[osol-discuss] snv b125 staroffice crash on application startup

2009-10-20 Thread Chad Welsh
well I just installed my favorite flavor of opensolaris SCXE and I find that option menu to select terminal from the desktop is still broken and probably will not be fixed, also it seems that staroffice now upon selecting a document type will immediately bring up the document recovery panel and

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris LDOMs Available

2009-10-20 Thread Jim Walker
Today Simon Sun in Beijing is making an OpenSolaris Sparc Logical Domain (LDOM) server available in the test farm where OpenSolaris LDOMs can be reserved for development and testing. The LDOMs start with the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release pre-installed, but may be image-updated to more recent develop

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
William D. Hathaway wrote: > Thanks Alan, I submitted the bug. I didn't realize the meta info was > available, that certainly makes finding the right category easy! It is for packages delivered from SFW, which is mainly the software from outside open source projects other than the X/GNOME/Mozi

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread William D. Hathaway
Thanks Alan, I submitted the bug. I didn't realize the meta info was available, that certainly makes finding the right category easy! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [dtrace-discuss] How to dtrace thread_reaper?

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Blank
Hi Jon, hi Brian, thank you both very much for your quick and detailed responses. Jon, the code you sent me is exactly what I was looking for! I added some probes to have some more information. > Thus the entry probe will only ever be fired once during the kernel > initialisation, and by the tim

Re: [osol-discuss] exec_attr is empty..

2009-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
casper@sun.com wrote: I've tried to reproduce it. Unsucessfully. Everything updated normally. Maybe because this time pa ckage was taken from cache... Can't happen when you install a SVr4 package; if exec_attr is empty, then it is either: a SVr4 package with a non-standard i.rb

Re: [osol-discuss] odd top segmentation fault

2009-10-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
> 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 Faul

Re: [osol-discuss] #top - Segmentation Fault

2009-10-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I think I can reproduce something when I have the > following process running, and run > > env LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so.1 > UMEM_OPTIONS=backend=mmap UMEM_DEBUG=firewall=1 top > > I've filed > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12124 I tried to fix this "top" bug, and have attached

Re: [osol-discuss] exec_attr is empty..

2009-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
>I've tried to reproduce it. Unsucessfully. Everything updated normally. Maybe >because this time pa ckage was taken from cache... Can't happen when you install a SVr4 package; if exec_attr is empty, then it is either: a SVr4 package with a non-standard i.rbac install script or

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Rich Reynolds
there is also a best practices page at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/install-locations/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] #top - Segmentation Fault

2009-10-20 Thread Jürgen Keil
> It happened again today. Here is pflags and pstack ... > # pstack top-14186 > core 'top-14186' of 14186: top > 0040dac0 hash_lookup_pidthr () + 40 > 00414eff getptable () + 35f > 00411efd get_process_info () + 6d > 0040f2cd main () + 33d > 00408a0c ??

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris without grub

2009-10-20 Thread Emanuele Fontana
This is a good idea! Thanks! emanuele Joseph Mocker ha scritto: What he might be able to do is to reinstall his debian grub2 after the Solaris install, then set up a chainloader entry in debian/grub2 to boot opensolaris/grub and then opensolaris. installgrub on opensolaris should install

Re: [osol-discuss] corporative illness

2009-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Alexander wrote: The source code is also available, so Sun is not denying you the fixes, they're just not providing free binaries to everyone. Updates are a form of support, and support costs. I know, I know, that everything costs something... And a community of users is also a very expensive

Re: [osol-discuss] corporative illness

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander
> The source code is also available, so Sun is not > denying you the fixes, > they're just not providing free binaries to everyone. > > Updates are a form of support, and support costs. > I know, I know, that everything costs something... And a community of users is also a very expensive thing.

Re: [osol-discuss] change root password

2009-10-20 Thread Norm Jacobs
sridhar wrote: how to change the root user password without logging as root user? Assuming that you have the 'root' role, you can use opensolaris% pfexec passwd root -Norm ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Terminal Server/Diskless Clients

2009-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Alexander wrote: Alexander wrote: OpenSolaris ... 4) - No binary updates for stable systems http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/subscriptions/ Yes, I was inaccurate. I meant: - No free binary updates for stable systems It's quite strange. Looks like: hey, guys, test it, find bugs, fix it, we w

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Terminal Server/Diskless Clients

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander
> Alexander wrote: > > OpenSolaris > ... > > 4) - No binary updates for stable systems > http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/subscriptions/ Yes, I was inaccurate. I meant: - No free binary updates for stable systems It's quite strange. Looks like: hey, guys, test it, find bugs, fix it, we won't give

Re: [osol-discuss] exec_attr is empty..

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander
Hello. > What did you upgrade from? I upgraded from opensolaris b123 (x86-64). > If you mount the old BE, did the file have any > contents there? Yes, they had about 300 lines in old BE. > Is this reprodicible? (i.e. beadm activate the old BE > and attempt a > fresh upgrade to snv_125 again - d

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
William D. Hathaway wrote: > I wanted to file a bug on the svc manifest for SUNWsquid, but it isn't clear > to me what the appropriate product and classification would be on > defect.opensolaris.org. Can someone point me towards the appropriate info? http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/u

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Solaris 10 Zones - specification available?

