Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

2012-05-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
reported issues (and they went away) it is possible that these cards only last a couple of years. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root as role vs. user and rsync

2012-05-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
types of hosts with this strategy for four years now without a problem. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice come back with 3.4 release

2012-05-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. LibreOffice has been shipping in some Linux distributions for a while. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which compiler to use for Perl modules?

2012-05-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
the nuances involved with the compiler used when Perl was built and replays these options when modules are built. This behavior is a long-standing problem with Perl. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs and usb drives

2012-05-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
cables because the pool won't come back up if the cables are plugged into different ports than before. Zfs scrub and resilver are obviously slower with USB drives. I have heard that one should always plug the drives directly into the computer rather than into a USB bridge device. Bob -- Bob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any OI experiences with SuperMicro X9DR7-LN4F?

2012-06-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
months ago. The work was done by Nextenta. I hope it is working since a system I have on order uses the Intel i350. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any OI experiences with SuperMicro X9DR7-LN4F?

2012-06-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I found a posting that says support for Intel i350 was pushed into Illumos some three or four months ago. The work was done by Nextenta. Here is the Illumos bug entry (2038): https://www.illumos.org/issues/2038 Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. create/delete file or directory) take priority over others. Ad hoc approaches are often used to improve the appearance of performance, or because the filesystem knows that one sort of metadata or data is more important than another. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. Is there a way to apply it to the root pool when the system is installed? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
check output of 'fmadm -ev' and 'fmadm faulty'. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] , The+AShift+Value+and+Advanced+Format+disks+and+ZFS

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
another formal release. I hope to accept delivery of a SuperMicro machine this week which required 151a4 in order to use its network interfaces and support audio. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
be ignored/disabled), why not just remove the vendor-provided HBA and install a good one? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
of satisfying your support requirement can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It seems that you will need to either convince one of those system vendors to support Illumos, or fund someone to add support in Illumos for a currently unsupported device. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
servers and then blames the problem on the host which is actually serving up the data (as if that host was lost) if that random directory server goes away. This behavior seems like it would make dignosing issues more difficult. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Raid 1 on LSI 9411-4i

2012-07-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
FAULTED 0 1 0 too many errors c3t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing one package triggered upgrade

2012-07-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
the past hour who has reported this sort of issue. The system did not reboot for the other fellow. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing one package triggered upgrade

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. It may be that the installed root pool version was 5000 rather than 28 and the boot environment from 151a3 does not handle that (a5 would be needed). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] iostat -E and Illegal Request count

2012-07-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Tehcook wrote: Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us writes: Vendor: ATA Product: WDC WD5003ABYX-0 Revision: 1S02 Serial No: WD-WMAYP3661514 Size: 500.11GB 500107862016 bytes Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg problem in upgrading from a3 to a5

2012-07-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
be that uninstalling GCC 2.6.2 and the libraries it depends on (MPFR, etc.) and then re-installing GCC 2.6.2 might solve this problem for me. Or I might find that it is impossible to install GCC 2.6.2 and latest LLVM at the same time because they have conflicting dependencies. Bob -- Bob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

2012-07-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
margins for Oracle. It is questionable if outsiders would have the technical and financial resources needed to develop kernel support for newer T-series chips. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update errors re: gcc, gmp, mpc, etc.

2012-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
private compiler is not dependent on these SFE libraries. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update errors re: gcc, gmp, mpc, etc.

2012-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
libraries required by applications pkg=SFEgccruntime vendor=http://pkgbuild.sf.net/spec-files-extra version=4.6.2,REV=110.0.4.2011.12.21.22.11': pkg://sfe/runtime/gcc@4.6.2,5.11-0.151.1:20111222T011404Z Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sandy bridge

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
before it sees them (not sure if it's slowed down or at full speed). Out of curiosity, please run 'iostat -E' and see what errors are being logged for your SATA drives. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Daniel Kjar wrote: Really? What do you call that crap in etc under auto_master and auto_home? Those are template sample files for you to edit. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
parts were not so good. Compared with today's modern desktops, CDE will consume hardly any resources and seem quite fast. I do think that CDE is vastly more usable than Ubtuntu's Unity desktop (which I can not figure out how to use). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
is rapidly becoming the next Microsoft. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
on the Internet and billions of people only experience the Internet by launching from Google. Regardless, I am not seeing that Chromium is available for Solaris. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Should I upgrade the pool?

