[osol-discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

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[osol-discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-08-25 Thread Alexander Bisogiannis via LinkedIn
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Re: [osol-discuss] Error on dual-boot install- Open Solaris and XP

2010-11-28 Thread Alexander Truskinovsky
"There's nothing on MBR but the blinking GRUB cursor." That's right. This is SUSE's GRUB. During installation of SUSE, YaST overwrites the MBR, but it saves a copy of the old MBR on the hard drive. If you want to restore it, you have to boot from the SUSE CD, open YaST, go to the boot loader

Re: [osol-discuss] [install-discuss] How to install flash player

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Bisogiannis
- Original Message - > From: "Antonio Orvieto" > To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:46:58 PM > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [install-discuss] How to install flash player > it doesen't work... i've not the permessions to do anything in the opt > dire

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!

2010-09-15 Thread Alexander
I've just looked at it. It looks rather interesting. I've thought about migration from SXCE b97 to OpenSolaris 2010.x on our terminal (SRSS) servers. However, it didn't happen on obvious reason. Later we decided to wait for CentOS 6.0 and move there... It would allow us to use legacy SRSS termin

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-20 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 17:36 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > > >Wayne said: > > > >Now that you mentioned this great idea of putting > > > together a minimalist >distro, has anyone ever > > > thought about Milax? I have only taken a short cut > > > and >tried to install it in VirtualBox, but have >

Re: [osol-discuss] shutting it (list) down entirely - emergency ML backup

2010-07-16 Thread Alexander von Gluck
Fixed. :D I am a little dyslexic. ;) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] shutting it (list) down entirely - emergency ML backup

2010-07-16 Thread Alexander von Gluck
[i]"If that proves ineffective we will consider other measures such as putting the list into moderation or shutting it down entirely."[/i] Due to this message by Oracle, I have created a new, unmoderated, emergency backup list on freelists.org just in-case of this worst case scenario: http://ww

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris/Opensolaris, for a Server, or Desktop?

2010-07-06 Thread Alexander
Of course, Solaris is promoted as desktop. Look at SRSS decisions. Terminal servers should be good desktops, otherwise why should I use it? It's silly to use Solaris just to connect user to remote Windows Terminal Server. If I wanted to do it I could use Windows Terminal Server and RDP clients

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-27 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:36 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Sorry for forking the question, but have you recently had any success in > booting Milax 0.5 from its vdi image? I keep getting the "WARNING: init(1M) > exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically" message? Updatin

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Alexander Eremin
Also, if this old box has USB port, could you test USB-boot? Thanks, Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Alexander Eremin
Could you please write what's the messages on console before console-service error, I'll try to investigate this (I haven't problems with 0.5 in VBox with 256MB RAM). Thanks for this, Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-20 Thread Alexander
> > I also recommend Debian for servers, CentOS when > rpm based distros are > > preferred; and Linux Mint for the desktop. > > I recommend Solaris or OpenSolaris for servers, but > what do I know? We use SXCE for two our servers, and they serve our needs. But these servers are hidden in intrane

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-20 Thread Alexander
> >RHEL, SLES, or possibly Debian > > Would you recommend Fedora? IMHO, it is positioned as desktop or "feature-preview" of RHEL-next. After living with Ubuntu on laptop for several years, I'm not satisfied with its stability in last two releases. So, maybe Debian would be more adequate even

Re: [osol-discuss] 5th SchilliX anniversary

2010-06-17 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 23:12 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > five years ago, I did publish the first version of SchilliX, > the first distribution based on OpenSolaris. This was three days > after the OpenSolaris has been made public by Sun. > > For those who are interested, SchilliX is not dead.