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Andre Boegelsack wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a Sun Solaris Zones specification > availabe and where I might get it?! Currently I'm looking for an official > document which describes the Sun Solaris Zones architecture in detail. The original design spec from 2002 is avail

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Terminal Server/Diskless Clients

2009-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Alexander wrote: OpenSolaris ... 4) - No binary updates for stable systems http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/subscriptions/ -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread William D. Hathaway
I wanted to file a bug on the svc manifest for SUNWsquid, but it isn't clear to me what the appropriate product and classification would be on defect.opensolaris.org. Can someone point me towards the appropriate info? I'm using: sunwsq...@2.7.6,5.11-0.125 The defect is: /lib/svc/method/http-squ

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Solaris 10 Zones - specification available?

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592?l=en -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] exec_attr is empty..

2009-10-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
What did you upgrade from? If you mount the old BE, did the file have any contents there? Is this reprodicible? (i.e. beadm activate the old BE and attempt a fresh upgrade to snv_125 again - does the same happen?) Regards, Brian Alexander wrote: What a hell!!! After updating to opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] strange bash behavior

2009-10-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
What is your home directory in /etc/passwd? What is the underlying directory path? If these two are not the same, then: Are you using automounter? Are there any symlinks in the path to your homedir? e.g. I use /home/brian as my home directory, but the underlying path is /export/home/brian

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Solaris 10 Zones - specification available?

2009-10-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 20 Oct 2009, at 13:14, Andre Boegelsack wrote: Hi to everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a Sun Solaris Zones specification availabe and where I might get it?! Currently I'm looking for an official document which describes the Sun Solaris Zones architecture in detail.

Re: [osol-discuss] How to dtrace thread_reaper?

2009-10-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
If I'm not mistaken, thread_reaper() is created during system boot by a call to thread_create. It then lives forever in the system until it is shut down. Thus the entry probe will only ever be fired once during the kernel initialisation, and by the time you run your dtrace script, thread_reap

[osol-discuss] Sun Solaris 10 Zones - specification available?

2009-10-20 Thread Andre Boegelsack
Hi to everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a Sun Solaris Zones specification availabe and where I might get it?! Currently I'm looking for an official document which describes the Sun Solaris Zones architecture in detail. Regards André -- This message posted from opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Ou. Great. Thanks to point. I think that man hier will be more appropriate. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 02:07 -0700, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > If you want to have garbage on your disk then use another OS. > Packaging systems like IPS and others are here to have consistent hierarchy > of installed packages on your system for easy maintenance, easy writing of > apps from third vend

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
And again. You don't understand Unix world. Read something about it first. Application settings are stored in your home directory so you can't loose them after upgrade of OS or installation of new version of app. Some apps may have additional directories with specific settings but it's mentioned

Re: [osol-discuss] general request/advice/suggestion for os and os app developers

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
1) You completely misunderstood ZFS so that's why you don't know why it needs at least 1GB of RAM for normal function and even why it can run with less then 512MB of RAM 2) Learn something about Solaris 3) Use OS which is appropriate for your needs and don't listen to PRs then something is onl

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/documentation/ http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo200906/Home man man As a user you don't need anything then your home directory. And until you learn some about Unix and read some of links above don't touch anything outside of your home or you will damage

Re: [osol-discuss] install apps intended for other unix variants

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
1) Use as much as possible apps from official repositories or some third party repositories 2) If it's not enough then consider using some virtualization 3) If it's still not enough then learn how to compile apps on OpenSolaris, how to prepare apps for IPS in OpenSolaris and so on -- This mess

Re: [osol-discuss] change root password

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
man pfexec man passwd -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
If you want to have garbage on your disk then use another OS. Packaging systems like IPS and others are here to have consistent hierarchy of installed packages on your system for easy maintenance, easy writing of apps from third vendors and so on. If you are installing some app which is not in

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
:-D +1 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] install apps intended for other unix variants

2009-10-20 Thread Che Kristo
There are a number of ways you can achieve this on OpenSolaris using virtualbox, xvm, zones, wine etc. you will need to provide an actual specific use case to the list if you want pointed information about this. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:40, sridhar wrote: > How to install / setup applications

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Che Kristo
This is not windows, please become familiar with unix and linux file system heirarchies, this will give you an understanding that there is no single "directory" that is used to contain applications. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:39, sridhar wrote: > package manager should ask the user about the ins

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-20 Thread Che Kristo
Hi, You need the right permissions using the pfexec command, at the terminal type: man pfexec this will explain the pfexec command On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:38, sridhar wrote: > I am unable to create a directory/ file anywhere in the file system > except my home directory. How can I enable m

[osol-discuss] How to dtrace thread_reaper?

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Blank
Hi all, I want to trace the thread_reaper and want to find out, how often it runs and how many threads it really reaps. I use this one-liner in the first step: [r...@itotcsol104 bin]# dtrace -n 'fbt:genunix:thread_reaper: { @num[probefunc] = count(); }' dtrace: description 'fbt:genunix:thread_rea