Re: [osol-help] constant reboots, need emergency help

2011-02-05 Thread Ian Collins
On 02/ 6/11 02:03 AM, Johan Eliasson wrote: I have the latest OpenSolaris on a server. 12 disks in a pool. Today I decided to replace a (working) 500GB disk, so I pulled the SATA cable to see how ZFS would react. It froze. Weird. I really had the impression that ZFS would be able to handle thi

Re: [osol-help] Shrinking a pool, Increasing hotspares

2011-01-24 Thread Ian Collins
On 01/25/11 10:56 AM, Phillip V wrote: Hey all, I have a 10 TB root pool setup like so: pool: s78 state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 2h0m with 0 errors on Wed Jan 19 22:04:39 2011 config: Only 2 TB of the pool are used and I would like to remove one mirror set from the po

Re: [osol-help] Solaris 11 express - change to static IP

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/24/10 09:39 AM, Marko wrote: Hello all, I have changed IP address on Solaris 11 exp. to static following Sun/Oracle document 821-1458.pdf . Because I am not familiar with Solaris 11 express I would like to know if I made it correctly or I need some additional changes on system?

Re: [osol-help] Production raidz3 with opensolaris 2009.06?

2010-10-11 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/12/10 03:22 PM, Tom wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade my 2009.06 system to use raidz3. The issue is the production version of 2009.06 only has zfs version 14 which does not have raidz3 (needs version 17). After searching for a while it seems the best options are to: 1) Upgrade to a dev

Re: [osol-help] Opinions and how to move forward?

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/ 6/10 03:18 AM, Steve wrote: I guess another question is, if I am successful with 134b, it is of course still "unstable" release. How much do i need to worry about that? I have seen a fair amount of people on the internet stating they run solidly on 134b. I am strictly using this as a

Re: [osol-help] OpenIndiana installation - moving /export/home from rpool

2010-09-19 Thread Ian Collins
On 09/19/10 01:03 AM, russell wrote: Hi, After problems with later versions of Solaris 10 (post U5) and the earlier versions of OpenSolaris, I finally replaced Solaris 10 U5 with OpenIndiana today (the third attempt at installation finally reported no errors). During the first attempt, I choo

Re: [osol-help] How to recreate rpool boot filesystem?

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 09/15/10 11:58 PM, Stephan Ferraro wrote: I have to recreate my rpool so I added a new hard-disk in my system and I created a "backup" pool on the new harddisk. Then I did this: zfs send -R rp...@backup3 | zfs receive -dFv backup Then I would do this: zpool destroy rpool zpool create rpool

Re: [osol-help] [zfs-discuss] Forgot username

2010-09-08 Thread Ian Collins
On 09/ 9/10 11:37 AM, Rather not say wrote: Hello - After waiting an hour or so for opensolaris, I had forgot what username I put so I booted into windows to see if I could find it, no luck. How can I figure it out? Not by asking here! The opensolaris-help list is more appropriate. Boot f

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/17/10 09:31 AM, Philip Brown wrote: So, I did the "upgrade from dev" thing and it blew up. This is where it automatically installed a new "BE" for me to boot from. thank goodness. The score on my macbook pro i7 is now as follows: Solaris MU8: hang at initial text output from kernel O

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/13/10 07:53 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/13/10 04:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? If you s

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/13/10 04:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? If you source your packages from the

Re: [osol-help] macbook pro i7, broadcom ethernet and nvidia 330m graphics

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/12/10 09:53 AM, Philip Brown wrote: Is there a "nice" way to do that (ie: some arg to pkg update-image), or do I have to do a full reinstall, after downloading an iso from there? If you source your packages from the dev repro, you can just do an update. -- Ian. _

Re: [osol-help] Importing a zones rpool?

2010-07-17 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/18/10 02:10 PM, Sam Ashcraft wrote: Sorry, Its been about a year since I last had to mess with the Zones, so my memory is a little fuzzy on the original configuration. The root file systems for the zones should have been in the safe pool (tank) and not the lost one (the original Rpool).

