Re: [osol-discuss] Re: build 27a on x86 : panic at boot

2005-11-21 Thread Mac
Benjamin Brumaire wrote: same here on my wz1100. Is this a new occurence of 6294769? For info I found this thread which is pretty close http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=4174#4174 bbr Could it be related to this? http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/84

[osol-discuss] Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 released

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Ross
Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 is now available for download at: http://www.gnusolaris.org This release contains 6 ISO images: LiveCD, InstallCD, and 4 SourceCDs. Features: * OpenSolaris kernel build #27 (non-debug). * Xorg 6.8.2-77, substantially revamped and fixed to auto-detect hardware

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 released

2005-11-21 Thread Shanon Loveridge
Alex, I just tried to do a dist-upgrade from pre-alpha1 and it failed on sunwcsd. It looks like it is trying to remove and recreate devices, which is failing. Is dist-upgrade meant to be supported yet do we need to reinstall. ShanonOn 11/21/05, Alex Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nexenta OS

[osol-discuss] Re: build 27a on x86 : panic at boot

2005-11-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
diskread: reading beyond end of ramdisk start = 0x2000, size = 0x2000 failed to read superblock I believe this is a new bug, introduced by the fix for: 6344611 create_ramdisk needs to react less poorly to missing files or directories.

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Monday 21 November 2005 06:07, Ian Collins wrote: Matt Ingenthron wrote: Robert Lunnon wrote: I want to stir the pot a bit and ask whether Solaris's practise of locking the manual cd open is really necessary when read-only media in mounted. Why not allow a manual eject and just

Re: [Security-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] how to crypt a folder?

2005-11-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 17:13, Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We currently have an encrypt(1) command that works on individual files. We have encryption support for lofi(7d) - the block driver - working and hope to release it to OpenSolaris site soon.

[osol-discuss] Re: HP Compaq DL380s, DL580 CCISS drivers oh my!

2005-11-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
Today I dl'ed the x86 version and tried it out on the Dl380 G2 and when it boot the first CD, it hung shortly after the Grub menu. Try to boot the kernel with moddebug set to 8000, so that we can get an idea in which part of the kernel / which kernel module it is hanging. For setting

Re: [osol-discuss] OKay .. I guess this is the way you want it ..

2005-11-21 Thread Frank Hofmann - Solaris Sustaining
[ ... ] File Systems for Auto-layout [X] / [ ] /opt [ ] /usr [ ] /usr/openwin [ ] /var [X] swap This feels wrong and maybe I'll

Re: [osol-discuss] Urgent help requested...system boots with errors after BFUing to 27

2005-11-21 Thread James Carlson
Will Hayworth writes: After which it asked for my root password to get into maintenance mode, which I provided. One of the prompts had recommended that I run fsck, so I did, answering yes to every prompt, hoping that it would be smart (forgive the inherent ignorance in this). But after

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My users don't use the command line, they are fugitives from windows. They have common problems with the cdrom refusing to eject. It's hard to explain to a windows exile that the cd wont eject because there Might be a file open on it. In some other

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Ché Kristo
Going by the Nevada schedule build 28 should come approx. 2 weeks after build 27. nv27 hit the sdlc november 16, i'll leave the difficult calculations up to you ;) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Frank Hofmann - Solaris Sustaining
[ ... ] Before MS Win did start to support this, it was the agreeed behavior: - Apple _and_ Sun did have a Floppy drive _without_ eject button. - CD-ROM drives did just copy this idea and allowed to make the eject button to diasppear (being hidden). If you run a command

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Robert Lunnon wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:07, Ian Collins wrote: Matt Ingenthron wrote: [snipped...] Agreed, but I think we do need better disaster recover with CD drives. Ian My users don't use the command line, they are fugitives from windows. They have common

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:42:52PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: This practice is used since 1988 and before Microsoft and Linux did something else, nobody complained. Linux doesn't allow to eject a CD in use. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:42:52PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: This practice is used since 1988 and before Microsoft and Linux did something else, nobody complained. It does. Just try a latest 2.6 kernel which has subfs. I works on SuSE 9.3. Regards,

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:36:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: This practice is used since 1988 and before Microsoft and Linux did something else, nobody complained. It does. Just try a latest 2.6 kernel which has subfs. I works on SuSE 9.3. Then the suse folks patched your kernel.

