vmstat shows processes that are swappped ..

337 byte By SAN@SUNa at 2007-11-27 7:09:27
rb wswapfreere mfpi po fr de srm0 m1 m5 m7insycsus sy id 0 0 102 7577592862512 75 287 107 69 70 0 36 2041 6920 841 8894492this is the snap of vmstat , Which shows 102 processes have been swapped out ( column "w" ) . Wat does that convey ?Does that have any impact on CPU utilization ...

disable 5 button mice scrolling

225 byte By alessioporcacchiaa at 2007-11-27 7:10:51
hi guys i can ask you some clues on can disable (wheel button) on solaris 10 (sparc) i have some application problems using a scrolling mouse. somebody of you know how disable wheel scrolling function?Thank you.

Error while manually applying 118855-36 to Solaris 118855-19

647 byte By Ben.Heimanna at 2007-11-27 7:11:06
Hi!I am trying to apply patch 118855-36 on Solaris 10 6/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86 with Kernel Generic_118855-19.When I try to install the patch in single user mode I receive the followingerror messages:118855-36 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgaddThe log /var/sadm/patch/118855-36 ...

X11 6.6.2 Xsun patch incompatible with imaging applications - Solaris 10

913 byte By sparcmastera at 2007-11-27 7:11:22
Hello,I am running Sol 10 11/06 on a Sun Blade (64-bit). After installing patch 119059-27, an imaging application that is vital to my workflow will no longer run. I get a Segmentation Fault.The application is ENVI Freelook, and is available for free ...

adding a user

334 byte By trey5498a at 2007-11-27 7:12:43
I am trying to add a new user so I can do some software testing.I am usinguseradd -d /home/test -s /bin/bash test I can log in using ssh however I can not login using the X GUI. I see the problem seems to be that there is no home directory and I can not make one. I am doing all this as root. ...

Posting for non-java development?

723 byte By matthew180a at 2007-11-27 7:12:48
Greetings,I'm not having much luck with the forum and I was thinking it may be my selection of forum area to post in. I'm currently developing in C on an E25K running Solaris 10. I'm trying to write high-performance code to take advantage of my environment and I need to know where I can post ...

T2000 e1000g NIC not getting gigabit throughput

1018 byte By boomshnkaa at 2007-11-27 7:13:03
I've got about 20 T2000 systems all running either the 6/06 or 11/06 release of Solaris 10. They're all using the e1000g driver for the on board NICs. They're all connected to various gigabit switches in our environment. My problem is that I'm getting nowhere near gigabit speeds out of any ...

How to increase number ptys in Solaris 10?

207 byte By netlinka at 2007-11-27 7:13:46
Hi,How do I increase number of ptys in Solaris 10, also what command to view how many total currently set?I try to put set pt_cnt = X and rebooted, seems to be not working.Thanks!

Sol 10 U3 Recommended Patch Set must be run Multiple Times

527 byte By streetganga at 2007-11-27 7:13:55
I installed a new full load of Solaris 10 U3 (ie 11/06) on a sparc box (V210).Ran install_cluster in the latest recommended patch set and it installed abouta half dozen patches.That seemed low so I rebooted and ran install_cluster AGAIN and it succeededon thirty four (34) patches!Whats with ...

Installing Solaris10 on Dell Inspiron6400 With Windows Vista

738 byte By Pangalurua at 2007-11-27 7:14:03
Hi Everyone,Can you please let me know how to install solaris 10 on the laptop which has already got windows vista.I have a seperate drive (S:) 10GB for solaris OS.I have got Sun OS 10 DVD from Sun.I tried to install but it was stuck at..when i select Solaris among the three options to boot.It ...

Veritas Encapsulation Hanging....

832 byte By ribbya at 2007-11-27 7:27:26
HiI wonder is anyone here can help me see the light....V245S10VxVm 4.1Encapsulated the root disk, updated /etc/system. Rebooted the server but it is hanging...............Hardware watchdog enabledip_arp_done: init failedFailed to configure IPv4 interface(s): ce0Hostname: s2NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp ...

Why did Solaris 10 X86 change the output of the format command?

