Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

2021-03-17 Thread Gary Mills
> > whithout this, FF will raise a assertion in JS code. It sounds as if we need the illumos developers to make the appropriate change to the illumos kernel or to the linker so that this setting will not be necessary. An illumos bug report would be a good starting point. -- -Gary M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-28 Thread Gary Mills
ed automatically. You don't have to do anything. The FMRI of that service is svc:/system/dbus:default . -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-28 Thread Gary Mills
/media/STORE N GO on /dev/dsk/c7t0d0p0:1 read/write/nosetuid/nodevices/hidden/nofoldcase/clamptime/noatime/timezone=21600/dev=3701190 on Sun Mar 28 21:20:50 2021 USB devices are automatically mounted under /media . You can access them there. To unmount them, I use the right-click menu of th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-29 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 04:24:58PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 08:38:33PM -0700, irixuzer wrote: > > I'm new to the list. Ive been trying to mount usb devices. After the first > > time, which was successful, I've been getting the following: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

2021-03-29 Thread Gary Mills
Microsoft patents and licence costs, I would suspect. You have to reformat those USB devices. The FAT filesystem is the only portable filesystem between OI and Windows. You can reformat them on Windows or OI. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] timezone

2021-03-30 Thread Gary Mills
ck the man page for rtc for details. You can also look at the file /etc/rtc_config for current time zone settings. If you change the time zone with rtc, you should reboot immediately. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-21 Thread Gary Mills
ler itself can be booted either way. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-22 Thread Gary Mills
ol. This configuration does work. Other people use different configurations that also works. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OS update works nicely

2021-05-15 Thread Gary Mills
driver. I'm impressed, and also pleased. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-18 Thread Gary Mills
n hal (supplied by illumos) and X11 (supplied by OI). -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-19 Thread Gary Mills
u to recover a USB keyboard if you happen to change it. Of course, doing that is just about as drastic as rebooting. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-19 Thread Gary Mills
e The error seems to be in the man page. The method script svc-hal does not use any SMF properties. It only runs: /usr/lib/hal/hald --daemon=yes About all you can do to run the daemon with different options is to disable the service and then run it manually. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-20 Thread Gary Mills
rrent version of OI. > It should not interfere with the mounting of USB storage > devices. Yes, I agree. Nevertheless, something also prevents automounting of USB sticks. I assume there's something in common behind the two symptoms. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-20 Thread Gary Mills
monitors a storage device. I don't know the plumbing in detail, but I assume that without the process, hald will not be aware of changes to USB devices. That is the problem I'm seeing. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

2021-06-21 Thread Gary Mills
.. | grep NEEDED works better than ldd. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

2021-08-14 Thread Gary Mills
ing software for them that would run > on OI? It might already be ported to OI but just not on the USB image. I don't know. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing li

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-12 Thread Gary Mills
y restores to ZFS filesystems. What are you using to backup ZFS files? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-26 Thread Gary Mills
OI package, making it easy to install. I had been using zetaback, from OmniTI. It also has an OI package. I may continue to use that product. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-30 Thread Gary Mills
tire filesystem from a replica. The system I used formerly, zetaback, only stored "zfs send" streams on the backup device. That's something that's failure-prone, according to all the ZFS documents I've read. The only disadvantage of zrepl that I've encountered so far

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup for ZFS filesystems

2022-03-31 Thread Gary Mills
repl packages are not packages at all. For example, the solaris and illumos downloads are just single binaries that run on those platforms. They are components of packages, not complete packages. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winni

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up: SSH has been updated to 8.9p1

2022-04-10 Thread Gary Mills
rk/ssh:default service needs to be restarted after the update? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up: SSH has been updated to 8.9p1

