Re: [osol-discuss] /var/pkg/download

2009-07-04 Thread Lurie
It really depends on how many BEs & snapshots you have, if you don't have many, just remove the content of that dir in BEs & snapshots. Otherwise I have no idea what the clean solution is. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] CAN'T INSTALL A ZONE FOR 2 DAYS

2009-07-03 Thread Lurie
> BTW, it timed out exporting those variables, so > essentially, even though SUN says OpenSolaris is fit > for the datacenter you would be *&$#ed if you needed > to build zones. As far as I know, this will be fixed by providing the repository as a downloadable image. But, if you really are runnin

Re: [osol-discuss] CAN'T INSTALL A ZONE FOR 2 DAYS

2009-07-03 Thread Lurie
Try switching to /dev, it works. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS 117 won't boot

2009-06-30 Thread Lurie
See for example this: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106836&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ZSH with OpenSolaris

2009-06-24 Thread Lurie
> Why not give up on the imitations, and go for the > real thing - ksh93? ksh93 might be good as a scripting language, but NOT a good desktop shell in my opinion, while zsh is ideal :) > You want over-the top character-based hand-holding, > use Midnight Commander. already using it for many year

Re: [osol-discuss] java performance

2009-06-23 Thread Lurie
In my projects, it was the other way around, the compilation times in OpenSolaris were lower than in Linux. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] When development repository will be updated?

2009-06-20 Thread Lurie
> As someone else already mentioned a new build should > be available today or tomorrow. > Apparently not :( Oh well, maybe next week.. :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] ZSH with OpenSolaris

2009-06-19 Thread Lurie
I also use zsh on OpenSolaris, and it's awesome ;) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-16 Thread Lurie
> And you're waiting for the ARC review to do that? I > haven't looked too closely but I'm not generally aware > of any security problems introduced by pfexec in OpenSolaris. By default OpenSolaris gives the default user adminstrator privileges, allowing any program run by that user to execute

Re: [osol-discuss] R statistics package for OpenSolaris?

2009-06-09 Thread Lurie
"R" is not in the repositories. You have to download the sources and compile them on your own (I tried, it all works without patching). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing subversion - via sunfreeware vs blastwave vs whatever

2009-05-21 Thread Lurie
> Thanks for the info - but - I always do "entire > distribution" but I don't > see it anywhere. On solaris 10u6 (aka solaris 10 > 10/08) "pkginfo | egrep -i > 'svn|subv'" has no result. And I didn't find any "svn" in any "bin" dir > that I know about ... Please note that nobody said anything ab

Re: [osol-discuss] finally: eclipse-SDK-3.5M7-solaris-gtk-x86.zip

2009-05-09 Thread Lurie
> Had just come across eclipse.org and to find out > that > eclipse-SDK-3.5M7-solaris-gtk-x86.zip is available > for download. > > It's been years the long awaited goodies be > downloadable! Wow, that was unexpected :) I wonder if they are really going to support Solaris GTK2/x86 in the future,

Re: [osol-discuss] powertop errors on snv_112

2009-05-06 Thread Lurie
IPS & snv_112 ? The latest there is 111a. If you mean 111a, then try running: % pfexec pkg verify SUNWpowertop As for me powertop shows 2009... % ls -l /usr/bin/amd64/powertop -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 62968 2009-04-24 09:46 /usr/bin/amd64/powertop % ls -l /usr/bin/i86/powertop -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 5

Re: [osol-discuss] when gtk+ update to 2.12 or above

2009-04-28 Thread Lurie
murrina engine compiles just fine for me.. I've compiled the svn version... : % svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/murrine/trunk/ murrine % cd murrine && ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr % gmake ... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to snv_112 - the bar which is have minimize/maximize/close button

2009-04-26 Thread Lurie
Hmm, as I understand the problem is that *compiz* is not running, if you disable compiz, then metacity would run by default. See http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6822628 , it shows as fixed in OpenSolaris 2009.06 b111a, I don't know what's the SXCE build this fix went in to... --

