Re: [osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

2009-07-20 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
the dev branch of opensolaris has 3.5 i think On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Louis de Silva wrote: > hi all, > i'm looking for FireFox 3.5 for OpenSolaris. Could not find them on the > repository. Where can I find it and replace the one that comes with OSOL? > Currently on OSOL, it is 3.1 Bet

[osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

2009-07-20 Thread Louis de Silva
hi all, i'm looking for FireFox 3.5 for OpenSolaris. Could not find them on the repository. Where can I find it and replace the one that comes with OSOL? Currently on OSOL, it is 3.1 Beta 3. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ open

[osol-discuss] I need help understanding ioctls

2009-07-20 Thread Rafael Cunha de Almeida
Hello, I was studying ioctl recently and I found out that, in order to change the IP of a certain interface, you have to create a dummy socket with socket(3SOCKET) and use the returned file descriptor in the ioctl call. That seems strange to me because the IP is not changed only for that particula

[osol-discuss] local standalone install..

2009-07-20 Thread Sriram
hi I have a sparc box - which I would like to install openSolaris. This is a sun blade 1000. I don't want to do a network install / jumpstart etc.. I tried reading on where/how to get a local Install DVD for OpenSolaris 11 for Sparc - but no luck. any help is appriciated. -- This message po

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-20 Thread Anon Y Mous
Ted Dziuba (the author with the potty mouth in the above article) used to work as a programmer / engineer / mathematician for Google a few years back, just in case some of you were wondering what rock this guy has been hiding under for the last few years or so. Now I guess he writes columns for

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?

2009-07-20 Thread Anon Y Mous
This article (from the same guy who wrote the glowing pro-Sun Rock Processor Transactional Memory article I posted in another discuss thread) is one of the best antidotes I have yet read to Steven J Vaughan Nichols's retarded anti-Solaris Computer World article. Instead of countering Vaughn's in

Re: [osol-discuss] smartmontools not working (5.38, snv_118, with -d scsi)

2009-07-20 Thread James Dean
With the exception of the version number, I got exactly the same result and message. James Sent from my mobile. On Jul 19, 2009, at 23:39, Dennis Clarke wrote: I have compiled smartmontools-5.38 from the sourceforge tarball (./configure followed by make) and all seems well. However whe

Re: [osol-discuss] 117 and 118 updates will not boot on Gateway laptop

2009-07-20 Thread Rik Scarborough
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Jürgen Keil wrote: > > that did > > allow me to read at least the last several messages. > > The panic appears to be in the Audio. > > You can use the kmdb "::msgbuf" command to > re-display the kernel's console boot messages. > > Or "::stack" to display the stack

Re: [osol-discuss] rewind zpool txg

2009-07-20 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Thomas Maier-Komor schrieb: > Hi, > > is there a way to tell zfs to rewind the txg of a zpool by a specific > number or to a specifc txg? > > Background: I have an OpenSolaris installation, which fails to boot, > because of an assertion failure during zpool import. The event that > might have cau

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to 118 broke cheese

2009-07-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Cameron wrote: > > I suspect cheese users on build 117 or later have run into this bug: > >http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9782 > > This patch will likely go into our next build (#121). The patch is > in the bug report. If you wanted to rebuild gst-plugins-good (in >

[osol-discuss] rewind zpool txg

2009-07-20 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, is there a way to tell zfs to rewind the txg of a zpool by a specific number or to a specifc txg? Background: I have an OpenSolaris installation, which fails to boot, because of an assertion failure during zpool import. The event that might have caused the situation is possibly related to vir

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to 118 broke cheese

2009-07-20 Thread Brian Cameron
I suspect cheese users on build 117 or later have run into this bug: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9782 This patch will likely go into our next build (#121). The patch is in the bug report. If you wanted to rebuild gst-plugins-good (in the SUNWgnome-media package), then t