Re: [osol-help] Sony DSC S40 camera not detected

2010-07-17 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/18/10 10:34 AM, Cia Watson wrote: Hi all. I'm running Osol snv_134, and plugged in my Sony dsc s40 cybershot digital camera via usb, and it didn't appear on my desktop. Unplugged and replugged the usb into another slot, still not showing up -- I opened up the media folder and it wasn't th

Re: [osol-help] Importing a zones rpool?

2010-07-17 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/18/10 07:54 AM, Sam Ashcraft wrote: History: I had a nice little home file server running OpenSolaris with ZFS. The server used 2 1.5TB drives for data and Compact Flash for the root drive. It was set up with one large Zpool dubbed tank with to separate zones for a file and web server.

Re: [osol-help] Backup solution for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-14 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/14/10 08:09 PM, Stephan Ferraro wrote: I have a running OpenSolaris production server at Hetzner. I would like to backup my data on a remote computer. I have million of files and I need to backup the whole OpenSolaris setup (ZFS configuration, Zones etc...). What is the best solution? Is

Re: [osol-help] Are T6400 processors compatible with OpenSolaris?

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/13/10 12:25 PM, John Furlong wrote: Hi jkeil, thanks for getting back to me. Yes that is the correct one. However i don't want to use OpenSolaris on the physical machine, i want to run it through some virtualisation software. I'm a student and have recently completed an internship where

Re: [osol-help] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/13/10 11:58 AM, brown wrap wrote: Go onto the command line and type this: pfexec format I last worked on Solaris using Solaris 7 and 8. I am trying to back up to speed with Solaris. I'm used to simply "format", why is it necessary to use: "pfexec format", don't they yeild the same

Re: [osol-help] OSOL 134 boot loop

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/12/10 10:19 PM, Tobias Oestreich wrote: Hey, thank you for your help. But what should i do when i even can't remember the poolname? And: i can't use the live-cd because the disks are attached to an 3ware-Hardware-RAID-Controller so i have to install a driver - and thats not possible with

Re: [osol-help] OSOL 134 boot loop

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 9/10 03:25 AM, Tobias Oestreich wrote: Hey, my OpenSolaris SNV134 is in a boot loop. There's a hdd for the system and a RAIDZ1 with 5 drives in that PC. Can i reinstall OSOL and mount the old RAIDZ? Or does OpenSolaris does that thing automatically? How to do that? What kind of boo

Re: [osol-help] Are T6400 processors compatible with OpenSolaris?

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 9/10 02:19 PM, John Furlong wrote: Hi, I need some help / information. I have a Packard Bell LJ65 DT100, which has Dual Core T6400 processors. I think from looking before on a compatiblity list that these processors aren't compatible with OpenSolaris as they don't support Intel Virtual

Re: [osol-help] solaris version upgrade without deleting data

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 8/10 07:20 PM, mani dharma wrote: If a new version of open solaris is installed on a hard disk with data, does the old data get erased? That depends. If you do an upgrade, no. If you do a fresh install, yes. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-hel

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris boot loop

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 8/10 07:10 PM, mani dharma wrote: Hello The version of opensolaris is 76, it was installed and working in a desktop computer, after using it as a second hdd in another computer for sometime, I brought it back to the desktop. On the grub menu I have Solaris snv 76 kernel1$ /platform/i8

Re: [osol-help] Opensolaris hangs

2010-07-06 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 7/10 05:37 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm running OpenSolaris 2009.06 on a server, primarily as a file server using NFS. Periodically, the server stops responding. I usually notice this when a system on the network fails to boot (or takes a long time) because it is waiting on an NFS

Re: [osol-help] kernel image

2010-07-05 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 6/10 01:12 PM, thomas wrote: open solaris and open salaris sparc from this site. Try the latest USB image from genunix.org: http://genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-dev-134-x86.usb -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-help] kernel image

