Recent update: 2008-5-9

Limit No of CPU's visible in the Non Global Zone

331 byte By Ramneeksa at 2007-11-15
HiWe have 24 CPU Domain with Solaris 10 U4We have a requirement where we need a non-global zone which shows total no of CPU's as 4 within this domain. It's application licensing requirement.Can somebody suggest is it possible and if somebody has tried it how can this be done.Thanks in ...

PGX64 drivers

252 byte By jesabina at 2007-11-15
Hi I am just having problems finding Solaris 10 drivers for this PGX64 video card, can anyone point me in the right direction. I know how to get it installed, just can't find them Thanks Message was edited by: jesabin

T2000, e1000g, zone and "checksum error"

435 byte By nzirdosa at 2007-11-15
Hi,Investigating some performance issues I saw the followingwhen analysing snooped traffic from a zone with ethereal:Checksum: 0x1710 [incorrect, should be 0x7cde (maybe caused by "TCP checksum offload"?)]How do I get rid of those, assuming that it plays part in ourperformance issues?uname ...

setup SVN on Solaris 10, need some help

1257 byte By xhkonga at 2007-11-15
folks,I'm trying to setup a SVN server on Solaris 10 Sparc. I got everything installed and the SVN server up.Code:# svcs -a | grep subversiononline 18:31:25 svc:/network/subversion:defaultPort was set to 3691 using: svnserve --daemon --listen-port 3691 --root /export/home0/subversion and it ...

zpool create core dump

1008 byte By sonylwca at 2007-11-15
I am having a problem to bring in a EMC clariion disk to the zpool of my V245 server. I can newfs the powerpath device and create files, I just couldn't create a zpool using that. any idea? Btw, the disk is only 64GB, it shouldn't hit the zfs limitation.# zpool create emc emcpower0ainternal ...

Desktop

234 byte By thbaiga at 2007-11-15
hello dear,I have solaris 10 software DVD but it does't include companion cd, because of this I am not able to get desktop environment.I want to know from where on sun site I may able to download solaris 10 companion cd

how to allow regular user login to solaris 10 console?

227 byte By jazzfana at 2007-11-15
Hi AllDoes anyone know how to allow regular solaris 10 (sparc) users to access the console (Xwindows)? Right now, only ROOT can logon via Xwindows (console), but no one else.Thank you for you help!SB

Helpdesk / workorder management software?

134 byte By DoxBriana at 2007-11-15
Not sure where else to post this... Looking for something that runs well on Solaris. Any suggestions?Thanks!Brian

Plain Text Attachments are delivered as inline through sendmail in Solaris

1145 byte By proudleoa at 2007-11-15
We are trying to send a plain text attachment through sendmail, but it is delivered as a inline message with all the headers in the body of the mail.I am using the following format for the mail header dataFile << "\nContent-Type: MULTIPART/mixed; ";dataFile << ...

pkgmap files missing in global zone, can't build non-global zone

523 byte By bperttunena at 2007-11-14
My solaris 10 server is missing the pkgmap files for the packages. As a result, I can't build a non-global zone. Is there a way to recreate the pkgmap files?The OS on the Solaris 10 server was installed via jumpstart (initial install). However, the Jumpstart process used a Solaris 9 boot ...

root PATH not coming from /etc/default/login or /etc/default/su

907 byte By RegExpGuya at 2007-11-14
I need to add some directories to root's PATH, so I've been reading up on /etc/default/login and /etc/default/su.I am at Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100.When I su, my PATH becomes /usr/sbin:/usr/bin which kind of makes sense (except that the SUPATH= line in /etc/default/su is commented out, and ...

System panics on reboot on Solaris 10 with root and /var mirrored

5857 byte By lbetten218a at 2007-11-14
I've encountered this issue while installing Solaris 10 11/06 sparc on the following systems:Netra t1 100Netra 1400SunFire V880SunFire 280RI get a a panic on reboot after editing the /etc/vfstab to boot as mirrored devices. Havte noted the panic below. Did find this bug: ...

