Re: [osol-help] Solaris Express Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
You where completely right. I used the FsumFrontend ( http://fsumfe.sourceforge.net/ ) to calculate md5 checksums for the first downloaded image. Instead of 5d it started with 5e. I redownloaded the image and everything works now. Thanks for the help. Greets Louis Hoefler -- This message posted

[osol-help] Подскажите влад ельцу ноутбука

2009-01-18 Thread Vasiliy
Подскажите пожалуйста, каким образом можно увеличить срок службы ноута на Соляре. Десктопные никсы традиционно едят батарею довльно серьезно. Что обрезать и отключить, чтобы максимально продлить батарее жизнь? Заранее благодарю. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-18 Thread Norman H. Azadian
I'm getting this too, and I'm on a real machine (i386) with 2GB RAM. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-18 Thread Jürgen Keil
I'm getting this too, and I'm on a real machine (i386) with 2GB RAM. I'm getting this too, and I'm on a real machine (i386) with 2GB RAM. There is an open defect #6050 that looks a bit similar: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6050 Is it possible to open a terminal window

Re: [osol-help] How to get going with CIFS?

2009-01-18 Thread Ray Clark
Wow. That would be awesome. Some questions stemming out of things I have been reading to try to figure this out: Do I need to join a workgroup (smbadm join -w rnscnet)? What are the implications of joining or not joining? Do I not need to create smb passwords any more by adding the PAM line

Re: [osol-help] 32-bit ... 64-bit

2009-01-18 Thread Andy
Using the opensolaris livecd 2008.11 ... I get this same error message on three separate machines, all of which are different. The one thing they do have in common is that they are 32 bit. I tried editing the boot command as stated above to no avail. I guess that the majority of users here are on

[osol-help] RFE: Make it easier for user to figure out where to put smb.conf

2009-01-18 Thread Ray Clark
I suggest in the smb.conf man page is the right place. The smbd man page would be a close second since it is the 'customer' of smb.conf. There is also opensolaris specific stuff at the end of the samba man page, so that is also arguable. My path: Some postings say that samba is installed in

Re: [osol-help] [Shut Down] Problems with openSolaris 2008.11 on Olidata Tehom 7900

2009-01-18 Thread Paolo
I do not know why I can't turn off the laptop with graphics button, but I discover that I can shutdown my laptop from shell with: poweroff. This is already in buzilla here: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4786 The workaround is to reboot or poweroff from a root shell prompt.

Re: [osol-help] RFE: Make it easier for user to figure out where to put smb.conf

2009-01-18 Thread andrew
I suggest in the smb.conf man page is the right place. I suspect this problem is due to the Samba man pages on (Open)Solaris being made from the upstream source from samba.org with the addition of extra stuff on the end (the Solaris-specific attributes section for example). You might want to

[osol-help] System halting and possible ZFS Data Loss?

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Waddell
My zfs server is hanging during restart at Hostname = opensolaris. I'm not sure what to do to fix the issue and get the system to reboot. Also, I tried booting from the OpenSolaris 11.08 live cd to mount the zfs pool and extract the data, but zpool import rpool returns a No such pool found

[osol-help] OpenSolaris LiveCD - Console login service(s) cannot run

2009-01-18 Thread Tom
Hi, i'm trying to install opensolaris, and it seems to get stuck at this screen right after grub. http://opensolaris.org/jive/servlet/JiveServlet/download/9556/IMG_8708.jpg What can I do to see what's wrong and install? -- This message posted from opensolaris.orgattachment:

Re: [osol-help] I locked me out of my osol installation

2009-01-18 Thread Mario Müller
thx I will try tomorrow -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] How do I reinstall a package?

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
How do I reinstall a package? # pkg pkg: not found Louis Hoefler. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] How do I reinstall a package?

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
Ah, i found it. The programms are called pkgadd and pkgrm. pkgrm packagename pkgadd -d directory packagename did what i wanted. Message was edited by: lislis -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] [Shut Down] Problems with openSolaris 2008.11 on Olidata Tehom 7900

2009-01-18 Thread John Brewer
Can you attach all of the following. ifconfig -a ; cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log ; prtdiaqg -v ; /usr/X11/bin/scanpci ; dmesg ; uname -a ; prtpicl -v ; prtconf -Dpv -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Pooling combining iscsi targets?

