Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:52:37PM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote: run anywhere. For OpenSolaris, choosing 64 bit binaries by default is equivalent to choosing to use machine-specific code generation options by default that would confine the use of the generated binaries to the same machine

Re: [osol-discuss] isaexec?

2009-02-10 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:21:16PM +0100, Alexander Vlasov wrote: SDL case is absolutely unclear: if one knows which ISA to use, he doesn't need to call specific sdl-config, but rather can manually use appropriate dirs in -L flag; if one doesn't know which ISA to use, Not true. But, most

Re: [osol-discuss] S10 (05/08) vs SNV_98 stubdom install at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 (64-bi

2008-10-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:14:59PM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote: The issue i am really concerned about is failure to install SNV_98 in stub domains introduced in Xen 3.3.0, where same error comes up:- ata_command select failed Have you asked about this on xen-devel list? regards john

Re: [osol-discuss] Error when installing OpenSolaris 2008.5 as Xen DomU

2008-08-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:51:47PM +0100, Graeme West wrote: first time, I get the blue screen allowing me to pick either the OpenSolaris installer or the text mode installer, but after that the installation hangs. It gets as far as: I would have said this was: 6670693 xpv driver hangs in

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 for Solaris

2008-07-10 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:55:23AM +, John Levon wrote: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b2/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/ These work for me, but the fonts look *awful* (and previous versions didn't look particularly great already). They're really blurry. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Private documentation and an open source Solaris (devfsadm man page)

2008-06-03 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:38:22PM -0400, Daniel Van Derveer wrote: Fair enough, however man pages are for developers too. What I wanted to develop a custom Live CD version of OpenSolaris to do penetration testing(see http://remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html). Having this kind of

Re: [osol-discuss] Private documentation and an open source Solaris (devfsadm man page)

2008-06-02 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:49:53PM -0700, Dan Van Derveer wrote: I ran off to the man page to see what this -I option does and surprisingly its not documented. At the time I decided to leave off the option which lead to much troubleshooting later on. All of that effort could have been avoided

Re: [osol-discuss] help me...! system call rename(2)

2008-05-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:59:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mv /export/home/us/oldfile /export/home/us/newfile but rename(2) never update cache path. v_path = /export/home/us/oldfile. help me...,how about update caceh path? Why do you need that ? v_path is _NOT_ the cached path

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I try SUN xVM

2008-03-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:38:41PM +0100, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: I would like to give xVM a try. Do I have to install nevada or Solaris 10? Does nexenta have any support for acting as xVM host? I know my questions sound silly, but i have googled a lot about it and but the infos are

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 for Solaris

2008-01-07 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:24:07AM -0800, Mario Goebbels wrote: In case you're wondering if there's actually builds of the betas for Solaris. There are, if you look really really close. x86 and SPARC builds for Solaris Nevada to be found here:

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 for Solaris

2008-01-07 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:53:57AM +, John Levon wrote: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b2/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/ These work for me, but the fonts look *awful* (and previous versions didn't look particularly great already). They're really blurry. I tried

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 for Solaris

2008-01-07 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:53:57AM +, John Levon wrote: In case you're wondering if there's actually builds of the betas for Solaris. There are, if you look really really close. x86 and SPARC builds for Solaris Nevada to be found here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv_79 : Bad kernel fault at addr=0xcf0a7334

2007-12-12 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:03:03PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: cd75dadc unix:die+105 (e, cd75db88, cf0a73) cd75db74 unix:trap+13d1 (cd75db88, cf0a7334,) cd75db88 unix:cmntrap+10b (cd6e01b0, cd6e,) cd75dbe8 unix:kstat_delete+c (cf0a7270) cd75dc04 ii:iidetach+84 (ca4625c8, 0) Known bug

Re: [osol-discuss] virt-install debug message during a failed PV install of Solaris 10 x86 (8/07) on Neveda Build 77 xVM

2007-12-08 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:01:06AM +0800, Steven Sim wrote: Uh guys... (Note: you should really be using xen-discuss not the general list). Here's an attempt to install via virt-install a paravirtualized Solaris 10 x86 (8/07). You can't do this, Solaris 10 has no support for

Re: [osol-discuss] newly created DomU entry in xm list disappears after shutdown!

