Re: [osol-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building aria2 from source

2012-11-20 Thread Brian Cameron
and taking advantage of patches that help modules build and work on Solaris should help with building. You may be able to find packages somewhere, but if you always want to build the latest stuff, this is often the best place to look. Brian On 11/20/12 04:54 PM, ken mays wrote: Jason, Means you

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Cameron
access to the root role. So, it is pretty easy to configure users with RBAC to not require passwords to run the programs needed. Brian On 11/14/11 07:36 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Andrew: The functional replacement of the Primary Administrator RBAC profile is System Administrator. If you use

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Cameron
passwords. Others have recommended sudo. The sudo program is useful for those people who find it the best way to configure a needed system. That said, using sudo to just avoid the use of RBAC is probably not the best use. Brian On 11/11/11 11:37 AM, Andrew Watkins wrote: I have lost the ability

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Brian Wilson
, with one or two quirks that look harmless. cheers, Brian --- copy/pasted from my wiki page - I'm running a dell studio XPS workstation for my desktop, using the Nvidia drivers and the Gnome desktop

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Brian Wilson
Can't find the documentation for upgrading from Solaris 11 Express yet...hmmm... maybe my google-foo is bad today. cheers, Brian On 11/ 9/11 09:27 AM, Glynn Foster wrote: Today marks the release of Oracle Solaris 11, the first cloud OS. Oracle Solaris 11 delivers ground-breaking features

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Configuration

2011-11-01 Thread Brian Wilson
- http://wellrounded.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/solaris-11-express-configuring-a-static-ip/ cheers, Brian On 11/ 1/11 08:14 AM, Syed Muhammad Mohsin Kazmi wrote: But when I connect my linux machine to that network I always give the netmask 255.255.255.0 and it is connected. I think so

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-14 Thread Brian Wilson
packaging tools didn't that I actually like working with them. Of course, I haven't managed to try doing a major patch install or upgrade yet, but if it's anything like how OpenIndiana works, I'm thrilled. cheers, Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-14 Thread Brian Wilson
is much more minimal, which I really like. I'd add that I've found it very easy to find and install packages from the repository via 'pkg search (name)' and then 'pkg install'. cheers, Brian -- --- Brian Wilson

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-06 Thread Brian Wilson
to register and use Solaris 11 and get updates (i.e. owning Oracle hardware under support, having an OS support contract, etc etc). Just as right now to download updates for Solaris 10 you have to have a valid support contract with Oracle so you can log in and get them. cheers, Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] How to clean up locked memory in SWAP?

2011-09-12 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
slowly because it was running out of RAM and constantly paging around the locked memory, then I might look at this. Until that point is reached, it shouldn't need any investigation. Regards, Brian On 08/09/2011 15:25, Jordi wrote: Hi all, I'm using this script to get the memory stats in some

Re: [osol-discuss] n2cp implementation??

2011-09-12 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
to release source section of http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/no_source Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] xntpd and tinker panic value

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Utterback
| dispersion dispersion | freq freq | huffpuff huffpuff | panic panic | step step | stepout stepout ] Also same in Solaris 10 Update 9 (no patch applied after that) On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK brian.ruth...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [osol-discuss] xntpd and tinker panic value

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
in there, and I can't spot the word tinker in the version of xntpd.1m shipped in 119246-38. If this doesn't help you resolve your issue, please raise a support call. Regards, Brian Omer Faruk SEN wrote: Hi , On solaris 10 man page it states that i can use tinker panic 0 on /etc/inet/ntp.conf

Re: [osol-discuss] physmem option broken

2011-03-18 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
call startup_memlist() first (which implements the check for npages and physmem and calls kphysm_init() to initialise the now limited amount of memory), then call startup_kmem() which triggers the read of /etc/system. Hope that helps, Brian Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Hi all It seems

Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
, further increasing the parallelism of your build, although I've never used it this way myself. Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] syseventd segmentation fault

2011-02-25 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
Marco A. Ferreira de Almeida wrote: Is this familiar to anyone? Any ideas on what my be causing syseventd to segfault? Some log should be checking? Can you post a stack trace of the core dump please? pstack core should do. Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE

Re: [osol-discuss] how to completely kill the process

2011-02-24 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
don't have some other restarter (such as cluster services) in there too... Hope that helps, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] how to completely kill the process

2011-02-24 Thread Brian Utterback
who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration Solaris Sparc to Solaris X86 : Advice me ?

