Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE95 extremely unstable on x64 laptop

2008-08-18 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Patrick Ale wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Ghee Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: Hi, I get random kernel panics when running SXCE 95 with the 64 bit kernel. The panics seem to have to do with reads/writes to disk. I can reproduce the panics

Re: [osol-discuss] pci driver locking

2008-07-08 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Siegfried Schmidt wrote: Hi, thanks for your ideas. Normally my transfer of one byte needs about 3 - 4 microseconds (i have mentioned). Sometimes we need up to 50 - 80 microseconds for one byte. So i think other threads or processes gets the cpu and my driver was

Re: [osol-discuss] ps -ef running really slow on non-global zone

2008-07-07 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Darren Archibald wrote: Has anyone encountered any issues with the 'ps -ef' command running really slow on a non-global zone ? Th ecommand runs instantly on the global zone, but takes around 1 minute to show all running proccesses on the local zone? Obviously need to do

Re: [osol-discuss] pci driver locking

2008-07-07 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Siegfried Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have written a driver for a special PCI Card on Solaris 10, Dual Core 2,4 GHz. The application uses the driver via ioctl to get one byte from the PCI Card. I

Re: [osol-discuss] OT - [ug-bosug] Open Source, 450 BC

2008-07-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Manish Chakravarty wrote: Please mark such posts [OT] Indeed, not quite sure whether legal code and computer code are related. It's a case for -advocacy mailing lists, I guess. But even then, the Roman law is far from the first one made public. There are things more than

Re: [osol-discuss] pci driver locking

2008-07-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Siegfried Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have written a driver for a special PCI Card on Solaris 10, Dual Core 2,4 GHz. The application uses the driver via ioctl to get one byte from the PCI Card. I use ddi_getxx to read the registers of the PCI Card, locked with mutex_enter and

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-26 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Kristian Rink wrote: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in terms of file systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I

Re: [osol-discuss] filesync depth

2008-06-24 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, takafumi ashiba wrote: The filesync command has a maximum recursion depth of 20 levels .#*define* MAX_DEPTH 20 /* how deep to recurse */ But, my file server's depth is 30~40 levels. So anyone change max_depth? I would like to be abe to change the depth

Re: [osol-discuss] filesync depth

2008-06-24 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, takafumi ashiba wrote: Hi FrankH, because it's there, Where is rsync in opensolaris ? I searched in /onnv/onnv-gate/usr, but I can't find rsync source. Not in the ON tree, but in SFW. See: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/rsync/rsync-2.6.9/

Re: [osol-discuss] filesync depth

2008-06-24 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, takafumi ashiba wrote: Thanks FrankH, I hope rsync to move from SFW to ON. joyce200 May I ask why is it important / relevant where the rsync sourcecode is maintained ? SFW, ON, X11, ... - all source repositories, all parts of OpenSolaris. There should be no difference

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrw command burning CD

2008-06-18 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cdrw bash: cdrw: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $PATH /usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin Why is this not working? $ pkginfo -l SUNWcdrw PKGINST: SUNWcdrw

Re: [osol-discuss] PANIC! mounting cdrom slice on b78

2008-06-16 Thread Frank . Hofmann
Hi Kyle, given that what happens looks ever-so-slightly different each time, a hardware glitch could be possible; to exclude this, would you happen to know whether these panics occurred before build 78 as well ? If they occur if you use the b77 hsfs module on your post-b78 system ? Does the

Re: [osol-discuss] [ufs-discuss] PANIC! mounting cdrom slice on b78

2008-06-16 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Robert William Fuller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kyle, given that what happens looks ever-so-slightly different each time, a hardware glitch could be possible; to exclude this, would you happen to know whether these panics occurred before build 78 as well ?