2007-12-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:02:42PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: I think Steven already installed it via virt-install. However he wanted to define the following properties for the Windows domU: usb=1 usbdevice='tablet' to work around a mouse lag problem. All docs state to use a python

Re: [osol-discuss] newly created DomU entry in xm list disappears after shutdown!

2007-12-07 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:54:11PM +0800, Steven Sim wrote: I can get back the previous state by doing #xm create -c -f /export/home/admin/iso-images/xp2/winxp2.py Try using: xm new -f ...py instead. BTW, is there a reason you're not using virt-install for creating the domU? This is the

Re: [osol-discuss] DomU OS Image trials on Nevada Build 77

2007-12-07 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:13:51AM +0800, Steven Sim wrote: CentOS actually gave me the initial linux boot up screen. However, after typing linux text for the installation, vmlinuz loaded and...the DomU then rebooted and went back to the original screen once more. I think this might be a

[osol-discuss] Linking to older SXCE releases on the download page

2007-12-06 Thread John Levon
For various reasons, people occasionally need to download older versions of SXCE than the very latest (for example, 77 is broken for xVM ISO install due to hsfs bugs). Finding out how to do this is truly miserable. Can we have links to older DVDs on the download page:

Re: [osol-discuss] Linking to older SXCE releases on the download page

2007-12-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:14:20PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: On Dec 6, 2007 12:52 PM, John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For various reasons, people occasionally need to download older versions of SXCE than the very latest (for example, 77 is broken for xVM ISO install due to hsfs bugs

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] Linking to older SXCE releases on the download page

2007-12-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:54:51PM -0800, Stephen Lau wrote: No it's automatic. I had a script that did it that I handed off to the ON GK team. The problem is the ON builds are published before the SXCE releases are. You could put the link in pre-emptively, but then they'd be

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached!

2007-11-01 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:32:34PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: I'm very pleased to announce that the first milestone of Project Indiana is now available - called OpenSolaris Developer Preview. It's available for download at

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached!

2007-11-01 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:42:51AM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-preview.iso Is this release freely redistributable? It seems not, right? It is. Yay - but the Binary License doesn't make it sound that way. I'm presuming that's

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] webrev for ctf with raw disk

2007-09-27 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:35:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find a webrev for changes to mdb to allow ctf to be loaded with raw targets at: http://www.bruningsystems.com/webrev.rawctf. Hmm. I think you could make things a lot simpler by utilising the CTF within the MDB modules

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] webrev for ctf with raw disk

2007-09-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:43:55PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also accept a full path for cases when MDB module's CTF isn't sufficient. Then, you could directly load the CTF from the binary and keep that on a modules-style list inside the rawfile target. This will be easy to add,

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: If you do not own a x86 system that itself implements remote administration, you need to run Solaris x86 permanently under kmdb. This is because the only way to abort a hung x86 system is to send a

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:14:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think better is a flag that says that when the system panics, bypass kmdb and go immediately to the dump code. Right. And I think this should be the default behaviour. I mostly use kmdb for analyzing hangs, not

Re: [osol-discuss] [mdb-discuss] using kernel CTF with raw disk

2007-09-16 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:49:27PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Much better is to add an option to abort_sequence_enter() to panic instead of drop into the debugger. That way you wouldn't even need kmdb. Of course, the option would imply nopanicdebug=1. Thank you for this hint. It

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_61 system/webconsole:console failed fatally

2007-04-10 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:08:40PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: anyone else seen this on snv_61 ? # Apr 7 19:06:53 mercury svc.startd[7]: system/webconsole:console failed fatally: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details) Yes. Haven't had time to look for an existing bug yet.