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL & message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander
> >You shouldn't pay for reverse-engineered codecs (at > least at Russia) > > That is you say that taking stolen things is legal > (but not anywhere)? No, I say that "stolen thing" is defined different in different countries. And IMHO, reverse engineering is not "stealing" but more like "studying

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL & message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander
> Whoa. Have you seen Fluendo? I use it to play > QuickTime and Flash, plus any MIcrosoft-based format > I've ever encountered, and it works better on > OpenSolaris than on Windows, in terms of start up > speed, etc. Yes, it costs money (like $30), but then > there's no way to get around some of th

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL & message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-13 Thread Alexander
> The relative strengths/weaknesses of the operating > systems design make > windows/ubuntu/osx generally better suited for > primary end-user desktop > interaction, while > solaris/opensolaris/RHEL/debian/freebsd are generally > better suited to power your servers behind the > scenes. Yes, indeed

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg problems

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander
maybe "pkg refresh --full" will help... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-06 Thread Alexander
This description reminds of FreeBSD application jail... This thing would be useful in zones: the ability to say: don't install zone, just run this process in the following chroot environment with specified ip... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris roadmap

2010-06-03 Thread Alexander
There are a lot of options for data storage. In my mind, ideal solution is EMC Clarion (i really like it:)) or some other specialized hardware & soft. For self-build soft I would look at FreeBSD or some specialized solution like FreeBSD-based FreeNAS (http://freenas.org/) or OpenSolaris-based

Re: [osol-discuss] [HELP] Cant install MilaX...

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 03:54 -0700, tom wrote: > im nubie in solaris. i want to install milax 0.5(the latest version) > in my Win 7 at vmware. > But, why everytime i mount iso (milax 0.5), choose what kind of > instalation, then back to start again.. like restart?? > if i install milax 0.4 version,

Re: [osol-discuss] College investigation

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Ian Collins wrote: Yes. But at I use /dev branch and for long time didn't know that OpenSolaris updates are not free (/support repository). There were a lot of information about Fedora/RedHat model, and Fedora's updates are free. So I hoped that it was a temporary state. And now, after recent

Re: [osol-discuss] College investigation

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Ian Collins wrote: On 05/ 4/10 07:51 PM, Alexander wrote: P.S. I really like Solaris. And I wished to try OpenSolaris on some new servers, e.g., database server (ZFS, Zones and Comstar are quite tasty :) ) . But without free patches it's not really an option now. OpenSolaris has neve

Re: [osol-discuss] College investigation

2010-05-04 Thread Alexander
To sum up above answers. The following has been stated by comrades rlhamil and oninoshi. 1) Solaris is stable binary-compatible platform (and they, IMHO, wanted to note that Linux is very evolving). 2) Linux soft often doesn't obey standards. 3) OS may be patched once or twice a year for free...

Re: [osol-discuss] College investigation

2010-05-01 Thread Alexander
> Also, historically Solaris has maintained reverse > compatibility, and standards compliance far better > then Linux. In fact, there is another thread in this > vary forum discussing the difficulty of porting > software from Linux, because developers on that > platform seem unaware of the standard

Re: [osol-discuss] College investigation

2010-04-29 Thread Alexander
> Hi, I write here because a professor left me an > investigation about solaris, and I would like some > opinions from people who uses solaris. I'd like to share my personal view on Solaris. Five years ago it was may be not dying, but in very difficult situation: there were a lot of good engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] Review of OpenSolaris at Desktop Linux Reviews

2010-04-23 Thread Alexander
As I understood it was overview of OpenSolaris as a desktop product. And desktop user doesn't need know anything about SMF and ZFS. He only wants some usual desktop applications and usual task (as system update) to work without any issues... > And > he stuff he didn't even mention: DTrace, ZF

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:28 +0300, Martin Bochnig wrote: > Hello. What? You prefer the head_into_the_sand-approach??? > > If +1 in that manner, > then the same as response: > > > > Do you get it or don´t you > Oracle´s DB is pretty much a monopoly. *There* they can do whatever > they want,

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:44 +0200, Matthias Pfützner wrote: > You (Stephen Bunn) wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Edward Martinez > > > wrote: > > > > it appears the so called writers,reporters from many well respect

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta2 Released

2010-04-01 Thread Alexander
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Alexander > The fee structure isn't that bad you know.. > http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/Pricing Cruel joke. :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta2 Released

2010-04-01 Thread Alexander
> Fee Structure > - > Starting with this release of NCP3, there will be a > small charge for > all users of NCP. This is required for security > upgrades, and usage of > apt-clone functionality. Cool. It seems that FreeBSD is going to be the only free and secure OS for ZFS-based storage ;) -

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris updates...

