"Greg Burd" <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2026, at 5:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Oh, now THIS is interesting: I just updated to current OpenIndiana >> (previously I was on Dec-2025 or thereabouts), and now ps_status >> seems to be working *without* any patch! It works with the patch >> too, but now I'm thinking I hit some bug in their "ps" that got >> fixed and perhaps wasn't of long standing. >> So maybe we don't need this patch. I'd be interested to know what >> you see on whatever Solaris boxen you have.
> So, not working - and that's the patched version too. :( Bleah. > What is your definition of "current OpenIndiana"? I'm in contact with the > maintainers of the distro I use so maybe I can nudge them to update. Actually, it's a fresh installation I made yesterday: Pull down https://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20251026/OI-hipster-text-20251026.iso (which was the latest version I saw there) Install in a qemu virtual image sudo pkg update (took ~ 1 hour) ... reboot ... sudo pkg install build-essential (~ 15min) sudo cpan IPC::Run pulls in other stuff for --with-perl sudo pkg install ninja needed for meson builds git clone pgsql After the "pkg update" it started calling itself a March 2026 version at login: $ ssh ... Last login: Tue Mar 3 21:21:34 2026 from 10.0.2.2 The illumos Project illumos-b4961920fb March 2026 $ uname -a SunOS openindiana 5.11 illumos-b4961920fb i86pc i386 i86pc illumos $ cat /etc/release OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (powered by illumos) OpenIndiana Project, part of The Illumos Foundation (C) 2010-2025 Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 26 October 2025 $ gcc --version gcc (OpenIndiana 14.3.0-oi-1) 14.3.0 I don't know enough about this platform to poke further into exactly what version of ps it has. > I'm on an UltraSPARC 45 running the *only* OpenIndiana distro that still > works on this platform. To answer the implied question, yes I know SPARC is > essentially dead but I felt it might have some interesting coverage for us. > I've yet to prove that to be true. I'm quite on board with having some SPARC hardware in the buildfarm. I'm running an ancient PPC Mac animal for exactly the same reasons. regards, tom lane
