Re: [osol-discuss] pax considered harmful

2010-06-14 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Hello, can anyone confirm my observations with the attached test script? pax corrupts files if they contain more than 57 holes in it. I just found out today by accident after copying a large backup file. I was able to reproduce the bug on Solaris 10 and snv133, on

Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Jürgen Keil
ls /dev/dsk/c4t?d0 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0 /dev/dsk/c4t2d0 /dev/dsk/c4t3d0 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0 Are you sure those /dev/dsk/c*d0 entries are device nodes? Try ls -l /dev/dsk/c*d0 and ls -lL /dev/dsk/c*d0, maybe they are files that have been created by accident by a user user with root

Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Dmitry
rd...@znas:~$ ls -l /dev/dsk/c*d0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 - ../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@0,0:wd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0 -

Re: [osol-discuss] pax considered harmful

2010-06-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: Is the Solaris version of pax somehow superior to the open source implementation(s)? If not, then why not replace it with an open source version? There is nothing like _the_ OSS implementation. There are several OSS implementations and every

[osol-discuss] Thank you Adobe - Flash 10.1 rc available

2010-06-14 Thread Tim Scanlon
Before I plaster the link that follows, I'd like to thank Adobe for their support for Solaris OpenSolaris. Yea, I know there's various GNU-ish projects around, but I seriously dislike the GPL template license too. Not only that but objectively Adobe's stuff is good software. If I could, I'd

Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Dmitry
Simple: it might be an EFI partition is required. It should be created with: format -e :) rd...@znas:~$ ls -v /dev/dsk/c*d0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 - ../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@0,0:wd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread bsd
You're right. Someone will still be waiting after 120 days for customer service to come back and help them. Why they continue to wait, who knows? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Hargreaves
bsd wrote: You're right. Someone will still be waiting after 120 days for customer service to come back and help them. Why they continue to wait, who knows? Your implication that a call can be logged with support and no customer contact in 90-120 days is way outside of any kind of process

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Mike DeMarco
4 months we have been stuck on build 134, 4 months! I don't call this progress, at this rate Oracle will have to push Solaris 10 out to update 40 before Solaris next is ready. The patch bundle for Solaris 10 is now so large that it takes 4 hours to patch from update 6 to update 8. Solaris next

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread schatten
• New platform support Does this mean new driver support? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
• New platform support Does this mean new driver support? Indirectly it might. But I think it has always meant running on new models of systems; that might mean as much support for newer CPUs or newer chipsets as for controllers and other sorts of devices. Someone could always look through

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

2010-06-14 Thread Brian Utterback
On 06/08/10 13:31, Jason King wrote: A fast-track case is describing more the review/approval process than how fast it's being putback. I'm sure there are many examples of fast-tracks that weren't integrated for many months (if not longer) from when they were filed. Sometimes never. I

[osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public. Today is June 14th 2010 and OpenSolaris is celebrating it's 5th anniversary. I hope that OpenSolaris still has a long life to expect in future Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353

Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Sean Sprague
Jörg On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public. Today is June 14th 2010 and OpenSolaris is celebrating it's 5th anniversary. Thanks for the reminder. Happy 5th B'day to OpenSolaris indeed. I hope that OpenSolaris still has a long life to expect in future

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
4 months we have been stuck on build 134, 4 months! I don't call this progress, at this rate Oracle will have to push Solaris 10 out to update 40 before Solaris next is ready. The patch bundle for Solaris 10 is now so large that it takes 4 hours to patch from update 6 to update 8. Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Thank you Adobe - Flash 10.1 rc available

2010-06-14 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Thank you for the heads-up, time to upgrade my station to 10. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Tim Scanlon t...@uprising.net Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:43:36 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [osol-discuss] Thank you Adobe - Flash

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward Martinez wrote: I think the reason why we have been using build 134 that long is because the next stable release of opensolaris will be from build 134 That is correct. I remember reading a while back that solaris 11 was going to be based from opensolaris snv_134. That is not

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
Edward Martinez wrote: I think the reason why we have been using build 134 that long is because the next stable release of opensolaris will be from build 134 That is correct. -Alan Coopersmith- -alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window ow

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread bsd
There have been occasions where a FreeBSD RELEASE is not on time, but they typically have RC1, RC2, etc., until the final RELEASE. Such as the case with FreeBSD 8.0. I believe there was only to be RC1 and RC2, but there were actually four release candidates. As with the case of a release

Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Yup, thank you Jörg for your email :) 5 years already ... Few months later I started using SXCE on my good ol' Ultra 60 :) Joyeux anniversaire !!! Le 14/06/10 17:50, Sean Sprague a écrit : Jörg On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public. Today is June 14th 2010 and

[osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread rabindranath seunarine singh
My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. Does anyone know if I need to activate any settings in the server hardware

Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
On 14.06.2010 20:43, rabindranath seunarine singh wrote: My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. Does anyone

Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rabindranath seunarine singh wrote: My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. Does anyone know if I need to

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
There have been occasions where a FreeBSD RELEASE is not on time, but they typically have RC1, RC2, etc., until the final RELEASE. Such as the case with FreeBSD 8.0. I believe there was only to be RC1 and RC2, but there were actually four release candidates. As with the case of a

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward Martinez wrote: I do consider 134 as an RC because it was said last year that next stable release would be 2010.02 and be based from b 134 but how would that be possible, if build 134 was released on march 8? It wouldn't be, which is why that was never said. When the plan was

Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rabindranath Seunarinesingh wrote: Thanks Alan, that piece of info seems to be the missing link in all of this. I have no problem installing via CLI/console, but does that mean I wouldn't be able to give the user a GUI desktop even if he connects to the server via the network? No. He needs a

Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
On 14.06.2010 21:26, Rabindranath Seunarinesingh wrote: Thanks for the reply Thomas. I don't have a Sun card, so I guess the graphical install is out. Now, if I install via console, how can I give the user a GUI desktop? Will that be possible at all? BTW, I'm in the same noisy room with all

Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
Edward Martinez wrote: I do consider 134 as an RC because it was said last year that next stable release would be 2010.02 and be based from b 134 but how would that be possible, if build 134 was released on march 8? It wouldn't be, which is why that was never said. When the plan

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox in extra repository is lagging behind

2010-06-14 Thread alan pae
Thanks Alan. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org