Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-16 Thread Patrick Ale
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Peter Tribblepeter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Glenn Lagasseglenn.laga...@sun.com wrote: * casper@sun.com (casper@sun.com) wrote: And the pendulum has swung way too far. Ermm.. excuse my ignorance or gmail mangling up

[osol-discuss] vmware/prstat/mpstat question

2008-11-13 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, Quick question for you all. When I run mpstat/prstat/vmstat in a zone, is it actually outputting the statistics in regards of running queue, CPU usage and all of that particular zone only? I ask this cause I am trying to find out why one of our applications is behaving poorly but the

Re: [osol-discuss] unix file encryption

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick Ale
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Cj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to encrypt a flat file or a database file so it can be ftp or sftp to a remote windows system? this is for solaris/AIX etc. or is there a 3 party sw that can be used? PGP?

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation OpenSolaris and Windows vista

2008-09-24 Thread Patrick Ale
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Mark R. Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santiago Builes Palacio wrote: Hi, I tried to install OpenSolaris in a machine which has windows vista, but after about 65% of the installation that laptop restarts automatically without finishing the installation Any

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE95 extremely unstable on x64 laptop

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Ghee Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: Hi, I get random kernel panics when running SXCE 95 with the 64 bit kernel. The panics seem to have to do with reads/writes to disk. I can reproduce the panics every time I try to copy things from/to my

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE95 extremely unstable on x64 laptop

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I see a stacktrace of this please ? I have plenty, here goes the output of ::msgbuf in mdb :) unix.0 and vmcore.0: panic[cpu0]/thread=ff01d72e1b00: BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ff0008b0e0f0

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE95 extremely unstable on x64 laptop

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick Ale
Can I see a stacktrace of this please ? Thx, FrankH. And here is the ::stack output. I did my very best to reproduce the panics with the 32 bit kernel but no go (which is good for me I guess :P) unix.0 and vmcore.0 page_ctr_add_internal+0x11c(0, 3, ff0003bfffc8, 1)

[osol-discuss] SXCE95 extremely unstable on x64 laptop

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I get random kernel panics when running SXCE 95 with the 64 bit kernel. The panics seem to have to do with reads/writes to disk. I can reproduce the panics every time I try to copy things from/to my USB stick or when I insert my USB wifi stick which is driven by the SUNWrum driver (which

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE95 extremely unstable on x64 laptop

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Ale
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Orvar Korvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several problems with b95. The internet dies and it stops responding to my actions. etc. b93(?) was fine, and after that, everything gets worse and worse. I just found out the problems I mentioned are also

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave.org

2008-08-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were enough problems with how the stuff from blastwave/csw was packaged to make it distasteful to use, this simply puts the last nail in the coffin. For the most part I build everything from the source, for those that

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave.org

2008-08-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:48:08 +0200 Ah, the solaris community is just *full* of flashbacks. Chasing down and installing the dependencies for a package by hand? Something I thought I'd seen the last of in 1998. I am not

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Top Level Domain records

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll let whoever made those changes apologize to the user community for the inconvenience and disruption these changes have caused the OpenSolaris user communities. Doesn't it have to do with the message that's readable on

Re: [osol-discuss] Very poor performance BM5787

2008-05-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Compaq 6710b laptop with the BM5787 mobile gigabit network cad. All nevada builds give very poor performance, network wise. SCP sessions stall, sites take two minutes to open, etc. This seems solved

[osol-discuss] Very poor performance BM5787

2008-05-06 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I have a Compaq 6710b laptop with the BM5787 mobile gigabit network cad. All nevada builds give very poor performance, network wise. SCP sessions stall, sites take two minutes to open, etc. Under Solaris 10u4 I had the same problem with the bge driver, which I fixed by installing the BCME

[osol-discuss] IP: Device consumers prohibit offline(bge0)

2008-02-06 Thread Patrick Ale
Hello all, Any of you an idea what the following message means and why I see it every couple of seconds in my syslog? Feb 6 13:42:24 nlws481093 rcm_daemon[823]: [ID 988102 daemon.error] IP: Device consumers prohibit offline(bge0). This is on my HP/Compaq 6710b with the following Broadcom

Re: [osol-discuss] Any info on what holds b78 and b79 ?