[osol-discuss] #opensolaris CIA commit notifications

2007-03-07 Thread John Levon
Anybody going to own up to adding a duplicate feed to CIA for the commits bot? john ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE Build 57 available

2007-02-12 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:53:39AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: Please find the links to SXCE Build 57 at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. Is there any public information available for direct boot (dboot) for x86 - PSARC/2006/568

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:21:30AM +, Simon Phipps wrote: It seems to me (as others have said) they they will gain far more from Solaris going GPLv3 than we will, so it's hardly surprising they are in favour, and by-and-large we aren't. While that's true of the ~15 people who have

Re: [osol-discuss] Western Australia (Australia) Timezone...

2006-12-03 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:32:09PM +1030, David Lloyd wrote: Very soon now, WA in Australia will go into Daylight Savings - does anyone know if there's an update for the timezone files for this for Open Solaris? The fix for: 6497364 update zoneinfo timezones to 2006p - (Western Australia

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] New Release of B.O.O!

2006-11-29 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:04:14PM -0800, Dan Price wrote: It's REALLY REALLY upsetting that no attempt is made to foil the spambots. For example, in the above link, Stephen's sun email address is clearly visible for the spambots of the world to harvest. I'd just filed: 6498800 b.o.o

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:32:52PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Indeed, that's precisely why they were chosen (ditto all the other Shifted shortcuts in gnome-terminal). In fact, in JDS we changed it back for a while, but that patch seems to regressed (or removed, I don't know which), and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-28 Thread John Levon
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:34:33PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: When I tried to compile I specified using the GNU ld and as - would that have made a difference? but it still doesn't explain why qt Specified how? --with-gnu-as doesn't do what you might think it does... regards john

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on Subversion or Mercurial ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Holger Berger wrote: On 5/2/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large other open source project also moving to Mercurial,

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-04-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:43:47PM -0700, Karyn Ritter wrote: OK, I've updated the table at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ . Some notes: It doesn't seem useful to me to split out Accepted bugs. The accepted state doesn't really mean very much at all (I've even seen

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal - Argentix

2006-03-11 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:44:45AM -0800, Tony Austman wrote: Of course we could have used GNU software, but at the time being, GNU software on top of the Solaris kernel (ON) is unstable. So therefore we would like to try to use non-gnu software in Argentix. Could you explain further what

Re: [osol-discuss] Discussion rollup: brandz-discuss, 02/19/06 - 02/28/06

2006-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:31:16PM -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: brandz-discuss 02/19 - 02/28 I thought you'd agreed these should go somewhere else than a widely-read general opensolaris mailing list :( john ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bi-weekly roll-up report experiment

2006-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:44:32PM -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: Also, in another post, John Levon wrote: == I thought you'd agreed these should go somewhere else than a widely-read == general opensolaris mailing list... John, I misunderstood and made the reports available

Re: [osol-discuss] Should I install OpenSolaris?

2006-02-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:11:24PM +0530, Venky wrote: Have added this to the FAQ at the opensolaris wiki: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_FAQ Great, but it *really* needs to be in big letters on the official FAQ too regards john

Re: [osol-discuss] Discussion rollup: desktop-discuss, 02/05 - 02/18

2006-02-22 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:25:29PM -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: Yes I'd be glad to... I just need help figuring out where. Jim mentioned including them in the newsletter. Would that suffice? For feed-reader I think so, or even just RSS would be good enough I think. cheers! john

[osol-discuss] Should I install OpenSolaris?

2006-02-22 Thread John Levon
This FAQ comes up roughly six squillion times a day. Could the FAQ link to stevel's blog entry: http://www.whacked.net/2005/06/21/confused-so-was-i/ Which makes things a lot clearer to people. Currently the General FAQ doesn't even mention Solaris Express! john

Re: [osol-discuss] Discussion rollup: desktop-discuss, 02/05 - 02/18

2006-02-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:46:54PM -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: = desktop-discuss 02/05 - 02/18 = Eric, are these going to be regular? If so, is it possible they could be posted somewhere else perhaps? I'm finding it difficult to keep up