[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Netgear FA311 NIC @ CompUSA

2006-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > That's a bit of a back down from your previous > assertion of > malice on the part of Sun's engineers. > > If you're going to make claims like you did earlier, > provide the > evidence to back it up or don't make the assertion. > > > James C. McPherson >

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-09-08 Thread Carisdad
Eric Boutilier wrote: Frank -- In case this helps... http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/smacking_super_smack_into_shape ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Start with running mkheaders which will be in your path somewhe

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Netgear FA311 NIC @ CompUSA

2006-09-08 Thread James C. McPherson
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: For those who have been trying to explore a move from Linux to Solaris, "the" most frustrating problem (plse note I didn't say "one of . . .") is the inability to make NIC work under Solaris. Sun's developers seem determined to exclude ALL of those drivers for NICs tha

[osol-discuss] Re: Netgear FA311 NIC @ CompUSA

2006-09-08 Thread David Comay
Have you considered requesting such support via http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa Having such requests for enhancements let the community know about the missing functionality and provides a way to track its progress (at the moment, modulo any issues with bugs.opensolaris.org!) Please

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade, downgrade, patches, etc.

2006-09-08 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: How stuck am I once I decide to install Solaris 10, or Solaris Community Edition? How much do I have to blow away to switch to the other one? I mean, obviously it's easy if I scrub the disks down and start over from scratch, but I'm wondering if t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Compiling sysbench on Solaris 10

2006-09-08 Thread Rod Evans
Torrey McMahon wrote: Rod Evans wrote: I'd have thought things could be simpler by adding: -L usr/local/mysql/lib -L /usr/local/lib to the link-edit command line (LDFLAGS?). And don't forget, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is recognized by the runtime linker (ld.so.1) too. Thus you are forcing a

[osol-discuss] Re: Netgear FA311 NIC @ CompUSA

2006-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > For those who have been trying to explore a move > from Linux to Solaris, > > "the" most frustrating problem (plse note I didn't > say "one of . . .") is > > the inability to make NIC work under Solaris. > Sun's developers seem > determined to exclude ALL of those drivers for NICs > that are

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Object Storage Device (OSD) support for Solaris

2006-09-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Ed. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Ed Nadolski wrote: The T10 SCSI OSD specification defines a command protocol that allows data to be stored and managed as logical objects rather than as blocks of data. We would like to propose an open

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: Project star integration

2006-09-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Joerg. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: Hi, as it seems that real work is done with ksh93 integration after a maling list and a project hast bee created, I propose to create something similar for star

[osol-discuss] Re: Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-09-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
Frank -- In case this helps... http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/smacking_super_smack_into_shape ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-09-08 Thread David Powell
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:20:13PM +0200, "Dhr, Markus ICC-H" wrote: > > I cannot figure out why it will be complaining for contract > > id (ctdid) header not present in /usr/include/sys/siginfo. > > > > Once again this is probably something really trivial and 101 > > but I can really use some i

RE: [osol-discuss] Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-09-08 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
> I cannot figure out why it will be complaining for contract > id (ctdid) header not present in /usr/include/sys/siginfo. > > Once again this is probably something really trivial and 101 > but I can really use some input. It's not complaining about the header not beeing there but ctid_t not de

Re: [osol-discuss] Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-09-08 Thread James Carlson
Frank Mash writes: > /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:259: error: 'ctid_t' is used as a type, but is not >defined as a type. > /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:390: error: 'ctid_t' is used as a type, but is not >defined as a type. This looks like the usual gcc fixincludes issue. If you upgrade the sy

[osol-discuss] Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-09-08 Thread Frank Mash
Hello all, I was so happy earlier to finally get Sysbench to compile (thanks to all the brains here). Unfortunately as much as I wanted to solve my next compilation issue myself, I can't. Both me and my SA have been working on this but we cannot get a grip on this. The issue involves compili

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New install, trying to bring up X login blanks screen and locks me out

2006-09-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 9/8/06, Jürgen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Login with the root password in single user mode, and try to fix the X11 server setup. What probably works is switching back from "Xorg" to the "Xsun" server. This can be done by running the command "kdmconfig". Yep, works fine. Thanks! I'l

