Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to my root cron!?

2009-05-04 Thread William Bauer
This exact thing happened to me again, except I had removed the empty line after the previous incident. I have two systems with otherwise identical root crontabs (one still has a blank line) and this happened only on one. It appears it happened just after or before a reboot, but it was a plann

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2 released

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 08:55 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: ... > * StormOS: An XFCE based derivative of NCP2 is in the works. For those > looking for a desktop variation of NCP2, keep a lookout on the StormOS > website. The beta release of StormOS Hail is in the offing. > Nice to see one more lightw

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2 released

2009-05-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2. The release has stabilized. This release will become the final release if no major bugs are reported. Release Highlights: -- * OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches. * Over 13000 packages i

Re: [osol-discuss] powertop errors on snv_112

2009-05-04 Thread Aubrey Li
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Andre Lue wrote: > Running powertop is showing the following errors. Anyone know what the > problem may be > > eon:16:/deep/ips/usr/bin#truss -v all -w all -r all  -o /tmp/foo ./powertop > OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1   (C) 2008 Intel Corporation I already ans

Re: [osol-discuss] odd top segmentation fault

2009-05-04 Thread Alan
Didn't work; it's not generating a core file, but running it from mdb gave this, if it helps: > ::stack hash_lookup_pidthr+0x38() > ::status debugging PID 25513 (32-bit) file: /export/home/alan/top/i386/top threading model: raw lwps status: stopped on SIGSEGV (Segmentation Fault) event: stop on S

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > But please note that at the time Solaris 8 was created, Sun was just in a > > state > > where the managers believed in closed source. With Solaris 8, there are > > only > > thre OSS packages: > > > > - mkisofs > > - gzip > > - bash >

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> But please note that at the time Solaris 8 was created, Sun was just in a >> state >> where the managers believed in closed source. With Solaris 8, there are only >> thre OSS packages: >> >> -     mkisofs >> -    

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi Martin, Nearly two years ago I tweaked the SUNWlsimega driver to recognise the LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X raid controller and have been using ever since (as I used to manage the ftp site so know from which locations it was downloaded which included Sun). It was a minor change and I found the d

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > But please note that at the time Solaris 8 was created, Sun was just in a > state > where the managers believed in closed source. With Solaris 8, there are only > thre OSS packages: > > - mkisofs > - gzip > - bash Even Solaris 8 had a lot more than just 3 o

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread russell aspinwall
The only reason I pointed it out was that I tried to install OpenSolaris as my base OS and found the feature missing. Sometimes, knowing what question to ask is almost as difficult as answering the question. Thanks for the feedback. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] powertop errors on snv_112

2009-05-04 Thread Andre Lue
Running powertop is showing the following errors. Anyone know what the problem may be eon:16:/deep/ips/usr/bin#truss -v all -w all -r all -o /tmp/foo ./powertop OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1 (C) 2008 Intel Corporation powertop: ../cpufreq.c : cpu-change-speed probe unavailable powertop:

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
I have reasons. What I didn't like were a few questions of how things were handled. Nevertheless, I do respect him. It is a thing of the past, it is ok. %martin On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> In 2005 I got banned from the csw mailing lists

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >> > For any of the dependencies, it should be obvious that the dependencies >> > that >> > are valid for Solaris 8 need to be installed for Solaris 11 too as any >> > blastwave package n

[osol-discuss] Reminder: Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Walker
!!! ONLY 5 MORE DAYS !!! Remember the deadline for package submissions is May 8th. The Software Porters Community can help if you have questions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/ Make sure to register your pkgs as soon as possible, you can always add more later. BTW. You can upd

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig wrote: > In 2005 I got banned from the csw mailing lists (because I didn't like > Dennis' ***intransparent*** ***business model*** , where all work I have no idea why you don't like Dennis ... > And: During times of non-dictatorship COMMUNITY effort, under > co-leadersh

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > For any of the dependencies, it should be obvious that the dependencies that > > are valid for Solaris 8 need to be installed for Solaris 11 too as any > > blastwave package need to use the other probrams from it's own environment > > in > >

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, russell aspinwall <7will...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It is great that it can be done using the methods you have outlined but the > user is not prompted > > "Do you wish to add a device driver?   Press Y to add driver" > > so the process is not that user frien

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Hay, Mausul W wrote: > Martin, > > I did not mean to imply that Windows had a Live product. What I was > referring to is that while installing Windows, there is a point at which > you may insert a manufacturer supplied diskette for drivers for hardware > that is not

