Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE/SPARC: It was a mistake to keep the site online.

2014-09-23 Thread Laurent Blume
Obviously, you don't know Martin. I've refrained from intervening in those threads for what, more than one year now? Just because I also hoped it would stop. It hasn't. I don't want THIS discussion to be stopped. I would have liked it stated that none will happen again. But it is okay,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE/SPARC: It was a mistake to keep the site online.

2014-09-22 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/09/20 11:15 +0200, Nikola M. a écrit: On 09/15/14 11:20 AM, Krzysztof Grzempa wrote: Well, for me it is mistake to mix up technology with politics. I respects +1 only thing, we can't stop people doing that, we can only ask them to. The off-topic traffic can and should most definitely

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE/SPARC: It was a mistake to keep the site online.

2014-09-22 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/09/22 19:38 +0200, Nikola M. a écrit: Yes. Only discriminating people for their political views (that they express, beside talking on topic subjects) would be also unacceptable. (Beside we generally don't want other politics then software ones). If someone discuss something about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS allowed characters (valid characters)

2014-09-15 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/09/14 17:26 +0200, Jim Klimov a écrit: while i don't have a precise answer, i think that the set of valid characters in dataset names is different from those in the POSIX filesystems - i.e. '@' and '%' are reserved dataset separators (real and receiving-in-progress snapshots) while valid

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/05/05 11:54 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit: Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot work with 6H/7H series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in vain. Anyway, it looks like there is a very clear gap between commodity and enterprise

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/05/05 17:22 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit: [Fred]: I also heard of this HBA. It has 4 ports as max and very limited bus bandwidth Well, hey, consumer! :-) [Fred]: you have good luck! :-) 哈哈,真的很好运阿! I did have issues, the usual failing disks and stuff, but there's been no datalose, and

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

2014-03-28 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/28 09:35 +0100, Jonathan Adams a écrit: The Current Ubuntu ZFS driver (in the repository) is one step behind the hipster variant, I cannot currently mount my hipster partition when I've booted Ubuntu on the same computer ... Yes, they've been recommending to use HEAD lately, and

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox can't save files

2014-03-19 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/19 11:51 +0100, Apostolos Syropoulos a écrit: I have installed version 28.0 and now I cannot install any addon and of course I cannot save files (I tried to save an e-mail attachment and it failed). I am sure the problem is this stupid SunStudio that they are using to compile firefox.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox can't save files

2014-03-19 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/19 15:19 +0100, Apostolos Syropoulos a écrit: First, let me repeat that the binary works just fine under OpenSolaris 134. Second I haven't tried this but I think it should not work. I think you should, because the S10 version embeds plenty of the dependencies (so if it's an S11-OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox can't save files

2014-03-19 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/03/19 15:36 +0100, IMK a écrit: Again, there's no binary incompatibility , with oi-151a9 firefox WORKS. And I had missed he was complaining about it on S11 too. So it's just locally broken. Laurent ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?

2014-02-19 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/02/19 16:09 +0100, Hans J. Albertsson a écrit: This is basically my7 experience, too. And noone seems to have any idea about why these Gnome problems ACTUALLY occur. GNOME has always been a little picky on upgrades, that's why there is a gnome-cleanup tool in Solaris, and I believe,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 27 Openindiana is available/HTML5 Score/script to update

2014-02-14 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/02/14 09:41 +0100, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit: On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, cpforum wrote: New firefox 24.3.0esr and 27.0 are available on Mozilla. How evident/obvious is the built in advertising feature in 27? Bob Is that supposed to be in 27 already? I've not noticed anything in the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Avoiding the NTP amplification exploit

2014-02-13 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/02/13 11:35 +0100, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Saso Kiselkov wrote: Prudent advice, yes, but I can't think of any situation where an openly accessible NTP service on an Internet-facing machine that isn't *specifically* configured to be an NTP server isn't a case of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/01/03 16:02 +0100, Roman Naumenko a écrit: Power is 200W, I can live with that. I'll be pedantic on this point, as I've researched it for my own little home NAS and checked with a power meter :-) 200W is the *max* power rating. The enclosure itself, with its couple of LEDs and fans,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Laurent Blume
On 03/01/2014 18:46, Roman Naumenko wrote: Ok, thanks for this clarification. Its obvious that vendor provides max power consumption. Which box did you buy for you storage, MSAxx? (or is it just server with the disks). A basic no-brand SAS enclosure from span.com connected to an LSI 3801E

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Predictive disk failure or not?