2010-03-25 Thread Alexander
> Is there > any way to receive secure (Open)Solaris system for > free (or at least for small price...) or we are > forced to migrate our SRSS server to CentOS? During this week I investigated CentOS pros and cons. We disliked quite old soft coming with RHEL. So we decided to let our SRSS serve

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange startup messages on snv_134 February 2010

2010-03-24 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 05:39 -0700, Dr Lou wrote: > Wow! We've just upgraded(?) to snv_134 (Feb 2010), and are seeing > [i]both[/i] of the problems you describe: > > ON SSH: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > > and the various hotplugging error messages. > > and don't have a /dev/ptm

[osol-discuss] Distribution name for ai image

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Eremin
Hi all, working on 13276 I try to implement new volumeid for mkisofs (combined from manifest's distribution name and release number, or if specified, grub_title from manifest). It should look like this for LiveCD: OpenSolaris snv_134 or if grub_tiltle is specified for example as "2010.03": OpenSo

[osol-discuss] opensolaris updates...

2010-03-18 Thread Alexander
I know, it was discussed many times. I know, that it is maybe the wrong place to ask :). But anyway... For now Solaris security updates are non-free. OpenSolaris /dev is not a good choice for a server. OpenSolaris support repository is closed... Is there any way to receive secure (Open)Solaris s

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 doesn't boot after motherboard and CPU replacement

2010-03-17 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:00 +0100, Frank Lahm wrote: > 2010/3/17 Alexander Eremin : > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:19 +0100, Frank Lahm wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I've got a snv_133 machine that won't boot after replacing the > >>

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 doesn't boot after motherboard and CPU replacement

2010-03-17 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:19 +0100, Frank Lahm wrote: > Hi list, > > I've got a snv_133 machine that won't boot after replacing the > motherboard and cpu. Asking for advice before doing the replacement > didn't give anything [1], so I went ahead and tempted fate. Of course > it won't boot now, I on

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Build 133 and HA Cluster

2010-03-04 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:08 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 03/ 3/10 03:59 AM, Tony Williams wrote: > > Thanks, that part works OK now. However, I am now seeing another issue > > when running pkg install ha-cluster-full: > > > > r...@node1:~# /usr/bin/pkg install ha-cluster-full > > Creating Plan

Re: [osol-discuss] [install-discuss] Clean safely /var/pkg/pkg directory

2010-03-03 Thread Alexander Eremin
Thanks Shawn, glad to hear that this will be decided in the future. At present I'll find a some solution for myself ;) Cheers. ::alhazred -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

[osol-discuss] Clean safely /var/pkg/pkg directory

2010-03-03 Thread Alexander Eremin
After all updates I have in /var/pkg/pkg versions starting from 121 and ending with last 133. For example I have for SUNWcs: 0.5.11%2C5.11-0.121%3A20090816T213338Z 0.5.11%2C5.11-0.124%3A20090925T203255Z 0.5.11%2C5.11-0.125%3A20091013T054414Z 0.5.11%2C5.11-0.126%3A20091022T195925Z 0.5.11%2C5.11-0.

Re: [osol-discuss] Software is free. Service is not. Mike Rocha and Tim Chou.

2010-02-13 Thread Alexander
> There is a one positive side of that. Now more people > are forced to switch to OpenSolaris. If free security updates are provided for 2010.03 (like Fedora), it will be possible... Otherwise it's worth looking on FreeBSD (or CentOS for commercial soft) for production :) -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] b132 is out!

2010-02-05 Thread Alexander
Thanks to all developers for good dev release :) If it contained rlwrap, it would be priceless... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The Future of OpenSolaris Releases?