507 byte By hupceya at 2007-11-27 7:27:43
Solaris 8,9, & 10 for Sparc all display disk manufacturer information on the format command output: 0. c1t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 ... >1. c1t1d0 <SEAGATE-ST3360704FSUN36G-0826 cyl 24620 ... > But for X86 this information is not displayed:0. c1t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 17846 ... >1. ...

command to find the data size on the backup tape

235 byte By Cinderella99a at 2007-11-27 7:27:58
Hi,We are backuping several directories (/database, /index) to a backup tape. How could I find out how much space these data are taking on the backup tape? we use the cpio command to backup.Thanks,Cinderella

increadably new at this,please answer instalation question

255 byte By unh0lygh0sta at 2007-11-27 7:28:56
hi i just downloaded all the segments to make a instilation dvd and it says i need to combine them into 1 useing a line of code in msdos... i never use dos and cant figure out what it means to type inMessage was edited by: unh0lygh0st

Solaris 10 on V40z

335 byte By elnuevopajaroa at 2007-11-27 7:29:04
Hi,I am installing Solaris 10 on V40z which comes with a trident blade 3D graphics and using an old compaq v55 monitor. After installation, Java Desktop does not come up and it stays in init 3.What is the likely problem and remedy? This is really frustrating it seems Solaris always have these ...

Solaris 10 on Toshiba P15 S420 laptop

661 byte By karthik_kha at 2007-11-27 7:29:46
Hi all,Here is my problem...1) Installed Solaris 10 on my laptop as the only OS, worked fine.. 2) Created two partitions on my HDD - 30 GB and 50 GBa) Installed WINXP on the first ( 30 GB ) partitionb) Installed Solaris 10 on Second Partition ( 50 GB )Now when I reboot after installation and ...

Need help in installing solaris 10.

428 byte By Santosh_Gadagojua at 2007-11-27 7:29:53
I have 4 cd set of solaris 10. I have an 80 GB hard disk with four partitions(NTFS). My current o/s is xp. Do i need to do any partitions in my hard disk before starting the installation? (I mean deleting any logical drive).Previously i tried installing by removing the logical drive for a ...

Need help in installing solaris 10.

428 byte By Santosh_Gadagojua at 2007-11-27 7:29:54
I have 4 cd set of solaris 10. I have an 80 GB hard disk with four partitions(NTFS). My current o/s is xp. Do i need to do any partitions in my hard disk before starting the installation? (I mean deleting any logical drive).Previously i tried installing by removing the logical drive for a ...

HAStorage or HAStoragePlus not needed with SC3.1, naking NFS HA?

1197 byte By hontoya at 2007-11-27 7:30:07
Greetings experts,some time ago I participated in a SC3.0 (yes, that's quite some time ago) training. Besides other, we learnt how to make NFS HA. In brief we constructed a triple ("a resource group) consisting of 3 resources: the logical host, the NFS application and the HAStorage ...

HAStoragePlus resource

184 byte By yacovbma at 2007-11-27 7:30:28
How to add An HAStoragePlus resource to a resource group with 2 Virtual Nodes. (zones)Do I need to define the zones with this storage lofs or any other type?Thanks

Top utility installation in Solaris 10

568 byte By bravobrittoa at 2007-11-27 7:30:35
Hello I've a SB 150 with Solaris 10 loaded. I tried to install top utility using pkgadd command and it showed that the package was added successfully. Following is the package name that I installed:top-3.5.1-sol25-sparc-localAfter this I have rebooted the server also. But when I type top in ...

sendmail wizard password and debug command

184 byte By grkrajesha at 2007-11-27 7:30:40
Hi All ,I want to know what is "wizard" password and "dubug" command in sendmail.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

readdir function sort behaviour changed in between Solaris 10 u2 and u3?

299 byte By s.urbata at 2007-11-27 7:31:21
We rely on the usual sort order, observed generally on Unix and up to 6/06 in Solaris 10 too, but since we installed 11/06 on one SPARC system, the (default) sort order of directory entries returned by readdir seems to have changed. Is anything known about this? Does anybody need an

Line length limit

677 byte By DavidSchulza at 2007-11-27 7:33:03
Hi,I'm having a problem with a large group (about 2500 members). I first thougt this is a Directory Server Problem, but the Server Log is identical for small and large groups and does not show any problems. Additionally even if i put the group (with all members) into /etc/group, I still cant ...

bootarchive corrupt, how to mount SATA root disk in failsafe?

507 byte By mdoehra at 2007-11-27 7:35:15
I have a HP DL385 with 4 SATA drives, the machine crashed today for unknown reason and rebooting was not possible since the boot-archive got corrupted.I booted into failsafe, I get a prompt but I also get"No installed OS instances found".Apparently the SATA driver I loaded from a separate disk ...

proc files

773 byte By rt4501a at 2007-11-27 7:35:28
Hello,The proc files are causing problems for Disk Analyzer and File Manager on Solaris 10.It seems they are being read in a continuous loop. For example: in file manager, I click /proc folder then I can click /0, then /cwd, then /proc, then /0, then /cwd etc....In Disk Analyer will ...

