Re: [osol-discuss] 76B Cannot find install software

2007-12-20 Thread Ian Collins
Horvath wrote: Has anyone tried b78 if it runs on sata? What do you mean, runs on sata? OpenSolaris has worked with SATA drives for years. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-12-20 Thread UNIX admin
We do not (and have never) searched the known Universe for possible conflicts that may possibly live in somebody's home directory. They're just not relevant, no matter what time/date stamp might be on that file. You're asking for us to be reasonable, so I think we should ask the same

Re: [osol-discuss] 76B Cannot find install software

2007-12-20 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Ian, He meant SATA ATAPI drives (specifically, CD/DVD) drives on Nvidia chipsets. The sata drivers for nvidia don't support ATAPI mode right now, so unless bios offers a legacy mode (some don't) you can't install from DVD/CD. This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2007-12-20 Thread Casper . Dik
I was not referring to sponsors -- the work of making star compatible with tar(1) when executed as tar is yours to do, and much of the other work is yours too, but if you do this as someone outside SWAN then you'll be getting a sponsor to help with certain tasks (and either way you'll need

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

2007-12-20 Thread Bart Blanquart
James, you make good points. Certainly nobody can search every nook and cranny or know what is in someone's head. However, this particular scenario is specific because a conflict was brought to attention. The crucial question is this: is the PSARC / ARC / whatever you want to call

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

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please explain why some people including you try to convert a general problem (that I mentioned some time ago) into a personal problem? I'm not making it personal. I don't see how you read that into what I wrote. I was just applying

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] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Changing the subject as the ogiginal subject has no relation to the current topic in the mail Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: It is Sun that is interested in the integration but it also Sun that tries to prevent it now. I am prepared but there is some

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-20 Thread Atul Gore
Hi there: Facing the same problem, i.e. to be able to enable remote X login tried the commands mentioned above, getting the following error. Any help is welcome! [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/dt/config]svcadm enable svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login svcadm: Pattern

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

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bart Blanquart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ARC looked at the information given to it and decided that retaining compatibility around the ImageMagick command names (that had been shipped before in SFW, and exist as such on many other platforms on which the ImageMagick tools are

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Brian Utterback
Joerg Schilling wrote: The wish resulted in PSARC 2004/480 and I cannot understand why something that has been decided to be needed now has no people to work on. It seems that there is a problem in the way Sun is organized if this can happen. An approved PSARC case has nothing to do with

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-20 Thread Robert
Alan, As your first link indicated is says that the build is on hold and should be released some day later. This was Dec 4 and my post was made Dec 20. The originator of this thread posted Dec 18 with no apparent response. An announcement should be updated accordingly if an change is made and

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-20 Thread Pascal Kreyer
Build 78 is out. Robert wrote: Alan, As your first link indicated is says that the build is on hold and should be released some day later. This was Dec 4 and my post was made Dec 20. The originator of this thread posted Dec 18 with no apparent response. An announcement should be updated

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-20 Thread Robert
I've also seen at least two others posts asking about this delay with no apparent answer either so this communication needs to exist This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 20, 2007 2:27 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, An announcement should be updated accordingly if an change is made and not become 'buried' in the discussion forum since this is indeed an announcement of an delay. But that's my €0.09. We're all aware that there are no SLAs

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

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
UNIX admin writes: The crucial question is this: is the PSARC / ARC / whatever you want to call it -- let's call it the process so *rigid* and so *inflexible* that, even when someone external reports a conflict, nothing can be done about it? There's no conflict. Nobody (not even Joerg) has

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

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew C. Henle
You might want to try running that app under dbx and using the run-time memory checker to see if you can spot any errors: dbx qlsc (dbx) dbxenv rtc_auto_continue on (dbx) dbxenv error_log_file_name /your/log/file (dbx) check -all -frames 16 (dbx) run list -a wmc -q 8 (That's from memory, so if

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

2007-12-20 Thread Bart Blanquart
[Please refrain from copying me on these mails; I, like everyone involved, am on this mailing list] On 20 Dec 2007, at 13:19, Joerg Schilling wrote: Bart Blanquart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ARC looked at the information given to it and decided that retaining compatibility around the

[osol-discuss] Live upgrade with zfs root

2007-12-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I've got a SXCE b77 install running with a zfs root. I'd like to upgrade to b78 and I wondered if the live upgrade tools support using zfs snapshot/clone to create the BE? Is this possible yet? Thanks, R. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On Dec 20, 2007 7:27 AM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, As your first link indicated is says that the build is on hold and should be released some day later. This was Dec 4 and my post was made Dec 20. The originator of this thread posted Dec 18 with no apparent response. Actually,

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

2007-12-20 Thread Kyle McDonald
Joerg Schilling wrote: Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please explain why some people including you try to convert a general problem (that I mentioned some time ago) into a personal problem? I'm not making it personal. I don't see how you read that into what

[osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Roman Morokutti
Hi, I recently installed 4 GB RAM but only see 3 GB. Maybe this is an issue of have been loading the 32 bit kernel. I am encountering a strange problem when I type this command: uname -a It shows: SunOS solar-star 5.11 snv_77 i86pc i386 i86pc Should not stand here something with i686 then?