2010-02-03 Thread Alexander
> The intent was to ship with the final release of > Firefox 3.1, but as 3.1 > morphed into 3.5 at Mozilla the build schedule > slipped, and we were stuck > with a beta. To avoid repeating this, 2010.03 went > with 3.5.x instead > of trying to track 3.6 betas, and I'm sure we'll get > complaints

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-29 Thread Alexander
> IIS with Solaris boxes in the same subnet is Bad.  > ever hear of the sadmind worm?  it infected via a IIS > host and ran the sadmind exploit on all Solaris boxes Cool. I always suspected that running IIS is bad. But I haven't expected that Solaris is also so vulnerable... It's good that we don'

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-29 Thread Alexander
> I personally can't see why anyone would use Windoze > for anything else besides playing video games and > collecting viruses anyway. 1) AD Sever - there is no alternatives, samba 4 is regrettably in permanent alpha state... 2) You can use IIS or Apache, Windows DHCP Server, Terminal and file Ser

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-29 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
y are comparable (and Intel/AMD blade nowadays may be faster). So how should I explain our manager, that SPARC hardware is so good? Is it really 3 times better? -- Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Computer Center of South Federal Unive

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Alexander
> To make a desktop OS work as a data center OS is not > remotely the best engineering practice. Could you > run Solaris 8 on a desktop? Sure. But why? It > wasn't practical. Could you use Windows 95 as a > server? Probably many did. But why? That wasn't > its intended use. And where is tha

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug 13540 - what are conditions to hit it?

2010-01-25 Thread Alexander
Thanks for your answer, Brian. This bug is not GDM-related (reproducible with GDM disabled). ~/.xsession-errors doesn't contain any useful information. gnome-session output is the folowing: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... Cleaned 0 files 0 still live /etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done,

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Bug 13540 - what are conditions to hit it?

2010-01-23 Thread Alexander
I have core files, but default Xorg is compiled without debug symbols. I don't know if it can be useful... > > However, I see that people work with these builds > successfully. What can be a reason for such a strange > behavior? Can I help in any way in diagnosing this > problem? > > > > Can

[osol-discuss] Bug 13540 - what are conditions to hit it?

2010-01-23 Thread Alexander
Hello. For two builds (130,131) I hit 13540 bug (Xorg dies on gnome-session startup). I couldn't make more sophisticated diagnostics, but all other main gnome processes (gnome-settings-daemon, metacity, nautilus, gnome-panel) may be launched by hand from xterm and work successfully. However, I

[osol-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-22 Thread Alexander
Is it possible to have /etc on separate zfs pool in OpenSolaris? The purpose is to have rw non-persistent main pool and rw persistent /etc... I've tried to make legacy etcpool/etc file system and mount it in /etc/vfstab... Is it possible to extend boot-archive in such a way that it include most

Re: [osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2010-01-03 Thread Alexander
> how about lofs? this is used, for example, to mount > directories from global zone to a local zone... It's inapplicable. We need rw fs, and we want changes to go into separate place (directory) so that initial directory is unchanged. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2009-12-28 Thread Alexander
I'm not so sure. The problem is much more complex. This is a problem of managing configuration files, updating system, installing new software and testing. All this problems are connected. - All services should be clustered if it is possible - We need an ability to add new node to cluster fast /d

Re: [osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2009-12-28 Thread Alexander
about svn-related functions...) > Alexander wrote: > > > Does OpenSolaris support some kind of unionfs? > > Somewhere wetween SunOS-3.0 and SunOS-3.5 in 1986, > "tfs" the > translucent filesystem was introduced as part of NSE. > It was > unfortunately re

Re: [osol-discuss] Consolidating servers - Is OpenSolaris a viable solution?

2009-12-28 Thread Alexander
Hello. I wouldn't advice OpenSolaris for critical servers. You should pay for support or use sometimes very unstable /dev releases. If you like zones + ZFS, you could look at Linux configuration (e.g. LVM + OpenVZ or LVM+kvm), it would be more familiar to you) or (if you want something new and

[osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2009-12-25 Thread Alexander
Does OpenSolaris support some kind of unionfs? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris network boot

2009-12-24 Thread Alexander
OK, as I've understood Solaris always could use diskless configuration only for jumpstart install. But I'd like to do the following: shared read only disk1 is mounted on root shared read write disk2 directories are populated from template and mounted over disk1 /etc and /export/home directorie