2012-08-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE postgres 9.1 doesn't install

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
are not the same. The OpenIndiana packages may have some modification from the originals at SourceForge. OpenIndiana SFE does have its own bug tracker (which is actively monitored and used). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos KMS Hackathon in Germany

2012-08-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. No conflict there. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos KMS Hackathon in Germany

2012-08-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
/gcc/4.4.4/lib may help. Note that libgcc_s.so.1 does not seem to be as much of a quandary/mess as it is made out to be as long as the most recent version for any compiler used to compile the code on the system is always used. C++ is another story entirely. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
at the moment is that OpenIndiana is hosted on Alasdair's servers and openindiana.org is owned by EveryCity Ltd (i.e. Alasdair's company). The servers and domain are still running but there is no telling about the future. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
take quite a few years to become significant. It is not something which happens in just a couple of years. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: That would leave just a good HCL as an obstacle to wider use of OI. The issues with modern/pervasive 4K sector disks on Illumos may also stifle adoption. I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 Most significantly, the issue

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
) and/or a large number of files, you will be wondering what happened to your disk space. For huge drives this is not much of an issue. It is definitely an issue for SSDs, which usually offer much less space per drive. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
so that it is possible to migrate from one to the other and not crater users networks due to an update. As Gordon Ross mentions, the Sun dhcp server has nice integration with a dhcpmgr GUI (which I use under Solaris 10). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to help if you are not developer: Re: OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
should be collected so that it can be known which applications have important security issues. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 34)

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
changes right away. Without using snapshots you really don't know what you are getting from an active filesystem. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to help if you are not developer: Re: OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
be updated without any risk. For example, I found an annoying bug in OI's emacs which made it somewhat unusable. The issue is not specific to OI because emacs in Ubuntu 10.4 has the same bug and the bug is well known. The SFE version of emacs is new enough to solve that bug. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Swap during install

2012-09-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
(e.g. 1U, 2U) can be fitted with 1TB of RAM. If you were to actually fill 4TB of swap with data, the program would likely be slow and take quite a long time to quit. More than likely the program has a dreadful memory leak. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate 3000GB Drive only shows 746GB

2012-09-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
drives. I might have had to use rmformat to deal with formatting a USB stick (don't remember). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

2012-10-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Useful tidbit for ZFS backup via ZFS Send

2012-10-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
implementation (there are C++ versions and C versions) in about 10X less source code. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
could be involved. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
between the two, but the available devices might change and that would cause issues for Windows. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I am having problems with Inkscape and convert producing PNG's

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
is that the png headers used do not match the png library used. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I am having problems with Inkscape and convert producing PNG's

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
be updated to use the new API. Libpng 1.4 offers the new API in a transitional mode to allow applications time to update. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Only one SSD detected on expander

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
support enabled on this system? I assume that the default for OpenIndiana x86 is still that multipath support is disabled by default. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Only one SSD detected on expander

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
the factory while others are not. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
search locations by existing software. The /usr/X11 path is a common convention established long ago and is not Solaris specific. The problem is not really the symbolic links. The problem is if there is a clear plan for how things will finally be in the future. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
take a little time to give back the memory. There are data-intensive usage scenarios where ARC is competing with applications. Application use of mmap() can cause memory issues since mapped file data uses memory in both ARC and page cache (i.e. may double memory requirement). Bob -- Bob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to be used remotely. It should not require exotic GPU acceleration to be usable. By current standards Gnome2 is light-weight even though it used to be considered heavy-weight. KDE4 is pretty heavy. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tribblix Milestone 1

2012-11-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
for running Illumos-based systems. There will be ARM64 hardware available (from other than AMD) for deployment within the next 5 months. Hopefully some company will decide to add ARM support for Illumos. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mailhost and other standard hostnames

2012-11-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
) so I copied the processed configuration file from a Solaris 10 system and then it worked just fine. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] managing repositories

2012-11-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
name_of_property_to_delete] [publisher] Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Anyone use gcj?

2012-11-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
would certainly agree that GNU Java is not needed in a standard build. It is not included with Ubuntu Linux's GCC. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Anyone use gcj?

2012-11-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
with GNU Java are quite huge. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
, except that SATA is used for boot/system drives. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-11-17 17:17, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise SAS and SATA drives did not show a large bump in price for SAS as compared with SATA (maybe only $20-30). Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra cost

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
doubt that the chance of being exploited is much less with Solaris since the desktop user base is so small, it is not cost effective to target it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
failure per drive is still similar. While I have had several whole drives fail here, I have yet to encounter an unrecoverable media error. Maybe I am just lucky, but I do try to avoid garden variety drives and spend extra for enterprise type drives whenever I have the option. Bob -- Bob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI151a5 Fails to boot on AMD PileDriver Laptop

2012-12-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Handojo wrote: I just bought an AMD Trinity Laptop from Samsung ( Samsung NP535U4X-S01ID ). It is based on AMD A8-4555. 8GB of RAM I tried to install OI151a5 You should try OI 151a7 to see if it works better. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

2012-12-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
rather than u7) but the update manager says that there are over 900 packages to be updated. That does not feel like stalled to me. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

2012-12-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
and OmniOS can replace OI on servers, they are not as widespreaded or known at all. SmartOS and OmniOS serve rather different focused purposes and each will succeed based on their purpose and merits. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Downloads

