Re: [osol-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building aria2 from source

2012-11-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Note spec-files-extra has spec-files for building newer versions of these modules (some in the archive directory): http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ Even if you find it too much work to setup the pkgbuild to build the spec-files, looking at the build recipe in the spec-file an

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Cameron
f your user does not, but has access to the "root" role. So, it is pretty easy to configure users with RBAC to not require passwords to run the programs needed. Brian On 11/14/11 07:36 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Andrew: The functional replacement of the "Primary Administrator&quo

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-14 Thread Brian Cameron
Andrew: The functional replacement of the "Primary Administrator" RBAC profile is "System Administrator". If you use this instead, you should find that your use is able to run programs with pfexec in much the same way as you used to do with "Primary Administrator". Note that if you setup your

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris security

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Dmitry: Not count that much on my humble opinion, but I think OpenSolaris is appropriately secure. If you need a paranoid level of security, take a look at OpenBSD. I would not compare anything with abstract Linux, there are too many distributions of it, varying in security level. For me, OpenS

[osol-discuss] Desktop Team Considering EOL'ing Python 2.4

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Cameron
The Desktop team is considering EOL'ing Python 2.4 in the near future before the next release of Solaris. This will ease maintenance and require less support moving forward. The Desktop team has already been working with the printing team, the IPS team, and other teams to make this switch, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Idea for Oracle: Solaris11 and Support for Desktop in combination!

2010-08-14 Thread Brian Cameron
When I first heard that Oracle was planning to purchase Sun, my initial reaction was excitement. If anybody has the character to go head-to-head with the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in the Desktop market, I cannot imagine anyone other than Mr. Ellison. But, my delusional initial impres

[osol-discuss] Sound Juicer and security (was: Re: root roles & security holes)

2010-08-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Joerg/Dmitry: On 07/30/10 12:10 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: "Dmitry G. Kozhinov" wrote: sound-juicer is started by a non-root user the process runs as root and writes its files as root If this is true, this is a huge security hole. Someone should investigate the proble

Re: [osol-discuss] Using opensolaris 134 and sunstudio compiler

2010-07-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Andre: On 07/20/10 01:25 PM, Andre Lue wrote: getting "ld: fatal: file smartd.o: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64" when trying to build 64 bit versions of programs for most things where the 32 bit version builds fine. if I recompose the failure line and add -m64 it completes. Am I doing somethin

Re: [osol-discuss] mplayer + VDPAU + opensolaris = ?

2010-07-20 Thread Brian Cameron
John: Note that OpenSolaris is a bit weird in how it supports hardware acceleration. If you build a binary with SSE support, for example, then it will not run on machines that do not have SEE support. If you build with SSE3 support, it will not run on machines with only SSE or SSE2 support. T

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Fascinating, Captain. Brian On 06/30/10 10:47 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: It is simply TRUE that "If you use OpenSolaris, you should know how to build applications from source." Building applications from source is part of Unix culture. Notice I didn't say one MUST know how to do this. And

Re: [osol-discuss] Osol - pkg inst an earlier revision?

2010-06-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Attila: I hit some bug in libtheora. What bug did you hit? Did you file a bug in http://doo.opensolaris.org under the "gnome" category? The best solution would be to fix the bug so you do not need to install an older version of the package? But it is unlikely the bug will be fixed if it is

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to switch GNOME's license from GPL?

2010-06-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Andrew: Therefore, the second question then (and it would greatly lighten any OpenSolaris distros) is whether Fluxbox is supported on the platform over GNOME? Probably the first step in getting Fluxbox integrated and supported into OpenSolaris would be for someone to drive it through the ARC

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-06-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Robin: Here's the output of the "top" command while it's frozen at the login splash: Unfortunately the top output does not show any particular processes consuming a lot of memory, so this indicates that the delay is not CPU bound. Note there is a bug about a very similar problem here: htt

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-12 Thread Brian Cameron
10 minutes, then a different approach to diagnosing the problem is necessary. The dtrace program is another program that might be useful in debugging this sort of issue. I'm not much of a dtrace expert, but perhaps someone else on this list could recommend ways to debug this sort of issue with dtrace.

