Re: [osol-discuss] USB pen drive not detected

2010-10-19 Thread Jürgen Keil
I'm having some problems with a new USB drive I just bought, Opensolaris snv_134 is detecting it at all, Are there any error messages logged to the console / the /var/adm/messages file when you hotplug the USB drive? tail -f /var/adm/messages and hot plug the USB drive. -- This message

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-17 Thread Jürgen Keil
j...@opensolaris:~$ ifconfig nge0 ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: nge0: no such interface nVidia MCP61 should work in build 73 or newer: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6497473 Is the nge driver matter here? The original message said: ... And finally,

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
j...@opensolaris:~$ ifconfig nge0 ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: nge0: no such interface nVidia MCP61 should work in build 73 or newer: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6497473 Is there a new network interface after ifconfig -a plumb ? In case the

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

2010-10-06 Thread Jürgen Keil
I retested with gcc 3.4.3 and everything works fine. Using the 4.3.3 compiler, the breakpoint is being set right at the address of main before the prologue code is executed. I will need to investigate why that is happening. Hmm... On opensolaris b134, after pkg install gcc-43, and

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

2010-10-05 Thread Jürgen Keil
I can reproduce the problem on my system running bash so I don't think it is related the the shell: (gdb) b main Breakpoint 1 at 0x8050ccc: file g.c, line 4. (gdb) r Starting program: /home/gvasick/a.out Breakpoint 1, main (argc=260904, argv=0xfef90018) at g.c:4 Which compiler,

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
here's the lshal with all the entires pertaining to this usbstick there is 'volume' entry Hal's volume entry for the usb device looks good. I think the next step is that hal-storage-mount gets started (?), and it is supposed to mount the pcfs file system. Are there any error messages in hald

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
fstype gives unknown fs_type Hmm, fstyp should work, too. Did you use the block device, /dev/dsk/... ? also, here's the lshal with all the entires pertaining to this usbstick there is 'volume' entry volume.label = 'USB4G' (string) ... volume.fstype = 'pcfs' (string) Hal seems to

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
b134 usb sticks and usb drives won't automount or by cl can find devices with format -e or rmformat -l, so they're there ... just can't mount What kind of file system is used on these usb devices? FAT? Or NTFS? What is reported by pfexec fdisk -R -W - /dev/rdsk/c?t0d0p0 ? (where

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
block.device = '/dev/dsk/c6t0d0p0' (string) ... info.product = 'USB 2.0 FD' (string) Hmm, is that an USB floppy drive? I guess there is a floppy media inserted in the drive. Is the media ok? Floppy media usually has no MBR partition table, so pfexec fdisk -R -W - /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0p0 will

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
pfexec fdisk -R -W - /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0p0 ... * IdAct Bhead Bsect BcylEhead Esect EcylRsect Numsect 1101 1 0 25463 488 63 7855722 ,,, Ok, and pfexec fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c6t0d0p1 ? Seems to be a pcfs filesystem. What

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
yes. this drive is fat32. since the thread started, i reformated and made sure it had a volume label (which it didn't before). it still does not automount, but command line mount now works. STILL ... i'd like to figure out why drives aren't automounting. Ok, so usb device drivers, sd disk

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to mount volume [usb drives won't mount]

2010-08-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
yes. this drive is fat32. since the thread started, i reformated and made sure it had a volume label (which it didn't before). Did you already try the fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c6t0d0p1 command? See also this thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=344425#344425 (An invalid

Re: [osol-discuss] A stupid question probably - forgive me

2010-08-14 Thread Jürgen Keil
Where exactly can I get SNV build 134 from. http://www.genunix.org/ http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-dev-134-x86.iso -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble formating usb external hard drive.

2010-08-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
mkfs -F pcfs -o fat=32 /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0p1 *Bad Sig on master boot record! Did you use fdisk on the /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0p0 device and did you create a Windows LBA primary fdisk partition? mkfs -F pcfs -o fat=32 /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0p1:c *No such logical drive (missing extended partition

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble formating usb external hard drive.