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 20, 2007 2:27 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, An announcement should be updated accordingly if an change is made and not become 'buried' in the discussion forum since this is indeed an announcement of an delay. But that's my €0.09. We're all aware that there are no SLAs

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] STAR integration

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 20, 2007 9:09 PM, Neal Pollack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joep Vesseur wrote: Could you please explain this to Casper Dik? There is nothing to explain to Casper. He grasped the picture from second one. He even explained what was going on. Someone else was first to use /usr/bin/compare and

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 14, 2007 7:44 PM, Nicolas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that we can come up with such a method that will: a) allow OpenSolaris to evolve and grow, while b) preventing any conflicts with Linux distros (and *BSDs) that are also growing and evolving at different rates.

[osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi guys, I filed a bug last week, I got an email yesterday saying the bug has changed status to incomplete and if I could please give more information acording to the filled in fields by the engineer working on the bug. I'd love to do that but... how do I do this? I can't even find my bug back in

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 11, 2007 11:49 AM, Ché Kristo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was the bug filed through http://bugs.opensolaris.org/ or Bugzilla? Hi Ché , It was filed at bugs.opensolaris.org :) Patrick ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 11, 2007 2:04 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found four bugs that appear to be from you; none are in incomplete state. 6594586 root slice not within 1024 cylinders (SATA) 6628352 libexpat.so.1 is missing after BFU to nv_76 6628353 Make libraries reside in the

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 11, 2007 4:59 PM, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: Hi guys, Hi Alan! Well I know who's working on the case, it's Brian. I have his email address and he is helping me a lot a already, James gave me some pointers as well. Thank you all :) Patrick

Re: [osol-discuss] Sound problems in SXCE77?

2007-12-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 10, 2007 7:17 PM, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick: Note that for GNOME/GStreamer to work best with OSS, you need to rebuild the SUNWgnome-audio* and SUNWgnome-media* packages after installing the OSS packages. To do this you should use the CBE, which you can get from

Re: [osol-discuss] Sound problems in SXCE77?

2007-12-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 12/10/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick: This is a regression then, in my opinion. Prior to SXCE77 I never had to rebuild anything. [snip] Hi Brian :) As far as I can tell I am using the same OSS modules 4.00, but I am not sure about the minor release version so I'll

Re: [osol-discuss] Sound problems in SXCE77?

2007-12-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 12/10/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick: This is a regression then, in my opinion. Prior to SXCE77 I never had to rebuild anything. [snip] Hi Brian :) And again, hi :P So, checking out the repository

Re: [osol-discuss] GUI doesn't work

2007-12-08 Thread Patrick Ale
I didn't see it mentioned in this thread so I assume it wasn't done already. I filed a bug five minutes ago regarding my current experience with a clean SXCE76 build. Let's see what comes out ;-) Patrick I just downloaded SXCE77 and did a fresh install on the same laptop mentioned in

[osol-discuss] Sound problems in SXCE77?

2007-12-08 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi guys and girls, Just wondering, is anyone experiencing sound problems under SXCE77 where they didn't before? I have an Intel HDAUDIO chipset in my laptop. I installed the oss drivers from opensound.com (as I always do), osstest spews out sound but things like Rhythmbox or the volume control

Re: [osol-discuss] GUI doesn't work

2007-12-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 7, 2007 2:44 PM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or please guide me a right mailing list to ask. Let's make things even cooler and weirder shall we? Yesterday at NLOSUG we all got the SXCE 76 build on DVD (thanks for the cool evening by the way, I know for sure Casper is on this

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana review

2007-12-03 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 3, 2007 4:11 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but most shops wouldn't even know where to begin with ACLs, not to mention most shops don't even know they exist in UNIX. I happen to know about them and how to use them, but I'm a rare and dying breed these days. This is

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana review

2007-12-02 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 2, 2007 6:30 PM, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Broken, Broken, Broken, Broken, . . . . Now I know why I am so compellingly addicted to Solaris. Kudos Sun's management for their willingness to take such bold actions, undoubtedly accompanied by tons of well-oxidized midnight

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana review

2007-12-02 Thread Patrick Ale
On Dec 2, 2007 7:03 PM, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lalalalallaa Is Sun even sure it's self what will do what and what will replace what? I just get an email from somebody of this list saying Indiana will replace SXCE and will be the basis for Solaris 11. Which is ff-ing funny since

Re: [osol-discuss] Hot Plug sub-mirrors ?

2007-11-19 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 19, 2007 11:20 AM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if SVM is used, metadevices in question must be `metadetach`ed, and any meta databases on these metadevices destroyed - the metadevice(s) in question must not house /, /usr or swap on them - the controller must be capable of hot

Re: [osol-discuss] Hot Plug sub-mirrors ?