2010-07-05 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 6/10 12:36 PM, thomas wrote: new to solaris, downloaded it i tried to boot from cruzer stick 4g but i get a message saying no kernal image. what should i do. What exactly did you download? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list openso

Re: [osol-help] Mounting NTFS problem

2010-07-04 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 5/10 04:25 AM, zfsnoob4 wrote: Ok, so I worked around it by essentially doing this: I plugged the data drive into another computer and then booted that with parted magic (Linux) and then copied the data over the LAN to the raidz (CIFS). I'm still curious as to why the ntfs mount didn't

Re: [osol-help] [zfs-discuss] Mounting NTFS problem

2010-07-03 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 4/10 02:54 PM, zfsnoob4 wrote: Hello, I'm using opensolaris b134 and I'm trying to mount a ntfs partition. I followed the instructions located here: http://sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html You have posted to the wrong list, opensolaris-help would be more appropriate so I've coped that lis

Re: [osol-help] /etc/rc.local equivalent in OpenSolaris?

2010-07-03 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 4/10 09:31 AM, Stephan Ferraro wrote: I would like to start two Perl scripts at startup of one of my OpenSolaris zones. In Ubuntu Linux there is a file /etc/rc.local which is executed at boot up. Is there such a file in OpenSolaris? I tried first to start my two simple files with svccfg

Re: [osol-help] RAID controller card for small system w 4-8 discs?

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Collins
On 06/29/10 07:31 AM, Annika wrote: Hi everybody, I'm new in this community, since beginning of May 2010 I've been following some of the mailing lists with the intention of learning for setting up a small O.S. server this autumn. Have studied the HCL carefully and come to the conclusion that a

Re: [osol-help] Installation failure

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 06/26/10 01:27 PM, Ben Miles wrote: Got that new build. Getting the same keyboard no worky problem with the GUI. No biggie. Goes on after 25 seconds. Getting new errors Booting 'OpenSolaris Development snv_134' kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix loading '/platform/i86pc/kernel/$I

Re: [osol-help] Installation failure

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 06/26/10 11:44 AM, Ben Miles wrote: Im losing before the race is even starting. I just downloaded the latest bot cd from opensolaris and burned it. Im able to use my keyboard when the BIOS is loading and such. Try the latest preview release from genunix.org: http://genunix.org/distribut

Re: [osol-help] [osol-discuss] Support options for Opensolaris?

2010-05-18 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/19/10 11:14 AM, Nicholas George wrote: On 19 May 2010 00:53, Erik Trimble wrote: You'll have to talk to a Oracle Sales Rep directly to get information about Support options for OpenSolaris. This has been changing over the past month(s), so please talk to the SaleReps - the various @o

Re: [osol-help] VIA ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller support

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/11/10 02:27 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Ian Collins <mailto:i...@ianshome.com>> wrote: Is there an OpenSolaris driver for this audio device? I'm sure I had this card (M-Audio 2496) working with OSS a while back. You can check

[osol-help] VIA ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller support

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Collins
Is there an OpenSolaris driver for this audio device? I'm sure I had this card (M-Audio 2496) working with OSS a while back. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Intel 10Gbit-NIC (E10G41AT2)

2009-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
Thomas H wrote: Hello, we ordered some new NICs of this type Intel 10 Gigabit AT2 Server Adapter, 1x 10GBase-T, PCIe x8, low profile (E10G41AT2) and they wont work :-( Any Ideas how to get them running? It should "just work" See this thread: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/netwo

Re: [osol-help] adding second disk as mirror to rpool

2009-10-24 Thread Ian Collins
Malcolm Herbert wrote: I've done this on solaris 10 on sparc however this new host is an x86 ... What I want to do is to add a second disk to my host for redundancy - it needs to be able to boot the system as well or any other host I install it into. Currently it is hanging off my system in a

Re: [osol-help] this help thread is a pile of steaming shite

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Collins
Blake wrote: This thread is priceless/ridiculous. (It's also a good example of how poorly communicated engineering principles and support policies can cause frustration for customers.) And a good example of how useless forum threads are on the mail list when no one keeps context! -- Ian. _

