Trying to install snv_128a, this is what I get (matters not which
installation method I try):
Power up, splash screen, drop into installer, and it instantly halts,
showing the following
kernel$ /platform/i86/kernal/$ISADIR/unix
l
Hi,
Boot the opensolaris CD. The tricky part is next. Figure
out which cXtYdZs? holds your root rpool.
Then run
/sbin/installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2
/dev/rdsk/cXtYdZs?
Reboot into opensolaris. Once booted. Run fdisk on the disk
/dev/dsk/cXtYdZp0
Use the NTFS tag t
Confirmed. After removing the 2 contrib packages that depended on
entire, I was able to upgrade from 128 to 129.
-- Alan
Alan Steinberg wrote:
I believe I will have the same situation. I do have a few contrib
packages installed.
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Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wr
UNIX admin wrote:
The better question is why someone is doing something
so broken in the
first place.
There is nothing broken about being able to consistently and repeatably create
databases via packages.
But there is something broken about abusing the package installation
process to setup
> The better question is why someone is doing something
> so broken in the
> first place.
There is nothing broken about being able to consistently and repeatably create
databases via packages.
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UNIX admin wrote:
> I guess I failed to make my point - you can't engineer an enterprise piece of
> software, for example for a bank or an insurance agency, or the any Fortune
> 100 company, then come to the sales presentation and tell them that they must
> use OpenSolaris.
>
> Banks for instan
(2009/12/11 11:03), keithk wrote:
Hello,
It's been so long running on Opensolaris without utilizing the full potential
of my computer. I am using Opensolaris as my primary machine, but it bugs me
that sound has not been fix - it has crackling/static sounds which were
reported by many member of
UNIX admin wrote:
>> There are few compatibility breaks that affect ISV's
>> - what is breaking your
>> software?
>
> What happens on OpenSolaris when one tries to install a System V package that
> runs a CREATE DATABASE inside of "postinstall" and SQL*Plus?
The same thing as on SXCE, since it's
UNIX admin wrote:
There are few compatibility breaks that affect ISV's
- what is breaking your
software?
What happens on OpenSolaris when one tries to install a System V package that runs a
CREATE DATABASE inside of "postinstall" and SQL*Plus?
The better question is why someone is doing some
This thread is getting a little vitriolic but I agree with UNIX admin's
argument.
I am a very firm supporter of Solaris, even in situations which are
strongly anti Solaris.
I also find that although the Sun OS staff and Opensolaris contributors
are absolutely brilliant technically, they are a
> There are few compatibility breaks that affect ISV's
> - what is breaking your
> software?
What happens on OpenSolaris when one tries to install a System V package that
runs a CREATE DATABASE inside of "postinstall" and SQL*Plus?
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> How are they worthless? They all install fine,
> since compatibility was kept
> with the System V packaging system.
I guess I failed to make my point - you can't engineer an enterprise piece of
software, for example for a bank or an insurance agency, or the any Fortune 100
company, then come
> Sorry - just realized my mistake in replying to this
> mail too soon after
> having a different discussion and not shifting my
> brain fast enough - root's
> shell is bash, /bin/sh is ksh93.
Errare humanum est - to err is human.
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> How are they worthless? They all install fine,
> since compatibility was kept
> with the System V packaging system.
I was told in no uncertain terms, by a Sun engineer I respect and trust, that
IPS will be "the way forward", come hell or high water, and that unless I
migrate to IPS, all of o
Hello,
It's been so long running on Opensolaris without utilizing the full potential
of my computer. I am using Opensolaris as my primary machine, but it bugs me
that sound has not been fix - it has crackling/static sounds which were
reported by many member of the community. To add insult to the
> Or you could just continue to be a troll on the
> OpenSolaris lists
And by the way, do bear in mind that today's "trolls on OpenSolaris lists" are
tomorrow's purchase decision makers and technology adopters and consultants, or
software company owners Just a thought.
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> Just for the record, you don't need to be a kernel
> engineer to
> contribute to OpenSolaris.
Nobody ever said anything to the contrary; I certainly didn't, not even implied
it.
But what are you going to do without kernel engineers? They don't grow on trees.
And it's not like there is an abu
I just run a simple test comparison on a dual Opteron 275 system (dual core
with frequency scaling AMD PowerNow!)