2007-11-19 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 19, 2007 11:50 AM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read it right there on the Solaris 10 manual page, the relevant excerpts which I quoted in my posts for reference. It says that in the man pages for both cfgadm_scsi(1M) and cfgadm_sata(1M). Perhaps it's a documentation bug,

Re: [osol-discuss] Hot Plug sub-mirrors ?

2007-11-19 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 19, 2007 11:56 AM, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 11:50 AM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read it right there on the Solaris 10 manual page, the relevant excerpts which I quoted in my posts for reference. It says that in the man pages for both

Re: [osol-discuss] Hot Plug sub-mirrors ?

2007-11-19 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 19, 2007 12:05 PM, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 11:56 AM, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 11:50 AM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read it right there on the Solaris 10 manual page, the relevant excerpts which I quoted in my

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave down?

2007-11-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 18, 2007 8:14 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ sni sna snappie ] Depending on your storage HW, you have to still run some sort of SCSI quiesce equivalent on the device you plan to hot remove and hot plug. As a funny coincidence I talked about this 'hotplug' saga with a Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Hot Plug sub-mirrors ?

2007-11-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 18, 2007 10:47 PM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of those oh I never knew that but wish I did topics so I figured I would make it into a thread and then see what we can learn from each other. I'll tell ya, I have had no fun with dealing with a machine that is

Re: [osol-discuss] Hot Plug sub-mirrors ?

2007-11-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On Nov 18, 2007 11:07 PM, Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sun's manuals actually say you must run cfgadm Which makes a very good point that 'habbits' vs reading manuals should be in favor of reading manuals. Something I admittedly don't do enough. Patrick

Re: [osol-discuss] Where to report compiling issues

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Ale
On 9/30/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you compile with any optimization switches? Nope, I used the same environmental file I use since compiling onnv_69, the only addition was __SSNEXT=; export __SSNEXT to get it compiling with Sun Studio 12. Patrick

[osol-discuss] Where to report compiling issues

2007-09-28 Thread Patrick Ale
Hey all, Trying to avoid another what to discuss here and not thread a quick and simple question: Where can I report problems/experiences regarding ONNV gate compiles? Thankies, Patrick ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Where to report compiling issues

2007-09-28 Thread Patrick Ale
On 9/28/07, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discuss list is valid for all OpenSolaris related topics. However, opensolaris-code might be best... Thanks Shawn, Okay so, to keep it short, simple and interesting for everybody here: DO *NOT* use Sun Studio 12 to compile onnv_74 , it's

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-20 Thread Patrick Ale
On 8/20/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed the default layout. Yes, to the point it breaks on any big disk when you use an x86 platform. I tried a 200GB ATA disk, and it told me the '/' slice extended beyond the first 1024

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-20 Thread Patrick Ale
Sorry, I forgot to check my filters, that should have been caiman-discuss only. I actually filed a bug yesterday :) Patrick ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-20 Thread Patrick Ale
On 8/20/07, Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can have the discussion here if that's what floats your boat, but you can also be certain that most of the people you'd like to have the discussion with will *not* be participating in it because they've got better things to do than wade

[osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Patrick Ale
Hey all, I just downloaded the DVD and CD version of SXCE70 and this is my experience so far: First of all, the new installer looks flashy and neat. I like the looks :D Then some things I bumped into during the installation. CD media: - Grub presents you the option to use the Developer's

Re: [osol-discuss] Compile errors during onnv-gate

2007-08-06 Thread Patrick Ale
and SXDE when 11 is what you're recommending? Take care and thanks for the answers, Patrick Ale WickedWicky ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: Sun Device Detection Tool 1.2 is released

2007-08-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 8/5/07, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I specify my $yourIP when operating as a dhcp client? Use the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1, simply add your hostname to the existing line in /etc/hosts, beginning with 127.0.0.1 (and ::1 for IPv6) Patrick Ale WickedWicky

[osol-discuss] Compile errors during onnv-gate

2007-08-05 Thread Patrick Ale
directory, and I think it's cause of the error shown in the mail_msg. Can someone give me a guide line as of what I am doing wrong or how I can fix it? I am trying to compile on an Athlon 2400XP+ with Sun Studio Pro 12, which is shipped by default with Nevada 69. Thanks in advance! Patrick Ale