Re: [osol-discuss] smbd fails because libavahi-core.so.6 is missing

2011-03-07 Thread david . comay
[ Mar 5 23:16:15 Executing start method (/usr/sbin/smbd -D). ] ld.so.1: smbd: fatal: libavahi-core.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory You're running into a newly introduced issue 7023783 Samba goes to maintenance on 159 due to missing libavahi-core.so.6 I expect this will be

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express and xvm

2010-11-16 Thread david . comay
Does that mean that xvm is supported to use solaris 11 express as Dom0 ? Yes, the xVM packages are still present in 2010.11 although there are known issues with them. And though the packages are there and I can't speak to the dom0 roadmap, I should point out the following approved ARC case

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug 6932552: B134 Splashscreen crasch Kernel must be fixed for 2010.3

2010-03-27 Thread David . Comay
It sounds like you may be running into 6914346 which is documented in the release notes: 6914346 upgrade from OpenSolaris 2009.06 (111b2) to 130 fails with stale http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6914346 After updating to build 130 or beyond, the system may

Re: [osol-discuss] Still cannot use package manager to install packages or updates

2010-03-11 Thread David . Comay
Your question is probably better asked on the mailing list dedicated to IPS at least until the issue is root caused. I've cc'ed that list and Bcc'ed opensolaris-discuss. I have tried on both b133 and b134 to install Sun Studio 12u1, Netbeans, Openoffice, and to do a system update. I am using a

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b134 Genunix site iso failing boot

2010-03-10 Thread David . Comay
You may be running into the following issue 6932552 early calls to cv_reltimedwait() are even less safe post 6919691 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6932552 The work-around is to boot with the GRUB splashimage, foreground and background lines deleted and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-22 Thread David . Comay
I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on. Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for a laptop. Are you certain it's actually frozen or just being *very* slow? If you

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-13 Thread David . Comay
129: Xen manager did not even start 130: could not even see the screen as it was all dark white I hope that build 131 will come soon and run smoothly like 128a. Although I believe both of these issues have been resolved, did you examine http://defect.opensolaris.org and/or

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-10 Thread David . Comay
OpenSolaris, at least according to David Comay Co., is going for Linux / GNU crowd directly, hence the forced-at-all-and-any-cost replacement of System V utilities to GNU userland Actually, that's never been stated as a goal in any form. What has been said is there is a large community

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris snv_118 does not boot as guest in Virtual Box 3.0.2

2009-07-14 Thread David . Comay
While running OpenSolaris snv_116 I did an upgrade which created a new BE running OS snv_118. I restarted OS and chose OS snv_118 to boot. What I see is the OS boot screen with the progress bar moving and it has been doing that for about an hour. Has anyone had success with this? A reminder

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris development package repository build 111a, x86/x64/SPARC

2009-04-25 Thread David . Comay
Other known issues in this repository update 6811922 PCIE init err info failed BDF 0x0 on snv_109 (Ultra 20 M2) I asked about this before but never got a complete answer. Let's try again... I have an Ultra 20, not an Ultra 20 M2, does that mean

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-02-09 Thread David . Comay
[ I've moved opensolaris-discuss to the Bcc ] The utilities in question do not support Linux specific features. Why do you believe you will be able to feed back such enhancements for Solaris to the upstream? Is it your personal experience that this is the case or can you point to mail

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread David . Comay
What is the strategy to fix the utilities? Will the GNU utilities be modified to be supersets of their Solaris counterparts? What is the strategy for the cases where the default behavior is different between the Solaris version and the GNU version (and/or when the GNU version is non-POSIX by

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-15 Thread David . Comay
It would be better to go with the ATT AST tools (http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/). AST supports many of the BSD and GNU command line options missing in the native Solaris userland and conform to POSIX. If those tools are truly compatible with the GNU variants and track feature

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-14 Thread David . Comay
i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages comparing to solaris chmod? It's very annoying when using ACLs. The default environment at the moment is to prefer the GNU tools as that is the more familiar environment for most developers and end-users; over time, the plan is

Re: [osol-discuss] Error when installing OpenSolaris 2008.5 as Xen DomU

2008-08-06 Thread David . Comay
I'm using the GUI guest OS installer in virt-manager. Here is my setup for the VM: I believe there are changes to virt-manager(1) and/or virt-install(1M) that are required to support 2008.05 as a PV guest. I would suggest sending your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the xVM team know what

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris200805 can not boot up after SUNWiwi installation

2008-08-06 Thread David . Comay
Same for me after installing package SUNWtoo, and the fact that they have removed the failsafe from the 05/08 version makes this one hell of a disaster. Before trying to install SUNWtoo, did you follow the steps documented at the front of the release notes (labeled Important Package Update