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-11 Thread Brian Cameron
I am getting repetitive motion disorder just deleting all of the emails in this thread. Really, you are hurting me. Isn't there something more worthwhile that we can talk about? Can we create a separate forum for OpenSolaris armchair speculators to blab away at each other without bothering tho

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-10 Thread Brian Cameron
Robin: On 05/ 8/10 02:14 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: The delay is 3 minutes long (~180 seconds) and not 2 or 30 seconds. This is delay easy to measure since there's a clock in the bottom right corner of the login splash that is frozen which "jumps" 3 minutes forward when the input text field for

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
y were easy to locate by looking at the time stamps. I attach them with this message. - Robin. On 2010-05-06 19:20, Brian Cameron wrote: To debug this, I would recommend editing the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and add the line "Enable=true" after the line that says "[debug]" s

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Cameron
To debug this, I would recommend editing the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and add the line "Enable=true" after the line that says "[debug]" so it looks like this: [debug] Enable=true Then reboot. After reboot, the syslog file (/var/adm/messages) should have GDM related debug messages near the bot

Re: [osol-discuss] Codeina popup

2010-04-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Note that both Fluendo bugs have been marked as fixed, so this problem should be resolved. Apologies for any inconveniences. Brian On 04/ 1/10 03:39 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Gary: Whenever I log in, I get a message that there are Codeina updates available for the free mp3 decoder. So I

Re: [osol-discuss] Codeina popup

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Gary: Whenever I log in, I get a message that there are Codeina updates available for the free mp3 decoder. So I installed the upgrade, but it still still happens every time I log in. If I tell it to install again, it tells me that it's already installed. Anyone know what the process is t

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Cameron
Rainer: The code to support logindevperm, the dtlogin pipe, SunAudit and other features was in the GDM 2.20 version, but has not yet been re-integrated into the new GDM rewrite (2.28). However, the patches we apply to add these features to the new GDM 2.28 came directly from the old GDM 2.20.

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Rainer: We're currently using xdm in a Sun Ray environment, and didn't have this issue so far. No idea why. Sun Ray does not use logindevperm for device management for Sun Ray clients. logindevperm is only used for the system console. So, the lack of logindevperm support is probably not su

Re: [osol-discuss] Is xdm badly packaged?

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Aleksey: Do I need some additional package for running xdm as a service? Os this is just a bug in packaging xdm. P.S. I'm completely new to Solaris and OpenSolaris, so please be patient. I'm aware of gdm, but I don't need it. I'd like to stay with xdm. Refer here: http://bugs.opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver disable

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Gregory: How do I completely disable /usr/bin/xscreensaver, aside from rm'ing the executable? Information about how to configure xscreensaver is here: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html Also, you can run the "xscreensaver-demo" program and you can disable the screensaver by changing

Re: [osol-discuss] startx failing after move from b129 => b133

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Harry: After doing an image-update from build 129 to 133, I'm finding my old system for starting X fails now. I usually run with gdm disabled and rely on startx to get X up when I need it, so have a console login. I've been starting X with: startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session g

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread Brian Cameron
George: Hi there to all, dear friends! Came to know about OpenSolaris... I installed it, but everything seems to be hard... the sound does not work.. cannot find any new updates... I used OpenSolaris 2009.06 Note that OSS (the Boomer project) will be integrated into the next release of OpenS

Re: [osol-discuss] Login probs and possible memory leak in svn_132.

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Avon: Try logging into an xterm session from the login screen, then run % dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session --debug This should cause the desktop to show up, but you will be able to see the debug output of starting gnome-session in the terminal window. Adding the debug argument sh

Re: [osol-discuss] Logging in problem B130-B132

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Peter: There are some problems with build 130-132 with the "gdm" user not being setup properly. There are also similar issues that can happen depending on how you have updated your system. See here: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13437 You can fix this by making sure the

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Patches to hald and gvfs to work with USB disks on SunRay

2010-02-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Peter: I realise this is quite an old thread now but am curious to know if any of Artem's prototype code ever managed to find it's way into OpenSolaris or whether it's still languishing about ...perhaps never to see the light of day? I believe that Artem's prototype was never made available t

Re: [osol-discuss] GDM connect to GDM in a zone ?