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:36:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: This practice is used since 1988 and before Microsoft and Linux did something else, nobody complained. It does. Just try a latest 2.6 kernel which has subfs. I works on SuSE 9.3.

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:36:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: It does. Just try a latest 2.6 kernel which has subfs. There's no subfs in a latest 2.6 kernel. I looked up what subfs is, and it's a stackable filesystem that is mounted to a mount pointed at boot time, and then mounts an

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
ok, thanks. stefan This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:36:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: It does. Just try a latest 2.6 kernel which has subfs. There's no subfs in a latest 2.6 kernel. I looked up what subfs is, and it's a stackable filesystem that is mounted to a mount pointed at

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Patrick Mauritz
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware, etc...all build their own userland. GNU/OpenSolaris does the same in it's own way. this is why I built my own

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Frank Hofmann - Solaris Sustaining
To do the auto-unmount on eject for Solaris would require changes to vold (See the other post by Frank Hoffman). But as you say unmount on unuse looks odd. Rather it should be unmount (if possible) on eject. For HSFS it's of no special consequence. For filesystems that _write_

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Stefan Parvu wrote: Hey, Any ideas when build28 should be out ? This week ? Well, today's the deadline for us to integrate our packages into the build dock so they can start the build, but Thursday and Friday are holidays in the US, and many people are taking off early, so this one may take a

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 released 2005-11-18 mini-review

2005-11-21 Thread Erast Benson
Good review. Thanks ken! One little thing, Nexenta Alpha 1 comes with non-debug kernel which makes Nexenta perfect platform for performance investigations. Erast On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 09:06 -0800, ken mays wrote: ref: http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_Started Nexenta OS (elatte)

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Lau
Stefan Parvu wrote: Hey, Any ideas when build28 should be out ? This week ? Thanks, Stefan This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org nope. i haven't even started yet. build 28

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread sparvu
Well, today's the deadline for us to integrate our packages into the build dock so they can start the build, but Thursday and Friday are holidays in the US, and many people are taking off early, so this one may take a couple days longer to get out the door. No worries, you guys have

Re: [osol-discuss] App porting forum?

2005-11-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Erast Benson wrote: Alfredo, One of the goals of GNU/OpenSolaris project is to track all changes and bugs progress on porting/enhancing OSS projects... Erast, What would be _really_ cool would be to have a two-way flow between the Nexenta system and the JDS/pkgbuild one.

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 released 2005-11-18 mini-review

2005-11-21 Thread ken mays
Just a small update: After updating the Compaq Presario S5000V test machine to 512MB of RAM, this instantly fixed my loading problems with the latest Nexenta OS with zero major issues. The entire OS loaded from start to 'finish' within 10-15 minutes. A quick note on things I've noticed: GNOME

[osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.3 ready

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ New software: Using Build 27a with zfs support. All needed libs now fully support 32 and 64 bit versions. - screen-4.0.2 - findutils-4.2.25 - cpp - samba-3.0.14a - lynx2-8-5 - zsh-4.2 - nail-11.22 - mutt-1.5.9 -

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ioctl SIOCGENADDR returns ENOENT

2005-11-21 Thread James Carlson
Shao Wu writes: What's RFE? Request For Enhancement We subdivide Change Requests (CRs) into bugs (cases where the system does not work as it's been designed to) and RFEs (cases where the system doesn't do what's wanted). This is completely separate from priority. Things can have low or high

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [approach-discuss] Re: ioctl SIOCGENADDR returns ENOENT

2005-11-21 Thread James Carlson
Shao Wu writes: On the other hand, the ioctl is no more ugly than fishing the MAC from ARP. Right. Which you can already do with the existing ioctls. So, it's my suspicion that those asking for the feature either don't realize the limitations it'll have or don't care. I don't actually know

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Erast Benson wrote: Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types of OpenSolaris-based distros: a) GNU-centric, those who trying to re-use GNU/Linux as much as possible b) Solaris-centric, those who

Re: [osol-discuss] application porting forum?

2005-11-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Dan Price wrote: On Thu 03 Nov 2005 at 07:39AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Since I'm going to ask a question about some problems porting a particular app to [Open]Solaris (in another thread), it occurred to me: why not have a forum for that topic in general? The more apps run on

Re: [osol-discuss] application porting forum?

