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2012-10-06 - oi_151a7 (prestable7) released!

Please check the oi_151a_prestable7 Release Notes for more information (smile) Enjoy!

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  1. Jul 19, 2011

    Anonymous

    How sure it is that may be an error in your copy of the installer when you see "grub>" prompt instead of a menu?
    I try different copies and usb sticks on different machines.
    What if may not be an error in the copy?What's next?
    Is there a posibility to be an error on the installer?

    1. Sep 20, 2012

      Andy Page

      I don't know if this helps but I tried loads of things whilst installing oi on a second hdd and found it was there all along. Because it uses some unusual filing system it remained invisible from the other disk and vica versa so neither grub/boot list could view the other disk's files to be able to update the menu. I've no idea if you are in this same boat but oi boots as long as I manually selected the right hard drive to boot from.

      I don't understand how to edit the grub myself and the latest update oi_151a6 wont boot and hangs on my machine, however, I'm happy to use the previous 2 installations.

      PS. I think the guys here are professionals building servers etc ie rather busy.

  2. Aug 25, 2011

    Anonymous

    When would we see suport for Intel Z68 and Sandy-Bridge?

    1. Sep 08, 2011

      Anonymous

      Sandy Bridge (SNA) requires Xserver >=1.10.4 so that'll be a long while...

  3. Oct 02, 2011

    Anonymous

    I think that OpenIndiana oi_151a is released 2011-09-14

    1. Oct 08, 2011

      Josef "Jeff" Sipek

      Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.

      1. Nov 02, 2012

        Andy Page

        Thanks for mentioning it: I'd just about given up trying to upgrade but tried one last time, encouraged by your comment. Not only did it upgrade it shutdown, rebooted and opened up...lol works great apart from the hanging issue on shutdow, minor issue. Well done everyone on team, it can't be easy especially as some of us are using older machines? or such a variety of machines.

  4. Jul 11, 2012

    Jeremy Rebelka

    Hey guys - I'm new to OI but used Solaris a lot in the past - OI seems to be natural path of progress - as solaris11 seems to be aimed at corporate market etc - plus I don't trust Oracle to much - its all about money ( I'm scared of it (smile) )   . Would you tell me please when is the stable release expected - is it matter of months or rather few years ? thanks. And wish all the best.

    1. Oct 30, 2012

      gpatrick

      I don't ever expect a stable release like you get with FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.  Even though NetBSD and OpenBSD don't have many developers themselves, I think there are even fewer OpenIndiana developers.  It is a shame because I have always liked Solaris and used OpenSolaris from the first release until Oracle canned it.

      What bothers me with OpenIndiana is bugs.  Go to the illumos/OpenIndiana page and there are a few hundred bugs and this one was added 4 days ago:

      OI151a7:
      Using 'mount' to show mounted filesets (even as a normal user) shows
      the password used for mounting (here in case of samba), whereas
      OSol 2009.06 U7 (support line version) just shows ** in place of
      the password. This is a security problem and should be fixed quickly.

      Hopefully it will get fixed quickly since it is marked "high" priority, but I just don't expect it will.  There is no security officer for OpenIndiana like there is for FreeBSD and NetBSD.  I believe that most bugs are hoped to be fixed upstream by Illumos.

      Time will tell, and I like OpenIndiana features, but bugs like that bother me.

      1. Oct 31, 2012

        gpatrick

        That specific bug is now no longer listed as open or closed.  What happened with it?

  5. Oct 29, 2012

    Ranjan S

    Hi when i tried to access some shares via AFP using Mountain Lion through registered user, i got some error messages.
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: ===============================================================
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 23169 (2.2.2)
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: ===============================================================
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: BACKTRACE: 27 stack frames:
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #0 /usr/sbin/afpd(netatalk_panic+0×23) [0x4609b4]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #1 /usr/sbin/afpd [0x460b87]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #2 /usr/sbin/afpd [0x460bd9]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #3 /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7fe83bbcef60]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #4 /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1 [0x7fe838de1d80]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #5 /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1(tdb_have_extra_locks+0×45) [0x7fe838de2f89]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #6 /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1 [0x7fe838ddd242]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #7 /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1(tdb_transaction_start+0x1a) [0x7fe838ddd626]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #8 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so [0x7fe83842e122]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #9 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so(get_global_sam_sid+0x4e) [0x7fe8384e9af9]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #10 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so(pdb_set_user_sid_from_rid+0×27) [0x7fe838498e71]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #11 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so [0x7fe83848e3be]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #12 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so(samu_set_unix+0×22) [0x7fe83848e411]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #13 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so [0x7fe8384ba35d]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #14 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so [0x7fe8384ba65c]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #15 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so(pdb_getsampwnam+0x2f) [0x7fe8384944c8]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #16 /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so(pam_sm_authenticate+0x2a2) [0x7fe8383e447e]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #17 /lib/libpam.so.0 [0x7fe83cb8dc42]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #18 /lib/libpam.so.0(pam_authenticate+0×43) [0x7fe83cb8d523]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #19 /usr/lib/netatalk/uams_dhx2.so [0x7fe83a65cdba]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #20 /usr/lib/netatalk/uams_dhx2.so [0x7fe83a65d10f]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #21 /usr/sbin/afpd(afp_logincont+0xa9) [0x41608d]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #22 /usr/sbin/afpd(afp_over_dsi+0xa6b) [0x40fe68]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #23 /usr/sbin/afpd [0x40dd91]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #24 /usr/sbin/afpd(main+0xa85) [0x4323ce]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #25 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7fe83bbbb1a6]
    Oct 17 23:41:44 px6-300d-KZLWIS afpd[23169]: #26 /usr/sbin/afpd [0x40db59]