2011-02-09 Thread Brian Ruthven
suggested. Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Utterback
up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris security

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Cameron
. There are some things that only Solaris can do. But it depends what you wan to do, I guess. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] iSCSI broken in snv_134?

2011-01-28 Thread Brian R Jones
Yeah found that out later. It looks like it's fixed in snv_140. I don't want to use a development branch so I just put in a startup routine that exports then imports with a 10 sec delay between them. Apparently you can hit a race condition if you don't wait a bit before importing it back.

Re: [osol-discuss] iSCSI broken in snv_134?

2011-01-27 Thread Brian R Jones
I have a nearly situation, but: 1) I only have a single interface enabled on my EqualLogic target, so it cannot send iSCSI redirects. 2) I am authorizing access to the LUN by IP address rather than initiator name. After upgrade from snv_111b to snv_134b, the LUN does show up with format, but

Re: [osol-discuss] Working with Cron under Solaris 10

2011-01-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
crontabfile. This then also helps protect me from the somewhat irritating crontab -r instead of crontab -e. Oh how many times I've removed my crontab instead of editing it by slipping off the 'e' key and hitting return before my brain caught up. Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] can you help about process?

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Utterback
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org You could use prstat. -- blu Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] user account question

2011-01-07 Thread W Brian Leonard
...@solaris:~$ *pfexec usermod -R root bleonard* Hope that helps, Brian On 01/ 7/11 09:17 AM, ann kok wrote: Hi I got a message that the user can't be su how can I change the user can use su Thank you ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] slew in xntpd

2010-12-20 Thread Brian Utterback
cases it can be used up to a correction of a couple of seconds, but rarely more than that. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs import problem- urgent

2010-12-07 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
be that you are hitting a known bug, but I would strongly recommend that you talk to one of our support personnel as they will take a more detailed look at your system as a whole and guide you through the required procedure, rather than me blindly recommending patches. Regards, Brian -- Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs import problem- urgent

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Ruthven
levels, etc... Regards, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs import problem- urgent

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Ruthven
On 12/ 6/10 01:27 PM, Akhilesh Nair wrote: Thanks Can you tlell me the phone number to log the issue Also Please let me know procedure also? Thanks anair This page http://www.oracle.com/us/support/contact-068555.html contains the contact details for support. Regards, Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] kstat and psrinfo provide different information.

2010-11-29 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
1200 MHz) CHIP 1 from kstat: chip_id: 1, core_id: 1 chip_id: 1, core_id: 513 ...etc... This is how the numbering works for US-IV systems. If you have any further questions, I would suggest opening a support call to address them. Hope this helps, Brian JoeBilish wrote: Hi All. I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] panic[cpu0]/thread=ffffff0016e03c40: zfs: allocating allocated segment...

2010-11-25 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
be able to help you out. Regards, Brian Karel Gardas wrote: Hello, during my attempts to update my workstation OS to the latest Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 I've come to the point where machine nolonger booted anymore. That was just after the last reboot of Sol11Express when everything

Re: [osol-discuss] Where do I post a problem/bug report on Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-17 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
, and is actually the end result you want anyway. -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] copymsg and MBLK

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
be 80 */ } Regards, Brian Saadia Fatima wrote: Hi When I copy a message block (mblk_t, with a non-zero length) using copymsg, the value returned by MBLKL for the copy is zero. len = MBLKL(m); //say 80 mc = copymsg(m); len = MBLKL(mc);// returns 0 ??? -sf -- Brian Ruthven Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Debugging a system freeze: Booting with -k

2010-10-12 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
config, OS build, etc... Regards, Brian Saadia Fatima wrote: How can I catch a system panic/freeze. I tried booting up with a kernel debugger, with -k option in the GRUB menu. When the system freezes how can I switch to the debugger? I tried f1+shift+a but it did not work. Thanks SF

[osol-discuss] Desktop Team Considering EOL'ing Python 2.4

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Cameron
the Desktop team will file a proper EOL ARC case for Python 2.4 soon, but I wanted to give a less formal heads up before we do so to make sure that we are working with everyone who might be affected. Thanks, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] C programming, invalid argc value

2010-10-05 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
correct me on this :-) Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] osol 134 restarts when scrubbing on asus p6t ws xeon

2010-10-04 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
=0xaf234430: some message followed by lines of hex. Find the panic line and copy-and-paste everything up to and including the next Solaris Release snv_XX line. Regards, Brian ace wrote: I am never able to complete a scrub/resilver on the asus p6t ws xeon e5520 12gbecc with re4-gp and wd20eads drives