2005-11-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 23:46 -0800, Dan Price wrote: On Thu 03 Nov 2005 at 07:39AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Since I'm going to ask a question about some problems porting a particular app to [Open]Solaris (in another thread), it occurred to me: why not have a forum for that topic in

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
Joerg Schilling wrote: Besides, not being able to eject the CD with the eject button is counter-intuitive and in my book that just makes it plain wrong from a HMI design point of view. Before MS Win did start to support this, it was the agreeed behavior: - Apple _and_ Sun did

Re: [osol-discuss] App porting forum?

2005-11-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Alfredo Pe?a wrote: Hi, I remember some talk about the creation of a application porting discussion forum. I can't find that list in http://www.opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ Is there plans to have that list? Is it ok to send app port questions to opensolaris-discuss meanwhile? Posting

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Patrick Mauritz
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:08, Dennis Clarke wrote: A build system is being worked on that results in scripts and diffs being available also. good to know! As for not being open. Just join. You can shell account and look around. How closed is that? the just join part is what makes it closed.

Re: [osol-discuss] mounted CDROMs and door locking

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Monday 21 November 2005 22:28, Joerg Schilling wrote: Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My users don't use the command line, they are fugitives from windows. They have common problems with the cdrom refusing to eject. It's hard to explain to a windows exile that the cd wont eject

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 11/21/05, Patrick Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:08, Dennis Clarke wrote: A build system is being worked on that results in scripts and diffs being available also. good to know! As for not being open. Just join. You can shell account and look around. How

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware, etc...all build their own userland.

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 10:25 am, Eric Boutilier wrote: With this in mind, I'm thinking maybe SchilliX, Nexenta, and JDS won't suffer from the problem Alan sites above...? The key will be in getting the core libs into a common location. The more

[osol-discuss] Boot issues with prebuit OpenSolaris

2005-11-21 Thread Bruce Riddle
Is this the right place to discuss boot/install issues with the prebuilt distro's? Lots of trouble with snv_27a. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread John Weekley
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:23, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware,

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Dickel
does 28 integrate Xorg 6.9/7.0? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot issues with prebuit OpenSolaris

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bruce Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right place to discuss boot/install issues with the prebuilt distro's? Lots of trouble with snv_27a. I don't understand, I has no problems with SchilliX so far Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Robert Dickel wrote: does 28 integrate Xorg 6.9/7.0? 6.9 RC2 - I've updated the X changelogs to include the changes delivered in the packages we integrated today: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/changelogs/changelogs-nv_20/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 00:29 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot issues with prebuit OpenSolaris

2005-11-21 Thread Bruce Riddle
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bruce Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right place to discuss boot/install issues with the prebuilt distro's? Lots of trouble with snv_27a. I don't understand, I has no problems with SchilliX so far Well I haven't tried to install your distro,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread ken mays
I'd like to see any information of the QA testing of Xscreensaver 4.23 and Xorg 6.9 RC2. Has things stabilized? Ref: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6343352 ~Ken --- Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Dickel wrote: does 28 integrate Xorg 6.9/7.0?

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot issues with prebuit OpenSolaris

2005-11-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 21 November 2005 05:12 pm, Bruce Riddle wrote: Well I haven't tried to install your distro, on a particular machine. Right now I'm struggling with snv_27a, It appears similar problems with b24, on this same machine. Quite a few ACPI changes went in between 20-23, as I recall. Some

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: snv_b28 this week ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Xorg 6.9RC2 seems to be stable - QA found only one issue which was quickly fixed and included in this build. (Bug 6351399 listed in the changelog.) Xscreensaver 4.23 isn't ready for QA yet - at the moment I'm trying to figure out if I can get away with integrating the hacks (aka display modules)

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 11/21/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo,

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Stefan Teleman wrote: On 11/21/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped...] Right. But ultimately if we want to really work together, it would be nice if we had a common set of libraries that everyone could use, and so that we shouldn't have so many sets of libs floating around our

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Paul Gress
Erast Benson wrote: Also putting too much in OSOL LCD(OpenSolaris least common denominator) will break distribution's individuality. So, please lets be careful here. Then maybe there needs to be another distribution. Solaris LCD. Or maybe, when installing software, you would check for