2009-01-18 Thread Billy
FFS jake Your answers to all my questions seem to further confuse me. If you can't say something helpfull mate, please don't say nothing at all. No offence. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] 2008.11 Install on Acer 8920 reboots at 44%

2009-01-18 Thread John Brewer
can you grap the output of: /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v prtpicl -v Start the install then open a terminal and When it gets to 44% save the /tmp/install_log file to your thumb drive before it reboots. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-help] Installing opensolaris 2008.11 on HP 550 notebook

2009-01-18 Thread John Brewer
Can you copy the output onto a thumb drive. uname -a ; prtdiag v ; dmesg ; prtconf -Dpb ; /usr/X11/bin/scanpci ; prtpicl -v ; cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Pooling combining iscsi targets?

2009-01-18 Thread John Brewer
You could use nfs/cifs/samba for each of the servers that have the storage and share to the other clients. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Not able to run opensolaris 2008.11 inside sun virtualbox

2009-01-18 Thread John Brewer
Did you allocate enough memory at least 768M 1M is better and make sure you have enough graphics set aside as well like 8 , 16 or even 32meg. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] 2008.11 Install on Acer 8920 reboots at 44%

2009-01-18 Thread Anon Y Mous
In my experience, one of the most common causes of spontaneous reboots like this is bad RAM. If there is a bad spot in the RAM on your computer, then it will cause bad CD reads and bad Operating System installs. Have you tried using the memtest software that comes with every Ubuntu Linux

[osol-help] how to xdmcp in to solaris 2008.11

2009-01-18 Thread Chris
I am trying to login in graphically to the solaris desktop using xdmcp I believe I have set it up correctly on the solaris end with gdmsetup however when i try to get to it through the KDE chooser i can connect but all i get is a blank screen with an X in the middle of the screen. I saw on a

Re: [osol-help] How to get going with CIFS?

2009-01-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Sun, January 18, 2009 12:14, Ray Clark wrote: Wow. That would be awesome. Some questions stemming out of things I have been reading to try to figure this out: Do I need to join a workgroup (smbadm join -w rnscnet)? What are the implications of joining or not joining? I seem to have

Re: [osol-help] 2008.11 Install on Acer 8920 reboots at 44%

2009-01-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Sun, January 18, 2009 20:38, Anon Y Mous wrote: My favorite thing about OpenSolaris is that it will find bad RAM faster than any other operating system that I've ever used. It will always crash during boot up, or during OS install, or when downloading or uploading a large file, whereas

[osol-help] Reboot loop

2009-01-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I've finally woken up and realized this smells like hardware (the problem I started from a week ago smelled rather like software to me, which may partly explain my slowness). Today, here's what I'm seeing: Install OpenSolaris 2008.11 from the LiveCD. It gets to the end, sometimes lets me boot

Re: [osol-help] Change to releases since 2008.11?

2009-01-18 Thread Ben Golding
There's a change to how you get updates via IPS. With 2008.11, two branches were made in the IPS repo, the stable /release branch, and the development builds under /dev - the default is /release, and if you want the biweekly updates, you need to choose /dev. How does this impact things like

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris compatible laptop brand (cheap) needed

2009-01-18 Thread Anon Y Mous
I got the Marvell Yukonx driver from Brian Leonhard's page at this link: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html and it's working very well for me (I'm using OpenSolaris and a Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet card to make this post

Re: [osol-help] how to xdmcp in to solaris 2008.11

2009-01-18 Thread Anon Y Mous
These links might help: http://blogs.sun.com/angad/entry/getting_solaris_up_and_running http://blogs.sun.com/xavier/entry/why_can_t_i_remote http://solaris.reys.net/english/2006/04/x11_forwarding

Re: [osol-help] How to get going with CIFS?

2009-01-18 Thread Anon Y Mous
Maybe these links will also help: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_With_the_Solaris_CIFS_Service http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Solaris_CIFS_Service_Troubleshooting http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/

[osol-help] OS Live CD

2009-01-18 Thread Stephan Bardubitzki
I'm wondering whether it is possible to install the current ATI drivers from www.freedesktop.org while running OpenSolaris from Live CD? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Forum Search

2009-01-18 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
How do I search the Jive forum based on user name? Where can I find info about this? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] How to get going with CIFS?

2009-01-18 Thread Ian Collins
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Sun, January 18, 2009 12:14, Ray Clark wrote: Wow. That would be awesome. Some questions stemming out of things I have been reading to try to figure this out: Do I need to join a workgroup (smbadm join -w rnscnet)? What are the implications of joining or