2013-12-27 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2013/12/27 13:45 +0100, CJ Keist a écrit: Happy Holidays everyone! Going through checking for any errors with my 81 2Tb disk drives and found one possible bad disk: Running iostat -En I found the following drive: c3t50014EE0AD40337Fd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 39 Transport Errors: 15

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS approach to valid users etc.

2013-11-21 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2013/11/21 16:17 +0100, Jim Klimov a écrit: On 2013-11-21 12:08, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Regarding the documentation: I have scanned most of what's there by now but I actually don't find the ACL approach not too intuitive and definitely not halfway as simple as with the Samba notation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] removing a disk after a replace

2013-11-07 Thread Laurent Blume
On 07/11/13 06:29, John Ryan wrote: Try zpool detach nas c8t50014EE6561DDB4Cd0p0 «detach» only works on mirrors. You cannot remove or detach a device from a raidz, only offline it or replace it. In my experience, sometimes the system needs some prodding to accept the change. The use of p0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] removing a disk after a replace

2013-11-07 Thread Laurent Blume
On 07/11/13 10:21, Peter Tribble wrote: No, detach is the appropriate option here. It's a little whacky, but you're operating on the replacing vdev which is essentially a mirror and you want to detach one component of it. Really? And that works using nas as the pool name? Or do you tell it to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] removing a disk after a replace

2013-11-07 Thread Laurent Blume
On 07/11/13 10:20, Clement BRIZARD wrote: For the p0 it was done automatically, I didn't do anything. Automatically? How did you create the pool? It's usually up to you to select the right device. p0 should not be used. What do you think I should do, format one by one ? Probably not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: zpool really slow

2013-10-30 Thread Laurent Blume
Here, there is little doubt left as to which one is going bad: 4.4 0.6 340.8 3.2 0.0 4.8 0.0 955.2 0 82 c8t50014EE6561DDB4Cd0 Laurent On 30/10/13 14:30, Nathan Fiedler wrote: I've had a few drives go bad in the past few months, one after the other, and the leading symptom was always

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: zpool really slow

2013-10-30 Thread Laurent Blume
On 30/10/13 15:29, Jim Klimov wrote: In the posted output, c8t50014EE6561DDB4Cd0 consistently has large service times and percent-busy, while its other values are on par with those of other drives (KBs and IOs read/written). My take on this is that the other values are actually the other

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris C++ feof(): are we doing things differently?

2013-10-27 Thread Laurent Blume
On 27/10/2013 19:07, Bryan N Iotti wrote: What I find funny is that the 32 bit version compiles and runs fine. As soon as I add the -m64 flag it exits. This does seem to confirm it as the libtool bug Bob was mentioning. I think I had similar issues several times: the definition of FILE in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Daylight saving time - again

2013-10-27 Thread Laurent Blume
On 27/10/2013 17:13, Jean-Pierre André wrote: On a computer which boots on OpenIndiana and Windows, I have to obey the Windows requirement for the hardware clock to be set on local time. I also want my files to be stamped internally with the same UTC time, and shown with the same local time. Up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Studio future in OI (Re: )

2013-10-13 Thread Laurent Blume
On 11/10/2013 18:14, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: This should not happen, this would kill us completely, we have commercial applications compiled with Sun Studio, and a lot of software that can't even be compiled with gcc-fortran, I can't help thinking, what will happen to you when *Solaris*

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Studio future in OI (Re: [oi-dev] )

2013-10-11 Thread Laurent Blume
On 11/10/13 09:39, Nikola M. wrote: Does this means that Sun Studio / Oracle studio will not be able to run on Openindiana after this change? So it is intentional breaking compatibiliy with Studio or including all software compiled with Studio? Are you willing to have distribution that does not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Studio future in OI (Re: )

2013-10-11 Thread Laurent Blume
On 11/10/13 11:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: The problem is that this doea not help you with existing binaries and it would be better if gcc would implement the stable studio interfaces instead it's own variable interfaces. Well, a switch is a switch. I've had to think about the issue in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Studio future in OI (Re: )

2013-10-11 Thread Laurent Blume
On 11/10/13 14:02, Joerg Schilling wrote: I am not trying to discuss where it came from but whether it will be stable in the future. The last incompatible change was *11 years ago*, and it was a bug fix, it was not just because they like to break things.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-10 Thread Laurent Blume
On 09/10/13 15:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: In BIOS, I have the option to enable/disable SATA port 0, 1,2,3. If the port is enabled and nothing connected, it throws and error during POST. If something is connected, it's identified as a 1TB or whatever drive, and presented to the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-10 Thread Laurent Blume
On 10/10/13 10:01, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: This is emphatically false. It's good to see such enthusiasm. However, all that crap has never, to my knowledge, been clearly documented, so blaming it on the users is not exactly fair. Trial and errors over years is what it took me, including

