Solaris x86 11/06 hung on Acer TravelMate 8210 Laptop

897 byte By ductuanona at 2007-11-27 0:24:05
I've just installed Solaris x86 11/06 on my Acer TravelMate 8210 laptop. The installation was completed successfully. However, when the system is rebooted into Solaris, it is always hung at: 揢se is subject to license terms.?This problem happens with both of the 32-bit and 64-bit kernel. While ...

Diff shows simple output like "File a and b differs"

407 byte By jinchurikia at 2007-11-27 0:24:40
Hi guysI am new to Solaris, i am using Solaris 9 9/05 s9s_u8wos_05 SPARC.In Linux diff, i have a switch --brief, the output will tell me with a single line whether the files differ. I do not need to know exactly which line differs.Can i do something like that with Solaris? I've check the man ...

Strange df -k output

245 byte By kdusta at 2007-11-27 0:25:29
This is a df -k output from a X4100 box. it looks odd/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s643295962 18446744073708199925 44214694 43036518168614% /var/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 is partition with 41GB space. The du -ks of /var/ is 423MBIs it a bug?

Problems patching up my system

859 byte By LeoRodriguesa at 2007-11-27 0:27:22
I have my Solaris 10 01/06 up and running on a P4 HT with 64 bit support.The kernel patch is 118844_26 (if I remind me well) and it runs smoothly.I use the update manager's gui to update the system and most of the patches are installed without any trouble.There are, however, some patches I am ...

display out of frequency

375 byte By cgkadesa at 2007-11-27 0:28:16
just installed solaris 10. I believe it's supposed to boot into the desktop invironment, however when it does, my monitor shuts off and displays the message "out of frequency" if this were a linux system i could edit the x11 settings. however this is obviously not linux, and i have no idea ...

srcconf -x 86400 -N node3 no response

2494 byte By yyea at 2007-11-27 0:28:45
Hi,I tried to install Sun cluster 3.2 on 3 Solaris 10 x86 (64-bit) servers, they are all Sun X4100. I installed OS patches and Sun cluster software on them, connected private interconnection, setup ssh public key, hosts file. When I run scinstall on node1, it go through all the menu, 'cluster ...

Sun Trunking on Solaris 10

198 byte By James_La at 2007-11-27 0:29:01
How do you install Sun Trunking package on Solaris 10? Is it on the Solaris 10 CD? Looks like the Sun Trunking 1.3 download is just an update. The default install did not install the package.

Over temperature

301 byte By sonylwca at 2007-11-27 0:29:04
Hi all, One of our V245's service light was on, when I checked the prtdiag, it showed that the OVERTEMP led is on.How can I check the current temperature on the MB?SUN CE suggested me to use command "showenvironments", but I never heard of this command ...

Still trying, still hoping...

1998 byte By 1dering_Ya at 2007-11-27 0:29:48
I have a somewhat frustrating problem, and I would appreciate your input.I have a 450MHx PIII system with an LG Super multi-drive, 512MB of ram, and 3 hard drives:The first is infested with Windows XP. The 1st (primary) partition is Win_Sys, the 2nd is a linux swap, and the 3rd is an extended ...

Solaris Express Developer x86 -- only 64-bit?

579 byte By kostya_bergera at 2007-11-27 0:31:42
Hi, people, glad to be back. Just downloaded Solaris Express Developer edition x86 and installed -- almost with no problems. It's a system with Intel Celeron D with 64-bit and Hyper Threading support, DDR2 1Gb.Now running Solaris I noticed it's a 64-bit version, not 32-bit, as I meant to ...

Installation aborded after booting from DVD

308 byte By Verdia at 2007-11-27 0:34:26
Hello, I am an absolutle newbie. I want to install Solaris 10 on a x86 plattform. After booting from DVD I get the installation menu. Selecting the the first point I get an error message like "APIC Error interrupt on CPU 0". What should I do? I cannot find any help on the web. Thanks for your ...

