Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing an unavailable hd...

Thermal effects will cause connector issues. The most extreme case in my experience was a move of our group in Dallas during July. The systems were moved over the weekend. None would boot on Monday until I had reseated all the disk drive cables. They did not like sitting in a hot truck.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Persistant ZFS set ID

I'm not sure if it's related, but I had for a long time a phantom pool that would get listed by zfs import. i eventually figured out that there was an old ZFS vdev label left over from a previous disk layout. dd if=/dev/zero at the start and end of the unused slices cured that once I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formating tricks

I'm assuming you want to use Microsoft disk partitions for non-Solaris uses. Use fdisk to create the partitions you want interavtively use format to create slices in the Solaris partition interactively then use zpool to create the mirror Both fdisk and format have reasonably good help

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] getting over my head on rpool mirror

If you didn't select an EFI label then I'm pretty sure there's an old EFI label on one or more of the disks which needs to be wiped. If you did select an EFI label, don't do that for boot disks. There's no support for EFI boot. That's why my NL40 was built using 2 TB disks instead of 3s.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gdm freezing

Forgive my asking the obvious, but have you tried uninstalling them one at a time? FWIW I just booted my Ultra 20 which I setup as an OI dev system w/ 151_a8. The keyboard and mouse were both unresponsive briefly. Not sure why, but I use a KVM switch so I see such behavior fairly often and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gdm freezing

@openindiana.org Date: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 11:31 AM Le 16/08/14 18:24, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss a écrit : Forgive my asking the obvious, but have you tried uninstalling them one at a time? yes i did, but not possible because old publisher isn't available. FWIW

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Persistent permissions

Michelle, I would like to suggest articulating the policy you want to enforce. You started with a proposed solution that you were having trouble getting to work satisfactorily. I had the strong impression that a simpler approach would do what you want, but no information upon which to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphical Desktop environment on server

vi lacks scriptability? Could have fooled me. :m,n! foo or :%! foo I have a small collection of code editing scripts in awk I use regularly. The biggest limitation is remembering I wrote one already and don't need to write a new one. Lots of things just get done as an awk one liner.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

This is generally about the USB problem, but I had problems w/ 512 emulation both with the Toshiba and with an HGST RMA that replaced a 512 drive w/ a 4k drive. The HGST is in my S10_u8 box. I was able to work around S10 by formatting the 3 TB HGST on the NL40. FWIW format -e will kernel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

for the 2TB limit is to use a drive which reports a real 4k sector size. Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I got a 3 TB Toshiba Canvio USB drive to format using 151a7 on an N40L. From my notes: The key to formatting the 3 TB drive was to use format -e, supply LBA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

ROFL The only way to find something on the wiki is to ask on the mailing list. On Mon, 2/16/15, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

I got a 3 TB Toshiba Canvio USB drive to format using 151a7 on an N40L. From my notes: The key to formatting the 3 TB drive was to use format -e, supply LBA pseudo geometry and create an EFI label. NB must run fdisk from within format However, it's not clear this was the USB drive rather

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

What is it that you think is broken? On Sun, 1/25/15, Mark Stephens mstephens1...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Sunday, January 25, 2015, 5:09 AM I would like to know

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

, Private wrote: On 25/01/2015 14:04, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: It would certainly help non development traffic and open the community. Certainly? How? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] termcap

Termcap vs terminfo has always been a bit of a mess. I believe that terminfo has always been standard on Solaris since 2.1. The best way to diagnose the problem is to run truss and look to see what it tries to open and in what order it looks for files. This is useful for many such problems.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

, February 27, 2015, 2:43 AM On 02/16/15 06:43 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: The only way to find something on the wiki is to ask on the mailing list. Hi, This is also one of your messages that ended u top-posted. Just to mention, one should reply below quotes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

Wouldn't an NFS server take care of the issues you raise? On Wed, 2/25/15, Bruce Lilly bruce.li...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Will mixing 4K drives and non 4K drives in a storage pool work properly?