How to install Solaris 10 with Win XP on 2nd Hard Drive

397 byte By Jags_FLa at 2007-11-14
hi everyone,I'm totally new to Solaris. As an enthusiast, I wants to install Solaris 10 on my Win XP PC's 2nd Hard Drive(40GB, empty) from Solaris 10 DVD.I need help from how to format 2nd Hard Drive to how can I configure the PC so it asks me which OS to load every time.I will highly ...

Zone reboot

246 byte By samscreena at 2007-11-14
Hi Allsomething i have noticed when rebboting a zone the zone id get incremented by one each time.Why?when you rebbot the whole machine the zone id then is reset back to 1?why?where is the zone id stored?

Need help configuring Network Access

1507 byte By Yandiela at 2007-11-14
Hi!First than all, I have to admit than I'm a newbie on Solaris 10. Currently I'm running Solaris 10 x86 on a Virtual Machine (VMware Server) on a Windows Server 2003 Computer. I'm trying to access network services from Solaris 10 such as Telnet, FTP, and HTTP and I'm getting the following ...

volfs/vold problems after upgrade from 1/06 to 6/06

716 byte By monolith at 2007-11-14
I noticed in the 6/06 "What's new" notes, volfs/vold is now handled by SMF. However, after my upgrade, my console was spamming:Oct 9 05:56:11 server2 /usr/sbin/vold[1501]: [ID 159315 daemon.error] vol_init: already a daemon runningI'm assuming that vold had already been started by a legacy ...

named hint file sometimes missing when system is booted

196 byte By HenryC at 2007-11-14
HiWe seem to have seen that a hint file has been deleted somehow during reboot of a non-global server.Does anyone have an idea of how a hint file can go missing during reboot?

Listing network interfaces as they are recognized by the kernel

763 byte By Mike_Z at 2007-11-14
I'm looking for a command to list the network interfaces as they are discovered by the kernel without having to use "ifconfig" ( ifconfig -a [plumb|unplumb] )".The /var/sadm/system/log/sysidtool.log has the initial information that I need, but should another network card get added to the ...

Alom Instalation on T2000

416 byte By hadi74 at 2007-11-14
Dear All , we have sun 4200 , we have try install OS from ILOM on 4200 use share dvd on windows client (connect first to webserver ilom first), Can we do install use ALOM on T2000 (like we install use ILOM on )? , what i know ,we can access sun 4200 use web and we can share dvd on windows ...

boot problem

232 byte By benjamintr at 2007-11-14
I installed Solaris 10 on PC which installed XP on the other partition. I couldn't boot system whith XP or Solaris that i select. Is it possible to see both OS on the boot menu? How can i study XP and Solaris on the same PC?

Further Network Configuration Questions

916 byte By Tclark at 2007-11-14
Greetings,I am working on getting my x86 Solaris 10 configured into my network. I was able to work through an issue preventing my system from recognizing the LAN adapter and installing the drivers (thanks to help from this forum). I am able to get the interface up and running and am able to ...

what dose the word "fan-out" mean?

251 byte By hanage1cm at 2007-11-14
Is "IP Classifier-Based Fan Out" meaning that packets related to certain connection are processed on all CPUs in the system, not one certain CPU ?Can "IP Classifier-Based Fan Out" achieve cache locality that is one of advantages ?

zlogin: could not enter zone z01: Bad address

716 byte By James__Wilde at 2007-11-14
The subject says it all. I'm running 305 GA on a sparc.I can login with zlogin -C <zonename> and I can login with a normal ssh call, but on all four zones an attempt to login with zlogin <zonename> I get the message in the subject line.This is new behaviour - I could login with ...

