About the pci_config_setup() issue

644 byte By CYLina at 2007-11-27 1:16:08
Hi all,I抦 a new in developing Solaris driver. I抦 going to write a PCI card driver.When I call the pci_config_setup() to get the vendor ID and device ID in the attach() function, it almost returns fail at first time.Then, system will call attach() again and pci_config_setup() return success. The ...

veritas and Solaris 9 bulitin tcp wrappers

693 byte By jroverta at 2007-11-27 1:19:38
Does anyone know if the tcp wrappers that is bulitin to the Solaris 9 OS will work on non-Sun products?We use veritas to backup our servers, each host has a numberof entries in the /etc/inet/inetd.conf file to execute portions ofthe veritas backup suite.Once we enabled tcp-wrappers on Solaris 9 ...

Compare new cluster command set "cl" commands or old "sc"

265 byte By mtalhaa at 2007-11-27 1:22:55
Dear all Is there any comparsion sheet available explaining difference between new sun cluster command set "cl" and old ones "sc" I am quite comfortable with " sc"commands , just wanted to know how new commands fits in same place Regards

compilation problem on solaris9 x86

10951 byte By karthisysa at 2007-11-27 1:26:17
I am working on JAVA/J2EE . Am new to solaris9 . My requirement is to compile a source distribution of MOD-JK 1.2.21 (apache 2.0 server connector)and to produce binary distribution (*.so file) in solaris9 X86 box. But i got only source distribution of solaris10 X86 platform . Even with this ...

NTP/PPS support with USB serial adapter

704 byte By macekIVa at 2007-11-27 1:28:32
A have a new hardware (Sun Fire X4100) that is missing usable serial port and I still need to use my old GPS to synchronize NTP server. I'd like to make use of PPS pulses (connected to the DCD pin of the serial port). It works great with serial port but I can't get it work with RS-232 to USB ...

Sun Java Web Console

328 byte By farmboya at 2007-11-27 1:30:22
Running Solaris 8 & 9 SPARC on V280 boxHow to find out if "Sun Java Web Console" is installed AND running on my system(s)? Package name? application's exact name?I assume this is different from Java Console that is available for error and warning messages, etc. associated with the ...

Dell Latitude D620 Won't boot after install

673 byte By sparcenginea at 2007-11-27 1:31:09
I installed Solaris 10 via DVD on my D620. The install goes fine and completes successfully. When I try to boot for the first time, I just see a bunch of memory addresses on the screen only for like half a second. They just blink on the screen for a fraction of a second with no hope of even ...

How to install Solaris from a Windows computer

746 byte By weziwa at 2007-11-27 1:31:14
I have recently received the Solaris operating system on DVD. The only computer that I have that has a DVD player is my laptop. It is however connected to the desktop that I wold like to install the system onto by a switch. I am not sure how to go about installing solaris over the LAN onto the ...

ulimit

487 byte By Linda_Ba at 2007-11-27 1:34:44
Hi,I need to increase the open files on my server to run a test. Usually what I do is:ulimit 杗 5000My questions are:1] I want to set this parameter once and for all. What is the right parameter to set in /etc/system: rlim_fd_max or rlim_fd_cur?2] How to make sure that this parameter won抰 make ...

About the command add_drv and modload

988 byte By CYLina at 2007-11-27 1:34:58
Hi all,I have some questions with add_drv, rem_drv, modload and modunload commands.According to the Device Driver Tutorial, the differences between them are: add_drv: Add a new driver into system (includes add driver information into /etc/driver_aliases file and load module into ...

Solaris DVD-RW Lock

647 byte By Xenobiusa at 2007-11-27 1:35:00
Hi all,I am trying to install Solaris on my computer. I boot from the DVD and the setup starts. I give it all the options, and then when it comes to read from DVD, it says that I don't have any CD in the DVD-RW !!! (it booted from it! how can it disappear?) also another thing i noticed is that ...

Solaris 10 11/06 on Dell Dimension E520

311 byte By rootdna at 2007-11-27 1:37:37
Intel Dual Core P4,E6300(1.86GHZ)4Gb DDR2 SDRAM320GB Serial ATA 2 Disk DriveHitachi Serial ATA 16x CD?DVDTrying to install Sol 10 on the above box. Sol 10 can't see the Disk or the DVD. Any idea on where I might find the necessary drivers for the Serial ...

create a new user account with JDS or lightweight GUI env

206 byte By dbMethodsa at 2007-11-27 1:38:05
I have Sun 10 installed under WinXP host with VMware setup.I access the Sun 10 Guest OS through a Wireless connection.How to create a new account and assign it with Java Desktop System?

