Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox not running without pfexec

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Travis Tabbal wrote: Firefox isn't working for me. It says it's starting up, then dies. No errors on the console when run from xterm. I even tried the latest from mozilla.com for OpenSolaris. Do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox not running without pfexec

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xscreensaver does not work for anyone, while no one else has yet been able to reproduce your scenario, which is why it was closed as not reproducible. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox not running without pfexec

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- it was supposed to happen by 2010.02, but may slip until the next release.) I'm sorry that it doesn't work for you, but you are not our only user, and I've got things that affect a far higher number of users to work on instead. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] 2-button simulating middle-click feature stops working mid-session?

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gets from the kernel - but that would presumably log a very large amount of data if you don't know when it happens. You could probably customize it down to just printing when fe-id == BUT(2). -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] b124: root window terminal

2009-10-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it to something else, perhaps /bin/ksh93? http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10499 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] b124: root window terminal

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
advanced search in order to find bugs marked as RESOLVED in upcoming builds): http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11673 I don't know what the workaround is for this one, perhaps someone else in desktop-discuss does. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] bizarre X windows behavior on snv_124

2009-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that disables use of the SIGIO signal handlers altogether until the kernel guys can fix the underlying register bug. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Has something changed with root logins [b 124]

2009-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of postings if the specific build isn't linked from the front page. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Solaris 10 Zones - specification available?

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/caselog/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/src/cmd/squid/METADATA says the right bug category is solaris/utility/squid - which would be via bugs.opensolaris.org, not defect. (You could file it in defect, but it wouldn't get fixed until copied to the internal bug database anyway.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/Mozilla desktop stack. For other packages, it's not so easy. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] How might I install perl 5.10.1 using pkg

2009-10-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/search.shtml?token=*perl510*action=Search -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request

2009-10-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
enough information,options and prudent requests from user.). http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ (reached by going to http://docs.sun.com/ choosing Operating Systems, then OpenSolaris) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
far with SXCE) For a machine with Expert3D graphics? Sun has no plans to ever produce an OpenSolaris version in which it supports that hardware - support for that may be provided by other distros, but that's up to them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris 10, a previous generation of the operating system. (OpenSolaris would report SunOS 5.11.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850/5770/5750 support

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of it being written, debugged, and released in a stable release upstream before our build 129 code freeze in three weeks are basically 0. We are planning to upgrade to the stable xf86-video-radeonhd 1.3 release around that time, but that's it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
video cards, and even a lot longer than some of Sun's older graphics drivers. I doubt you'll find any vendor who'll promise the video card you buy today will be supported in new OS versions coming out ten years from now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- it will depend much more on if they depend on any binary only modules or Linux-specific interfaces, and until they release the source or much more detail than that simple post, it's hard to guess if it will be possible to port or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are: 1) bugs.opensolaris.org 2) going via Sun Service, if you have a service contract 3) find a friendly Sun engineer and ask nicely, beg, plead or offer to trade frosty beverages in exchange for filing them on your behalf -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
bugster bug reports, there's been little incentive to fix those issues. The few groups using bugster don't use tools like WebRTI and have set up more fine grained subcategories to allow efficiently getting notice to the engineers involved with an area.) -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the compiler du jour for nightly ? or compiler du nuit ?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to the ON gatekeepers to fix, so lets see what happens if we cc on-discuss so they actually see the message. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
) and Xsun, installable on OpenSolaris Sparc. The binary package of the drivers is available on opensolaris.org. As already noted, we cannot make the current Xsun available for separate download due to other license issues in Xsun itself. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and professionals need a SPARC workstation. But every workstation offered for sale on Ebay is a sign that someone else no longer needs one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic card

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
upstream or OpenSolaris. I don't know how many of those are still relevant in the current Xorg server. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
they wouldn't be subject to such laws. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the fb devices to it, once there's a build out there with that feature in. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is submitted. For instance, while I've volunteered to work on the code release, once that's done, I won't be leading this project or probably doing much more than answering questions and giving advice. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: The name FullyOpenX was once invented by Alan Coopersmith. I am admittedly guilty of chosing names based on being able to reduce them to abbreviations or acronyms that amuse me (FOX and X-cons), but that's not a requirement for anyone else to follow. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/view_bug.do?bug_id=6894600 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 on X61 unusable

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
with enough detail to reproduce, not e-mails to opensolaris-discuss. (For instance, X61 is a bit unclear - are you referring to a Thinkpad laptop model or some other device?) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 on X61 unusable

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: I have the impression that since about a year, when the transition to the new X server happened, many bugs have been introduced but never fixed. I'm not sure what you're talking about