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Cameron
On 02/02/10 03:17, Paul van der Zwan wrote: On 2 feb 2010, at 00:54, Brian Cameron wrote: Paul: Is it possible to run GDM inside a zone on b131 ? I would like to have a zone I can use to run stuff like netbeans etc in, and I don’t want to use the global zone for that. It would think

Re: [osol-discuss] GDM connect to GDM in a zone ?

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Paul: The new GDM does support running as an XDMCP server and supports running XDMCP clients via indirect queries. However, it currently does not support the ability to launch the XDMCP chooser from the login screen. This is a known regression: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59

Re: [osol-discuss] GDM connect to GDM in a zone ?

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Paul: Is it possible to run GDM inside a zone on b131 ? I would like to have a zone I can use to run stuff like netbeans etc in, and I don’t want to use the global zone for that. It would think that it should be possible, though I have not tried it myself. As far as I can tell the gdm smf

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Cameron
On 01/25/10 07:04, Bruce Porter wrote: Ok, did the upgrade this morning from 111b to 131. 1st off, boot time now appears to be a lot quicker so an improvement over 124->130 from that POV :-) Unfortunately I still cannot get the GUI up (as has been the way since attempts to load 130). The sys

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

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Alexander: 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. Howe

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Tim: On 01/23/10 01:56, Tim Scanlon wrote: comay said; "> 130: could not even see the screen as it was all dark white" This is probably tied to X 3d feature stuff, I encountered the same problem& was able to trigger the white screen of doom when I tested to see if I could do something more l

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Brian Cameron
Casper: I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, unfortunately, GDM was upgraded so getting Sun Ray to work is impossible, it seems, except by using dtlogin. In our testing, the new GDM works well

Re: [osol-discuss] "failed" during image-update and unable to login on snv130

2009-12-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Robinky: Thanks for letting me know the second issue is on the release note. I am afraid that the work-around does not work though. The dialog box keeps appearing on the screen. I have also found out that someone already raised the bug report on this case. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/s

Re: [osol-discuss] "failed" during image-update and unable to login on snv130

2009-12-27 Thread Brian Cameron
[b]Issue #2[/b] After booting up from the image-updated BE, the authentication screen does not appear properly. The phenomenon is three message boxes pop up instead, which does not allow me into the Desktop whatever I did. (Authentication1.JPG -> Authentication2.JPG -> Authentication3.JPB)

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome issue

2009-12-12 Thread Brian Cameron
found solutions to problems by googling and finding blog entries. Brian On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Ryan: Messages that org.gnome.SessionManager are odd. If gnome-session is running, then other process should be able to connect to the SessionManager. Is the gnome-sess

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome issue

2009-12-12 Thread Brian Cameron
Ryan: Messages that org.gnome.SessionManager are odd. If gnome-session is running, then other process should be able to connect to the SessionManager. Is the gnome-session process running? It might be worthwhile to test other D-Bus functionality and try to determine if this might be a problem

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome issue

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Cameron
t set reasonably, then GNOME will not start up properly. Brian I haven't read through everything, but there is a warning that states: WARNING: No required applications specified. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: The gnome-session --debug argument sends debug messages to y

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome issue

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Cameron
The gnome-session --debug argument sends debug messages to your syslog (/var/adm/messages). Look there. Brian Ryan Proud wrote: Ryan: Can someone help me with this issue. I'm trying to create a very slim gnome desktop environment. I tried working from the bottom up, by using this image (

Re: [osol-discuss] Cleaning up orphaned packages

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Ryan: Can someone help me with this issue. I'm trying to create a very slim gnome desktop environment. I tried working from the bottom up, by using this image (http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/entry/minimal_opensolaris_2009_06_appliance), but am having a problem with gnome (http://opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Is expressing amusement "language that causes resentment"? Or is the bad language you are talking about the reference to "A$$" in the subject line? Has our forum come to this? Brian W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I'm amused that you think that re-writing IPS in the C language would make it run that

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] about Secondlife latest viewer on Solaris(OpenSolaris)

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Ken: I just tried the "OSOL 2008.11 and higher" client. I didn't have a Second Life account, so I created one at their website. Then, when I try to use the client, I enter my username and passwor