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris network boot

2009-12-24 Thread Alexander
Hello, could someone provide links to documentation how can I setup NFS root OpenSolaris host using PXE boot? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Mirror config and installgrub errors

2009-12-21 Thread Alexander
I've found answer - had to create backup partition 2, which covers all the disk... Now installgrub works... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Mirror config and installgrub errors

2009-12-21 Thread Alexander
I've hsut bought second drive for my hope PC and decided to do mirror. I've made pfexec zpool attach rpool c9d0s0 c13d0s0 waited for scrub and tried to install grub on second disk: $ pfexec installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c13d0s0 cannot open/stat device /dev/rdsk/c13

[osol-discuss] pcie_hp_init: initialize hotplug controller failed with -1

2009-12-15 Thread Alexander
Hello. After updating OpenSolaris from snv_126 to snv_129 I started to receive the following messages on boot: Dec 15 19:15:36 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pcieb0 is /p...@0,0/pci8086,2...@1 Dec 15 19:15:36 opensolaris pcie: [ID 441510 kern.warning] WARNING: pcie_hp_init: initiali

Re: [osol-discuss] tcpdump -A equivalent in snoop?

2009-12-14 Thread Alexander
Thanks... tcpdump is much more habitual for me... > > What did I miss? Updated from 126 to 129 build, > installed SUNWtcpdump. > > Now tcpdump complains that bpf is missing: > > $ pfexec tcpdump -i e1000g0 > > tcpdump: (cannot open device) /dev/bpf: No such > file or directory > > > > It is re

Re: [osol-discuss] tcpdump -A equivalent in snoop?

2009-12-14 Thread Alexander
> Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O > http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ contrib > $ pfexec pkg install tcpdump > > will show up in the dev repo in build 129. What did I miss? Updated from 126 to 129 build, installed SUNWtcpdump. Now tcpdump complains that bpf is missi

[osol-discuss] tcpdump -A equivalent in snoop?

2009-12-09 Thread Alexander
Hello, is there switch like tcpdump -A for snoop? "tcpdump -s 0 -A -i " is good for analyzing clear text protocols, but "snoop -s 0 -x 0 -d " shows hexadecimal data, which is quite noisy :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Cluster

2009-11-26 Thread Alexander
I worked with Linux RAC configuration, used Oracle CRSS to configure Oracle Application Server high available configuration, and as I am reading, Sun Cluster Software is much the same... We have several distinct systems (cluster node), which are configured separately and only different services

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Cluster

2009-11-25 Thread Alexander
Hello. Do someone know good (open)solaris cluster tools, which will allow us to do the following: 1) Each server has common config files (most of /etc(/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow), same packages installed, same services enabled) 2) Each server has its custom config files which overrides common file

Re: [osol-discuss] Restart skips grub menu

2009-11-07 Thread W. Charles Alexander
Thanks! Can I turn it off completely? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Restart skips grub menu

2009-11-07 Thread W. Charles Alexander
Hello: I have a system with 1 SATA HD, it has windows 7 on it (Which takes the first 2 partitions) OpenSolaris 5.11 snv 126 is on a 3rd partition. (It did it in snv 125 also so I updated system to 126 but still doing it) If I powerdown and then turn it back on, I get the Grub menu fine. If I am

[osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

2009-11-05 Thread Alexander
Hello. Does someone know why is ignoreeof set by default in bash now in /etc/bash/bashrc ? It is quite annoying :) I understand, that I can export IGNOREEOF=0 in each ~/.bashrc , but why such annoying behavior became default? P.S. Another question. I'd prefer to remove it from /etc/bash/bashr

[osol-discuss] gnome-keyboard-applet

2009-11-02 Thread Alexander
Hello. Can someone clarify the situation with PSARC/2009/558 - gnome keyboard switcher re-integration? Will gnome keyboard applet appear in OpenSolaris 10.03 ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-

Re: [osol-discuss] Winkeys keyboard layout for iim

2009-11-02 Thread Alexander
I've just tried ibus... Is it going to be better? All Russian keytables are spoiled. The most adequate are phonetic and kbd, but 1) keys with point, semicolon and other punctuation signs are not redefined; 2) there is still no winkeys code page... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange DBUS errors on 125 build

2009-10-25 Thread Alexander
> > After updating from 123 to 125 build of OpenSolaris > I > > began to receive strange dbus errors. ... The > following > > messages appear on console: > > dbus-daemon: rejected to send message > > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume, member=Eject, > > Error=unknown. > > Is this bug Bug 12133 ?

