Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8: What happened to slocate?

2013-08-19 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 20/08/2013 02:09, Russ Price wrote: On 08/19/2013 04:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I don't know how closely OI followed, but in the "upstream" ("midstream"?) sources from Oracle, JDS obsoleted slocate because the upstream died, and mlocate was delivered in Userland to replace it. mlocate ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8: What happened to slocate?

2013-08-19 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On po, 2013-08-19 at 19:09 -0500, Russ Price wrote: > On 08/19/2013 04:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > I don't know how closely OI followed, but in the "upstream" ("midstream"?) > > sources from Oracle, JDS obsoleted slocate because the upstream died, and > > mlocate was delivered in Userla

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8: What happened to slocate?

2013-08-19 Thread Russ Price
On 08/19/2013 04:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I don't know how closely OI followed, but in the "upstream" ("midstream"?) sources from Oracle, JDS obsoleted slocate because the upstream died, and mlocate was delivered in Userland to replace it. mlocate had the benefit of both a still active ups

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8: What happened to slocate?

2013-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/19/13 02:44 PM, Russ Price wrote: I upgraded a couple of systems to 151a8, and I've discovered that slocate and updatedb are no longer present. There's still a package, but it doesn't contain any files. I suppose, as a stopgap, I could grab the necessary files from my old BE. root@castle:~

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8: What happened to slocate?

2013-08-19 Thread Russ Price
I upgraded a couple of systems to 151a8, and I've discovered that slocate and updatedb are no longer present. There's still a package, but it doesn't contain any files. I suppose, as a stopgap, I could grab the necessary files from my old BE. root@castle:~# pkg info slocate Name: file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: Steve Goldthorpe [mailto:openindi...@waistcoat.org.uk] >> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:23 PM >> >> No matter what I try I can't seem to get a 4K aligned root pool using the >> OpenIndiana installer (oi151-a7 live i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unmount DVD from GUI fails with oi_151a8

2013-08-19 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 19/08/2013 17:12, Gary Mills wrote: When I insert a DVD in the drive on an oi_151a8 computer, a corresponding icon appears on the desktop. However, when I select the `Unmount' option from the icon menu, I get a dialogue box: Unable to unmount ... umount: permission denied I don't

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unmount DVD from GUI fails with oi_151a8

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
When I insert a DVD in the drive on an oi_151a8 computer, a corresponding icon appears on the desktop. However, when I select the `Unmount' option from the icon menu, I get a dialogue box: Unable to unmount ... umount: permission denied I don't know if this worked under oi_151a7. When I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8 does not recognize an audio CD

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
I noticed this problem on two separate machines that I upgraded from oi_151a7 to oi_151a8. When I insert an audio CD in the drive, the drive light flashes several times but the audio CD icon does not appear on the desktop. Consequently, the Rhythmbox music player doesn't display the tracks on the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 08:45:22AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:57:42AM +0100, Jon Tibble wrote: > > For debugging updates use the process here: > > > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Troubleshooting+image-update+failures [...] > Reason: Newer version > pkg:/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-19 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-19 13:02, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Steve Goldthorpe [mailto:openindi...@waistcoat.org.uk] Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:23 PM No matter what I try I can't seem to get a 4K aligned root pool using the OpenIndiana installer (oi151-a7 live image). I'm using ESXi us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Steve Goldthorpe [mailto:openindi...@waistcoat.org.uk] > Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:23 PM > > No matter what I try I can't seem to get a 4K aligned root pool using the > OpenIndiana installer (oi151-a7 live image). > I'm using ESXi using 4K aligned disks. You shouldn't put ESX vol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-19 Thread Steve Goldthorpe
Think I've figured it out myself. As my disks are virtual, I should just be able to remove them from the machine and change their geometry to X/255/32 rather than Y/255/63 and things should be aligned. Done the maths and the new partition size should be just slightly bigger so I shouldn't have to