Kyle J. McDonald wrote:
> I just started trying my Jumpstart profile on b52 (53 is downloading as I
> write this.)
>
> I'm not sure this is the right place to post, but maybe someone can point me
> in the right direction.
>
> (Maybe someone can point me to a mailing list to subscribe to to be aware of
> packages changes like this too?)
>
> It appears that somewhere between b48 and b52, SUNWCvol (the long lived
> solaris volume manager) has been replaced by SUNCrmvolmgr. At first I thought
> it was just a names change, but from the pkg dependencies it has caused I"m
> guessing it's a rewrite.
>
> The old volmgr probably didn't do enough. But it did work, and it worked on
> machines that only had a command line - No X desktop.
>
> For some reason the new 'rmvolmgr' has several dependencies, some of which
> imply that it may require not just X11, but GNOME. This seems to me to be a
> big step backwards. Ideally at least the old functionality would be available
> without a windowed desktop, Hopefully CD's will still automatically mount.
>
> What's the rational behind this change? Is there somewhere i can go to read
> about the design, and find out if a window system is really going to be
> required?
Window system is not required. Media will still automatically mount. The new
framework depends on D-Bus and GLib, which reside in SUNWdbus* and
SUNWgnome-base-libs* packages - neither is a GUI component technically,
although
resides in the Desktop consolidation.
You can learn more about the project on the project page:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/
Note: If you upgrade or liveupgrade to 52 or 53, you'll need to run 'svcadm
enable hal rmvolmgr' once - the bug has been fixed in 54, so if you upgrade to
54, these services are automatically enabled on upgrade.
-Artem.