2010-08-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
I have a 1Tbyte usb external HD that I want to be able to read with windows and b134. I have tried all of the below but am unable to get solaris to read and write to it. mkfs -F pcfs -o fat=32 /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0p1 *Bad Sig on master boot record! The following commands would emulate

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to break out of X

2010-08-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
I attempted to change my display settings and somehow broke X. It only displays that x can not be started hit enter for a console prompt. The console prompt never appears. If I can not get to to the prompt how can I fix it? Can anyone provide suggestion on how to boot without X

Re: [osol-discuss] where is on-src.tar.bz2

2010-07-29 Thread Jürgen Keil
The ON source was available for us to download at - OpenSolaris Download Center http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ But it is missing for some time. Anybody knows why? Found on the above page: Source tarballs have been deprecated in favour of the onnv project's Mercurial

Re: [osol-discuss] b134 panics on bootup after install

2010-07-24 Thread Jürgen Keil
I have installed b134 on a clevo laptop. The live cd booted just fine and the install went on without a problem. After the install when I reboot the system comes up with the initial grub screen just after the OS is selected the screen goes black and the system reboots. Did you try tz boot

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfered 23 GB over SCP from USA to Germany

2010-07-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
When I compared the two files with md5sum on each side, I got different checksums. I did so a split of the file to 5 GB parts and compared: Solaris: ... 199d15f5204c14a97d29f86b14cd154b cpartad Linux: ... 0509b68893216f894ee394c0ab212cd2 cpartad You could transfer the cpartad 5 GB

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfered 23 GB over SCP from USA to Germany

2010-07-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
I redownloaded the file cpartad and compared it with cmp -l with the old file: $ cmp -l cpartad cpartad.old 4962108197 271 371 $ bc ibase=10 obase=2 271 1 371 101110011 It seems that 5 bits are wrong of the 23GB file transfer. The differences reported by cmp -l are in

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfered 23 GB over SCP from USA to Germany

2010-07-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
The differences reported by cmp -l are in octal; so this is actually a single bit error. But then TCP checksums should discover the problem That bit could have fllipped both on the sending or the receiving machine (before or after TCP is used). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] build fails from fresh install?

2010-06-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
That is, the build mail at least reported completed, the packages built, and I was able to update and boot my server from the results. But, there are still all sorts of errors in the mail to root. The rest of the garbage in there is all normal? The build noise differences is ok. It

Re: [osol-discuss] install Open Solaris on usb memory stick

2010-06-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
Can someone point me to the procedure for how to install on a memory stick. Should be identical to the procedure when you install to a regular hdd. It gets problematic when you try to connect the installed usb storage device to a random machine - most likely the kernel refuses to boot on the

Re: [osol-discuss] build fails from fresh install?

2010-06-22 Thread Jürgen Keil
I then did a nightly ./opensolaris.sh from within my environment. My build system is a dual 2.1GHz Celeron (64-bit) with 4GB RAM. Should be plenty. After about 5 hours, the job completed, and I received the attached mail. I did build as root, which may be bad, but... Nothing in there

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting desktop to auto sleep

2010-06-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
The laptop still does not power down, because every 30 seconds there is a batch of writes to the hdd drive, apparently from zfs, and that keeps the hdd powered up. It was caused by b134 gnome-terminal. I had an iostat running in a gnome-terminal window, and the periodic iostat output is

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting desktop to auto sleep

2010-06-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
keithk keithc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi eam1, I did. After which, I reboot the system. Still nothing happens. This is a well known bug that was introduced with SXCE build 130. Is there a bug filed to track this problem? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting desktop to auto sleep

2010-06-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
Putting the flag does not seem to do anything to the system. Here is my power.conf file: ... autopmenable autoS3enable S3-supportenable Problem seems to be that all power managed devices must be at their lowest power level, otherwise

[osol-discuss] zfs periodic writes on idle system [Re: Getting desktop to auto sleep]

2010-06-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
Why does zfs produce a batch of writes every 30 seconds on opensolaris b134 (5 seconds on a post b142 kernel), when the system is idle? On an idle OpenSolaris 2009.06 (b111) system, /usr/demo/dtrace/iosnoop.d shows no i/o activity for at least 15 minutes. The same dtrace test on an idle b134