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to snv_112 - the bar which is have minimize/maximize/close button

2009-04-26 Thread Lurie
Log out, then select Options->Safe terminal session -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to snv_112 - the bar which is have minimize/maximize/close button

2009-04-26 Thread Lurie
$ svccfg -s application/opengl/ogl-select \ setprop options/vendor = nvidia $ svcadm restart application/opengl/ogl-select -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 111a: /kernel/genunix missing on a 64 bit system

2009-04-24 Thread Lurie
> Installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 build 111a on a 64 bit > system. Found that > file /kernel/genunix doesn't exist. While on build > 111, that file is > still there. > > Is this a problem or a new feature? > Is it a new install or upgrade ? It definitely should be there as it's a part of SUNWck

Re: [osol-discuss] system perfomence-bootloader prblem

2009-04-19 Thread Lurie
> Problem 1 : > It's normal on my computer opensolaris lunching about > 1.5 minute , and shutting downo about 4 minutes . > It shouldn't suprise most services in opensolaris are > responsible for network or security :) > > It's price that we pay for stability and security :) In latest dev builds

Re: [osol-discuss] compile pidgin - "configure" successfully, "make" with no luck

2009-04-17 Thread Lurie
> as I have mentioned before, The pidgin in the IPS > does not support QQ, which is very famous among > Chinese, because the QQ is not an open source > protocol. So I have to compile the pidgin from source > to get QQ support. The version is not important. Ah, right, I wonder why OpenSolaris doesn

Re: [osol-discuss] compile pidgin - "configure" successfully, "make" with no luck

2009-04-17 Thread Lurie
Did you export them ? i.e. export CC=suncc export CXX=CC ./configure P.S. You might want to update to b111, it already has Pidgin 2.5.5 installed... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Lurie
That's a really good advertisement! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Lurie
> Have you filed bugs on the dtrace toolkit issues (if in fact they > actually exist)? I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't work. The > networking stack in OpenSolaris is identical to the one in SXCE as is > dtracetoolkit. I filed it two months ago... http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-13 Thread Lurie
> Not having temperatures defined in the "ac" array > could be ok, when the BIOS is able to control the > fans without help from the operating system. > Is your T61 overheating, too? Nope, the average temp. of the two cores is 46C. >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6964 >> http:

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-13 Thread Lurie
> > Both ac[] and al[] don't look this interesting to > me... > > Yep, there are no threshold temperatures defined, > so that tzp->current_level will never change and > always remains at -1 (so the code will never call > tzmon_set_power() to enable / disable any fans). > On Lenovo T61: ac = [ 0

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-13 Thread Lurie
> Maybe with the new PAD support (cpupm enabled in > "event-mode") the kernel is able to switch back to > the highest cpu frequency *much* faster (=> event > driven), so that "kstat cpu_info:::current_clock_Hz" now > always reports the highest cpu frequency? > > (That is, monitoring the kstat cpu_

Re: [osol-discuss] Password Safe for OpenSolaris?

2009-04-12 Thread Lurie
I suggest you to try KeePass (on Windows) and KeePassX on OpenSolaris (you'll have to compile gcc4.3/4, q4.5 and KeePassX though, but they're usually needed anyway...) I recently compiled the latest version of keepassx with success (had to tweak the compile flags to have "-include keepassx.h" a

[osol-discuss] Your favourite shell tips & tricks

2009-04-09 Thread Lurie
Recently moved to zsh, here's a part of my a current configuration (PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc.. missing), maybe someone will find it useful. What about you, OpenSolaris users, shows us some nice tips for your favourite shell :) .zshrc ===

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-compilers] gcc 4.3.3 for OpenSolaris x86

2009-04-08 Thread Lurie
> Took a bit of your advice and having a go with > binutils. However I cannot compile ffmepg svn 18335 > with the new ld from bintutils. Can you please have > alook and tell if you can where this is oging wrong. > I'm using /tmp/gcc/bin/ld but cannot figure out where > or why it calls /usr/ccs/bin/