This has been widely discussed. You will have to rebuild the pool with ashift=12. So far as I know there is no way to do that on an existing pool. The general incantation is to create a new pool big enough to hold your data, copy the data to the new pool, destroy the old pool and then add the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] FF 31.6.0 ESR memory leak

I recently updated from FF 25 because of memory leak issues w/ that.  Unfortunately the situation has gotten much worse.  Every time I go to a new page the memory used increases.  This is with just two tabs. Does anyone know of a dtrace example showing how to trace malloc/free calls? I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Martin Bochnig

Martin seems to be caught in a trap of his own making. I sent him money via Paypal to support his SPARC work even though I no longer use SPARC. He never acknowledged it, much less thanked me. The only issue I have with his not releasing the source is that if something happens to him, all his

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Martin Bochnig

I would like to apologize for my statement about sending Martin money which he did not acknowledge. It turns out that it was not true. I attempted to do so. But according to my Paypal history for some reason it did not actually happen and I did not notice it. I have corrected that. Reg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

Gee guys, I would have thought from my comment about interleaving swap on two disks in 4.x that it would be obvious that I understand it would be slower. And in fact, know quite a bit about virtual memory implementations. At the time, I tested interleaving 2 & 3 drives. The improvement with

[OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

At the '95 Usenix conference I made the comment to someone that usenet was dying and would have to be replaced by mailing lists. They responded that it had already started. Now the mailing list is dying. I asked a simple question about the effect of eliminating head latencies in a 5 level

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

My long standing rule is swap = 8 x core. This is primarily to accommodate having a large number of PDFs and other processes open at the same time. Many MCU manuals run 1000+ pages. But sometimes I just want to run a ridiculously large problem. Disk space is cheap, so there's no benefit to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

Jake, I had not considered creating a ZFS vdev on the SSD, but that's an excellent point. Thanks. I think I'll do some tests with an HDD and an SSD with various configurations. Ian, If swap equal core what's the benefit? I've never considered swapping as "virtual memory", Just part of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

I have only occasional need to run problems larger than main memory (16 GB at present), so I can't justify replacing all the DRAM for an infrequent need. The drop in SSD prices has me contemplating adding a 128 GB SSD as a swap device. The SSD latency and IOPS specs look as if they might be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

Nikola, First of all, I do not understand what you are trying to say.I suggest that taking more care in your expression would help. None of the other respondents seem to have agreed on your intended meaning, so I don't think I'm alone. I started the SSD swap thread using "compose". In

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ML350G6 What to do?

FWIW My N40L is configured with 4 x 2 TB. Each drive has a small (~100 GB) slice with the rest of the disk in a large slice. I have a 4 way mirror for rpool using the small slices and the rest is in a RAIDZ2 pool. Performance has been quite satisfactory. I configured it this way because

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting Hipster from > 2 TB disks ???

Is this possible? A bunch of searching has not resolved the question. If it is, I will order 3-4 TB disks, if not, I'll order 2 TB disks. There was a post several years ago saying it worked, but I can find no confirmation that it is functional. I presently have a system which uses 2 TB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support?

Would you mind documenting what you did on the wiki? I'm sure it would be useful to many otehrs. On Mon, 5/7/18, zeitraffer wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the status of UEFI boot support? To: "Alexander

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Connecting Serial Modem to Illumos (ACM9

It should be /dev/cua? Here is what I get with Hipster 17.10. First is with a Triplite Keyscan connected. Second is with it removed. Not sure what the deal is with the cua0 and cua1 entries. But I seem to recall trying to get a PCI serial port card to work and giving up. Be aware that very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Connecting Serial Modem to Illumos (ACM9

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating ZFS RAIDZ1 volume to larger disks

I decided it was time to replace the disks in my Solaris 10 u8 system. The setup is a bit unusual, so please bear with me. The setup is an HP Z400 with three 1 TB disks with SMI labels. Slice s0 on each disk is 100 GB and s1 is the rest of the disk. The s0 slices form a mirrored rpool. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Migrating ZFS RAIDZ1 volume to larger disks

Can anyone point me to a description of the contents of the first 8 KB of a *bootable* SMI labeled x86 disk?  I looked at dklabel.h, but it's not especially informative.  A web search just told me things I already know. I've got three 1 TB disks which form a 3 way mirror on s0 and a 3 disk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Migrating ZFS RAIDZ1 volume to larger disks