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting desktop to auto sleep

2010-06-19 Thread Jürgen Keil
I am running Opensolaris snv_134 on a dell computer. I am able to suspend the desktop at will, but does not seem to be able to set a timeout for the desktop to suspend after a configurable idle time using Power Manager. The Power Manager does not offer me the slider where I can see the idle

Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Jürgen Keil
ls /dev/dsk/c4t?d0 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0 /dev/dsk/c4t2d0 /dev/dsk/c4t3d0 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0 Are you sure those /dev/dsk/c*d0 entries are device nodes? Try ls -l /dev/dsk/c*d0 and ls -lL /dev/dsk/c*d0, maybe they are files that have been created by accident by a user user with root

Re: [osol-discuss] My box crashed (amd64 on 134a)

2010-06-09 Thread Jürgen Keil
not found: ddi_get_parent_data not found: kdi_dvec_memavail ... krtld: error during initial load/link phase krtld could neither locate nor resolve symbols for: /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix the boot archive. Most likely the boot archive file /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive and/or

Re: [osol-discuss] PC Emulator for OpenSolaris?

2010-06-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
Basically, is there a Windows emulator... that will allow me to run Windows-based applications or Windows itself on top of OpenSolaris? http://www.virtualbox.org/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-24 Thread Jürgen Keil
I don't type pathnames longer than 100 characters, which is 20 characters wider than a normal page. Try again with a path name 100 chars and check what happens. I did verify a failure with Indiana build 134 But I don't use that on my system anyway...:-/ My opensolaris b134 system has

Re: [osol-discuss] How to configure openSolaris resolution on VirtualBox

2010-05-22 Thread Jürgen Keil
Thank you, I will look into that problem if can help me. The vbox ticket #6181 probably won't help much. It is set to closed / fixed, but as far as I understand it, some superfluous logging was removed from the Solaris vbox guest kernel module, but the root cause for the broken auto-resizing

Re: [osol-discuss] How to configure openSolaris resolution on VirtualBox

2010-05-22 Thread Jürgen Keil
The vbox ticket #6181 have no help. And the problem isn't fixed. Hmm, seems I found something... In the guest window's Machine - Auto-resize Guest Display menu item (Host-G keyboard shortcut): is the menu item enabled, and does it show a checked icon? I just repeated the installation of

Re: [osol-discuss] How to configure openSolaris resolution on VirtualBox

2010-05-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
Thank you, but I cannot adjust it as I want. For example, I press Ctrl+F, fullscreen the VirtualBox, but the OS screen donot change, just fill black around with it! Hmm, I wonder if mouse pointer integration is working with your opensolaris vbox guest? Some time ago I had a problem with the

Re: [osol-discuss] Errors from USB flash drives used for booting.

2010-05-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
I'm getting the following errors when booting from flash: WARNING: /p...@0,0/pci1043,8...@1d,7/stor...@2/d...@0,0 (sd1): Check Condition on REQUEST SENSE Hmm, the flash device seems to have signaled an error condition for some (scsi) command; and when asked for the exact cause for the error

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris SATA disks...

2010-04-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
2.) Is there a negative effect if the SATA disks connected to those ports only run as IDE (aka cmdk driver?) ata / cmdk has not 64bit dma support, so that the driver has to use dma bounce buffers to access physical memory 4GB. Using ahci should avoid this issue. No hotplug / NCQ with ata

Re: [osol-discuss] When we install opensolaris 2009.6, does it layout a zfs file system?

2010-04-17 Thread Jürgen Keil
I am wondering what is the file system that opensolaris 2009.6 creates for its installation, is it zfs or ufs? zfs -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
I don't know why but I expected that the release build to be available in the Mercurial repository after it gets released. $ hg clone -r b111b ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate abort: unknown revision 'b111b'! So no, you cannot build previous releases of the

Re: [osol-discuss] krtld: failed to open

2010-03-31 Thread Jürgen Keil
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

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

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

2010-03-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
use mrxvt application. So, the problem is not with terminal application on OpenSolaris, it doesn't run X at all (yet), but with OpenSolaris' man, vi and other curses/termcap/you_know_better applications. To me it looks like problem with curses/termcap capabilities. It works fine with

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

2010-03-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
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 An ncurses rxvt terminfo entry exists in

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2010.03 improvements?