Re: [osol-help] this help thread is a pile of steaming shite

2009-10-11 Thread Ian Collins
Tomas Bodzar wrote: What's your point? There is official support from Sun, but you must pay. In other case you have same, similar, worse or better support like on other OS's. Whingers don't have a point. They just come here to whinge. -- Ian. __

Re: [osol-help] Compression Seriously Affecting Network Performance

2009-07-04 Thread Ian Collins
Graham Worley wrote: I've got a wierd issue with zfs compression. Which type of compression? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] dual-booting opensolaris 2008-11

2009-04-28 Thread Ian Collins
Don Raikes wrote: Hello, I am insterested in setting up a dual-booted system with opensolaris 2008-11 and debian. Why not use xVM and have both? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Help with VNC or Remote Desktop from my Mac

2009-02-09 Thread Ian Collins
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> which means one can >> access a separate session on the Sun (if one has set up dtlogin or gdm or >> whatever to run Xvnc as well as Xorg or Xsun), but one cannot take remote >> control of an already running local session. >> > > You shou

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris web site issues?

2009-02-03 Thread Ian Collins
Andrew C. Henle wrote: > For the past several days, every time I access this site via the "OpenSolaris > Forums" link ( http://opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa?categoryID=1 ), I've > been getting a null pointer exception on the page, usually located around the > "atlosug" link, although it does m

Re: [osol-help] Live upgrade to b106 from S10u6

2009-02-02 Thread Ian Collins
Karl Rossing wrote: [please keep some context for those of us on email] > Right now, zfs boot is a bit too experimental for us. > > And build 106 isn't? Seriously, if you are using an OpenSolaris based build, ZFS boot is the way to go. It is fully supported in Solaris 10 and it's the only o

Re: [osol-help] Live upgrade to b106 from S10u6

2009-02-02 Thread Ian Collins
Karl Rossing wrote: > I'm having a problem live upgrading a server from s10u6 to b106. > > I installed live upgrade from b106. > > bash-3.00# metastat -p d11 > d11 -m d3 d2 1 > d3 1 1 c1t1d0s0 > d2 1 1 c1t0d0s0 > bash-3.00# lucreate -c u6 -n b106 -m /:/dev/md/dsk/d1:ufs,mirror -m > /:/dev/dsk/c1t1

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris 2008.11 ldapclient int and OpenLDAP

2009-01-29 Thread Ian Collins
Frank Barney wrote: > I've just installed OpenSolaris 2008.11. I want to make it an ldapclient > using a preexisting OpenLDAP database on a Linux server. > > I've run ldapclient using the following arguements: > > ldapclient -v init -a profileName=OpenSolarisProfile 10.0.0.76 > > Does the serv

Re: [osol-help] Problem with osol-0811.iso

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Collins
fernando jofre wrote: > Well, now I burned it in my MacBook, using Disk Utility, and either it > couldn't! I used the same CD-R (Sony). > Is the image too big for the media? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.or

Re: [osol-help] Problem with osol-0811.iso

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
fernando jofre wrote: > Hi, I download the file in order to install it, and I've done this twice. The > problem is that I can`t burn the image to a cd. I use the ImgBurn software > and I also tried Nero, and I did it in two pc with WinXp Pro Sp2. The error > box says (of ImgBurn): > I/O Error! >

Re: [osol-help] Help with b105/Sol10u6 Bad Trap panic

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
j...@drawneek.demon.co.uk wrote: > i...@ianshome.com wrote: > >> John-Paul Drawneek wrote: >> >>> Ok finally got b106 to redirect to console of the dvd >>> >>> gives me this wonderful panic: >>> >>> >>> >> Where you able to capture a crash dump? >> > > Not sure - how do you