Re: [osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> I also keep getting wildly sporadic results with > blogbench on Opensolaris compared to Linux/Freebsd. > Like I mentioned, my first run produced a 14k read > result after fresh install. Then I disabled prefetch > and got the 499 reads. Reboot got it to 2k reads. > Enable prefetch then results sam

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Math

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> >> (%i1) exp (log(1.001) * (2^27) ); > >> (%o1) 674530.4760270637 > > And maxima would be wrong by at least .0052. > > The point I was trying to make, and judging by the audience here > lately I was entirely too subtle, is that it is very easy to get the > wrong res

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Math

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
>>> (%i1) exp (log(1.001) * (2^27) ); >>> (%o1) 674530.4760270637 > And maxima would be wrong by at least .0052. Here you go, had to login to a linux machine running mathematica... In[5]:= SetPrecision[SetPrecision[1.001,10]^(2^27),100] Out[5]= 674530.4760270640702779319720642184526

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Math

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> > >> > exp ( ln(1.001) * (2^27) )[1] > >> (%i1) exp (log(1.001) * (2^27) ); > >> (%o1) 674530.4760270637 > > And maxima would be wrong by at least .0052. What ? Can you show me the command you run in Mathematica to get the "correct" result ? > Lastly, th

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Math

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> Right. Googling a bit also found "Octave", and maybe > others. I couldn't begin to comment on how the various free > vs commercial products compare, or for what purposes. Yeah. although Octave (which I have installed as well) is an alternative to MATLAB which deals mostly with numerical calcula

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Math

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> I can do this with bc -l, too. Even pasting it into > google gives an answer of sorts. yeah, it's a trivial calculation, the point of my post was that MAXIMA is an opensource alternative to Wolfram's Mathematica (i.e. focus on symbolic computations, but is just as good handling numeric calcul

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Mathematica on Solaris)

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> exp ( ln(1.001) * (2^27) )[1] > Which *should* be the same as 1.001 squared 27 > times. $ uname -v snv_110 $ maxima Maxima 5.16.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net Using Lisp SBCL 1.0.23 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William S

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone interested in maths or science as a hobby? (Mathematica on Solaris)

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
Uhm ? Mathematica has been available for Solaris 10 x64 for quite a while now (I know I've been trying 5.x on OpenSolaris) http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/platforms/ Nowadays I just use MAXIMA, which is opensource... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-compilers] gcc 4.3.3 for OpenSolaris x86

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
Hey, I compiled a working 4.4 version just fine with the following flags: $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-pc-solaris2.11 Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gcc/gcc-4.4 --with-as=/opt/gcc/binutils-2.19/bin/as --with-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --enable-lan

Re: [osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-04-06 Thread Lurie
> > Can you try the release OpenSolaris 2008.11 ? > > being masochistic, I d/l'ed Realease and wiped the > Sidux install I painstakingly had all ready to go > with RAID5. But you had RAID disabled for OpenSolaris, right ? > Fresh run Blogbench on default 2008.11 install: > > Final score for w

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

2009-04-05 Thread Lurie
> 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 features). I trust you on that one, and Conary, which was pointed out by Martin seems to be nice as well. > From a developer point of vie

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

2009-04-05 Thread Lurie
> 5. Usually the design is not cross-platformant, IPS can even run on Windows. > > > Weak argument. > conary is also implemented in python with C backend. > Also runs under everything including Windows. > Also most other pkg systems run on every UNIX. Note the use of "usually", and by cross-plat

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

2009-04-05 Thread Lurie
> *** before you argue with moinak, be sure that you > have taken the time to read his blog. *** As you have probably noticed from my messages, I never try to argue with anyone, I'm merely carrying a discussion in which I express my opinion and I don't make anyone "clueless", "you must be jo

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

2009-04-05 Thread Lurie
> So modern Linux package managers do not have any of these qualities ? Some of them ? Of course. All of them ? No. Just a few points: 1. They usually upgrade a live system (and while it's possible for some to do a non-live upgrade, the live upgrade is exactly how pretty much all of them operat