2022-04-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 09:15:00PM +0200, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > Am 10.04.22 um 20:53 schrieb Gary Mills: > > Isn't there something in the P5M file that says that the > > svc:/network/ssh:default service needs to be restarted after the > > update? > > > No,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2022-04-13 Thread Gary Mills
v4 routing enabled enabled IPv6 routing disabled disabled IPv4 forwarding disabled disabled IPv6 forwarding disabled disabled ... -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2022-04-13 Thread Gary Mills
ns, laptop users can leverage nwam network > configuations." That really means: "in an envionment where the network configuration changes frequently". > So that doc positions NWAM as a solution for 'laptop users'. > Opinions may differ ... NWAM act

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] services dependency cycle

2022-05-05 Thread Gary Mills
system with the service metainit present. It think > was disabled on my broken setup btw. I have one: $ svcs -a | grep meta disabled Apr_23 svc:/system/metainit:default I'm running a BE dated 2021-08-30 . The only dependency seems to be svc:/system/identity:node . --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell 15810 bricked after latest update

2022-06-16 Thread Gary Mills
y systems no longer support BIOS downgrades. > no luck cannot go past the > dell screen no matter which f key I push, Rescatux is useless. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem replacing a disk by a bigger one

2022-06-26 Thread Gary Mills
s with both disks permanently installed on a desktop. I don't know if it even works with USB disks. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem replacing a disk by a bigger one

2022-06-27 Thread Gary Mills
ing to turn off the notebook What does "zpool status" show? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update fails with python mediator errors

2022-07-05 Thread Gary Mills
I logged in and deleted the bad service. Then I shut down the system and rebooted it. I got a normal boot. This is a well-known problem with OI. The command probably came from a web page, but I can no longer find it. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update fails with python mediator errors

2022-07-05 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 01:10:09PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > > What's the exact command? I recall I had this problem after an > update. The boot stopped in single-user mode. I logged in and > deleted the bad service. Then I shut down the system and rebooted > it. I got a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-17 Thread Gary Mills
any way to get a traceback of that tab crash or to send one to a developer? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
new and old BEs are on different systems, with quite different browser profiles. It's unlikely that the profile is the cause. I'll try to use "truss -f" to see what happens just before the tab crash. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
re's something different between my systems and yours that is causing the tab crash. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] My Firefox tab has crashed

2023-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 07:07:38PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > Whenever I tell Firefox to show me www.royalbank.com, and click on the > Sign In box, it tells me that my tab just crashed. This behavior just > started happening today. It happens before I get an opportunity to > authenti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] libpulsecore error

2023-03-09 Thread Gary Mills
ar 4 18:30 gschemas.compiled-old According to the date, it came from an old BE, and was not rebuilt or installed in two updates. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on a fanless mini-PC

2023-04-20 Thread Gary Mills
o the latest OI. That's what the system is running now. I used the gui version mainly because I only know how to use the Network GUI to configure the network. I won't need a console once the configuration is complete. I certainly will never need the web browser. -- -Gary

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
? Can I attach a console later, if I happen to need it? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/lis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
ator hardware installed, with a dedicated ethernet port. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-08 Thread Gary Mills
V. Thanks for the page. I'll make sure I get one or two of those plugs. I expect I'll need them. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-09 Thread Gary Mills
ly switching the KVM to a different system. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-09 Thread Gary Mills
looks like VGA video to the OS, but converts VGA text to a serial stream that goes to a dedicated ethernet port. They work nicely for me with OI and IPMI. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

2023-05-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 10:31:09AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > Is anybody running OI on a computer that does not have a console? > I have a system that I installed with the GUI image, and with an > HDMI console and USB keyboard and mouse. Now I'd like to use this > system withou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS server and domain from DHCP?