Re: [osol-discuss] svc console-login:default won't start

2010-09-21 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
by sulogin again. If none of the above is true, can you provide a full svcs -a output please? and also confirm how you are logged into the system (i.e. through gdm, single-user mode, etc..) Hope this helps. Regards, Brian Greg Terkanian wrote: First off, please tell me if this is the right

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing Memory Placement Policies through a C program

2010-09-21 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
sticking with /etc/system to modify this value (and the above document lists the acceptable values, at least for Solaris 10). Regards, Brian Kishore Kumar Pusukuri wrote: Hi, I know how to change memory placement policies using mdb. For example, the following is the usage to apply Round Robin

Re: [osol-discuss] what is this panic?

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
) although I suspect that any kind of pkg fix or image-update operation would put this back. Regards, Brian Tom Chen wrote: Hello, One of my x4270 with snv143 OS always panic after reboot. See the log below. What is this panic? it seems an error in power management. However, the other x4270

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Utterback
patent troll. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Utterback
---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Utterback
. Number 2 seems the most likely to me. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Utterback
on the benefits of the tech being communicated more effectively in the future. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE

Re: [osol-discuss] Asterisk

2010-09-06 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
have to be something in dtrace has changed. Regards, Brian Juan Damian Bernabe wrote: Hello everybody, Im running OSol 2009.06 snv_134 on an Intel x86 pc. Well, I can't get the saptel drivers to work. I've tried the instructions below but no success. This is the message that returns: ad

Re: [osol-discuss] Change GDM Login

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
in the /etc/.../custom.conf file. Is that a good enough starting point? Regards, Brian Jellf J B Nainggolan wrote: Hi all, how to change the login opensolaris. please kindly share the step or link... thanks -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining) Oracle UK

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-18 Thread Brian Utterback
---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-17 Thread Brian Utterback
. And like MS, they are getting sued because of it. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-16 Thread Brian Utterback
---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-16 Thread Brian Utterback
---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-16 Thread Brian Utterback
to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-15 Thread Brian Utterback
Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Idea for Oracle: Solaris11 and Support for Desktop in combination!

2010-08-14 Thread Brian Cameron
to do interesting work together. Brian [1] http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ [2] Long Term Support [3] http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+xfce/building_xfce On 08/14/10 07:50 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Michael Widmannmichael.widm...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [osol-discuss] Using multiple page sizes

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
, 512k, 4M, 32M and 256M. Hope that helps, Brian Kishore Kumar Pusukuri wrote: I would like to see the impact of different page sizes on the performance of multi-threaded applications. However, the pagesize -a command is producing only 3 possible page sizes including the default 4Kb on my AMD

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Utterback
---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Sound Juicer and security (was: Re: root roles security holes)

2010-08-02 Thread Brian Cameron
to read AUDIO data from CD, there should no longer be a need to run sound-juicer as root. The GStreamer CDDA plugin uses cdda2wav for playing audio from the CD. However, CD ripping is handled by the brasero library, which uses the SCSI commands and therefore requires the elevated privilege. Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab disappearing

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
to fit the facts :-) Regards, Brian William Bauer wrote: Maybe that's it. The Time Slider. When you enable or disable it, it edits the root crontab. When you turn it on it creates a snapshot, which is why the deletion time would always correspond with a snapshot. I turned it on right

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris static IP and hostname

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
years since I did this, and it wasn't Sun's DHCP server that I used at the time... Regards, Brian Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: Hello All! This is for my desktop. I want to change default behaviour of DHCP to static IP. I am aware of the steps by using the physical:default instead

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

2010-07-23 Thread Brian Utterback
that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] I'm tired of Skip boot menu on restart

2010-07-22 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
honour that or not. Why is it that you always want to see the boot menu? Do you normally reboot to a different selection? Regards, Brian Aleksey Cheusov wrote: When I press Shut down in gnome menu I see Skip boot menu on restart checkbox which ON by default. I'd like to ALWAYS see boot menu

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

2010-07-22 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
see a note on Jun 14th that Rich Lowe has posted a package depot of onnv_142, but your mileage may vary with this. Hope that helps, Brian Lenz Grimmer wrote: Hi there, I have two external USB disk drives in a zpool mirror configuration that I would like to move between my Linux box (running

