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Live install

Ian Collins — 2012-05-25T11:44:53

I just read (well skimmed, it's quite long)  this article "How to Live 
Install from Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11 11/11"  from a 
recent Oracle mailing.  Has anyone here tried it?

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/howto-solaris-live-install-1599365.html?msgid=3-6527337982

LDOM with Windows Server

Jeff Brower — 2012-05-23T21:26:21

I know we are an X86 group, but one of you guys might know the answer so I
thought I would toss it out.  Apologies in advance.

 

I have a client with a SPARC T-1000 running Solaris 10 and having trouble
getting any kind of information or warm fuzzies from Oracle.  The machine is
capable of running LDOMS (Oracle calls it Oracle Virtual Server now) and it
supposedly will run up to 128 virtual servers - but I have it running a
single image with zones.

 

Anyway, this client is as dubious of Oracle as they were faithful to Sun and
is asking me to figure out a way.  I hate to even type this. to install
Windows Server on the T-1000 in place of Solaris 10.  They insist that
anything is easier and cheaper than trying to migrate to the new Oracle
Solaris and they can't get the updates form Solaris 10 for some reason.  I
am wondering if any of you guys are in a situation where you have installed
Windows on a SPARC machine (perhaps with the QEMU emulator running in an
LDOM)?

 

Is there any way to work this out that you guys are using or heard of?
Suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance all, and sorry about the SPARC post in X86, but I kinda
know who to trust here.

OpenOffice

John D Groenveld — 2012-05-22T17:59:03

For those still running the Sun OpenOffice 3.3 packages for
S10 and OpenSolaris, here's an unofficial download of the
Apache.ORG OOo 3.4:
<URL:https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots>

John
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MEDIA: Oracle Releases Documents in Court Case With HP Over Itanium

John D Groenveld — 2012-05-16T20:14:02

Jeffrey Burt on Dorian Daley and company other lawfare:
<URL:http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Oracle-Releases-Documents-in-Court-Case-With-HP-Over-Itanium-190753/>
| The court exhibits, released by Oracle May 16, date back to 2007,
| when HP and Intel executives were debating the future of Itanium, on
| which HP has based its high-end Integrity and NonStop servers.
| Throughout the emails and other documents, HP executives talk about
| the harm it would cause their Business Critical Systems (BCS) group
| if Intel officials followed through on their desire to end Itanium
| development in favor of their x86-based Xeon processors, and debate
| options ranging from paying Intel hundreds of millions of dollars to
| continue the platform to buying Sun Microsystems to gain its
| SPARC/Solaris hardware business.

John
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Update Oracle vs Google

palowoda — 2012-05-11T22:26:10

http://www.fiver.net/?p=253

:-)

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Current status of Oracle vs Google lawsuit

palowoda — 2012-05-09T23:46:04

http://www.fiver.net/?p=239

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Solaris 11 NFS mount at boot

pcsol1996 — 2012-05-08T13:37:45

I mount an NFS directory on workstations at boot. I have NSF client enabled and have a vfstab entry with mount at boot enabled (same entry I had under Solaris 10), yet under Solaris 11 it won't mount at boot.  If I do a mountall after boot, it works fine.  What do I need to do under S11 to get this to work at boot without manual intervention?



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cron going wonky....

hal_hl — 2012-05-08T04:20:08

So a month or so ago I posted about several issues I was having with S11.  One of those issues was a zpool process that would start consuming more and more CPU the longer the system was up.

I think I finally figure out what was causing it...

the zpool iostat would show reads on the pool at 5-7M/sec constant rate on a system that was doing nothing otherwise.  General performance was slow and system was barely usable.

I was using the iosnoop dtrace script to try and figure out what it was, and nothing really stood out.

apparently I need new glasses as it happened again today, and I discovered there were 36 /usr/bin/cron processes running in a zone!

This zone is pretty busy, spawning 13 cron jobs every minute, and the pool that was always going busy holds the root for this zone.  

svcadm disable cron/enable cron killed them all and brought zpool process down to normal.