Re: [osol-discuss] [ufs-discuss] PANIC! mounting cdrom slice on b78

2008-06-16 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Juergen Keil wrote: Robert William Fuller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kyle, given that what happens looks ever-so-slightly different each time, a hardware glitch could be possible; to exclude this, would you happen to know whether these panics occurred before

Re: [osol-discuss] how to mount my second harddisk with ext3 filesystem

2008-05-22 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Jan Friedel wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 06:00:35AM -0700, elflord woods wrote: hi all i have a toshiba laptop i have two hard disk. used to install linux and disk2 i use for backup files how can i see all the disks on my system ? and how should i go about to mount

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: Hello everyone: When I am programming a kernel module for Solaris, I encountered one problem: I cannot get the the absolute path for the current working directory of the current process. In user space, we can do this by calling getcwd(), but this function

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: Thanks a lot for your quick reply! Actually, I have found this code already, but as I know, dogetcwd is not exported by the kernel (not found in the include files). How can I call this function? #include /sys/pathname.h for vnodetopath(). FrankH.

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: Thanks! I'm sorry I have missed some information in my original post, I'm writing the module for Solaris 8, I checked the header files of Solaris 8 but cannot find vnodetopath. Which function can I use on Solaris 8? Please ask Sun Developer support for S8,

Re: [osol-discuss] Need advice to select clustering OS

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Roberto carabajal wrote: Hello: I am new to OpenSolaris.Please, I apologize if my questions are too primitive for advanced users. Before hearing about OpenSolatis I had the idea to use 16 surplus Sun Sparc 10 Stations to implement a Mosix cluster. I would appreciate

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-19 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think ZFS being added to Linux will mean Solaris loses an advantage. I think it was probably inevitable that Sun would want ZFS to get the maximum possible distribution across different operating systems.

Re: [osol-discuss] open solaris installed to native linux partition?

2008-05-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Milan Cermak wrote: Hi Steve. steve wrote: Question 1: I have been searching for information as to weather open solaris will install to a native linux partition, or ext2 file system? Reason is so i can setup to read/write from either linux or solaris. As is, i have only

Re: [osol-discuss] open solaris installed to native linux partition?

2008-05-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Milan Cermak wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Milan Cermak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, Linux understands OpenSolaris partition scheme and ufs file system. It can also be made to understand zfs through fuse. Linux does not support UFS. Linux may have

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Dennis Clarke wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Mike DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten Virtual box up and running? I have installed the package, but if I try to run it I get: VirtualBox -help Usage: basename string [ suffix ] Unknown

Re: [osol-discuss] lookuppnvp:: i just do not get it...how it get vnode by given pathname?

2008-05-07 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 7 May 2008, xulari wrote: hi ,rlhamil : i can dtrace the syscall open, and i come to here : http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/fs/vnode.c#fop_lookup how we get ufs_lookup or #fs_lookup by fop_lookup? int line 3293 : it just call a function

Re: [osol-discuss] help me...! system call rename(2)

2008-05-06 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Sun, 4 May 2008, leno wrote: mv /export/home/us/oldfile /export/home/us/newfile but rename(2) never update cache path. v_path = /export/home/us/oldfile. help me...,how about update caceh path? Why do you need that ? v_path is _NOT_ the cached path used for name lookups via system call.

Re: [osol-discuss] pstack on Solaris 9

2008-04-22 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Grigoris Beis wrote: Hello everyone, Is there a way to filter out the pstack command so that it does not print the stack output of every thread of my multithreaded application but only of the one thread that crashes every time? For instance, if thread#1 is the one

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I tell what kind of blank media is in a CD/DVD recorder before I burn it?

2008-04-17 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: Why used second class information from HAL while cdrecord gives you complete and correct information? As always, you are absolutely right, Joerg! It's a bit like a politician's answer to a journalist: After the election, are you going

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on a logical partition

2008-04-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Gorky Hasseldorf wrote: Thanks frankho for the reply. It seems this is a difficult task for the moment and people are working on it. I will be in trouble to install it on a logical partition. On this computer, Mandriva 2007, FC6, Windows XP and open SuSE 10.2 work

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on a logical partition

2008-04-11 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Gorky Hasseldorf wrote: Is it possible to install opensolaris on a logical partition? The real Solaris needs a primary partition. I have space to install on a logical partition. Please tell me. If you say this is possible, I will download and install it. Depends on