High utlization cpu and kernel

246 byte By cffrancoa at 2007-11-27 0:35:15
i have one machine SUN Fire V240, and I m have a problem the: high usage %kernel, in command TOP I see with my machine is 0.0 idle and 50% user, and 40-50% kernel utilization.exists a way to trace this?Thanks.Claudemir

Problems installing DST patch on Solaris 9 x86 server

905 byte By MOEa at 2007-11-27 0:37:57
Hi,I've been attempting to install the DST patch 116545.XX on my Sun Fire v40z server (running Solaris 9 x86) and I keep getting the following error message:This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture andversion of a package which is already installed. This installationwill ...

patches 119281-11 and 119253-18 fail to install

413 byte By _radmanly_a at 2007-11-27 0:39:09
Update Manager tries to install patches 119281-11 and 119253-18 but fails with this message:Utility used to install the update failed with exit code 990. The patch <patch id>makes the kernel unstable, is obsolete or is forbidden by policy.If these patches are unstable, obsolete, or ...

Panic BAD TRAP errors

1729 byte By floydmoh1a at 2007-11-27 0:43:59
I get the following messages in /var/adm/messages after a crash on one of my Sun E450's. Does anyone know how to diagnose this correctly?Apr 10 08:18:54 upgserver unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice]Apr 10 08:18:54 upgserver ^Mpanic[cpu3]/thread=30001baba60:Apr 10 08:18:54 upgserver unix: [ID 799565 ...

Ping Setup

217 byte By ledzepa at 2007-11-27 0:44:46
Hi All-If I required to have an application program try to send a ping to an IP using sockets etc, what all need to be setup for this in Solaris 10 x86 box. I would appreciate your inputs. Regards

Help me in installing Solaris Express, Developer Edition X86

481 byte By psathishcsa at 2007-11-27 0:47:11
Hi,Help me in installing Solaris Express, Developer EditionWhen i am trying to install Solaris, system hangs and the moniter is switcher off when the system goes in GUI mode.i have intel 945GTP mother board with as on board Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Drives , Chipset -> Intle 945G , ...

Syslog sshd

213 byte By sp149a at 2007-11-27 0:47:47
Hi,could someone help me out.If a user connection is either successful or Failed it logs into the log file.Is there a way i can only capture failed logins in the log file.Regards

Installling problem

634 byte By marek.repaka at 2007-11-27 0:50:00
I've downloaded Solaris 10. Then I put the .nos files together and burned it on a dvd. When I tryed to boot it, it gave me an error: "Error 28: Selected Item cannot fit into memory".So i found out that the problem is with GRUB 0.95. So I'd downloaded GRUB 0.97 and using MagicISO i've rewrite ...

SC 3.1 SMF Proxy Service

10330 byte By Tom_Tigera at 2007-11-27 0:50:24
Hi,I am building a two Node Cluster for a Squid Proxy as failover service.Squid is managed by SMFI have a resource group containing 3 resources- HA Storage Plus for the file system- Logical Host name for the service address- Proxy_SMF_failover for the SMF Service of Squid.I ma trying to use the ...

Error after completing CD installation

756 byte By kamilgania at 2007-11-27 0:50:33
Ive installed solaris 10 for the frist time on my system (HP Compaq dc7600) using the 5 CDs. After completing the installation successfully, the system reboots, solaris OS is selected and then it hangs for a while...after some time following message is shown on the screen:"Booting Solaris 10 ...

Porting of SPARC application to x86

409 byte By ledzepa at 2007-11-27 0:51:44
Hi All -I have SPARC working application code, which needs to be ported to solaris 10 x86. I added -D__386 to the compile flags. Compiled fine, but have problems in running. If I compile with -D_BIG_ENDIAN, seems like the application processes go further in execution than it was before. I am ...

solaris equivalent of kill -16 in linux

782 byte By surajit2.da at 2007-11-27 0:52:00
i am running a process in solaris 9(console) . i know its pid . To halt the process i have given "kill -16 pidvalue" . This halts the process . Later when i gave the same command (ie . kill -16 pidvalue )it resumes (continues)the process .While giving the same command ( ie . kill -16 pidvalue ) ...

Package: SUNWcsu is "missing"

399 byte By farmboya at 2007-11-27 0:52:15
Running Solaris 9 on V280RI am getting numerous error messages when installing the latest Solaris 9 Recommended Patch Cluster :ERROR: Information for SUNWcsu.* was not found (The DST of course is not correct as it needs this)the command: pkginfo SUNWcsu says it is not installedHow can I install ...

Help needed installing Solaris 10 on HP Server with Smart Array Controller

619 byte By Damiano23a at 2007-11-27 0:53:33
Hi all. First I apologize in advance; as I know absolutely nothing about Solaris. I was thrown into this project and asked to get Solaris installed on this new HP ProLiant DL385 G2 server. I have the 5 CD's for Solaris 10; put CD1 in the server and it boots from it and tries to install the OS. ...