Re: [osol-discuss] about Secondlife latest viewer on Solaris(OpenSolaris)

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Ken: I just tried the "OSOL 2008.11 and higher" client. I didn't have a Second Life account, so I created one at their website. Then, when I try to use the client, I enter my username and password and click the "Connect" button. A dialog appears saying "Terms of Service Agreement - Please rea

Re: [osol-discuss] Real Player Installation Issue

2009-11-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Narendra: I am trying to install Real Player 11 X86 gold for OpenSolaris 09.06. I go success to install this but when i it startsup it is giving me some warning & not playing any format like ".wmv, .mpeg etc". My Internet connection is working fine and when i am going to download the updated

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix for Dummies

2009-11-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Alex: I couldn't find a answer. Who can help me What means the content in the brace at the man-pages? Where can I find the description? e.g. zpool(1M) --> 1M basename(1) --> 1 basename(1B) --> 1B file(1) --> 1 file(1B) --> 1B The number in parens after the manpage topic refers to the manpage

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week

2009-11-13 Thread Brian Cameron
Francois: Sorry for the slow response. I talked with some people at Fluendo and they just provided the following information to me today. * Fullscreen support Do you know what it is doing there? Just a linear interpolation, or is it upscaling? Under windows, players like Arcsoft use CUDA

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome desktop - no app tabs on task bar

2009-10-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Note that for the applications to appear in the panel, you need to have the "Window List" applet in your panel. You might try right-clicking on an empty area of the panel and select "Add to panel". Then add the "Window List" applet. Does this fix the problem? By default this applet is in your

Re: [osol-discuss] Xdmcp

2009-10-23 Thread Brian Cameron
had with suse linux a few years ago, also with Xdmcp: While we still have ipv4, the newly installed suse box listened by default to ipv6. If this is the case here, too: How can I make my opensolaris listen to ipv4? Or do you see another point in the log? Best wishes, Ulrich Brian Cameron wrote: U

Re: [osol-discuss] Xdmcp

2009-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Ulrich: I would recommend editing /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and setting "Enable=true" in the [debug] section. Then restart the gdm service or reboot. Then recreate the problem, and check the syslog (/var/adm/messages). You should find gdm-related messages at the bottom which should highlig

Re: [osol-discuss] Failed to start X server( several forum suggestions failed )

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Suraj: Try editing /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf and add "Enable=true" to the "[debug]" section. Then restart gdm (by running "svcadm restart gdm" or by rebooting. Then recreate the problem, and check your syslog (/var/adm/messages) to see if there are any helpful error messages that might indicate

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 GUI will not load - Dell R610

2009-10-15 Thread Brian Cameron
This sounds like either GDM is failing to start up, or a problem with the Xserver. You could turn on debug by editing /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and setting "Enable=true" in the "[debug]" section. Then try to restart gdm (log into root and run "gdm" or reboot). After it fails, check the /var

Re: [osol-discuss] GTK+ development packages?

2009-10-13 Thread Brian Cameron
I think the other Brian answered the question you asked about the fact that you need to use package manager to install the needed SUNWgtk2-devel package. But I wanted to let you know about some gotchas you might run into. Note that the wxWidgets provided with OpenSolaris is built with the Sun S

Re: [osol-discuss] How to configure a new window manager in OpenSolaris?

2009-10-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Pen-Yuan: Please excuse my ignorance as a totally new user of OpenSolaris (and unix/linux systems!). Is there a way to easily install alternative window mangers such as Openbox or Fluxbox for this system? I've got two questions that are more specific: 1. Are there any specific tips for compil

[osol-discuss] Problems with "Console User" in build 124/125.