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] Paging in network driver

2008-04-08 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Pradeepg wrote: Is it possible to implement page mechanism in Network drivers for allocating DMA buffers ( instead of using ddi functions to allocate DMA buffers) . Is there any sample driver which implemented this in opensource. Thanks in Advance Ramya. Hi Rayma, why

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive unusable (with snv_85)

2008-04-07 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, ChaoHong Guo wrote: Joerg Schilling 写道: Bruno Damour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have a USB pen drive, formatted with FAT32. It is working with correct speed under linux, windows, freebsd. I mean I can copy to and from files. In the contrary, it is VERY slow on

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive unusable (with snv_85)

2008-04-07 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Jürgen Keil wrote: the pcfs driver (fat32 implementation in solaris) is severly limited in its speed, it gives a maximum speed of ~3mb/s, so don't expect to have higher speeds... True, but... 1 Gbyte in 90 minutes is less than 200 kbytes / second. Very fragmented file ?

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 system hangs

2008-04-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, amit yadav wrote: Hi, I've installed Solaris 10 OS patch cluster even then I see the issue i.e. my system is getting hang once I stop my application. Machine info is given below; (root)# uname -a SunOS 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-210 This forum is

Re: [osol-discuss] panic[cpu1]/thread=d3738de0: kernel heap corruption detected

2008-02-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
Hi Dennis, Best would be not only to boot kmdb, but also to use the -ad boot options to have kmdb prompt you. When unix/genunix is loaded, set kmem_flags to 0xf via kmem_flags/W f That'll allow better diagnosis, see the memory debugging section of the modular debugger guide. Bye,

Re: [osol-discuss] panic[cpu1]/thread=d3738de0: kernel heap corruption detected

2008-02-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Dennis Clarke wrote: [ ... ] Hi Dennis, Best would be not only to boot kmdb, but also to use the -ad boot options to have kmdb prompt you. I must recall how to do that. I think one must simple edit the GRUB menu.lst entry and specify -kad -B console=ttya or something

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel threads

2008-01-28 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [ ... ] Calling lwp_create from a kernel driver will get you into trouble. Why would you want to create an LWP from within a kernel driver ? My present code uses thread_create(). I am seeing kernel panics due to an ASSERT fail in the

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel threads

2008-01-28 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] My present code uses thread_create(). I am seeing kernel panics due to an ASSERT fail in the sfmmu_tsbmiss_exception(). Can you please post the part of the output of ::msgbuf (from mdb on your crashdump) following the panic[cpu...] line

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel threads

2008-01-27 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, ramana polamarasetti wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me what are all the differences between the threads created with thread_create() and those created with lwp_create()? And is there any way to get an lwp, but using thread_create()? Thanks for any help, Ramana Where do

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun StorEdge T3B T3+ 2TB volume limit and opening firmware

2008-01-22 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: This has little to do with OpenSolaris, however, having posted this question on forums.sun.com it was suggested to post the issue here. Sun T3 (and 61xx) series storage arrays can be upgraded with any Fibre Channel or FATA drive sizes, however

Re: [osol-discuss] Any update on build 79 release

2008-01-21 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: -Aubrey Intel OpenSolaris Team ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org What does Intel OpenSolaris Team mean? (Reason I'm asking is that Solaris seems to be better

Re: [osol-discuss] Panic with trap data type: 0x31 (data access MMU miss) in a kernel module

2008-01-18 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi All, I have a kernel module which panics at 2 different places with the following pani message : trap data type: 0x31 (data access MMU miss) When does this kind of a trap occur actually? Under the same circumstances when you get SIGSEGV or

Re: [osol-discuss] Exceptions in Solaris kernel and filesystem

2008-01-16 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, kanishk wrote: Thank you. I needed some information on what kind of Exceptions can be on the Kernel and Filesystem in Solaris and how to restore them. We're going circles ? What do you mean by exception ? Please give examples. FrankH.