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-25 Thread David . Comay
[ Removed opensolaris-discuss from the Cc and Bcc'ed advocacy-discuss and opensolaris-discuss. Folks, can we try to exercise some basic email etiquette here? ] Sigh. We have made no statements about compatibility with anything, either past or future, in the preview releases. It's an

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-22 Thread David . Comay
It is when you consider that pcn does not work and the ae driver does. As Alan mentioned, a number of folks have been looking into ae. One issue that several folks identified (at least on the Indiana prototype) is that ae seemed to lock up on bulk transfers while the pcn driver did not:

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread David . Comay
[ Bcc'ing advocacy-discuss and opensolaris-discuss to reduce cross-posting ] Peter, It would help a lot if the aims of this project were clearly explained and enunciated, because I for one haven't a clue what they are, and the more I think about it and look at what has been announced and

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-01-30 Thread David . Comay
Can you provide some details on why you think Indiana is or will be any less standard's compliant than SXCE is? It may very well turn out that it may be less compliant but that hasn't occurred yet and so I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. If Indiana is/becomes a (too)

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-01-29 Thread David . Comay
Not everyone agrees with you on this. It is my understanding that SXCE releases will continue, and until such time as standards compliancy is actually considered a goal of Indiana, it is of little interest. Frankly, if forced to discontinue my reliance on SXCE, I will likely go to ShilliX, as

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana review

2007-12-03 Thread David Comay
The unthinkable has happened: SunOS backwards compatibility has been broken. First of all, you're talking about a prototype and nothing more. Such an artifact is similar to the BFU archives available from many projects on opensolaris.org and the ISO represents the (initial) output of a project.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-31 Thread David . Comay
So, I gave Solaris 10 (11/06) a shot. Solaris barfed all over me; like a girlfriend you love but who just can't get it together, it wouldn't get past the initial display probe and gave me an unintelligible (read bank) GUI screen. So it was a text based install, which I don't mind, as with

[osol-discuss] Re: no CDDL on /bin/which

2007-04-16 Thread David Comay
For example knowing that libreadline is under the GPL rather than the LGPL or CDDL would be good information, particularly since libtecla is available as an alternative set of functionality. One idea some of us have thrown around is to provide a command to provide this information given a

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread David . Comay
Stefan, 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. Valid arguments have been made pro, and against this approach, with the suggestion that Apache 2.2.4 installs in /usr/apache2.2, thereby preserving the

Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread David . Comay
These ARC cases are for integration to Solaris, so /opt is inappropriate, and /usr is correct. Oh in that case, I agree. *Provided* that the CoolStack stuff will replace the current stuff on the Solaris distribution media. Just for clarification, the integration that Stefan is working on

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: NFS Server in Local Zones

2007-03-08 Thread David Comay
+1 A nit however, there are no such things as local zones. :-) The proper name is non-global zones. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: telnetd exploit

2007-02-13 Thread David Comay
The issue was introduced during the development of Solaris 10 and not via OpenSolaris. It's present in all Solaris 10 releases (although thanks to Secure by Default in Solaris 10 11/06, the port in question is disabled by default in the current version). A reminder that official patches are

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-10 Thread David Comay
+1 dsc This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Chroot users to their home directory

2007-02-06 Thread David Comay
Ryan, You might try asking directly on security-discuss as that's where the SSH minded folks hang out. dsc This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-29 Thread David Comay
The Atheros NIC is supported by Nevada's bundled ath driver but there are a few chipsets that are affected by a href=http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6472427; 6472427/a which causes a hard hang when the driver attaches. It appears that the AR5005G may be one of the

[osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-29 Thread David Comay
By the way, you might be able to boot up Belenix's LiveCD by including the option -B disable-ath=true on the GRUB multiboot line. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zones-discuss] memory resource capping for zones

2006-10-25 Thread David . Comay
Yes, it is. Both the ability to cap physical memory (memory sets) as well as the ability to cap virtual memory (swap sets). Will it be available in sol 10 next release as well ? No, not in the upcoming Solaris 10 update release. These particular features are not yet in Solaris Express,

[osol-discuss] Re: Netgear FA311 NIC @ CompUSA

2006-09-08 Thread David Comay
Have you considered requesting such support via http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa Having such requests for enhancements let the community know about the missing functionality and provides a way to track its progress (at the moment, modulo any issues with bugs.opensolaris.org!) Please

[osol-discuss] Re: Can I finally re-distribute /usr/lib/libC* ?

2006-09-07 Thread David Comay
I don't know the answer about redistributing libC* but have you brought up the DLJ question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the appropriate forum http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=94 I'll make some inqueries myself but the DLJ folks might know the answer and certainly would want to know

[osol-discuss] Re: The system scheduler parameter setting issue under non-global zone

2006-08-22 Thread David Comay
Starting with Solaris Express 5/06 (as well as the upcoming Solaris 10 update), you can assign extra privileges to a zone using the limitpriv property. In your particular example, you would perform the following for a zone named myzone # zonecfg -z myzone zonecfg:myzone set

[osol-discuss] Re: Busted fonts fixed in b45?

