wars or for this to be spam. I setup a petition for people to sign to show support for Sun staying independent:

Re: [osol-discuss] i have lost the shift keys with opensolaris 5.11 snv_110

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Can you see your shift keys with xev? We have quite a lot of ultras 20 and 24 and they work fine under opensolaris. Dennis Clarke wrote: burned and booted the latest live cd image in fact, i am running it now, note the complete lack of capital letters here no punctuation either other than

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Vlasov
sil3114 is, politely speaking, not the best piece of hardware I've ever seen, however it supports hotplug. Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved by switching it off or marking unconfigured. Hans

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Martin, I believe it would be nice if you either stop trolling or stop reproaching others for trolling. Martin Bochnig wrote: Then why comment? ?? Sorry that I took the freedom to ask a question. It's your beer if you get a law-suit (filed by others, I would never do anything like that). I

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Trying to return one person to reasonable discussion style. What are you doing right now? I expect an apology. -- | Regards, | Alexander 'Sasha' Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-26 Thread Alexander Vlasov
OpenSolaris pkg-mgt repositories review: - pkg.opensolaris.org (b101 release,2008-12-09): 22,863 packages 1431 package(s) for OpenSolaris 2008.11 pkg.opensolaris.org (b109 dev, 2009-03-06): 30,719 packages 1594 package(s) for build 109.

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] Emergency project to rescue Opensolaris from IBM

2009-03-25 Thread Alexander Vlasov
sqrt() for every number = 0 here Joerg Schilling wrote: Jennifer Pioch piochjenni...@googlemail.com wrote: On 3/24/09, Hernan Saltiel hsalt...@gmail.com wrote: +1 -1 for star -1 for Jennifer Pioch as you do not give reasons. Jörg -- | Regards, | Alexander 'Sasa' Vlasov. | Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-24 Thread Alexander Vlasov
am not saying that they will stop selling Linux, but I have a very good idea of what they will recommend to their customers ... Yes, it would be Linux -- for bunch of reasons. -- | Regards, | Alexander Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-18 Thread Alexander Vlasov
you. -- | Regards, | Alexander Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-18 Thread Alexander Vlasov
. Links please to rumours of the same magnitude, making Sun's share price jump 74% (and it's still on the rise), reported by CNBC, Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters, and pretty much everyone out there.. -- | Regards, | Alexander Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing keyboard layer

2009-03-13 Thread Alexander Vlasov
+Shift or the other, input language didn't changed. Open Solaris installed on Virtual Box from Windows. What i have to do? -- | Regards, | Alexander Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Guest Network

2009-03-04 Thread Alexander Vlasov
,” Apple explains. “Your primary network — including your printer, attached drives, or other devices — remains secure.”[/i] Does solaris support this? I know the cifs server doesn't support guest file shares like samba. -- | Regards, | Alexander Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello, this is known P2 bug, see http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6331 Actually nwam fails and machin doesn't boots up into normal state. Kristian Rink wrote: Folks; trying to boot (or even install) a recent OpenSolaris build (off genunix.org) on an x4150 machine, but so

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-02-10 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello, Also, I find it odd that you are posting from a sun.com email address while making statements like Solaris people are out of touch, clearly putting Solaris people in the Them category in an Us vs. Them comparision. As a Sun employee, I would think that you should be a Solaris person.

[osol-discuss] isaexec?

2009-02-09 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello, according to isaexec manual page, it traverses the list for an executable file in subdirectories of the original directory, named according to isalist output. When such a file is located, execve() is invoked with argv[] and envp[]. So to make OS autoselect appropriate binary for

Re: [osol-discuss] isaexec?

2009-02-09 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello, CR 6248065 is quite interesting. However, some reasons from 2005 aren't much applicable nowadays (system is more-or-less 64-bit-proof now). And well, maybe it's not about optimization, it's more about policy for using isa directories. SDL case is absolutely unclear: if one knows which