Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS
Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com writes: I'm adding a few more tips, including the one below, to our upgrade instructions. I should probably know this, but where are those Instructions? When I run pkg update '@lastest' I get: No updates available for this image Publisher is: http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ Should it be something else to expect an update? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com writes: I'm adding a few more tips, including the one below, to our upgrade instructions. I should probably know this, but where are those Instructions? When I run pkg update '@lastest' I get: No updates available for this image Publisher is: http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ Should it be something else to expect an update? Egad... never mind, its all in the thread: Subject: How to Configure a Support Repository for Solaris 11 Sorry for the line noise ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] How to Configure a Support Repository for Solaris 11
Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com writes: Sorry, I'm kind of distorting the subject of the thread but I'm seeing a different problem... mine is that after logging in at the site mentioned in the directions, to get a an SSL Key nad Certificate at http://pkg-register.oracle.com/ I must need to do some other intermediate step. I get this error information: , | There has been a problem with contacting the entitlement | server. You will only be able to issue new certificates for public | products. Please try again later | | | CERTIFICATES FOR rea...@newsguy.com | No certificates issued. ` I don't recall now, if I did anything special about registering. Does it happen during install, or something I would have needed to do separately? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Change host name on ora-Sol 11
Mark Haywood mark.hayw...@oracle.com writes: I think there might be a bug here. You will also have to restart the service, 'svcadm restart node'. Good catch.. I probably would have been blundering around trying figure out why the name wasn't changing. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Change host name on ora-Sol 11
Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com writes: Hi Harry, You might review this summary table of changes to see what else has changed and it should point you in the right direction: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/compare-1.html If it doesn't, let us know. This is minor, but one thing I noticed is that a page search on `hostname' doesn't lead to that section. Maybe no one else would search for it using hostname maybe everybody else would use nodename, but if I had not known there was something there explaining the new change of hostname procedure, I might have just assumed there was no change. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Change host name on ora-Sol 11
Is there some different way to change host name in oracle-solaris 11? There is no /etc/nodename file. and I find the only place under /etc/ the hosts' current name is referenced is in: /etc/svc/profile/site/sc_profile.xml That doesn't look like the kind of place renaming would be done. So any special technique involved or am expected to create /etc/nodename? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: On 11/14/11 02:38 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Running openindiana b 151a as vm guest on host win7 Where can I find an up to date detailed description of setting up nfs4 from scratch on a home lan zfs server with linux nfs4 clients. There really isn't that much to it, just set snarenfs=true on the filesystem(s) you want to share. Egad... that's it? I must be mixing up with having set up the automounter for nfs .. I remember getting tangled up with some edit of files last time I did this, which by now must be a pretty while ago. The solaris box will be both server and client. Is there a good URL for whatever is involved getting the NFS client shares auto mounted? They would be on a Debian linux server. Both boxes will be both server and client. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: Is there a good URL for whatever is involved getting the NFS client shares auto mounted? They would be on a Debian linux server. Both boxes will be both server and client. For Solaris, man automount. Yes, of course but if you don't really understand that page then is there a more detailed URL with more examples somewhere? As always the man page is intended for someone who has the basic idea and just needs reminders of syntax or the like... I need to start somewhere below that. For example: From man automount (/etc/auto_master) # Master map for automounter # +auto_master /net -hosts-nosuid /home auto_home It says that `+auto_master' is reference to NIS or NIS+ map if one exists. So if one does not exist do you leave `+auto_master' out? `/homeauto_home' Is auto_home a reference to another file somewhere? Or is it meant verbatim? Or am I supposed to know to put a map entry there... like host:/path/to ? In my case I want to mount a directory from a linux machine at /pub and another at /projects On the linux machine `pub' is found at /pub `projects' is found at /path/to/projects After studying that man page I still have no idea what my entries should look like. And further if auto_pub is a map... what does it look like? There appear to be `direct' and `indirect' ... and ... /pub linux.machine.onlan:/pub which, if any options ? /pub auto_pub ? (and if so, is auto_pub another file somewhere?) Then the whole question of possible options leads off into more man pages with more confusing information. That is, confusing unless you are at or above a fairly sophisticated level already. I need to see some simplified examples that take the whole matter up in one go and explain why, for someone who is not already at a fairly sophisticated level... Or in fact is in no way sophisticated at all. If it matters there are users with the same name and group. The numeric gid is also the same. Uid is different and unless I really need to, I'd as soon leave that alone since there are already numbers of files belonging to a specific (though different) number uid on both machines. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch
Running openindiana b 151a as vm guest on host win7 Where can I find an up to date detailed description of setting up nfs4 from scratch on a home lan zfs server with linux nfs4 clients. I've turned up loads of stuff googling, way too much to paw through it all. I'm running openindiana and have posted a similar request on that group. Some of the directions I've found insist on setting up nis. Do I really need nis to be setup to share fs with nfs on a home lan? This is a home lan with no real internet address on the inner network, just a homemade 192.168.1.0/24 setup. With a domain name of `local.lan'. I'm not sure how that effects how I setup nfs4. I need the most basic guidance on this... I do not have a working knowledge of nfs. Hopefully there is some url online for real greenhorns that describes how to do this in detail. When I start to edit /etc/default/nfs as described in some of the directions I've found I see: # Moved to SMF. Use sharectl(1M) to manage NFS properties. So at least several of the guides I've run across are apparently out of date and insist on editing /etc/default/nfs. Hard to tell what guides hold water for modern solaris and offshoots. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express
Gary gdri...@gmail.com writes: I don't know if gmane archives it but comp.unix.solaris is still somewhat active. However, most discussion exclusive to Solaris 11 may be found on the sysadmin and dev fora here; http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=303 Thanks for the link. I just posted a question there about whether that forum is available by way of NNTP. Do you know if that forum is available by NNTP? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] solaris 11 express
Can anyone tell me if there is a group on www.gmane.org's nntp service that is intended to discuss (oracle) Solaris 11 express? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Gary gdri...@gmail.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: You can spend less with a dedicated predesigned commercial unit... Can you name a few? I didn't catch how many drives you said you needed. And was it this thread that I already responded to -- I'll use 8 drives if I want to use what I already have on a dysfunctional zfs server 2@500 (ide [pata] 2@500sataII 2@750sata) I expected to buy a pair of 1TB drives. I've been running in a mirrored setup so need 2X whatever drives I use. I could buy bigger disks but of course, that would mean letting 6drives I already have just set around. If I bought 4 2tb drives I'd have about the same capacity but it would cost around $400 (or is it cheaper for 4 2tb drivs?) One tempting thing about the Proliant Microserver N36L, It can be gotten damned cheap if this is the one you mean: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=2190307#TS ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Would I be wasting my time with intel P4 3GBram (32bit)
I will soon have a pair of older P4 3.2 Ghz (32bit) (single core) to put out to pasture. Would I be wasting my time thinking of using one or both for zfs fileserver, and sharespace to carry out video editing and other Graphics From networked i7 running Win 7. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: Unless Ian C. is right about ECC, then this board has the same notation as the other one: All I said was if they don't say ECC is supported, it isn't! In this case, they do. Ian, I'm the source of the problem on this. Your earlier comment was made about a board that says the exact same thing as the board referred to in my para above. So I thought you were saying that even though there is some comment about ECC, doesn't mean they actually support it. But the rub comes in that on that earlier message you were responding to the first time, I put the WRONG URL for that board, so if you looked at that URL thinking it was the board I meant... then on that board there is no mention of ECC , | From previous post: | Message-ID: 87k4gus568@newsguy.com | | That helped find something on the build list: | | ASUS M4A88TD-M /USB3,AMD 880G, Onboard Video | | http://magicmicro.com/debay.asp?iid=3674 | | But it still specifies unbuffered. Does that matter so much. ` I cited an Asus board but the URL below it is an MSI board. Sorry to confuse things. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Claus Assmann opensolaris+disc...@esmtp.org writes: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011, Harry Putnam wrote: ASUS M4A88TD-M, DDR3 RAM, 1333, ECC (KVR1333D3E9SK2/4G) But anyway there turns out to be a drawback with that one too, in that it's kind of weak in the expansion slots: Get the full-sized version (not -M: Micro), it has more expansion slots. It works pretty well except for the onboard graphics -- see the mailing list for my questions about it. I wondered about that onboard video... Which mailing list do you mean, an asus list? This list, Message-ID: 20101215022203.ga8...@quiet.esmtp.org Oh, I see it now. The thread ends December 22nd... did you find out if it was the builtin Graphics for sure since then? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com writes: Haryy, ECC RAM is a 'nice to have' if this is a PRO server - but not critical for home use/SOHO use. The main thing to consider is you can build a very good dedicated NAS server for around $800 USD that can provide you with up to 8TB-12TB w/2TB drives). If you have a good computer builder, they can design you something very nice within a decent price range scalable up to 8TB-12TB (most designs) and small enough in a mini-tower. You should not have to spend over $1000 for a good design with high-quality customized parts for just a ZFS NAS server in today's market. Do you have any ideas how to connect with such a builder? So far, I've only looked at a couple of those build it online type sites where they allow you to pick parts from a list they have. The one where I quoted the price 1300+ was found on ebay called magic-micro. I have no connection with them or any special reason to think they are particularly `good', its just one that I found by accidentally scrolling further down a ebay page than usual and happend to notice a `Customize it' link. And I gradually gravitated toward the higher end stuff, as my eyes got bigger :). They had plenty of various brand amd quads too, not just the 6 core phenom setup I picked. I would really like to hear from someone with personal experience with a builder available on line that would be knowledgeable of solaris and zfs and the necessary hardware. You can spend less with a dedicated predesigned commercial unit... Can you name a few? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