How to make a bootable backup of the operating system

286 byte By Cinderella99a at 2007-11-27 7:35:29
Hi,I am given the task to make a bootable backup of the OS (Solaris 9). I know I can use ufsdump to backup the system in single user mode. However, to make a backup bootable, shall I backup the file system to a DVD? Any advice will be greatly appreciated!Cinderella

Dell Inspiron + Broadcom 440x Integrated nic + Solaris 10 x86 = no network?

1209 byte By JanineLumCa at 2007-11-27 7:35:34
I'm having problems getting the driver to load for this nic on this laptop. I've tried the various other suggestions found in the forums (boot from cd, sys-unconfig, ifconfig plumb, etc.) but I think my basic problem is that the driver isn't recognized/loaded.prtconf shows that "driver not ...

Solaris 9 Setting New Subnetmask?

381 byte By Tonz66a at 2007-11-27 7:36:32
I have 2 enterprise 250s and 1 Ultra10 all running Solaris 9.Due to recent network changes I have to change the subnet mask on the ethernet interfaces. I change them fine with ifconfig but when the system reboots the subnet mask and broadcast address revert back to what they were before the ...

Solaris Official Build

661 byte By Wong_bna at 2007-11-27 7:39:00
Where can I find help on the info in the /etc/release. Here is what I have for my server now.Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARCCopyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Use is subject to license terms.Assembled 14 November 2006.Is s10s_u3wos_10 a build number just like Nevada ...

No login dialog on remote Xserver

3265 byte By ACGa at 2007-11-27 7:39:39
Hi,I have 2 identical x86-64 servers running the same version of Solaris 10 (details below). One arrived about a month before the other, so I set them up separately and, although I kept notes etc and tried to set the second one up the same, it isn't working quite right. The issues I have, ...

Building gcc 4.2 failed

3366 byte By cterbovena at 2007-11-27 7:39:40
Hi there.Building gcc 4.2 on Solaris 10 on x86 failed:=> ./configure --prefix=/rwthfs/rz/SW/UTIL.common/gcc/4.2/i86pc-pc-solaris2.10 --with-gmp=/rwthfs/rz/SW/UTIL.common/gcc/gmp/i86pc-pc-solaris2.10 --with-mpfr=/rwthfs/rz/SW/UTIL.common/gcc/mpfr/i86pc-pc-solaris2.10 ...

Help wanted with installing Solaris Express (2/07) on x64

1515 byte By kloebera at 2007-11-27 7:40:03
Folks'es,before I go and drown my desperation in whatever, I give it a last try in this forum. Here is what my troubles are:I have a DELL E521, with AMD X2 5600, 4GB RAM, 500GB Disk, ATI Radeon X1300 Graphiccard with 256 MB.It is currently running Vista Business x64.All is well with this and ...

solaris 10 v440 install failure.

1322 byte By cameoa at 2007-11-27 7:40:43
Hi,Have a v440 which passes full diag routine. with brand new solaris 10 dvd received from sun, with a freshly formatted 9gb hdd. When trying to bbot from the dvd, "boot cdrom", i get the following cycling through.Hardware watchdog enabledsvc.configd: smf(5) database integrity check ...

How can I use syscall() from 32-bit application in 64-bit Solaris (v. 5.8)

206 byte By Dear_Serga at 2007-11-27 7:40:53
Solaris 5.8Sun Blade 150 (64-bit) I have got SYGSYS when call syscall(...) from my 32-bit application.Is it possible to use syscall() in 32-bit applications under 64-bit Solaris?

troubles during solaris10 11/06 first boot

1073 byte By duxaa at 2007-11-27 7:41:51
hello everybodyhardware:motherboard supermicro X7DB8raid areca 1220i had no problems during installation. i use just initialized raid with arcmsr 1.20.00.13 drivers, successfully tested on S10 6/06 release. all partitions are ufs-formattedbut after reboot i suddenly get a pair of errors:Failed ...

flarcreate for disaster recovery

1099 byte By BlackwidowSta at 2007-11-27 7:41:57
I'm trying to put together a BMR solution for two Solaris 9 servers we have, neither has an internal tape drive. I was trying to follow the flash archive/jumpstart documentation but it is not very detailed. I installed a jumpstart/archive server to hold the images of these two servers.On one ...

New Sun FIRE X2100 Black Screen Flashing Cursor

196 byte By infected_rhythmsa at 2007-11-27 7:42:05
I just received a brand new Sun Fire X2100.1- Startup the machine...2- Pick Solaris 10 from GrubGet a black screen with a flashing cursor...Fail safe mode works.