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi, It is great that it can be done using the methods you have outlined but the user is not prompted "Do you wish to add a device driver? Press Y to add driver" so the process is not that user friendly compared to Windows or Ubuntu. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Hay, Mausul W wrote: > I have to agree with Russell on this one. Not to start an OS war here, > but this feature has been available on Windows for years and they have a Which feature? That you can add a driver into a running LiveCD system? I wonder how this can be

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Hay, Mausul W
Martin, I did not mean to imply that Windows had a Live product. What I was referring to is that while installing Windows, there is a point at which you may insert a manufacturer supplied diskette for drivers for hardware that is not supported by the media you are using (for example, you may not h

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:58 PM, russell aspinwall <7will...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply but building my own Live CD distro is not a very elegant > solution. > Surely a more practical approach would enable drivers to be added during the > boot process either by automatically scann

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Hay, Mausul W
I have to agree with Russell on this one. Not to start an OS war here, but this feature has been available on Windows for years and they have a much broader support for devices that does Solaris/Open Solaris... Is there an architectural reason why it could not be done? -Original Message- F

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 runs very slow when upgraded memory from 4GB to 8GB

2009-05-04 Thread Alan Steinberg
Sun hosts a set of free forums which have been used for a long time to discuss Solaris 10 issues. You need to register to post, but there is no other cost involved: http://forums.sun.com/category.jspa?categoryID=65 Since the Solaris 10 codebase is over 4 years old, the forums can be more rele

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 install Crossbow

2009-05-04 Thread James Carlson
Gian Paolo writes: > is possible to install Crossbow on Solaris 10 10/08 sparc ? No. You could reinstall your system with OpenSolaris, and thus get Crossbow (plus a lot of other new features), but there's no way to install Crossbow on Solaris 10. If you have a support contract, then I would reco

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread russell aspinwall
Thanks for the reply but building my own Live CD distro is not a very elegant solution. Surely a more practical approach would enable drivers to be added during the boot process either by automatically scanning USB drives or a second DVD drive if present. This would allow a Live CD to recognise

Re: [osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 05:37 -0700, russell aspinwall wrote: > Hi. > > I would like to install a device driver during the boot process of the Live > CD so that it correctly identifies my hardware? > Is this a feature that the Live CD supports? > Could this feature be added to subsequent Live CD

[osol-discuss] How to add driver during Live CD booting?

2009-05-04 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi. I would like to install a device driver during the boot process of the Live CD so that it correctly identifies my hardware? Is this a feature that the Live CD supports? Could this feature be added to subsequent Live CDs? This message is relates to the posting below in OpenSolaris:Discuss a

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 install Crossbow

2009-05-04 Thread Ché Kristo
Try their list at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=110 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] AVS & net write failed

2009-05-04 Thread Are Øhrn
I'm using OSOL snv_101b on a pair of HP DL360 G5. I've configured AVS, and it was running fine during testing. One of the 350's is used as a NFS server, and the other one being a standby server. Now AVS "fails" with the message entered logging mode: net write failed. I've configured autosync to

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > That's not the problem. > The problem is, that 5.9, 5.10, 5.10.1 and 5.11 are only symlinks to > 5.8 most of the time, inside the csw repo. > For simplicity it would have been sufficient to concentrate only on 2 > build targets, out of the c

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 install Crossbow

2009-05-04 Thread Gian Paolo
Hi, is possible to install Crossbow on Solaris 10 10/08 sparc ? Thanks bye... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >> > Shawn Walker wrote: >> > >> >> My point was that a dependency algorithm was not the cause of the issue >> >> with the blastwave packages.  It is primarily an issue of how they are >> >>

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > >> My point was that a dependency algorithm was not the cause of the issue > >> with the blastwave packages. It is primarily an issue of how they are > >> built. > > > > There is no "issue" with Blastwave packages. T

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Shawn Walker
Joerg Schilling wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: My point was that a dependency algorithm was not the cause of the issue with the blastwave packages. It is primarily an issue of how they are built. There is no "issue" with Blastwave packages. These packages just make use from the binary compati

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker wrote: > My point was that a dependency algorithm was not the cause of the issue > with the blastwave packages. It is primarily an issue of how they are > built. There is no "issue" with Blastwave packages. These packages just make use from the binary compatibility grant from Su

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-04 Thread Shawn Walker
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: blastwave's packages are built with the assumption that libaries live relative to the rest of the programs (such as under /opt/csw), are compiled with different flags, and generally assume dependencies must be provided by