2009-10-02 Thread Brian Cameron
There have been a rash of recently filed bugster CR's and doo bugs regarding the fact that progrmas which depend on the "Console User" profile being set properly is not working as expected. Refer to: - bugster #6885612 http://bt2ws.central.sun.com/CrPrint?id=6885612 - bugster #6885815 http:

Re: [osol-discuss] Enabling Remote GUI Login via XDMCP

2009-09-24 Thread Brian Cameron
and you should see some other error message if it is still failing. Just speculating, but from looking at the code, this hopefully narrows down what you should be looking at. Brian On 24 Sep 2009, at 20:32, Brian Cameron wrote: Christopher: Hello Brian, thanks for replying. options/tcp_li

Re: [osol-discuss] Enabling Remote GUI Login via XDMCP

2009-09-24 Thread Brian Cameron
urning off tcpwrappers and see if you can get it working without using that. That might help to determine if it is a problem with GDM XDMCP in general, or with the tcpwrapper code. - Chris On 24 Sep 2009, at 19:28, Brian Cameron wrote: Chris: Refer to "man Xserver". Note that you

Re: [osol-discuss] Enabling Remote GUI Login via XDMCP

2009-09-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Chris: Refer to "man Xserver". Note that you may need to set the SMF property "options/tcp_listen" to true so that the Xserver accepts incoming TCP/IP connections. You can use the svccfg(1M) command to set this property as the Xserver manpage explains. Brian I have a box running OpenSolari

Re: [osol-discuss] wtmpx and gdm login

2009-09-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Alexander: 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 that you would be using on snv_97

Re: [osol-discuss] wtmpx and gdm login

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Cameron
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 that you would be using on snv_97 should be either GDM 2.20.9 or GDM 2.20.10. Both versions should b

Re: [osol-discuss] "2-button simulating middle-click" feature stops working mid-session?

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Alan: I also see this problem on my Toshiba Tecra M10 laptop. Normally I use the mousepad on the laptop and not a separate mouse. I often find it frustrating that my 3ButtonEmulation seems to "go away" after a while. I do see the message in the Xorg.0.log: (II) 3rd Button detected: disabling

Re: [osol-discuss] Digital Camera support

2009-09-14 Thread Brian Cameron
Calum/Russell: I noticed that GPhoto2 was not included in SXCE b121 but is provided in Solaris 10 as the Digital Camera Browser. Is there a replacement for GPhoto2 in latest release of OpenSolaris or has it been replaced with some other application to perform a similar function? Hmm, Digital

Re: [osol-discuss] gdm doesn't start at boot due to lack of network

2009-08-31 Thread Brian Cameron
Impact: 5 dependent services are not running: svc:/milestone/multi-user:default svc:/system/intrd:default svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default svc:/system/zones:default svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default as you can see, the problem is due to ntp, even if the network is present:

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

2009-08-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Alexander: Note you can run gnome-session with the --debug argument to generate additional debug information. It would be useful if you could share the output generated by running it with debug turned on. Brian It's funny. I haven't noticed initially that it was core dump because of fast re

Re: [osol-discuss] gdm doesn't start at boot due to lack of network

2009-08-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Note that the GDM service depends on other services such as fc-cache, utmpx, hal, and D-Bus. Can you check if GDM slow to start because the GDM service is slow to startup, or is the problem because some service GDM depends on is slow to startup? If the problem is GDM, you could try editing /us

[osol-discuss] Problem with wifi on Tecra M10 after updating to build 122

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Cameron
I just updated my Toshiba Tecra M10 x86 machine to build 122, and it no longer seems to recognize my wifi. I was previously using build 115 and it just worked with my wireless "iwh0" device. However, when I run "ifconfig -a" I no longer see the "iwh0" device available now that I am using build

Re: [osol-discuss] Any plans for a DVD Release..

2009-08-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Uros: Just to add that Fluedo web site offer free source code of Moovida media player. I tried to compile it on my machine but it is not so powerful to do it :-/. Unfourtunately, I cannot leverage Sun's servers to do portin because there are graphics components, too. Note that elisa has been

Re: [osol-discuss] Any plans for a DVD Release..