No Packages were installed on zoneadm install

1426 byte By leonardcr at 2007-11-14
Hi all,Well,I want to create a solaris zone, simple like that:# zonecfg -z db-zone1my-zone3: No such zone configuredUse 'create' to begin configuring a new zone.zonecfg:my-zone3> createzonecfg:my-zone3> set zonepath=/svm/zone1zonecfg:my-zone3> set autoboot=truezonecfg:my-zone3> ...

package behavior with zones

1459 byte By Misc_Screen_Name at 2007-11-14
I build a lot of custom packages for distributing software on our systems. I'm trying to figure out how installing packages in the global zone is supposed to be inherited in non-global zones. I am using build 63.In the package, I have defined SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=true and ...

adding FS to zone's /etc/vfstab

1008 byte By olihar at 2007-11-14
Hello all,I'm trying to mount a FS at my zone's startup, therefore I add something like :/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6 /mnt1ufs-yesloggingto the zone's vfstab. A attempt to boot this configuration throwschecking ufs filesystems/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6: is ...

service state "degraded"

270 byte By olihar at 2007-11-14
Hello all,Just wondering what the explanation "running at limited capacity" of service state 'degraded' is supposed to mean.I'd be also very grateful if somebody could provide an example of when this state may occur.TIAOliver

What am I doing wrong?

3228 byte By tscola at 2007-11-14
I have a script, called "force-full-duplex", that I want to run once at startup, via smf. I'm more than a little peeved that instructions on how to do this still aren't fully documented now that S10 is released.Anyway, I created the script, and stuck it in /lib/svc/method.I created the ...

failed to instantiate: Operation not applicable

1658 byte By jlitchfield at 2007-11-14
What does this mean?The file that generated it is:#! /usr/sbin/dtrace -Fspid$1::$2:entry{self->trace = 1;}jni$1:::kid/self->trace == 1/{printf ("val: %d", arg0);}The excutable it was targeting has these 'jni' trace points...4jni1305libKstat.socount ksc5jni1305libKstat.soex_raw ...

Can't login into Oracle sqlplus

497 byte By hiensang at 2007-11-14
I have installed Oracle 10g on sun solaries. after that I am getting these issues . Could you please advice me?I have telneted to sun server and typed "sqlplus" at the command prompt, it is giving me this error message:ld.so.1: sqlplus: fatal: /export/home/oracle/OraHom?)2/lib/libsqlplus.so: ...

PC Netlink

626 byte By filipfrancis at 2007-11-14
Hi all,question regarding PC-Netlink 2.0.I have this running on our production server.I know that it is not supported any more but he, i am in the middle of test the LDAP+ samba combination.Need to realy understand it all before trying todo a migration.If somebody has a sort off check list for ...

Sorry, testing

32 byte By alan_pae at 2007-11-14
just skip this one

'Out of frequency'

507 byte By Hans at 2007-11-14
HelloI installed Solaris 10 succesfully on my x86 desktop, but I didn't realised in time that I was working with a LCD screen, so I entered the option about the standaard 75Hz frequency away... Now if I start up Solaris, I first get the bootscreen where I can choose to use boot parameters and ...

Question: About NFSSTAT from CLIENT

964 byte By xxxyyyy at 2007-11-14
HiThis is my post and I post here looking for solution to the problem that I am facing. I recently started working on NFS.... so here it goes.I have a client-server model with IP between them. Since there are multiple clients that accesss the same server and there is no communication between ...

can I use dd to copy a bootable disk

144 byte By jdel80 at 2007-11-14
I have been asked to make 10 copies of a Sol. 10 disk if I use dd will the copy'd drive boot or do I need to make a boot record ?

I have a black screen

143 byte By mouss100 at 2007-11-14
Excuses me !, can some one help me ? i have a black screen , just the terminal is visible, i have solaris 9 on sparc. thank you .

Solaris project problem

627 byte By petruso at 2007-11-14
Im getting a strange error when trying to run some commands as another user through su. It seems that resource allocation fails.This simple script causes the same error: - test.sh #!/bin/shAUSER=oraclesu - $AUSER -c ls &su - $AUSER -c ls -l--# ./test.shproject.max-shm-memory resource ...

