I am attempting to follow these instructions for creating a OpenSolaris system
that boots from a ZFS root file system:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/zfsboot-1?a=view
The instructions state that you must use the Solaris interactive text
installer. The 2009.06 release of OpenSolaris s
>
> Opensolaris supports packages "SUNWsane-frontend, SUNWsane-backend,
> SUNWxsane" part of the Dev and Release packages. On my computer
> doing a "man sane" yielded a large output that included supported
> scanners.
Also on Sane sitem there is large list of suppotyed devices, by categories
On 02/12/10 09:58 AM, Paul Johnston wrote:
> Funny I am on a Dell 620 and I had problems with 131 but fine with
> 132
> SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_132 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> See http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122413&tstart=30
>
I am on Dell Lattitude D620, Laptop. (131
On 02/11/10 06:29 PM, Gary Gendel wrote:
> Personally, I would download the iso of the latest Build (132). A lot has
> transpired since build 111b and it is a lot closer to the next "official"
> release due out in March (unless delayed).
>
> Coupled with the fact that upgrading from 111b to dev
On 01/22/10 12:13 PM, Michelle Knight wrote:
> Thanks Roman,
>
> However, I don't want to update to 130. It doesn't work for me. It has
> failed on four different machines (one, I tried it twice!)
>
> I think the upgrade from 111b to 130 is too much in one jump.
>
> If selecting the release is no
Florin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, I am new to (Open)Solaris environment, so please be gentle.
> Previously, I worked with Ubuntu Linux distribution and now I switched to
> Solaris 10, only because of ZFS file system. Now, my problem is related to
> the fact that under Ubuntu I build a
Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:15 +0100
> "Nikola M." wrote:
>
>> Requirement of payment for security updates for free software should be
>> told to people ,
>> so they know what to expect in production.
>>
>
> You found ou
Jensen Lee wrote:
>> Title:
>> Opensolaris releases unsecure by default, or:
>> Why are Opensolaris stable 2009.06 users forced to
>> pay for security updates?
>>
>
> If it were a company of fat cats I would have a problem too, but Sun, unlike
> its many competitors, has instead contributed a
Hi Jim,
Jim Mauro wrote:
>
>
> Back to memory consumers. We have;
> - The kernel
> - User processes
> - The file system cache (which is technically part of the kernel,
> but significant enough such that it should be measured
> seperately.
tmpfs (i.e., /tmp, /var/run, and /etc/svc/volatile on my sy
Title:
Opensolaris releases unsecure by default, or:
Why are Opensolaris stable 2009.06 users forced to pay for security updates?
*Problem:
Users installing 2009.06 Opensolaris release from free CD/ISO
are under impression that they will recieve updates like on every other
operating system.
They
Hello,
How do I install newer Firefox (newer then that beta release that comes
with 2009.06)?
I do not want to use /dev repository due to instability concerns but I think
that using Old non-updated Firefox (beta) is not very security-wise.
Thaks for any answer,
Nikola M.
OK, I got that IPS is not available with SXCE. Great! Looks like having a sparc
is no longer supported by Sun. First OpenSolaris isn't available, then SXCE
does not have IPS.
Now my question is: is there any way to install IPS on an SXCE?
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I just installed Nevada build 125 on sparc and [pkg] is missing. The whole IPS
package seems to be missing.
Does anybody know how to get it (if it is even available for sparc)?
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That is easy: set an alias l='ls -l --color'
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and "bash" as default shell.
How do I display colors linux style, for example using "top" or "ls"? If I
activate colors in top ("C") nothing happens.
With "ls --color" directories are displayed bold but still everything black.
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John Holland wrote:
> I get a huge amount of messages like
> dmake: Warning: Command failed for target `pics/common/vmalloc/vmregion.o'
> dmake: Warning: Command failed for target `pics/common/vmalloc/vmsegment.o'
> in the mail_msg file.
>
> also I seem to be missing localedef.h, which is supposed
Hello!
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 4:30 AM, keithk wrote:
> With SXCE EOL drawing near, I am thinking of switching
> over to opensolaris from SXCE. Is there any document
> on how to upgrade the current SXCE install over to opensolaris?
> I'm am going to miss the well integrated desktop that Sun
> put
Hi, Marty.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Marty Brewer wrote:
> We have a compiled app (no source) running on Solaris 8 SPARC.
> The hard drive is dying.
>
> I'm trying on Virtual Box with Solaris 10 x86 (SPARC DVD won't boot)
> The app reports "permission denied" (running as root).