2009-08-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Spencer: Fluendo has already released a licensed DVD player for Linux, and they plan to make one available for OpenSolaris soon: http:://www.fluendo.com/ The difficulty with distributing a DVD player is that there are many associated licensing that is required to play DVD's. Many media form

Re: [osol-discuss] Wont boot up to GDM using Live CD

2009-08-19 Thread Brian Cameron
) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screeens found On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Alan Coopersmith mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com>> wrote: Brian Cameron wrote: > Lastly, you can try running the /usr/X11/bin/Xserver directly from the >

Re: [osol-discuss] Wont boot up to GDM using Live CD

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Chidi: You can check the GDM Xorg logs for DISPLAY :0 here: - /var/log/Xorg.0.log - /var/log/gdm/:0 Also, you can turn on GDM debug by editing /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and setting Enable=true in the "[debug]" section. Then restart GDM and it should spew a lot of debug output to /var/adm/me

Re: [osol-discuss] Returning with a Question

2009-08-10 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave/Che: The licensed and supported way: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/ use this if you are in a country in which the relevant codecs must be appropriately licensed (most countries), essential if you are implementing within a corporate environment unless

Re: [osol-discuss] Looking to limit SSH brute force connections

2009-07-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Scott: This seems a better question for security-disc...@opensolaris.org. Brian I have recently setup OpenSolaris to use as a file server (I like ZFS) and I connect to this server remotely using SSH. In the past I used iptable rules on Linux to limit connection attempts to SSH within 60 secon

Re: [osol-discuss] Applications menu doesn't update

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Cameron
Rino: hi, i installed gftp thru pkg and it doesn't immediately comes to the Applications/Internet menu. i checked the System/Preferences/Main Menu and gftp is showing there with a checked mark. i have to logout and login again to refresh the menu. is this happening with everyone? I think t

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

Re: [osol-discuss] Audio still skips in 2009.06

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Matthew: I can play mp3 audio though Rhythmbox fine, the only problem is that it momentarily pauses/skips when I do thinks like moving windows around, alt-tabbing between windows, switching tabs in Firefox, clicking the mouse, opening a new folder in nautilus. It's a bit irritating! What cou

Re: [osol-discuss] No sound on 2009.6

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Cameron
Anon Y Mous wrote: We've got a very detailed thread about sound issues in the newer builds of OpenSolaris going on here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=395746 Could you try the following test: 1) Try running gnome-volume-control. You will notice at the top there

Re: [osol-discuss] No sound on 2009.6

2009-07-12 Thread Brian Cameron
Cesar: Does your system have a /dev/audio and a /dev/audioctl file? If not, then the problem is likely that your sound card is not supported. Do non-GStreamer based audio programs such as /usr/bin/audioplay work? Brian I have the same problem. Well almost the same. My sound doesn't work at a

Re: [osol-discuss] Need Help in python installation related problems

2009-07-12 Thread Brian Cameron
In Python 2.5 and later, hashlib is used for md5 support. http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html Based on the error messages you report, it seems that your Python 2.5 was not built properly or has a bug, as Jerry suggests. If you are using a version of Python provided by Sun, then there

[osol-discuss] Solaris issue with the ar command

2009-07-06 Thread Brian Cameron
I have been investigating a performance issue on OpenSolaris/x86, which will probably happen to other architectures (sparc, arm ..) related to the memory management while working with huge files with 'ar'. The result of the investigation exposes that GNU ar is >40 times slower than the Solaris o

Re: [osol-discuss] Music and Video on 2009.06

2009-07-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Alan: If you register at fluendo through codeina, you are entitled to the free mp3 decoder. You can also download the MP3 plugin for free from the Fluendo website, if you do not want to use codeina: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder I have a laptop with OpenSolaris 2

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE snv_115 on VirtualBox

2009-06-06 Thread Brian Cameron
Richard/Calum: * rhythmbox, even after installing the mp3 plugin, complains about lack of Xv support. This is a known issue; IIRC the workaround is to turn off visualizations in Rhythmbox. (I forget where you do that, not running it right now.) If you are using a graphics card that does

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [tools-compilers] Report on issues when porting OpenSource projects to Solaris

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Alan: The upstream project adopted changes while porting to Microsoft Visual C that made it easier to adapt to Studio 12 as well, so that is now working for us, though it may still be a problem for other code written for gcc. The one issue remaining there that I've been meaning to ask about is

Re: [osol-discuss] Instaling GFTP but error in gmake process

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Cameron
On 04/23/09 12:52, Martinus Ady H wrote: Hi list, Note that there is a spec-file for building gftp in spec-files-extra: http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ There are several patches in spec-files-extra for gftp. I'd bet if you applied these patches, or built the spec-file via

Re: [osol-discuss] Sound..