Re: [osol-discuss] Exceptions in Solaris kernel and filesystem

2008-01-15 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, kanishk wrote: hi, Can you let me know Exceptions in Solaris kernel and filesystem and how to restore them With the question phrased as broadly as that, I'd recommend: Have a backup ready. Can you please clarify what you mean by exceptions, and what sort of

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSSH and Solaris/OpenSolaris/Indiana

2008-01-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not impossible at all. Merely improbable. Even with current techniques. So improbable because ( 2^128 - 1 ) = 340282366920938463463374607431768211455 is a staggeringly large number. Even Mathematica takes a pause to factor a number that

Re: [osol-discuss] *** introductory notes *** [PCFS BUG] date, time and case error + I/O err

2008-01-10 Thread Frank Hofmann
Hi Stefano, You've found a new bug ... The foldcase mount option, as explained in the manpage mount_pcfs(1m), should return all filenames as uppercase only. You find that it does not do that for the directory names, in fact it seems to do the reverse there. But in any case, foldcase is not

Re: [osol-discuss] Kernel Panic with sfmmu_tsbmiss_exception+0x54() in stack trace

2008-01-09 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi All, We have a kernel module called IPFS which lies in between VFS and UFS. We are getting a kernel panic (with the following stack trace) very frequently on ATCA blades where as the panic is almost rare on CPCI blades. Hi Vamsee, Are you

Re: [osol-discuss] [PCFS BUG] date, time and case error + I/O error on a good file

2008-01-05 Thread Frank Hofmann
Hi Stefano, these are known. a) case wrong is actually not a bug. Solaris shows you what's really stored on the medium. Windows and Linux, by default, print filenames in lowercase even if they're actually stored in uppercase on disk (which they will be for names that fit into

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlockedonSolarisx86machine

2008-01-03 Thread Frank Hofmann
Try to run this on OpenSolaris, not on something older. The advantages are: - the failure mode below doesn't exist in OpenSolaris (check the code - you won't find that ufs_fault call anymore) - you can DTrace on function arguments easily (ok, that's on S10 as

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlockedonSolarisx86machine

2007-12-27 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi I have tried LD_PRELOAD and UMEM_DEBUG with my program on Sparc. Everything worked. I also am unable to find any bug in my program. No clue as to who is the culprit.. Are you willing to share the coredump, and/or the application sourcecode (for

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlocked onSolarisx86 machine

2007-12-26 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi Apart from the scenario I explained below, I also get a SIGABRT with the following stack trace This is libumem catching a memory error (either a double free or a heap overrun). On this coredump, what'S the output of ::umem_status when you load

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlocked onSolarisx86machine

2007-12-26 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi, From the umem_status I too agree that some thing in my program corrupted the memory. I am working on as to what caused the problem. The same program works fine always in SPARC platform. Why is it that it is causing problems on x86 architecture

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlocked onSolarisx86 machine

2007-12-26 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi I thought that the bug might be in my program. But everything works fine with 64 bit binaryare there any flags that need to be set/unset while compling? And I reiterate that things worked fine some times with the 32 bit binary also I'd

Re: [osol-discuss] system reboot after panic

2007-12-24 Thread Frank . Hofmann
This is: 6367349 Panic on port_remove_event_doneq which has been fixed in OpenSolaris about 1 1/2 years ago. Since you're on Solaris 10, any rev released in 2007 has the patch for this integrated. For more details on S10 patch details or when/how fixed in S10, ask the usual support channels

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlocked on Solaris x86 machine

2007-12-24 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I don't find a core dump generated when a SIGSEGV is received. I set the LD_PRELOAD variable to watchmalloc.so.1 but could not find the actual place of seg. fault as the core dump file is not generated. (I got the stack trace I pasted when I

Re: [osol-discuss] [perf-discuss] how to disable sun cc optimization partly in program?