>
> IS the
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sushant Taneja
wrote:
> I installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my laptop.
> And added the default username and password when asked during the
> installation.
>
> Now whenever I login into the account and I want to execute the any command
> or task requiring extra pr
Hello.
Recently I've upgraded one of my machines to OpenSolaris 2009.06; the box has a
few HDD: 1) main with OS, etc and 2) archive and ...
After installing I created users, environment, etc on HDD(1), and then wanted
to mount the existing ZFS for the rest (from (2), etc). And by a mistake, for
I bumped into the same problem and wasted a few CDs before asking the same
question.
The answer is that OpenSolaris can be installed from a CD only on an intel/amd
based server. Then you can use that server to install on sparc.
Since I did not have an intel server to spare I eventually gave up
OK, solved!! Works fine now.
Thanks for help a lot.
lol :-)
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Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely.
Looks like this is IDE problem.
Anyway, we don't need IDE, but it is also not really possible to turn
it off entirely, seems to be so. We turned it off in BIOS, then we've
got here:
http://i002.radikal.ru/0909/8f/c5c27f541596.jpg
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Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rar
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:09 AM, J?rgen Keil wrote:
> You could try to boot with verbose kernel messages
> and module debugging output enabled. ?Boot the kernel
> with options " -kdv" and at the kmdb prompt:
>
> ? ?moddebug/W 8000
> ? ?:c
>
>
> Does that still hang after the pit_beep0 driver?
A
Thanks, Jurgen!
Anyway, my screenshot-based mail was bounced from the mailing list. :(
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:09 AM, J?rgen Keil wrote:
> Hmm, a workaround for 6819642 is to disable the intel iommu,
> using kernel option ? -B intel-iommu=no
>
> Did you try that?
Yes.
> OTOH, 6819642 is suppose
Hello!
My hardware:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015B-MT.cfm
The difference that memory is: 2GB RAM
We've tried release 2009.06 as well as latest 121 build on CD and USB.
Both of them are stops at the point while checking devices. That's
clearly not CD/DVD drive problem
Selman wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I installed OpenSolaris today using VirtualBox, but it boots up in console
> mode only. I googled the problem and I found a command (pfexec svcadm clear
> gdm) which would list the errors during installation, and here is the the
> result:
>
> Instance "svc:appli
Mat wrote:
> I've been playing around with Linux quite a bit the past few years. I've been
> using Gentoo for most of the time, then switched to Arch because there was
> quite a bit less maintenance required but still offered the same amount of
> flexibility. Then I switched to Kubuntu because I
I must say, I think you should double that ram
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I've installed openSolaris (snv_111b i86pc), when running dhcpmgr, I get to the
third step of the configuration wizard (Select hosts nameservice) and choose
/etc/hosts
The wizard responds with the "Input Error"
Unable to manage defined hosts table
I've logged in directly as root. I've cha
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Pete Jonson wrote:
> Is that expected? Here's the output of uname -a:
>
> SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> (fyi, I'm trying to track down a problem booting to the xen kernel, having
> trouble after upgrades)
>
> Thanks for any info, I'm
I am sharing out ZFS ISCSI luns to my Mac. When copying large files, the
network will hang in the middle of the transfer and the LUN will become
unavailable until I plumb the NIC. This issue appears to only occur only when I
am reading files (ie..syncing an ipod) and not writing (I'm not 100% su
I've fixed my sshfs problem, it was an incompatibility between the default
usage of sshfs and the way that truecrypt mounts volumes. Essentially I had to
use the -0 -allow_other parameter as truecrypt requires root level access to
mount the folder and that type of access wasn't allowed without t
Thanks for the reply,
To clarify a few things, I'm running the Nevada (DVD iso) version of Solaris
which does not include pkg. This has limited my means of installing software
that I want such as NTFS-3g due to gcc-dev only being available through the pkg
utility. After tinkering with things I'
So far I've been pretty happy with solaris since I started using it for my file
server, however I've run into a few errors that I have not been able to fix.
1) The first error is the fact that in my version of Solaris (2008.11 I
believe) pkg is not installed. I attempted to install it following
Just a wild guess here...
Log in to Solaris and start the GUI Package Manager. In the Search input-box
type, "gnome". Write down the exact names of all installed packages.
turn off the GUI interface as system5 wrote: pfexec svcadm disable gdm
If you are now able to reboot into a terminal you ca
> Check the RAM
Bingo!
I had added RAM and perhaps the open slots had collected some dust over time...
:-)
Thanks again.
