Re: [osol-discuss] b134 freezes

2010-03-18 Thread Steven Stallion
Jouko Holopainen wrote: The firefox freezes completely (unkillble process, must force shutdown) in b134. Now I'm investigating if swap (on zfs on sd disk) might be part of problem. I've seen this behavior on snv_132 using an sd disk as well (running nightly builds, nothing interactive).

Re: [osol-discuss] failure upgrading from snv_131 to snv_134

2010-03-13 Thread Steven Stallion
On 03/13/10 22:04, James Carlson wrote: On 03/13/10 22:44, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Sounds a lot like the ptmx permissions bug in the release notes actually, which is fixable with a simple chmod. Really? The comments in that bug (particularly #26) seem to state that this was fixed in build

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
Che Kristo wrote: Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/ ??? Last I checked ON issues are still tracked in bugster... Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
Che Kristo wrote: Correct, hopefully not for too much longer Why? I guess I'm not firm believer in the 'bugster sucks' philosophy... Until ON moves over and webrev supports linking to Bugzilla, I don't see a compelling reason to transition. Steve ___

[osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
Any ideas on when this issue might be addressed? In the meantime, what is the best method for creating a new bugster entry? Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NFS Problems after lu to snv_110

2009-04-05 Thread Steven Stallion
All, I have been having fits with NFS mounts after lu'ing to snv_110 (and snv_109) from snv_99. The NFS server is a Linux based NAS using vers=3,proto=tcp. Once luactivate is used and an init 6 is issued, NFS exports will mount, however I am unable to write using a valid UID. If I luactivate the

Re: [osol-discuss] NFS Problems after lu to snv_110

2009-04-05 Thread Steven Stallion
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: All, I have been having fits with NFS mounts after lu'ing to snv_110 (and snv_109) from snv_99. The NFS server is a Linux based NAS using vers=3,proto=tcp. Once luactivate is used and an init 6

Re: [osol-discuss] NFS Problems after lu to snv_110

2009-04-05 Thread Steven Stallion
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: As a workaround it works if you force server and client to use NFS version 2. Ouch. Do you happen to have a bugster ID

Re: [osol-discuss] NFS Problems after lu to snv_110

2009-04-05 Thread Steven Stallion
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Martin. I added 'subtree_check' to rw exports in /etc/exports on the Linux NAS and everything is back to normal (using NFSv3 TCP). Its a pain to manually hack the options since

Re: [osol-discuss] osol-0906-106a available

2009-04-05 Thread Steven Stallion
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: You got Solaris U6 to install on the Dell T105? When I boot the latest official Solaris 10 U6 on my Dell T105, it boots just fine but the install fails saying it cannot read the DVD. It seems to be an issue with the new SATA drivers. I don't understand

Re: [osol-discuss] osol-0906-106a available

2009-04-05 Thread Steven Stallion
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: The Dell uses the MCP55 Pro. I thought it supported AHCI due to some messages from the kernel, but evidently it doesn't, or does not do so completely. That's probably the issue. However, it seems like there should be some way to work around this, in both

Re: [osol-discuss] n00b question

2008-07-18 Thread Steven Stallion
Sebastien Roy wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:29 -0500, Steven Stallion wrote: Limin Li wrote: Hello all I just installed open solaris about a week ago and now I am trying to get internet working on this thing and it is not working obviously. On IRC, a guy told me to ping 192.168

Re: [osol-discuss] n00b question

2008-07-17 Thread Steven Stallion
Limin Li wrote: Hello all I just installed open solaris about a week ago and now I am trying to get internet working on this thing and it is not working obviously. On IRC, a guy told me to ping 192.168.*.* does not work. I don't think solaris is recognizing my nic card period. I am on

Re: [osol-discuss] How to recover from datalink-management failure?

2008-07-17 Thread Steven Stallion
Have you tried issuing 'svcadm enable -r datalink-management' ? Harry Fu wrote: Jan Friedel wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:09:19AM -0700, Harry Fu wrote: I installed snv_93 on a Dell PC, today after rebooting with init 6, the system stopped with errors of

Re: [osol-discuss] Music and Video

2008-06-30 Thread Steven Stallion
(Nit: That is unless you expect your player to support DAAP...) I would strongly suggest using SFE (http://pkgbuild.sf.net), the blastwave packages were significantly out of date last I checked. Sergio Enrique Schvezov wrote: Rallavagu wrote: What are the available options to play Music/DVD

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal Install of OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-06-11 Thread Steven Stallion
When I used to install Solaris 8 I could create a minimal install of about 300MB. How can I do the same with OpenSolaris 2008.05 ? When I boot the live cd then click to install, it tells me the minimum is 3GB. Last I checked, the only way to accomplish something like this is to install

Re: [osol-discuss] xVM users

2008-04-16 Thread Steven Stallion
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:11:50 +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder, does anyone uses xVM in a production environment. Is it stable and fast enough to use it instead linux+xen? Depends on your meaning of 'production'. I have a proof of concept Ultra 24 dedicated

Re: [osol-discuss] [os-discuss] showmount error

2008-03-29 Thread Steven Stallion
Tony Ambrozie wrote: Hi, I am getting a showmount: /nodename/: RPC: Program not registered error in both the global zone and the local zone(s). The error in the local zone prevents a clean shutdown (zlogin /zonename/ shutdown). I do not use NFS. The release is b64 on x86. Any

Re: [osol-discuss] Pointless KDE vs. GNOME discussion was Re: [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Steven Stallion
A minor nit: Section 508 applies to software which Federal agencies develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology. Sun (or any other publicly traded company) is not required by law to conform to Section 508 unless they desire to provide their software/services to the

Re: [osol-discuss] afely shinking M$ XP partition?

