Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] live DVD hanging during boot

2020-10-15 Thread Gerard Arthus
What are settings in CMOS for example UEFI or Legacy or both? Gerry Gerard Arthus 409 Lowell Avenue East Mishawaka, Indiana United States 46545 Cell - 574-302-7731 Home - 574-520-1337 <574-217-8726> Instructor ITT-Tech - Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering. garthus...@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] live DVD hanging during boot

2020-10-15 Thread Lauren Pullen
On 10/15/20 21:37, Gerard Arthus wrote: Sounds like a hardware issue; I changed my video card after this type of action and it worked. What are the 'specs' for the machine. GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 (gigabyte) mainboard 8 GB RAM GTX 1050 TI 3 GB graphics 2 SATA hard drives and a DVD drive It currently r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] live DVD hanging during boot

2020-10-15 Thread Gerard Arthus
Sounds like a hardware issue; I changed my video card after this type of action and it worked. What are the 'specs' for the machine. Best Wishes, Gerry Gerard Arthus 409 Lowell Avenue East Mishawaka, Indiana United States 46545 Cell - 574-302-7731 Home - 574-520-1337 <574-217-8726> Instructor IT

[OpenIndiana-discuss] live DVD hanging during boot

2020-10-15 Thread Lauren Pullen
Hello list, I'm trying to install openindiana on my workstation and the boot process is hanging before the keyboard or language questions are printed. I was thinking it might just be slow, so I let it run all night to no avail. When I boot in verbose mode it prints the CPU features, the total

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intruducing a new pair of rpool mirror discs

2020-10-15 Thread Harry Putnam
"Coalson, Timothy Scott (S&T-Student)" writes: > Having (much) less than 300GB of data doesn't mean none of it is > written past the 300GB mark, and I believe mirror vdevs use the same > offset in each component device for the mirror copies. Even for > relatively simple fs-on-softraid setups, yo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intruducing a new pair of rpool mirror discs

2020-10-15 Thread
Having (much) less than 300GB of data doesn't mean none of it is written past the 300GB mark, and I believe mirror vdevs use the same offset in each component device for the mirror copies. Even for relatively simple fs-on-softraid setups, you have to use specialized tools to move data out of t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Intruducing a new pair of rpool mirror discs

2020-10-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been running on a single rpool disk of what was a mirrored pair for some time and am planning on correcting that now. One disc went belly up some months ago. I want to take the opportunity to introduce a pair of 300gb velocaraptors (sp) to replace both the bad disk and the working disk. 'th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:35:37AM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > > root@openindiana:~# pkg search -l > depend::library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups > INDEX ACTION VALUE > PACKAGE > incorporate depend library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:35:37AM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20201015140917.ga18...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >library/desktop/gtk2/gtk-backend-cups > >library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups > > > >were not installed. These packages deliver libprintbackend-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <20201015140917.ga18...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: >library/desktop/gtk2/gtk-backend-cups >library/desktop/gtk3/gtk-backend-cups > >were not installed. These packages deliver libprintbackend-cups.so . >Once I installed these two packages, the firefox print dialogue s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from Firefox does not work

2020-10-15 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:42:21PM -0500, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > What does > > pkg list | egrep -i print > > output? Your suggestion gave me a clue. I did some reading to fill in the blanks. The print dialogue window in firefox, and in a few other applications, i

[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox crashing

2020-10-15 Thread russell
Hi Updated OI hipster on 11th October, so now running on illumos-aefb332f56. I have noticed that Firefox is now crashing on sites where it used to work. I can get a round by using a virtual machine to access the sites but it annoying. I have disabled the plugins but the problem remains. Is t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] the dirty lowdown hold not giving up the ghost

2020-10-15 Thread Harry Putnam
"Coalson, Timothy Scott (S&T-Student)" writes: > Maybe this is too obvious, but "keep" is just the string they chose to > use in that documentation page, you need to know the right string for > your snapshot in order to release the hold. You can get a list of the > current holds on a snapshot wi