Problem with Nvidia and SX08/05

426 byte By casevh at 2007-11-14
I just installed SX08/05. The installation worked fine until I installed the Nvidia drivers. About 5 seconds after the login screen appeared, the system locks up hard. The identical hardware ran fine with SX06/05 and the Nvidia driver.I believe it is related to the new AGP driver.HardwareTyan ...

internet connection

1498 byte By az5toes at 2007-11-14
I just installed solaris 10 x86 and have been trying to get an internet connection with no success. My network card seems to be working and I can ping myself. My pc is connected to a Linksys router by cable but I cannot ping the router, nor can I ping Cox, my ISP provider. I have a windows pc ...

i can't boot from instalation disk need help

136 byte By velicumugur at 2007-11-14
can anyone tell me why i can't boot from instalation diski burn a DVD with verified iso with MD5 with Nero Express

Solaris 10/Belkin Wireless

449 byte By NightDaemon at 2007-11-14
Hi all. I've got a problem getting my laptop's wireless card to work. Please note that I'm new to Unix, so try to keep answers from breaking my mind :)How can I/is it possible to use my Windows NDIS drivers to make the card work? I'm running on an x86, dual-boot into Windows XP, and the ...

ld.so.conf

342 byte By trunikov at 2007-11-14
Hi ALL!I've some experience in Linux but very green in Solaris. Question is following. In Linux I can write pathes to libraries in linker's config file ld.so.conf. What is used in Solaris instead? Now I use environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but this approach is not secured and ...

Can I install in 32 bit mode?

187 byte By LostinLA at 2007-11-14
I think my machine will only cope with 32 bit mode. Solaris 10 seems to have a capability to run in 32 bit or 64 bit mode, but how do I install at 32 bit?Anyone know?

install linux application on solaris 10

80 byte By jafnie at 2007-11-14
Could i install linux applications on solaris 10 wihout using rpm?

Solaris 10 Install Failure - "Short read"

744 byte By jbreher at 2007-11-14
I am having an issue trying to install Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400. After selecting the CDROM as the boot device, I get the following:/pci@0,0/pci8086,962@2/pci9004,7880@6/sd@5,0:a: disk read error, sector 28370short read 0xffffffff chars readdisk read errorboot: source: open of ...

Monitor Solution changing

162 byte By Flocopy@gmx.net at 2007-11-14
Hello,i want to chance the monitor solution to 1280*1024. Solaris only knows 640*480. how can i change it?I have a NEV 1701 TFT

Solaris 10 THe Best?

1248 byte By orion05 at 2007-11-14
Hi,I'm new to Solaris. I have used Linux (2 years ago) and had installed FreeBSD for a short time just before I installed Solaris 10. Now, I did install Solaris 10 because the word was it's the best Unix system, and possibly it is, but where is the proof? I would prefer if there is links (on ...

Unable to create Sybase master device

849 byte By magr40 at 2007-11-14
Hello,Before starting Sybase install, I have created two raw devices c0t0d0s3 & c0t0d0s4.Then I did:chown sybase:staff /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3chown sybase:staff /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4Sybase install errors off while creating master device:kernel Checked out license ASE_DEVkernel Adaptive Server ...

Post installation help

562 byte By kirankumarl at 2007-11-14
Hi,I have tried to install Solaris 10 on AMD XP processor I did not have any problems with installation. The Boot CD recognizes the hardware and installation was successful. Offers me " Reboot now" button. After reboot, blue scree appears to choose the boot partition (I have Windows XP on other ...

Patch add and directory permissions

730 byte By vgrama at 2007-11-14
Hello,One recent question reminded me of this issue.. I wanted to ask a long time ago: why does patchadd fail if the patch subdirectory is under a directory not writable by everyone (or with some kind of special permissions) ? Is there a good reason for this ?The documentation says you should ...