2023-12-20 Thread Gary Mills
r computer. If you are unable to do that, the whole thing becomes more complicated. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://open

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Replace xscreensaver with mate-screensaver

2024-01-21 Thread Gary Mills
way to add more. In short, mate-screensaver is a good basic screensaver. People who want to use xscreensaver will have to install it themselves, if the change suggested in the PR takes place. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replace xscreensaver with mate-screensaver

2024-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
etween, if that is posible. I don't know if there is an official spelling in Canada, or in anyplace for that matter. I certainly don't want to impose my personal views on other people. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replace xscreensaver with mate-screensaver

2024-01-22 Thread Gary Mills
eport. I've just filed Bug #16205 for the mate-screensaver time issue. I'm not going to work on it, because I'm old and retired. Perhaps a younger person could fix the bug. -- -Gary Mills--refurb-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ask for a small contribution related Pulseaudio,

2024-02-10 Thread Gary Mills
s/pci@0,0/pci1022,1454@8,1/pci1043,86c7@0,3:sound,dsp1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 68 Sep 20 2017 audiohd:1mixer -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1022,1454@8,1/pci1043,86c7@0,3:sound,mixer1 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Userland questions?

2010-09-21 Thread Gary Driggs
ooks as if some spec files were issued for LXDE so it might be the easier of the two to get installed... http://wiki.lxde.org/en/OpenSolaris q.v. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris_Desktop for more background. -Gary ___ OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] JDS Nevada b150 - gate starting to close!

2010-09-21 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 21, 2010, at 6:50 AM, BM wrote: > Not saying Opera is any good browser (rather horrible) but there are > still a lot of users using it. They openly admit that their desktop apps are a test bed for their more stable mobile & embedded releas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

2010-10-06 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:41 AM, "Gabriel!" wrote: > OpenIndiana remainds me the opensource version of Indiana Jones. Funny you should say that as the host name for my first OI install is drjones. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing lis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63

2010-10-25 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/25/10 8:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Send OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list submissions to openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-10-31 Thread Gary Driggs
Not coincidentally, the Usenix LISA conference is in the same building that very week. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-05 Thread Gary Driggs
tem it's replacing -- except, perhaps, in the case of a physical to virtual conversion. Again, workstations or lab/dev/QA systems are another matter depending on their level of importance (e.g. my production workstation lately lags behind by a year or two but my notebook gets a quarter

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Suggestions for SATA HBAs

2010-12-12 Thread Gary Driggs
I would start with the OpenSolaris hardware compatibility list. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss libfmevent problem with installing

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Gendel
On 12/21/10 7:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:58:13 +1100 From: Andrew Myers To: "openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org" Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147 Message-ID:<094999e1-a6a2-47a7-9

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Mills
d Core Processor AM3 2.8GHZ 6MB L3 Cache 95W Retail Box $165.43 -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/li

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:58:32PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Gary Mills writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > >> > >> Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris > >> well? > &

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Thinkpad Z61p problems

2010-12-28 Thread Gary Gendel
6 loaded @ 0xf97f1d30/0xd9ae6c00 size 596/360 installing rts, module id 166. Then it just hangs. No response to the F1 shift-A request. I'm not sure what other information I can get. Regards, Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-disc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2011-01-04 Thread Gary Gendel
eel. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+xfce/ Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it's not being actively supported or developed anymore. Gary On 1/4/11 7:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Send OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list submissions to open

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Gendel
alled. How can I provide information that will help track down the installation problems? Thanks, Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mozilla

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Mills
opriate type, and load it into a package repository. > But someone obviously will need to maintain it. Somebody would need to maintain the repository framework, but the packages could be added and replaced by a variety of contributors. -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--C

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Gendel
and initialize everything from backup. I figure it will take most of a day. Gary Alan, I'll try the text install on the laptop and let you know what I find. If I try the repository upgrade on the v20z, is there a session log that might contain better information about the python cr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install to a new BE

2011-01-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Is it possible to do a fresh install to a new BE rather than image-update? This would make it possible to go back to the previous BE in case there was an installation problem? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with "File exists" error for a man page

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been struggling to update from snv_134b to OpenIndiana, but both 147 and 148 fail when trying to install SUNWxwpnm, the X-Window man pages. The crash comes because a file already exists. I don't know what file so I don't know how to get around it. Any ideas? -- The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with "File exists" error for a man page