[NOTE: The following is a repost from openindiana list... hoping to gain the benefit of long time experience here as well] Being much a novice in building for a zfs server, I've cobbled up a setup with one of those build it online setups... on ebay this one was. But before I plunge for the green backs. I'd really feel a bit more confident if a few experienced people ran there eye down the lineup and see if anything looks like a deal breaker, or needs changing. It seems like a decent enough price at 1317 (+ Free shipping) but again.. I'm not one who would really know if it was or not. This machine will be used as a home lan zfs server, and will be handling a fair bit of hefty video and other graphic files since I am an amateur videographer and need to save certain elements of my projects for a while after they are sold... A single project can easily run into a 100GB and more... but usually the parts that need saving are more like 50-80 gb. This setup will have the 2 new 1tb discs seen in the build and then 2 500 gb ide disks 2 500 gb sata disks 2 750 gb sata disks that are still at this moment attached to my old dysfunctional zfs server. I will set them up in mirrored pairs so will end up with something like 2.5 TB of usable space. And then of course take off whatever amount zfs needs for its workings... but anyway it will be a decent amount of space. And now the line up: ---- ---=--- - ---- ---=--- - price: $1317.00 CONFIGURATION PARTS: CPU: AMD 64 CPU AM3 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2GHz (Six Core) 45nm, AM3 6MB Cache PARTS: Cooling Fans: AMD 64 CPU Fans Coolermaster GeminII S, 5 Copper Heat Pipes, Dual Cooler CPU fan PARTS: Motherboards: AMD 64 AM3 Motherboards GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H,Onboard Video,HDMI,X-fire,USB 3.0,SATA3,IEEE PARTS: Memory: DDR3 Dual Channel memory 16GB (4x4GB) PC10600 DDR3 1333 Dual Channel PARTS: Video TV Cards: PCI-Express Video cards NONE SELECTED , | [Aside: the following drives could as well be 2 TB WD green (as the | 1tb WD black shown below) for an extra $33 per,(total $66), but I was | not sure if at some point the shear size begins to be a problem by | itself for things like scrub or resilvering. | | Any comments on that would be welcome too.] ` PARTS: Hard Drives 1000.0GB Western Digital Black 7200RPM SATA 3 6.0Gb/s 64m cache PARTS: Hard Drives 1000.0GB Western Digital Black 7200RPM SATA 3 6.0Gb/s 64m cache PARTS: CD/DVD/R/RW Drives: DVD Recorders Lite On 22x DVD Recorder Dual Layer +R/RW -R/RW PARTS: Sound Cards Realtek HD digital audio (onboard) PARTS: Networking: Network Cards Ethernet network adapter (onboard) PARTS: Cases / Power Supplies: Cases Antec P193 Black Case, Full Tower, 11 bays, front USB eSATA PARTS: Cooling Fans: Case Fans Dual Case Fans 120 mm Extra Quiet DC fan (two fans) PARTS: Power Supply Corsair 750W ultra quiet ATX Power Supply, SLI X-fire ready PARTS: Speakers Black Multimedia amplified stereo speakers SOFTWARE: Operating Systems NONE SELECTED PARTS: Assembly and Test Standard assembly and test 3-5 business days ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: First, thanks for the good input PARTS: Memory: DDR3 Dual Channel memory 16GB (4x4GB) PC10600 DDR3 1333 Dual Channel Get ECC RAM for a ZFS server. Don't skimp - get it. DDR3-1333 is fine, though you might have to use DDR3-1066 for your motherboard when doing ECC. Check your MB manual. Either way, you won't notice the difference. I've asked this in another thread, but since you mention it here maybe if you are willing, I could get a brief notion from you as to what it means to use ECC or not. And the relationship of buffered/unbuffered. In the specs of memory... its quite confusing how that kind of stuff is listed if you don't now poop about what it really means. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
First off, thanks for the good input. And excuse the little post inbetween asking about ECC and Buffering. I'd still like to hear your comments but I did find what appears to be an excellent (not so technical) discussion of about those point here: http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/RAM.htm Now, let me also say that some of the changes you recommend would mean that I would not be able to use the Build it online system where I did the system we are discussing. Changes are possible but only within what is probably quite a narrow range compared to what is available. So to get to the main changes... I'd need to build it myself or pay someone to build it who would allow me to say what hardware would be used in all aspects. I am a bit reluctant to build it myself. I spent a lifetime either doing high rigging where we handled 1 1/2 inch cabling and bigger to move 100 ton pieces around or doing heavy duty welding where 1/2 plate would be about the lightest I'd be likely to work with. All that to say my hands are not accustomed to doing fine work so I suspect I'd break something or run into problems I don't now how to solve and end up taking a good long time to get a system built. Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: [...] This machine will be used as a home lan zfs server, and will be handling a fair bit of hefty video and other graphic files since I am an amateur videographer and need to save certain elements of my projects for a while after they are sold... A single project can easily run into a 100GB and more... but usually the parts that need saving are more like 50-80 gb. [snip] I'm assuming, by your statement above, that this will be just a file server, and you will only run light interactive (or, at best, infrequent) jobs. I would probably do a project on a zfs share as much as possible. I guess that falls into `light interactive' since it would be at most 2 people working that way. The rest would be all file serving and storage. [snip] CONFIGURATION PARTS: CPU: AMD 64 CPU AM3 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2GHz (Six Core) 45nm, AM3 6MB Cache This is way overkill for a home file server, that you aren't doing anything else with. Even with compression turned on, you're not going to be able to stress such a CPU - you'll be disk I/O and network I/O bound long before you hit a CPU issue. Go with something much cheaper. An Athlon II X4 or X3 is a much better choice. You won't need the extra L3 cache of the Phenom. I'd go with a low-end X3 or X4 ($80 or $90, respectively). That saves you over $100. That is one change that can be done on the system I used on ebay. PARTS: Cooling Fans: AMD 64 CPU Fans Coolermaster GeminII S, 5 Copper Heat Pipes, Dual Cooler CPU fan PARTS: Motherboards: AMD 64 AM3 Motherboards GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H,Onboard Video,HDMI,X-fire,USB 3.0,SATA3,IEEE You won't need CrossFire. Or likely HDMI. Look for a motherboard that has a couple of x8 PCI-E slots, for possible future use of add-in HBAs. But you don't need anything fancier than that. There is a limited range of Mobo available. You'll notice this particular one has `onboard' video so I assumed then I would not get any other specialized video card at all, just use the onboard options. Also some of the boards available, only allow 8gb ram. There are 26 motherboards available to swap around with, x8 pci-e is not available on the 8-9 that I looked at. Is that something that is commonly available? Oh, and what are HBAs? Googling turns up way too many possibilities. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Andre Lue sik3...@yahoo.com writes: Hi Harryp, The motherboard you listed (GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H) does not support ECC type memory. So to follow Erik's guidance to use ECC ram you would have to find a different motherboard that does support ECC type memory. Thanks for the info. see: Memory supported non-ECC http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3342#sp That helped find something on the build list: ASUS M4A88TD-M /USB3,AMD 880G, Onboard Video http://magicmicro.com/debay.asp?iid=3674 But it still specifies unbuffered. Does that matter so much. I've read in other posts what it means and I understood it to mean that the data is buffered before release. What actually happens during that buffering... I'm not so sure. Some good news is that apparently both of the 16 gb memory sets appear to offer both ECC and NON-ecc. Maybe you can say if that is what it means here: http://magicmicro.com/debay.asp?iid=3572 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com writes: I'd recommend something like the HP Proliant Microserver that holds four drives. 8Gb RAM should be sufficient for your needs since you aren't using deduplication or if you are it's not likely to be an issue for the size of your pools. Thanks, Just a quick look around it appears to be about the same money for a new one, as I posted, but less machine, and if I tried to use my existing 4 @ 500GB + 2 @ 750GB drives. The best combination I'd get would be about 1200GB (mirrored). and leave 2 disks unused. If I bought bigger disks then the price shoots up a bit. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
Claus Assmann opensolaris+disc...@esmtp.org writes: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011, Harry Putnam wrote: ASUS M4A88TD-M /USB3,AMD 880G, Onboard Video That's basically the same what I use. ASUS M4A88TD-M, DDR3 RAM, 1333, ECC (KVR1333D3E9SK2/4G) Ahh great... good to hear from someone who speaks from experience. So at least we know ECC is available for that board. Still not sure how to get the builders to use that but I suspect I'll have to track them down and get an oral promise. But anyway there turns out to be a drawback with that one too, in that it's kind of weak in the expansion slots: 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 1 x PCI But I found another one on this builders list that appears to have ECC and better expansion slots: Unless Ian C. is right about ECC, then this board has the same notation as the other one: 4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1333/1066 ECC,Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory ASUS M4A89GTD PRO,890GX http://magicmicro.com/debay.asp?iid=3525 And it has a better expansion setup: 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 support ATI CrossFireX™ technology(@dual x8 speed) 1 x PCIe 2.0 x4 1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 2 x PCI ---- ---=--- - Claus Wrote: It works pretty well except for the onboard graphics -- see the mailing list for my questions about it. I wondered about that onboard video... Which mailing list do you mean, an asus list? PS: Wikipedia is usually pretty good at explaining stuff like ECC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_RAM You are right there, I was a lazy slug but really just had a mental senior moment I guess because when I googled it, one of the first things that caught my eye turned out to be what seems really excellent for some one with my lack of knowledge: http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/RAM.htm (in case another dimwit is following this) PS - Is this the same Claus who over the years has answered many of my sendmail questions too? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment
[Note, this post was also put up on Openindiana general so maybe ot here but with close similarity and given that I ran osol till the mess with Oracle came on. I hope to pick brains here too that are willing] I've been running oi (before that osol) on what is now an older AMD Athlon64 +3400 with three GB ram which is the max on that Abit board. My setup is only a small scale home server intended to supply my need of lots of room for video editing files and other hefty graphic projects. Something has happened to render the hardware unusable and rather than spend time investigating, I think I'd as soon upgrade. Even if the fix were simple. I'm not looking for bleeding edge but something a few yrs old (2-3). I'd like to have the option of at least 8GB ram so it would need a mobo that supports that much. Also the board should have a nice lot of sata controllers and ports. 64 bit architecture also a requirement. Don't care about sound or video being more than adequate. It could be a mobo cpu bundle or a full computer. Cutting to the chase then... I hoped some of you may know what is something midway or so from my old Athlon and up to date hardware. I'd like to have some names and specs to search for an ebay or whereever since there is such a plethora of stuff available a person could flounder around in it endlessly without some specific targets. I'm afraid it would take a lot of research on my part to come up with the names as I have not kept up with trends for some years. I'm thinking some of the folks here will know off the top of there heads, hardware that would match the spec laid out above, so I'm hoping to tap into that knowledge rather than immerse myself in research lazy I guess, but if it does not require much on the part of any responders I'd like to hear from you. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] About a GIGABYTE 880 mobo and the sata ports
Sorry to be so poor in understanding the specs given on computer parts you may look up on line. I'm in the market to upgrade a fading (oldish) Athlon64 +3400 setup with something a little newer no bleeding edge for what is only a home zfs server. I happened to be looking at the specs on a Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H (rev. 2.0) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3424 Which gives a spec on the sata ports I don't really understand: First let me preface by saying my experience of SATA ports is limited to technology quite old by now.. maybe 5-7 yrs. In my experience on the mo board in the above mentioned aging hardware: (I think it is this: Abit AK86-L is socket 754. [The machine is clear broke down now so I can't confirm easily]) had 2 main ports and then somekind of raid ports. Far as I could see you were able to attach only 1 sata device to each port. (Of course ports could be and were added by PSI card) Sorry for getting a little carried away with details there, here is the question: In the spec at the above Gigabyte site, Under the heading of `Storage Interface': South Bridge: 1. 5 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors 6 supporting up to 5 SATA 6Gb/s devices And in the supplied image of the board I see 5 sata ports showing. So does that mean each ports is supposed to be able to support 5 sata devices? I want to know exactly the sata capacity of the board as that is the first thing I will run out of since I already have 6 fullish discs from the down machine to but in. ps - Note the mobo is given with a revision number. I wondered if that is something to be wary of, like if some revisions are known bad or whatnot. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: [...] Thanks for such a nice overview and lots of bits of informative detail from your experience I like the IBM x3400 and x3500 pedestal servers (which, while they have lots of PCI-E slots, only have x8, so no big graphics cards), or the IBM I'm not sure I understand what you mean there; the `lots' refers to PCI-E slots, but what does the `x8' refer to? For my home zfs server, graphics cards will be about my last consideration I guess. But what does it mean above by `big' video cards, you mean long or expensive? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse
user124 9...@inbox.ru writes: Hi all, I've found myself having problems with my Logitech G9 laser mouse on Solaris Express 11. The cursor won't move, and the lights on the mouse keep flashing (rather than lighting solidly as they should). Mouse worked perfect on Solaris 2009.06 (111b), but after system updating the same were happened. I decided to wait for solaris 11 but, unfortunately, were disappointed. If somebody knows how to solve, please help. Just to report I can confirm to the letter your description of G9. However It never worked for me... not on 2009.06 of any build up to b 134 and not on openindian b 147... I may note that my normal usage is thru a KVM switch... but I also plugged directly into the machine with no better luck. But I bought the mouse for graphics work with adobe tools on windows OS and was very disappointed with it. It sucks for graphics work, no matter how weighted or which shell is on it, so I didn't mind relegating it to emergency backup status and sticking with razor pro click 1.6. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Two network adapter on osol as vm guest