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] need compiler for apcupsd

2013-10-04 Thread Laurent Blume
Hello, If it can help, there's a package that I use on S10 and has been tested on S11: http://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWapcupsd/ Laurent On 03/10/2013 20:05, Geoff Nordli wrote: I need to compile apcupsd. It seems like a pretty easy process using this guide.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Network issue

2013-09-10 Thread Laurent Blume
Hello, I'll have a shot, though it's been a while since I've dealt with NWAM issues... On 09/09/13 22:22, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hello, I have a strange issue with my network on OpenIndiana: I have network access most of the time, and then suddenly loose it. Usually, when I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-11 Thread Laurent Blume
On 10/07/13 15:04, James Carlson wrote: I know that others here have said dreadful things about the CIFS server, but I can't say I've understood the fuss. :-/ My experience with it for a very simple set up has been less than stellar. But also, I was using it on S11, which has it still

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-11 Thread Laurent Blume
On 2013-07-11 6:56 PM, James Carlson wrote: I've been using it for a while, first on OpenSolaris. Yes, me too, on and off until S11.1, when I dumped it for good because it annoyed me one time too many. I do know the thing :-) Simple: integration with ZFS. That's the killer feature for me,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-10 Thread Laurent Blume
On 10/07/13 13:57, Daniel Kjar wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to get CIFS working to share a home drive to a windows 8 machine. The pool already exists and I don't use auto_home. I tried just zfs set sharesmb=on home and that made it discoverable but when i try to log in I get

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI and zfs from a windows machine

2013-07-03 Thread Laurent Blume
On 03/07/13 20:49, Robbie Crash wrote: I always see this bandied about. Following the Oracle documentation on how to join OI to a domain for the built in CIFS serving has worked for me, flawlessly on 10 different OI installations. Every time I hear about people with issues with it, they're

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-29 Thread Laurent Blume
On 2013-06-26 4:05 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: snip ln -s ../usr/local/samba/lib/nss_winbind.so.1 /lib/nss_winbind.so.1 ln -s nss_winbind.so.1 /lib/nss_winbind.so.2 ln -s nss_winbind.so.1 /lib/libnss_winbind.so.1 (this would symlink the current-directory's .so.1 in /lib/ into other names that you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tar extract error

2013-06-29 Thread Laurent Blume
On 2013-06-29 12:53 PM, Brogyányi József wrote: Udo Thanks for the quick answer. Just one question about usage. This before my screen nearly empty when used tar command. Ater the installation I can see a lot message. It looks like this: typeflag 'x' not recognized, converting to regular

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-26 Thread Laurent Blume
On 25/06/13 18:15, James Relph wrote: All the rest is good but that crle line - ugh. Ignore that, I should have deleted it out. I was using that while trying to sort out the LDFLAGS bit, but it's not necessary. Aha, good ;-) One thing in terms of the LDFLAGS line actually that you might

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-25 Thread Laurent Blume
On 25/06/13 02:08, Christopher Chan wrote: Depends I guess. I have the same results but things work over here...but then I did build a patched version of samba and I don't just run vanilla samba like what csw built. If you have interesting patches, they'd be welcome. I'll keep those for the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-25 Thread Laurent Blume
On 25/06/13 12:24, James Relph wrote: crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/etc/lib:/opt/gcc/4.4.4/lib:/usr/local/samba/lib:/usr/local/samba/lib/private All the rest is good but that crle line - ugh. Playing with crle is more dangerous than it looks, and advising to use it without explaining exactly why