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Cameron
I ve difficulty in installing mp3 codec. I reached the final stage ( i should copy the codec file ie., .so file to /usr/lib folder But.. It says Your r not the owner and u dont have enough permissions to Paste in this location. But I didnt create any 'Owner' account during installation. Ho

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 110 ends up at 'opensolaris console login' prompt

2009-04-03 Thread Brian Cameron
Robert: After upgrading to 110 and running pfexec init 6, the system reboots and ends up at the 'opensolaris console login:' prompt First thing I'd check is whether the display manager service is starting and failing. On OpenSolaris, GDM is the default login program and Nevada still uses CD

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave: Specifically in the case of partitioning, I think we chose not to emphasize this as strongly, as ZFS makes it a far less interesting topic in general; you really want to just be giving it whole disks and making your life simpler. Perhaps that's being a little too optimistic about ZFS for

Re: [osol-discuss] [request-sponsor] Google Summer of Code

2009-03-03 Thread Brian Cameron
Ghee: Where is the communication channel? I would like to submit project and also consolidate project ideas from the Desktop side. I know the GNOME community is going to do GSOC this year, so if there are desktop related projects, it might make more sense to submit them via the GNOME communit

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Report on issues when porting OpenSource projects to Solaris

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Halton: Some minor grammar/spelling issues: > Following are issues have been supported in SS12, so we need remove "Following are the issues which are now supported in SS12, so we need to remove" > those patches. Read Sun Studio Express - README for more information. > These issues wont's be

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Glenn: >> I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be >> an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to >> be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on >> the system). > > In theory, if a user wants to use IPS to manager their

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Glenn: I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on the system). It also seems odd that there isn't a standard interface that can be re

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Cameron
Edward: > note that i'm not a member of the IPS team, a packaging expert, > etc. but i did buy the currently available fluendo codecs so > i'm replying because i'm an interested customer. ;) Thanks for your comments. Some questions below... > well, when distinguishing between sparc and x86, i

[osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-10-31 Thread Brian Cameron
I am currently working with some engineers at Fluendo to help them provide their media plugins for OpenSolaris and also to help make the codeina program work on both Solaris and OpenSolaris. I have a few questions I am hoping you can help with. The codeina client program sets 4 variables to iden

Re: [osol-discuss] GNOME 2.24.0 unleashed

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Cameron
Ché: > I have seen MeidaPortal compared to Elisa so I guess you could say that they > play in the same space... They seem similar, from looking at the MediaPortal website. However, looking at the FAQ, it seems that it does not support Linux, and is a Windows only application. http://www.team-

Re: [osol-discuss] GNOME 2.24.0 unleashed

2008-10-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Ché: > Thanks for the heads-up Brian... > > Is the pyopenssl delay due to export controls? No. It's just a matter of whether the SFW consolidation can integrate the module in time. I am working with them to try and make this happen, and am hopeful. Brian _

Re: [osol-discuss] GNOME 2.24.0 unleashed

2008-10-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Ché: > My understanding is that elisa will be included in 2008.11 as well - which > should include > additional functionality above and beyond that offered by Totem... That is not true. Our plan is to integrate elisa into the 2009.04 release. However, there are a few risks that could delay t

Re: [osol-discuss] Simple Panels

2008-10-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Peter: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If someone wanted to make a really great set of system tools for >> Solaris, then why not base it on something like the old Sun >> Management Center and use SNMP. > > SunMC?

Re: [osol-discuss] Simple Panels

2008-10-14 Thread Brian Cameron
If someone wanted to make a really great set of system tools for Solaris, then why not base it on something like the old Sun Management Center and use SNMP. Then, you can start supporting the sorts of hardware monitoring and reporting that SNMP provides and extend it. Further SNMP is designed t

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Patches to hald and gvfs to work with USB disks on SunRay

2008-10-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Artem: The last time we talked about this there was hope that the USB team in Beijing would take over the Sun Ray HAL/D-Bus work. I'm guessing that didn't happen? Is there any update about who might be able to work on this? Perhaps we should discuss this further with the Sun Ray team to find o

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