Solaris 10 xdmcp problem

657 byte By kentm27a at 2007-11-27 1:29:42
I recently installed Solaris 10 on my E2900.However I can not connect to it using xdmcp (exceed).I checked a few things: dtlogin is running but looks misconfigured despite my best efforsts:/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon -udpPort 0is what shows up when I do a ps command. I think using port 0 ...

Help error while booting sunfire v440 (error)

1471 byte By ncmainaa at 2007-11-27 1:29:46
Hi solaris admins.i am getting the following error while trying to install the solaris 10 OS on a sunfire v440 server.Please can someone help me out here.i think the problem is with the Hard Drives or something.=================================================Sun Fire V440, No KeyboardCopyright ...

useradd during preinstall for custom package fails when new zone is created

868 byte By chrismilesa at 2007-11-27 1:29:51
I have created a custom package. The package needs to create a user, which it does in the preinstall script. pkgadd works fine for the global zone and for any already-installed non-global zones.However, if I create a new non-global zone, the package is installed but the user is not added (so ...

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 ...

Help to see PDFs properly, which are downloaded from docs.sun.com

408 byte By upendratwa at 2007-11-27 1:30:36
Hello,Please help me to see the PDFs properly, which are downloaded from docs.sun.com. I have downloaded reading manuals of PDFs in windows flatform. Now i am opening those on Solaris 10 with Gnome PDF viewer. Those PDFs are not opening in english. Its some other english. Its not our normal ...

Performance Meter Does Not Open

564 byte By PFDogsa at 2007-11-27 1:30:57
I just did a fresh install of Solaris 10 11/06 on my Sun Ultra 10, but the Performance Meter will not open. After clicking on the icon, it doesn't appear and doesn't give any error message. When I try to execute/usr/bin/gnome-perfmeter from the command line, the meter does not open and ...

Connecting the Internet

587 byte By CKleina at 2007-11-27 1:31:08
Hello,I just recently installed opensolaris developer edition and cannot connect to the internet. I use a wireless laptop and no connection was registered until I connected via ethernet cable. It registered my DHCP server and seemed as though I activated it, however, I was still not able to ...

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 ...

I have installed new Sun Fire V445 Server but miss ALOM.

210 byte By deal732a at 2007-11-27 1:31:45
I have installed new Sun Fire V445 Server but missed ALOM configuration. Is it possible that i can see that ALOM setup again if i disconnect all power cable and re-plug it back?Thanks-Adeel

Why this messages printing? and I wanna know how to solve it.

1480 byte By wjkima at 2007-11-27 1:33:00
pr 18 22:08:59 anbang ufs: [ID 617866 kern.notice] NOTICE: ufs_getattrdir: inode 442707 points to attribute directory 10 which is not an attribute directory;run fsck on file systemApr 18 22:08:59 anbang last message repeated 1 timeApr 18 22:09:00 anbang ufs: [ID 617866 kern.notice] NOTICE: ...

ufsdump acros ssh session seems to get corrupted

973 byte By rockdude76a at 2007-11-27 1:33:09
Hi,I am trying to perform a ufsdump to a remote tape device by piping it through an ssh session to a server with an LTO drive locally attached.ie. ufsdump 0uf - / | ssh tapedump@tapeserver /usr/bin/dd bs=32k "of=/dev/rmt/0un"It completes succesfully but when I go to do a ufsrestore on the tape ...

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 ...

Support for wireless

757 byte By BhanuVemulaa at 2007-11-27 1:41:14
Online OnlinePosts: 1View Profile Email Personal Message (Online)Support of wireless?on: Today at 06:28:34 pm ?br>Reply with quote Modify messageHi allI have a Dell XPS laptop with the following cardswireless card - Intel(R) PRO/ Wireless 3945ABG Netwrok cardEthernet card - Broadcom 440x 10/100 ...

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.

URGENT Clarification - execute UltraSPARC3 extension on UltrSPARC2 unix box

1132 byte By VG_BALAa at 2007-11-27 1:46:19
How to execute the executables which were compiled UltraSparc3Hi,We have an executable by name "execom" whose file permission and type is as follows:</etc/b2k>ls -lrtlrwxrwxrwx1 rootroot 54 Apr 13 16:43 execom -> ...

Helpdesk / workorder management software?

134 byte By DoxBriana at 2007-11-27 1:47:38
Not sure where else to post this... Looking for something that runs well on Solaris. Any suggestions?Thanks!Brian

Not able to start inetd

847 byte By PSSa at 2007-11-27 1:48:08
Hello,I have one Sun Fire T2000 server and was working fine for quite some time. After rebooting the server, server stopped accepting the network connection because inted was not starting. Following is the output of svcs. I will appreciate help.Thanks,Dattasvcs -xv ...

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

Solaris 10 boot hang!

1965 byte By peterwang_60a at 2007-11-27 1:54:23
Don't know if this is the right place to post my question. I had a SPARC Ultra 10 machine running under Solaris 10, it was running for couple months. Recently when I reboot it, it was hang at "Use is subject to license terms." I press STOP+A to bring me to ok prompt, then type boot -v, the ...

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 ...

Solaris 10 - where to begin ?

130 byte By Zorro26a at 2007-11-27 1:54:31
HiI'm new to unix and solaris 10.Which books or websites (tutorials) can you recommendto begin from ?

triple boot xp vista and solaris 10

158 byte By Zorro26a at 2007-11-27 1:54:43
HiI currently have xp and vista dual boot and would like triple bootingwith solaris 10.What should i do ?Thanks in advance.

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 ...

striping with ZFS and SAN(AMS500 HDS)

385 byte By shayberya at 2007-11-27 1:55:32
There is a way to do striping with zfs?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(25GB each) that cames from different controllers.Is ...

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 ...

get the value of a global variable

293 byte By fablafa at 2007-11-27 2:01:27
Hello,I'd like to obtain the value of a global variable used by a process (pid known). Is there a way to get the value of the variable if I know its address in the memory? Can Dtrace do that? Do you have an example of script? Thank you for your help.Fabien.

zfs stripe test preformance !?

786 byte By shayberya at 2007-11-27 2:01:43
Hello I test the prepormance by copy 512MB file into zfs pool that created from 2 luns with stripe, oneLun came from Storage-controller-0 and connected through HBA-0second Lun came from Storage-controller-1 and connected through HBA-1time was 12 sec. (time cat /var/tmp/bigfile512mb > ...