Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

2024-03-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 3/10/24 08:16, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: what does "W" in 'cpoptions' mean? Is that a setup probem with my shell? (zsh, same .zshrc as on FreeBSD and Oracle Solaris) with modified PATH setup... I'm not a vim user but I quickly found:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

2024-03-09 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 3/9/24 16:31, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hello, if the root user wants to write back a file not writable as set by permissions a force write back (wq! in vi) does not work. Is that behavior intended? Other OSes as for instance oracle solaris, FreeBSD, Solaris 10 and so, allow a force write back

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mariadb secure installation script infinite loop

2024-01-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/23/24 16:36, Christopher D. Bartels wrote: EDIT: This is what gives me the error, sorry for omitting it previously: ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'Password'; You probably want to take a look at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/alter-user/ which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new be doesn't keep zfs settings

2024-01-17 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/17/24 16:22, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:34:59 +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:01:22AM +0100, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: however, the catch was that the new be, that's created during a "pkg update", doesn't keep the compression setting. after the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

2024-01-13 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/13/24 15:20, Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss wrote: Am 14.01.24 um 00:13 schrieb Goetz T. Fischer: i'm afraid making ips fast needs more than just a cython module here and there. don't get me wrong, that's not indiana's fault but a genernal ips issue. maybe having a closer look

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

2024-01-12 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/12/24 16:06, Matthew R. Trower wrote: Interesting, I only knew of attributes(5).  It appears attributes(7) may have shared a common root, but has long since diverged (or maybe they're just encoded differently).  Still, they appear identical in regards to the Interface Stability attribute.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

2024-01-12 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/12/24 06:49, Marcel Telka wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 08:21:17AM -0600, Matthew R. Trower wrote: If uninstalling a package places files in lost+found, then I'm well and truly confused. To confuse you a bit more here is an example: # find /var/pkg/lost+found/ -type f # echo test >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit libraries disappearing

2024-01-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/7/24 07:26, Till Wegmueller wrote: I would like to continue with what marcel proposed though as it seems you have other software aswell like conky which is not from the OpenIndiana repositories. These days sqlite3 has become so widely used as a library that maybe we should keep around

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS server and domain from DHCP?

2023-12-20 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
Autoconfiguration of /etc/resolv.conf on illumos could really use some attention and modernization - besides the glitch you noticed, there is also currently no way to automatically use ipv6 nameserver addresses either from DHCPv6 or IPv6 stateless address autoconfig. Funnelling the settings

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Python abstact socket and config printer applet.py

2023-12-13 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 12/13/23 15:03, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 09:24, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: A sock.bind with an normal string works, but not the style with the leading \0. This is the syntax for abstract sockets on Linux. I have no idea if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Python abstact socket and config printer applet.py

2023-12-13 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 12/13/23 09:24, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: I don't know when I have seen the last time the printer applet in mate-panel. On my attempts to revive the applet I stumbled on the abstract socket stuff in the Python code of applet.py If i try to start

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd has issues after upgraded to latest OI Hipster release today

2023-10-13 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 7/29/23 13:31, Marcel Telka wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 03:06:50PM +0100, russell wrote: Jul 29 13:21:14 tesla ntpd[1283]: [ID 702911 ntp.error] /jenkins/jobs/oi-userland/workspace/components/network/ntp/ntp-4.2.8p17/libntp/recvbuff.c:383: REQUIRE(((void *)0) == pf->pptail || pptail ==

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recvmsg not implemented

2023-03-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 3/14/23 15:34, Matthew Yapit wrote: I'm trying to build vlc 3.0.1 on oi as root. first I do the following: #./configure BUILDCC='/usr/bin/gcc -std=c99' No problems Then I try gmake and get: # gmake gmake  all-recursive gmake[1]: Entering directory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing smaller rpool SSD with bigger one - best praxis

2023-03-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 3/7/23 13:53, gea wrote: I suppose a method based on mirror/clone + autoexpand will not work with different ashift. A disaster backup/recovery method that should work: - replicate current BE to datapool via zfs send   (you can create daily recoverable backups while OI is running with this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mate-system-monitor crashes