Re: [osol-help] Help with b105/Sol10u6 Bad Trap panic

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
John-Paul Drawneek wrote: > Ok finally got b106 to redirect to console of the dvd > > gives me this wonderful panic: > > Where you able to capture a crash dump? You should raise a bug at bugs.opensolaris.org and if you have a support contract, with sun support. -- Ian. _

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Bauer wrote: >> So I think you're just about as safe trusting Sun >> distros (Solaris, SXCE, >> OpenSolaris .mm). The Solaris (as opposed to >> ... >> > > I know that one day I could hire IT specialist to fix me maybe the > OpenSolaris kernel. But first I need to know if in theory

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Bauer wrote: > > I have still one question: > Is the OpenSolaris kernel full open source?! Or is it closed source? > What do you thing the "Open" in OpenSolaris means? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Use linux swap

2009-01-23 Thread Ian Collins
Bob Plantz wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 18:53 +1300, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Robert Plantz wrote: >> >>> I am planning to coalesce /dev/sda4, /dev/sda5, and /dev/sda6 for my >>> OpenSolaris partition. Do I need a swap for OpenSolaris? If so, do I ne

Re: [osol-help] Use linux swap

2009-01-23 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Plantz wrote: > > I am planning to coalesce /dev/sda4, /dev/sda5, and /dev/sda6 for my > OpenSolaris partition. Do I need a swap for OpenSolaris? If so, do I need to > move it to start at 19093 and end at 19457? > No, as I said in the reply you didn't quote, "Solaris uses either a slice

Re: [osol-help] Swapping drives on a ZFS pool...

2009-01-23 Thread Ian Collins
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Fri, January 23, 2009 16:33, Blake wrote: > >> Assuming that you have any storage structure with more than just a >> single giant dir, it's probably simplest to use mirrors. You can get >> 1.5tb drives now :) >> >> I would not stripe mirrors, because that adds comp

Re: [osol-help] Swapping drives on a ZFS pool...

2009-01-23 Thread Ian Collins
Billy wrote: > So what's the most versatile setup in order to be able to increase you pool > size? > > Keeping mirrored pairs of disks and then stripping them mirrors together? > Yes, that's the easiest way. For many workloads, you also gain in performance. You can increase the pool size by u

Re: [osol-help] Where is the opensolaris kernel discussion lists?

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Bauer wrote: > I'm seeking for the opensolaris kernel discussion list. > I find some modules like ZFS. But where is the discussion list about the core? > opensolaris-c...@opensolaris.org Is a good place to start. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help

Re: [osol-help] OS crashing about once every 2 hours

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Collins
Tracy Snell wrote: > Things running fine then bam. Here's the logs from right before the crash: > > Assuming you have an x86 system, run memtest86 overnight to make sure your system memory isn't bad. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensol

Re: [osol-help] raidz question...

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Collins
Billy wrote: > Been Googleing yesterday about zfs raidz expansion. > > You know, when you have 4 disks in a raidz1 pool and want to add one more > disk and have your pool expand to include that disk? (Like some hardware raid > cards and drobo-like boxes do) > > All the threads on that where dated

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 jo

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Collins
On Fri 09/01/09 14:31 , J Scheck aaopensola...@scheck.tv sent: > > The option is only available in the text mode installer. > How do you get to the text-mode installer? That's been answered elsewhere in this thread. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help maili

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Collins
On Fri 09/01/09 05:26 , Dave Uhring daveuhr...@yahoo.com sent: > > The option is only available in the text mode > installer. > Oops, forgot that requirement. > > Options 3 or 4 IIRC. Option 3 is preferable since it also > ensures that X Windows will run properly. With 3 you can also open anothe

Re: [osol-help] Hi, Whare can I find Solaris Express Community Edition DVD B97 now?