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-23 Thread Laurent Blume
On 2013-06-23 2:10 AM, James Relph wrote: Just been looking into this a bit and I wondered if the was any chance that this group issue could be causing problems (users are in a lot of groups): https://bugzilla.samba.org/process_bug.cgi Does the current version of cswsamba have those patches?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-23 Thread Laurent Blume
On 23/06/2013 22:23, James Relph wrote: Hi Lauren, Laurent with a 't', so it's male, just for the record ;-) Thanks for that, the patches seem to work and I can use netatalk with winbind still (with more groups now!), Okay, good to know, I'll see if upstream will get the patches in or if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-21 Thread Laurent Blume
On 21/06/13 07:15, James Relph wrote: Hi, Apologies for cross posting, but I'm not sure if this is an Oi issue or a cswsamba issue. I've installed cswsamba (3.6.15) and cswsamba_winbind on an OI box (151a7). I've got it bound to AD fine, and winbind itself seems to be operating perfectly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-21 Thread Laurent Blume
On 21/06/13 14:50, James Relph wrote: Both cswsamba and cswwinbind do seem to be working fine, they're just not talking to each other! Well, the lines you had shown appeared to show they were talking, just the answer was negative for some reason. snip Look all good. It didn't seem to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-21 Thread Laurent Blume
On 21/06/13 15:50, James Relph wrote: Here: https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5020 Ah, for nss, yes. That one is not a lib per se, but a module, so it does make sense. I don't thin Jan got over to document it before I took the packaging away from him, so I'll see what can be done.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-21 Thread Laurent Blume
On 2013-06-21 5:53 PM, James Relph wrote: I initially dropped the 64-bit versions in and it freaked out big style (couldn't login initially). The netatalk bit seems to be running fine with those as well. Does samba even use PAM for talking with winbind or deal directly? You need to have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster repo - WAS::::Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-10 Thread Laurent Blume
On 2013-06-10 7:46 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: I have ffmpeg (0.10) built from source on Solaris 10 10/08 using the Workshop compiler. It actually was pretty straightforward. I haven't tried avidemux or vlc since ffmpeg has played most of what I've thrown at it, but I can try those out if there's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-31 Thread Laurent Blume
On 31/05/13 13:15, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: I'm not sure what the default is for solaris / openindiana. For the problem at hand (SMF service) obviously, it doesn't matter what the linux defaults are. ;-) Of course I assumed we were compliant with filesystem(4) here ;-) For

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Laurent Blume
On 30/05/13 16:15, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: snip I see there are a bunch of C constructs available ... mutex_init, etc. Surely there must be a wrapper application around this kind of thing, right? I spent some time looking for a lock in shell some time ago. The overall

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Laurent Blume
On 30/05/13 18:58, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: It would be *really* nice to have a locking mechanism that exists solely in ram, so it would go away and automatically release locks, in the event of a system ungraceful reboot. That's why I pointed out mine are in /tmp or /var/run -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] samba with zfs acls and shadow copies

2013-05-23 Thread Laurent Blume
On 22/05/13 17:50, Martin Walter wrote: please include a new samba version (e.g. 3.6.15) into oi151a8. Best with support for zfs acls and shadow copies. We need it urgently for our fileservers. Thanks and best regards, Martin If it's urgent, maybe you can use the OpenCSW version? I've just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] samba with zfs acls and shadow copies

2013-05-23 Thread Laurent Blume
On 23/05/13 12:08, Martin Walter wrote: I will take a look. But I would really prefer to have an *actual* Samba version with ZFS-specific features like ACLs and shadow copies supported by OpenIndiana. Not sure what you mean by «actual» there. Those bits are part of the regular Samba source,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] samba with zfs acls and shadow copies

2013-05-23 Thread Laurent Blume
On 23/05/13 14:05, Martin Walter wrote: sorry, with actual I meant not 3.5.7 as is oi_151a7. = 3.6.14 would be great! Ah, right. 3.6.14 is the one in OpenCSW at the moment. I'll add 3.6.15 soon, it seems to build fine at least. If you do try it on OI, please give me some feedback, either

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recreate /dev/null

2013-04-25 Thread Laurent Blume
On 25/04/13 14:53, James Carlson wrote: snip Unfortunately, that's where my knowledge of the system (based on my years in PSARC) ends. I don't know how to repair damage like you're describing. I just know that the people telling you to rm these fake files or run mknod are misinformed. That'll

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb audio

2012-10-17 Thread Laurent Blume
On 16/10/12 17:41, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: How you recreated that? ln -s? devfsadm does not create anything. Just a manual ln -s /dev/sound/X /dev/audio. I'd need to try on OI, it's been a while since I've had audio issues. Laurent ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb audio

2012-10-16 Thread Laurent Blume
On 16/10/12 05:59, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: Good day. snip $ prtconf -D ... pci17aa,20aa, instance #2 (driver name: uhci) device, instance #4 (driver name: usb_mid) input, instance #4 (driver name: hid) sound-control, instance #0 (driver name: usb_ac) ... But I haven't any usable devices

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb audio

2012-10-16 Thread Laurent Blume
On 16/10/12 12:14, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: How can I update that? devfsadm doesn't help, and I don't know other way. I've never found a way other than manually removing the /dev/audio symlinks and recreating them to the right device. I had an USB webcam with a mike, every time it was