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Gendel
get apcupsd running because it crashes in this library in a strchr() call when initializing the usb connection. It shows a SIGSEGV permission problem. I had to go back to 134b because I can't find who is using the cpus. Gary On 1/11/11 9:39 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I've been struggling to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] video card for v40z

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Driggs
Whats the onboard GPU? Its an older PCI-X system if I recall. Have you tried VESA standard settings first? What other cards have you tried already? -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Gendel
the scrub was introducing checksum errors. I tracked it down to elevated temperatures during the scrub, which really pounds at the disks. Better cooling on the disk tower resolved the problem. Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-16 Thread Gary Gendel
or most users, and is too insecure to be a viable replacement. I only mention this because the installer should know the target use of the machine so it knows what "core" really is. Few will be happy at everything on a community requested list. Gary

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to set the default publisher on a repository?

2011-01-16 Thread Gary Mills
ty or no default publisher has been set. How do I set the default publisher on this repository? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-17 Thread Gary Mills
d your contributed package and since > SFE is likely to become one of our "upstream" projects where we > might import packages from at a later time. Is this only a repository of spec files, or is it an IPS repository too? I would like to see an independant repository of IPS packages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No keyboard during install of oi 148

2011-01-18 Thread Gary Gendel
that time. Be patent; these things will get fixed. We have a very bright, small, overworked, developer community that are doing their best. Since people like you and I are not providing good diagnostic information we just have to hang tight and wait for someone that can. Regards, Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Yes. You can use the install_openindiana script from here: http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_openindiana This will create a new BE and install a fresh copy of indiana in it. It really is a life-saver. Gary On 1/25/11 8:27 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I have an installation of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Personally, whether it's sendmail, postfix, qmail or something else I couldn't care less. We all have our MTA of choice. For the mail server I pull whatever it is it out to run spamdyke/qmail with an IMAP (dovecot) interface for access from all the other machines. I've done it dozens of time

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to document SMF facilities for an upstream package

2011-01-27 Thread Gary Mills
only to the SMF service? What should it be called? Should I document them in some other way? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Does napp-it suit the bill? How about Webmn? On 1/28/11 1:09 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/28/11 09:27, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: So I vote for (stable) Server GUI distribution of OI. A GUI server version seems good; it directly competes with other gui server OS. whatever was decide

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Sorry, I mistyped... It should have said webmin (www.webmin.com). On 1/28/11 3:16 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/28/11 10:29, Gary Gendel wrote: Does napp-it suit the bill? How about Webmn? first time i've heard about napp-it and could not find anything on webmn I read some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Flash hangs all system, under VirtualBox

2011-01-30 Thread Gary Driggs
ser manual, chapter 12; troubleshooting. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox Sync

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Gendel
itten a test module written in pure python (using pycrypt) that does work so I understand the differences enough to know that the changes in WeaveCrypto were significant. Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing Intel NIC Driver on OpenIndiana oi_148

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Driggs
Have you tried running: update_drv -a -i "pci8086,2001" e1000g On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Hendriansyah wrote: > Hi All, > > I've done the sys-unconfig, but the ones that was detected was only the old > D-Link fast ethernet PCI card as the primary network interface. These are > the output of th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Performance problem with Flash & Firefox 4.0 b10

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Gendel
I've seen similar problems posted on the OpenSolaris discuss-desktop mailing list. You might want to see if they posted a solution. On 2/1/11 3:14 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: After upgrading to Frefox 4.0 b10 and Flash plugin 10.1 r102 on OpenIndiana oi_148, Flash started to consume close to 100%

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Performance problem with Flash & Firefox 4.0 b10

2011-02-02 Thread Gary Gendel
inos based version is ready I'll give it another try. Gary On 2/2/11 7:57 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: Yeah I had problems, in the end I downgraded to FF 3.6 and the problem went away. You can turn off the plugin protection code (about:config ... can't remember which specific flag to chang