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

2009-04-04 Thread Lurie
> 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, which is fast, doesn't hog the system upon instal

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

2009-04-04 Thread Lurie
> Do you have any clue how many patches Sun maintains > for packages in onnv-gate that never go upstream? Anyway.. they say > love is blind so it all seems fitting.. I am quite well aware of the patches in the on-nv gate, and they aren't as many as you make them sound. Plus you are being rude a

Re: [osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-04-04 Thread Lurie
> > $ ./blogbench -d ./test > ... > > Final score for writes: 693 > > Final score for reads : 45610 > > Is that on an uncompressed or compressed zfs > filesystem? Uncompressed > > (Compressed zfs seems to get *much* better results; > but blogbench writes 0-filled test files,

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

2009-04-04 Thread Lurie
> and in the end, we have yet-another-package-manager. while I agree with you on some of the points, I have to say that I love IPS and how it uses ZFS, if the code would have been based off some Linux package manager then the changes would never go upstream due to the lack of bootable clones/sn

Re: [osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-04-04 Thread Lurie
> Both of these are most likely the major culprits. > Since this is basically only a NAS box it only has > 1gb DDR2 ram in it. It also is a newish nvidia > chipset based motherboard so Solaris is probably > reverting to an older default/"generic" type driver. If you've got sata working there, then

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

2009-04-03 Thread Lurie
"IBM Near Deal to Buy Sun for Lower Price" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123869375752683145.html Sun Microsystems shares again on the rise.. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-bugs] x86->amd64

2009-04-01 Thread Lurie
> When I try to install DB2 Express-C for Linux x86, For Linux x86 ? On OpenSolaris ? You can't run Linux programs under OpenSolaris, they are different operating systems. > installation program quits with an error "There has > been an attempt to use db2setup on an image for a > platform that do

Re: [osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-04-01 Thread Lurie
> PS - Why did you only run 10 iterations of blogbench? > Try running it with its default to get a standard to > which others can compare (blogbench -d {directory}) > which runs 300 iterations I beleive. It runs 30, not 300, here is the result for the default number of iterations, on an external

Re: [osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-04-01 Thread Lurie
Can you try the release OpenSolaris 2008.11 ? As I said builds 109, 110, 111 come with a zfs bug that reduces performance. Given that even on b110 I get on a slower hdd much better results than you, I can only assume one of the three things: 1. Not enough memory (seriously, you should have at l

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS Performance

2009-03-31 Thread Lurie
If you want good ZFS performance you have to be running a 64 bit kernel... On a 32 bit system it'll be slow. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-03-26 Thread Lurie
+1 the packages count is useless in its current form. should just say, e.g. (not real numbers): - 15 builds - 1,500 packages for b109 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Ldom general info request

2009-03-26 Thread Lurie
> I saw that Sun is providing to Hypervisors : > - xVM (not released, in beta, a fork from Xen on Solaris 10) What do you mean by "not released" ? It has been released for quite a long time now, and it's an actual release, NOT a beta. > - Ldom : But I can't find clear informations about it R

Re: [osol-discuss] Apologies from one person in the community

2009-03-25 Thread Lurie
> It's like those cliff-hanger endings they have in TV > shows. will IBM acquire SUN? will Joerg and > Jennifer patch things up and go Schuhplattler dancing > together? haha! man, that was funny =) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] General THANKLESS- and RESPECTLESSness towards Joerg Schilling (and others, which I leave out of this msg.) __/__ Was: Emergency project to rescue Opensolaris from IBM

2009-03-25 Thread Lurie
+1 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-03-23 Thread Lurie
> Do the math... what brigs them more money? Selling > Solaris or reselling Linux? In order to sell Solaris, they have to develop it, which costs a lot of money. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] forum search broken?