1) OpenSolaris build 128: idle 200-220 Watts, browsing the Internet with
firefox 200-220Watts
2) Fedora 12: idle 75Watts, Browsing the Internet 110-120Watts, compiling the
kernel 1
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> UNIX admin wrote:
>> I dislike the fact that root's shell is /bin/bash.
>
> Then don't change it to bash - OpenSolaris doesn't ship that way.
Sorry - just realized my mistake in replying to this mail too soon after
having a different discussion and not shifting my brain
UNIX admin wrote:
> OpenSolaris will never make it to the top of the food chain because it has
> severe architectural issues, starting with the software management subsystem,
> continuing with breaking compatibility with Solaris, and causing tremendous
> engineering and software development effo
On 11/12/2009, at 1:26 PM, UNIX admin wrote:
There is indeed a failure here, and it's one of
communication: Sun
certainly needs to be clearer about exactly what
OpenSolaris is
targeting, and how it is going to get there. _I_
certainly could use
better information. And, yes, I do wish it were
I believe I will have the same situation. I do have a few contrib
packages installed.
-- Alan
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote:
I've just updated the bug, but basically, yes - two packages. Now they
are removed, the image-update works as expected.
Thanks,
Brian
d
I've just updated the bug, but basically, yes - two packages. Now they
are removed, the image-update works as expected.
Thanks,
Brian
david.co...@sun.com wrote:
Logged as bug 13241:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13241
Looks like I can't upgrade (although I'm hoping ther
> I suspect he's a holdover from the switch from SunOS
> to Solaris, way
> back in the early 90s. SunOS was a BSD-based system,
> and many
> old-timers really disliked the switch to the
> SVR4-based Solaris.
My first Solaris was 2.5.1. So I started off on a System V Release 4.0 UNIX,
and I fee
Logged as bug 13241: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13241
Looks like I can't upgrade (although I'm hoping there is a workaround).
If I let it run to completion, I see:
DOWNLOAD PKGS FILESXFER (MB)
Completed
> Like I said above, my local understanding about
> David's comment is that
> he meant OpenSolaris is a Linux replacement /for the
> LAMPS niche/ .
> Once again, OpenSolaris is about creating a superior
> OS for targeted
> niches, of which LAMPS is one. To win in such
> niches, you do need to
Logged as bug 13241: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13241
Looks like I can't upgrade (although I'm hoping there is a workaround).
If I let it run to completion, I see:
DOWNLOAD PKGS FILESXFER (MB)
Completed
OpenSolaris, at least according to David Comay & Co., is going for
Linux / GNU crowd directly, hence the forced-at-all-and-any-cost
replacement of System V utilities to GNU userland
Actually, that's never been stated as a goal in any form. What has
been said is there is a large community of bot
Is it possible when you install OpenSolaris, then on the other partition
Windowsto recover GRUB as a boot loader to be able to choose between Windowsand
OpenSolaris? I know that GRUB has to be adapted to be able to recognizeZFS so
this is one of the reasons why I ask that. If it is possible, it
I had seen this too trying to go from bld 128 to 129 on my desktop
system, but since other test systems didn't see a problem I thought it
might be something just in my environment that I might have messed up. I
still have the environment, so I can take a look. It's possible my issue
is related
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote:
I was trying to image-update to b129, and I wasn't going to be put
off by the request to upgrade the pkg command:
$ pfexec pkg image-update -nv
Creatin
Shawn Walker wrote:
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote:
I was trying to image-update to b129, and I wasn't going to be put
off by the request to upgrade the pkg command:
$ pfexec pkg image-update -nv
Creating Plan - WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and shou
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote:
I was trying to image-update to b129, and I wasn't going to be put off
by the request to upgrade the pkg command:
$ pfexec pkg image-update -nv
Creating Plan - WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be
updated before
I was trying to image-update to b129, and I wasn't going to be put off
by the request to upgrade the pkg command:
$ pfexec pkg image-update -nv
Creating Plan - WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be
updated before
running image-update. Please update pkg(5) using 'pfexec pk
Nibal,
There are a bunch of documents that review this subject from the light to the
extensive.
For those of us that have done these 'migrations', we'd like to tell you that
this is not an easy undertaking - but can be done.
As mentioned before, read up on some migration docs concerning the ma
Hi Martin,
My understanding is that ZFS can cope with disks being re-arranged by
searching for the unique identifier on each disk which tells the system
which pool it belongs to.
