Hi,Have been running solaris-devx on my laptop for a few weeks,Setup a user in the root... now loging in to the user with JDS.But it takes to long before giving the GUI login, if anyone no's howto bypass the console please let me know...? Q.Do I need to re-install an configure it some where, ...

Would anyone know where to find the source code for the Solaris 8 and 10 ftp daemon? I think the file is ftpd.c.Thanks

Hi,is it possible to use software compiled on Solaris 10 sparc on a x86 system?Thanks for any hints in advance.Burkhard

Hi all..we are planning to implement a campus cluster with storage replication over a distance of 4km using remote mirror feature of sun storagetek 6140. Primary storage ( the one where quorum resides ) and replicated secondary storage will be in separate sites interconnected with dedicated ...

Hello There.I just got a Sun ultra 10 and I am trying to install Solaris 10 on it using the original DVD that I got from sun.However when i try running a boot cdrom at the ok prompt I see that it cannot read the label.Im sure it is because it is a DVD and not a CD. Isn't it?Can the sun ultra ...

Hi all,I am new to Solaris platform, but have strong desire to play with Solaris. I have downloaded many utility programs (source code version) for Solaris like LAN-Chat, UNRAR, Screensaver, etcFor example, I downloaded "xscreensaver-5.02.tar.gz" and unzipped to a folder.I referred the ...

Hi,i need to make standalone jumpstart bootable solaris 10 sparc dvd but i have some problems with the new installation process. i readed all the scripts in the boot process but i don't now what i need to change and where i need to change it in order to have this customized dvd.I follow the ...

Hi,We have installed three instances of Oracle on differenet zones across different servers. We followed all the best practices from sun & oracle. But our DBA say there is performance degradation on Sun servers as compare with the same installation on Intel servers. (He showed me some ...

Hi,Other day, a guy was running the format command in SunOS 5.8 and he killed the process to end it. Now whenever you try to run format again, it hangs with the message "Searching for disk...".Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Is there a lock file somewhere that I can delete?The system ...

Hello,as I wrote in the subject my SUN V210 hangs after "Hardware Watchdog Enabled" on boot. If I want to shutdown the system with the "power button" I am getting the message "WARNING: Failed to shut down the system!"..This failure occures after I mounted the harddisk in another hardware ...

Hi,I am planning to give solaris 10 Certification SA-1.Please, can you tell me from where i can get study guide and test dumps for certification? Can anyone send me these documents if have? And what is the best way to pass the exam?Thanks,Raj

Hello,I just a bought a Gateway laptop that has Vista installed. I want to install Solaris 10 on the laptop and use it as a standalone system. I've looked all over the net to check if anyone has done the same. All I've seen is dual boot with vista and solaris. I've also used the Sun Device ...

After upgrading from Solaris 9 up to Solaris 10 with Oracle 9.2.0.8 we've got performance degradation. %Sys time doubled. Database has almost 70% writes , very intensive application. Smth about 100G SGA . 278 G phys mem and 136 CPU-s on SF25K. Everything is bad. Coming back to the old Solaris ...

I have 3511 populated with 400 gb HDD. Now i have created 2.9 TB filesystem. the filesystem shows full with 500 gb of data. I found that the inodes are full. So please suggest me a way so that i can get full access of the file system 2.9tb and i want it as a single filesystem. So what options i ...

Hi,I have struggled now for a while with the interface configuration on Solaris 10. I want to configure a logical interface with IP address and netmask, but not have it set to "up". I merely want to prepare it for failover, handled by a seperate program.After finding out that the startup script ...

Hello Experts,Is it possible to install two different Sun Studio versions on the same machine?i'm working on Sun Solaris 8 (UNIX) and have already installation of Forte Developer 6 update 2.And I would like to install (separately hopefully with no conflicts) Sun Studio 9.Is it ...

Hi,I recently went to a fielded system to do some work on our Sun boxes. Long story short is that I installed patches from the Recommeded cluster from the 4/13/07 timeframe, and after the reboot both of my Sun boxes got in a state where the screen was blank with a black background. During the ...

