Packages needed for running GNome and GTK Apps
On my desktop machine, a SPARC Sunblade 1500 I use the Java Desktop and successfully run such things as gedit, gnome_terminal, Eclipse, and Oracle's SQL Developer.I'm trying to determine what packages I need to have installed on my development server box so that I can run those applications there (still using my desktop as the X server).
The server is a Sun Fire V240 running SunOS 5.10 , 11/06 , 118833-36. It has 4G of RAM. Gedit, gnome-terminal, and eclipse come up but they behave poorly. In additions some visual components appear only slowly or never at all: the gnome-terminal scroll bar doesn't show except for a gray rectangle the length of the screen. Menus in eclipse are painfully slow to appear and react.
Any idea what is missing from the installation? Thanks for any help you can give.
Tom True
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tdtruea] at [2007-11-27 5:09:03]
# 1
I apologize in advance for not being able to provide a specific answer to the
problem you presented, but hopefully this might eliminate a few variables
from the equation.
When I need to find missing packages, I always use "pkginfo" on each box
and compare lists. (pkginfo, pkginfo -x, pkginfo -l)
When I can't find the answer there, I go ahead and bring my machines up to
date with the latest Recommended patch cluster (following the directions on
Jumbo patches will prevent a lot of problems i.e. use single-user mode, do
not use -nosave option, and patch twice***see below)
Regarding the display issues, here are some of the things I would
check for (most of these should not matter if they differ, but it helps in
overall troubleshooting)
Are the locales the same ISO8859-1 vs. ISO8859-15
(/etc/default/init)
How is the network traffic between the two?
Do the SB1500 and the V240 have issues resolving each other's I.P.?
(/etc/resolv.conf /etc/inet/hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf)
Are they both patched to the latest and greatest Recommended patch levels
( ***see latest README for 10_Recommended.zip for new warnings)
differing versions of SSH? OpenSSH vs. ssh.com vs. Sun_ssh 1.1
If they used the same internal disk drive, I would dd the good one, and take
the copy to a V240 and see what happened on a boot -rv. Unfortunately, they
do not in this case.
***
CLUSTER_README
NAME: Solaris 10 Recommended Patch Cluster
DATE: May/22/07
...
WARNING!! IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that the installation of this patch
cluster be performed in single-user mode (Run Level S).
...
************** CAUTION:**************
This cluster contains kernel patch 118833-36. Depending on the current
kernel patch revision on the target system, this kernel patch may deliver a
significant amount of code change. On certain configurations, some manual
steps may be required in order to safely apply this patch. Please carefully
review the Special Install Instructions in the 118833-36 README before
installing this cluster. Note the following in particular :
Use of the -nosave option with the install_cluster script is NOT
Recommended, see 118833-36 README NOTE 74.
Once all preliminary precautions have been taken, the cluster may be
installed.
Depending upon the starting patch level of the system, the cluster install
script may need to be run up to two timeswith a reboot after each run in
order for all the patches to be installed
....