Sun Cluster 3.2 on Vmware nodes

679 byte By lpandrea at 2007-11-27 1:38:53
Hi,I am trying to install Sun cluster 3.2 on VMware solaris 10 nodes. In 3.2 scinstall can configure the cluster software on the secondnode also. But the scinstall hangs after configuring the second node and reboots the second node. Also observed that after rebooting the second node is not ...

how to exclude X window portion when installing solaris 10 for x86

182 byte By ty2632000a at 2007-11-27 1:42:51
i am really a newbie to solaries,i wanna install solaris for develop purpose,but i don/t wanna include X window in system.what shall i do ?regards.

ps -ef -o args

389 byte By kleinerroemera at 2007-11-27 1:43:43
Hi Guys!I'm working on some perl scripts which need to check some config files from running processes. My problem is that the with of the args column of the ps command sometimes is too small to display the full path of the config file.Till now I haven't found a solution to enlarge the ...

Use a USB print server with Solaris 10 developer edition

242 byte By pmccrackana at 2007-11-27 1:45:49
Hi, just wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to run my HP PSC 1610 off a USB print server with Solaris 10 Developer Edition and is there any good documentation on the set up?Thanks for nay info.Regards from Peter.

Solaris 10 Installation

568 byte By gwillia0a at 2007-11-27 1:48:28
I got the Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Developer Tools: from the sun.com website. After the installation of the OS on an Intel system, which seemed to work perfectly, the loader reboots the system. When the system comes back up, it ask for the disk containing the "Software 5" files. You ...

grub failing to start windows

436 byte By stephen_ba at 2007-11-27 1:52:03
two physical hard drives, one with XP and the other with Solaris 10.Grub shows Windows as an option, but can not start it.I edited the menu.lst trying each ofrootnoverify(hd0,0)rootnoverify(hd1,0)rootnoverify(hd0,1)and nothing works. I did the update after editing.the end of the menu.lst says ...

Can't boot install DVD

220 byte By lsproca at 2007-11-27 1:52:26
I am unable to boot the Solaris install DVD, as I just get a grub console. By the look of it, the MENU.LST is either corrupted or unreadable. I have tried redownloading it, and the zip's md5 is ok. What can I do?

Eth & Internet Connection. Solaris 10

1321 byte By enzolitoa at 2007-11-27 1:52:35
Hi,Just installed solaris 10 under vmware workstation 5.5, and after the first run got ifconfig -a as follows:lo0: bla bla 127.0.0.1e1000g0: bla bla inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255The lower-right icon showed warning mark on the connection iconI tried few things, but had to reboot (after ...

Install Linksys WUSB54GC on Solaris 10

218 byte By parkinson007a at 2007-11-27 1:52:48
HiI am trying to install a linksys wusb54gc wireless adapter on solaris 10 on x86. Has anybody managed to do this? I am new to linux and would really like to learn how to do this. Any help is appreciated.

Cluster.PMF.pmfd: [ID6daemon.notice] "MAIL,mail-rs,1.svc" Failed to Stay up

1435 byte By durga.tirunagaria at 2007-11-27 1:53:07
I am scratching my head... on Sun Cluster 3.1 ON SOLARIS 9.. we keep getting this error... and unable to start the services under PMF. We are running the Sun Cluster 3.1 on Solaris 9Apr 21 19:12:43 XUZ SC[SUNW.ims,MAIL-RG,mail-rs,ims_svc_start]: [ID 803255 daemon.info] Starting up the rest of ...

GLX missing

275 byte By thelinuxera at 2007-11-27 1:54:04
I have built the Mesa libraries but still need the GLX extensions.The problem is that when i run opengl programs, that's what i get in the console."GLX extension missing"Does any one know a solution?Message was edited by: thelinuxer

Can the SUNW.gds and SUNW.apache resource types be used together?

888 byte By matty_91a at 2007-11-27 1:54:28
Howdy,We are looking at setting up a number of Solaris zones on highly available shared storage, and would like to configure these zones to failover to other nodes in the cluster. Setting this up is pretty straight forward, and is covered in the data service guide for Solaris containers. What I ...

Triple boot xp vista and solaris 10

158 byte By Zorro26a at 2007-11-27 1:54:53
HiI currently have xp and vista dual boot and would like triple bootingwith solaris 10.What should i do ?Thanks in advance.

