Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Volker A. Brandt wrote: Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE can be kept in

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-05 Thread Ian Collins
Shawn Walker wrote: On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Volker A. Brandt wrote: Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. Which is too bad, really. Maybe

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Oh I agree, but I bet there's a lot of us who have been using, live upgrading, testing and providing feedback on SXCE since it was a stroppy teenager and haven't made the leap into the OpenSolaris realm. It's been too stable for its own good. -- Ian. Of course! I have been

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
casper@sun.com wrote: I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, We've always only delivered the Xnest built on Xsun, so it's there on SPARC, been gone on x86 since we removed Xsun on x86 in

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Brian Cameron
Casper: I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, unfortunately, GDM was upgraded so getting Sun Ray to work is impossible, it seems, except by using dtlogin. In our testing, the new GDM works

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Bob Palowoda (palow...@fiver.net) wrote: On 12/31/2009 10:49 AM, Ron Halstead wrote: Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? Last I heard SXCE 130 was planned for release after the Sun US employees responsible for the release get back into the office

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Glenn Lagasse glenn.laga...@sun.com wrote: Or, just use automated installer images produced on or after build 130 as they are now bootable on both SPARC and x86 and can perform an automated installation using a default AI client manifest directly from the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Peter Tribble (peter.trib...@gmail.com) wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Glenn Lagasse glenn.laga...@sun.com wrote: Or, just use automated installer images produced on or after build 130 as they are now bootable on both SPARC and x86 and can perform an automated installation using

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Collins
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Volker A. Brandt wrote: Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE can be kept in place a little bit longer. The final release of SXCE

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The time you need to install OpenSolaris is much larger than installing SXCE, mostly trying to find which packages you've missed this time. Casper This kind of extra effort is NOTHING compared to what those of us who are moving from Linux to Solaris/OpenSolaris have to go through.

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread ken mays
--- On Sun, 1/3/10, W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.us wrote: From: W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.us Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:21 AM The time you need to install OpenSolaris is much larger than

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, this is the year to cut 'the baby string' from SXCE and see if the OSOL Live CD can stand the test of time. SXCE contans a lot of legacy parts and I think a few years ago there was talk of the distro constructor creating a larger OSOL Live DVD

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Volker A. Brandt
This is probably like the time when people had to cross the Red Sea. Either you wait and stay with the legacy Solaris releases, drown in the misery of awaiting your migration planning, or you start MIGRATING to the other side. Well, it depends on what you define as the other side. Sure I can

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 12/31/2009 10:49 AM, Ron Halstead wrote: Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? Last I heard SXCE 130 was planned for release after the Sun US employees responsible for the release get back into the office next week. (Sun's US offices are closed for a

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/31/2009 10:49 AM, Ron Halstead wrote: Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? Last I heard SXCE 130 was planned for release after the Sun US employees responsible for the release get back into the office next week. (Sun's US offices are closed for a winter

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/31/2009 1:11 PM, Anon Y Mous wrote: Happy New Year all. Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? --ron I hope not. They should probably just skip snv_130 and go straight to snv_131 if the Solaris Express version is going to be anywhere near as buggy as the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: I should also note that many users are able to run b130 without issue, or with relatively minor workarounds. I'm one of them; it worked first boot. It depends... While it was possible to run Solaris versions from 2009 on Dell (based on Intel

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE can be kept in place a little bit longer. The final release of SXCE could then be cut in sync with the official OS 2010.02 release.

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announc= ed. Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE can be kept in place a little bit longer. The final release of SXCE could then be cut in sync with the official OS 2010.02

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Volker A. Brandt
I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, unfortunately, GDM was upgraded so getting Sun Ray to work is impossible, it seems, except by using dtlogin. Hmmm... what would you consider the version of

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, [...] Isn't Xephyr there? In a number of situations, that's worked better for me than Xnest. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Volker A. Brandt wrote: Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE can be kept in place a little bit longer. The final release of SXCE could then be cut in sync with the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
casper@sun.com wrote: I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, We've always only delivered the Xnest built on Xsun, so it's there on SPARC, been gone on x86 since we removed Xsun on x86 in

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 12/31/09 03:11 PM, Anon Y Mous wrote: Happy New Year all. Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? --ron I hope not. They should probably just skip snv_130 and go straight to snv_131 if the Solaris Express version is going to be anywhere near as buggy as the

[osol-discuss] snv_130

2009-12-31 Thread Ron Halstead
Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2009-12-31 Thread Anon Y Mous
Happy New Year all. Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? --ron I hope not. They should probably just skip snv_130 and go straight to snv_131 if the Solaris Express version is going to be anywhere near as buggy as the bleeding edge Indiana version was. If they

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-29 Thread solarg
Le 28/12/09 11:00, solarg a écrit : On 12/26/09 11:45 AM, Adrian Carpenter wrote: I have just got the kernel to start by passing: acpi-user-options=0x8 (which I google told me to try to look for IDE timeouts) i have the hang problem with a Sun Ultra 20 (old ultra20, not M2) upgraded from

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-29 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 12:19 +0100, solarg wrote: Le 28/12/09 11:00, solarg a écrit : On 12/26/09 11:45 AM, Adrian Carpenter wrote: I have just got the kernel to start by passing: acpi-user-options=0x8 (which I google told me to try to look for IDE timeouts) i have the hang

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
There's a known problem in snv_130, fixed in snv_131: Any idea when an OpenSolaris Indiana version based on snv_131 will be put on genunix.org and in the /dev repository so we can either install or pkg image-update to it? I've been having a really rough time with updates from snv_111b to the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-28 Thread solarg
On 12/26/09 11:45 AM, Adrian Carpenter wrote: I have just got the kernel to start by passing: acpi-user-options=0x8(which I google told me to try to look for IDE timeouts) i have the hang problem with a Sun Ultra 20 (old ultra20, not M2) upgraded from b129 (amd opteron 152) but it

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-27 Thread Adrian Carpenter
My machine is a homebrew based on: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ECS GS7610 Motherboard -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-26 Thread Adrian Carpenter
Just upgraded snv_129 to snv_130 but unfortunately it doesn't get past: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_130 64-bit Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved Use is subject to license terms. _ (blinking cursor) Any hints? suggestions for working out whats afoot? Adrian --

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-26 Thread Julian Leyh
did you use fast reboot? If yes, try normal boot. Had this, too, after i used reboot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-26 Thread Adrian Carpenter
I have just got the kernel to start by passing: acpi-user-options=0x8(which I google told me to try to look for IDE timeouts) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-26 Thread Dana H. Myers
Adrian Carpenter wrote: Just upgraded snv_129 to snv_130 but unfortunately it doesn't get past: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_130 64-bit Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved Use is subject to license terms. _ (blinking cursor) Any hints? suggestions for working