How to install S10 / bad PBR sig / layout

800 byte By Houdinia at 2007-11-27 0:53:45
Hi all! Sorry my English.When I install S10 with auto Layout options all is becomes good, but ALL my free space come to folder /export/home! I can't install enything else, I even can't delete nothing, cuz no free space in trash! :):) After thisI make another S10 installation and change space ...

scinstall 3.2 problem

1977 byte By brad_ha at 2007-11-27 0:54:08
I am probably missing something obvious in the install doc, but here is where I am at:Environment: two sun x4100's running fresh install solaris 10 x86 11/06 Generic_125101-04 (also tried on 118855-33) full + oem.During ./install of suncluster-3_2-ga-solaris-x86.zip on both node1 and ...

Solaris Companion DVD Leaves Some Things to be Desired

799 byte By wthompsona at 2007-11-27 0:55:19
Just performed a clean install of Solaris 10 SPARC and also installed the open-source tools from the Companion DVD. I have a couple of issues to report...The first is the confusing installation location of the open-source packages. They seem to either end up in /usr/sfw or /opt/sfw. This is ...

zombie thread

866 byte By cppquerya at 2007-11-27 0:55:41
Hi,I've a client server system.My client sends a message to server & starts a timer.If the server does not respond with in the limit set by timer, timer goes off and the client shall throw an exception.The problem is client seem to wirte the message to server socket, but it is not ...

IPMP, Sun Cluster 3.2, and scinstall

662 byte By mcleansa at 2007-11-27 0:56:14
Hi all, I'm need to build a two-node Sun Cluster 3.2 environment but I need a bit of assistance in regard to IPMP. According to the Sun Cluster 3.2 docs, the scinstall utility will automatically create the necessary IPMP mulitpathing groups. With Sun Cluster 3.1, however, you had to create the ...

Installation Problem

1390 byte By Sathasivam@Srivationsa at 2007-11-27 0:59:12
Hello All:Firstly, allow me to introduce myself. I am superbly new to Solaris, and I am very serious to learn Solaris and use this platform to build applications in Java and C++.Here is my problem. I have a PC with dual boot, one is Win 2000 Pro and the other is Win 2000 Server. I have ...

installation problem jumpstart

2050 byte By dbevansa at 2007-11-27 0:59:32
Anyone know whats going on here:solaris version is 11/06 solaris 10. machine is V245From the console ran:>boot net -v - install(snipped)SUNWqusu.........................done.6.97 Mbytes remaining.SUNWrcmdr........................done.6.89 Mbytes ...

Loaction of Supposed FIles on Solaris Companion CD

851 byte By walker.ara at 2007-11-27 1:01:05
I read an article about having a KDE desktop on a Solaris system.The article said everything I need is on the Solaris 10 Companion CD.So, as naive as I am, I went through the requirement list:SFWgcmSFWgcc2lSFWqtSFWsdlSFWgdbSFWogglSFWlibsane and of course...SFWkdeAll the files were there except ...

Cloned primary drive not working

614 byte By joshspeera at 2007-11-27 1:01:20
We have a 280r that the drive is starting to go bad on, so I had a new drive sent to me to clone the old one. Once the new drive was cloned I installed the boot block, aftertrying to boot of this new drive, it tells me there is no /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6, and goes back to an OK prompt. Booting off of ...

Hostname question

393 byte By s@mira123a at 2007-11-27 1:02:10
Hi All,Can i have in my solaris 9 OS two hostnames with two distinct IPs?I know that i can have a hostname with two distinct IPs.I tried to add a second host name with its IPyet i can't ping the new host.Can anyone lead me to the proper way... knowing that i need to do this for some purposes ...

Newbie: can't get a gui install on the desktop

160 byte By jhattera at 2007-11-27 1:02:59
It only comes up in a command prompt. I tried reinstalling the system twice to no avail. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks,Jermaine

setting up network

807 byte By kc8pdra at 2007-11-27 1:04:16
I have verizon dsl at the house with a westell dsl modem router combo . But when I try to install solaris it get to the network part then it say's sleeping but I get to the net working or no-networking I click networking then I get to the next window where it ask me to click dhcp or no dhck so ...