Any idea what could be causing so many cron processes to exist?

I reduced the number of cron jobs that get run every minute, but that will probably only extend the failure point, not eliminate it.




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Building squid 3.1.19 on S11

hal_hl — 2012-05-08T04:00:48

Trying to build Squid 3.1.19 on S11.   Someone here mentioned they were able to build it?

I'm running into this:
Undefinedfirst referenced
 symbol      in file
ldap_start_tls_s                    squid_ldap_auth.o
ldap_initialize                     squid_ldap_auth.o


I'm perfectly happy with the Oracle supplied package, except someone forgot the --with-ipf-transparent flag :(  I swore it was there with Solaris 11, but it's gone with SRU6.6...Or at least not there :)

I've goggled, and see others have the same issue, but no solutions posted, other than it's due to a missing liblber.a.  I don't have a liblber.a, but a liblber.so....

./configure 'CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc' 'CXX=/usr/sfw/bin/g++' '--prefix=/opt/squid' '
CFLAGS=-m32 -O3  -L/usr/lib -R/usr/lib -I/usr/include/kerberosv5 -D_LARGEFILE_SO
URCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' '--localstatedir=/var/squid' '--sharedstatedir=/var
/squid' '--sysconfdir=/opt/squid/etc' '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-auth=basic,di
gest,negotiate,ntlm' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB,NCSA,YP,LDAP,PAM,getpwnam,M
SNT,POP3,multi-domain-NTLM,SMB,SASL' '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-carp' '-
-enable-coss-aio-ops' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=passw
ord' '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,unix_group,wbinfo_group' '--enable-f
ollow-x-forwarded-for' '--enable-forward-log' '--enable-forw-via-db' '--enable-h
tcp' '--enable-icmp' '--enable-large-cache-files' '--enable-multicast-miss' '--e
nable-negotiate-auth-helpers=squid_kerb_auth' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=smb_lm
,fakeauth,no_check' '--enable-ntlm-fail-open' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-r
emoval-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-ssl' '--enable-storeio=aufs,
diskd,ufs' '--enable-useragent-log' '--enable-x-accelerator-vary' '--with-aio' '
--with-aufs-threads=8' '--with-large-files' '--with-build-environment=POSIX_V6_I
LP32_OFFBIG' '--with-pthreads' --enable-ltdl-convenience --enable-ipfw-transpare
nt





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Has anyone had any luck with a Dell R720?

Ian Collins — 2012-05-06T22:25:28

Hello Fellow Solaris survivors,

Has any tried a Dell R720?  I have been attempting to set one up, but it 
it appears to be the least Solaris friendly server I have encountered.

The ILOM only supports virtual media on windoze (or some Linux 
flavours), which is a turn off.

The NICs are BCM5720s which aren't supported in OpenIndiana or the 
Solaris 11 live CD (Broadcom do have a Solaris 10 driver, but nothing 
for 11).  Updating NIC drivers on a machine on another continent without 
a working network isn't my idea of fun :(

The Live CDs do boot, which is a small blessing.

MEDIA: 7 Ways Oracle Puts Database Customers At Risk

John D Groenveld — 2012-05-03T18:11:58

Ericka Chickowski on customer frustration with Chuck Rozwat and
company's support:
<URL:http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/news/232901381/7-ways-oracle-puts-database-customers-at-risk.html>
| Security researchers also warn that Oracle is hurting customers by
| gaming the vulnerability severity rating system through its use of
| the idiosyncratic Partial+ rating.
|
| "Oracle continues to undervalue the severity of their reported
| vulnerabilities," says Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva, who says
| that very similar vulnerabilities in Solaris that would net a CVSS2
| rating of 7.8 are given just a 5.5 under Oracle's system for rating
| vulnerabilities in its database products. "Oracle should rethink
| their Partial+ ranking, which artificially plays down the severity."
|
| For example, says Koret, the TNS poison vulnerability by rights
| should have a CVSS2 rating of 10, but Oracle has marked it as a 7.5.