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Compiling sysbench on Solaris 10

2006-09-08 Thread Torrey McMahon
Rod Evans wrote: I'd have thought things could be simpler by adding: -L usr/local/mysql/lib -L /usr/local/lib to the link-edit command line (LDFLAGS?). And don't forget, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is recognized by the runtime linker (ld.so.1) too. Thus you are forcing all commands executed wi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Compiling sysbench on Solaris 10

2006-09-08 Thread Rod Evans
Frank Mash wrote: # Set up my environment CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc CFLAGS=-xarch=v9 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/ucblib These three paths are searched by ld(1)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> Gueven Bay wrote: >> >> [...] >> NOTE: The patches are anonymously available to any nastiest persons in >> the world, without any kind of authorization! >> So where is the "legal difference" ?? >> > > >From the little that I know of legal t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Martin Bochnig wrote: Gueven Bay wrote: [...] NOTE: The patches are anonymously available to any nastiest persons in the world, without any kind of authorization! So where is the "legal difference" ?? From the little that I know of legal terms, the "Right To Use" and "Right To Re-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Gueven Bay wrote: You know Mr Casper, My question is still not answered, yet. Even if the mentioned libraries are Visual Basic libs, this does not matter. But what matter is the qeustion: How and what exactly the existing distributions are distributing -aka giving away, giving to the users- if

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Gueven Bay
Thank you bochnig for the elaborate answer. It is now clearer to me. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some questions....

2006-09-08 Thread Eric Saxe
Boyd Adamson wrote: The global priorities are what is used by the scheduler to decide what to do in the disp() function. Each class provides a mapping from user to global priorities. I'm not aware, off the top of my head, of a way to manipulate the global priorities directly. If you just wa

[osol-discuss] Re: VMware Workstation 5.5.2 Build 29772

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Pattison
The only "computer" I use that has OS/2 on it is a cash machine ;-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Better still: #!/bin/sh echo "" echo "Your NICs should already be DHCP - configured now." echo "Otherwise quit via ^C and run /bin/net-up first." echo "" echo "Continuing in 5 seconds ... " echo "" sleep 5 ##/bin/net-up mkdir /tmp/readwrite/libs.tmp cd /tmp/readwrite/libs.tmp wget http://patc

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: > >#!/bin/sh > >echo "" >echo "Your NICs should already be DHCP - configured now." >echo "Otherwise quit via ^C and run /bin/net-up first." >echo "" >echo "Continuing in 5 seconds ... " >echo "" >sleep 5 > >##/bin/net-up > >mkdir /tmp/readwrite/libs.tmp >cd /tmp/readwrite/lib

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Gueven Bay wrote: >You know Mr Casper, > >My question is still not answered, yet. > >Even if the mentioned libraries are Visual Basic libs, this does not matter. >But what matter is the qeustion: How and what exactly the existing >distributions are distributing -aka giving away, giving to the use

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Tom Marble
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Tom Marble wrote: >> I find that the only libs required for Java (for the purposes of addressing >> the DLJ concerns in this thread) are: >> libCrun.so.1 >> libdemangle.so.1 > > Are you saying, SUNW should not make the other 3 libC* libs > redistributable at all ??? Not at

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Gueven Bay
You know Mr Casper, My question is still not answered, yet. Even if the mentioned libraries are Visual Basic libs, this does not matter. But what matter is the qeustion: How and what exactly the existing distributions are distributing -aka giving away, giving to the users- if the system libs ar

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Tom Marble wrote: >Martin Bochnig wrote: > > >>Tom Marble wrote: >> >> >>>I find that the only libs required for Java (for the purposes of addressing >>>the DLJ concerns in this thread) are: >>>libCrun.so.1 >>>libdemangle.so.1 >>> >>> >>Are you saying, SUNW should not make the other 3

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware Workstation 5.5.2 Build 29772

2006-09-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > I installed it yesterday, along with snv_47. Worked like a champ > so far. I haven't installed the VM tools package yet on that > machine, but I would expect that the mouse/video will work as > usual (with the same video workarounds). > Thank you very much you Large Geek you. :-) er Geek