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 in VirtualBox

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
? Thanks. Did you reinstall the guest additions from the 3.0.10 Virtual Box guest additions iso? Changes in both the OS VirtualBox require the guest additions to be updated from previous versions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 in VirtualBox

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
may try? Thanks. Did you reinstall the guest additions from the 3.0.10 Virtual Box guest additions iso? Changes in both the OS VirtualBox require the guest additions to be updated from previous versions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- Thanks Alan. I always installed GA after the first boot

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards

2009-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, leg

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a Matrox G550 chipset. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, leg

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/netbeans/bin/netbeans /bin/bash: : No such file or directory

2009-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is not found. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix for Dummies

2009-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
man -s 3c printf - see man man and man intro for more info. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Legacy GRUB v GRUB2

2009-11-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
shipping in a Sun project to make sure we don't have any conflicts with existing patent licenses, since Sun has so many existing patent licenses/cross-licenses with other companies.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?

2009-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?

2009-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
they stay up to date. This should improve as the consolidations start being converted to generate the IPS packages directly, and they can then set the versions themselves when creating the packages. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Bootable Sparc DVD?

2009-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ken Mandelberg wrote: Haven't heard any more. Can anyone confirm that OpenSolaris does not now (or will not in a future release) support the XVR100 on a Sparc SunBlade 1500? OpenSolaris 2009.06 and /dev include XVR-100 support. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and several projects (like IPS) - not on the status of the contributor. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] how to use SUNWnetcat to capture network traffic?

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
list. al...@also:/export/alanc/hg/7.5-merge [7:49am - 276] pkg search nc.1 INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE basename file usr/share/man/man1/nc.1 pkg:/sunw...@0.5.11-0.123 [] -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] SVN_128 Inline Data De-duplication

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
as the reason SXCE was being skipped (since it wasn't respun), and the respins pushing the work into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the US. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- is there something more you need to know? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be remembering poorly.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ?

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Che Kristo wrote: The next release is 2010.02 which you can expect towards the end of February if all goes to plan. That should say 2010.03 in March. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ?

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Yes, the schedule was changed a couple months ago. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Che Kristo wrote: Aha...I see we have shifted it back On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:02, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] Expecting NVDAgraphics v190.42 soon??

2009-12-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. 129 should be a bit before that. The Xorg 7.5/Xserver 1.7.3 update will come after that AFAIK. It integrated to 130. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-t gdm' - restart them with 'svcadm enable gdm'. If you upgrade to a development build, then you'll be able to enable virtual console switching between X text consoles. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] BFU to b128a

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it may take up to 24 hours for your bug to become visible on the web site. When it is, it should appear at: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6908102 Sun employees can view it right away in the internal database though. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Expecting NVDAgraphics v190.42 soon??

2009-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Masafumi Ohta wrote: Hi Alan, I filed my report to bugzilla 12196 - need to add pci10de,6f1,so are you going to add it to driver lists? That question needs to be addressed to John, not me - I can't change what devices the nvidia driver binds to - only John or Nvidia can. -- -Alan

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

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
pkgadd command being used to install the System V packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

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

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
release in which all the content is scrutinized and sanitized.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

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

2009-12-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
your time on dealing with the things that are known not to be part of the next Solaris enterprise release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] When will AMD PowerNow be supported on processors families 15hex and below?

2009-12-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jensen Lee wrote: Is anyone taking any interest in OpenSolaris' power management and carbon emissions? The engineers working on the Power Management project are, but they're off in pm-discuss, away from all the noxious emissions of this mailing list. -- -Alan Coopersmith

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

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
already committed to sh as a scripting language available on the miniroot? (Just taking your argument to its logical conclusion - I'm a heavy perl user myself, so think both perl python have their place in the core OS.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

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

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
isn't going to help. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Volker A. Brandt wrote: Alan Coopersmith writes: Volker A. Brandt wrote: However, there is also the fact that Sun had already committed to a scripting language, Perl. There was a statement that Perl was a core part of Solaris and would always be present on the miniroot. (I am not saying

Re: [osol-discuss] OSOL SNV_130: You've come a long way, baby...

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and smaller things, but no more major upgrades or projects until after 2010.03 for most of the OS. (Things like IPS outside the main consolidations operate on different schedules, and have a later freeze.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems

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

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: BTW: RFE 5007466 was closed, does this mean that star is now included in Solaris? No, according to the bug database, it was closed due to lack of interest, since no one from the community

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

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
this need - I'm sure Joerg will appreciate your help on the work required for the integration. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

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

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: No we won't, because this is costing money. Where can I send the bill, please? To the customers who are paying you for new versions. Isn't that where you'd send the bill for adding support for other new features in new OS releases? -- -Alan Coopersmith

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

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
worthwhile, and only likely to delay adding actually needed features. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

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

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg scripts are evil :-) (was Some Why?-Questions)

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of documentation examples. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, then the spec file for star just calls /usr/bin/smake, provided you listed it in BuildRequires. If you install in another path, adjust appropriately. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are still provided for installing existing SVR4 packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] http://wiki.genunix.org down?