2009-03-20 Thread Lurie
to be honest, I don't think it has ever worked =) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] 2008.11 - very slow to resize windows

2009-03-20 Thread Lurie
It should indeed be flying on that hardware, have you tried updating to a newer build ? As a workaround for now, if you don't use compiz you can run: $ gconf-editor then go to apps/metacity/general and check "reduced_resources", this won't repaint the window on resize. -- This message posted fro

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

2009-03-18 Thread Lurie
> It's third or fourth rumor of this kind this year. 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.. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

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

2009-03-18 Thread Lurie
I for one hope that this deal will not go through, otherwise OpenSolaris is doomed... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Lurie
Worked fine for me for all builds (now on b109), so you might want to simply copy it, instead of using a symlink. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Lurie
What icons are you talking about ? You can always create a shortcut of your own... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread Lurie
All you have to do: $ tar xvjf opera-10.00-4205.gcc3-static-qt3.tar.bz2 $ cd opera-9.64-2480.gcc3-static-qt3 $ pfexec ./install.sh --prefix=/usr Works fine for me.. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensol

[osol-discuss] Link to phoronix "benchmark" on opensolaris.com

2009-03-04 Thread Lurie
Seriously guys, What on earth is the link to "AMD Shanghai Opteron: Linux vs. OpenSolaris Benchmarks" doing on main page of opensolaris.com ? That article is seriously biased towards Linux as has been discussed many times already. Way to put potential users off... :) -- This message posted fro

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada on a Macbook pro/air?

2008-09-03 Thread Lurie
Just tell him to fire up the OpenSolaris LiveDVD http://genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-0811-95.iso and start the Device Detection Tool -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris support for AMD Cool'n'Quiet

2008-08-19 Thread Lurie
the short answer is: yes, for newer processors http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6575192 http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/2008-April/009089.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] 9 seconds to launch xterm, too slow

2008-07-24 Thread Lurie
See: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6715568 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6711636 The workaround: " Comment #8 From Danek Duvall 2008-05-02 17:58:47 (-) And I don't have this problem on my freshly-installed RC3

Re: [osol-discuss] os200805 + '93 updates - memory use.

2008-07-24 Thread Lurie
try do disable the xscreensaver and use $ xlock -mode blank instead, and see if that helps. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] POWERtop

2008-07-24 Thread Lurie
works fine for me... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] os200805 + '93 updates - memory use.

2008-07-23 Thread Lurie
Try to disable compiz, and use firefox 3.0 instead of firefox 2.0... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Multi processor kernel?

2008-07-22 Thread Lurie
Looks like a bug you should report, on b92 psrinfo shows 2 cores on my computer: $ psrinfo -pv The physical processor has 2 virtual processors (0 1) x86 (GenuineIntel 6F6 family 6 model 15 step 6 clock 2400 MHz) Intel(r) Core(tm)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Multi processor kernel?

2008-07-21 Thread Lurie
shows 2 cores just fine for me... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Rhythmbox on build 93

2008-07-16 Thread Lurie
Can't say about mp3s & build 93, but as for the error, try to use "gmake" instead. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Live-CD only in 640x480 mode.

2008-07-15 Thread Lurie
> Thats is one of the problems of OpenSolaris in > comparison to Linux: It have not so much driver. Yes, it has fewer drivers, at the moment. > And the driver which works, don't run all perfect. And would you care to prove an example ? As I tend to disagree with you on this one. > It seems als

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distributions as of July 7, 2008

2008-07-07 Thread Lurie
> 1. Sun Studio 11/12 Shouldn't Sun Studio Express[1] be included in the list ? [1] http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/instdevsoft.html#sunstudio This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: No randomness provider enabled...,

2008-07-04 Thread Lurie
This is harmless and has already been fixed, see http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=38 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-07-01 Thread Lurie
> When conducting these types of tests, use > if=/dev/zero instead of /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Apprently you missed a post where just that has been done, quoting: " dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s0 bs=1024k count=256 184549376 bytes (185 MB) copied, 104.892 s, 1.8 MB/s " This message

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-30 Thread Lurie
Disable the fmd service and see if the performance improves ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting "rpm" to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-25 Thread Lurie
> Why not adopt "rpm"? No way! IPS is awesome, it just needs more time to mature. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] font display in snv_91

2008-06-25 Thread Lurie
The difference is that b91 sets the hinting to "Full", and previous versions had it at "Slight", hence the visual different you're seeing, all you have to do is go to "System->Appearence->Fonts->Advanced" and select "[*] Slight" This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Test system: not booting after image-update?