2008-12-24 Thread Ian Collins
yang wrote: > Hi,Whare can I find Solaris Express Community Edition DVD B97 now? > On the normal download site, change 104 to 97 in the URL. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] ZFS: Flexibility of adding drives later

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Collins
Tom wrote: > I am making a backup and file server and am toying with using openSolaris/ZFS > for it. I have 4 250gig sata discs in the server currently, but Solaris won't > recognise the PCI VIA VT6421 I'm using to give two of the SATA ports. If I > was to make a ZFS Raid-Z (or something else wi

Re: [osol-help] What are the realistic speeds for SATA2 HDDs thru gigabit ethernet

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Collins
Jani wrote: >> Jani wrote: >> >>> I am trying to get the most out of my LAN and at >>> >> the moment the figures are with SMB/CIFS and FTP >> between Windows XP and Solaris about 20-25 MB/s. >> >> One of those machines must have a slow drive. I get >> about 50MB/s off my >> windows bo

Re: [osol-help] What are the realistic speeds for SATA2 HDDs thru gigabit ethernet

2008-12-21 Thread Ian Collins
Jani wrote: > I am trying to get the most out of my LAN and at the moment the figures are > with SMB/CIFS and FTP between Windows XP and Solaris about 20-25 MB/s. One of those machines must have a slow drive. I get about 50MB/s off my windows box and ~100MB/s /tmp to /tmp on Solaris. Try a RAM

Re: [osol-help] multi-thread program crash on solaris 10

2008-12-20 Thread Ian Collins
LiJIan wrote: > I am running a multi-thread program on solaris 10, it sometimes crashes. The > stack is as following. It crashes when allocation memory. Anybody has any > idea ? > > This isn't the place for Solaris 10 questions, but you've probably corrupted the stack. Try using libumem. --

Re: [osol-help] after installing opensolaris , where are my partitions ?

2008-12-20 Thread Ian Collins
A.M. Abdelaziz wrote: > so simple: > I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 , now where are my partitions ? > What partitions? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Svc-sma core dumping repeatedly

2008-12-15 Thread Ian Collins
Brent Jones wrote: > I have a pair of X4540's running 2008.11, after enabling SMA (for SNMP > and traps), the service keeps crashing on both machines. > Here is the log output: > > /var/svc/log/application-management-sma\:default.log > > [ Dec 14 01:24:16 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/sv

Re: [osol-help] photo printing

2008-12-14 Thread Ian Collins
Fahad wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am a VISTA user. However I am very acvively looking for better alternative > OS to use on my desktop. I tried almost every linux distribition. I found a > lot of them usable unless it comes to printing. > > All I use my PC for is browsing the net and printin

Re: [osol-help] Use linux swap

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Collins
Andreas Nilsson wrote: > I intend to run a double ( or even tripple ) boot with osol/linux/windows. Is > there any way to use the linux swap partition as swap in osol? > > No, (Open)Solaris uses either a slice within a partition or a filesystem within a ZFS pool for swap. -- Ian. ___

Re: [osol-help] Multithreading CPUs

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Collins
Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: > I have a workstation with two Xeons that can be put in 'multithreading' mode > by setting a flag in the BIOS. Is it useful to do this when running Solaris? > > Try it. HT works for some workloads and slows down others. -- Ian. _

Re: [osol-help] How to install PHP, mysql, apache on Solaris 9, Fail Configure?

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Collins
Ing. Cesar wrote: > You're asking in the wrong place, try Usenet. > > Why? > This is an OpenSolaris list. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] SXCE, ZFS root, b101 -> b103 fails with ERROR: No upgradeable file systems

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Collins
Turanga Leela wrote: > # lustatus > Boot Environment Is Active ActiveCanCopy > Name Complete NowOn Reboot Delete Status > -- -- - -- -- > snv_101yes yesy

Re: [osol-help] How to install PHP, mysql, apache on Solaris 9, Fail Configure?

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Collins
Ing. Cesar wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to install PHP (/usr/local/apache226/php-5.2.6) ,mysql, apache on > Solaris 9 (Sparc). > > You're asking in the wrong place, try Usenet. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris

Re: [osol-help] How to allow root to access SSH remotely on opensolaris 11?