2010-03-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
| No I meant a 64bit version of OpenSolaris. Right now it's only available in 64bit for SPARC if I'm not mistaken. Solaris has been a mixed 32/64bit install for many years. The installer runs 32bit. This has changed in OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris x86 installer / livecd runs the 64-bit

Re: [osol-discuss] SIL0680 driver?

2010-03-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
I could use some help in making my SIL-680 board work under eon (or Opensolaris in general). Does the card have a raid-mode jumper? I think raid mode needs to be disabled. Or is there a non-raid-mode firmware available for the card? Otherwise I think that a non-raid-mode SIL-680 board should

Re: [osol-discuss] osol b133 X freezes

2010-03-04 Thread Jürgen Keil
CC-ed to xwinow-discuss, thread started at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=125150tstart=0 Do you find the following error message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? intel_bufmgr_fake.c:392: Error waiting for fence: Device busy. No. I find in Xorg.0.log : [...] Error in

Re: [osol-discuss] osol b133 X freezes

2010-03-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
if i do truss -p 630 (Xorg process) i get and endless repetition of: /1: setcontext(0xFD7FFFDFEB60) /1: Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in ioctl() [caught] /1: ioctl(14, 0x46445, 0xFD7FFFDFF3FC) Err#4 EINTR /1: lwp_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0x2000, 0x) =

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
I ran pkg install with truss, in the hope of discovering why it takes so long to complete, especially AFTER it has reported that every thing is installed. You are running a fresh install of b133, correct? Has pkg been always that slow? I suspect that pkg has been reasonably fast for the

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
# tail pkg.log 1.7255 schedctl() = 0xFEC69000 0.0002sigaction(SIGINT, 0x08047650, 0x080476D0) = 0 421.4744 open(/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo, O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT stack backtrace for the pkg process at

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
I suspect that pkg has been reasonably fast for the first few packages that you installed, but has become slower and slower the more packages have been installed? Not that much packages installed after fress install That is, on your fresh b133 install from livecd, the first package

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
BTW when did pkg switch to python 2.6 ? It has been using python 2.6 for several builds now. I have an old b129 installation and that is using python 2.6 for /usr/bin/pkg. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
Has pkg been always that slow? I suspect that pkg has been reasonably fast for the first few packages that you installed, but has become slower and slower the more packages have been installed? Hello Mr. Keil: If you suspect a standard bin/pkg to run ^reasonably fast ^, then all

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Jürgen Keil
As a matter of fact I had also thunderbird+firefox so the memory usage was a bit high. I just retried it now without any other heavy app other than X+gnome, and it went much much faster (7-8mn) Since b132 there is a java vm process running on the gnome desktop. It displays an icon in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
I lost my snapshots on swap now. do I need them ? No, snapshots on a swap zvol are just a waste of disk space. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
I thought it was a problem with the graphics driver, but you are right as soon as I start gdm the box dies and my remote ssh session are dead.. What graphics hardware is that? Intel video? Could be 6914386, which is not yet fixed in b133

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on. Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for a laptop. AFAIK, the warning message is wrong. Although all memory is in use,

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
Same here with me - thought that it may be some problem in the versions since 128a - but it happens more often. with 133 not as often as with 132 but yesterday 2 times. Thinkpad T61p with 4GB RAM - Virtualbox with win64 running . Do you always get the freezes when virtualbox was

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
it freezes during the Creating plan when running pkg image-update, either from b131 be or b132 (I kept both). it freezes during the evaluating SUNWgcc package when trying to ugrade from gui I know the memory pressure msg is not directly related, but I can see the memory being eaten up

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
Tried once again, it seems to freeze each time when there is about 4K ram left. Is that a 32- or a 64-bit system? I do have 4G swap, almost not used at all. Hmm, that is unexpected. How did you watch swap space usage? swap -l ? I just tried to pkg image-update a 64-bit b132 vbox

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
A few data points, for those who are about to do this. On a single-CPU 2GB system I get: PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIMECPU COMMAND 37 root1 600 1231M 1131M sleep6:10 1.36% pkg This system had lots of extra ips packages installed on top of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
That is not good..Won't the machine just page to compensate, though? That's what I've been observing, with a 1GB virtualbox guest and pkg image-update. It pages and is slow, but doesn't freeze. But in my experiment the pkg process size is ~ 650 - 700 mbyte. -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Missing drivers in OpenSolaris.