Hello all,I'm a bit disapointed, I've just achieve Solaris 10 x86 u3 HW 11/06 installation on my new Dell Precision M90 successfully from the DVD and it does not boot, I can only boot in Solaris Failsafe.Using "kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -kd" option, and ":c" command in the kmdb, the ...

i can not install Solaris 10 because my disks label is EFI instead of SMI. I found solve of this problem in archive, i know i should change the label by format -s but it is impossible because when i attempt i receive message "no disk found". Do you know how i can change disks label in other ...

Newbie question!I have set up a Sun Fire v245 server which will be used as a test server. This server came with Solaris 10 preloaded and also equipped with components from the Java Enterprise System. To the point,Every time my users login they get a message that says "JESv4 Message of The Day ...

Hi,does anyone knows how to start up Solaris without the "welcome screen" window? I have some problems with mi pc, when Solaris starts, the screen turns into a pshycodelic cascade of colors, but the system can stil be acceded by an ssh client throgh the network.So, the system is up, but in the ...

I have a Sparcstation 5 that I have dusted off and thought it might be nice to run Solaris 10 on it - it runs Solaris 8 just fine. Alas I got the message "does not run on this hardware..." My aim was familiarisation and practice, so I'm going to have to use Solaris 9. The Sparcstation is a ...

Here's the situation.I've got a sparc machine that I'm trying to install Solaris 10 on. I've verified the equipment in the approved hardware guide, so I'm not worried about that.I get through the installation process and am asked to reboot without a single problem. The problem occures ...

Guys i wanna mount ntfs drive to my solaris system....Anyone can help me to do that task....It is very much needed to me... Thanks for viewing...................

HiI'm trying to install a new copy of the solaris 10 dvd on my x64 intel machine.I noticed that it couldn't get into a windowed mode installation soI've tried to install it under VMWARE workstation 6 with the iso image firstin order to test things:I've noticed that during installation after ...

Greetings experts,would you please help me to acquire a better understanding:1. In SC 3.0 and SC3.1 SCSI-3 PGR is used in a 3 nodes cluster for both, the DCS and the QD disks (in a 2 nodes cluster traditional SCSI-2 Reserve is used for DCS and PGRE for QD devices)2. In SC 3.2 the same applies ...

hi, I'am triying to install solaris 10 on a set of new servers, installation goes smooth, screen shows perfectly, and graphics are apparently ok, however, on the first boot, the computer freezes on the login screen, we get a black screen with a thick pink line at the top and it freezes.Also, I ...

Hi,i have problem with network interface bnx0 on solaris 10 on DELL BLADE 1955. I install new solaris 10 to machine, install drivers for network card. Configure network interface bnx0 on /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, /etc/defaultrouter, /etc/hostname.bnx0. after reboot, is interface bnx0 ...

Dear all I have Solaris 10 running on V880 with Ultra320PCI/PCI-X card in 66 Mhz slot .SCSI HBA is connected to Multipack SCSI IN portOut port SCSI Terminator is connected Multipack can be detected at Ok prompt but not at OSlevel please see the console message below & i havedone following ...

Dear all I have 2 boxes ( V880, E3500 ) both are connected to Multipack , which i want to build cluster later . unique scsi-initaitor as been setup , both system cannot see multipack for troubleshooting i connect only V880 to multipack and use terminator at other end , i can see multpack at Ok ...

Hi ,I am facing some problem in XVFB in solaris 10 not able to connect to GUI from windows desktop , totally unaware where to go search and how to proceed , I want to know how to chk ,start , and wat ever related vxfb related services in solaris 10thks TaD

Hi,After executing rsh command it is asking for a password. I want to login to a target machine with rsh command through the scripts which it shouldnot ask for a password. It will be appreciated if anyone can help me in solving out this issue?

Hi,We are installing Oracle10g RAC with Oracle clusterware with ASM on Solaris 10. Does anybody have a installation/configuration manual for this combination. Thanks,Murtuja

I have a two node cluster with an attached disk for quorum. The systems went down and the device that I had quorum on lost all of its data. Now the systems are sitting at the boot screen saying they cannot get quorum so they won't boot. I tried to do the amnesia recovery, but the system I ...

I have a system that is running Solaris 10 Update 3 TX with 1 zpool and 5 zones. Everything on it is running fine. I take the drive to my disk duplicator and dupe it bit by bit to another drive, put the newly duped drive in the same machine and boot it up everything boots up fine. Then I do a ...