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

2010-07-20 Thread Brian Cameron
this better in the -xarch argument description. But, this is probably only a concern if you are planning to use the binaries on multiple architectures that may have different hardware acceleration support. Brian On 07/20/10 12:53 PM, John Martin wrote: For media players I always recommend Fluendo

Re: [osol-discuss] Using opensolaris 134 and sunstudio compiler

2010-07-20 Thread Brian Cameron
/install the code twice. Once for i386 and once for amd64. This works well for us, so I would recommend using this sort of technique. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] setting a second permanent loopback interface

2010-07-07 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
to achieve what you are after. What problem are you trying to avoid? 7) Are you running a zone with the same IP address as x.x.x.x ? When I test your hostname.lo0:1 file on Solaris 10 update 8, it works as expected (as far as I can tell). Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Network RPE

Re: [osol-discuss] http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/ down ???

2010-07-02 Thread Brian Wilson
. --- Brian Wilson, Solaris SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CSS 608-263-8047 bfwilson(a)doit.wisc.edu 'I try to save a life a day. Usually it's my own.' - John Crichton --- -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Fascinating, Captain. Brian On 06/30/10 10:47 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: It is simply TRUE that If you use OpenSolaris, you should know how to build applications from source. Building applications from source is part of Unix culture. Notice I didn't say one MUST know how to do

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Unveils Next Generation Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Utterback
someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-17 Thread Brian Utterback
!), these are just my own thoughts on the subject. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-14 Thread Brian Utterback
technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to switch GNOME's license from GPL?

2010-06-07 Thread Brian Cameron
and first get Fluxbox integrated before discussing which should be the default. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Osol - pkg inst an earlier revision?

2010-06-07 Thread Brian Cameron
if it isn't reported. Brian I use recordmysolaris quite frequently, and libtheoraenc.so 1.1.2 (that's the current version if I recall correctly) encodes the uncompressed file badly into ogv. I'm on sxce (125), so I popped in an earlier dvd (117) (ok: I mounted an earlier image :)), pkgrm'ed

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to switch GNOME's license from GPL?

2010-06-07 Thread Brian Utterback
that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier -- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-06-02 Thread Brian Cameron
as this user. So if this file has grown too large, this could be your problem. I suspect that this might be your problem because in the logs you provided a few weeks ago, there were GConf errors similar to those reported in comment #7 of the above bug report. Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-12 Thread Brian Cameron
the problem is necessary. The dtrace program is another program that might be useful in debugging this sort of issue. I'm not much of a dtrace expert, but perhaps someone else on this list could recommend ways to debug this sort of issue with dtrace. Brian On 2010-05-11 05:11, Brian Cameron

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-11 Thread Brian Cameron
those of us who want to focus on the here and now? Brian On 05/11/10 10:12 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: I was wondering with D'Amore jumping over to Nexenta. if the time comes to take drastic measures, if they are willing and have the resources, can something be organized with nexenta

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-10 Thread Brian Cameron
, and probably not the issue which is causing the long slowdown that you are seeing. --- Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
. Brian Oh, I forgot the other logs (the clock at the bottom right in the login splash screen is frozen at 10:46 and jumps to 10:49 when the input text field for username pops up). I saw some complaints about missing files (module xtsol and fbdev missing) in the Xorg log but otherwise it looks ok

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Cameron
for some reason. Brian On 05/ 6/10 08:11 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: I see one error message complaining about failure to start service: svc:/network/sendmail-client:default When looking at the list of running services (~$ svcs) this service is the only one in maintenance mode, all other services

Re: [osol-discuss] what does xtrmap: current record not TS_ADDR means for ufsrestore command?

2010-04-21 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
is beyond me, but may indicate the backup tape is corrupt, or the backup was not done correctly in the first place. Finally, if this is all Solaris 10, then you should log a support call to help get this resolved. Hope that helps, Brian Sarah kho wrote: hi, I am trying to restore a file system

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 panics

2010-04-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
with the correct permissions, then extract the dump, if it can find one, all in one hit. Regards, Brian These mdb commands should show basic information about the crash: ::status $msgbuf You can use ::threadlist -v to inspect kernel threads and processes. -Albert

Re: [osol-discuss] Crash analysis help - reboot after panic: Freeing a free IOMMU page: paddr=0xccca2000

2010-04-15 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6875273 unless you see it again post snv_133. Regards, Brian Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi Brian, First off all let me thank you for your time spent on reading this issue. Regarding your comments , yes the defect 15601 has been logged by me .I