Setup: Windows 7 64 bit running vmware 7.1 Opensolaris 134 installed as guest in vm. I got this installation working and networked by bridging the adapter with the laptops nic. That kind of connection means I need to have access to a router to be able to connect to the guest. So I want to create a host-only network as well. Something to switch to when away from a router. I understand from VMware manuals that this is possible. And have gone thru the steps to create the virtual adapter for it. So in the hardware listing there are 2 virtual network adaptors. However on the guest... ifconfig only sees loop-back and e1000g0 (which is the bridged adaptor). , | lo0: flags=2001000849UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL |mtu 8232 index 1 | inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 | e1000g0: flags=1000843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4 | mtu 1500 index 2 | inet 192.168.0.30 netmask fc00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 | ether 0:c:29:e3:61:4f ` What do I need to do to help the OS discover the other adapter? It appears to be setup on the vmware side, and reports `connected' So it reports both `enabled' and `connected' and should be served an address from the vmware built dhcp server. However first it must be visible to the OS. I thought maybe ifconfigs' `plumb' tool could help but apparently I have to know the adapter name first or create it. I have only a foggy grasp of how to go at that... or maybe better put, no grasp. I'm hopeing someone here will have done something like this and be able to coach me a bit. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] How to permanently change a machines name
b 134 How can I change a machines name permanently... not the IP numeric address just the alphanumeric name? I managed it at least one other time but have now forgotten what all I did. Is there a sort of starndard way? Or place where a new name can be inserted and start being used on reboot, or after hostname newname? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [b 134] consensus on create static IP
Albert Lee tr...@opensolaris.org writes: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: [Note: This may appear as a double post or some goofy cross post I inadvertently posted this on the openindiana group when I was supposed to go here, opensolaris.general I've been pawing around with google looking for a standard way to set up a static IP address on newer opensolaris builds, in this case b 134. I see at least 3 different methods described... all different. The most recent appears to be Jan 2010... but doesn't say what build. Before I start just mucking around experimenting, isn't there a tried and true way to do this by now? Some straightforward numbered guide that works for recent builds? The legacy /etc/hostname.* approach (covered in the Solaris 10 docs) will work on any build if you disable NWAM and enable physical:default as described in nwamd(1). If you only have one interface you can use the NWAM static configuration mentioned in nwamd(1). This works in builds prior to 135 (when NWAM Phase I integrated), for later builds, you can use nwamcfg or the graphical nwam-manager. Thanks for the good info.. well appreciated. You mention builds `prior to 135'. I was under the impression that 134 was the last build... since the big oracle affair kicked off. What other builds beyond 134 are available? and where? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] [b 134] consensus on create static IP
[Note: This may appear as a double post or some goofy cross post I inadvertently posted this on the openindiana group when I was supposed to go here, opensolaris.general I've been pawing around with google looking for a standard way to set up a static IP address on newer opensolaris builds, in this case b 134. I see at least 3 different methods described... all different. The most recent appears to be Jan 2010... but doesn't say what build. Before I start just mucking around experimenting, isn't there a tried and true way to do this by now? Some straightforward numbered guide that works for recent builds? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] About auto snapshots documentation
Where is the on board documentation about zfs-auto-snapshots? pkg contents zfs-auto-snapshots Does not show any documentation type files. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Sorry to rehash... turn off system bell b134
I've been googling around for an hour now and seeing lots of stuff about the obnoxious system bell... Apparently its gone back and forth as to how to turn it off. Here, `xset -b | xset b off' does not turn it off in an xterm I've seen directions how to do it using gnome-config-editor That does not seem to be available here... (a recent b134 install) pkg list can't find it Maybe called something else now? The volume control under preferences, does nothing to it. Anyway, what is a sure fire way to turn the system bell clear off? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Sorry to rehash... turn off system bell b134
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I've seen directions how to do it using gnome-config-editor That does not seem to be available here... (a recent b134 install) pkg list can't find it Disregard this question, a bit more googling turned up the answer. Anyone else who missed the technique: google for the string `opensolaris bell config-editor' You will find the way to do it. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Is there live cd rescue that understands zfs
Is there a sort of standard approach when one needs to boot a machine running opensolaris with some sort of rescue disc that understands zfs? I have a machine running opensolaris b 133 that won't run more than 15 to 20 minutes. I'm not finding what the problem is by looking at /var/adm/messages...or dmesg. In fact I see nothing I recognize as a clue. The key word there being `recognize', its quite likely if I saw a good clue I might not realize it was a good clue. Maybe that machine can be booted with an alternate operating system with tools aboard that understands zfs. If in that situation the machine runs normally... then maybe I can salvage the data by accessing the zfs file systems Anyway, is there a commonly used method to boot for trouble shooting with some kind of rescue disc? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Is there live cd rescue that understands zfs
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: On 11/ 3/10 04:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there a sort of standard approach when one needs to boot a machine running opensolaris with some sort of rescue disc that understands zfs? Use the b133 or 134 LiveCD. dimwitted question: Is that the same as the install ISO? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [b 133] Catching messages on reboot from failure
Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes: In which case you can edit the kernel line in grub to add a -k option to the boot options. If the system panics, you will be dropped to a kmdb prompt. You can manually enter kmdb with F1-A or shift-break from a text console. You can use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to shift to the text console if you aren't there already. Once at the kmdb prompt, you can use ::msgbuf to see the things that have scrolled off the screen. You should get the output a page at a time. If you need to provide this Thanks,, very helpful info there I'm a bit confused though is all of this dependent on having the system panic, or do you mean you can enter kmbd from a text console any time? For example, if I were to edit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst at this line: kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS # console=graphics by adding `-k' before the octothorpe above. On reboot, and from a text console I could enter kmbd as you describe? Oh, and by the way, what is `shift-break'... is it on a standard us qwerty keyboard? Maybe the `pause' key? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [b 133] Catching messages on reboot from failure
Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu writes: As someone else mentioned, most of this stuff will end up in the /var/adm/messages file. Except, of course, for the very interesting lowest-level boot problems. yeah... I got a little carried away there... I had long ago setup a /var/adm/debug.log that catches everything log message issued. with *.debug /var/adm/debug.log in /etc/syslog.conf Then forgot I had done so... The messages are there alright but now I'm finding they are not all that helpful... an example at the end. The reason why it's so primitive is that at this point (in Solaris, OpenSolaris, Linux, or Windows), you're still pretty much dependent on whatever features the BIOS provides you, which limits you just to the old-fashioned, low-tech text-only console. There's just not enough software running yet to give you a GUI. I'm not sure what you mean here With the same bios, linux manages to provide a text console that is vastly more useful... ie, it has gpm running. I wasn't asking for a gui, I like a text console... but do like to be able to mouse copy from the buffer. About the console messages; they were concerning how to find the output using fmdump, and using the `Event ID' to do so. Now armed with the Event IDs that had scrolled off the screen: I still learn nothing very useful, that is, unless by pounding away on man fmdump and probably a number of other man pages this can be made sense of. But not at all obvious what any of this might mean: fmdump -v -u 4021154c-2d57-c54e-ae82-ea27fc2d19fa TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID Oct 14 04:14:02.1292 4021154c-2d57-c54e-ae82-ea27fc2d19fa ZFS-8000-GH 100% fault.fs.zfs.vdev.checksum Problem in: zfs://pool=z3/vdev=e35825af18775fc2 Affects: zfs://pool=z3/vdev=e35825af18775fc2 FRU: - Location: - Oct 25 17:06:24.7775 4021154c-2d57-c54e-ae82-ea27fc2d19fa FMD-8000-4M Repaired 100% fault.fs.zfs.vdev.checksum Repair Attempted Problem in: zfs://pool=z3/vdev=e35825af18775fc2 Affects: zfs://pool=z3/vdev=e35825af18775fc2 FRU: - Location: - Oct 25 17:06:24.8987 4021154c-2d57-c54e-ae82-ea27fc2d19fa FMD-8000-6U Resolved 100% fault.fs.zfs.vdev.checksum Repair Attempted Problem in: zfs://pool=z3/vdev=e35825af18775fc2 Affects: zfs://pool=z3/vdev=e35825af18775fc2 FRU: - Location: - ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Jumping ship.. what of the data
[NOTE: This post was inadvertanly begun on the `zfs' list but belongs here so reposting with some changes, introducing another whole line of question] If I were to decide my current setup is too problem beset to continue using it, is there a guide or some good advice I might employ to scrap it out and build something newer and better in the old roomy midtower? I don't mean the hardware part, although I no doubt will need advice right through that part too, but here I'm asking about maintaining the data on 3 mirrored pools. I have: rpool @ 2 WD 500GB (old fashioned IDE) pool2 @ 2 WD 500GB sata pool3 @ 2 WD 750GB sata A total of something like 1.7 tb maybe 35% full of data I'm a bit worried about whether with modern hardware the IDE drives will even have a hookup. If it does, can I just hook the two rpool discs up to two of them and expect it to boot OK? I expect to make sure I have a goodly number of sata connections even if it means extra cards, but again, can just hook the other mirrored discs up and expect them to just work. Not likely is my guess, so what about some kind of brief outline to use for a plan of attack? Would I expect to need to reinstall for starters? ---- ---=--- - Another whole approach might be to host the Opensolaris OS on new powerful hardware setup running windows 7. This would be because I've become something of a semi-professional video and graphics editor since retirement... its starting to be a lot of what I do. All my tools rely on windows OS... like the adobe suites or the sony (Vegas) tools. There just are not really top notch tools that run on either linux or solaris. I've been using my Opensolaris machine as a home NAS for the hefty files involved in graphics work. So to host OSol on a windows machine running some of modern stuff like i7 920 CPUs and dual quad cores etc etc And especially really hefty amounts of ram. Adobe tools really love the RAM. But the rub would be how to get my current data onto a VM hosted Opensolaris OS. I don't think I could just attach the current disks and make the VM hosted OS use them... I'm not sure, but I'd need to move some 400-500GB of data. I'd like to hear a few ideas about that. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Jumping ship.. what of the data
Albert Lee tr...@opensolaris.org writes: [...] ATA-SATA adapter hardware is $5 US shipped. (All of the ones I've seen are actually bidirectional and do SATA-ATA as well). So that would appear as an IDE port then ... good. Depends on what your current problems are, of course. Far as OS goes I don't think I have a problem any more. I was getting repeated corrupted data (in the snapshots) on one pool but I think I've got that cleaned up by moving the data and `zfs destroy -r' the problem filesystems, then running a scrub. `zpool status' now gives the thumbs up, and the pool that received the data has made no complaints so far. --- - ---=--- - Another whole approach might be to host the Opensolaris OS on new powerful hardware setup running windows 7. This would be because I've become something of a semi-professional video and graphics editor since retirement... its starting to be a lot of what I do. All my tools rely on windows OS... like the adobe suites or the sony (Vegas) tools. Or you could run Windows in VirtualBox. Or both on VMware or something. That was my first thought too. But then someone here pointed out that why would I make windows the guest when the work is all windows native tools and processes. And if I had a plenty of ram, opensolaris would run full tilt as guest... and doesn't need a good quality graphics card (which is not available in VM far as I've heard. So it seems to make more sense with Osol as guest. But the rub would be how to get my current data onto a VM hosted Opensolaris OS. I don't think I could just attach the current disks and make the VM hosted OS use them... I'm not sure, but I'd need to move some 400-500GB of data. Yes, you should be able to just attach the disks to any regular VM. Are you saying you can set things in Vbox or VMware so that the guest uses actual hardware with no `virtual' layer in there? In other words you could assign the set of 2 500gb IDE drives as boot and rpool mirror to the guest OS? And the data would be available like it was when it was installed on an Osol machine? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [b 133] Catching messages on reboot from failure
