[osol-help] Why sunstudio?

2010-03-23 Thread Bart Smaalders
On 03/23/10 14:01, Paul Johnston wrote: > I wanted to install apache22 so I run > pfexec pkg install apache-22 > Why then does it start to download developer/sunstudio12u1? > > TIA Paul What build are you running? There was a bug like this I fixed... - Bart --

[osol-help] Creating "many" local users / groups takes too long

2010-03-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
ting over all the users and groups. truss -fc groupadd will tell you a lot; if you're making lots of calls to door_info and door_call this is what is going on... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance bart.smaalders at oracle.comhttp://blogs.sun.com/bart

[osol-help] Creating "many" local users / groups takes too long

2010-03-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
r LDAP name service. > > thanks > > peter Try assigning the user id yourself and see if that helps. =- Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance bart.smaalders at oracle.comhttp://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."

[osol-help] Unable to uninstall packages in 129

2009-12-23 Thread Bart Smaalders
ing to uninstall drivers from a running system; since this can render the machine unbootable the packaging system doesn't allow it. I suggest the following: beadm create -a 'new-be-name' beadm mount 'new-be-name' /mnt pkg -R /mnt uninstall NVDAgraphics SUNWaudiohd

[osol-help] Where can I get GOOD documentation for kernel function?

2009-06-15 Thread Bart Smaalders
ls, the source code is the documentation. Interfaces in the kernel that are not part of the DDI are subject to change at essentially the will of the kernel developers. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.s

[osol-help] installing a particular dev release

2009-04-21 Thread Bart Smaalders
110 # pfexec beadm unmount opensolaris-[N] # pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-[N] # reboot We'll add a better UI sometime this summer. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will cont

[osol-help] Can't SSH into OpenSolaris "no kex alg" error

2009-02-12 Thread Bart Smaalders
algorithm." Can you ssh in locally? eg ssh localhost or ssh `localhost`? You can prob. fix this by running /lib/svc/method/sshd -c as root. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."

[osol-help] Fundamental: First verify reliability of your system!

2009-02-06 Thread Bart Smaalders
sult. Maybe it should be part of the > distribution CD, as the default bootable as a not-so-subtle hint! Filed as bug 6451 We should ship memtest86 as boot option on live CD It was filed in bugster as 6312987 in 2005, but we may have more luck fixing this in opensolaris quickly. - Bart -- Bart S

[osol-help] 2008.05 image-update problem with Connection timed out

2008-09-30 Thread Bart Smaalders
Nick Kew wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:10:26 -0700 > Bart Smaalders wrote: > > >> Update SUNWipkg first. >> >> pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86 >> >> Later updates resolve most of the download issues, > > How recently? I spent a long tim

[osol-help] 2008.05 image-update problem with Connection timed out

2008-09-29 Thread Bart Smaalders
hat instead of fighting this problem? > > If not, how is someone supposed to overcome a server problem with the > repository? > Update SUNWipkg first. pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86 Later updates resolve most of the download issues, but if your link is bad enough, you may stil

[osol-help] NGROUPS_UMAX and Apache suexec

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Smaalders
omething - why not leave it up to users to make their ~user/public_html directories world readable if they want their content visible? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."

[osol-help] I need help, wrong driver

2008-01-29 Thread Bart Smaalders
ensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org Hmmm did you copy this by hand? install should do the right thing... If this fails trying to load the console framebuffer, you'll need to boot your failsafe archive from the grub menu. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders

[osol-help] Sound on OpenSolaris

2007-05-02 Thread Bart Smaalders
produce sound. If not, make sure that speakers/headphone are plugged in correctly, etc. Once the above works, be sure to unmute sound in gnome using the audio control gizmo on the front panel. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts

[osol-help] This mini bug exists since the very first release of OpenSolaris OR WHAT?

2007-03-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
help us help you by telling us more details about your laptop - what is it? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts

[osol-help] Re: KDE on Solaris - where to get?

2007-03-12 Thread Bart Smaalders
luck. > > I can recommend a realtek nic such as Netgear's ga311 as working well under Solaris out of the box. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts

[osol-help] Tyan - Dual Opteron - won't boot

2007-01-26 Thread Bart Smaalders
it sounds like it's somehow ignoring the keyboard. Is this PS2 or USB? There's a bios switch for USB keyboard support that may help. When you have a chance, does unplugging the Adaptec improve matters? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts

[Fwd: Re: [osol-help] Need advice on new computer for OpenSolaris install]

2007-01-24 Thread Bart Smaalders
ut I would like to play > with some of the development tools etc. > I use an Ultra20 look-alike at home. This works well. You can of course get these at a discount as you work for Sun. Mine has a 2.6Ghz dual core; I blogged on my config (which is also the household server) on my blog recently

[osol-help] Need advice on new computer for OpenSolaris install

2007-01-24 Thread Bart Smaalders
;d be getting rid > of anyway and would rather not pay for. And any advise on > the actual install would be appreciated also. > > Thanks, Patty > Perhaps you might want to fill us in as to the number of processors, intended, use, etc. For a desktop, you can get a nice

[osol-help] Help newbie with hardware for home fileserver

2007-01-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
If you can, use a 64 bit CPU. AMD mobos generally work pretty well; the NVidia chipsets seem to be pretty well supported and the Hypertransport works nicely for memory bandwidth intensive loads such as zfs. ZFS likes RAM. If you're going to use small drives (250 GB are now small :-)), p

[osol-help] DBG_CALL

2007-01-12 Thread Bart Smaalders
/cmd/sgs/include/debug.h#143 #define DBG_CALL(func) if (DBG_ENABLED) func - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts

[osol-help] Disabling the CDE environment

2006-12-06 Thread Bart Smaalders
Guy Gaudreau wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to permanently disable the CDE (Common Desktop > Environment) from loading. > > Guy > Do you mean you don't want a graphical login? Or you wish to prevent users from selecting CDE as a desktop?

[osol-help] can't set locale error...

2006-05-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
or what files I need to check to make sure its setting them. Any hints? > > What does the locale cmd output? Your locale is screwed up, either in your login or in /etc/default/init. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts

[osol-help] Mounting removable media with a "Core System"

2006-05-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
d to be pretty minimal as you found out. Personally, I never do anything else but install everything. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts