Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Screen locking with XScreenSaver disabled

2024-01-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xscreen desktop/xscreensaver6.8-2023.0.0.0i-- And is disabled in gui: "Disable Screen Saver" as shown in that gui only disables the display of animations when the screen is idle, locking is a separate preference/setting. -- -Alan Coopersmith- ala

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

2024-01-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/13/24 08:41, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: the first and foremost problem of ips is speed. Someone looking to improve that might want to check out the recent performance improving commits to https://github.com/oracle/solaris-ips/commits/master/ and see if they cherry-pick to OI's fork.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

2024-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/10/24 15:26, Matthew R. Trower wrote: I wonder why we don't have source in our build system.  Sun didn't publish sources for some components because they couldn't get licenses, but that shouldn't have been the case here.  It's just idle speculation on my part, don't worry about it. For

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

2024-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ning on Solaris 10 still. The versions you have are known to have a number of security bugs, as has been reported via Oracle's security bulletins over the past 13 years. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running sunpro binaries

2024-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/9/24 14:50, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: yes okay, compatibility reasons. but my question was: "does it still make sense to use sunpro performance wise?" For SPARC? Probably. Much more effort went into SPARC performance for the Studio compilers than for gcc or llvm. For x86? Maybe not.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

2024-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

2024-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/9/24 09:07, Marcel Telka wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 08:41:14AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: A few are open source - for instance, I could point you to the sources for x11/network/x11-network-proxies - but no one uses that in a world where ssh X11-Forwarding is prevalent, which is why

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

2024-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rces for x11/network/x11-network-proxies - but no one uses that in a world where ssh X11-Forwarding is prevalent, which is why I removed that package from Solaris and declared the upstream sources unmaintained and suggested that distros remove them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running sunpro binaries

2024-01-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/8/24 17:55, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: hi again, i tried to run something compiled with sunpro on solaris 11 on indiana and it almost worked. i put the additional libs in place and everything looked fine. however, running the program in question failed with: ld.so.1: prog: fatal: prog:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird 115.3.1

2023-10-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/13/23 12:26, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Don't expect too much in these days from reporting bugs at mozilla, they most likely will be closed by a bot after a while... Sometimes someone new comes along to fix them much much later:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning: new thunberbird crashes nvidia and nvidia-470 (works with nvidia-390)

2023-10-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Xorg drivers, but also the OpenGL libraries loaded into applications on the X client side.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris ___ openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning: new thunberbird crashes nvidia and nvidia-470 (works with nvidia-390)

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/3/23 23:19, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: After updating thunderbird to the latest version 115.3.1 I have experienced instant crashes using either nvidia(-535) or nvidia-470 drivers. Going back to -390 makes thunderbird usable again. Thus, the problem seems to be located at the newer NVIDIA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg folder size escalated

2023-05-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 5/18/23 02:39, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: i know what illumos is and where it came from and i didn't imply it had to be the same either. my question was about the size of the pkg folder and that i think it's too big. which then turned out to be right considering the solution with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cups problems

2023-05-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tems, so are recreated empty from scratch on every boot and services using them need to create any subdirectories they need (whether in the daemon code or the service method startup script) - packages can't install files or directories there since they'll disappear on reboot. -- -Alan Coo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what do pkg install phases mean?

2023-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
iles in: https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/driver%2Fnetwork%2Fe1000g%400.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21520%3A20230305T011413Z You can see the documentation of "reboot-needed" on the pkg(7) man page. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Sol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Installer offers to visit wiki.openindiana.org

2023-02-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 2/25/23 03:18, James Madgwick wrote: Hello, Yes the Wiki has been replaced. It's interesting that the installer is not up to date. There's no mention of the Wiki in the repo for it (https://github.com/OpenIndiana/slim_source)? It has also been removed from the welcome pages -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - libtiif will be updated and will damage many packages until they have been rebuild - update process finished

2023-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/30/23 12:59, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Alas, during the process I found out that binutils-2.40 is broken for us. The problem was visible in a newly created qt5 version where all binaries were broken. The culprit seems to be gstrip. I have downgraded to binutils-2.39 with fake 2.40 version

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2022-04-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 4/11/22 07:49, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The above only applies to how the client gets its name.  At one time I used a Solaris DHCP server (and it was great) but I think that server has been deprecated in Solaris and likely removed since then. Yes, Solaris 11.4 only ships the ISC DHCP

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org needs to be re/started and fixed