[osol-discuss] Strange DBUS errors on 125 build

2009-10-25 Thread Alexander
After updating from 123 to 125 build of OpenSolaris I began to receive strange dbus errors. When I insert CD, it is mounted, but gvfs says: "Can't mount volume". When I push eject button on Nautilus panel, gvfsd says "Cannot unmount volume". The following messages appear on console: dbus-daemo

Re: [osol-discuss] corporative illness

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
not obvious. В вт, 20/10/2009 в 13:37 -0500, Shawn Walker пишет: > 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

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] 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, f

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

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander
e to snv_125 again - does the same > happen?) I've tried to reproduce it. Unsucessfully. Everything updated normally. Maybe because this time package was taken from cache... > > Alexander wrote: > > What a hell!!! > > After updating to opensolaris build 125 I got an >

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Terminal Server/Diskless Clients

2009-10-19 Thread Alexander
I'd like to continue our conversation. As I wrote earlier, we are going to update our SXCE SunRay Server. However, we have a limit quantity of SunRay Terminals and a lot of legacy hardware, so we think about some variants of diskless clients, something like ltsp.org project. To work with client

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris: insecure or unstable ?

2009-10-17 Thread Alexander
> Don't think about it as Linux. It has more with BSD > systems. Like OpenBSD. You have release, you can have > stable with security updates but only for base system > (sunsolve.sun.com). If you want updates for packages > too then you must use current(dev). Which is not > problem. It's problem whe

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris: insecure or unstable ?

2009-10-17 Thread Alexander
> Maybe you could try to deploy Solaris 10, with all > updates. 1) Our applications are no so critical to pay for Sun Support, and Solaris patches are available only by non-free subscription. 2) Solaris package system is quite ugly (in my opinion). >OpenSolaris is new project. You could > look at

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris: insecure or unstable ?

2009-10-17 Thread Alexander
I've recently found out that for OpenSolaris releases security update are not free... It's quite confusing: end users receive either unstable (dev) or unsecure (release) system :) Does somebody know if there are any plans to make OpenSolaris security updates free? I think about CentOS/OpenSola

[osol-discuss] exec_attr is empty..

2009-10-17 Thread Alexander
What a hell!!! After updating to opensolaris build 125 I got an empty /etc/security/exec_attr, pkg fix SUNWcs (from old BE) didn't help from the first time, only after deleting empty file. Do these bugs bother only me? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] log failed login attempts

2009-10-08 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:57 +0530, Arun Tomar wrote: > auth.notice /var/adm/authlog Verify that /etc/syslog.conf uses and not whitespaces in new line -- ::alhazred ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] log failed login attempts

2009-10-08 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:16 +0530, Arun Tomar wrote: > Hi! > > i was trying to log the failed login attempts to my opensolaris box and > i tried the methods specified in the book, "OpenSolaris bible " page > 421, > > In short this is what it says, > > To enable failed login log, first add the

Re: [osol-discuss] bluetooth project

2009-10-05 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Looks like there were no announces since February and no blog posts ever. Not very alive-and-kicking. Tomas Bodzar wrote: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/bluetooth/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal OpenSolaris

2009-09-30 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 15:18 +0530, a k wrote: > I used steps on this link : > > http://alexeremin.blogspot.com/2008/12/minimum-opensolaris-200811-install.html > > which worked fine for older distro constructor. Fresh DC is very useful for custom mini OS distro, needs only some hacks in scripts a

Re: [osol-discuss] wtmpx and gdm login

2009-09-23 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. Restarted gdm and got a lot of debug output... Attaching it.. > > В пн, 21/09/2009 в 17:50 -0500, Brian Cameron пишет: > >> Alexander: > >> > >>> I have strange situation: gdm logins are not recorded on our terminal > >>> server. Other