David Brodbeck bro...@uw.edu writes: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com wrote: The dmesg command can be run from a more capable terminal than the console - such as from a GUI login session or remotely through ssh. If you need to use the text console and don't have another machine handy, the screen utility can also be quite useful. It offers multiple virtual terminals, scrollback, and cut-and-paste capabilities. The commands take a little effort to learn (they're not terribly intuitive) but this gives you most of the functionality of the multiple text consoles you'd find on FreeBSD or Linux. Screen also lets you detach from a session and reattach to it later from another terminal, which can be very useful sometimes. Yes, I know and use screen often. Not a superuser by any means but I'm familiar with it. The trouble is messages like those I referred too pop up as soon as you longin (in console (text) mode). Is it possible to make `screen' your login shell? I've never looked into that, but I've never heard of anyone doing it either. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Jumping ship.. what of the data
Tim Bell tim.b...@gmail.com writes: Tearing apart or reinstalling an existing machine before the next one is up and ready is too terrifying for me to consider. It may cost more, but (IMO), hardware is cheap, and preserving that fallback option is worth it. Sound like a smart choice. I guess this is not the time to be a tightwad and try to go on the cheap. The only thing that would be able to be salvaged anyway is the case itself and even a nice roomy one like the antec sonata I have, with a power supply, would be less than $200 I guess. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] [b 133] Catching messages on reboot from failure
Why is the console interface left so primitive?. Seems it would at least have a usable mouse so one could have some chance of copy paste when there are what appear to be important messages written to console. This is only a problem, of course if you cannot manage a gui boot for whatever reason, you are fairly dim witted and not very knowledgeable about where to find the problems enumerated in the console messages, or the solaris logging, error tracking etc scheme. I have messages on my console that came following a complete power failure and reboot, I'm told to use fmdump to find information from the `EVENT-ID' but of course those IDs have scrolled past the visible console screen. I see no way to dump the screen or copy in any way the messages now scrolled past... further even the ones still visible would require taking them down in longhand and moving to a different machine to relog in via ssh or such. Seems ridiculous on the face of it to have such a primitive console in 2010. And finally there is one helpful bit in the messages that tells me to find more info at: sun.com/msg/FMD-8000-6U That gets me redirected to: https://identity.sun.com/amserver/UI/Login?org=self_registered_usersgoto=http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-67-FMD-8000-6U-1 Which appears to be pretty useless for finding what these messages might mean. And is apparently some mess done by the new oracle crew. It seems these console messages would at least conclude with a final line telling user where to find the messages that have been written to console... Well, yeah I suppose I'm supposed to know that already but to my mind the logging and error records are quite complicated on solaris, or at least it seems so given my linux background. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine
Gary gdri...@gmail.com writes: It occurred to me that you might get better graphics performance by _not_ running your Windows apps in a virtual machine. If that's critical then you may want to virtualize Solaris instead. Or dual boot. Just a thought... Not sure why I never thought of that... But I think you are probably right. A heavy duty machine running windows 7 makes more sense to deal with windows apps such as photoshop and its pals in the Adobe suites. The Opensolaris NAS could be run virtual quite well I suspect. And especially since my usage is more commandline than GUI in opensolaris. Long as I have plenty of discs attached to the machine. My current setup has 3 sets of mirrored discs. Two of 500GB and 1 of 750GB so 6 discs in all. Then maybe two more (not mirrored) 750GB for the windows install and working room for video and graphics work plus enough space for temporary bckups of working projects. (I only send them to the NAS when they are completed) That would still be a way of killing two birds with one heavy duty machine, and be a serious upgrade all around. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine
Dmitry G. Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com writes: It occurred to me that you might get better graphics performance by _not_ running your Windows apps in a virtual machine. If that's critical then you may want to virtualize Solaris instead. Or dual boot. Just a thought... I had exactly the same thought (but not expressed it somehow). Virtualized Windows 7 should work well for calculations such as rendering, but not real-time rendering on screen. Virtual graphics card is far less good than a real one. I think you guys are right... Not sure why I didn't think of it... A seniour moment or just a `Duh' moment. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: [OT] Openindiana mailing list
Albert Lee tr...@opensolaris.org writes: Harry, I tried entering your email in the subscription form, and there was no problem. I guess there was a typo in the address during your previous attempt to subscribe. If you clicked through the confirmation message, you should be subscribed now. Well thanks for the taking the time. I did check my address several times while at the subscription page. But it would not be the first time I was blind to some error. When you mention the `confirmation message' are you referring to one from gmane or do you mean I should have gotten something from the list itself? If the latter then I have received nothing. Going thru the subscription process again and you are right that my email address is not rejected. I should be good now Thanks again ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] [OT] Openindiana mailing list
Sorry for the ot, but hoped to find an openindiana enthusiast who can coach me a bit. Trying to subscribe to openindiana-discuss mailing list at: http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss My request is rejected with: Your subscription is not allowed because the email address you gave is insecure In the dozens, maybe over 100 Mailing groups I've belonged to over the years, I've never had this happen. I wanted to subscribe so as to be able to post through `gmane' to the Openindiana group. If the mailing list will not accept my email, how is a subscription possible? The statement says my address is insecure, but isn't that true of ANY email address that has been posted on the internet? Can anyone coach me ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] Openindiana mailing list
Jim Grisanzio jim.grisan...@oracle.com writes: hi ... opensolaris.org does not host that mailing list. Our lists are here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo. We used to have a list called indiana-discuss, but that list is not longer used and the archives are here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/. Thank you, but that was understood. As mentioned in my post I hoped to find an openindiana enthusiast here as there are many lurking or posting here. Hoping to get to an openindiana reader who may know what I need to do since I'm rejected from that list as mentioned. And as noted in my subject line it is Off topic here... sorry. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine
I'm at the point where I need to upgrade my hardware for my home zfs server. Its not that I've outstripped the hardware with work, but more that hardware is getting pretty old and showing signs of problems. Hardware is Athlon64 +3400 2.2Ghz. It only has capability of holding 3GB or ram. I'm thinking to build up a unit that can handle 24 GB of ram. But that would only make sense if it would be possible on such a machine to run a virtual form of windows 7 for fairly serious video editing. It would not be the main editing interface but would be more of a backup unit that would take some of the work such as processing still pictures or creating leadins in After Effects. Plus (Killing two birds with one stone) still be an Opensolaris machine for the backups of other machines and general storage of data. The NFS angle would be fairly small scale. Currently I have 3 sets of mirrored disks. 2 500GB sets and 1 set of 750gb, with lots of room left over. Even so, I would still probably add another set of 750 disks for the windows work. So that is the kind of scale involved for a networked file server come `windows 7 video editing machine'. What I'm asking here is if running a virtual windows 7 would be able to take good advantage of the 24 GB or ram? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine
Dmitry G. Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com writes: What I'm asking here is if running a virtual windows 7 would be able to take good advantage of the 24 GB or ram? I think that VirtualBox will be fairly able to allocate most of the 24GB of RAM to guest Windows 7 64bit. I did try myself though. Thanks for the input. And I'm curious. If you haven't tried it, what do you base the assesment on. You know someone who has done this, or heard of it being done somewhere? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine
Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com writes: You'll only be bound by the Windows maximum memory addressing limit. According to the Wikipedia article on Windows 7, Home Premium 64-bit edition is limited to 16GB, and higher editions are limited to 192GB. YMMV, I run a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional host with 4GB RAM. [...] Ahh good input thanks. What are you running the win7 host on? What do you do on the virtual win 7? I'd like to be able to do video editing at least as well as I'm now doing that kind of work on an i7 Q820 (Sager laptop) that has 8 GB ram. i7 Q820 1.73 Ghz and 8gb ram seems plenty powerful but even then there some kinds of timelines that cannot play in real time. I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone, and get both a nice powerful NAS and a video editing machine. The best pro-sumer editing tools all run on windows only at this time. Like the Adobe suites or the Sony (vegas, dvdarch) tools. So hoping to run them with plenty of poop by installing plenty of ram and going the virtual route. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine
Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com writes: Are you running windows locally or across NFS? If the latter, be sure to use GigE interfaces and switch. Also, if you want a home NAS box consider NexentaStor's community edition that's free for up to 12 Tb of storage. Locally only ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Moving camp, lock stock and barrel
This thread was started on the zfs list and I guess would properly belong here. Below is a short summary of the thread and a new response. , | From: Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com | Message-ID: 4cb29bf8.8000...@ianshome.com | References: 87bp71e59o@newsguy.com ` On 10/11/10 05:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Osol b134 I'm experiencing a forced shutdown of a machine. It is proceeded with a number of beeps in a steady pattern like beep beep beep beep beep beep And onward. 2 beeps pause 2 beeps pause... etc. The beeps are the same tone on each set of beeps but each has its own tone. So its .. hi low pause hi low pause .. etc I'm not sure what it means but it appears to be somewhat serious since it will shutdown the machine at some point... and not too long about it. I suspect some fairly serious hardware problem. The machine is somewhat old 7-8 yrs and is: athlon64 +3400 (cpu (might be) 2.2Ghz or so) It has 3 sets of mirrored discs 2 Sets of 500gb (WD) 1 set of 750gb (WD) I'm running the machine on a KVM and had the opensolaris machine off the switch while having a laptop sharing the KVM. I've been using ssh to login to the problem machine up until now... and now no ssh comes up when I boot it. I know I will have to rerig things and connect mouse, keyboard, monitor direct to the problem machine, but once that is done is there some sort of semi-standard way of booting to an emergency set of tools to try to see what the problem is? I won't have a lot of time, before the machine shuts down. Maybe 1/2 hr or so. I'm kind of having a brain freeze about this: So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data to try to make a determination of what the problem is? Ian responded: Your motherboard manual would be the best place to look, it sounds like the BIOS reporting something (failed fan?) Harry wrote: And if worse case turns out to be the case and I have to get a new machine or some new hardware, can anyone offer a small outline of the steps that would be needed to move those discs to a new setup? Ian responded: Plug them in. You will probably have to boot form a live CD, export and re-import the root pool to get it to boot. ---- ---=--- - Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:33:28 -0400 From: Edward Ned Harvey sh...@nedharvey.com Message-ID: 01cb6938$23f5afa0$6be10e...@com References: 87bp71e59o@newsguy.com From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam beep beep beep beep beep beep I'm kind of having a brain freeze about this: So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data to try to make a determination of what the problem is? Definitely hardware. To diagnose hardware, no standard test. Start replacing hardware. You'll know you fixed it when the problem stops. [...] ---- ---=--- - Harrys' most recent response: I was able to get logged in for a while today and grabbed the last logs from Oct 3. I see piles of warnings like this: Oct 3 17:36:01 zfs genunix: [ID 667643 kern.warning] WARNING: Postattach failed for hid8 Oct 3 17:36:01 zfs genunix: [ID 667643 kern.warning] WARNING: Postattach failed for hid17 But those are peripheral kinds of usb ports or such aren't they? Where to look for any clues ... so far its been running for about 1/2 hr and not getting any beeps yet, so may be a good opportunity to extract some kind of diagnostics I can't get X up ... it just went to a black screen, after seeing the main login screen, logging in to consol and calling: but am able to login at the terminal or ssh from elsewhere to the osol box. I've posted dmesg at: www.jtan.com/~reader/dmesg_osol.txt I haven't scanned it thoroughly but didn't see anthing I recognized as a clue. If the thing was getting hot, would there be a record left somewhere? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?
Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: All that said, I'm still a little mystified as to why the normal development builds are being held back. Could it be because pkg image update is known to work pretty well going forward (b134 - b134b) but is known not to work well or is untested for going backward (b142 - b134b)? Or could there be other things (e.g zfs version 23 in b135) that would make going back to b134b problematic? If so, I suspect that this is a matter of protecting people from getting into a state where they can't transition from a dev build to a release build. People that really want to do development can (subject to periodic hiccups) do development on current bits by building their own. Sorry to side track a little here... I've seen that mentioned in several places recently, about building from sources. I wondered if there is a cache of info about doing that somewhere? Maybe some basic instructions or general outline of how to go at it? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions
Duncan Groenewald dagroenew...@optusnet.com.au writes: The NFS share is already set up and works fine from my Macbook, just not from the Windows PC. But the the Macbook is running UNIX and the user ID is the same as the user id on the opensolaris server. I think you were on the right track wondering if smb would not be better. It is after all the native protocol to windows. But that doesn't mean you need to stop using nfs. Far as I know the share can have both turned on... I have that setup in several places. I recommend you zfs set smbshare=on file/system zfs set smbshare=name=somecoolname file/system Then somecoolname will be what windows sees and uses. You do need to start the smb server of course. If things are setup ok then `svcadm enable -r smb/server' You may need to join a work group too. Maybe someone else can supply that info, its been so long ago that I did that I've forgotten the required commands. Once these things are done I'd recommend you use a tried and tested chmod command that has ben mentioned on these forums many times as a way to cure windows to solaris server problems. (Note it is `/bin/chmod' in case solaris native chmod is not first in your path... gnu chmod doesn't now anything about this command) /bin/chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow /file/system/containing/share Once that is done then let windows do the rest, like creating directories or whatever. Before actually doing any of the above, you may want to verify its not going to cause some kind of mess. My usage is strictly homeboy home lan so any problems are not going to effect anyone else but me.. if that isn't true in your case... please verify the above procedure. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?
Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes: Good starting points are: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+indiana/building_on http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/downloads#HBuildingOpenSolaris Thanks .. great clues. I noticed at the first URL the author made the mistake often made, that everyone in the world knows what he's talking about... and thereby never bothers to tell the reader what `ON' means. Looks like a title like: Building and testing ON on the OpenSolaris Distribution Would demand at a minimum that the author say what `ON' is. But this seems like an excellent start... thanks again. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Seeing .nfs0000000000002def00000002 on nfs mounts from linux
Haaa lots of nice input there... thanks folks ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Where to get iso of b 133 or b 134
I think this may have been mentioned already here, but looking home page of opensolaris.org, I'm not seeing a pointer. Are there available isos of b 133/134? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Mounted nfs share - client root cannot write to it.
I'm pretty green with both zfs and nfs. Only started using nfs since I got involved with opensolaris (linux background before that) I'm finding that when I have a zfs filesystem exported from zfs server as NFS 3, and mounted on a linux client that my user can read/write freely on it, but the linux ROOT user cannot. I wondered if that is normal. My export is done only through `zfs set sharenfs=on' mechanism with no other options set. The export is also set to UID:GID of a user on both machines by root on the server. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Mounted nfs share - client root cannot write to it.
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: That's normal! You need to set the root= option... Like in: zfs set sharenfs=ro...@192.168.2 pfuetz/smb-share See man share_nfs... Thanks, it appears I need to add: root_mapping=uid as well The man page indicates it would be added like: zfs set sharenfs=ro...@192.168.0.0/24,root_mapping=reader z3/projects And by cracky, it worked just fine. Thanks. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: more ISVs, ISV ? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
Bart Smaalders bart.smaald...@sun.com writes: [...] shawn.wal...@oracle.com said: Have you checked the output of prtdiag and prtconf -v ? Also smbios, and scanpci (in /usr/bin/X11/ on Solaris-10). Nice... I think most or maybe all that same info is available buy running the program `Device Driver Utility'. However see below for what happens here. Does anyone know the keyboard command to run the: Device Driver Utility [...] So how can I start it from the cmdline? ddu as root... Well since the X session is not owned by root I get an error about not being able to open the display but its followed by what looks like a python error: # ddu Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/ddu, line 53, in module import pynotify ImportError: No module named pynotify And trying with pfex from the user whos X session it is: pfexec ddu Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/ddu, line 53, in module import pynotify ImportError: No module named pynotify This is with build 133 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about snapshot schedule
Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca writes: On 4/1/2010 5:35 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm seeing something in the */.zfs/snapshot directories I hadn't noticed before. For example in /.zfs/snapshot There are only files with names like: zfs-auto-snap:frequent[...] zfs-auto-snap:weekly[...] zfs-auto-snap:monthly[...] No hourly or daily snapshots check svcs -a | grep snap to see if any of the snapshot services has failed and is in maintenance mode. Sometimes a simple svcadm clear service-name brings them back online. They're all online: online Mar_12 svc:/system/filesystem/zfssnap-roleadd:default online Mar_12 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:monthly online Mar_12 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent online Mar_12 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly online Mar_12 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily online Mar_12 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.com writes: [...] Depending on how you installed autosnapshot, you might check root's crontab. It was installed however a default install does it. My last update was from b128 to b133... I didn't do anything special regarding auto snapshot setup. Also, do this: zfs get com.sun:auto-snapshot:hourly rpool zfs get com.sun:auto-snapshot:daily rpool zfs get com.sun:auto-snapshot:frequent rpool Those show much of nothing: example: root # zfs get com.sun:auto-snapshot:hourly rpool NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool com.sun:auto-snapshot:hourly - - However, I see the same output from zpools z2 and z3 but those pools have recent hourly and daily snapshots on disk. Far as I new, this is all that needed setting to have the defaults in play: zfs get com.sun:auto-snapshot rpool NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool com.sun:auto-snapshot true local And that is set the same for all zpools, still rpool is getting different treatment than my 2 other zpools. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
I may have asked this question here before, but I'm finding no evidence of it. If I wanted to find as much info as I can about a machines hardware what commands would I use? Things like hdd and there specs. Video card, sound etc etc. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
Ghee Teo ghee@sun.com writes: On 04/ 1/10 04:38 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I may have asked this question here before, but I'm finding no evidence of it. If I wanted to find as much info as I can about a machines hardware what commands would I use? Have you tried the command, ddu? No, thanks... I didn't now about that. /usr/ddu/bin/i386/all_devices Shows quite a bit of info but still can't determine the motherboard. Not sure what else to try with it, there is apparently no man page for ddu. I noticed too that it might be listing the wrong sata adapter. I can't really tell if this line is referring to a pci adapter or the one built into the mobo. It does make reference to pci so I'm assuming this is the pci adapter I added. If so then the report has it wrong, because what I installed is an adaptec 1205a. Can you tell by looking if this might refer to a sata controller built into mobo (wrapped for mail): (Controller)Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] \ Serial ATA Controller:DEVID=0x3112:CLASS=00018085:[0,8,0]:\ pci-ide:1:Attached:VENDOR=0x1095 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu writes: shawn.wal...@oracle.com said: Have you checked the output of prtdiag and prtconf -v ? Also smbios, and scanpci (in /usr/bin/X11/ on Solaris-10). smbios has gobs of satanic looking output but apparently still doesn't know which mobo is installed. (scanpci) That shows the same adapter: pci bus 0x cardnum 0x08 function 0x00: vendor 0x1095 device 0x3112 Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller All good info posters I'm liking the tools mentioned sofar. I'm also wondering now if I've gotten things scrambled in my feeble memory. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
Shawn Walker shawn.wal...@oracle.com writes: On 04/ 1/10 05:39 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Ghee Teoghee@sun.com writes: On 04/ 1/10 04:38 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I may have asked this question here before, but I'm finding no evidence of it. If I wanted to find as much info as I can about a machines hardware what commands would I use? Have you tried the command, ddu? No, thanks... I didn't now about that. /usr/ddu/bin/i386/all_devices Shows quite a bit of info but still can't determine the motherboard. Have you checked the output of prtdiag and prtconf -v ? No I hadn't. Wasn't even aware of the tools. Nice concise output except hard to make head or tails of `prtconf' output. [...] pci1106,3104, instance #0 isa, instance #1 motherboard (driver not attached) fdc, instance #1 fd, instance #1 [...] Good info and tools... thanks. (prtconf) Still doesn't appear to know which motherboard is installed. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu writes: shawn.wal...@oracle.com said: Have you checked the output of prtdiag and prtconf -v ? Also smbios, and scanpci (in /usr/bin/X11/ on Solaris-10). Nice... I think most or maybe all that same info is available buy running the program `Device Driver Utility'. However see below for what happens here. Does anyone know the keyboard command to run the: Device Driver Utility Either in the Application/System menu or in some install media there is an icon left for `Device Driver Utility' left on the desktop. When I try to run it from Applications/System menu I get an icon in the taskbar saying `Device Driver Utility' is starting, but then it never appears, and after 30 seconds or so the icon in taskbar disappears but still never see the interface. So how can I start it from the cmdline? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] about snapshot schedule
I'm seeing something in the */.zfs/snapshot directories I hadn't noticed before. For example in /.zfs/snapshot There are only files with names like: zfs-auto-snap:frequent[...] zfs-auto-snap:weekly[...] zfs-auto-snap:monthly[...] No hourly or daily snapshots In fact this seems to be true in all the zfs file systems under rpool. Far as I know my auto snapshot settings are what ever is the default. But in the 2 other zpools I have; I see hourly and daily snapshots. Am I just belatedly noticing what is the normal default or does this indicate some kind of problem with snapshot settings on rpool? Seems like you would want hourly and daily snapshots on rpool for sure. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware
Shawn Walker shawn.wal...@oracle.com writes: On 04/ 1/10 04:26 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Marion Hakansonhakan...@ohsu.edu writes: Also smbios, and scanpci (in /usr/bin/X11/ on Solaris-10). smbios has gobs of satanic looking output but apparently still doesn't know which mobo is installed. Interesting. On one of my random boxes running 2009.06, smbios says: IDSIZE TYPE 2 57 SMB_TYPE_BASEBOARD (base board) Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product: 8I865GVMK Version: x.x Serial Number: Chassis: 0 Flags: 0x0 Board Type: 0x0 Of course, these utilities are reliant on the hardware and bios actually reporting data back, which is somewhat variable in both quantity and quality. Likewise, mine supplies the motherboard model and name, but it's also a Gigabyte one, and I suspect these tools are BIOS-dependent for getting this information. I notice they call it a `base board' not mother board so I grepped for that: smbios |grep 'base board' nothing smbios |grep Manufacturer Manufacturer: Manufacturer: Manufacturer: AMD Manufacturer: None Manufacturer: None Manufacturer: None Must be secretive hardware eh? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] About b134 and fixes to it.