Thanks to an email from russell and a bit more head scratching, I think I've got it sorted. The problem I was encountering was the result of the BIOS on the Z400 which does "magic" to help the ignorant remain ignorant. The key was to pull my mirrored scratch space disks and install the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Migrating ZFS RAIDZ1 volume to larger disks

com>, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: >I had considered setting up an array at the drive  capacity of the Z400.  The >BIOS behavior would likely  make that catastrophic by requiring that the syste >m be rebooted with both the old and new drives in place, but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

I lost the disk on my OI_151a8 system. The swap area was going bad. So I booted from a 2017.10 Hipster DVD, imported the old drive and copied everything to another disk using a USB <-> SATA adaptor. The evolving nature of ZFS makes the traditional miniroot problematic. If the ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Swap/stack space continuously shrinking

I've been forced to power cycle my Hipster system a couple of times lately because it starts thrashing so badly I can't even move the mouse pointer. This is in a situation where I have a paused VM. If LRU paging was in effect, the paused VM would eventually get swapped to disk and the other

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox induced kernel panic

I'm running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster 2017.10.  It has kernel panicked twice today on a null pointer dereference. Both panics were the result of trying to mount a SanDisk 16 GB flash drive in a Debian 9.3 VM.  The flash drive is formatted FAT32 with a single file in the top directory and was last

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Vbox on Hipster woes

I *just* finished installing Debian 9.3 from an iso image. The maddening part is it sometimes works with an actual DVD. Wndows 7 consistently boots the repair disk, but generally refuses to see the DVD after that. After I get done I'll write some notes for the Hipster wiki in hopes it will

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox on Hipster

I don't *think* it's Hipster. I had similar weirdness with Windows 7 as the host. Sometimes it would find the disk and sometimes it wouldn't. I don't think the VBox team is quite Solaris grade. It's really sad that the kernel group was let go. I really wish someone with silly amounts of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.2.4 on Hipster 2017.10

I finally made it work. The root of the issue seems to be the access to the optical drive not being reliable. I have not figured that out and won't try. Disabling rmvolmgr had no effect. A brief summary: Windows: Migrate the system image using disk2vhd. You *might* get it to read a DVD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.2.4 on Hipster 2017.10

The guest additions are installed, but not working properly. I've posted the log file to the VB forum. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware to run OpenIndiana ...

I'd like to suggest looking for a used HP Z400 on eBay. They're Solaris certified. I picked up 3 for $100 each with 6 GB of DRAM, quad core 2.9 GHz Xeon and 160 GB disk earlier this year. I already had one I'd bought a few years ago. I needed one, but got the others for spares. The build

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox on Hipster

I posted this to the VBox on Solaris forum, but as I was the only person reading it, I thought I'd post it here too. I am having a lot of trouble trying to setup VirtualBox on Hipster 2017.10. System is a 3 disk mirrored rpool (s0 slices) and a 3 disk RAIDZ1 vpool (s1 slices) on identical 2 TB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ghostscript / ImageMagick security problems

I've been aware of the Postscript issue for a very long time. I never encountered it, but I read about the Crusty the Clown image that wiped your hard drive. With multifunction printers I suspect that even the builtin PS interpreters are a hazard. My primary system is a Sol 10 u8 machine on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ghostscript / ImageMagick security problems

How do you mitigate it? Just not read PDFs? I can't find the policy.xml file referenced in the first link. On Wed, 8/22/18, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ghostscript / ImageMagick security problems To:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice on Hipster

Can anyone explain what's going on here: # pkg search openoffice INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE pkg.fmri setopenindiana.org/desktop/office/openoffice pkg:/desktop/office/openoffice@4.1.2-2016.0.1.0 # pkg install openoffice No updates necessary for

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OPenOffice on Hipster

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian 9.3 as guests on an HP Z400 I followed the wiki instructions. Here are the scripts I used: # cat tst1 #!/bin/sh pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.pkg . all rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall sed -i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool replacing forever

I think you need to do a "zpool remove". It's been a while since I did something similar, so RTFM first. On Sun, 1/20/19, Gary Mills wrote: Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool replacing forever To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Huge ZFS root pool slowdown - diagnose root cause?

