On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 20:43 -0600, Frank S. Fejes III wrote: > Hello all. As a longtime linux & solaris user/admin/programmer I am > most impressed with Nexenta Alpha 4. It obviously still got some way to > go in order to catch up with Ubuntu, but it's certainly on the right path!
Thanks! > At any rate, I have a number of issues that I've just jotted down since > installing this morning. I'm not sure if it'd be better to log tickets > for each or if this would simply suffice. So, for now, I'll post them > here. If they need to go into the ticket system please let me know. > Thanks!!! Lets start from this, and all the way down, I'll try to answer and will ask you to open tickets one per issue. > Alpha4 > ====== > > + missing many manpages, including critical new ones like zfs, zpool, dtrace they are not open sourced yet. have to wait 1-2 months. See Roadmap at www.opensolaris.org. No need to open a ticket. > + non-us keyboard layouts do not work using the keyboard indicator panel > button or keyboard layout control panel ... I use the dvorak > keyboard and, as a bad workaround, I have to add an xmodmap entry in > /etc/X11/Xsession.d I'm not sure what is causing this. On one hand, we are missing I18N and G11N stuff. (they yet to be open sourced before June). But on another hand, if you have a strong feeling that problem is not related to missing locales, than it worth to open new ticket. (I think you could copy binaries from SX) > + I removed the SUNW telnet and ssh daemon packages however the svcs > entries still exist and are enabled ... in the case of telnet, I can > still actually run the telnet service good one. Worth to open a new ticket. > + the entire gnome-session pops up a critical crash dialog after a > minute or so if I have defined a startup program using the Sessions > control panel: > > 99 ssh-add > > This entry simply pops up the ssh-askpass program in order to load my > ssh keys into the agent upon gnome startup. ditto > + ruby does not work out of the box due to a missing library link ... > fixed by running: > > cd /usr/lib > ln -s libruby1.8.so.1.8.3 libruby1.8.so.1 ditto > + xmms installed without libmikmod2 as a dependency, but then displayed > an error upon launch ... fixed by installing libmikmod2 ditto > + xmms should probably be configured by default to use Sun audio since > the default OSS plugin does not appear to work (at least on my system) I would compound this one and previous one into one ticket. > + postgresql-8.0 creates a pg_hba.conf that uses 'ident sameuser' for > user postgres ... however authentication does not succeed and the > postgres user cannot actually do anything ... I just reverted to the > behavior of local trust known problem. yes we need to open a ticket for this one too. > + no zsh package! ditto -- Erast _______________________________________________ GNU/Solaris Users mailing list [email protected]
