[osol-discuss] Duplicative "Documents" Entries in Nautilus

2009-04-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I have recognized a rather stupid bug in the GNOME > desktop when switching between the en_US.UTF-8 locale > and the en_US.UTF-8 locale. I think I can do a quick > and dirty workaround by editing the .profile file > (this matter is relatively urgent, at least for me, > in light of the fact that t

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the Documentation?

2009-04-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I have recognized a rather stupid bug in the GNOME > desktop when switching between the en_US.UTF-8 locale > and the en_US.UTF-8 locale. I think I can do a quick > and dirty workaround by editing the .profile file > (this matter is relatively urgent, at least for me, > in light of the fact that

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread UNIX admin
> > Didn't have this before, so I wonder if it has to > > make with nv111? > > Around once per day, the mouse pointer freezes (be > it > > in a terminal window or web browser), > > Kernel panic? > > > then the hard drive LED is 100% active, > > Kernel writing crash dump? That's almost a 100% gi

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-12 Thread UNIX admin
> Has anybody around here ever used HP-UX or AIX or any > other relevant non-BSD, non-Linux UNIX-style > operating system before? I use HP-UX every day, especially since I have HP-UX servers at home and do heavy development and system engineering on HP-UX. > If so, what do you think are the disa

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-12 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, Well as they say, it takes all kinds:) HP-UX is definitely a different beast and 11i hasn't significantly changed over the years other than hardware support and bug fixes. AIX on the other hand is a bit more bizarre with things like ODM, SMIT, and the command line tools. However, I would p

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
> In HP-UX 11v2/v3 you can use either /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest or > machinfo for information about the machine, this does include the > amount of memory. So the thing that the loudermilk.org author was complaining about only applies to the eight year old HP-UX 11iv1 ? Or does the machinfo c

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-12 Thread Halldór Rúnar Hafliðason
Greetings, In HP-UX 11v2/v3 you can use either /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest or machinfo for information about the machine, this does include the amount of memory. On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Anon Y Mous wrote: Has anybody around here ever used HP-UX or AIX or any other relevant non-BS

[osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
Has anybody around here ever used HP-UX or AIX or any other relevant non-BSD, non-Linux UNIX-style operating system before? If so, what do you think are the disadvantages and advantages of these other operating systems vis-a-vis Solaris? I found this interesting link that compares HP-UX to Sol

[osol-discuss] Setting up my OpenSolaris server, ZFS, Zones, ldap and picking a distro

2009-04-12 Thread Kyle Fuller
Hello, I am very new to Solaris, I was using OpenSolaris 2008 LiveCD in Virtual Box and after spending some time reading about it, I quite like ZFS and Zones. I have played around with ZFS in Virtual Box creating multiple drives and simulated failures. I have decided to build a new OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2009-04-12 Thread William Bauer
Well, no one answered, but I have since confirmed both from Intel/Solaris press and my own testing that i7, X58 and ICH10 are a fine match with OpenSolaris 2008.11. However, as with all of the ICHxR chipsets, if you can't disable the RAID in the BIOS by setting it to AHCI/non-RAID mode, you wil

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
Thanks so much, Joerg! This is what I was looking for. And here are the results: > ::msgbuf MESSAGE ii0 is /pseudo/i...@0 pseudo-device: fssnap0 fssnap0 is /pseudo/fss...@0 pseudo-device: winlock0 winlock0 is /pseudo/winl...@0 pseudo-

Re: [osol-discuss] How can i forbid sftp users to change their home directory

2009-04-12 Thread roland
have a look at "scponly" ( http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/ ) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel panics during zfs send

2009-04-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
> > Is it similar to the following bug? > > > > Bug ID: 6577985 > > Synopsis: panic when zfs send a snapshot with i/o errors > > > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6577985 > > Yes.. But instead of a file i'm receiving to a new zpool. > > I'm away from my machine. (hence, i can't

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel panics during zfs send

2009-04-12 Thread vijay Rajah
> Is it similar to the following bug? > > Bug ID: 6577985 > Synopsis: panic when zfs send a snapshot with i/o > errors > > ttp://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6577985 Yes.. But instead of a file i'm receiving to a new zpool. I'm away from my machine. (hence, i can cat /etc/release

Re: [osol-discuss] Password Safe for OpenSolaris?