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Collins
Wei Jiang wrote: > I rebooted the machine. Nothing happens. I tried the same thing on Linux. It > works for Linux. > > As is should for Solaris. > What do you mean: "I've never had to do that."? Is there another way to allow > root to access ssh remotely? > Thanks. > > > I've never edited

Re: [osol-help] SXCE, ZFS root, b101 -> b103 fails with ERROR: No upgradeable file systems

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Collins
Turanga Leela wrote: > I can provide full output for everything if needed, but basically: > > # lucreate -c snv_101 -n snv_103 > > I thought you had to specify the pool? # lucreate -c snv_101 -n snv_103 -p rpool and don't forget to install the b103 Live Upgrade packages. -- Ian. __

Re: [osol-help] Nameserver issues with resolv.conf "domain" directive

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Collins
Ben Golding wrote: > I've been having a lot of trouble recently with the nameserver on snv_101b > (and earlier). Specifically, during the install/upgrade process, the > /etc/resolv.conf is changed to look like: > > search object-craft.com.au > domain object-craft.com.au > nameserver 192.168.0.3

Re: [osol-help] How to allow root to access SSH remotely on opensolaris 11?

2008-12-02 Thread Ian Collins
Wei Jiang wrote: > I have a new opensolaris11 (2008.05) installed on a laptop. I can ssh as a > normal user to a remote server, but I could not ssh as root to the remote > server. > > I changed the following on the remove server. > 1. modified "PermitRootLogin" from no to yes on the file /etc/s

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade 101->103 breaks all

2008-12-02 Thread Ian Collins
Uwe Dippel wrote: > Again, I need help after a botched upgrade. (I think I did everything > correct, though.) > What were your steps? I've run the same upgrades without issue. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.

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] 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] Unable to play back dvds stored on Solaris file server

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Collins
Håvard Krüger wrote: > Hi, I seem to be unable to play back any of my DVDs that are stored on the > Solaris file server. I have no problem playing the DVD if I move them to my > HTPC or to my Windows Home Server, but for some reason I can not play it from > the file server. > > How are you ac

Re: [osol-help] drive type unknown

2008-11-28 Thread Ian Collins
Marcel Pinnow wrote: > Hello, > > i wanted to install opensolaris 2008.05 at an desktop system, with an > installed Windows Vista. (Mulitboot-System) > But i seems as opensolaris fails to identifier my hard disk drives. > > If i call the format command during the installation i became the followin

Re: [osol-help] cannot install SXCE 101 x86 on first disk

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Collins
Vu The Cuong wrote: > Hi Collins > Thanks for ur very fast response. > >> Last time I had this problem, I fixed it be making the second partition >> a Linux swap (same id as Solaris) partition and the installer was >> > happy. > Basically I understood what u meaned above. > But I would lik

Re: [osol-help] cannot install SXCE 101 x86 on first disk

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Collins
luvinaa wrote: > Hi all > My PC have 2 hard disks, > - first disk have 2 partitions > - first partition of first disk have win server 2008 installed. > - second partition of first disk is blank (unallocated). > - second disk is blank (unallocated) > > I boot into SXCE 101 DVD disk with installa

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade from snv_86a to snv101b

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Collins
nikolay wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgrade opensolaris from snv_86a to snv101b and can't boot. > Got kernel panic. > Did you install the LU packages from b101? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Help with Sparc Classic?

2008-11-23 Thread Ian Collins
Dennis Kathrens wrote: > > I recently received a free SparcClassic complete with keyboard & monitor. > > My questions are: > > Can I install the current release of OpenSolaris on this machine? > No, it's way too old. > > If not, what is the latest release I can download and install? > Solaris 9,

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

2008-11-22 Thread Ian Collins
Dan Levine wrote: > Thanks... Is there any text installer, though? Or anything I can possibly use > to reduce the install CD's RAM consumption? > > It's being addressed, apparently. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensol

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

2008-11-22 Thread Ian Collins
Dan Levine wrote: > > Also - is it possible to install to a UFS filesystem instead of ZFS? ZFS > seems to be the major RAM hog on my machine, and booting from ZFS filesystems > seems very slow. > Not with Sun's OpenSolaris distribution. -- Ian. __

Re: [osol-help] OK downloaded Sun Studio 11 .. no install instructions ..

