Re: [osol-help] pkg problem

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Rosenthal
Deleting the file alone didn't fix my problem, but I updated to VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and both the time and the loading delay problem are fixed. 2008/12/2 Peter Rosenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks, I'll try deleting the file. > > I'm running VMware Workstation on Windows. Do you also have

Re: [osol-help] ethernet device deactivated on boot

2008-12-01 Thread Zablon Ochomo
switch to SU and try this command: sys-unconfig follow the prompts well. it will reconfigure you computer. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Bridging two network adapters?

2008-12-01 Thread Corey
I haven't don't think others have. I have to setup vbox with nat under setting for the vm. I believe it has something to do with the way the wireless card is being controlled since it has to constantly check for signal send and recieve connection information and such compared to a hardwired alwa

[osol-help] ethernet device deactivated on boot

2008-12-01 Thread William Becker
Hello all, Have one that's bugging me. I've tried gsearching this and for it on this forum. Don't quite my problem. Every time I cycle the machine I have to go into network admin and activate the ethernet connection!! After activation it works fine. It is set to activate on boot but doesn't seem

Re: [osol-help] Bridging two network adapters?

2008-12-01 Thread Nick
Well... How have others used VirtualBox on laptops with wireless cards? Have people had success? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] ekiga

2008-12-01 Thread Walter White
Hi all, I thought I would post this here to perhaps help some other users. If you want to run ekiga on OpenSolaris, you will need to have SUNWsigcpp installed, otherwise, you will get a library does not exist error. Open Package Manager and search for SUNWsigcpp. Install the package and Ekiga

[osol-help] I broke beadm? Can't update etc

2008-12-01 Thread Carl Brewer
I'm trying to do an update from 101a to 103 (or whatever's current). uname -a : SunOS wattage 5.11 snv_101a i86pc i386 i86pc beadm list BEActive Mountpoint Space Policy Created ---- -- - -- --- opensolaris-1 NR / 9.35G static 2008-11-11

Re: [osol-help] pkg problem

2008-12-01 Thread andrew
I forgot to mention - don't install VMware tools. For some reason this makes the problem worse - OpenSolaris will always fail to update the clock correctly, even if you have just deleted the .nvram file. If you have installed the VMware tools in the OpenSolaris gust VM then removing them should

Re: [osol-help] pkg problem

2008-12-01 Thread andrew
I have similar problems running recent OpenSolaris builds on VMware. The solution is to shutdown the VM, delete the .nvram file from the VMs directory, then restart the VM. Choose the "text boot" option since this will let you see the tell-tale "Time-of-day clock unresponsive: dead batteries?" m

Re: [osol-help] How to turn of debugging?

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Łukasz Kamiński wrote: >> Łukasz Kamiński wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I would like to try out OpenSolaris, but as it is >> not yet final release, I'm guessing it has some >> debuggin flags turned on. >> >> Only if you build your own binaries - released >> binaries are always built >> optimized, not d

Re: [osol-help] zfs forum time-slid backward?

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ray Clark wrote: > Not sure where to send this. > > I posted "Slow death-spiral with zfs gzip-9 compression" to the zfs forum at > 11:15 this morning. Since then there has been a lively (and helpful!) > conversation with about 25 replies. > > It is gone! If you go to the zfs forum, the last p

Re: [osol-help] How to turn of debugging?

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
On Tue 02/12/08 08:40 , Łukasz Kamiński [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > > Łukasz Kamiński wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to try out OpenSolaris, but as > it is> not yet final release, I'm guessing it has > some> debuggin flags turned on. > > > > Only if you build your own binaries - rele

Re: [osol-help] pkg problem

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Rosenthal
After stepping through the python code I found that my /etc/passwd file had an mstat of 0, ie a last modified date of jan-1 1970 UTC. I have used rdate to set my clock correctly but after reboot it is setting to Dec 28 1986. When I go into the BIOS the date/time is correct. On a separate note, boo

[osol-help] session preferences question

2008-12-01 Thread Tom Albers
Hi, Please respond directly to me. I installed opensolaris 2008.11 (build 101b). The only tab displayed in the session preferences menu is "Startup Programs". What happened to the "Session Options" tab which used to allow me to save changes to the session? -- Thanks, Tom

Re: [osol-help] How do I do a text install, use UFS instead of ZFS?

2008-12-01 Thread andrew
> I'd like to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 (or maybe > 2008.11 RC2) on an Acer Aspire 3680 with 512 MB of > RAM, but booting into Gnome takes up too much RAM - > booting to the GUI takes more than fifteen minutes. > Can I do a text install? What command do I use to do > so? > > (Sorry, complete Sol

Re: [osol-help] skge0 interface is UP but cant get out to local network

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Johnston
William Zajic wrote: > something basic here is wrong in my config. > i just installed barebones sol10x86. i can only ping the local machine. i > don't see any lights on on the NIC. > I have installed solaris on my optiplex 740 with the syskonnect drivers. > here are 'ifconfig -a' results: > lo0:

Re: [osol-help] How to turn of debugging?

