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Questions tagged [opensolaris]

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The future of OpenSolaris

since OpenSolaris is more or less abandoned by Oracle, is there a nice alternative that implements the unique features of OSOL? ZFS is one thing, but I liked the image creation system, that let you create images of a master system and then…
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No space on device when removing a file under OpenSolaris

While trying to mount a NFS share (exported from an OpenIndiana server) on a client box, the OI server crashed. I got the black screen of death, what looked like a log dump, then the system restated. It never came back up and I get the following…
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Can not find link to download OpenSolaris source code

I want to understand how OpenSolaris ptools(process tools) works. How exactly pstack, pmap, pargs etc works, but I can't find any link to its full source code. I can only find an online version of the source. Any advice where I can download source…
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List processes that have been running more than 2 hours

How can I list processes, with a defined name, that have been running for more than 2 hours. This is what I have tried. ps -efo pid,comm,etime | grep 'process name' | awk '{print $3}' This is for Solaris. Or can someone help how to create a…
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What dictates smf service maintenance mode?

I have smartos machines running a custom application as an smf service (a circonus monitoring agent). On some of these machines the agent errors when starting and gets stuck in a restart loop eventually leading to the machine panicking. For every…
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How to configure OpenIndiana(151a8 aka "hipster") for development?

I saw a similar post about Solaris and thought of a similar howto. I've heard of recent news (as in 2013) with the distribution and I learned I could easily update my initial OpenIndiana 151a7 release to hipster (0.5.11-0.151.1.8.1 to be more…
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Why is GNU screen / byobu leaving garbage text in the shell during a reverse search?

I recently starting using GNU screen via Byobu but I think the problem is related to screen. I first SSH into a server and then do a reverse search to run a commonly run command (dump a the database). I've redacted some of the text, but because …
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Can all OSS for Linux be built to run on an Illumos based OS like OpenIndiana?

I like trying different OSs, but I have yet to try a Illumos-based OS. Can I run all or most Linux Software, just by building from source?
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Tribblix: cannot start xfce

I installed the illumos (opensolaris) distro Tribblix and can't start Xfce. I tried both with a display manager, slim (I know it's old, but it's the only one they offer), and from the console. The default Xorg WM, twm, however, works perfectly as…
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Why can't I import an ZFS pool without partitioning the data disk with fdisk?

I have a strange situation here, in which I am unable to import an ZFS pool that I brought from another OS UNLESS I fdisk the disk of the pool. I am puzzled as to why this is happening and hoping to get an answer or an advice. The flow: An ZFS pool…
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What are core.mountd.######### files? OpenSolaris

I and gaining an ever expanding list of of core.mountd.12009999475 type files in my root directory? What are these? Can I just delete them? What causes them to be created?
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Does any OS support ZFS on MIPS?

Does there exist an operating system supporting ZFS under the MIPS architecture? If so, which operating system(s)? I am especially interested in: Support for ZFS on Loongson. OSes free from binary blobs.
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How To Read Variable Value Using mdb?

Let's say I set a parameter with the following command, how could I read it back later on? mdb -kwe "spa_load_verify_metadata/W 0" I am trying to read the man page, but I'm only in this OS temporarily and don't understand what it's talking about.…
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Does Opensolaris offer distributed ZFS filesystems

I haven't had any luck getting a confirmed yes or no to this question. I'd like to run ZFS as a distributed file system (like Gluster or CEPH). OpenZFS and ZFS on Linux does not (yet) have file system clustering. My understanding is distributed is…
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OpenIndiana Hipster boot problems

I installed OpenIndiana Hipster on a separate GPT partition alongside other Unixes following this guide from the openindiana wiki. After I finished, I tried to boot into the fresh installation but it stops at loading tzmon (as reported by verbose…
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