On Thu, 12/13/18, Lou Picciano wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Huge ZFS root pool slowdown - diagnose root cause? To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Date: Thursday, December 13, 2018, 3:14 PM [snip] What’s next? Could it be as simple as a cable? These cables haven’t been

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FTDI FT232R support In Hipster?

ot; Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018, 9:37 PM In message <1466636632.109859.1543548110...@mail.yahoo.com>, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: >google was not useful, so I thought I'd ask here.  I need some USB to serial i >nterfaces. Keyspan. J

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to set the domain name?

I'm afraid I can't offer any help as all my systems are on a pair of LANS. One on the internet via a NAT with no services. And the other isolated and with no services (laziness). So I don't really need a domain name. I had one for a long time that I never ever used. There was a day when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

FWIW I had to switch from a 2 GB Atom system for internet access to a Z400 with 8 GB of DRAM because I could not run Firefox with just 2 GB. Welcome to code bloat. On Sat, 3/2/19, Gary Mills wrote: Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool import issues continued - block alignment

As that link was to a post of mine, I'll play closer attention to the thread. I don't recall the details, but in general, my recollection is that various tools were incorrectly setting or reporting the label information. ZFS puts labels at both ends of the disk and will get seriously befuddled

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster production system update process

Tim, Till et al, Thanks for the summary. I tend to follow a large enterprise update model by default. From your description that is not appropriate in this case. So I shall follow your suggestions. 2017.10 is using Mate so it sounds as if I'm set to go. I just need to quit playing with

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster production system update process

I'd like to do an update from what appears to be 2017.10. In my retirement I have gotten rather lazy. Solaris 10 u8 will never get an update, so no changes there. That's where I do real work and it is on a private network. OI is a moving target and I've been forced to use Win 7 and Debian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and USB passthrough

I gave up on it using the Oracle VBox with Win 7, CentOS and Debian. Never got it to work. On Tue, 4/30/19, Michal Nowak wrote: Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and USB passthrough To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Date: Tuesday,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Z820 .. will have big troubles installing hipster

I doubt that it would have any issues. I've got four Z400s. I run Sol 10 u8 on one, Hipster on this one and Win 7 Pro and Debian 9.3 on the 3rd. the 4th is just spares at the moment. There are a slew of machines like the Z820, including ones with 256 GB of DRAM and 16-20 3+ GHz cores, yes,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana Hipster?

How important are Spectre, Meltdown, etc for a system behind a firewall which does not allow inbound traffic and does not run programs downloaded from the internet? My view for many years is that the browsers are so bad that all that is left is the barn door. All the other walls are long

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana Hipster?

FWIW I don't recall which I used a couple of weeks ago. I'd claim old age, but the fact is when I get going, if I don't keep adequate notes, I have never had any idea how I did something two weeks ago. On Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 6:26:44 PM CDT, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disk problem

I had to use Linux (CentOS 6.7) to write a Sun label and create a gpt partition table with parted before either Hipster 2017.10 or Solaris 10 would recognize a 3 TB disk on my Z400s. On Sol 10 u8 "format -e" dumped core. On Hipster 2017.10 it simply did not see the disk. But once I labeled it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where is the RH mouse menu set for terminal windows?

With all the changing of names and gratuitous complexity it's become impossible to find anything. I want to remove "Close Window" from the menu. I don't know if that is what is killing vi when I try to paste a URL into a file. But I'm getting *very* tired of losing my work. Thanks, Reg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to get a usable console on OI?

I just took Hipster, I think 2017.10, but here's "uname -a", to single user mode. SunOS Hipster 5.11 illumos-2727bb055f i86pc i386 i86pc "ls /dev" was blisteringly quick. "/usr/bin/time ls /dev" reported 0.1 seconds. System is a quad core HP Z400 at 2.9 GHz with I think 8 GB of DRAM. Monitor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

I have been ignoring this torrent of BS as patiently as I can, but I'm really getting tired of it. First of all, computing has a 75 year old history. There have been many false starts and mistakes along the way. The failure of the new arrivals to learn from the past results in the same

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mailing list etiquette reminder

I don't like posts such as this, but sometimes such things are needed. There is a traditional etiquette of limiting the number of discreet posts one makes. These date from when Usenet was the Internet and a 9600 baud Trailblazer attached to seismos was the sole link between the US and Europe.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVMe SSD

I just added a 1 TB WD SN750 NVMe SSD to my Z840 running Hipster 2021.04.31. Now I need to set it up. I have read the FreeBSD Master volumes by Lucas and Jude on the subject, but the information is skimpy. A search didn't turn up much that is relevant and less still that is useful. I want

[OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

I've started to transition all my computing to 2021.04.30 on the Z840. I created a pair of pools, one with primary-cache=all and one with primary-cache=metadata. The first is 4.3 TB RAIDZ2 and the second 3.8 TB RAIDZ1. It's a 4x 4 TB disk set with a 1 TB NVMe SSD for the L2ARC, split 980 GB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

to find out if I still have a problem or if "unset autologout" and disabling caja resolved it. A search using find in /etc & /root did not locate where autologout was set. Reg On Sunday, June 20, 2021, 04:59:28 PM CDT, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

Tim, Thanks. I don't have the gl-helper stuff anywhere. I'd never seen that message before either. This is the LiveImage text install to an existing pool so I could do both RAIDZ2 and RAIDZ1. So it *is* a bit different. I had to create dump and swap among other things. I found via top that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

wrote: Hi Everyone Can you check that library/desktop/libgksu and desktop/gksu are installed? Those are the most problematic candidates to be missing. -Till On 21.06.21 17:34, Gary Mills wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 08:17:57PM +0000, Reginald Beardsley via > openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

The problems I was having appear to have been caused by caja restarting. The system stayed up with the mouse functional overnight. Before I disabled caja it would lock up the cursor in an hour or less. I'll wrap caja with a script that runs "truss -f -o" to find out why it is failing and do

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dangling symlinks in 2021.04.30?

Are these dangling links or are they used to dynamically redirect things and missing another link? /usr/share/lib/sgml/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/entities:symbolic link to ../C/entities /usr/share/lib/sgml/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/transpec/roff.cmap: symbolic link to ../../C/transpec/roff.cmap

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why are DOS executables being installed?

I'm working on system image audit tools and found these in 2021.04.30: /usr/lib/python3.5/distutils/command/wininst-9.0-amd64.exe: DOS executable (EXE) /usr/lib/python3.5/distutils/command/wininst-9.0.exe: DOS executable (EXE) /usr/lib/python3.5/distutils/command/wininst-8.0.exe: DOS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

ote: Hi Everyone Can you check that library/desktop/libgksu and desktop/gksu are installed? Those are the most problematic candidates to be missing. -Till On 21.06.21 17:34, Gary Mills wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 08:17:57PM +, Reginald Beardsley via > openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

FYI I wrapped both caja and mate-session with "truss -f -o". Neither output contains the "Initializing gksu extensions" string. I have created OI issue #13895 to provide a place for a subset of the truss output between consecutive excve()s of caja. Total output before I could kill the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More 2021.04.30 strangeness

Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > FYI  I wrapped both caja and mate-session with "truss -f -o". Neither output > contains the "Initializing gksu extensions" string.  ... Note that you usually don't see full strings in truss output, those are printed usually as si

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Re: NVMe SSD

y, June 18, 2021, 01:51:07 PM CDT, Tony Brian Albers wrote: Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I just added a 1 TB WD SN750 NVMe SSD to my Z840 running Hipster 2021.04.31.  > Now I need to set it up. > > I have read the FreeBSD Master volumes by Lucas a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

Thanks for offering to do this. I've been pondering how to hire human resources to support OI, but somewhat reluctant to post about it as I tried 8-10 years ago without success. I am *very* interested in contributing money to such an organization on an annual basis at around $200/yr. In

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

Do we need an OI specific organization? Why could this not be handled by the existing Illumos Foundation? That was what I was going to propose. We're using the same base OS. So far as I know, OI just adds GUI support. So having the Illumos Foundation simply maintain a ledger entry for OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

I just want a way to contribute money to support OI/Illumos. TANSTAFL I was going to suggest one of the commercial Illumos based companies managing OI specific work with whatever money was provided and taking a cut to offset the cost of managing it. All I want it a way to provide $200-$250

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-hipster-gui-20210405.iso and OVirt/QEMU status report

Nelson, Thank you for testing this. I elected to install 2020.10 to use as a base for learning how to update the system without reinstalling if that is possible. I *think* the network menu bar icon is supposed to start /usr/lib/nwam-manager. I get a dialog popup using 2020.10 that asks for

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox on top of Hipster and twm?