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Halton Huo wrote: I can not access http://wiki.genunix.org for several days, anybody know what happens? See the notice in the first news item on http://www.genunix.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

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

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of providing compatibility.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OS 2009.06 - b129 update: broken gnome terminal and xterm

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to the description for: 12380 image-update loses /dev/ptmx from /etc/minor_perm for more information and instructions to fix. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: The question would be how to call a just compiled smake later in the autmated build process from another package. If your spec file for smake installs it as /usr/bin/smake, then the spec file for star just calls /usr

Re: [osol-discuss] Invisible Gnome-Terminal Problem

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and it's fixed version of the pkg command, further upgrades should not lose the entry from minor_perm, but if it was lost before you got there, you may still have it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris update policy

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
escalated or support deems critical to include. You can see the current lists of available updates at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=opensolaris -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris update policy

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
how the web form works. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with svc:/system/intrd:default on b 129

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
numbers are in the bug database found at bugs.opensolaris.org. The separate bug database at defect.opensolaris.org is only up to 5 digit bug ids so far. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6907454 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] X hangs on snv130

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X hangs on snv130

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in the opensolaris-discuss thread with more information: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=120664tstart=0 -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Daniel Rock wrote: Hello, after upgrading to snv130

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2009-12-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
them put back in. install-discuss and/or indiana-discuss would be the place to ask about what's on or off the LiveCD. The list is changing build to build as work is done, so that would be where discussions about adding things back may be most productive. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2009-12-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for a while). As Shawn already explained, that's not the way the OpenSolaris LiveCD works. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
holiday break from Dec. 25 - Jan. 1, so all this week.) 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
as the bleeding edge Indiana version was. If they skipped snv_130 it might save you the wasted time and effort of using live upgrade to upgrade in to a buggy system. Skipping 130 won't give you SXCE 131, it would just end the SXCE line at 129 instead. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be possible to build SXCE anymore, since they're not planning on maintaining two sets of packaging metadata in the ON gate. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in snv_118. Xnest hasn't really been maintained in years, and is missing support for many of the newer extensions required by modern desktops, which is why we choose to EOL it in favor of the newer and more capable Xephyr, built from the current Xorg sources. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] X problem fixed in build 131? (bug 13598)

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and is being built and tested now, not really, unless someone else reported it and it was already fixed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Change Logs (or something similar) for dev releases?

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, internally you can see the RTC's filed for each build, which lists all the bugster bug ids for the consolidations that use it, but that's only helpful for people with access behind the Sun firewalls. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug 6695198 regarding the Intel SS4200

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
connection to an Intel SS4200 if this might help fix this bug... I've cc'ed the engineer who added that comment to the bug so that he can connect with you to debug further. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

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

2010-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
no longer needed. That other people used it for other reasons is unfortunate, but has never been part of the SXCE goals. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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

2010-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
release of Solaris than SXCE is - it at least uses the same packaging system and installer that the next release of Solaris will use, and no longer includes many of the EOL components that Sun has said won't be in future Solaris releases. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris SXCE compile IPS for osol and problems with pkg command

2010-01-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ended this month, so for new installs you really want OpenSolaris now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

[osol-discuss] Nevada: What's going, what's staying, what's changing, what's not

2010-01-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are next in line after ON, and have been working with Liane the ON/IPS team on planning for our changeovers. I hope this helps with confusion people have had - if not, try asking your questions on the appropriate OpenSolaris.Org mailing list or web forum. -Alan Coopersmith

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

2010-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13946 but that's really a request for a project, not a bug that can be simply fixed, so it probably will go nowhere (especially since it's filed in the bug database that the kernel team doesn't pay attention to). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] When will osol-131 be published ?

2010-01-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- pkgfactory packages go into the /contrib repo, not /dev, so that's unrelated. (And since 130 was the last build for big new projects to deliver for the 2010.03 release, you should expect to see fewer new packages in /dev updates between now and 2010.03.) -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] zones in b131 and bug 6912829

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bruno Damour wrote: The bug is still unavailable ? It's flagged as a security-sensitive bug so will not be published outside Sun. I would have contributed the workaround, but... ...you can't edit bugs from outside Sun anyway, even if you can see them. -- -Alan Coopersmith

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