Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread Ian Collins
Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: Patching is extremely safe. But let's look at the flip side. Suppose you encounter the rare situation where patching *does* cause a problem. It's been known to happen; heck, it's been known to happen *by* *me*. You have to ask yourself, which is the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Ucarp on OI

2013-04-08 Thread Ram Chander
Hi, Does anyone able to run ucarp on OI for floating IP ? Any procedure to setup would be helpful. Thanks. Regards, Ram ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
On 4/8/2013 4:16 AM, Ian Collins wrote: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: Patching is extremely safe. But let's look at the flip side. Suppose you encounter the rare situation where patching *does* cause a problem. It's been known to happen; heck, it's been known to happen *by* *me*.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

2013-04-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-04-08 18:12, Jonathan Adams wrote: I rebooted and tried to install VirtualBox and it got to the point Loading VirtualBox kernel modules... then the system hung again. I now have a FUBAR'd box which needs a re-install ... and I would really like to know if anyone else got this working?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

2013-04-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 8 April 2013 17:23, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2013-04-08 18:12, Jonathan Adams wrote: I think you can load an older BE or a live media, mount the current BE, and pkgrm VirtualBox package from there? ;) Yeah I know ... but since it only takes 10 mins to do a re-install I'd go

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

2013-04-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
booted -k -v ... all devices load fine, all 12 processors counted correctly, device kvm0 connected fine, console login prompt, type root and before I get to finish typing the password the keyboard is dead and the computer is hung ... On 8 April 2013 17:31, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

2013-04-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-04-08 18:49, Jonathan Adams wrote: booted -k -v ... all devices load fine, all 12 processors counted correctly, device kvm0 connected fine, console login prompt, type root and before I get to finish typing the password the keyboard is dead and the computer is hung ... Hmmm... this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

2013-04-08 Thread Marcel Telka
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:12:37PM +0100, Jonathan Adams wrote: I'm trying to get any kind of virtualization running on a Dell PowerEdge T420, but every time I try to start KVM the system hangs. I re-installed from scratch, and Installed again with --require-new-be just to check and on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10 system that wouldn't play with live upgrade. I've had a couple instances where Linux systems wouldn't boot after kernel updates. Generally these have been

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Brodbeck bro...@uw.edu wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10 system that wouldn't play with live upgrade. I've had a couple instances where

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-04-08 21:04, David Brodbeck wrote: Oh yeah -- another reason is I've run into many situations where OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana requires a full power cycle to reboot -- at least one of my machines hangs if I try to do a soft reboot in OI. Did you test if reboot -p (via PROM == via BIOS on

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS exported dataset crashes the system

2013-04-08 Thread Peter Wood
I've asked the ZFS discussion list for help on this but now I have more information and it looks like a bug in the drivers or something. I have number of Dell PE R710 and PE 2950 servers running OpenSolaris, OI 151a and OI 151a.7. All these systems are used as storage servers, clean OS install,