John
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gzopen64

hal_hl — 2012-05-02T15:11:36

I'm having problems building various things on Solaris 11 due to missing gzopen64.  This is supposed to be in libz apparently, but it looks like Solaris 11's (as well as opencsw's ) libz is missing gzopen64.

I find it hard to believe Solaris is missing this, so it's easier to believe I'm doing something wrong...

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks....



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USB performance

Ian Collins — 2012-05-02T08:43:54

Has anyone here ever managed to get anything other than abysmal 
performance with USB sticks on Solaris?

I was testing a cheep 16GB stick on my Mac laptop I it managed close to 
8MB/sec write speed.  Both of my well specified Solaris 11 boxes could 
only manage 600K!  I think my TV can write it faster...

SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command failed (5)

Dave Johnson — 2012-04-30T15:05:07

Has anyone seen errors like:

Apr 30 08:25:11 center  SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command failed (5)
Apr 30 08:25:11 center scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci< at >0,0/pci8086,
3a40< at >1c/pci8086,3505< at >0/sd< at >1,0 (sd2):

Is this an error with the physical cache on the drive?

Dave




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Firefox 12

John D Groenveld — 2012-04-25T02:26:53

New SFWfirefox is up:
<URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/12.0/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/>

Tested with Adobe Flash 11.2 against Chuck Rozwat and company's MOS.
John
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Help registering non-Sun hardware system during Solaris installation?

Frank Tarczynski — 2012-04-19T19:35:38

I now have my Oracle support contract set-up and can download and install
patches on a brand new install of Solaris 10 using PCA.

I'd like to register the system with Oracle, but when I run the
registration utility on the desktop I'm asked for a serial number.  In the
past I would just enter my Sun service contract number, but nothing (my
Oracle contract number or Oracle CSI number) seems to work.

My hardware is a self-built box with no Sun or Oracle serial number.

Anyone know what to use?

Frank



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MEDIA: Update on Next Wednesday's Oracle Solaris Online Forum

John D Groenveld — 2012-04-19T18:12:00

Larry Wake on next week's much needed state of Solaris 11 webinar:
<URL:https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/update_on_next_wednesday_s>


Found it while searching for more info on the analyst briefing the
the VAR Guy is attending this week:
<URL:http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/04/19/oracle-linux-the-past-present-and-future-revealed/>
<URL:http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/04/18/oracles-mark-hurd-mobile-and-data-explosion-accelerating/>

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live upgrade problem

Paul Floyd — 2012-04-19T12:04:17

Hi

I just tried to do a liveupgrade of S10U9 to S10U10. I also have a S10U8 BE, and the BE is on a pair of mirrored ZFS disks,

The lucreate and the luupgrade seemed to go OK, but luactivate complained that /.alt.S10U8 was already mounted, and the command did not complete.

I tried to ludelete the S10U10 and S10U8 BEs, but I got the same message, plus a claim that S10U8 is the last on the disk.

Other than ludelete -f, is there another way out of this and to get the live upgrade to complete?

A+
Paul



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Anybody how to convince Oracle that I'm me?

Frank Tarczynski — 2012-04-18T17:23:06

I'm just a lowly Solaris end-user who purchased a service contract from
Sun to be able to get patches.  I've renewed my contract with Oracle but
they refuse to grant me access since I can't prove that I'm me to their
satisfaction.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Anyone know what to do about this?

The faceless voices when I call Oracle support say this for my protection
but can't tell me what the "approval team" will accept as prove that I'm
me.

Anyone from Oracle listening?

Frank



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I don't know

palowoda — 2012-04-17T23:35:20

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57415324-94/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-i-dont-know-if-java-is-free/?tag=mncol;topStories


Awe come on. It's not about the bluff alone it's also about the size of the bet too. And he is all in.

---Bob




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