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?

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

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

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  )   . 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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

There are indeed updates in OI151a7 from hipster repo.

However, I still feel that illumos team need to add php5.4, and mysql 5.5. They can also add apache 2.4.

This will benefit web developers who want to test drupal 8, owncloud 5.5, joomla 3 and all the cms and framework who use php are shifting to php 5.3 to 5.4.

Any comments???

Has anybody tried to find that how many users are there in the mother earth who are using OI and are loyalist of OI

By the way when the OI is going to stop?? So that I may shift to Ubuntu or..... Debian 7.

Can any one tell me which other OS is using ZFS like OI???

Dear gpatrik,

Well thanks for valuable info however, please help me with my specific requirement below.

I do not want stripped down version of Opensolaris, which was the first OS I fell in love.

I specifically looking for such OS which should have gui preferably gnome, version does not matter much. It should have zones, virtualization, crossbow, I mean all that Opensolaris had. Omni OS and Smart OS are stripped down command live server based OS and for datacenter. What I am looking for should have best of both worlds .... I mean command line as well as GUI.

Does FreeBSD have it?? Do you have any such OS descending from solaris who matches and are likely to match the above requirements?

Are there any development in this direction!!!

I was looking all this in Openindiana but your replies have made me rethink my decision to stick with this OS.

Well, what do you think of Opensxce?? and are you from one of the teams of OI??

However, thank you very much for your prompt replies.

At the moment I am exploring possibilities with Ubuntu 13.04 which I installled yersterday night. And it seems promising but alas it does not have zfs, zones, crossbow and shall never have any of these. But they have large community and so many sponsers and developers.

Do you think FreeBSD has GUI??

Enough for now.

Dear gpatrick,

I am please to inform you that OI team are moving in positive direction to bring stable repo for the homo sapiens on the planet earth and it seems that in another couple of months, the OI team may bring rolling stable release of OpenIndiana.

It shows that we should never have pessimistic thoughts that OI shall remain as it is. You know Mr Patrick that OI is the only second descendent of opensolaris after Solaris express 11 of Oracle and the sole GNOME based distro as on today which is opensource and has full fledged desktop environment.

However, as regards Apache, it still uses HTTPD which is an old method of apache configuration.

However, you can still find HTTPD configuration file in CentOS as well. But not in Ubuntu.

But apart from that apache GUI configuration is so easy that even a novice user like me can configure and upload my site on local server.

I am doing lot of experimentation with Vanilla, Drupal 7.22, Joomla, Phpbb in OI and all are running fine. This helps me update my files from anywhere on the planet earth wherever there is Net connection.

Owncloud and EyeOS: cannot be configured except owncloud 3.0 which is partially successfully.

Currently, what OI require is following updates in dev/ stable repo:

1. Apache 2.4
2. php 5.4/ 5.5.
3. mysql 5.5.
4. node.js.
5. Joomla 3.0
6. Openoffice 3.4.
7. Drupal 7.22 and 8 also if possible.
8. latest version of netbeans and java 7.
9. Vanilla.
10. phpbb.
11. Django (Exellent web framework.
12. Good documentation on web servers, mainly Apache, networking.
13. Plone.

Believe me, my dear friends, if you add above in the OIa7 repo, consider it as a full blown development and deployement rock solid stable server and yeah the best server in the world as on today.

Regards,

Ajit from India

N.B. I am sure we would get the sponsor like canonical. If someone can contact canonical team and let them test OI, then they will definitely help.

I have noticed lately that a couple of ads have been placed as comments in the wiki, and also just today someone changed the link for "recent" to another URL.

I changed the link back to the correct one, but am unsure what to do if it continues attracting unwelcome content.

I tried updating from 151a7 to 151a9 today, and I get the following response and the upgrade fails. What can I do??

Note: /BE/OI151a9 contains a mounted clone of my current a7 BE, created by beadm create ...

pfexec pkg -R /BE/OI151a9 update
Creating Plan /                        
pkg update: No solution was found to satisfy constraints
Plan Creation: Package solver has not found a solution to update to latest available versions.
This may indicate an overly constrained set of packages are installed.
 
latest incorporations:
 
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/admin/admin-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/gnome_l10n/gnome_l10n-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/cde/cde-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/ips/ips-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204511Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/cacao/cacao-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/xvm/xvm-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/hcts/hcts-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/sunpro/sunpro-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/cns/cns-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/nvidia/nvidia-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204514Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/X/X-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204519Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/gnome/gnome-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/SunVTS/SunVTS-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204515Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/solaris_re/solaris_re-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/l10n/l10n-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204512Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/sic_team/sic_team-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204518Z
  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/install/install-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T204510Z
 
The following indicates why the system cannot update to the latest version:
 
  No suitable version of required package pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/gnome/gnome-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z found:
    Reject:  pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/gnome/gnome-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T203708Z
    Reason:  A version for 'incorporate' dependency on pkg:/desktop/virt-manager@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9 cannot be found

Dear Openindiana  lovers and developers, Have you seen the face book page of Oracle Solaris 11??