How to do raid-0(strip) with zfs?

363 byte By shayberya at 2007-11-27 1:55:22
There is a way to do striping with zfs?all the Raid option is for raid-1 & raid-5.I have Storage-SAN of HDS(AMS500), and I want to do striping on luns from the storage. I don't want any raid-5(because I have one on the disks in the HDS storage).I only want to do strip on 2 luns that cames ...

Are zones supported with scalable services?

1185 byte By matty_91a at 2007-11-27 1:55:26
Howdy,Is it possible to use scalable services with SUNW.apache in a non-global zone? The concepts guide seems to indicate that it's possible to combine scalable services and zones, but I don't see any mention of this in the Apache data services guide. I tried to configure an Apache resource ...

While rebooting: Cant open boot device Invalid wwn number

683 byte By manoranjani83@gmail.coma at 2007-11-27 1:55:46
Hi, The server went down. We tried to reboot the server. Got the error messageBoot device: /sbus@2, 0/SUNW, socal@d, 10000/sf@0, 0/ssd@w 21000020372bd09c, o File and args:Invalid wwn number 21200020 372bd21cCant open boot deviceThen contacted sun and replaced the portable hard disk. Then ...

install Solaris 10 on IBM 3550!

82 byte By huutronga at 2007-11-27 1:56:28
i cannot install Solaris 10 11/06 x86 on IBM 3560 and 3550 !!! please help.

How to make bootable DVD after downloading Solaris10?

965 byte By faisal_dynamica at 2007-11-27 1:56:57
Hi everyone,This is abdul. For the first time im entering this forum and hoping that someone would definitely answer my query. I have downloaded all the segments of solaris10. As per the insrtuctions given in download docs, i executed the first "NOSSO" application which in turn made one 2.9GB ...

RSC package remote installation

678 byte By salaxa at 2007-11-27 1:57:15
Hi, i've been trying to install the rsc packages on a V480 server (Solaris 9 9/04) which doesn't have a CDROM drive of it's own.So, i share the cd directory from a remote V280 server, and i can see the contents on the 480. Then i try to extract the packages to a directory in the tmp. The ...

probe for open files

297 byte By udia at 2007-11-27 1:57:38
Hi,i need to write file system driver that will query the vnode inside the kernel and will print all open files (descriptors) in real time.since im newbie i wanted to know where to start.which facility i need to

cfgadm's issue

1576 byte By kunna at 2007-11-27 1:58:31
Dear all, I have two FC path as a redundant SAN environment on which I was doing an error-injection test. Host: V440Storage: IBM DS4000OS:Solaris 9 9/05 118558-39SAN path: SAN4.4.12Issue: After I pulled one of FC path and rebooted the machine, one controller in output of "cfgadm -al" ...

64bits hardware - Solaris 10

298 byte By dkbleea at 2007-11-27 1:59:50
hi!I've a v240 Sparc 64bits server. Can i install a 32bits OS or application on it? Can i install 32bits Solaris 10 on a 64bits server?Does Solaris 10 run on 32bits? or only 64bits?If i'm running 64bits Solaris 10, can i install 32bits application on

Using IPMP with virtual interfaces

1059 byte By iainfirkinsa at 2007-11-27 2:00:51
Hi,I have a V210 that currently uses one physical interface (bge0) and another 5 virtual interfaces (bge0:1 - beg0:5) for a variety of web servers. I'm now looking to deploy IPMP to give the server a degree of resilience.Looking at a few articles on Sun's and some other websites, I can see ...

Solaris 10 : CTRL+ALT+DEL won't work

470 byte By hudarsonoa at 2007-11-27 2:01:46
I'm new to Solaris. I recently installed solaris 10 11/06 on x86 machine. The OS installed normaly, and after login to Java Desktop, when I press CTRL+ALT+DEL, an error happend. An error said : "There was error running "sdtprocess", Failed to execute child process "sdtprocess"(no such file or ...

Can not start X on dell optiplex 745 (open solaris build 62)

2345 byte By venu_suraa at 2007-11-27 2:02:53
Installed open solaris build 62 successfully on Dell optiplex 745. Every thing came up except X. Any pointers or help is greatly appreciated.Here is scanpci results-pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2992 Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics ...