2021-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/2/21 8:58 PM, Nikola M. wrote: Wikis do not need "appointed censor" to decide only by itself without any discussion or process what is to stay on Wiki and what is not, If you have a publicly writable wiki on the internet you absolutely need this or your wiki soon becomes full of spam and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA-470 driver problem

2021-09-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 9/29/21 6:44 AM, Predrag Zecevic wrote: However, IF I remove those packages (NVDAgraphics, NVDAgraphicsr), and install *pkg:/driver/graphics/nvidia-470@0.470.74-2020.0.1.0* (e.g. same one), that process refuses to start... There may be some more clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] I've given up on gnome-doc-utils

2021-07-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 7/5/21 2:58 PM, Jason Martin wrote: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeDocUtils/MigrationHowTo yelp-tools Yes, we dropped gnome-doc-utils from Solaris after migrating to GNOME 3 as all our upstream packages had moved to yelp-tools and we EOL'ed the few things on our end that had used it,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

2021-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 6/18/21 11:34 AM, Gary Mills wrote: There does appear to be some interaction between hal (supplied by illumos) and X11 (supplied by OI). On Solaris & OI, the Xorg server relies on hal to let it know when USB input devices have been hotplugged so it can attach to mice, keyboards, tablets,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which OI service cleans up hidden NFS files?

2021-05-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 5/4/21 3:38 PM, Judah Richardson wrote: I did some searching about the error message and found this Solaris documentation page about removing hidden NFS files. It says that the above error is due to something called nfsfind, but

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

2021-05-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gs that lingered for decades in Sun's bug tracker, never getting fixed or closed, and I'm sure the same is true in Linux & BSD distros as well.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc __

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

2021-05-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
media is for fresh installs only. Updates are done via "pkg update". -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some internals questions

2021-04-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/hipster/components/x11/ogl-select/files The timing is determined by when SMF runs the ogl-select service, depending on it's position in the SMF service dependency graph. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2021.04_rc1 on Z840 crashes after install

2021-04-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
there is no xorg.conf, it's normal for Xorg to load multiple drivers (usually including vesa) as part of the probe routines, and then once it's found a driver to use, to unload the rest. This shouldn't cause a crash. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2021.04_rc1 on Z840 crashes after install

2021-04-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. They are created at boot when the system detects what graphics devices are in use, via the ogl-select SMF service - make sure it is enabled & running. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing Solaris 10 u8

2021-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, I believe the license terms are included with the support contract terms, but I don't have a handy URL for those. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

2021-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
userlimit for the Firefox process. See https://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2021-March/032536.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 3/14/21 9:33 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 3/13/21 4:32 PM, John D Groenveld wrote: In message , Alan Coopersmith writes: There is no way to script this inside IPS packages - instead your script would have to be outside the packaging system and run pkg commands to install/uninstall

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 3/13/21 4:32 PM, John D Groenveld wrote: In message , Alan Coopersmith writes: There is no way to script this inside IPS packages - instead your script would have to be outside the packaging system and run pkg commands to install/uninstall the packages as neto. Did Oracle consider using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

2021-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 3/13/21 4:27 AM, Stephan Althaus wrote: But i don't know how to integrate this into the build system nor at packaging level. There is no way to script this inside IPS packages - instead your script would have to be outside the packaging system and run pkg commands to install/uninstall the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why OpenIndiana online package search still query something from opensolaris.org?

2021-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I don't see it waiting, but I do see in the page source, at the bottom of https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/index.shtml :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF and X11 startup problem

2021-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it is enabled. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install MATE or Gnome Desktop?

2021-02-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 2/15/21 3:34 AM, Jason Long via openindiana-discuss wrote: Why nobody fixed it and why VirtualBox doesn't have any "illumos" and "OpenIndiana" in its list? I believe this is because no one has done the work to contribute that to the open source project, and no one has paid Oracle's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Porting an application to OpenIndiana.

2021-02-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 2/11/21 1:14 PM, Jason Long wrote: Thank you so much. Excuse me, can I send email to you? Sorry - I don't do private consulting. I answer questions on the mailing list when my time allows and I know the answer, but often times one or the other of those won't apply, and others on the list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Porting an application to OpenIndiana.

2021-02-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ch check for the OS and call the OS-specific interfaces for that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the Solaris ld linker's equivalent to GNU's -dynamic-linker?

2021-02-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 2/11/21 8:03 AM, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote: I have a linker script which uses many of: -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 I tried to use it on OpenIndiana by changed it to: -dynamic-linker /lib/64/ld.so.1 but the Solaris ld linker doesn't happy with it: ld:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the equivalent packages on OI?