Right now I am writing this blog from the Oracle Solaris 11.11.11 Operating system. I can say that there is very little difference between Oracle Solaris 11 and Openindiana provided we upgrade the GNOME and remove small errors such as one following:

1. During the installation of OI, only once the error text box pops up informing the problem ( I cant recall the details) and installation may go wrong. However, it has been already informed by the OI team to ignore the remark. BUT PLEASE REMOVE IT.
2. Documentation: We should develop more and more documentation which should be comprehensive and such that any one can get all the information requred to learn the UNIX in solaris way.
3. OI does not have cloud stack. Basically, operating system is just a plateform to run all kinds of software applications. Hence the gentle request to OI team to provide more and more latest web development tools, and application development tools which will help the software development professional to work on rock solid OS and develop his / her applications faster.
4. Apache GUI is really greatest thing in OI and Opensolaris. Really great. However, can it be developed and enhanced further??
5. What about upgrading the SAMP stack to apache 2.4, mysql 5.5 or 5.6 and php to 5.5 and so on.
6. Please provide more and more CMS and web framework such as Joomla, phpBB, Owncloud and others in OI 151a9 only and not on Hipster.
7. Off course i dont want to find faults with the team who despite their busy schedule are still working on the OI and every one there appreciate BUT PLEASE LET IT BE KNOWN TO Open Source Linux guys who are churning out version after version every quarterly or half yearly which is not required. However, what is required is availability of more and  more application and web software in the repositories and latest version.
8. I am planning to request Oracle to provide open source alternative to Solaris 11 just like Red Hat is is giving Fedora and Opensuse.

                                          All the best to OI team.

Few more things:

1. Oracle Solaris 11 is having Firefox 6.0.2 but still the adobe flash player works excellent.
2. as per Oracle: Solaris 11 is a cloud OS. Kindly inform me as to whether OI is or not. If yes then what are tools in the repo?
   Thanks

Hey my dear OI fans, Apache GUI is unable to activate apache local and is going in maintenance status in Solaris 11.11.11.

You said the same stuff almost a year ago and you're still at it!  Haven't you realized this "OI team" you speak of probably consists of only a few people, which is probably only 2, 3 ,or 4?

If you want documentation then write it yourself and help out the OI community.

If you want the SAMP stack upgrade then upgrade it commit it to help out the OI community.

If you want more CMS and web frameworks then work and them and commit them to help out the OI community.

If you see an installation error then fix and commit to help out the OI community.

If you want the Apache GUI enhanced then upgrade it and commit to help out the OI community.

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your suggestions.

I shall really try to do as you suggested and this will enhance my knowledge about the solaris.

However, do you know that Solaris 11.1 has its source code free to download in two parts and totals of 2.3 gb. You can download it from oracle website.

if you want i shall download and upload the same for our OI website.

Kindly suggest.

ajit

Dear all a good news: I am just talking with Oracle sales person online right now. He says that Oracle Solaris 11.1 is opensource. However. for third party, one needs to purchase the support.

So lets run both side by side. Oracle Solaris 11.1 and OI 151a9, both are equally good and comparable and running side by side.

Now oracle 11.2 is being released on 29th April. Lets see whats in store for us.

Good buy

Dear All,

Please read following release notes of Opensxce 2014/05

Adobe flash-player plugin 11.x works
FF29, TB29, Evolution works now, emacs now ok
NVIDIA drivers included on x86.

As announced earlier, Flash plugin.latest (Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202) works as well as on any Sun/Oracle Solaris
 release.It works rock-stable with compatible stream formats that are of its time. 
I fixed something in the kernel, deep down. I did not tweak any loading order in case of Flash.

On the other hand: If you come across a website using the top-notch latest stream formats (version
 Flash 12.x or 13.x) you may see instabilities, especially when interacting with it (e.g. if you try to rewind, 
skip ahead in the stream, enable or disable fullscreen mode. But this has nothing to deal with the problems that
 were introduced by the Illumos kernel bug. As we don't have Flash sources, I wouldn't even blame Illumos for the
 bug. It is simply an incompatibility, while we may never know wheather it is a bug in Flash 11.x 
(earlier versions worked) or Illumos. It is not a question of blaming somebody. 
And ok, one day in the future I send them the fix. At this time however (Western meddling in Ukraine!) 
I'm in no modd to do so. 

Thus all the above is written by Martin  in the openSXCE release notes.

Then why on openindiana we cannot do it??

However, one thing openSXCE lacks and that is it does not install in any of my PC with built in Graphics card. It installs successfully when I add NVIDIa grahpic card to my motherboard.

However, being openindiana Fan, I request all my developers to work in harmony and when one Martin can develop such a fantastic OS, why you cannot????

I am confident that you all are working for the best OS and the most secure OS in the world.

I love openindiana and shall always like it in future.

Best of Luck.