2007-12-22 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Minskey Guo wrote: On 2007-12-22, at 下午9:17, 陶捷 TaoJie wrote: Hi Bart, I noticed this email just now :( Thank you for your advice. Are there any barrier instructions on x86/x64 could force the rdtsc to behave sychronously? iret, xchg, cpuid, sfence, lock, etc.

Re: [osol-discuss] [perf-discuss] how to disable sun cc optimization partly in program?

2007-12-22 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, 陶捷 TaoJie wrote: 2007/12/22, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Minskey Guo wrote: On 2007-12-22, at 下午9:17, 陶捷 TaoJie wrote: Hi Bart, I noticed this email just now :( Thank you for your advice. Are there any barrier instructions on x86/x64

Re: [osol-discuss] help - coredump third party app developer is blaiming O/S

2007-12-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, UNIX admin wrote: [ ... ] When I see something like that, I go through the roof. Probably because I experience it every day, so I've grown extremely sensitive to it. You wanted to help. The other guy was just trying to put the blame on someone else hoping that the

Re: [osol-discuss] help - coredump third party app developer is blaiming O/S

2007-12-19 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, UNIX admin wrote: Hi, Got an app that coredumps and the app developer is blaming the O/S install as the problem. This is the truss output (last part shown): Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x0001C88C siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xFF2707B0 Received

Re: [osol-discuss] help - coredump third party app developer is blaiming O/S

2007-12-18 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Wayne Farris wrote: Hi, Got an app that coredumps and the app developer is blaming the O/S install as the problem. This is the truss output (last part shown): [ ... ] Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x0001C88C siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xFF2707B0

Re: [osol-discuss] system reboot after panic

2007-12-17 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Yi Kong wrote: My Sunfire V440 rebooted with error: www savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a100d994c0 addr=0 mmu_fsr=0 occurred in module genunix due to a NULL pointer dereference Dec 12 15:25:43 www savecore: [ID 748169

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's very simple, Joerg, first to integrate wins. WRONG: in the OSS world the first user os a name wins and the imagemagick name is thus illegal. Says who? And who keeps the record or registry? Do you like to ignore

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting a kernel module from Solaris SPARC platform to Solaris X86 platform

2007-12-13 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: Hi I am trying to port a kernel module (which acts as a layer between VFS and UFS) from Solaris sparc platform to Solaris x86 platform. Interesting - which module/product is that ? I am facing many kernel panics happening at different places.

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in and kill the hogging processes. (At least on

Re: [osol-discuss] wanted: way to sync from openboot without crash dump

2007-12-13 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Sometimes a large system, despite precautions (or in the absence of them), runs out of resources (VM, mainly) to the degree that no useful progress is being made: that is, one can't even log in and kill the hogging processes. (At least on

Re: [osol-discuss] common ( Win64/Linux/SNV/UNIX ) filesystem du jour ?

2007-12-11 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Cyril Plisko wrote: On Dec 9, 2007 8:11 PM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next question is how to create a single filesystem on a USB attached device ( like a USB Stick from SanDisk or Kingston etc ) where the filesystem is supported and read/write functional

Re: [osol-discuss] Does Solaris has similar Linux command mount -o which can mount IMG file with specified offset?

2007-12-11 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Josh Lange wrote: On Dec 11, 2007 1:25 AM, Zhang, Frank F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Solaris has similar Linux command mount -o which can mount IMG file with specified offset? Or if I can get an Utility to do this kind of job? Are you talking about mapping an

Re: [osol-discuss] mounting more than two FAT volumes in an extended partition

2007-12-03 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, vineet kumar wrote: Hi, I am using SXCE build76. i have a extended partition on my drive with 4 FAT32 volumes. But I can mount only the first two. a) How exactly are you trying to mount them, i.e. which device name do you specify for the mount command ? b) exactly

Re: [osol-discuss] Instruction design using SAM

2007-11-16 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ajay Ramesh wrote: I want to design folowing SAM in solaris please some body help me My memory tells me that is a repeat request ... Anyway, OpenSolaris is a software project. CPU design isn't exactly what people here focus on, and/or have great expertise in... It