2021-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 2/6/21 11:46 PM, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote: They are Ubuntu packages: gcc libncurses5-dev libtinfo5 libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev With the IPS package system, there usually aren't separate -dev packages, but the dev

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/30/21 9:54 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: Is anyone here free to explain why nVidia still provides its binaries for OpenSolaris and how much longer its obligated to provide that support? Do they actually claim to support OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana? I thought they just provided binaries for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] python-gi in OI?

2021-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/25/21 10:59 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: On 01/25/21 04:45 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 1/25/21 4:24 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to get virt-manager to work. But it complains about not being able to load gi: tba@emu:/opt$ virt-manager Traceback (most recent call

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] python-gi in OI?

2021-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/25/21 4:24 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to get virt-manager to work. But it complains about not being able to load gi: tba@emu:/opt$ virt-manager Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-manager", line 6, in from virtManager import virtmanager

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [External] : How many file systems supported by OI?

2021-01-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/22/21 11:05 PM, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote: If you could, please give me an accurate list. https://illumos.org/man/7fs/all Though many of those are special purpose like devfs and objfs. The ones you can use to format a disk and store data on are: - zfs - ufs - udfs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/4/21 2:11 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: OK I got it but still the question is: Why tkinteris a separate package? IMHO, it makes nosense to have as a separate package. Afterall it is part of the core python distribution. Because some people want to install

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wayland on OpenIndiana

2020-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 8/2/20 3:55 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hi All, I am not sure if I have asked this since I cannot find a record of it, but can Openindiana run Wayland instead of Xorg? No, it requires too much in the kernel that Solaris & illumos do not have. -alan-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which Oracle Solaris version('s documentation) is closest to OI Hipster's current state?

2020-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 7/19/20 5:05 PM, Judah Richardson wrote: Hi All, I'd been using Solaris 11.4's docs for OI but after realizing OI's zfs share functionality is closer to the "legacy" implementation described there than Solaris 11.4's, I'm trying to figure out which Solaris version is closest to OI's current

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X apps in lx zone?

2020-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 2/18/20 12:46 PM, PÁSZTOR György wrote: Hi, "Alan Coopersmith" írta 2020-02-05 09:11-kor: Right - applications expecting DRI/KMS interfaces are going to be sorely disappointed, and limited to what the underlying illumos kernel provides. Are you 100% sure about this? If apps

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X apps in lx zone?

2020-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Right - applications expecting DRI/KMS interfaces are going to be sorely disappointed, and limited to what the underlying illumos kernel provides. -alan- On 2/5/20 1:38 AM, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi Mark Not exactly. You would be able to pass the X11 Unix socket to the Zone or use X11

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What pkgs for building gnu stuff

2020-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 1/21/20 8:22 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Nowak via openindiana-discuss writes: On 01/19/20 05:55 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Does openindian have a package cluster or something similar for working gnu software building? If not what are the packages I would need for building emacs? I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10

2019-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/10/19 1:12 PM, Till Wegmüller wrote: You always need to reboot. IPS never updates the live system but clones it and updates the clone. This feature is known as Boot Environments. You can manage them with the beadm utility. It can update the live system if you're only updating packages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] emacs problems

2019-10-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/28/19 1:13 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: ╭─andreas@saturn ~  ‹master*› ╰─➤  ldd /usr/bin/emacs-gtk-26.3 2>&1 | ggrep libgcc     libgcc_s.so.1 =>     (file not found) ldd -v will help show which file has the dependency and then you can run elfdump -d on that file to see where it is looking

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Survey: What nvidia card you use?

2019-10-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/2/19 12:41 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 02.10.19 um 21:16 schrieb Michal Nowak: Hi, which nvidia graphics card type you use with OpenIndiana? Currently we ship the version 340 of nvidia Solaris driver, which supports following cards:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox is core dumping

2019-09-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to access memory that SMAP blocks access to from kernel space. https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox suggests "Workaround is to put: set disable_smap=1 in /etc/system and reboot, before starting VirtualBox" -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] apache-mellon package broken

2019-08-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
: :; ls -al /etc//apache2/2.4/samples-conf.d/mellon.conf ls: cannot access '/etc//apache2/2.4/samples-conf.d/mellon.conf': No such file or directory pkg does not expand $(...) variables, so if you "ls /" you'll probably see several directory names starting with a $ there. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 8/19/19 9:16 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: any chance you can get them to open source the SunRay software? ;-) Nope - no business reason to justify spending the required amount of time/effort to open source it. Open sourcing existing software is not just flipping a switch - as anyone who

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-disc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 60 ESR available

2019-05-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/60.6.2/releasenotes/ but: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549310 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing pthreads for compiling

2019-03-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
find "pthread.h" for some reason. Check the output of "pkg facet" to make sure you have not set the "devel" facet to False, as that will prevent installing headers and other files needed to build software. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPS idiom for local packages with no dependencies

2019-02-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/11/19 04:19 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: However, most packages that I would have guessed would be "leaves" are actually required by userland-incorporation or some other incorporation, so they are effectively "required". depend type=incorporate does not mark a package required, it just sets a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.20 and updated GTK+3 for hipster

2018-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
into the X server font path, for legacy applications that use the old X11 font system instead of fontconfig. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SOLVED: MATE 1.20 and updated GTK+3 for hipster

2018-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
verify - unlike other package systems, there is no scripting. The closest that could happen would be adding it to the fc-cache service - packages that deliver fonts trigger a refresh of this service to update the caches. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.20 and updated GTK+3 for hipster

2018-10-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to check that's running and not reporting any errors in the SMF logs for it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: mounting an existing system on a b

2018-09-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/10/18 08:45 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: It is openindiana. This is not Oracle Solaris. Sorry, thought I was responding to the solarisx86@yahoo list. Must drink more caffiene before answering mail on Monday morning... -alan-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mounting an existing system on a boot image

2018-09-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/10/18 02:55 AM, Marc Lobelle wrote: Thanks Udo and Jean Pierre: a small detail:I must be root to do this: where can I find the root pwd of the live image ? On the live cd, root's password should be "solaris". -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gmake REQUIRED_PACKAGES and depends path

2018-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/18 05:23 AM, Jason Martin wrote: > What do I need to do in my build so that depend path includes > > usr/lib/svn/amd64 and usr/apr/lib/amd64 > > > /export/home/agrellum/oi-userland/components/desktop/gnome3/anjuta/build/manifest-i386-anjuta.depend > has unresolved dependency ' >    

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mkvmerge fails

2018-05-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/23/18 08:28 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I have no idea what this KTPI thing does but it certainly has > made my life more difficult. How can I deactivate it? KPTI protects you from Meltdown attacks, which could be run as Javascript in your web browser if you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone else have Emacs issue?

2018-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t right-click in the emacs window to paste, instead of clicking on the window to give it focus first. I've mostly trained myself to avoid it, but still screw up every now and then and end up cursing it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris En

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Filezilla 3.17 and later

2018-03-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/ 4/18 11:11 AM, russell wrote: > Both Gnutls v3.5.18 and v3.6.2 both can almost be successfuly built using > > $ CC=gcc-6  CXX=g++-6 CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/idn -I/usr/include/idn2" > LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gnu/lib -L/usr/lib" NETTLE_CFLAGS="-I/opt/gnu/include/nettle" >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

2018-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: > Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of > Firefox? I believe the most immediate item of concern is that Firefox now uses code written in Rust, so you'll be limited to platforms that the Rust compiler generates code for, and I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel hardware

2018-01-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/ 4/18 01:32 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: > Intel's "Newsroom" response page is pretty terrible, in that regard. > > > https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/ Intel posted statements with a little more detail after the embargo broke:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana or OpenSolaris version with PowerPC support?

2017-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 3/17 12:36 PM, ardi wrote: By reading the Wikipedia page about Solaris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system) ), I somehow get the conclusion that PowerPC was added into OpenSolaris at some point, and not only through Polaris, but merging it into OpenSolaris actually.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] system-config-printer-applet not found

2017-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/12/17 12:10 PM, Gary Mills wrote: When I upgraded hipster yesterday, I got this errors in the message log: Nov 11 14:55:01 ryzen mate-session[2839]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: Could not launch application 'print-applet.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2017/10 lightdm under VBox 5.1.28

2017-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/ 2/17 10:51 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2017/10 lightdm under VBox...: Or if you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf yet:  cp /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf The OI guest that I updated from 2017.04 to 2017.10 does not have any example

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2017/10 lightdm under VBox 5.1.28

2017-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
: cp /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Intro questions

2017-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/23/17 12:13 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: I did find that VNC has DirectVNC for working with the framebuffer ( http://drinkmilk.github.io/directvnc/) and am exploring it more now. I would be surprised if code written for the Linux DirectFB API's worked with the Solaris framebuffer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: question about /proc

2017-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/29/17 06:55 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote: Hi all, I got today alert (actually blinking TimeSlider icon) that root FS is more than 70% in use (that is my setup). Went to check what occupies so much space, and found: $ pfexec du -sch /* ... 76G /proc /proc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

2017-09-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/ 4/17 02:11 PM, Nikola M wrote: On 09/ 4/17 08:18 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: I would expect exactly that, to be able to run it on compatible but newer hardware, and at least on Oracle hardware, but yes, you are right - over time new hardware requires new support, drivers etc.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: MATE + NVIDIA + 2 monitors :: full screen problem

2017-09-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/ 5/17 12:59 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote: Hi all, I have strange problem on my /hipster installation (since I have moved to Mate from Gnome). There were no changes on hardware in mean time: pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0605

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially dead?

2017-09-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
No. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 10:30 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: On May 31, 2017, at 13:01, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-) It was considered at Sun in the late 90's but discarded as going full LP64 already provided a solution without

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 09:19 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Aside from executables that reference timestamps (given that a signed twos-complement will overflow after Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 GMT), and for programs that will never need to manipulate files larger than 2GiB-1 (unless they use large file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> writes: For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our development trunk, though much less done in what

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris github repositories

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Thanks for that link... And thanks to Alan Coopersmith. I wondered how one adds the `userland' mentioned at url to publishers It's a github source repository, not an IPS pkg repository. (Same word, but very different usage.) -alan- ___ openindiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 04:26 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Jonathan Adams writes: Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... sudo file `which file` /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/17 02:13 PM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: On 05/25/17 14:10, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? Have you tried: uname -a The Solaris/openSolaris/illumos kernel doesn't change any of the values in uname between 32 & 64-bit kernels, much to the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/17 02:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. -alan- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hijacking of Shift-F5

2017-05-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.desktop as part of desktop session startup. The man page lists the args to change which key it steals. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] many duplicates - Re: OpenIndiana Hipster at Servethehome (call for a regular minimal stable)

2017-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/27/17 05:05 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: Guenther, I don't know if it is just me, or the whole list, but I have received a couple dozen copies of this email. is anyone else seeing lots of duplicates? I am too (and not just this mail, but others from the OI lists as well) - I was starting to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nonblocking i/o problem

2017-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/ 9/17 02:08 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: As an aside, there are limitations. The conditions were always pretty strict, so that compatibility only applies to (a) Solaris itself, and (b) only those interfaces explictly marked as being compatible. Specifically those whose man pages have an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] glxgears

2017-03-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/ 7/17 06:10 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: apostolo@adalind>> ls -l /usr/X11/include/NVIDIA/GL/gl.h /usr/X11/include/NVIDIA/GL/gl.h: No such file or directory This can be solved by downloading the Linux NVIDIA driver which includes this file and glext.h, glx.h,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newly installed VirtualBox gives COM object error when launched

2017-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/ 6/17 08:13 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: So I guess there is still something weird with the GL libraries :) There will always be something weird with the GL libraries due to historical mistakes and lack of cross-vendor cooperation which led to requiring a completely different libGL for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/25/17 11:15 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near, Udo Grabowski said...: You need reliable sources: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/23/oracle_layoffs_in_hardware_div/> I haven't seen any posts to the list from Alan Coopersmith

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/19/17 12:38 AM, Fred Liu wrote: From that roadmap, my understanding is there is no on-premise and standalone Solaris and SPARC releases after 2017 and everything goes into cloud. Then you're misunderstanding the roadmap, which shows both on-premise & cloud releases going forward until

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 08:58 PM, Fred Liu wrote: Will they still sell data machine, fishwork storage? Yes - those systems have their own roadmap, separate from the SPARC & Solaris roadmap. (But we're really getting off-topic here for the OpenIndiana mailing list.) -alan-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 12:33 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Really? 2034 still seems so far away now... http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf (pg. 37) Well I do not see anything about Solaris 12 on page 37. The support life document doesn't say anything about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 12:13 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Why "The End is near"? Sounds the SPARC platform will be continued beyond 2020, right? Obviously I do not care about SPARC machines... But I see no Solaris 12... It seems that Solaris 11.4 will be the last release of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/18/17 11:52 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc/oracle-sparc/sparc-roadmap-slide-2076743.pdf Really? 2034 still seems so far away now...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana upgrade

2016-12-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/31/16 05:00 AM, russell wrote: Hi Alex, I tried a pkg image-update -v --be-name openindiana-hipster-NN this morning which did actually complete okay with information about gnu/tar. After booting from the new environment and then attempting a pkg update -be-name openindiana-hipster-NN+1 I

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