Intel 915GM resolution problem

703 byte By Pneulaa at 2007-11-27 7:42:48
Hi all!I know this subject having been handled on many forums, but I'd still need some help in configuring Solaris 10 11/06.I just got a laptop based on Uniwill M30EI0 -platform with which I can't get full widescreen resolution 1280x768 working. I'm using Xorg server and have downloaded the ...

sort issues in solaris 10 based on Locale settings

306 byte By ledzepa at 2007-11-27 7:43:08
Hi All -When Locale is set to en_GB.ISO8859-1 and sort done, the output does not match the sort done on the same file with Locale set to en_US.ISO8859-1. Please note that both are using the ISO8859-1 char set. Why is the difference?Your input will greatly help.Thanks in ...

Mount 2 TB USB storage device

918 byte By kluesya at 2007-11-27 7:43:34
I have posted this before.....however no reply or help yet!!please....if anybody has suggestions...I had to resort to FTP files transfer...took 5 days!!Hello all,I have been trying for the past week to mount a 2 TB usb storage device that I built (VENUS box with 4x 500 gb). It shows up when I ...

OCR not recogniced during the installation Sun Cluster, Oracle RAC

906 byte By MArcomla at 2007-11-27 7:43:41
Hi,I have these environment.- 2 nodes V40Z.- Sun cluster 3.1u4 (x86)- Solaris 10 11/06 (x86)- QFS, SLVM/OBAM- Oracle RAC 10g R2I use the shared disk to make a metaset called racset with SLVM using the did's for the data raw devicesroot@orademo1 # metasetMulti-owner Set name = racset, Set ...

Invoking the device driver

797 byte By Kaushikgoa1a at 2007-11-27 7:43:47
HiI have written a non-STREAMS character device driver for Solaris...It passes the 'modload', 'modinfo' and 'modunload' test successfully.....Now, I have the xxopen(), xxclose(), xxattach(), xxdetach() entry points in my driver.. I am also using the ddi_create_minor_node() function in my ...

convert pdf to ps for printing

502 byte By tyaga at 2007-11-27 7:44:08
Hello,I'm following the same aim, i used /usr/sfw/bin/pdf2ps but i received the following error: gs: not found. So i tried /usr/sfw/esp/bin/pdf2ps i then i obtain a ps file.But my pdf was with arial and Century Gothic font and when the ps file has generated i obtain an other font. It seems ...

Solaris 10 generating Malicious Traffic...HELP

5217 byte By sun_prvnrka at 2007-11-27 7:44:09
Hi,Recently, we started getting WARNING messages from our ISP that one of our box IP generating malicious traffic.We have a Solaris 10 Box (OS patched upto date - services like telnet, snmp are disabled already) with that IP (ISP mentioned), is generating malicious traffic. I confirm it doing ...

trap SIGBUS in aiowrite

1388 byte By wangzhonnewa at 2007-11-27 7:44:23
signal: 10 -- SIGBUSstack trace:<StackTrace>##### Object: /usr/lib/sparcv9/libaio.so.1assfail(0x10000,0xffffffff72702000,0x0,0xffffffff77e08000,0x0,0xffffffff7b1e975 9) + 0x258assfail(0x10000,0x0,0x3,0xffffffff77d02650,0x3,0xffffffff7fffd66c) + ...

Solaris command to show all network interfaces in a server (plumb/unplumb)?

467 byte By tonytran10a at 2007-11-27 7:45:51
Hi there,Is there a Solaris command to show all the network interfaces in a server(plumb/unplumb etc...).I have a V880 that has an eri0 on board, plumbed up. It also has a coupleof ge0, ge1, and ce0, and a qfe card.ifconfig -a only shows eri0.(I am using something like "dladm show-link", but ...

Zones unreachable externally

1197 byte By alpha78a at 2007-11-27 7:45:57
I am running Solaris 10 on an X2200 M2 machine, fully patched with all the latest patches.I am trying to run an application, which I have configured and tested to run in the global zone, ie locating the startup script in rc3.d works. However, when I created a non-global zone to host this ...

Migrating zones & different patch-levels

448 byte By nzirdosa at 2007-11-27 7:46:20
Hi,I'd like to migrate a couple of zones off of a very busy T2000; mostpackages on the target machine for the move are on a more recent patch-level than on the machine where the zones come from.How trivial is the move, can I patch them up from their new globalzone after a forced attach? ...

Backup Solaris OS

203 byte By nankeen80a at 2007-11-27 7:47:37
How do u backup the operating system to 4mm DDS3 tape?...is there a special command to type, or is it just ufsdump?Im using solaris 2.6 platform, and DDS3 drive.Please assist. Thanks a lot.