That said, the demonstrations I've seen only involved re-positioning the
disks rather than a complete change in
solarg wrote:
i've the same problem related in this thread:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=99671&tstart=60
i've set up the nfssec.conf and /etc/default/nfs, even auto_master. and
it doesn't work, the NFS client is sending my credentials
as "nobody4"
Looking at snoop, i got:
dmpk2k wrote:
I also have a graybeard sysadmin colleague who froths against Solaris. I have
noticed, however, that all his rants have to do the command-line. Remove those,
and I suspect he'd suddenly be a bit more mellow. I'm trying to convince him to
give Solaris another spin, and given his c
> This looks like bug 6835533 (
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6835533 )
> At least the mystery of the reboot can be solved :-)
This bug seems to be related to FireWire drives. My HDs also have USB
interfaces. Is it possible to zpool export the pool, hook it to t
> And in that OpenSolaris fails miserably
Perhaps it fails miserably for your needs, but not for mine. I'm one of the
much-reviled Linux nubs who decided to take a closer look at OpenSolaris. Hi.
I don't particularly care about the different behaviour of utilities in Solaris
-- glancing at a ma
UNIX admin wrote:
The problem is one of target audience. OpenSolaris
isn't a wholesale
Linux replacement - that is, it's not intended to do
everything that
Linux does, nor be used everywhere that Linux is.
People get confused
n that. In many ways, OpenSolaris is more like the
various *BSD OS
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Nibal wrote:
> Hi All,
> I need your advice :
>
> I’m planning to migrate from windows clients OS to any Linux version, in
> our organization :
>
> Current Environment :
>
> Solaris 10 server OS which have Oracle Ebs 10 web – this will not change
> Clients :
> W
> The problem is one of target audience. OpenSolaris
> isn't a wholesale
> Linux replacement - that is, it's not intended to do
> everything that
> Linux does, nor be used everywhere that Linux is.
> People get confused
> n that. In many ways, OpenSolaris is more like the
> various *BSD OSes -
Yes I did the same steps, and can connect to iscsi and transfer data. With my
last configuration I mapped to dsk instead of rdsk. Still crashes though.
I use Citrix Xenserver for virtualization, this does not play a part in the
problem, as I have got the same results strictly using the Microsof
hello all,
i've the same problem related in this thread:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=99671&tstart=60
i've set up the nfssec.conf and /etc/default/nfs, even auto_master. and
it doesn't work, the NFS client is sending my credentials
as "nobody4"
Looking at snoop, i got:
snap
I did a 'pkg install storage-server'
and then followed http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=968 and
the tests that i have done, copying files, running io meter for a few hours has
been fine. I havent tried running any vm's on there yet. will try it when i
have set up the server at
Anyone? Maybe even another internet forum where someone could help me.
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I did this, when the storage server crashed again, it created the
var/crash/ folders, but there are no contents inside?
Is this correct? If so , where is the dump and how do I look at it?
Thanks,
Amos
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Ok, I enable the crash dumping.
I don't understand the "mdb -k unix.n vmcore.n" where n is a number?
A random number?
Thanks.
Amos
> is there a kernwl dump in /var/crash/${hostname}
> if there is that. try running the following command
>
> mdb -k unix.n vmcore.n
>
> where n is a number
> a
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Dr. Martin Mundschenk wrote:
System messages are recorded in /var/adm/messages on Solaris
(assuming you've not directed them elsewhere in /etc/syslog.conf).
Search them for the word "panic" or "savecore". Also, find the line
which begins "SunOS Release" and look at the stuff before it. For
Dr. Martin Mundschenk wrote:
I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system
rebooted but don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not
indicative of a reboot). Was this a panic?
Where do I get more information? At least there is nothing more in syslog.
System messag
>
> I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system rebooted but
> don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not indicative of a reboot).
> Was this a panic?
Where do I get more information? At least there is nothing more in syslog.
>
> My guess on the sendmail and groups
Hi Martin,
I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system rebooted
but don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not indicative of a
reboot). Was this a panic?
My guess on the sendmail and groups issue is a name service problem.
Checking sendmail's source, the message p
I just figured out, that the system rebooted at 01:19 h in the night with no
reason. The only entries in syslog at that time are:
Dec 10 01:20:45 iunis sendmail[553]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
gethostbyaddr(192.168.56.1) failed: 1
Dec 10 01:20:45 iunis sendmail[572]: [ID 702911 mail.info] start
Hi!
This morning all members of a group vanished. The result was, that scripts
could not be executed due to missing permissions.
What circumstances can lead to such a behavior?
Martin
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