2023-02-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 2/7/23 13:01, Matthew Yapit wrote: I recently updated to 2022.10 and I've noticed that mate-system-monitor causes a core instead of launching.  Has anyone else seen this?  Is there a fix or one coming in the next update? It happens for me, too. Based on the traceback in exception code,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bad package in hipster repo: pkg://openindiana.org/security/softhsm

2022-06-15 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 6/15/22 3:32 PM, Till Wegmueller wrote: Is this happening everytime or just once? It's happened every time I've tried today. The error can happen during a package builde from jenkins if you are very unlucky. illumos-gate is built during 24:00 GMT so that could be a bigger upload that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bad package in hipster repo: pkg://openindiana.org/security/softhsm

2022-06-15 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
While trying to download: pkg://openindiana.org/security/softhsm I get a "Invalid content: manifest hash failure" error Here's the exact command and error: $ pkgrecv -s http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster -d /tmp/pkgs pkg://openindiana.org/security/softhsm Processing packages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

2021-03-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 03/18/21 21:03, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote: (if I'm reading it correctly, it trapped in strlen()). It does look that way. If you add a "-v" to ::findstack you might see arguments, which can be helpful. If there aren't arguments this program may need to be built with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

2021-03-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 03/17/21 07:28, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: Please test, FF68 is EOL since summer 2020, so we have to go forward and the next ESR will come this summer. Got two crashes in 78.8 with this stack trace: > 5c::findstack ! demangle stack pointer for thread 92 [speechd init]:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

2021-03-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 3/17/21 7:28 AM, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: Please test, FF68 is EOL since summer 2020, so we have to go forward and the next ESR will come this summer. I set _userlimit in /etc/system as discussed here earlier, rebooted, and then installed Firefox 78.8.0 from your

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to set time

2019-06-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 6/18/19 10:53 AM, Dieter Klünter wrote: Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss writes: You can manage real-time-clock settings with rtc(1M). Look at what rtc reports and set RTC time zone to UTC if it's not, already set (rtc -z UTC)., I didn't want to manage bios based rtc, which is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana-discuss Digest, Vol 106, Issue 28

2019-05-27 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 05/27/19 04:25, Sanjay Pokhriyal via openindiana-discuss wrote: Hi,Thanks Michal for response. I tired commands you had given to re-create boot archive in the new BE, still after reboot we end up in same kernel trap. Let me know what else we can do to fix this. Regards,Sanjay I ran

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster serial console via IPMI

2018-10-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 10/25/18 14:02, Gary Mills wrote: It shouldn't matter what operating system is running on the Supermicro system, at least for BIOS output. Do you get that output? Once the OS boots, it configures ttya and ttyb for I/O on the hardware serial ports. Putting the console on ttyc might solve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Warning: cannot find boot/zfsloader after pkg update today

2018-02-22 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 02/22/2018 01:00 PM, Jason Martin wrote: pkg update killed my older desktop today. I was able to download text installer and go through irc on a latop with no hard drive and a bootable flash drive and learn how to access to rpool data. This is probably https://www.illumos.org/issues/9167

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to run Flash Player plugin in OI Hipster

2016-01-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 01/07/16 06:37, Andrey Sokolov wrote: > http://os-solaris.ru/plagin-flash-player-v-oi-hipster/ So didn't work out of the box on my system but I got it working with a few minor changes. It turns out that you don't need the asm() at the end - you can just always pass "ps" as the final argument

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-09-26 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 09/26/14 16:59, Nemo wrote: [~]= echo $SHELL /bin/bash [~]= env X=() { :;} ; echo busted /bin/sh -c echo completed completed Note that I put bash into /bin to avoid GNUisms. Try: $ env X=() { :;} ; echo busted /bin/bash -c echo completed ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

2014-07-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 07/23/14 11:13, Harry Putnam wrote: There is a space under the hdd brackets that looks like it could hold several more hdd, but would require some specialized hardware from HP or clever use of duct tape etc. I'd lose the optical drives (booting off of USB sticks is faster anyway) and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-151a8: sound-juicer doesn't find CD?