2010-02-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
What other drivers are currently not distributed with OpenSolaris? E.g. Adaptec *adp* drivers are missing in OpenSolaris http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=112 http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7976 I think there was the idea to make them available via the extra

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with the forum

2010-02-06 Thread Jürgen Keil
Sry I didn't found the right place for this, but I wanted to inform you about 3 problems with this forum: Try the website-discuss list / forum http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=29 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-05 Thread Jürgen Keil
Robert Milkowski wrote: On 03/02/2010 12:25, Jürgen Keil wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Toshiba R600, up-to snv_129 X is working fine. snv_131 and the moment Xorg starts the notebook does hard-reset (quick power-off) - no crash dump, no nothing, When I booted under kernel debugger

Re: [osol-discuss] Memory usage increasing during idle

2010-02-04 Thread Jürgen Keil
have 64bit system running on computer with 8gb RAM. immediately after start ::memstat (mdb -k) shows 1164MB of Kernel, but after 2 or 3 days of idle this number increased to ~2500MB. is it Ok or something wrong? Should be ok. Could be cron jobs running during the night that looks at lot of

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot Speed

2010-02-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
Don't know if this is related, Probably not, unless it hangs before displaying the SunOS copyright banner of the kernel. but I too have slow boot time for my Acer 7720G notebook and build 131. Though I don't see 4 minute boot up time, it is more like 2+ minutes to GDM. There is a RFE

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
The stack matches that in 6914386 which is possibly a duplicate of 6911372 which is fixed in snv_131. This was introduced in b130, so it fits your problem. My suggestion would be to jump back to b129 (or whatever was your last stable one) and upgrade to b131 which is currently available.

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
Robert Milkowski wrote: Toshiba R600, up-to snv_129 X is working fine. snv_131 and the moment Xorg starts the notebook does hard-reset (quick power-off) - no crash dump, no nothing, When I booted under kernel debugger the box just hangs and I can't go into the debugger. I tried to boot

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot Speed

2010-02-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
online 20:00:10 svc:/application/desktop-cache/icon-cache:default online 20:01:08 svc:/system/hal:default ... Note that between icon-cache:default and hal:default there is an almost 60-second gap, I didn't find other gaps like this in the whole svcs -a output. Is there a

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
The stack matches that in 6914386 which is possibly a duplicate of 6911372 which is fixed in snv_131. This was introduced in b130, so it fits your problem. My suggestion would be to jump back to b129 (or whatever was your last stable one) and upgrade to b131 which is currently

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot Speed

2010-02-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
I have been finding my system taking a long time to boot. In the order of 5 to 8 minutes. Part of it is the zpools I have. Which version of opensolaris are you using? Are there lots of snapshots on the zpools? However booting in text mode it takes a long time to get any text on the screen.

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot Speed

2010-02-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
Which version of opensolaris are you using? It is a clean install of b131 (the issue occurred in all of the b12x series also iirc) Are there lots of snapshots on the zpools? No, only 4 or 5 on my rpool. Ok, so it isn't the problem with zpool import running for a long time when *lots* of

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot Speed

2010-02-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
So the main issue is: After selecting an entry in grub to boot from, and before the SunOS Release 5.11 Version ... copyright banner appears there is a flashing _ for ~4-5 minutes. Is there anyway to get text or any logging/tracing in this time? Did you try the verbose grub command?

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot Speed

2010-02-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
Interestingly with grub in verbose the system waits at the findroot line. Seems to be stuck in the BIOS when trying to read from one or more of the 16 HDDs connected to this system. Without the findroot line it brings up the SunOS Release 5.11 Version ... copyright banner and ends on the

Re: [osol-discuss] Need to find files with F6 in name. How?