2008-06-23 Thread Lurie
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64450&tstart=0 "First, mount the clone under the /mnt directory $ pfexec mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-3 /mnt Next, update the GRUB configuration on your ZFS boot device(s) using $ pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt" T

Re: [osol-discuss] Must be a bug or something

2008-06-12 Thread Lurie
Try to install from the command line (run gnome-terminal) and execute this: pfexec pkg install openoffice This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Must be a bug or something

2008-06-12 Thread Lurie
You are over-complicating things, all you need to do is fire up the Package Manager and install the OpenOffice package, or from the command line you can do this: $ pfexec pkg install openoffice That's it... This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-05-11 Thread Lurie
I believe the plan is to discontinue SXCE as soon as Indiana contains everything available in SXCE (like Jumpstart, text based installer, etc.) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] Test image for 2008.05

2008-04-26 Thread Lurie
> Perhaps the OpenSolaris.org forum is badly overwhelmed. Last I heard, we have > over > 1,000,000 registered users in the Jiva forum, true? It's Jive, not Jiva > Also, the OpenSolaris.com forum has a nice "edit" button, which is missing in > Jiva. the one here also has a nice edit button, p

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a change list for the upcoming b87 release anywhere?

2008-04-21 Thread Lurie
You can always check the ON changes here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/ As for the ZFS boot support, it's not in b87, but rather in b88, and the changes to installer to support zfs boot are coming in b89, see here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008041103/ "Furth

Re: [osol-discuss] Network adapters

2008-04-15 Thread Lurie
That's Attansic L1, it's not supported, see http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6580058 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6677682 (I guess a dup of the previous bug) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive unusable (with snv_85)

2008-04-06 Thread Lurie
the pcfs driver (fat32 implementation in solaris) is severly limited in its speed, it gives a maximum speed of ~3mb/s, so don't expect to have higher speeds... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-05 Thread Lurie
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-zfs.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Shutting down PC

2008-04-02 Thread Lurie
Same here (MSI P965 + C2D E6600), sometimes it powers off, sometimes not This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Nvidia 9600GT problem

2008-03-01 Thread Lurie
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_16912&num=1 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] Changelog SXCE?

2008-02-25 Thread Lurie
> I can certainly add links to the changelogs in the > mail that gets sent out. That would be great. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Changelog SXCE?

2008-02-23 Thread Lurie
> - I still see a great good in a > changelog. As of now, a new nv_xy is just a black box > of unknown content. The downloader outside has no > clue what she gets, not at all. It's hardly a black-box as you'll see following the links below. > Even the insiders might be helped; I can't imagine > t

Re: [osol-discuss] Grateful For The Indiana Project

2008-02-22 Thread Lurie
What was the problem with installation ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] XPde on Solaris support

2008-02-19 Thread Lurie
You could try to compile it, although given that the last release was in 2004 it probably depends on very old libraries. Why would you need that on Solaris ? It hasn't been developed for 4 years now and IMHO gnome/kde offer way richer functionality... This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-19 Thread Lurie
> Right, as a "Solaris replacement" Indiana isn't there yet by a long shot. true. but I don't think it's because of the reasons you mentioned > (It misses SPARC support, should be there within several months > liveupgrade, this is superceded by zfs cloning on upgrades > upgradability from "

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-19 Thread Lurie
Yes, I've corrected my post as soon as I posted it, I meant last Nevada DE. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-18 Thread Lurie
It hasn't come up recently or something, early presentations (way before the first preview) on Indiana were all pointing out that the plan is to replace SXDE with Indiana and that SXDE 1/08 will possibly be the last Nevada. This message posted from opensolaris.org

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