Re: [osol-discuss] wtmpx and gdm login

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. В пн, 21/09/2009 в 17:50 -0500, Brian Cameron пишет: > Alexander: > > > I have strange situation: gdm logins are not recorded on our terminal > > server. Other logins, such as ssh , are recorded and have last entries... > > This is odd. In the version of GDM th

[osol-discuss] wtmpx and gdm login

2009-09-21 Thread Alexander
Hello. I have strange situation: gdm logins are not recorded on our terminal server. Other logins, such as ssh , are recorded and have last entries... # uname -a SunOS xx.xx.xx 5.11 snv_97 i86pc i386 i86pc After user login/logout from gdm: # ls -l /var/adm/utmpx -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin

Re: [osol-discuss] First impressions from VirtualBox on OpenSolaris-b123

2009-09-21 Thread Alexander
> VirtualBox 3.X is not stable on (Open)Solaris. > > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20015 Thanks for the link. Disabling USB in VirtualBox made system more stable (no hangs yet). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ openso

Re: [osol-discuss] First impressions from VirtualBox on OpenSolaris-b123

2009-09-19 Thread Alexander
Some more info: That's all log which I have... Sep 19 20:58:10 opensolaris gnome-session[1117]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: Could not co nnect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name Sep 19 21:11:00 opensolaris mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTIC

[osol-discuss] First impressions from VirtualBox on OpenSolaris-b123

2009-09-19 Thread Alexander
First impressions from build 123. I don't know a reason of hang, but I had the following situation. Updated to the latest OpenSolaris. Installed FreeBSD 8.0-b4 in VirtualBox, started checkout of freebsd source tree in virtual machine and went to drink tea... When I returned, the system hanged.

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaStor.org and Open Source components

2009-09-09 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 23:23 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > Hi All, > > NexentaStor is an industry leading Storage appliance, based on > Opensolaris and Ubuntu LTS. > > On behalf of Nexenta Systems, I'd like to announce the setup of > NexentaStor.org, where we've open-sourced internal kernel gate a

Re: [osol-discuss] How to delete files as dos 'del *.java /s' on command line

2009-09-09 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 05:18 -0700, Davide wrote: > How can I delete files recursively in all subdirectories with .java extension? > > Under ms-dos I used to execute this: 'del *.java /s' > > I tried 'rm -rf *.java', on command line, but it didn't work, > it simply shows me the newer command line

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] A Tribute to OpenSolaris

2009-09-01 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 05:52 +0300, Martin Bochnig wrote: > /* just ignore */ > > Hi! > > Today I migrated my (Intel Core Duo based, with DRM supported Intel > gfx) to OpenSolaris preview 2010.02, based on build 121. I must really > take my hat:) > > I love almost everything of the countles

Re: [osol-discuss] Gnome customization

2009-08-31 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. В пн, 31/08/2009 в 15:03 +0100, Ghee Teo пишет: > Alexander wrote: > > Hello. > > We are running a set of web kiosks with Sun Ray Server Software. We made a > > set of scripts and patches to restrict user actions in kiosk session and to > > make user i

[osol-discuss] Gnome customization

2009-08-31 Thread Alexander
Hello. We are running a set of web kiosks with Sun Ray Server Software. We made a set of scripts and patches to restrict user actions in kiosk session and to make user interface more clear. We are disappointed that current Gnome environment was quite hard to configure. In fact, there are several

Re: [osol-discuss] core dump on gnome-session (gvfsd?) in snv121...

2009-08-30 Thread Alexander
> The kernel should not crash under no circumstance, so > don't blame > userland apps. Your stack trace looks similar (though > not quite the > same) to this bug: > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1044 > 7 > > and is most likely a FUSE bug, in which case the > workaroun

[osol-discuss] core dump on gnome-session (gvfsd?) in snv121...

2009-08-29 Thread Alexander
It's funny. I haven't noticed initially that it was core dump because of fast reboot... Today I've updated to snv 121 (using update manager). I thought that everything was normal (or seemed so) except gnome-session. It hanged after load (before gnome-panel started..). I could run metacity, naut

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