2013-10-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
For a number of years I've been using the GNOME sound-juicer app to rip CD's on opensolaris and then oi. In oi-151a8 it stopped working - it doesn't seem to be able to find the CD. If I start it manually, it fails to find the CD drive, with the error: No CD-ROM drives found. Sound Juicer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-151a8 JDS menus and launcher gone

2013-09-13 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 09/13/13 15:38, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: I know why you cannot reproduce the problem: You probably have role Administrator. Checked that, works with admin role, but not without. I think you mean you have a *rights profile* of Primary Administrator? I've been seeing this problem on true

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dce cache fix in io151a8?

2013-08-13 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 08/12/13 13:29, jason matthews wrote: did this make it into 151a8? does not look like it. the built genunix in 151a8 claims to be based on git commit 7256a34efe which was committed on July 19th. Commit 7c6d7024, 3925 IP DCE does not scale landed on August 5th. git show --pretty=fuller

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HBA failover

2013-06-17 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 06/17/13 08:23, Richard Elling wrote: You can't get full redundancy with those systems, you have to move up to a SPARC or Power based system. Ultimately, a shared-memory multiprocessor is a SPOF even if you have multiple CPUs and a redundant fabric connecting them to each other, to memory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] export pool at shutdown and import at boot up

2013-05-27 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 05/27/13 17:25, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: I have some external storage which isn't super reliable. If I don't export it before shutdown, it will often cause the boot to fail, as it doesn't mount properly. I would like to make that pool automatically export during shutdown, or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-03 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 09/03/12 20:05, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Where does one find the source for the stty in 151a? https://hg.openindiana.org/ check out a copy of illumos-gate from https://hg.openindiana.org/sustaining/oi_151a/illumos-gate/ (which looks like it's OI's copy of illumos-gate) and look

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

2012-07-09 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 07/09/12 13:17, Timothy Coalson wrote: I upgraded a machine to oi_151a5 from oi_151a4 last week, and when its weekly scrub rolled around, /var/adm/messages gathered a lot of these, in groups of dozens at a time: Jul 7 01:15:21 myelin2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 06/10/12 04:37, michelle wrote: 2) How to get around the sector alignment problem. I have a very ugly feeling that the only way is going to be to destroy the set and start again, as everything I've tried so far hasn't worked. That was my conclusion as well - I wound up using zfs send | zfs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Re : sata hot plug problem (ahci?) + openindiana crash

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 05/22/12 13:12, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: I did not follow your solution though, as I just choose to simply reinstall OpenIndiana, it's so fast, and I didn't have anything on the machine yet. I can see my drives with cfgadm -a sata. I can not yet see a newly inserted plugged HD, but this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] moving existing rpool onto larger disks, in-place: zpool/zfs ashift/blocksize musings

2012-05-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 05/14/12 00:00, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: First: Can you ever efficiently migrate a zpool with ashift=9 to a 4k block disk by just adding the new disk as a 3rd mirror? Regardless of what blocksize the disk reports? I butted heads with this yesterday, and concluded no. I attempted to moved

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 01/18/12 09:43, Ray Arachelian wrote: Funny you should ask, I'm seeing the same kinds of behavior after upgrading to 151 with an 8 slot USB 3 array. Are we sure it's the hardware and not something in the USB driver? You're not the only one. I've been seeing sporadic hangs of I/O to a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 01/18/12 14:17, Jerry Kemp wrote: Why do the changes exist? They're needed so that sshd correctly uses solaris's version of PAM and audit and other subsystems like that. Can the changes be integrated into current 5.9 code? Probably but someone would have to do the work. The fact that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

2011-12-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/21/11 12:36, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: As we may know by now, the current dedup code isn't very useful. Are there work being done on this code at the moment? If not, I think it might be a good idea to either remove it or at least add a rather flashy warning so that people won't use it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/19/11 07:53, Chris Ridd wrote: But what if the changed code in the leaked code was licensed under the CDDL. Would that make it OK to reuse outside of Oracle? You're asking for legal advice. Any legal advice you get on this list is worth less than what you paid for it.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/04/11 11:57, Harry Putnam wrote: Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. I just built a system around a Supermicro X8SAX and a 56xx Xeon CPU. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/27/11 04:36, Matt Connolly wrote: This still didn't help. But again, setting the root user password with `sudo passwd root` enables me to authenticate to the root role using that root password. (not my user password, as I would use with sudo). Any reason why the installer would not give