Hi,I try to create .iso file with 'mkisofs' command for bootable dvd to install Solaris 10 flash archive from dvd.I used the following command and options to create:# mkisofs -R -D -d -L -l -o s9u5.S0 s0then cat all the files together# cat dvd.vtoc s0 pad.s0 s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 > ...

Hi,I am attempting to install solaris 10 on a v245 from a flash archive created on a sun v240 and it fails with the error:ERROR: Postdeployment processing failureAnyone have any ideas it there is a problem going from a 240 to a 245?Thanks,Darren

Hello all,I am running Solaris 10 and am getting 'out of disk space' messages from the kernel but a df -k shows that only 90% is used and that around 4Gb is available.I cannot write to this partition though!What could be the cause of this?ThanksSRG

Hello everyone,I apologize for asking what is a very FAQ, but I am unable to find an appropriate answer anywhere on the interweb.The facts of my unfortunate situation are:1. I am a newbie in the SA world.2. I am even more of a newbie in the Solaris world.3. I am administering a Production ...

Sorry for the noob question. I inherited a Sun Fire V240 as part of my network and have little Unix experience. I have been able to get by managing this system via SSH but are increasingly in the need for some GUI. For example, the APC Network Shutdown app for Solaris requires it runs from a ...

hi,I am trying to upgrade from solaris 9 -> 10. Part of the process we use is to use the solaris 10 binaries and point to solaris 10 libraries. Issue is: they cannot seem to be running and i was wondering whether this is because we are still running on sol9 kernel. This process has worked ...

Hi --just for kicks, I was trying to install Solaris 10 (x86 natch) on a SuperMicro H8SSL-i board. It uses the ServerWorks (Broadcom) HT1000 chipset for its SATA interface. But at the initial device detection, I get a failure at the PCI detection, IDE reset, etc.I thought from this HCL entry ...

when i try to create LV with RAID 1+0, after creating 20 LV, 21th LV show some error with same command.[code][b]smscsrv01 #vxassist -g historydg mirror lv_hisdata24 historydg_3 historydg_5 historydg_6[/b][/code]vxvm:vxplex: ERROR: Volume lv_hisdata24-L01, plex lv_hisdata24-P01, block 1328867: ...

Hi, On solaris 10 machine when creating a zone the default config it is creating with is as below:# zonecfg -z Yalong6zonecfg:Yalong6> infozonepath: /Yalong/Yalong6autoboot: falsepool:inherit-pkg-dir:dir: /libinherit-pkg-dir:dir: /platforminherit-pkg-dir:dir: /sbininherit-pkg-dir:dir: ...

Hi all,I downloaded the images of Solaris 10 form Sun, burned them and installed...it all worked out well and now I have dual boot XP and Solaris. On the first boot, it asked me to register with Sun the software and some stuff then I realized that I couldn't manage to get connected. I'm using ...

I am fairly new to Solaris and got Solaris 10 6/06 Developer media kit in the mail. When I attempt to install it on my machine I get an error 28 can not load into memory and goes into a cycle back to the choice of which OS to load.I have a Dell Dimension 8100 which is listed in the Solaris HCL, ...

HelloI have a non-STREAMs based character device driver. I want to implement my own xxchpoll() routine.As per the man page of chpoll(9E), if anyyet is not set, the driver must return an instance of the local pollhead structure.... In which routine (xxattach, xxopen etc) do I store this local ...

Hi, i am stuck in the failsafe mode or if i even try to login from the single user mode i need a text editor all the editors in solaris 10 are useless they are graphical but i am stuck in command line please guide me something simple such as vim in linux because vim in solaris has problem even ...

Dear gurusI wanted to run Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g R2 in same cluster ( two node ) , in different Resoures Group .runnning on Solaris 9 the databases are quite small in size Is it possible to do , any hint will be helpful Regards

HiI have setup a two nodes cluster with sun cluster 3.1 u4 on sun v890+StorageTek6140.On the cluster runs oracle RAC with oracle 10g+clusterware.When all thing finished ,I mirrored the bootdisk with SVM on the nodes,but during boot in solaris,it panic like this:Jun 23 15:14:37 hisa ...