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to document SMF facilities for an upstream package

2011-02-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:04:52PM -0500, Gordon Ross wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > I've just completed writing a spec file to build an IPS package for > > the ISC DHCP server.  I haven't made any changes to the source for > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Gendel
I tend to agree with Matt. I've had several catastrophic power incidence on my server running OpenSolaris without incident (such as a UPS gone haywire). Since ZFS does transaction-safe reads and writes, the consistency on the disk has an extremely low probability of getting corrupt. But there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need good beginner guide to network configuration in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris with NWAM

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Driggs
e.com/docs/cd/E19963-01 -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-07 Thread Gary Gendel
twork. Can I replace the cron job with a trigger from the dhcp client when it gets a new IP address instead? Is this possible with the current dhcp client or a replacement? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Something that someone mentioned in passing triggered a thought. My server gets it's ip address via DHCP from my ISP. Currentl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Driggs
firmware tweaks and burn-in testing procedures that are applied before shipping. Without confusing the issue by talking more about OEM vs standard enterprise drives in this message, please consider the details in the white paper before deploying drives for home or office in a system that you'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Driggs
> On 02/08/2011 09:57 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: >> Again, this is a home archiving system with requirements of 1) data >> integrity, >> 2) minimal impact on electric bill over a year's run time and 3) >> approximately >> no noise. On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Russ Price wrote: > It won't be as lo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/9/11 5:56 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: On 08/02/2011, at 6:16 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Something that so

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Pkgbuild with IPS and SVR4 packages

2011-02-10 Thread Gary Mills
these problems? Some IPS packages contain both SPARC and x86 executables. Is there a way to build these with pkgbuild? Do SPARC and x86 IPS packages reside in the same repository, or should there be separate repositories for the two architectures? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Group--Compu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-11 Thread Gary Gendel
This sounds more like the CD is corrupt and the drive is having problems reading the disk. Two things to try... See if it installs on another machine and try an external usb drive. In the past I found that the external drive to be much more reliable than the internal drive on the v20z. Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-12 Thread Gary Gendel
u but not showing up in ps or prstat. I think it was a service in quick restart mode. I used the net installer from here: http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_openindiana Gary On 2/11/11 10:58 PM, Marion Hakanson wrote: g...@genashor.com said: This sounds more like the CD is corr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-12 Thread Gary Gendel
Forgot... Here is the article that goes along with the script: http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/network-installer-for-openindiana/ On 2/12/11 7:32 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Marion, I have somewhat successfully brought up oi_148 on my v20z. I only had two issues that I didn't hav

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar behavior of a local IPS repository

2011-02-14 Thread Gary Mills
used the Package Manager GUI to install it. Why are the two different? As far as I can tell, there's no way to delete the old builds from the repository, other than starting over by deleting everything. This is rather inconvenient. Is there a better way? -- -Gary Mills--

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-02-18 Thread Gary Mills
twork to provide DHCP services for desktops, laptops through a wireless access point, a Sun Ray thin client, and a Blue-Ray player. This IPS package would provide an alternative to Sun's DHCP server, but would not replace it. Do I start by posting an RFE? -- -Gary Mills--Unix

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] xVM in OpenIndiana?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
ases outside the "Express" series. In the mean time, AFAIK nobody in OI/Illumos have taken ownership of that code to update it. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
port SAS functionality. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
I've found memoryx.com has some of the best prices and often most obscure RAM available. They'll even build their own if necessary and their support is top notch. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
hen Sun & other workstation vendors still called all their video cards frame buffers. q.v. the much older vector displays and the much newer graphics accelerators. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Ooh! This looks just like what was happening when I tried 148 on my v20z. Looks like something in the 148 bge driver is wacked. On 2/28/11 9:22 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 07:33 +, Chris Ridd wrote: On 28 Feb 2011, at 04:20, Ken Gunderson wrote: But one

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