Swapping performance, and large pages

4853 byte By mgrittera at 2007-11-27 1:04:43
I am trying to run glpsol (the standalone solver from the GNU Linear Programming Kit) on a very large model. I don't have enough physical memory to fit the entire model, so I configured a lot of swap. glpsol, unfortunately, uses more memory to parse and preprocess the model than it does to ...

DHCP-Problem with Solaris 10 11/06 on Ultra 20 M2

1416 byte By frankrefischera at 2007-11-27 1:06:15
Hello,I am trying to install Solaris 10 11/06 on an Ultra 20 M2 but have problems in the very beginning by configuring network settings:(1) The ultra 20 box is connected to my dsl router, which also is a dhcp server. My Windows XP Notebook, my freebsd box and windows xp on the same ultra-box ...

video problem

924 byte By stephen_ba at 2007-11-27 1:06:17
pls help with getting the X server working:The X server can not start due to not finding any usable screens.I ran kdmconfig many times trying different setups and nothing works.The monitor is HP p720, which is 17'' CRT PnP able to work on freqs from 65 to 85. on XP I use 1024x768 at 85The ...

Remounting /var File System

568 byte By grkrajesha at 2007-11-27 1:06:43
Hi All ,The Actual space used for /var file system is 1.1 GB but in the df -h output it is showing 10Gb used space. So, I have planned to remount the /var file system. Is anything will go serious If we remount the /var file system in multiuser mode.(runlevel 3). The /var file system is RAID ...

Solaris 10 instalation disks help please

566 byte By heathervala at 2007-11-27 1:06:49
Hii have decided again to try Solaris 10 once againi am not installing from windows,and i have the x86 dvd collection(a;b;c;d;e,also the companion disk)i would like to know why i need all 5 disksIf Solaris 10 sees to already have instaled from just 1 disk (sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-a.iso)Also when ...

Newbie: Veritas (VxVM 4.1) License question

883 byte By PierreKlovsjoa at 2007-11-27 1:09:46
Hello fellow Admins,This is my first upgrade from using a DEMO license to a Perm. license on Veritas Volume Manager.During an upgrade on one of our production systems we used a DEMO license to start and configure all Veritas Volumes on the new sever. Once everything was up and running we ...

speed problem

157 byte By sha-hyd-inda at 2007-11-27 1:10:02
Hi dear I am using SUNBLADE e 150 system. My main problem is system is too slow.So, please lets guide me speed-up the systemRajhyderabad

boot problem

220 byte By sha-hyd-inda at 2007-11-27 1:10:04
Hi dear when I am trying to boot the system SUNBLADE e 150 it is not booting it give the message like this & stop there itselfTIME OUT WAITING FOR NIS TO COME UPPlase help meRajA.P.

V240 server password

266 byte By sha-hyd-inda at 2007-11-27 1:10:14
Hi Dear I recently received the V240 server and trying to connect but failed because i don't know the username, password. So, will u please help me how to get the password or i want to start the server from the scracth.Pleas advise methanks Raj

Sharing the Global FS in Sul Cluster3.1 on Sol10

782 byte By specialista at 2007-11-27 1:11:29
Hii have setup Cluster3.1 on Solaris 10 (latest Patch cluster). I have setup iplanet Web server as a Cluster service. I have also shared the gobal FS dir via /etc/dfs/dfstab. The Cluster rescources are ha-stoargeplus, ha-ldap, logical host , ha-admin and ha-imsThe issue is, when the system ...

usb driver

1262 byte By bbucalona at 2007-11-27 1:15:37
I have a sparc machine running solaris 10 and 2 Olympus usb foot pedals. The usb foot pedal models are RS24 and RS26. There are no Solaris drviers for the devices. I tried the detection tool on an XP Pro machine since I do not have an x86 machine. The tool does not detect the pedal even with ...

usb foot pedal driver

1171 byte By bbucalona at 2007-11-27 1:15:39
I have a sparc machine running solaris 10 and 2 Olympus usb foot pedals. The usb foot pedal models are RS24 and RS26. There are no Solaris drviers for the devices. I tried the detection tool on an XP Pro machine since I do not have an x86 machine. The tool does not detect the pedal even with ...

The process of Apache can not be killed on multi-CPU on Solaris 9

1153 byte By TashSuea at 2007-11-27 1:15:44
Hi All,We have the program kill [process number] and kill -p [process number] on Solaris 9 and the Apache process is alive more than 10 seconds. A user saw the message like "Cannot stop Administration Server. Please kill process $hpid manually and try again."We are using 1.3.19-rev2 of ...