2010-02-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
So I have lots of files with weird characters in the name. Those F6, F4, etc characters are listed as ?, for instance Making?Food?Recipe.doc. The version of CIFS I use, (b125) does not allow listing of files with those characters in WinXP clients. I must stay with b125 because of issues in

Re: [osol-discuss] memory consumption in b131

2010-01-31 Thread Jürgen Keil
However, I found that Xorg memory usage is still very high : 1446 root 448M 150M sleep 450 0:04:53 4.4% Xorg/3 especially compared to the one on my home server, with basically the same session apps running (including compiz, awn and conky) : 720 root 88M 58M sleep

Re: [osol-discuss] memory consumption in b131

2010-01-31 Thread Jürgen Keil
while in my laptop I have an onboard intel : PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:27a2:1028:01c2 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xeff0/524288, 0xd000/268435456, 0xefec/262144, I/O @ 0xeff8/8, BIOS @ 0x/65536 ...

Re: [osol-discuss] help with opensolaris pgrep

2010-01-31 Thread Jürgen Keil
For instance, i have a script which i use to check if rsync is running, if it isn't running, then it will rsync, if it is, then it should skip rsync. I put this in crontab for every 15 minutes. On FreeBSD this works fine, on OpenSolaris it doesn't seem to be working. any idea why this

Re: [osol-discuss] memory consumption in b131

2010-01-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
I'm very puzzled by the memory usage in recent builds of osol-dev. Yep. E.g. on my b129 box a gnome-terminal process is using 68 (!) shared libraries % pldd `pgrep -x gnome-terminal` | wc -l 68 And I see lots of virtual memory used for mapping the various font / icon-theme / mime

Re: [osol-discuss] memory consumption in b131

2010-01-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP ... 2749 bruno 195M 136M sleep 590 0:00:04 0.0% gconfd-2/1 The memory usage of that gconfd-2 process is very high. On my opensolaris b131 system gconfd-2 consumes 13M memory, with a RSS of 7MB. For some

Re: [osol-discuss] memory consumption in b131

2010-01-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
Yes In deed I run compiz, though the normal variant, mostly to be able to run avant-window. It seems too be the bug you refer to. If you have compiz enabled, logout from gnome desktop and start a new session, is the gconfd-2 process size still that large? -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] memory consumption in b131

2010-01-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
E.g. on my b129 box a gnome-terminal process is using 68 (!) shared libraries % pldd `pgrep -x gnome-terminal` | wc -l 68 On opensolaris b131, this has increased to 76 shared libraries. % pmap -x `pgrep -x gnome-terminal` | grep cache | wc -l 55 b131: 71 cache files pmap -x

Re: [osol-discuss] MSI K8T-NEO2

2010-01-25 Thread Jürgen Keil
Thanks for the response. Here are the files as requested. When I run Install Solaris from the desktop there are no drive or partition selections so I can't complete the install. I have a 200GB Seagate drive attached to the onboard SATA controller. And that's apparently a VIA chipset SATA

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-24 Thread Jürgen Keil
2) WARNING: Mobile 4 Series chipset present, activating quirks Message Seen at 124/128/129/130 Suggested work around is not usefull as it affects the use of Vbox. 3) Not powering off properly. Seen at 124/128/129 When powered off/down , activity lights stay active. 4) suspend.resume

Re: [osol-discuss] disk controllers numbering in b131

2010-01-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
ugrading from SXCE b130 to osol-b131 Upgrading from SX:CE to OpenSolaris isn't possible, did you reinstall OpenSolaris b131 from scratch? the numbering of sata disks in ahci mode changed Is this a (small) bug ? Controller numbers shouldn't change by an upgrade. But for a new install

Re: [osol-discuss] b131 cryptic message

2010-01-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
After new install of b131, I get these messages : ip: [ID 224711 kern.warning] WARNING: Memory pressure: TCP defensive mode on Looks similar to these bugs: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6910378 http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=14098 -- This message

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris snv_130 panic.

2010-01-13 Thread Jürgen Keil
Experiencing very strange behaviour with upgraded OpenSolaris machine ( from snv_124 to snv_130 ) Machine gets panic, with the following error: Just a wild guess... An opensolaris upgrade currently has a nasty bug that results in old kernel modules ending in the boot_archive: Bug ID:

Re: [osol-discuss] Why format says drive type unknown and ask for all information?