2008-12-01 Thread Łukasz Kamiński
> Łukasz Kamiński wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to try out OpenSolaris, but as it is > not yet final release, I'm guessing it has some > debuggin flags turned on. > > Only if you build your own binaries - released > binaries are always built > optimized, not debugging. > > -- > -Alan C

Re: [osol-help] skge0 interface is UP but cant get out to local network

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
On Tue 02/12/08 08:15 , William Zajic [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > something basic here is wrong in my config. > i just installed barebones sol10x86. i can only ping the local machine. i > don't see any lights on on the NIC That looks like a physical connection problem. Have you tried a known workin

Re: [osol-help] [indiana-discuss] Cannot remove SUNWaudiohd - slim_install depends on it????

2008-12-01 Thread andrew
> andrew wrote: > > That then leads to the question "why did they not > just name the sendmail package SUNWsendmail so we > could see at a glance what it contained?" > > Because sendmail was added to Solaris so very very > long ago that > package names were still limited to 9 characters - > with 4

[osol-help] skge0 interface is UP but cant get out to local network

2008-12-01 Thread William Zajic
something basic here is wrong in my config. i just installed barebones sol10x86. i can only ping the local machine. i don't see any lights on on the NIC. I have installed solaris on my optiplex 740 with the syskonnect drivers. here are 'ifconfig -a' results: lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index

Re: [osol-help] How to turn of debugging?

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Łukasz Kamiński wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to try out OpenSolaris, but as it is not yet final release, I'm > guessing it has some debuggin flags turned on. Only if you build your own binaries - released binaries are always built optimized, not debugging. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-help] [indiana-discuss] Cannot remove SUNWaudiohd - slim_install depends on it????

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
andrew wrote: > That then leads to the question "why did they not just name the sendmail > package SUNWsendmail so we could see at a glance what it contained?" Because sendmail was added to Solaris so very very long ago that package names were still limited to 9 characters - with 4 taken up by SU

Re: [osol-help] How do I do a text install, use UFS instead of ZFS?

2008-12-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Dan Levine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 (or maybe 2008.11 RC2) on an > Acer Aspire 3680 with 512 MB of RAM, but booting into Gnome takes up > too much RAM - booting to the GUI takes more than fifteen minutes. Can > I do a text install? What command do I use

Re: [osol-help] s10x_u6 GRUB Menu

2008-12-01 Thread Corey
Are you trying to create redundancy for your data, if so then the mirror 1 setup pointed out above is the way to go. But if your trying to create a dual boot environment so you have to identical setups to play with and for possible testing then I would suggest not doing the dual boot and just us

Re: [osol-help] Bridging two network adapters?

2008-12-01 Thread Corey
I'm not positive but I don't think that's possible. Otherwise you would simply be able to bridge the wireless to the virtual nic for vbox to use host networking instead of nat. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing li

[osol-help] Wifi driver

2008-12-01 Thread Claudio
Ciao a tuttivolevo usare la mia scheda wifi ma il Device Driver utility mi dice che "Driver missing" quindi ho letto qualche post e mi han mandato: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ che in effetti ho visto che il driver è basato su MadWiFi che è lo stesso che inst

Re: [osol-help] Problem for Install PHP, Oracle 10g, Apache en Solaris 10 x86

2008-12-01 Thread Ing. Cesar
Specialists estimated. Today I present a problem to configure. PHP, Apache, Oracle 10g At the beginning tended to compile problem then export the variables in the PATH for Oracle, bookshops. Achieve install it without errors. PHP is installed in the following path: / opt/coolstack/php5/lib/php/

[osol-help] Enforce using ahci instead ata driver

2008-12-01 Thread Lubo Molent
Hello, on my laptop Dell D620 (chipset ICH7) isn't possible change SATA mode (ahci/legacy) so OpenSolaris 2008.11 RC2 is using ata(7D) driver for SATA disk and cdrom. On Linux it works in AHCI mode. Is possible enforce using ahci driver instead of ata driver? Thanks. LM -- This message post

Re: [osol-help] No install possible on Acer Aspire 4930 - nv_103

2008-12-01 Thread Uwe Dippel
"Use is subject to license terms." And then it ends. The only thing eventually suspicious: It still says ... 64 bit. If i am not mistaken, my other boxes said 32 bit in the installer, if memory serves right. Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-help] CPQarray driver

2008-12-01 Thread Joe Fletcher
HI, Take a look at: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/software/solaris/455522-001.pdf and http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1121486&prodNameId=3288144&swEnvOID=2023&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=

[osol-help] Moving install to another drive

2008-12-01 Thread Joel
I'm currently running opensolaris 2008.11 on a usb stick, and most things are setup to my liking... the rest i just can't seem to figure out how to get them working :( Anyway, i'm thinking of moving my install onto a cf card (that's in a cf to ide adaptor)... I haven't come across a clear set

[osol-help] foomatic-rip crashes

2008-12-01 Thread niv
hi, i am executing foomatic in command line in solaris 10 OS. bash-3.00# /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 1 1 1 1 "" /Inputfiles_Solaris/staroffice-1.ps > /del Getting input from file /Inputfiles_Solaris/staroffice-1.ps foomatic-rip version $Revision=3.0.2.137$ running... Parsing PPD file ... *