2007-12-28 Thread Steven Stallion
Alan DuBoff wrote: This is good to know. Although I haven't got a new system in quite some time, and don't have any with Vista (most of my systems don't even have windows on them;-). This could save me a lot of time/grief when I do run across one. The one that gives me fits is the

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada and VMware Woes

2007-11-29 Thread Steven Stallion
if there is one. I'd be interested in knowing as well if there is some issue other than the 64-bit kernel just requiring a lot more time booting. Hope that helps. - Original Message From: Steven Stallion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada and VMware Woes

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Stallion
Sorry for the self-reply, but I thought of one more detail that may be useful: After the system is installed, if I boot into failsafe, the long pause does not occur. Steve Steven Stallion wrote: All, For quite some time now, I have run snv builds through VMware Workstation 5 6 without any

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread Steven Stallion
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:34:08 +1300, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you want to do a mock-up of what that might look like? I fear (and this is purely an uninformed guess) that you're only going to alienate *more* users than you'll make happy. This sounds like a solution looking

Re: [osol-discuss] sxce build 74 x86 dvd busted?

2007-10-13 Thread Steven Stallion
Peter Lees wrote: looks like the download /or concat didn't work properly. it's weird that i was able to mount the iso image but that some files were damaged. fixed now Hmm. I just fired up a new VMware instance to install b74 and I am having quite a bit of trouble getting it

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Nevada and sparcv8

2007-06-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:36:25 -0700, Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Basically, you'll find an SS10 violates the assumptions upon which ZFS was designed - fast cpus, lots of memory bandwidth. My guess is that you would be quite lucky to get anywhere close to 20MB/sec... When new

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Nevada and sparcv8

2007-06-23 Thread Steven Stallion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Actually, no. ZFS works best with 64bit CPUs (and I can testify to that with issues I've had on i386 PCs), so getting it to run on SPARCv8 systems is goint to mean a compromise in performance for ZFS vs what you'll see with UltraSPARC and amd64. Darren No

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Nevada and sparcv8

2007-06-22 Thread Steven Stallion
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:29:41 -0700, Hugh McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the OP's goal is to run this on the Infrant ReadyNAS box, not an old Sun box. See www.infrant.com. This appears to come with 256MB of memory (not enough for install, but maybe doable later). However the 64MB

[osol-discuss] Solaris Nevada and sparcv8

2007-06-21 Thread Steven Stallion
All, I'm curious if there are any other community members out there who would be interested in taking up the proverbial torch and work on sparc v8 ON port. Essentially, my interest in this is aimed towards the embedded sector. Infrant's ReadyNAS series uses a modified v8 processor and I cant

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-10 Thread Steven Stallion
Honestly, these arguments have floated around for years. I am not a bash lover either, but lets be honest - changing the default root shell from /sbin/sh to something like bash is well... silly. That doesnt mean that sh could not be modernized a bit. Bash is and most likely always will be an

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Caiman, Solaris install revisted

2006-11-15 Thread Steven Stallion
+1 -- Steven Stallion Project Leader OpenSolaris Ports Collection ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: cross compiling and building with open tools only

2006-11-12 Thread Steven Stallion
operating environment. Solaris is POSIX compliant. What gives? Finally: Perhaps the question you seek is: 'how can I *correct* the tools that I wish to use such that I can build ON in a Linux sandbox?' Regards, Steven Stallion Project Leader OpenSolaris Ports Collection

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: cross compiling and building with open tools only

2006-11-12 Thread Steven Stallion
Thanks Dennis, I forgot myself. Apologies to all. Steve Dennis Clarke wrote: Call me a glutton for punishment, but I am more than a little curious at this point... Can I step in and add a perspective here ? I have been here since day zero and I have seen a LOT of email fly by.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: cross compiling and building with open tools only

2006-11-11 Thread Steven Stallion
, Steven Stallion Project Leader OpenSolaris Ports Collection ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: nForce4 native SATA support

2006-11-06 Thread Steven Stallion
Hmm. What chipset does the Ultra 20 use then? I was under the impression that it was the same base board as the Tyan S2865 which sports an nForce4 Ultra. Im currently using an ASUS A8N-E which uses the same chipset as the Tyan. Steve themelon wrote: You are using the generic ATA driver.

Re: [osol-discuss] ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe

2006-11-05 Thread Steven Stallion
Have you tried using the OSS sound drivers for solaris? http://www.4front-tech.com/solaris.html W. Wayne Liauh wrote: [Solaris] installed okay on mine (ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe). It's only handling he SATA ports in legacy mode and not supporting hot-swap on them, but that's not AM2-related that I

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-11 Thread Steven Stallion
Its certainly something to take a look at. I know JDS is being built via pkgbuild currently. Thanks for the heads up, Steve This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Stallion
I have. There are a few problems I have found using portage. I'll list them below: * Python based (again, would require additional packages not part of the base install to use) * USE flags hinder more than help. For example, if you have a global USE set to include GTK+ support and not QT, then

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Stallion
the software companion installed (read: binary distribution). SteveOn 10/9/06, Dave Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven == Steven Stallion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From above:Steven I would like to propose a solaris ports system loosely based Steven on darwinports functionality

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-07 Thread Steven Stallion
From above: I would like to propose a solaris ports system loosely based on darwinports functionality. There are of course changes I would like to see made: support for different compiler sets (gcc vs. sun), support for solaris packages, and a shift from TCL to C, and the abillity to rely on

[osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-06 Thread Steven Stallion
Greetings all, One of the largest headaches of running a desktop solaris box is the lack of support for source built/binary packages. Blastwave.org is the current favorite (or so it seems), but it still very lacking in terms of variant support and several packages have fallen by the wayside