2010-01-09 Thread Jürgen Keil
How am I suppose to figure out those numbers? If fdisk can figure out the dimension, I suppose the information format needed can be figured out somehow? Did you create a Solaris fdisk partition in the fdisk utility? Is there a SunOS disk label written to the Solaris fdisk partition?

Re: [osol-discuss] dev releases do not boot up from vmware

2010-01-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
I installed open solaris snv_111b on vmware esxi. ... When i try to boot opensoalris-1 from GNU GRUB Menu it dumps some junk output and navigates back to GRUB Menu screen. I think that is a known problem: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6837 Or

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, Indiana: which to use for a developer?

2010-01-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
last week, I decided to upgrade and got a OpenSolaris version (osol-0906-x86.iso). Unfortunately, that was not what I expected: it seems to be a SunOS 5.x kernel with GNU userland (let's just say that I don't want GNU: GNU's not Unix). Well, it does have both the gnu utilities (/usr/gnu/bin)

Re: [osol-discuss] image-update failed; ZFS returned an error

2009-12-31 Thread Jürgen Keil
Ah, yup, it is. :( Doesn't seem to work with lzjb either. lzjb compression does work on a zfs root filesystem. Note that the /rpool/boot/grub/* files are also read during boot and must not be compressed with gzip (lzjb is ok). There are no checks in the zfs code that prevent the use of

Re: [osol-discuss] Kernel panic of an assumed fixed bug

2009-12-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
I just received a kernel panic of a bug that is assumably fixed: Dec 15 19:09:30 iunis ^Mpanic[cpu1]/thread=ff01bdbc3180: Dec 15 19:09:30 iunis genunix: [ID 335743 kern.notice] BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ff0008339c80 addr=8 occurred in module ip due to a NULL pointer

Re: [osol-discuss] When will sound and poweroff be fixed?

2009-12-11 Thread Jürgen Keil
... it bugs me that sound has not been fix - it has crackling/static sounds which were reported by many member of the community. Is that an audiohd device? Build 129 has fixed this for me, see bug 12657 comment 2: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12657#c2 -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_111b x86 crashing

2009-12-11 Thread Jürgen Keil
There is no panic or syncing filesystems in /var/adm/messages. Is it possible to boot the server with kernel option -k, disable the gui, and reproduce the mkfile crash ? Does it reboot, or does it enter the kernel debugger ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] USB sticks show on one set of devices in zpool, different devices in format

2009-12-05 Thread Jürgen Keil
It shows my two USB sticks of the rpool being at c8t0d0 and c11t0d0... ! How is this system even working? I guess the physical device path for the usb sticks has changed. But zfs boot is able to find the correct devices, maybe using the disk's 'devid' properties? Or something strange (hw

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b127 ERROR: cannot find Java software, Exiting to shell

2009-11-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
I have that iso but can i use that to start an installation of SXCE b127 No, I don't think so. since I really don't like Linux b127 Sorry, I did forget that you didn't want to use the opensolaris / indiana distribution... or do I have to go the bootable usb route? Booting the SX:CE

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b127 ERROR: cannot find Java software, Exiting to shell

2009-11-22 Thread Jürgen Keil
I get only information concerning the hard drive and nothing about the optical drive. I am using a Sony PCGA-DDRW3 Firewire optical drive, Yep, I can reproduce it. The problem is that the Solaris firewire drivers (hci1394 and friends) are not included in the SX:CE installer's

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b127 ERROR: cannot find Java software, Exiting to shell

2009-11-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
So far SXCE b127, b126, b123, b122, b121 have been having this error ERROR: cannot find Java software, Exiting to shell and the latest Solaris U8 does not. I think this error is reported when the system was unable to mount the install optical media... What kind of optical driver are you

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris build 127 crashes on boot under VMware

2009-11-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
I am trying to get build 127 working on VMware but it keeps panicking on boot. I have remembered to disable the pcieb driver which got previous builds working, but this build is not happy. It won't boot in either 32 or 64-bit mode. Is this a known bug and if so, what is the bug number? The

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