2008-11-13 Thread Ian Collins
Dale E. Galekovic wrote: > Hi. > > Sorry I just downloaded Sun Studio 11 Why not 12? > .. cool package but no install instruction .. I like Solaris but Fedora > Core is easier ... all I want to do is add Linux CPU frequency driver for AMD > Athlon64 from AMD OK I know it's easier with Fedor

Re: [osol-help] Problem with ssh

2008-11-07 Thread Ian Collins
Paul Johnston wrote: > Had to play around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get haskell and some > linguistic parser working, guess I was missing something :-) > If you ever have to do that (which you shouldn't if the code is built correctly), use a wrapper script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for that command

Re: [osol-help] Installing harddisks on OpenSolaris

2008-11-05 Thread Ian Collins
Erik Pragt wrote: > Wow, that is easy! > > df -h now shows this: > > .. > rpool/ROOT 144G18K 139G 1%/rpool/ROOT > tank 2.0T27K 2.0T 1%/tank > > Which is really nice! > > Thanks for the help (all of you!) so far! Now I'm going to try to settu

Re: [osol-help] libdlpi.h

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Collins
liron wrote: > I am using solaris machine version 10.5 > This isn't really the place to ask about Solaris 10. > and there is not exist libdlpi.h file, that is why i can not use > dlpi_get_physaddr() , what can i do instesd? > You did an end user install, so you system is missing the requir

Re: [osol-help] SXCE b101 panic at DVD boot time SPARC U10

2008-11-01 Thread Ian Collins
Sean Sprague wrote: > Hello all, I have a strange one here... > > I dusted off my old U10 256MB RAM and burned a SXCE b101 DVD (well I burned > the DVD on a PC...). The U10 boots from DVD (very slowly, even though I put a > brand new DVDRW drive into it :-( ), but after a while, it panics in > s

Re: [osol-help] Want help on installing opensolaris in vista !

2008-11-01 Thread Ian Collins
Ranil Chaminda Madawalage wrote: > Hi guys, > I am totally new to opensolaris and i just got my free cd's on yesterday.i > followed the step by step guide from opensolaris.org.so this is my problem. > > i typed [b]pfexec format[/b] in terminal window.then the terminal window > shows this. > > [b]

Re: [osol-help] How do you install the ON project.

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Collins
Corey wrote: > I'm trying to install the ON (opensolaris/Networking project) and am having a > hard time understanding the instructions. is there a step by step procedure? > I'm not doing any development with it, just looking for the drivers and to > install the crossbow project later to a zone.

Re: [osol-help] Kernel crash during I/O with SXCE b98 and b99

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Collins
Georgi Chulkov wrote: > Hello, > > I am a long-time Linux user, but I am completely new to Solaris. I have been > trying to test SXCE on a PC which is to become a file server, but I've run > into severe problems. > > During writing I/O, the kernel has a high probability of crashing. This > happe

Re: [osol-help] Unable to install Solaris Express Community Edition

2008-10-21 Thread Ian Collins
TamTam wrote: > I have had a certain amount of success installing opensolaris and then > solaris 10. Ultimately through the advice of LQ members I choose to install > the Solaris Community Express Edition. > > LQ? > It fails miserably by looping displaying the following message... > > It firs

Re: [osol-help] panic luupgrade'ing SXCE B95 to B99

2008-10-20 Thread Ian Collins
Dave Uhring wrote: >> 3 years later, they can't be bothered to put in a simple test >> to make sure people don't forget. If luupgrade had said >> "you're trying to upgrade to snv_99 with the snv_95 lu bits", >> I would have avoided this... >> > > That's why we make our own recipes :) > > $ ca

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