I installed the second beta of the 7.1 sparc port on my ultra 1 creator
yesterday and today.
Things went ok during both installs, but for some reason it seemed to crater a
little while after the first install was done. Someone was booting the machine
and it just stopped after all of the services started and then sat there with a
blank screen.
I thought I'd try to install it again, as I noticed before it went down that
the / partition was close to maximum. The machine doesn't have a floppy drive
so I can't do a rescue disk. :p
I did the second install this morning, and it went ok too. I had to try a
couple of different mirrors for the crypto stuff, but in the end it all
installed. A note here though - when it gave me a message that "there was an
error installing one of the packages" for the crypto stuff it then put me way
back at the point in the install where it asks if you have the extensions CD.
Today I was using it a bit and then this evening I started to get some
filesystem type errors. I checked the disk space again and the / partition was
full! Just this morning it had about 80M available, so I did some looking.
What I found was that two files had used most of the space:
/var/log/httpd/error_log = 43M
/var/log/httpd/ssl_engine_log = 42M
I deleted the two files and rebooted and it's running fine again. I'm back up
to 85M of free space on my / partition. Normally I run a separate /var
partition but the machine only has a 2G drive so I wanted to save some space
for a separate /usr/local partition.
I have stopped httpd and zope services so I hope that takes care of the problem
for now. I ran the 7.1 beta #1 beta for over a week with no problem so it just
seems to have come up with this release (at least in my case).
By the way, can anyone tell me why on some installs linuxconf starts in a
terminal window and other installs it starts in a GUI? It's doing the terminal
thing in this install and I'd like to have it in the GUI. How do I change it?
Also, is there sound support in this port? There's a soundcard in this box but
all I can get is the system beep - no other audio.
Another problem that I'm having and it was in the other beta as well is that
the display doesn't seem to redraw properly on logout. Sometimes you can see
silouhettes of the icons that were on the desktop when you logged out. I
have even restarted X from the logout screen and the broken up background comes
back. It almost seems like it's not flushing the buffer or something. I
believe I'm running the Sun24 X server.
Well, that's about all I've got to report for now. Any feedback on the huge
logfiles would be appreciated, or on any of the other issues for that matter.
It looks really nice on the big Trinitron screen. Far better than Solaris 7,
that software just sits in the box now.
Keep up the good work guys!
Tom Korte