2009-04-12 Thread Lurie
I suggest you to try KeePass (on Windows) and KeePassX on OpenSolaris (you'll have to compile gcc4.3/4, q4.5 and KeePassX though, but they're usually needed anyway...) I recently compiled the latest version of keepassx with success (had to tweak the compile flags to have "-include keepassx.h" a

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating snv_98

2009-04-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Anon Y Mous wrote: pkg set-authority -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev dev pkg image-update I take this to mean that there are no longer any more bizzare "gotchas" in upgrading to the builds after snv_98 ? No, and if there were, they would be in the release notes. You know the kind of t

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris TownHall - April 24th 8am-10am PT

2009-04-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
All, It has been a while since the last Town Hall meeting, and a lot has gone on since then. We are planning the next Town Hall meeting for Friday April 24th from 8am to 10am PT. Attending will be Dan Roberts, OpenSolaris Marketing, along with myself and a number of engineers from the OpenSol

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
Joerg Schilling wrote: This looks as if you have a chance to get a kernel core dump. Did you check /var/crash/ for cores and use mdb to get the reason? Yes, I have (cores). But no clue (despite Google) how to do that reasonably. Could you point me to a useful link, please? Uwe _

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I'm not sure if the fan is managed or not. It takes some time to heat > the CPU up or cool it down and it's already running pretty fast without > load... You can try to run "dtrace -m tzmon" (enables all probes in the tzmon kernel module), maybe some of the acpi error probes (tzmon_set_power a

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Frequency transition now occurs during the thread switching if the > cmt_utilization > of the power active domain think it's necessary. > It's(event-mode) much more sensitive than before(poll-mode), even "kstat | > grep > current_clock_Hz" is possible to trigger a frequency transition. So, now,

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Uwe Dippel wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > This looks as if you have a chance to get a kernel core dump. > > > > Did you check /var/crash/ > > > > for cores and use mdb to get the reason? > > > > Yes, I have (cores). But no clue (despite Google) how to do that reasonably. > Could you p

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Didn't have this before, so I wonder if it has to > make with nv111? > Around once per day, the mouse pointer freezes (be it > in a terminal window or web browser), Kernel panic? > then the hard drive LED is 100% active, Kernel writing crash dump? > and after about 2-3 seconds > the machine r

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Uwe Dippel wrote: > Didn't have this before, so I wonder if it has to make with nv111? > Around once per day, the mouse pointer freezes (be it in a terminal window or > web browser), then the hard drive LED is 100% active, and after about 2-3 > seconds the machine reboots. > Since this has neve

[osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
Didn't have this before, so I wonder if it has to make with nv111? Around once per day, the mouse pointer freezes (be it in a terminal window or web browser), then the hard drive LED is 100% active, and after about 2-3 seconds the machine reboots. Since this has never happened before, I wonder if

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating snv_98

2009-04-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
> pkg set-authority -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev dev > pkg image-update I take this to mean that there are no longer any more bizzare "gotchas" in upgrading to the builds after snv_98 ? You know the kind of thing where if you forget to type in something like "pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/b

Re: [osol-discuss] Heat problem w/ Lenovo T60p

2009-04-12 Thread Aubrey Li
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Phillip Wagstrom -- Area Technical Engineer wrote: > Jürgen Keil wrote: >>> >>> I noticed a similar issue on my Tecra M5 when going from builds 109 to >>> builds 110 and 111.  powertop would say that the cpu would be running at >>> 1GHz but kstat would stay it was

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating snv_98

2009-04-12 Thread Orvar Korvar
pkg set-authority -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev dev pkg image-update -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Password Safe for OpenSolaris?

2009-04-12 Thread Nick
I have a substantial database of usernames/passwords in "Password Safe" format version 3 (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/index.shtml). Unfortunately, this app is Windows-only, and as I have no appetite to re-enter all the data into another file format, I have to run XP in VirtualBox in orde

Re: [osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
In situations like this, I always like to blame the hardware RAID card for any and everything that goes wrong (including slow performance), especially the cheap P.O.S. cards everyone is using nowadays like Adaptecs and Highpoint "Rocket" RAID cards (zoom! there went all your data!). Honestly,

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't find Solaris 10 desktop background wallpaper and application icon

2009-04-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
So you are using "Solaris 10" as your operating system and not Solaris Express or OpenSolaris 2008.11? Do you know the names of any of the missing files? If so maybe you could try finding them with a command that should looks something like this: find / -name missingwallpaperfile.png 2>/dev

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel panics during zfs send

2009-04-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I was trying to do a zfs send / receive of a zfs > dataset that had data errors. While doing so the > kernel panicked. But i removed the file that had the > error and scrubbed the dataset. This cleared the > error and zfs send/receive was successfull. > > Is this a bug?. Can i submit a bug repo