Re: [osol-discuss] Crash analysis help - reboot after panic: Freeing a free IOMMU page: paddr=0xccca2000

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
to make sure nothing is reported as corrupt. Try the workaround mentioned in http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6875273 and see if that gives you some stability for your migration project efforts. Regards, Brian Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi all, Recently one

Re: [osol-discuss] Codeina popup

2010-04-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Note that both Fluendo bugs have been marked as fixed, so this problem should be resolved. Apologies for any inconveniences. Brian On 04/ 1/10 03:39 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Gary: Whenever I log in, I get a message that there are Codeina updates available for the free mp3 decoder. So I

Re: [osol-discuss] ksh93 mem fault

2010-04-07 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
spot one already open, but could you visit http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/bugReport.do and log a bug please? Regards, Brian Robert Lawhead wrote: The default system shell in snv_133 segvs on code that runs correctly on other (earlier) versions of ksh93. % cat /tmp/A #/bin/ksh typeset

Re: [osol-discuss] Codeina popup

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Cameron
telling you to update the plugins again to get ones that fix this issue. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages? (Quit asking these questions here)

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Wilson
cents there and a copycat idea though. YMMV. cheers, Brian --- Brian Wilson, Sun SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CSS 608-263-8047 bfwilson(a)doit.wisc.edu 'I try to save a life a day. Usually it's my own.' - John

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

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Cameron
). If it is possible to simply rework the patch so that it is not copied directly from a GPL source, then this would likely be considerably less work and allow the work to get done much more quickly. These patches are fairly simple and should not be much work to reimplement. Brian

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

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Wilson
apologies if I missed this in the archives. Brian On Mar 27, 2010, at 12:35 PM, B wrote: Have these policies already gone into place, because I am still (crossing fingers) getting security updates on my Solaris 10 box with no agreement. I just got a new one today. Thanks! -- This message posted

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

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
into the xdm codebase to support things like logindevperm more out of the box. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
. If the patches are well written, and properly autoconf'ed/#ifdef _sun, then I would think they would be accepted upstream without a problem. It would be good to have better xdm support on OpenSolaris. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

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] Need help debuggin hang issue on build 134

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
at the time - IIRC, threads blocked in biowait() are a good starting point. Regards, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Revenue Product Engineering Sun Microsystems UK Sparc House, Guillemont Park, Camberley, GU17 9QG ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver disable

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Cameron
the Mode: combo box to Disable Screen Saver. If you want to set system-wide settings, you need to modify the /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver file. Most of this is already explained in the xscreensaver manpage. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] using digest with stdin command line input.

2010-02-26 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
You were so close :-( $ echo This is an input string | digest -v -a md5 md5 35e1332bf506d35c7c9f1c2b0cb39d4e Brian Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: Please how can I with bash read a string for hashing with digest, from stdin? bash-3.00$ digest -v -a md5 This is an input string. digest: can

Re: [osol-discuss] SSH

2010-02-25 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
contract. Regards, Brian Gavin Gore wrote: Can anyone tell me what the hell SshReadLine/sshreadline.c:2336: Initializing ReadLine... is and why is it taking so long for a response?? When I ssh from one machine, (which used to respond quickly) I get a minute/2minute wait before I get a login

Re: [osol-discuss] startx failing after move from b129 = b133

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Cameron
these lines: [debug] Enable=true Then restart GDM. This will cause GDM to put debug messages in your syslog file (/var/adm/messages). Reviewing these after the failure might help to highlight what is going wrong. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread Brian Cameron
and ZFS. Solaris has a long history of being more security focused and stable. Though stability can also be a problem on OpenSolaris if you are using the developer pre-release install, but this is probably to be expected. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Login probs and possible memory leak in svn_132.

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Cameron
that is worth a try as well. If your graphics card doesn't support OpenGL, then compiz would be very slow. Brian I've got a real problem since svn_132. #1 Time between login and the appearance of the desktop is almost 1 minute. #2 System becomes unusable because gconfd-2 uses 2,1 GiB of my system

Re: [osol-discuss] Logging in problem B130-B132

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Cameron
! Thanks, Brian I have recently installed B130 and updated it.The new login screen is displayed however after a short period of use I am getting problems with login.Putting my username and password for single user acount the screen goes to normal wallpaper and hangs. The display message is (/user

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