    My afpd.conf file is

    # default

    - -noddp -uamlist uams_guest.so,uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2.so -unixcodepage utf8 -maccodepage UTF8-MAC -guestname “operator”

    But when i tried to Access as a Guest, i was able to access the share. Please help me out in fixing this issue.

  6. Nov 01, 2012

    holylw

    Hello everyone! I'm green hand to use OI. In the past I used linux, so I  used PPPOE. but now I can't Dial-up internet in OI. Thanks for you help!

  7. Feb 13, 2013

    ajit bakre

    Hi Openindiana team, hats off to you.

    I removed OIa7 from my system and installed centOS which is having similar grub and similar gnome. But wait....

    Remember, I realised today that how easy and fast to configure is openindiana as oompared with linux diestors such as CentOS and others.

    I am unable to see my website in pingdom tools even when I converted my IP to static matching with my router settings in centOS,

    whereas in openindiana it is so smooth and easy. Only One request from me to you, keep on updating drupal, php to 5.3 and apache is ok.Include Owncloud and joomla in your repositories.

    Now owncloud, drupal joomla all these will require php 5.3 and mysql 5.5 in future. So lets upgrade these packages.

    Well, Is yum command applicable in OI??

    Rest is next time.

    Till then c ya.

     

    1. Mar 31, 2013

      faisal

      NO, yum only works with Redhat Fedora Core and Cent OS and all derived distros.

      Openindiana has its own package manager. Some other ILLUMOS distributions such as ILLUMIAN and Nexenta Community use apt-get which is debian package tool and is much faster than yum.

  8. Apr 14, 2013

    ajit bakre

    Thanks Faisal for your comments.

    I would like to share following information with my openindiana brothers and sisters out there.

    The apache2 panel gui is fantastic. There is no such gui administrator for apache such as in oia7 not in any distrubution of linux i have come across.

    However, I still have certain queries as regards to software updation:

    1. How to download userland software in oi and use them. Do I have to compile them.
    2. Can't OI gurus integrate the updated softwares in the OI repositories IPS?? Basically many of the CMS and Web tools now a days require only PHP 5.3 and above. and Mysql 5.1 above. In ubuntu you can downloads latest PHP 5.4, MYSQL 5.5 which are must.
    3. The same is true in case of RUBY on rails.
    4. NAAPIT : It has all the latest AMP but how to use it for OIa7. Please someone tell me.
    5. Now Drupal ver 8 (yet to release), Joomla (ver 3.0 released), and Owncloud ver 5 require the latest in terms of PHP and MYSQL.
    6. gstreamer plugins required for movie player of OIa7 should be included in the IPS.
    7. As all of us know that the opensolaris website is closed down. Howeve, when you enter www.opensolaris.org, the site takes you to oracle site solaris.java.net and oracle says that wel come to oracle opensource projects in java. And when you click to Downloads menu item you are taken to oracle solaris 11 download site. Does it mean that oracle is gradually turning the solaris 11.11.11 as opensource. Can someone explain this please??
    8. When you click the projects page, you will find many solaris projects which are opensource. To name a few: a. IPS, b. SMF Dependency graph generator, c. Solaris Desktop, d. Solaris userland. e. Solaris ZFS, f. Solaris zones etc. Does it mena Oracle also encouraging the opensource movement and taking part in it?
    9. Please clear my doubts. I have got all my support to all the OIa7 develepers who are taking out some precious time from their main jobs and working to develop the OIa7 in to stable branch.
    10. Where can I download the desktop version of Illmos OS, or other desktop variant of Storm OS? I can't find even Belenix over there.
      Thanks you OIa7 for providing me a place to communicate and also an apportunity to interact with you all
      A. R. Bakre

  9. about 4 hours ago

    ajit bakre

    Updated my Openindiana a7 on my 64 bit machine. Pentium Dual core.

    Smooth updation.

    Fast shutdown and reboot.

    Remarkable improvement.

    Congrates and keep it up.

    Kindly inform how to donate to OI ??

    Awaiting the release of Martux sxce openindiana.

    When will you make ISO of OI151a8 make available. awaiting eagerly.

     

    Once again hats off to you.

    Ajit