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: [ ... ] Personally I don't know what the opinion of the community is on this issue, mainly because the vast majority of the voting members choose to keep quiet. All I see is a small number of voluble individuals stating and restating their opinions

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-31 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: On 31/10/2007, Nikolay Molchanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not suggesting to change stdio, I'm suggesting to change pkgrm code to use read(0, buf, 1); in loop to read 1 byte from standard input until the end of line or EOF happens. Basically it

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than anything else. 32bit Applications cannot access files with file

Re: [osol-discuss] Why disk partition method can affect Solaris OS bootable or not

2007-10-18 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, A. Stockinger wrote: [ ... ] For coexistence of Solaris and Linux there is no chance for only one Grub screen, we need this Grub hopping. Hope that helps you. Don't quite understand that. I never found it a problem for Solais' grub to boot my Linux installation, even

Re: [osol-discuss] how to mount drives

2007-09-19 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, vijay wrote: 1. how to mount windows ntfs and fat32 drives in solaris11? 2. how to configure or start broadband connection in solaris11? 3. how to mount USB drives in solaris11? Rob answered these. 4. while mounting Fat32 it gives I/O error Does that also happen if

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] s10u4 DVD iso link-count oddity

2007-09-14 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry this is s10 but I thought someone here may have some idea about this I just noticed (thanks to star complaining about missing links) that numerous ( 2000) files on the s10u4 SPARC DVD seem anomalous. # cd root of dvd # ls -il

Re: [osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-10 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, John Weekley wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, dumb question of the day: How do I actually install and use the precompiled modules? I've dropped them (i86 and amd64) into the respective driver directories, did rem_drv and add_drv,

Re: [osol-discuss] funding priorities [was Re: A big PCFS change in the pipeline]

2007-09-10 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: [ ... ] I expect that the first release of Indiana will change a lot of things and I *hope* that bureaucratic modis operandi will be one of the things to slowly slip away. I hope for the same. Although, as you say, changing code is the trivial part.

Re: [osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-06 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this is sketched out roughly, but no coding has started on this yet (and, given my commitments changed, isn't going to start by myself any time soon either). Cool but in regards to how the FAT is read,

Re: [osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-06 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Lurie wrote: Darn, too bad :( the speed is definitely not fantastic (3.8mb/s read vs 15-20mb/s in Linux for a usb flash stick) + the mem usage... The change does nothing for the (non-)speed, unfortunately. It does: - enable access to 2kB secsize media (like video

Re: [osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-05 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Fintan Ryan wrote: Hi Folks, This is great to see, I was playing with the binaries that were available from August 14th a few days ago in order a new iPod nano, one question though - is the code in the webrev substantially different from the code base that the

Re: [osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-05 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:46 -0700, Fintan Ryan wrote: Hi Folks, This is great to see, I was playing with the binaries that were available from August 14th a few days ago in order a new iPod nano, one question though - is the code in the webrev

Re: [osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-05 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Fintan Ryan wrote: This is great to see, I was playing with the binaries that were available from August 14th a few days ago in order a new iPod nano, one question though - is the code in the webrev substantially different from the code base that the binaries from Aug

[osol-discuss] A big PCFS change in the pipeline

2007-09-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
Hi, this is a heads-up of a significant codechange about to go into PCFS. I've put a webrev for the proposed change up at: http://cr.grommit.com/~frankho/ Why is this big / significant ? a) it provides most of the support for media with 2kB sectorsize (the infamous my iPod isn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: [ ... acroread/UNIX blog ... ] Setting up blogs mean jack if they don't actually produce some damn results - damn I hate it when companies think that with a blog and a few hollow words that they can create a so-called 'community'. Less blathering

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-22 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Anyway, the original problem I ran into is a simpler one: that hsfs will detect a filesystem as hsfs without then also wanting to mount it. That, of course, won't do. Casper Thanks for bringing it back to the topic :) Can anyone