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/16/11 12:30, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: I just had a new server released to me using a SuperMicro SC216A (direct attach backplane) chassis and 3x 9211-8i controllers loaded with 11.0 IT firmware. I've confirmed the firmware is correct, what is strange is that all of the drives are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/16/11 13:27, James C. McPherson wrote: (and apart from I don't understand it therefore it must be bad I don't know why you really would) I don't like mpxio disk names -- they make me work too hard and create fear of doing the wrong thing. Long hex strings are much harder to distinguish

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 or OpenIndiana won't boot on my Acer laptop

2011-11-11 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/11/11 09:30, Gary Mills wrote: Using the text console, this was the result, after the banner: WARNING: iommu: Calculated AGAW (39) is outside valid limits [30,12] specified by Vt-d spec and magaw /* hung */ Just as a long shot: Are there any bios menu options to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/10/11 12:33, LinuxBSDos.com wrote: File system encryption in the latest ZFS is a killer feature, in my opinion. it's very slick functionality but I wouldn't trust it or use it for anything that mattered unless either the source, or a spec detailed enough to allow for an independent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice on oi151a

2011-11-08 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/08/11 14:56, Gary wrote: checking for cc... /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/bin/cc checking the SunStudio C/C++ compiler version... configure: error: found version 5.10, use version 5.5, 5.7, 5.8 or 5.9 of the SunStudio C/C++ compiler According to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and WWN names?

2011-10-03 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 10/03/11 08:52, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: The trailing d0 is from the Solaris specifications of designating a hard drive. Hard drive names are written as cXtXdX, which X replaced by numbers (0-9 or hex). The lowercase letters are short for Controller, Tray and Drive (or Disk?), respectively.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An article from the register

2011-09-22 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
As I understand it: 1) trusted boot depends on a tpm, which is a small and slow cryptographic peripheral device, either located in a separate chip or as an additional function in a multifunction chip like a southbridge. 2) security of the tpm depends on the security of all instructions

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hi - can anybody help me get OI installed the way I'd like?

2011-08-27 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 08/27/11 07:19, Mansion, James wrote: Well, I have a tiny NAS enclosure which holds 5 drives. And I have an external eSATA3 port, and a suitable 60gig SSD. The box will hold 8gig RAM. It's a home NAS and I can live with a small possibility of issues with losing some recent updates and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

2011-05-31 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I hava better performance with files instead of zvols. Now that is interesting... there are two factors that you may want to look at: 1) block size. files default to a 128K

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

2011-03-28 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 03/28/11 06:53, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Really? Do you know how many times my system became useless just because I had used reboot? you're not providing an *actionable* complaint here with specifics about how the system became useless. It should not be necessary to use init 6 for the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 03/02/11 15:58, Ivar Janmaat wrote: You said that the ZIL is only read on reboot. But how does the ZIL work then? How is the data transfered / synchronized with the real harddisk? Or is that not done at all? Data in the ZIL is also kept in memory until it is written to its final resting

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Performance problem with Flash Firefox 4.0 b10

2011-02-12 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 02/01/11 12:14, Hillel Lubman wrote: After upgrading to Frefox 4.0 b10 and Flash plugin 10.1 r102 on OpenIndiana oi_148, Flash started to consume close to 100% CPU when activated, as well as crashing quite often. Is it a known issue? I've seen this with Firefox 4.0b10 and Firefox 4.0b11.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 02/07/11 07:43, Gary Gendel wrote: Can I replace the cron job with a trigger from the dhcp client when it gets a new IP address instead? Is this possible with the current dhcp client? Yes. If /etc/dhcp/eventhook exists and is executable, it is run when the DHCP state machine does

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting up the recommended build environment errors with oi_147

2010-11-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/10/10 12:08, Ron Parker wrote: I left a comment about this on the Setting up the recommended build environment wiki page.[1] According to Rich Lowe a change in caiman removed the Primary Administrator rights from the user that's created during installation.[2] I am relatively new to