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Milan Cermak
Hi Roman, these values are reported for all x86 compatible machines. Doesn't matter if it's i386, Intel Dual Core or AMD Athlon64. If you want better value, use command 'isainfo'. HTH, Milan Cermak Roman Morokutti napsal(a): Hi, I recently installed 4 GB RAM but only see 3 GB. Maybe this is

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, I recently installed 4 GB RAM but only see 3 GB. Maybe this is an issue of have been loading the 32 bit kernel. I am encountering a strange problem when I type this command: Might be a BIOS issue, not a Solaris issue. Even a 32 bit kernel can deal with 4GB or more just fine. uname -a

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Roman Morokutti wrote: Hi, I recently installed 4 GB RAM but only see 3 GB. Maybe this is an issue of have been loading the 32 bit kernel. I am encountering a strange problem when I type this command: uname -a It shows: SunOS solar-star 5.11 snv_77 i86pc i386 i86pc Should not

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 08:10 -0800, Roman Morokutti wrote: Hi, I recently installed 4 GB RAM but only see 3 GB. Maybe this is an issue of have been loading the 32 bit kernel. I am encountering a strange problem when I type this command: uname -a It shows: SunOS solar-star 5.11

Re: [osol-discuss] PulseAudio

2007-12-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
Hi! Glynn asked me (as the upstream PulseAudio maintainer) to respond to this thread, so here I go. I'll try to respond to all the points raised in this thread: Richard Hamilton listed a couple of sound servers, claiming that it was a problem to adopt a sound server because there were so

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Atul Gore wrote: Hi there: Facing the same problem, i.e. to be able to enable remote X login tried the commands mentioned above, getting the following error. Any help is welcome! [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/dt/config]svcadm enable svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login svcadm:

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: The wish resulted in PSARC 2004/480 and I cannot understand why something that has been decided to be needed now has no people to work on. It seems that there is a problem in the way Sun is organized if this can happen. Sun is a for-profit business in a fast changing

Re: [osol-discuss] PulseAudio

2007-12-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On Dec 20, 2007 10:22 AM, Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Glynn asked me (as the upstream PulseAudio maintainer) to respond to this thread, so here I go. I'll try to respond to all the points raised in this thread: Richard Hamilton listed a couple of sound servers,

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Garrett D'Amore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said earlier: show your commitment by deeds not words. The next time I hear you complain about how you can't integrate star because Sun is against you and no one will do the work, I'm going to add a filter so I never see mail from you again,

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

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Simon Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 19, 2007, at 15:45, Joerg Schilling wrote: Once it has been verified that it is possible to contribute to OpenSolaris I am happy to do so but please note that: Do you have reasons to believe this is not the case? I understood the

[osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Ray Clark
Should a bug fixed in snv_66 be in S10 u4 (8/07) ? Specifically I observer 6528189 in u4. Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ray Clark wrote: Should a bug fixed in snv_66 be in S10 u4 (8/07) ? No. They are two completely different branches of the tree, and only a subset of the bugs fixed in snv are backported to S10 updates. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Ray Clark
What action should I take [1] To bring it to someone's attention, and [2] To get a working system in the near term. I am trying to migrate from Linux to Solaris, and frankly have not figured out they lay of the land yet. 6528189 consists of a cp -p over NFS to a ZFS file system failing, giving

[osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-20 Thread James Simonsen
I've been using linux for two years, but recently got tired of the constant bugs. My main use is building ruby on rails applications. Is there a Ruby on Rails port for OS? How about MySQL? I have a widescreen 22 inch monitor at 1680x1050. Some Linux distros have problems with the resolution.