Leaves open: Is it possible to move the home folder to a different hard disk?
(It's so darn easy in Linux...)
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> ok myself and everyone else I've seen on most forums
> haven't been able to do it in vbox 2.0.4. Haven't
> tried in 2.0.6. I'm running ubuntu on my laptop and
> was looking at it, but couldn't get it to work. Did
> you create a bridge from your virtual connection to
> the wireless card? if so how
Yep, same here with a HP dv6361 notebook.
However, the following *may* help...
It would appear like Solaris automatically boots a kernel that matches the
architecture of your CPU (i.e. 64-bit or 32-bit). But you can force OpenSolaris
into 32-bit if you want.
When the CD boots into Grub, press
> Well... How have others used VirtualBox on laptops
> with wireless cards? Have people had success?
Hi there,
OK, there a few things about networking and VirtualBox. If you create a
standard VM, then networking will go through NAT, i.e. the VM gets an
IP-address from the VB internal server. In
Hi all,
A couple of weeks ago I found Solaris and I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 (rc2)
on a dedicated box - i.e. wiped the disk and did a Solaris-only install using
all of the defaults. And wouldn't you believe it, yesterday afternoon Firefox
crashed and I couln't start it again (nothing happe
The bundled 177.80 driver supports this GPU family, but it is
possible Apple was given special device ids. According to the
text you included the device alias is pci10de,863. Please try:
# update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,863"' nvidia
# reboot
Just in case there is an issue you can back this chan
After installing the driver mentioned by Jurgen and rebooting, please
send me the output of:
# /usr/bin/nvidia-SunOS-bug-report.sh
# echo "::interrupts -d" | mdb -k
# grep nvidia /var/adm/messages | grep "found pcie"
The more data I get the better I will feel about delivering this
driver to
Progress update: Still no luck getting my server online. The instructions on
the BigAdmin site did not work properly so I used the instructions that were
located in the txt file that accompanied the driver that I downloaded. Here is
a log file with the results of the attempted driver installatio
Well, I went ahead and did a reinstall of SXDE 1/08.
I used fdisk from the installer DVD to create a Solaris2 partition on the 3rd
partition of my single hard drive then went back to the installer.
The installer runs through fine, but on reboot it just comes up with the 'GRUB
' sitting at the t
>
> Does anyone had a similar problem?
>
Yeah, this seems to be a common one from searching the threads.
I just installed the latest SXDE yesterday and upon reboot it just says GRUB.
Nothing is doing at that point.
So that is just the SXDE install failing to be able to reboot into the newly
i
I installed the free community edition of open solaris 10.
I find open suse linux easier to install, use, update.
My wireless card will require days to get going because it's a broadcom 4306.
This whole release seems geared more to engineers rather than new users-
Then I went on the journey of tryi
Thanks. Would the ndis wrapper be in the companion dvd?
I have the windows drivers for the card.
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I just installed open solaris 10 free community edition. I'm working my way
through updates and I also downloaded the companion software dvd- how do I find
out what is on the companion DVD? It all shows up as folders on the DVD with
out descriptions.
I'm trying to set up my wireless card( bcm430
uses
~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. These are just scripts. See bash(1)
for details.
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ust be sloppy. But
there also seems to be a marked unwillingness to learn how OpenSolaris
is constituted and how it differs from products built from it. It's
not really that complicated.
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r cfgadm -x replace_device .
> BTW, cfgadm -x replace_device returns
> cfgadm: Hardware-specific Error: Replacement failed: I/O-Error
I definitely don't know the answer to either of these.
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build X is
an SXDE milestone build, there will also be an SXCE release of build X
which has the same Solaris content and thus offers the same
reduced-risk angle. I have no idea why Solaris Marketing thinks
confusing customers is a good idea but there it is.
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ailman/listinfo/vconsole-discuss
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
[2] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/
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irssi - it works well with screen so that I can see all the things
people say about me when they think I'm not there.
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Alternately, you can simply reinstall from scratch; this will destroy
all data and configuration on the disks you select.
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google.com return?
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ptop is 64bits and i remember seeing a x64 thing mentioned
> somewhere, but is opensolaris 32 bit or 64 bit?
Try isainfo -b if you want to know what kernel is running.
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t; 2) {
print "cn: $gn $sn\n";
}
print "givenName: " . $names[0] . "\n";
print "sn: " . $nam...@names - 1] . "\n";
}
print "shadowlastchange: -1\n";
the distributions list at
http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#use.
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ot; version tomorrow,
> and am expecting to lack the whole gnome windowing system.
