[osol-help] Network interface stop working after extended use

Hi: Is anyone experiencing the same problem as I do? The network interface would stop working after an extended period of use, even ifconfig and dladm show that the interface is up. Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] cannot replace disk in zfs pool

Brian, Thanks for your help. Doing a zpool export usbstorage before converting into a internal drive, and doing a zpool import usbstorage after that worked. You have saved me a lot of hours of copying of those files. Thanks again! Regards, Keith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] [osol-discuss] cannot replace disk in zfs pool

Opensolaris took the command, zpool import but nothing happened. zpool list yields: NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool848G 654G 194G77% 1.00x ONLINE - usbstorage - - - - - FAULTED - -- This message posted from opensola

[osol-help] cannot replace disk in zfs pool

Hi: I have a zfs pool called usbstorage which consists of one single external usb disk as shown below: # zpool status usbstorage pool: usbstorage state: UNAVAIL status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are insufficient replicas for the pool to continue functioning. action

[osol-help] Rename of BE failed.

Hi: I am trying to rename a boot environment from b127-2 to b128. My current environment is: BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- -- -- - -- --- opensolaris-b127 N / 41.77M static 2009-11-25 17:20

[osol-help] How do I install patches for sun studio 12 update 1 for opensolaris?

Hi: I am getting some compilation error which I think one of the patches listed on http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss12u1_patches.jsp for Sun Studio 12 update 1 would fix the problem. I downloaded the patches, but could not patch the software because patchadd is not part of

[osol-help] virtualbox 3.0.12 IPS?

Hi: I have not been able to upgrade my virtualbox 3.0.12 because the IPS version has not been made available through the sun extra repository. Is there any way I can do a manual upgrade from my existing IPS package? Thanks, Keith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] zfs newbie question

Les and Tim, Thanks for answering my question. - Keith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] zfs newbie question

Hi: I am a newbie with zfs, so I apologize if I did no look deep enough before posting. I am trying to create a zfs filesystem so I can take snapshots of the file system. So, I create a file system like this: rpool/export/vm 44.7G 744G 19.7G /export/vm rpool/export/vm/linux

[osol-help] Any way to upgrade/migrate SXCE to opensolaris?

Thanks to everyone who replied. I have successfully switch over to OpenSolaris without much problem. System response seems to be much better than SXCE. The IPS, although it is very convenient, has some packages whose names are confusing. For instance, there are so many difference netbeans pkgs,

[osol-help] How to merge/rollup a zfs snapshot?

hi: Is there a way I can merge or roll-up a snapshot to the current snapshot? For instance, zfs list shows: rpool/ROOT14.4G 788G19K legacy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris58.2M 788G 5.83G / rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2 1

[osol-help] Any way to upgrade/migrate SXCE to opensolaris?

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 puts out in the SXCE distribution. StarOffice 9, CDE for backward

[osol-help] [pm-discuss] Shutdown/Poweroff will not turn off computer

I think I found the problem to the failure to poweroff on my machine. By removing the audio drive, audio_hd, (rem_drv audiohd), I can now poweroff my machine successfully. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] intermittent static sound in snv 122

Hi: I have been having static sounds intermittently on my Dell Studio XPS 435MT since snv_117. I have upgrade to snv_122, and the problem still exists. I did some searches and found some reported bug, 9733 in defects.opensolaris.org. Is this bug is supposedly fixed in snv 122? If not, how do I g

[osol-help] open solaris in Dell XPS 435

I have a Studio XPS 435MT. It runs fine with ATI 4670 on SXCE 117 - 121. However, you will not have hardware acceleration for the graphics card. I ended up replacing the ATI card with nVidia 9600. One annoying thing is that it can rarely poweroff the system when you shutdown. It would stop short

[osol-help] Failed setting hotplug framework

Hi: After upgrading from SXCE 119 to 121, I am getting this error when booting up: pcieb: [ID 552151 kern.warning] WARNING: pcieb1: Failed setting hotplug framework Is this harmless? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Shutdown/Poweroff will not turn off computer

Here is the result of the test 1) bash-3.2$ tail /etc/system * * To set variables in 'unix': * * set nautopush=32 * set maxusers=40 * * To set a variable named 'debug' in the module named 'test_module' * * set test_module:debug = 0x13 set pc