I'd like to run Hipster in a VBox VM for web access with twm as the window manager for the host. Is this likely to be possible, i.e. how much window manager stuff does VBox require? If not I can revert to using 2 window managers, but I'd rather not if I can avoid the added complexity and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] TeX Live 2021 available for OpenIndiana

I should also like to thank you. I use groff and TeX. Groff for short memoranda and TeX for almost everything else. Reading the old Bell Labs papers I fell in love with the style they used for technical papers. Have Fun! Reg On Monday, April 26, 2021, 07:33:29 PM CDT, Jason Martin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox on top of Hipster and twm?

, Stephan Althaus wrote: On 04/27/21 12:19 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I'd like to run Hipster in a VBox VM for web access with twm as the window > manager for the host. > > Is this likely to be possible, i.e. how much window manager stuff does VBo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Initial install of 2020.10 on Z840 for production use

ROFL! I just noticed I didn't speciy a count. It had written 5.5 TB at over 200 MB/s and would have continued until I filled all 6.7 TB of space. I assume *nothing* about computers. I assert that the difference between a senior and junior person is the junior person makes assumptions that the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] X startup/shutdown questions

What service starts the MATE environment? I've been unable to locate what starts that. And generally unable to determine how exactly what any service does is specified. I'd expected "init 2" in single user mode to take me to multi-user console mode, but it did not. However, I was able to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on USB flash drive

. On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 20:00 +, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana- discuss wrote: >  Try selecting the "reconfigure" option when you first boot the > installed image. > > It is *supposed* to reconfigure, but I spent 50 hrs before I found > out how to get 2021.04.05 to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on USB flash drive

ri, 2021-04-30 at 20:00 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana- > discuss wrote: >>  Try selecting the "reconfigure" option when you first boot the >> installed image. >> >> It is *supposed* to reconfigure, but I spent 50 hrs before I found &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

Toomas, Thanks for the explanation. That certainly sounds like a good idea. It provides lots of flexibility. It would nice if the text-installer allowed specifying the BE name when creating a fresh pool or defaulted to the release, e.g. 2021.04, instead of openindiana. The latter is not very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

and on that, I can't create a Solaris partition greater than 2tb. I've got the GUI live image here somewhere. Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 13:50 +, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana- discuss wrote: >  What release are you trying to install? I last did this using > 2021.04.05, but I can easily

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

I just went through several iterations of this, and like you the last time I had done it was long ago. The following is based on 2021.04.05. Large disks require an EFI or GPT label. The gparted program creates 128 slices which is a bit much. format(1m) will also write an EFI label which is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

won't > > co-exist with anything and wants to wipe the whole disk again. > > > > Michelle. > > MBR and GPT can not co-exist. On this disk, you need GPT and this > means, MBR partitions will be removed. > > Rgds, > Toomas > > > > > > On S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

Michelle, What disks are you trying to use? If they are different sizes the recipe gets a bit more complex, but it's quite possible to get any arrangement for which you have a sufficient number of disks. Having spent 50 hours over 5 days battling the 2021.04.05 install I've had *lots* of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone have an example of service manifest XML file for znapzend?

You might try looking at the Solaris 11.1 documentation. I downloaded all of it to my iPad today, but have not read it yet. I found the smf facility rather opaque when I started looking at the files in /lib/svc. Not a good answer, but it's all I know at present. Similarly, I want to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on USB flash drive

the first time after the install. It came up all the way when I hit ^d at the single user prompt. Reg On Friday, April 30, 2021, 04:21:19 PM CDT, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I've started an install of 2021.04.05 to a 32 GB flash drive on a Z400. I'll see if that provides any

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

I tried a text-install of 2021.04.30  into an existing 2020.10.31 pool, but the user information didn't propagate to the new BE.  Is this a bug, install mistake or the wrong way to update? All the stuff I found on the wiki was quite old.  Nothing discussed updates from one Hipster release to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here

Thanks! On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 05:25:16 PM CDT, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 10:05, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > How about a pkg or explicit instructions (e.g. a shell script) for setting up > to be able to generate an ISO?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

on this. I really do appreciate it. Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 16:23 +, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana- discuss wrote: >  I just installed the 2021.04.30 text ISO on my Z400 test system. The > disk had a pool in a single slice which I imported and destroyed. Had > I

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