[osol-discuss] Re: Compiling sysbench on Solaris 10

2006-09-08 Thread Frank Mash
Thank you so much for everyone's input. I was just able to successfully compile sysbench (hurray). What I did was: # Removed the current sysbench source directory rm -r -f sysbench-0.4.7 # Extracted a fresh copy from the tarball. tar -xf sysbench-0.4.7.tar # Changed my pwd to sysbench-0.4.7 cd s

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Tom Marble wrote: >All: > >I did the following analysis of Java SE 5.0 and found the following: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10% pwd >/usr/local/java/jdk1.5.0_07/jre/lib/sparc >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11% foreach f (`find . -name '*.so'`) >foreach? ldd $f >> /tmp/javalibs.txt >foreach? echo $f >foreach? end > >

[osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Tom Marble
All: I did the following analysis of Java SE 5.0 and found the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10% pwd /usr/local/java/jdk1.5.0_07/jre/lib/sparc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11% foreach f (`find . -name '*.so'`) foreach? ldd $f >> /tmp/javalibs.txt foreach? echo $f foreach? end Then, by examining the output o

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Object Storage Device (OSD) support for Solaris

2006-09-08 Thread James Carlson
Spencer Shepler writes: > > How does this project align with ZFS and the rest of our storage > > offerings? > > NFSv4.1's pNFS feature set can use an OSD target as a data store (as > well as a "files" base data store and a block based data store). > In fact, one might argue that in the pNFS contex

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware Workstation 5.5.2 Build 29772

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer
I installed it yesterday, along with snv_47. Worked like a champ so far. I haven't installed the VM tools package yet on that machine, but I would expect that the mouse/video will work as usual (with the same video workarounds). bill. Dennis Clarke wrote: There is a new release of VMWare Wo

[osol-discuss] Re: New install, trying to bring up X login blanks screen and locks me out

2006-09-08 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I believe I have a working scratch install of S10u2 on my new server > box, but when I boot it, after relatively few seconds I get a message > on the screen that X login screen is coming and I should wait for it. > Then the screen blanks, and I cannot talk to the system through the > keyboard aga

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Simon Phipps wrote: > > _ > Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems > Tel: +1 650 352 6327/USx69758 Web: www.webmink.net, AIM: webmink > Current timezone: UTC+1 (UK) > > > [...] The libC stuff is listed on the roadmap page, so it is a known thing: http://w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Simon Phipps
_ Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems Tel: +1 650 352 6327/USx69758 Web: www.webmink.net, AIM: webmink Current timezone: UTC+1 (UK) On Sep 8, 2006, at 08:43, Martin Bochnig wrote: Bonnie Corwin wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote On 09/07/06 01:32,: Martin Bochnig wro

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>If the opsol libc is not redistributable how do the actual existing opsol >distros >do it? What is Belenix doing? What is Schillix using? > >Did they port the gnu libc to OpenSolaris? Did they port the BSD libc to opsol? libC not libc. Casper ___ o

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hugh McIntyre wrote: > Gueven Bay wrote: > >> How can someone distribute an operating system without the c library? > > > This is the C++ library, not C. > > Hugh. Despite the fact, that somebody else made that mistake/confusion (and that it is good that you corrected that error, so I don't n

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
Bonnie Corwin wrote: >Moinak Ghosh wrote On 09/07/06 01:32,: > > >>Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >> >> >>>David Comay wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I don't know the answer about redistributing libC* but have you brought up the DLJ question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the appropriate foru

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Object Storage Device (OSD) support for Solaris

2006-09-08 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Thu, James Carlson wrote: > Cyril Plisko writes: > > > The T10 OSD model provides a number of advantages over the aging > > > block-based > > > storage model in areas such as performance, scalability, and security. > > > Storage > > > vendors are currently developing storage devices that suppo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Gueven Bay wrote: How can someone distribute an operating system without the c library? This is the C++ library, not C. Hugh. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-08 Thread Gueven Bay
If the opsol libc is not redistributable how do the actual existing opsol distros do it? What is Belenix doing? What is Schillix using? Did they port the gnu libc to OpenSolaris? Did they port the BSD libc to opsol? How can someone distribute an operating system without the c library? I would b