Seems there have been real rash of problems with b 134 and booting into X. Will any of those fixes be put out in newer b 134 or only in b 135? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Chris chris.sola...@jalakai.co.uk writes: Hi Harry, I get files created with UID GID set by client. See below (some names have been altered to protect the innocent, any inconsistencies are due to that editing) [...] Thanks... nothing like some actual data to see how it ends up. So something is definitely going amiss on my setup. It wasn't clear how your osol nfs share is set on the server. Is it just done with `zfs set' like: `zfs set sharenfs=on pool/path' Or something more complex? from mount list: 192.168.0.110:/darkstar/nebulae on /home/chris/osolnfsmount type nfs (rw,nolock,addr=192.168.0.110) That info from your linux client `mount' cmd may tell whats wrong here. Mine has one extra item in there: OSOL_SERVER:/pub on /pub type nfs (rw,users,addr=192.168.0.29,vers=4,clientaddr=192.168.0.2) Notice the `vers=4' so apparently my linux client is taking a share that is being offered as nfs=vers3, but trying to mount it as vers4. Mathias P. asked me that very question, and I wasn't sure how to find out. I think this may at least show its happening. I'm curious what your doing here: chris_rem...@plato-gent /home/chris $ chmod g-s osolnfsmount/test Is that turning off set-gid? Oh, and one more thing to pester you with... can I see the details of how the client is mounting the nfs share. I know you've shown the output of `mount' but is there a notation somewhere that does the job? And your client is OSX then?... not linux? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: That info from your linux client `mount' cmd may tell whats wrong here. Mine has one extra item in there: OSOL_SERVER:/pub on /pub type nfs (rw,users,addr=192.168.0.29,vers=4,clientaddr=192.168.0.2) Notice the `vers=4' so apparently my linux client is taking a share that is being offered as nfs=vers3, but trying to mount it as vers4. Mathias P. asked me that very question, and I wasn't sure how to find out. I think this may at least show its happening. Haaa, I may have solved my problem. Turns out to be some very sloppy work on my part. All this time I've been setting: /etc/default/nfs: NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=3 When I guess I should have been setting: NFS_SERVER_VERSMAX=3 (and that was commented out) I think I may have gotten a bit confused there. Now I'm telling the server only to offer version=3. And guess what? The client users on linux host can now read/write with there own uid:gid. Man, I'm really sorry to the list for all my huffing and puffing when I'm pretty sure I had been claiming I had the right settings in /etc/default/nfs (but didn't). ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Robert Thurlow robert.thur...@sun.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Man, I'm really sorry to the list for all my huffing and puffing when I'm pretty sure I had been claiming I had the right settings in /etc/default/nfs (but didn't). This makes a lot more sense. NFSv4 should have worked for you if you had the client and server both set to the same NFSv4 domain - if you care to work on this, we can. Rob T Thanks for the offer. Is there something NFSv4 offers that would make it worth doing? This is a home lan so only light usage. My domain is a fake homeboy domain that will not resolve on any nameserver (I don't run a local DNS server). `HOST.local.lan' 192.168.0.NNN However its there in /etc/hosts, so for internal work, the resolver looks there first and it seems to fly. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: Hey, Harry, no problem! Sometimes we all can't see the forest for the trees... We all assumed, it must have been something like that. Glad it worked out finally! You put quite a bit into it, thanks for you patience and time. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: Harry, all very bizarre... ;-) Probably do to ill informed bumbling on my part. [...] What's the output of: ls -ld /export/home/reader Does that resolve and list the user-name and group-name? yes, well no. I've found what may explain some of this... it appears somewhere in the last few updates on client... my carefully hand edited gid has disappeared. Strange! I don't know of any automated tool, that would edit either /etc/passwd or /etc/group... I should have said `reinstall' instead of `upgrade' (on client). There was a full `from scratch' reinstall, so basic stuff was reset to default and haven't gotten it all back together yet. Still finding things I had setup but forgotten about. Somewhere on these opensolaris lists (mnths ago), I was told that I needed a user with same uid gid on both server and client for NFS to work well but I'm not seeing that anywhere in share_nfs. [...] Back to NVS v4 vs. v3. I've no idea, on how Linux does define the version, you mentioned, it's been done in a config file, and that you did set that to be v3. Thanks again for your patience. I'm not sure either (about nfs on linux) but am checking into that now. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: So, if user willi on the Linux client hat UID 4711, then on the SERVER you should see 4711 as the owner of a file, that had been created by willi on a filesystems that had been mounted from the server. The server does not need to know, that 4711 is willi, it will still create the file with the ID 4711. That's the basice rule... as long, as the UID is NOT 0 or root... Do you have any linux clients to osol nfs server? If not Matthias, then is there anyone else here who has an osol NFS server with a linux client, where you can show a simple `ls -l' (on the client) in a directory created on the mounted nfs share, by a linux user. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes: Any files/directories create by the linux user end up with nobody:nobody uid:gid and any attempt to change that from the client host fails, even if done as root. It looks to me like you are using NFSv4 and the NFS mapping domains do not match. See /etc/default/nfs on OpenSolaris and I don't know what on Linux. No, that has always been set with: grep '^[^#].*VERSMAX' /etc/default/nfs NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=3 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: Harry, sorry for my first answer, now that you rephrased some of the original post, I now remember, what your initial problam really was... More inline below... It may not have been or still may not be much of a clear exposition on my part either... [...] OK, so that ROOT can chnage things, you need to add options to the EXPORT side (aka, the ZFS server) [...] zfs set sharenfs=ro...@192.168.2 pfuetz/smb-share Thanks for that. [...] You state, that you have the users and groups entries on BOTH (client + server) done exactly same by hand, so that should be good, still, I would verify that. And also please check on the ZFS-Server the file: /etc/nsswitch.conf for the entries for: passwd group They should look like: passwd: files group: files nisswitch is setup as you've shown So, with that knowledge, we need to consult man share_nfs: The things interesting to you might be the following options: anon=uidSet uid to be the effective user ID of unknown users. By default, unknown users are given the effec- tive user ID UID_NOBODY. If uid is set to -1, access is denied. root=access_listOnly root users from the hosts specified in access_list have root access. See access_list below. By default, no host has root access, so root users are mapped to an anonymous user ID (see the anon=uid option described above). Netgroups can be used if the file system shared is using UNIX authentication ( AUTH_SYS). Not really. After more careful reading of share_nfs, mainly as an aid to working with your posts and info, I'm thinking the defaults should do just about all I need. I brought up roots inability on client, to change uid:gid but only because the defaults appear not to be working. For example: nosuid = By default, clients are allowed to create files on = the shared file system with the setuid or setgid = mode enabled. Specifying nosuid causes the server file system to silently ignore any attempt to enable the setuid or setgid mode bits. With emphasis on the arrowed lines (not on `nosuid'). Its very possible I'm reading that wrong but it appears to be saying the client machine users will be able to write files with there own uid:gid. That does not occur here. All files are written nobody:nobody [...] And again, the USER:GID exists on both server and client with the same numeric uid:gid: osol (server) host: uname -a SunOS zfs 5.11 snv_133 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris root # ls -lnd /export/home/reader drwxr-xr-x 60 1000 10 173 2010-03-11 12:13 /export/home/reader On closer checking I see the above info is erroneous/. Which ls command? /usr/gnu/bin/ls, or /usr/bin/ls? Still: Here we see, that the file had been created by a user with User-ID: 1000 and Group-ID: 10. A default osol install leaves gnu tools first in the path so it was gnu `ls' I posted. What's the output of: ls -ld /export/home/reader Does that resolve and list the user-name and group-name? yes, well no. I've found what may explain some of this... it appears somewhere in the last few updates on client... my carefully hand edited gid has disappeared. There was a point whereas neither users default gid matched but each belonged to group `wheel', which had been hand edited to match. So there was a shared gid on both ends. That is no longer the case. Not sure why. But even then the share_nfs man page seems to indicate that the client users will write files to there own gid (there is no mention of matching gid on both ends) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] More about sharenfs - how to designate options
I'm not coming up with the right syntax after looking at share_nfs man page, to give options to sharenfs besides `on' The man page claims options are delineated by a comma. -o specific_options Specify specific_options in a comma-separated list of keywords and attribute-value-assertions for interpreta- tion by the file-system-type-specific command. If specific_options is not specified, then by default shar- ing is read-write to all clients. specific_options can be any combination of the following: But using zfs set it seems not to work. For example these fail: zfs set sharenfs=on,r...@somehost.xxx.xxx.xxx z3/projects zfs set sharenfs=on=r...@somehost.xxx.xxx.xxx z3/projects zfs set sharenfs=on,root=SOMEHOST.xxx.xxx.xxx z3/projects All give the error: `cannot set property for 'z3/projects': 'sharenfs' cannot be set to invalid options' Whats the gimmick here... its being discussed elsewhere about how the the fqdn is required, but I haven't actually seen a full example `zfs set' cmd showing the syntax for giving more options to `sharenfs=on'. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: [...] You need TWO things: You need to START the NFS server: svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/server:default and then you need to SHARE some directories. If these are located on a ZFS pool, you can easily share that zpool by: zfs set sharenfs=on zpoolname OK, Edward H.s' post confused me a bit, but as it turns out I have done the TWO things all along. So I had it right. I did do some research on this matter a ways back. And made these settings: svcs -a|grep nfs disabled 11:53:11 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default online 11:53:36 svc:/network/nfs/status:default online 11:53:37 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default online 11:53:37 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default online 11:53:40 svc:/network/nfs/rquota:default online 11:53:40 svc:/network/nfs/client:default online 11:53:42 svc:/network/nfs/server:default zfs get sharenfs z3/projects NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE z3/projects sharenfs onlocal The problem is that when mounted on linux client with this command: (one example of 3 shares) mount -t nfs -o users,exec,dev,suid zfs:/projects /projects Wheres `zfs' is the name of the server host. All those detailed were spelled out with some care in the OP. The problem... also detailed in OP and slightly rewritten here: The trouble I see is that all files get created with: nobody:nobody as UID:GID even though /projects is set as normal USER:GROUP of a user on the zfs/nfs server. (that would be USER=reader GROUP=wheel) From the remote (linux client), any attempt to change uid:gid fails, even if done by root on the remote. So certain things cannot be done. For example a sandbox setup where I test procmail recipes will not accept the .procmailrc file since its set: nobody:nobody Instead of that USER:GID And again, the USER:GID exists on both server and client with the same numeric uid:gid: osol (server) host: uname -a SunOS zfs 5.11 snv_133 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris root # ls -lnd /export/home/reader drwxr-xr-x 60 1000 10 173 2010-03-11 12:13 /export/home/reader ---- ---=--- - linux (client) host: root # uname -a Linux reader 2.6.33-gentoo #2 SMP Sun Feb 28 22:43:57 CST 2010 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux root # ls -lnd /home/reader/no_bak/procmail_ex drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 10 48 Mar 11 14:02 /home/reader/no_bak/procmail_ex The Linux host needs to be able to MOUNT the NFS-exported files. The /etc/auto.master file is using a later extension to the NFS system, name automount. This only mounts directories, when they are accessed, therefore auto-mount. You could also add the to-be-mounted diretories into /etc/fstab, so that they are mounted ALWAYS. I do it in the init scripts, with the same result. But, it seems, you might need to digg a bit around, and get some intorductoriy infos on NFS AUTOMOUNT Well, that is no doubt true... I didn't use automounting on the linux host but am not having a problem mounting the shares, with the command shown above. I do the mount in initscript `local.start' so the shares are always mounted. But I am having the problem described above. Even though, far as I know, I haven't made any changes on either end regarding exporting the shares or mounting them. But the problems began somewhere a month or two ago. I have made at least 2 upgrades with these settings in place on the server end... and the linux end. Now at b133 on the solaris end. I've probably made some change and forgot it.. or something similar but having trouble tracking down the problem. The settings on both ends are now as shown above. But the problem with all files being created nobody:nobody persists. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] About zfs host as NAS.. what software
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com writes: [...] Bacula and Amanda are the two big OpenSource backup utilities, both [...] Lots of good input there... thanks ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] About zfs host as NAS.. what software
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: [...] Bacula and Amanda are the two big OpenSource backup utilities, both of which work quite nicely with both UNIX and Windows clients. Both have a commercial version available (including support) for a reasonable fee. Neither are currently available from the Sun/Oracle master OpenSolaris repositories (either main or dev). Both are available through Blastwave.org as IPS packages, however. If it works. It appears to have down for a while. I was able to compile it successfully after messing around with ./configure flags to get it to find mysql.h. So should have a working build now Now comes the hard part of learning to use.. Bacula... as I recall from a go around with it about 2-3 yrs ago... it was quite a difficult and complex tool. I think there has been quite a bit of progress with the clients for install on windows machines... and no doubt in every other way too. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] About zfs host as NAS.. what software
I know lots of folks use an opensolaris host as a NAS. I wondered what software people use make the osol host a central backup server. Looking thru the many packages shown by pkg manager... I didn't notice pkgs that appear to be devoted to backup across a network. Are there no native tools for that sort of thing? If not, what are people compiling on the osol servers to manage backups across a network? I know about bacula... and of course rsync can be used that way, but so easily with windows hosts. I'm wondering what is out there for osol that can work as a network backup central application. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
Edward Ned Harvey solar...@nedharvey.com writes: I don't know if there is something deeper going on here, I'll just start by saying I'm doing the same thing (but the server is solaris) and I don't have any problems. This has been in production for quite some time, and used heavily by many users and various nfs clients. It's rock solid, and everyone loves it. Very tried and tested. ;-) Here is how I am set up: Filesystem exported by the following line in /etc/dfs/dfstab: share -F nfs -o rw=someclient.domain.com,root=someclient.domain.com,anon=4294967294 /export Is `share' literal... or the name of a zfs_fs like: /some/shared_zfs_fs? What does the number `4294967294' signifiy. Filesystem mounted by Linux (RHEL/Centos 4 and 5) clients: RHEL/Centos 4 machines upgraded to autofs5. Following line in /etc/auto.master: /- /etc/auto.direct --timeout=1200 Following line in /etc/auto.direct: /path/to/mountpoint -fstype=nfs,noacl,rw,hard,intr,posix server.domain.com:/export Egad... I don't even recognize about 90% of that.. So didn't set nothing with `zfs set' regarding sharenfs? But I'm not a well trained sytem admin... just a homeboy with a home zfs/nfs/cifs server. And on the linux hosts, there is no /etc/exports involved? Or does your /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.direct do the job /etc/exports traditionally has done? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] About zfs host as NAS.. what software
Sean Johnson s...@ttys0.net writes: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I know about bacula... and of course rsync can be used that way, but ^ so easily with windows hosts. Type correction: should say `not' at the carot above not' I'm wondering what is out there for osol that can work as a network backup central application. Even though you already know about bacula, that is exactly what we found to work well with opensolaris. We did roll our own IPS package, and distribute it via an internal IPS repository. Thanks for the input... good to know. So in your setup, bacula is a precompiled pkg available to `pkg install bacula' then? Seems like, since osol is often used as a backup server, that there would be a software pkg available to `pkg' cmd, with a default install. But of course I imagine the devs have there hands full with more important things most of the time. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] about zfs exported on nfs
summary: A zfs fs set with smb and nfs on, and set chmod g-s (set-gid) with a local users uid:gid is being mounted by a remote linux host (and windows hosts, but not discussing that here). The remote user is the same as the local user in both numeric UID and numeric GID The zfs nfs/cifs share is mounted like this on a linux client: mount -t nfs -o users,exec,dev,suid Any files/directories create by the linux user end up with nobody:nobody uid:gid and any attempt to change that from the client host fails, even if done as root. Details: I'm not sure when this trouble started... its been a while, long enough to have existed over a couple of builds (b129 b133). But was not always a problem. I jumped from 129 to 133 so don't know about builds in between. I have a zfs_fs .. /projects on zpool z3 this is a hierarchy that is fairly deep but only the top level is zfs. (Aside: That is something I intend to change soon) That is, the whole thing, of course, is zfs, but the lower levels have been created by whatever remote host was working there. z3/projects has these two settings: z3/projects sharenfs on z3/projects sharesmb name=projects So both cifs and nfs are turned on making the zfs host both a zfs and nfs server. Also when z3/projects was created, it was set: chmod g-s (set gid) right away. The remote linux user in this discussion has the same numeric UID and GID as the local zfs user who is owner of /projects Later, and more than once by now, I've run this command from the zfs host: /bin/chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow /projects to get read/write to work when working from windows hosts. The filesystem is primarily accessed as an nsf mounted filesystem on a linux (gentoo linux) host. But is also used over cifs by a couple of windows hosts. On the linux client host, `/projects' gets mounted like this: mount -t nfs -o users,exec,dev,suid That has been the case both before having the problem and now. The trouble I see is that all files get created with: nobody:nobody as UID:GID, even though /projects is set as normal USER:GROUP of a user on the zfs/nfs server. From the remote (we only deal with the linux remote here) any attempt to change uid:gid fails, even if done by root on the remote. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Mail cron messages to email address
Is there a standard sort of way to make cron messages be mailed to an email address? crontab will not accept a mailto=s...@address.there and /etc/default/cron appears to be limited to setting: PATH and CRONLOG. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Mail cron messages to email address
Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de writes: Not really. Here's what I do: [...] 10 4 * * * [ -x /root/bin/daily ] /root/bin/daily 21 | \ /usr/bin/mailx -s Script 'daily' [...] I was hoping to avoid having to do that... but yeah.. I guess thats' what I need to do. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] startx failing after move from b129 = b133
After doing an image-update from build 129 to 133, I'm finding my old system for starting X fails now. I usually run with gdm disabled and rely on startx to get X up when I need it, so have a console login. I've been starting X with: startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session By-passing gdm altogether... I've had many problems with the graphical login, that have persisted over many builds so have come to this system over time. After booting into the new b133, my system fails with all these warnings and errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse0 (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module extmod (EE) Failed to load module extmod (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ia (EE) Failed to load module ia (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dbe (EE) Failed to load module dbe (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri2 (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xtsol (EE) Failed to load module xtsol (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module radeon (EE) Failed to load module radeon (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found I never did understand the X startup on osol and have no real clue what might be happening here. There must have been some changes in how it works between the two builds (129-133) I'm checking now if just enabling gdm will work now, but don't have much hope since it doesn't bring on a graphical login from the console, which it should when enabled I think... but still trying a reboot with gdm running. Well, that didn't work at all. I see gdm trying over and over but just keeps popping back to console login which cannot be used because every few seconds it gdm trying again. Finally gdm apparently gives up... and console login works, so not able to get to X that way either. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] startx failing after move from b129 = b133
Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com writes: I would recommend starting your desktop like this: startx /etc/gdm/Xsession gnome-session That fails even on the old build 129 BE, not to mention on 133. Running the suggested command: startx /etc/gdm/Xsession gnome-session: Errors from /var/log/Xorg.0.log (from my last good BE build 129) [...] (EE) Couldn't init device hotkey (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 1.3.2 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0 (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to set keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to set keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to set keyboard LED's: No such device compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 1.4.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0 (EE) Couldn't init device hotkey (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed [...] input: Device no longer present - removing. disable primary dac finished PLL2 finished PLL1 Entering Restore TV Restore TV PLL Restore TVHV Restore TV Restarts Restore Timing Tables Restore TV standard Leaving Restore TV ---- ---=--- - Starting X with: startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session Also leaves some errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log but starts up X and seems to run fine. Errors from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session: [...] (EE) Couldn't init device hotkey (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 1.3.2 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0 (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to set keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to set keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to get keyboard LED's: No such device (EE) input: Failed to set keyboard LED's: No such device compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 1.4.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0 (EE) Couldn't init device hotkey (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed [...] input: Device no longer present - removing. Unhandled monitor type 0 Unhandled monitor type 0 So, I'm not that sure how correct the environment is but X starts and I don't notice any obvious problems while working in the environment. However neither one of those commands works on 133 ---- ---=--- - Running build 133 now. I'll post the errors using your suggested command in the environment. startx /etc/gdm/Xsession gnome-session: (Note: I did notice there is no mention of `hal', as there is in the other failure messages) [...] (EE) Failed to load module extmod (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module ia (module does not exist, 0) compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension (EE) Failed to load module dbe (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module xtsol (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module radeon (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available. [...] Fatal server error: no screens found ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] startx failing after move from b129 = b133
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: After booting into the new b133, my system fails with all these warnings and errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. (WW) Warning, couldn't open module extmod (EE) Failed to load module extmod (module does not exist, 0) Make sure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not contain a ModulePath line - it appears to be incorrectly set for the new path (the files moved in 130), and if you just remove it, Xorg will use the right path by default. In general, you should remove any settings from xorg.conf that you don't need to override - Xorg will use the defaults as much as possible - including removing the file altogether if you don't need to override any defaults. Egad.. I forgot I even had an xorg.conf in place. Removed it and startx worked fine. Thanks.. There was a time I tried to get X to have a huge virtual desktop like I've done on linux for yrs by having this in xorg.conf: SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Virtual 2048 1536 Viewport 0 0 EndSubSection But never did get it to fly on Osol.. I forgot to remove the xorg.conf from that experiment. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] startx failing after move from b129 = b133
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: After booting into the new b133, my system fails with all these warnings and errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. (WW) Warning, couldn't open module extmod (EE) Failed to load module extmod (module does not exist, 0) Make sure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not contain a ModulePath line - it appears to be incorrectly set for the new path (the files moved in 130), and if you just remove it, Xorg will use the right path by default. In general, you should remove any settings from xorg.conf that you don't need to override - Xorg will use the defaults as much as possible - including removing the file altogether if you don't need to override any defaults. Egad.. I forgot I even had an xorg.conf in place. Removed it and startx worked fine. Thanks.. There was a time I tried to get X to have a huge virtual desktop like I've done on linux for yrs by having this in xorg.conf: SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Virtual 2048 1536 Viewport 0 0 EndSubSection But never did get it to fly on Osol.. I forgot to remove the xorg.conf from that experiment. I may have spoke a tad bit too soon... Now I have no keyboard. It appears there is a problem with keyboard in Xorg.0.log but I'm not really sure what I'm looking at here. I've posted it below. This is on b133 These lines mention that no CORE keyboard or mouse input devices are found. (==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amd64,/usr/X11/lib/modules/ (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices. (II) LoadModule: extmod But then later on hal appears to get the mouse figured out but not the keyboard. Full Xorg.0.log X.Org X Server 1.7.4 Release Date: 2010-01-08 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: SunOS 5.11 i86pc Current Operating System: SunOS zfs 5.11 snv_133 i86pc Build Date: 01 February 2010 03:45:48PM Solaris ABI: 64-bit Current version of pixman: 0.16.4 Before reporting problems, check http://sunsolve.sun.com/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Feb 23 22:22:39 2010 (II) Loader magic: 622318 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 6.0 X.Org XInput driver : 7.0 X.Org Server Extension : 2.0 (--) using VT number 2 (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:4e4a:1043:c000 ATI Technologies Inc R360 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe800/134217728, 0xf803/65536, I/O @ 0xd000/256, BIOS @ 0x/65536 (--) PCI: (0:1:0:1) 1002:4e6a:1043:c001 ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT] (Secondary) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf000/134217728, 0xf802/65536, BIOS @ 0x/65536 (--) console driver: SUNWtext (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines) (==) --- Start of built-in configuration --- Section Device Identifier Builtin Default ati Device 0 Driver ati EndSection Section Screen Identifier Builtin Default ati Screen 0 Device Builtin Default ati Device 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier Builtin Default vesa Device 0 Driver vesa EndSection Section Screen Identifier Builtin Default vesa Screen 0 Device Builtin Default vesa Device 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier Builtin Default fbdev Device 0 Driver fbdev EndSection Section Screen Identifier Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0 Device Builtin Default fbdev Device 0 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Builtin Default Layout Screen Builtin Default ati Screen 0 Screen Builtin Default vesa Screen 0 Screen Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0 EndSection (==) --- End of built-in configuration --- (==) ServerLayout Builtin Default Layout (**) |--Screen Builtin Default ati Screen 0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor default monitor (**) | |--Device Builtin Default ati Device 0 (==) No monitor specified for screen Builtin Default ati Screen 0. Using a default monitor configuration. (**) |--Screen Builtin Default vesa Screen 0 (1) (**) | |--Monitor default monitor (**) | |--Device Builtin Default vesa Device 0
[osol-discuss] Trouble with svc:/system/intrd:default on b 129
Updated to b 129 yesterday, and since then I cannot get booted up with all services in running order. During boot I see a report about svc:/system/intrd:default failing to start That seem to bork my apache server as well. Although svcs -a|grep apache reports apache online it isn't svcs -a |grep apache online*12:54:26 svc:/network/http:apache22 But svcs -xv tells a different story: # svcs -xv svc:/system/intrd:default (interrupt balancer) State: maintenance since December 22, 2009 12:00:38 PM CST Reason: Restarting too quickly. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-L5 See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M intrd See: /var/svc/log/system-intrd:default.log Impact: This service is not running. svc:/network/http:apache22 (Apache 2.2 HTTP server) State: offline since December 22, 2009 12:51:50 PM CST Reason: Start method is running. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4 See: man -M /usr/apache2/2.2/man -s 8 httpd See: http://httpd.apache.org See: /var/svc/log/network-http:apache22.log Impact: This service is not running. Any clues what to do about this? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with svc:/system/intrd:default on b 129
Tim Haley tim.ha...@sun.com writes: Not sure about the intrd, but your apache problem may be 6907454 apache22 fcgid fails to load, daemon starts, stops and restarts ad nauseum I'm not getting any hits on 6907454 or on apache22 at: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/buglist.cgi ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with svc:/system/intrd:default on b 129
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Tim Haley tim.ha...@sun.com writes: Not sure about the intrd, but your apache problem may be 6907454 apache22 fcgid fails to load, daemon starts, stops and restarts ad nauseum I'm not getting any hits on 6907454 or on apache22 at: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/buglist.cgi Sorry a straight up google search on `apache fcgid' turned it up. And it does show that bug number. However I rechecked at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6907454 and still shows no results... not sure why. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with svc:/system/intrd:default on b 129
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Tim Haley tim.ha...@sun.com writes: Not sure about the intrd, but your apache problem may be 6907454 apache22 fcgid fails to load, daemon starts, stops and restarts ad nauseum I'm not getting any hits on 6907454 or on apache22 at: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/buglist.cgi Sorry a straight up google search on `apache fcgid' turned it up. And it does show that bug number. However I rechecked at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6907454 and still shows no results... not sure why. Not only found the bug commentary but also found the fix suggested there works for me too. apache up and at it after some minor edits. Thanks. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] system info
I wondered about a home made system info reporter that would report some basic info about the OS and hardware format (show Disks in use) zpool list zfs list -r /bin/df -h Come to mind as probably most useful in the event the sytem becomes unusable. I'm thinking to script something that posts that info to my website on a daily basis so I'll always have at least yesterdays info. There are probably tools that do this or at least collect the info. Any pointers on that are welcome. If not though, I wondered if someone could coach me a bit with `format' When `format' is run with no args it lists all disks and prompts for a command. It appears there is no simple way to get the output by scripting, since `format' doesn't close by itself. Its probably dead easy to run it with a `quit' or `exit' somewhere but I'm not sure how that might be done. I tried formats' `-f file' option which makes `format' read commands from the specified `file'. So maybe just putting `quit' in a file might do it. Something like: `echo quit file format -f file ' might work in a script but it does not.. I just get the --help output. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] system info
Tim Bell tim.b...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry wrote: It appears there is no simple way to get the output by scripting, since `format' doesn't close by itself. Its probably dead easy to run it with a `quit' or `exit' somewhere but I'm not sure how that might be done. This works on my home system (OpenSolaris snv_127): % pfexec format /dev/null Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c5t0d0 DEFAULT cyl 30397 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63 /p...@0,0/pci108e,6...@5/d...@0,0 1. c5t1d0 ATA-ST3750330AS-SD1A-698.64GB /p...@0,0/pci108e,6...@5/d...@1,0 2. c6t0d0 ATA-ST3750330AS-SD1A-698.64GB /p...@0,0/pci108e,6...@5,1/d...@0,0 3. c6t1d0 ATA-ST3750330AS-SD1A-698.64GB /p...@0,0/pci108e,6...@5,1/d...@1,0 Specify disk (enter its number): % Fails miserably here: pfexec format /dev/null -bash: /dev/null .. no such file or directory From your PS1 symbol it looks like you might be using tsch or even csh? Wonder if that makes a difference ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] system info
About `failing miserably': Total pilot error... The shell I ran the command in was ssh'ed into a linux machine format /dev/null works just fine one the pilot gets his head out of his behind. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] system info
Gopi Desaboyina gopidesaboy...@yahoo.com writes: try echo | format Nice, another good one. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