Phantom metaset

933 byte By matty_91a at 2007-11-27 2:04:58
Howdy,While reviewing our device groups today, I noticed that cldg is reporting a metaset we deleted quite some time ago:$ cldg status=== Cluster Device Groups === Device Group Status Device Group NamePrimarySecondaryStatus--- webdg-- Offlineshellset snode2snode1Onlineapacheset -- ...

Memory error detected by syslogd

902 byte By dbiggsa at 2007-11-27 2:09:23
An Ultra 4 solaris server I support has generated the following log entry by the syslogd process that I cannot find any other info about.There are no obvious memory or cpu problems and the error does appear to have fixed itself from the log entry but I need to know what could have triggered ...

Disk Partition recommendations

552 byte By TonyBraya at 2007-11-27 2:09:47
I am having to replace my harddrives after a major failure and would like to get some advice on a new layout.Machine is a Sun Blade 2000 with 2 new 73gb 15k FC-AL drives. I will be installing Solaris 10. I know Solaris 10 can use ZFS and Zones but I don't know enough to know how to set this up ...

Solaris apache server swap reservations

730 byte By maxpila at 2007-11-27 2:10:17
hi, i have a few servers running apache with the following configuration:V240 4gb ram3.7 gb virtual swap (1gb disk backed + 2.7 ram)running: Solaris 8 HW 12/02 s28s_hw1wos_06a SPARCCopyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Assembled 12 December 2002kernel patch:117350-25several ...

Incorrect date/time when sending mail

573 byte By JAMartineza at 2007-11-27 2:10:32
Hello all. I am experiencing some kind of wierd problem here. My time zone is GTM-4 and checking the timezone with the TZ shows it, as well as date, /etc/timezone and whatever. Problem is, when using mailx to send mail, the field Sent: is set with an offset of eight (8) hours !! .. for example, ...

sunfire 280r security-mode=full

257 byte By chepati2a at 2007-11-27 2:12:09
Hi,I've bought a sunfire 280r off of ebay, but the security mode is set to full. If I replace the IDPROM with another one (PN 525-1788) would that fix the issue, or do I have to send the board to sun to be cleared?Thanks,chepati

Sun Cluster 3.2 Beta Exam experience ( end date: May 4 (extended!) )

238 byte By mtalhaa at 2007-11-27 2:12:11
Dear allAny body have taken Sun Cluster 3.2 Beta exam (FREE) exam , i am interested to know how was the experience , it is diffcult/easy ? http://www.sun.com/training/certification/cluster_beta.xmlRegards

J2SDK installation problem

1119 byte By Vijendra.Jaina at 2007-11-27 2:15:54
I installed J2SDK 1.3.1_20 on Solaris 9 server using self extracting binary (.sh) file. Now, when I use java command it goves following error:bash-2.05# ./java -versionError: failed /usr/j2sdk1_3_1_20/jre/lib/sparc/client/libjvm.so, because ld.so.1: ...

File Ownership problems when NFS Share/Mount a drive

1974 byte By Neo369a at 2007-11-27 2:18:02
Hi all,I am new to solaris. I'm facing file ownership problems when NFS Share/Mount a drive.Please read the scenario below for more detailsI have two solaris boxes which have solaris9 installed on both.I have NFS shared and mounted a file system as followsHost1Shared a folder /sharedFromHost1 ...

File Ownership problems when NFS Share/Mount a drive

1974 byte By Neo369a at 2007-11-27 2:18:06
Hi all,I am new to solaris. I'm facing file ownership problems when NFS Share/Mount a drive.Please read the scenario below for more detailsI have two solaris boxes which have solaris9 installed on both.I have NFS shared and mounted a file system as followsHost1Shared a folder /sharedFromHost1 ...

Solaris 10 on Dual Athlon MP, can't install, keeps rebooting

3949 byte By CorCornelissea at 2007-11-27 2:19:25
Hi All,I've been trying to install Solaris 10 onto my machine:Tyan Thunder K7X (AMD 760MP Chipset)2x AMD Athlon 2400+2,5 GB MemoryAdaptec 2100S Raid ControllersWhen the installation CD boots, you see a couple of dots appearing, then some text shows which quickly disappeared while the machine ...

Sun cluster patch for solaris 10 x86

288 byte By sun_seta at 2007-11-27 2:21:02
I have Solaris 10 6/06 installed on x4100 box with 2 node clustering using Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05. I just want to know is there any latest patches available for the OS to prevent cluster related bugs. what are they? My kernel patch is 118855-19.any inputs needed. let me know.