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, UNIX admin wrote: I suggest people with issues take them to those lists rather than air them here. Super. So: - this is not a Solaris helpdesk - Solaris 10 is not to be discussed here - issues with OpenSolaris are not to be discussed here What IS to be discussed

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence mountable as either hsfs and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's what HAL will use. One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion we treat hybrid data+audio media, i.e. pop a

Re: [osol-discuss] Using script (perl or korn) to determine opened ports (Method must work in Solaris 8, 9 and 10)

2007-08-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Steven Sim wrote: Gurus; Is there a way, through the procfs of Solaris to determine whether the a process has opened listening network ports? Either using Perl or otherwise? I know of a very iterative approach but if we apply the approach to all the ports and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't use DVD and USB, why?

2007-08-14 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Orvar Korvar wrote: # mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:c /mnt/tempMountPoint/ mount: I/O error How strange. I am beginning to think that Ive missed something basic here. If you have OpenSolaris (need around ~build 25), you can use the patches / modules from:

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't use DVD and USB, why?

2007-08-13 Thread Frank Hofmann
Anyone willing to test the fix for that ? There's more than one bug open against 2kB sector size support, in fact in total there are five ... the one below among them. FrankH. On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the USB device problems. Stock Solaris has an open bug

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't use DVD and USB, why?

2007-08-13 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Orvar Korvar wrote: fdisk lists a DOS-BIG partition. But bash-3.00# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt/tempMountPoint/ mount: I/O error is the result. You need to use /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:c - p0 is the whole disk, unpartitioned, and _that_ contains no recognizable

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: [ ... ] You may quote other people's work _without_ ever asking them for permission in case this is needed for your work and as long as your work has enough own creation level to make it a separate work. That might or might not be correct given

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Nico Sabbi wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] This is opensolaris. If you like it, do it! Jörg you explained yourself that doing it is one thing, integrating it in Opensolaris is a totally different thing that only the

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding CDDL - using ufs code

2007-08-03 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, amol wrote: Hi, I want to use the struct direct datastructure from the file ufs_fsdir.h - just that data structure in a proprietary code. I read the CDDL CDDL FAQ and i know I am allowed to do that, but I am not sure how much source code I need to release under

Re: [osol-discuss] FW: USB disk at mini root

2007-08-02 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Murugathasan Simon wrote: Hi Anybody who can help? logger(1) - the command should do exactly what you want ... FrankH. Regards Simon Simon Murugathasan Customer Solution Architect Central Architecture and Design, FPM FUJITSU Lovelace Road, Bracknell, Berks,

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-27 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Orvar Korvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opionion, Blastwave and the likes, should be high on Sun's priority list. It seems that to compile a program under Solaris takes years of experience. Sun and you all guys are doing a terrific job with

Re: [osol-discuss] lex flex

2007-07-17 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, ÌÕœÝ Tao Jie wrote: Dear all: There're two lexical analyzer generator in Solaris/OpenSolaris /usr/ccs/bin/lex /usr/sfw/bin/flex What's the difference between these 2 tools? Are they replaceable? http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Lex-and-Posix.html#Lex-and-Posix

Re: [osol-discuss] The reason for non-working arrows and backspace?

2007-07-04 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, although I really like Opensolaris I find really hideous having the terminal spit out control sequences when hitting arrow keys and backspace instead of moving the cursor (the only extra key that works correctly is Del, and it works backwards

Re: [osol-discuss] Slow usb flash-drive performance

2007-07-03 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Lurie wrote: The read speed of the same memory stick in linux is around 13mb/s, and in Solaris it's barely 3.5mb/s, it seems to be a vfat issue though, as if I format the drive with ufs it seems fast enough, but this isn't really a solution as it loses its flexibility

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Suggestion: PCFS Open Development Project

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Martin Cerveny wrote: Hello, I've put a webrev of the so-far tested part of the rewrite here: http://cr.grommit.com/~frankho/webrev-pcfs/ if you're curious. There's far more to come, trickling in ever so slowly. Can you make webrev compare against ssh://[EMAIL

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