2006-08-22 Thread David Comay
I believe the issue is resolved in snv_48. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: The system scheduler parameter setting issueunder non-global zone

2006-08-22 Thread David Comay
emm Solaris Exress 5/06? That's the *next* release of Solaris currently under development which will follow Solaris 10. It's codenamed Nevada. I remember the version of my solaris10 is 6/06 (it should not be an Express, just a formal release) just like following: bash-3.00# uname -a

[osol-discuss] Re: Can Anyone help me please?

2006-08-21 Thread David Comay
http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Busted fonts fixed in b45?

2006-08-18 Thread David Comay
Sorry, that should be copy /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/fonts.alias.all over to /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/fonts.alias This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Fonts borked on build 44?

2006-08-04 Thread David Comay
This is a known issue and is being tracked as 6445132 CDE stopped using the correct system interface fonts This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: strange package dependentie

2006-07-19 Thread David Comay
This issue is currently being tracked under 6419446 RFE: zoneadm should dlopen libzfs.so to avoid patch accumulation problems But note that you're not required to use ZFS with zones - you just need, at this time, the relevant ZFS packages installed. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Marking packages for global zone only

2006-07-16 Thread David Comay
There isn't a way at this time to change a package's status after it's been installed. Please feel free to file a RFE at bugs.opensolaris.org as this ability might be useful. As a workaround, I believe you can pkgrm(1M) the existing package and then pkgadd(1M) it again, this time specifying the

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device Naming (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread David Comay
One of the rare things I like in Linux, is how Linux solved this: regardless of the networking HW, all interfaces are named eth[0-N], for example eth0, eth1, ... , ethN. Perhaps this would be a solution to consider? There can still be bge0, and iprb0, iprb1 or ce0 in the system, but they

[osol-discuss] Re: Obsolete Solaris kernel parameters

2006-06-01 Thread David Comay
To be particular, if I have a Solaris kernel tunable pertinent to Oracle on Solaris 8, what do I do with this tunable on Solaris 10 when the tunable is marked as obsolete? You would set (if required) a corresponding resource control. For more details, see the following chapter from the

[osol-discuss] Re: Error during whole root zone boot

2006-05-09 Thread David Comay
Could you make the complete install_log file available somewhere for us to peruse? I suspect the details there might shed light on what happened with the installation. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-03 Thread David Comay
Unfortunately, I can't speak to a date but the work is well underway. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-02 Thread David Comay
No, this functionality is not yet available in Solaris Express. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

2006-04-23 Thread David Comay
This is one place where he might have a half valid point. There should be some better mechanism to patch a zone without having to bring it up. There Agreed which is why in Solaris 10 1/06 it doesn't actually boot the zone if it's not running - instead, it mounts the zone's file systems and

[osol-discuss] Re: [zones-discuss] Zones: Some Observations

2006-03-18 Thread David Comay
One more clarification, do we have a plan to introduce a layer or a kernel module in uts to leverage underline HW capabilities for resource management and allocation per processor usage. Specifically, due to the maturity of the cores, and core afiliation and evolution of CMT on Solaris

[osol-discuss] Re: Slides for SVOSUG....

2006-03-13 Thread David Comay
Many, if not all, of the presentations are available here https://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris/OpenSolaris architecture description

2006-03-10 Thread David Comay
In addition to the Solaris Internals book, please also review the proposed OpenSolaris Development Process draft http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/os_dev_process/ which describes in some detail a set of high-level design principles for the project. This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Re: Code gates

2006-03-06 Thread David Comay
The build infrastructure is fairly straighforward. What's not straightforward, is the development process. OpenSolaris process is based on the Solaris process, you can read about it here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/os_dev_process/ Just a minor clarification - although

[osol-discuss] Re: [zones-discuss] memory resource capping for zones

2006-03-06 Thread David . Comay
As yet, Solaris is unable to cap the memory usage of a zone as an container, only the individual projects/tasks/users from within the zone. That's correct. Is the above facility upcoming? Yes, it is. Both the ability to cap physical memory (memory sets) as well as the ability to cap

[osol-discuss] Re: Zones system + library calls

2006-02-13 Thread David Comay
Here are a couple of resources which go into this http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/comay/zones-opensolaris.pdf (slides 30 through 32) http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/application_in_zone.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Interface Stability and OpenSolaris (was process)

2005-07-25 Thread David . Comay
So, this all begs the question, why isn't Sun making more of an effort to define a workable OpenSolaris process for interface review. There should be something on the http://www.opensolaris.org/ website addressing this topic, even if it just says We are working on figuring it out. Here are the