2012-12-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] updating packages

2012-12-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/17.0.1/contrib/solaris_tarball/ and extract it into any directory, and then run it from there. I update the /usr/bin/firefox symbolic link to point to where I installed firefox so that everything still works. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-scrub and its result

2012-12-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-scrub and its result

2012-12-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
requested to write. However, it does not gracefully kill off processes so it is possible that a file which is opened for modification might not get written correctly, or might not get deleted as it should. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-scrub and its result

2012-12-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
: % pfexec zpool scrub rpool % pfexec zpool scrub rpool cannot scrub rpool: currently scrubbing; use 'zpool scrub -s' to cancel current scrub Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. If you upgrade rpool, always keep in mind that GRUB needs to be updated to handle it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anybody using Trusted JDS/Gnome?

2013-01-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
a documented paper trail and a company behind them. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
something to do with PAM. Google found this old hit for me: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/solaris-10-sshd-publickey-solution.html but it did not help. This hack is not necessary on my Solaris 10 systems. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
that a PAM module will deny access. The comments in Solaris 10 /etc/ssh/sshd_config are the same, yet it works. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
authentication works great for normal users Private-key-based authentication works great for normal users I can't log in at all as 'root' using ssh with any authentication method. Are other OpenIndiana users able to configure their ssh to allow login as root? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090818f And the ssh client (Solaris 10) is Sun_SSH_1.1.5, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090704f I am only using files+DNS for configuration. No LDAP, NIS, or anything fancy like that. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
-- 1 root root 391 Jan 12 19:30 known_hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root other479 Jul 11 2012 rsync.conf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 328 Jan 6 17:21 rsync_serve* Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Ray Butler wrote: rolemod -K type=normal root I set PermitRootLogin without-password and it works without issue. That did it! This should provide me with traditional benefits as well (as well as the security drawback). Thanks! Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. I would need to create a new user account account on all the systems and add a way to accomplish the equivalent of 'sudo' on all those systems (perhaps via a suid wrapper). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-01-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
annoyance, I already had to replace both of the fixed boot drives whereas the hot-swap drives had no problem. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you willing to pay for this service? Oracle charges $1k/year per socket. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
per socket, then this suggests that the OpenIndiana user-base could voluntarily contribute to the foundation for a small fraction of what a commercial enterprise would pay Oracle. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. I have a Quadro 4000 in my system, and had OpenIndiana briefly running on another system with a Quadro 2000. Make sure you check driver availability while selecting a card. You need a 4U chassis with a power-supply configuration intended to support video cards. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
or, failing that, a UDP transport, as ordered in the /etc/netconfig file. If it does not find a connection oriented transport, it uses the first available connectionless transport. So Solaris NFS mounts use TCP by default. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
to be evaluated in a particular order or else the wrong diagnosis will be made. Regardless, PUtty is Windows sofware so it is subject to Windows TCP/IP stack behavior. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calxeda ECX-1000 (OpenIndiana ARM platform port)

2013-02-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
issues. ARM-based servers typically provide a built-in switching matrix so that there is an optimized path to each mini-server in the larger server chassis. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

2013-02-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
as the Linux version when the Linux version appears to be working properly (before it leaks). I also find that Firefox is more responsive on Solaris. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

2013-02-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: It may be advisable to stick to the 17.xESR release, as the 18.x branch is heavily broken. The 18.x branch is working good here. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE or OpenCSW? Or both?

2013-02-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
distributions are using Debian's apt-get packaging system. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-02-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
-v)? Is the system doing anything significant (other than starting VirtualBox) when it locks up? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
SPARC Solaris 10 system. System panic after one year of uptime seems like too much of a coincidence to me ... No 3737 days of uptime to report here. :-( Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird C++ problem

2013-04-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
in the std namespace. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 20)

2013-04-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
is a better HBA hardware interface and a specialized stack. 5X is 5X. If 3xdisk raidz1 is too expensive, then put more SSDs in each raidz1. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 20

2013-04-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
run-time libraries, for which there is no useful standard on Solaris. It also helps keep the code honest by assuring that it is compiled with at least three different compilers. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
are directly connected. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
insufficient for latest SSDs. Please expound on Not true. SAS/SATA are not like old parallel SCSI. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] python 2.6.4 64 bit ?

2013-05-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
by 'virtualenv' so problems are not caused by conflicts with package management. An even better approach would be to build python 2.7 yourself into your own install tree so that you have complete control over it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comments, please! problem with ffmpeg that seems to be a problem with OI at driver or basic library level

2013-05-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
certain buffering (e.g. pipe buffering) expectations. Confusion between the buffering and any locking (or even just the buffering) might cause a deadlock in the software. To diagnose, try using 'pstack' on the processes which are hanging and see where they are hung. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

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