Did you specifically choose not to install it? Otherwise it's there
by default. Have you tried such an installation in the past and found
that GNOME is not functional, or is there some other reason you h
an x86 machine, you'd use the x86 disc. If you don't know what
kind of machine you have, it's probably x86. Finally, if the disc you
try doesn't work, try the other one.
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er case,
however, you most likely want to add /usr/sfw/bin to your path.
> tvtime like dont run in solaris but i know that zapping, yes.
I'm afraid I don't understand. If this program does not support
Solaris at all, what good will it do to compile it? Or is the only
problem
explicitly by its
licenses).
This distinction is important. Please help us communicate it
effectively. OpenSolaris and Solaris Express are not the same.
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> I'm having problem with getting the network up and
> running.
> It is possible to configure the interface, but I
> cannot get it
> usable.
>
> With snoop I can see some traffic, and I can see
> traffic (ICMP and ARP)
> from hosts that is on the net, but is unpingable
> from my Solaris host.
C
nmpd.conf(4), there's no
additional official documentation. However, I've written a synopsis
of the functionality at
http://blogs.sun.com/wesolows/entry/a_louder_voice_for_the.
Further questions about this should probably be directed to
fm-discuss at opensolaris.org.
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:49:10AM -0700, Steve wrote:
> I am trying to download an AMD64 version of Solaris10 but can only find x86!
>
> Am I missing something here ? ;-)
x86 includes both i386 and amd64. That's the one you want.
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nker command line and crtX objects to product a
64-bit program.
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be present. In
any case, check the makefiles to better understand what's happening.
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:01:38AM -0800, Bob Palowoda wrote:
> Hmm, I'd must agree before an overflow but is it /usr/lib or /usr/sfw/lib for
> glib?
In our infinite wisdom, it's both! libglib-2.0 lives in /usr/lib, and
libglib-1.2 lives in /usr/sfw/lib.
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roblem is to use Solaris 10 or Nevada, which include glib
already and, as an added bonus, would make the question on topic for
this and other opensolaris.org mailing lists.
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say boot cdrom? DO I do a CTRL -C during boot time
> and enter a boot sequence somehow?
Most SPARC systems respond to BREAKs on the serial console in the same
way they respond to Stop-A on the keyboard; i.e., drop to OBP. From
there you can say 'boot cdrom' or any other of the
e of the -N 4 option is (supposed to be) to *not* allow/use
version 4, the NFS version which the Linux server apparently fails to
support correctly. If -N 4 (try also --no-nfs-version 4) also does
not work, then it sounds like there are at least 2 separate bugs you
need to file with your GNU/Linux
IENT_VERSMAX=4 default to 3). This is well-documented, but
> the problem is that I am not able to pass such an argument to the
> kernel during boot (in the grub menu.lst or anywhere else).
What about giving the server's nfsd the -N 4 option?
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fi to mount it without burning it if you want to try installing
packages until you find everything you need, but it will be much
faster and more enjoyable to just start over.
Also, when you do so, you will get gcc installed for you in
/usr/sfw/bin. As of S10 it's no longer necessary (nor a
ng invoked and what gcc is doing with them.
The best way to do this is to add -v to the command line, then send
both the command line and its output.
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on to reject whatever you added. You can look at the contents
of /var/adm/messages to see if named is throwing any errors.
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ons.
See sshd(1m) and ssh(1) for the full details.
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nents in
OpenSolaris.
That said, we'll try to help you if we can. Could you please provide
the URL from which you obtained the software? Without knowing exactly
what you downloaded, it's hard to know where one might expect to find
the software after installation.
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order to
successfully build perl). It's always safe unless explicitly noted to
build on either of the two most recent SXCR builds, so I strongly
recommend you follow the flag day notices and release notes for each
source drop, and update your build machine(s) frequently.
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in scope it will be faster to rebuild only what you've
changed. This is especially true if you're changing only a single
module's code rather than something in the kernel proper.
See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/devref_toc/devref_4/
and other documents at opensolaris.org.
e1000g0 plumb. You should have been prompted to
configure networking near the beginning of the installation process.
In general the device naming should be very similar to FreeBSD's.
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Hi:
On PXE tftp boot of Solaris 10 Express, I get the following
error after selecting the Jumpstart entry from the GRUB menu:
File not executable.
panic: not entroy point in <-
Press any key to reboot
Note the while
patch as it fixes a ube: internal error when
> compiling Xorg.
Did you install Studio using the tarball or the full product? You
can't patch the tarball-based install.
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