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ray Clark wrote: What action should I take [1] To bring it to someone's attention, and [2] To get a working system in the near term. For the general case, open a support call with technical support or upgrade to Solaris Express. That there are bugs in Solaris 10 (or any other software product

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

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
Kyle McDonald writes: Joerg Schilling wrote: A big question still remains: what is GNU software and should non-gnu software go to /usr/gnu? That (If I recall correctly) was one of the questions raised on the conference call and email thread. I was never clear why that was a good

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

2007-12-20 Thread Kyle McDonald
James Carlson wrote: Kyle McDonald writes: I don't know the answers to all therse questions. I beleive they are answerable, but I know Sun had a timetable, and probably didn't want to hold up that one ARC case to hashing out this bigger problem. Untrue. We held that exact

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
Ray Clark writes: What action should I take [1] To bring it to someone's attention, and [2] To get a working system in the near term. I am trying to migrate from Linux to Solaris, and frankly have not figured out they lay of the land yet. 6528189 consists of a cp -p over NFS to a ZFS file

Re: [osol-discuss] 76B Cannot find install software

2007-12-20 Thread Horvath
thank you Mritun for explaining that for me :) damn man I guess I'll have to wait for fixed release except I don't know how long. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] PulseAudio

2007-12-20 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Dec 20, 2007 6:22 PM, Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Glynn asked me (as the upstream PulseAudio maintainer) to respond to this thread, so here I go. I'll try to respond to all the points raised in this thread: Richard Hamilton listed a couple of sound servers,

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Joep Vesseur
On 12/20/07 18:25, Joerg Schilling wrote: Garrett D'Amore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said earlier: show your commitment by deeds not words. The next time I hear you complain about how you can't integrate star because Sun is against you and no one will do the work, I'm going to add a

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Neal Pollack
Joep Vesseur wrote: On 12/20/07 18:25, Joerg Schilling wrote: Garrett D'Amore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said earlier: show your commitment by deeds not words. The next time I hear you complain about how you can't integrate star because Sun is against you and no one will do

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 20, 2007 9:09 PM, Neal Pollack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joep Vesseur wrote: Could you please explain this to Casper Dik? There is nothing to explain to Casper. He grasped the picture from second one. He even explained what was going on. Someone else was first to use /usr/bin/compare and

Re: [osol-discuss] system reboot after panic

2007-12-20 Thread Yi Kong
Frank is right. I got this: # echo ::msgbuf | mdb -k /var/crash/unknown/[uv]*2 MESSAGE PCI-device: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ohci1 ohci1 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pcisch0 at root: SAFARI 0x1c 0x60 pcisch0 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60 NOTICE: ce0: no fault external to device;

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
Hmmm... You're using SXCE/DE, not Indiana, right? Try this: svcs -a | grep cde-login I see a service on my installation. Gary This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread andrewk9
For what it's worth, it looks like some other customer already did that, and the patch came out as 127728-02 for SPARC and 127729-02 for x86. It was released back in early November. You can get those from sunsolve.sun.com . Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joep Vesseur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He did start this thread and if you like to filter someone, you would need to filter Casper... I have not kept record of all the times we have discussed this subject, so I honestly can't say who started it and who didn't, but in favor of us all

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Casper . Dik
Joep Vesseur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He did start this thread and if you like to filter someone, you would need to filter Casper... I have not kept record of all the times we have discussed this subject, so I honestly can't say who started it and who didn't, but in favor of us all

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-20 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:57:07 Erast Benson ha scritto: Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform. Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform (NCP)

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop testing OpenSolaris (Indiana) on ODM laptops

2007-12-20 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
According to a recent report, over 350,000 units of EeePCs have been sold since November, well over Asus's initial target of 200~300K for the entire year; Asus expects to sell 5 million units in 2008:

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread Ray Clark
I have installed 127729-2 (and about 66 other patches), and now instead of saying Invalid argument, it says Operation Not Supported. I guess that is a better message, but I wish it were more specific. Not sure whether that is Linux' doing or Solaris. I found

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-20 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Hi Welcome :-) Is there a Ruby on Rails port for OS? How about MySQL? Both exist for Solaris. mysql is in default install. RoR is available through Netbeans 6.0 + Sun Java App Server 9.1 (glassfish V2) + JRuby. JRuby is currently the fastest implementation of Ruby 1.8 (i.e. one that would

Re: [osol-discuss] What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPARC?

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
Colby, See: http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/entry/xorg_for_solaris_spar c#comments Drivers for UPA cards like Creator (ffb) and Elite3D (afb) probably won't be ported by Sun. Someone who is interested may be able to port the support from BSD or Linux. For PCI cards based on the ATI chips

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
This is the first time that I returned to reading some opensolaris list messages in exactly a month and a day. And then, after 1 minute, I find this, I don't grasp it ... : On 12/20/07 18:25, Joerg Schilling wrote: Garrett D'Amore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said earlier: show your

Re: [osol-discuss] What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPARC?

2007-12-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hi Ken, ok, accepted. You did bring up the Scanpci.c file which was one of the things I tried to mention earlier as contributors like you having all of the tools, docs, and files you need to get the job done. That's a good goal. But I couln't instantly extract it from your original msg.

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-20 Thread Atul Gore
Gary: Thanks for your response. Here are more details about the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/]cat /etc/release Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license