[OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread John Doe
Hi, I have a little issue with updating my OI servers. Each time I do a pkg update, it (re)downloads and (re)installs the same updates, over and over... - OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)    SunOS 5.11    oi_151a7    October 2012 root@s5:~# pkg update WARNING: The boot environment being

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/27 10:20 +0100, John Doe a écrit: If I do another pkg update, it will redo the whole thing again. The server has been up for 326 days. Is it because I am forced to reboot to activate all the new updates and not just the kernel related ones? Yes. It's how IPS/pkg was designed to work:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-03-27 10:02, John Doe wrote: If I do another pkg update, it will redo the whole thing again. The server has been up for 326 days. Is it because I am forced to reboot to activate all the new updates and not just the kernel related ones? - OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)SunOS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread John Doe
From: Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org Yes. It's how IPS/pkg was designed to work: by default, it does not update the current environment, it creates a new one, and update that one. So your updates won't be used until you reboot to the new environment. Ah, thanks to both for the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/27 11:47 +0100, John Doe a écrit: Ah, thanks to both for the confirmation. Coming from linux, I am used to just reboot for kernel updates. And, since I cannot easily reboot, guess updates will have to wait... Yup, welcome to Windows 95, err, IPS. last question, when I see Boot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Infinite updates...

2014-03-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/27/14 03:36 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org Yes. It's how IPS/pkg was designed to work: by default, it does not update the current environment, it creates a new one, and update that one. So your updates won't be used until you reboot to the new environment.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using large (3-4 TB) USB disks for backups

2014-03-27 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Reginald Beardsley and List, On März, 26 2014, 14:43 Reginald Beardsley wrote in [1]: # echo ::walk sd_state | ::grep '.!=0' | ::print struct sd_lun un_sd |::print struct scsi_device sd_inq | ::print struct scsi_inquiry inq_vid inq_pid | mdb -k inq_vid = [ Toshiba ] inq_pid = [

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
What's the correct way to recover from loss of power to a USB disk based pool? I cleverly unplugged the wrong wall wart from the power strip behind my monitor and dropped power to a USB disk that was being written to. The system stayed up, but any attempt to restart or kill the write operation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 27 March 2014 18:28, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: What's the correct way to recover from loss of power to a USB disk based pool? I cleverly unplugged the wrong wall wart from the power strip behind my monitor and dropped power to a USB disk that was being written to. The

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Ssh server lockup, oi 151a8

2014-03-27 Thread jimkli...@cos.ru
Hello all,   Since upgrading to oi_151a8 on an older server we'veat least twice lost the ability to connect via ssh to a particular local zone. New connections are just quickly refused with no sun-ssh banner (including tests from localhost), while old sessions work and restarts of the daemon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using large (3-4 TB) USB disks for backups

2014-03-27 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Hi, Are you sure the * is not allowed? We had several posts on this list a while back about wildcarding entries in sd.conf to get around drives with strange names (my SanDisk SSD is an example) that are incorrectly parsed by the sd driver. I know for sure you can wildcard both the vendor and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-27 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/27 22:23 +0100, Jonathan Adams a écrit: on a positive note, taking an unreliable old USB ZFS pool off of a misbehaving Solaris 10 box and plugging into an Ubuntu with ZFS allowed the USB drive to work flawlessly for a long time thereafter ... Ubuntu ZFS seems a lot more stable and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using large (3-4 TB) USB disks for backups

2014-03-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
*Toshiba* is certainly allowed (cf. line 4480 of sd.c). It's pretty natural for a user to think they were getting shell semantics which they are not. * has to be the first and last character but I don't think that's the issue here. The behavior is the same if the string is Toshiba

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] which to use: smb/server or samba

2014-03-27 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, March 28, 2014 07:05 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:06:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Running oi -b 151_a8 I'm having a problem with smb/server in that it falls into maintenance mode and logs say: [...] smbd: kernel bind error: Address already in use