Tuesday Sep 23, 2008

Is there a shell problem in nevada builds of late? 

bash-3.2# su mysql
 $ bash
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied

 Compare this with S10 :

bash-3.00# su mysql
$ bash

I am wondering why it is trying to access root's .bashrc.  This problem seem to send all my scripts into a tizzy.

Tuesday Aug 26, 2008

The latest Open HA Cluster Core, Agents and Geographic Edition source is now available.

Note that due to a bug in Solaris:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6734100

this code is buildable, but will not run on Solaris Express Community Edition (builds 95 and 96). The fix for 6734100 will be in SXCE build 97 when it's published.


Download it all from:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/ohac/downloads/

Browse the source at:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/ohac/

Find the list of bugs fixed since the last source code drop at:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ohac/downloads/current/ohac-changelog-20080820.sparse.txt
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/ohac/Documentation/Agents/ohacds_changelog/
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ohac/downloads/current/ohacgeo-changelog-20080820.sparse.txt

Thursday Jun 05, 2008

Solaris Cluster Express 6/08 is now available for download!  You can
download the DVD image here.


What is new in this release?

*  This release runs on OpenSolaris Nevada build 86. The version of the
Sun Management Centre is now 3.1.

*  The HA agent for Solaris Containers is now enhanced to include
support for the Solaris 9 Branded Zones on SPARC platform. This
is very useful for those customers who still need to run some
applications on Solaris 9 while taking advantage of the new features of
Solaris 10 and above.


* The HA agent for PostgreSQL Database is now ehanced to support WAL
shipping.  This feature greatly enhances the deployment of PostgreSQL
database in Enterprise deployments.



* Support for Solaris Containers configured with exclusive IP is
included in this release.


* The SCX Geographic Edition is enhanced to support Oracle Data Guard
based replication.


* This release also contains the mandatory bug fixes and other minor
enhancements not mentioned above.



Stay tuned for more milestones along the open source journey!

Tuesday Feb 12, 2008

Is forceio option deprecated for UFS filesystems in nevada? 

bash-3.2# mount /global/share

mount: /dev/md/first/dsk/d1 on /global/share - WARNING ignoring option
"forceio"

bash-3.2# cat /etc/vfstab

#device device  mount   FS      fsck    mount   mount

#to     mount   to      fsck            point           type    pass   
at boot options

#

fd      -       /dev/fd fd      -       no      -

/proc   -       /proc   proc    -       no      -

/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -

/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0      /       ufs     1      
no      -

#/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3      /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s3      /globaldevices  ufs    
2       yes     -

/devices        -       /devices        devfs   -       no      -

sharefs -       /etc/dfs/sharetab       sharefs -       no      -

ctfs    -       /system/contract        ctfs    -       no      -

objfs   -       /system/object  objfs   -       no      -

swap    -       /tmp    tmpfs   -       yes     -

/dev/did/dsk/d15s3 /dev/did/rdsk/d15s3 /global/.devices/node@1 ufs 2 no
global

/dev/md/first/dsk/d1    /dev/md/first/rdsk/d1   /global/share   ufs    
1       no      logging,forceio

/dev/md/second/dsk/d20  /dev/md/second/rdsk/d20 /global/zones   ufs    
1       no      logging,forceio

 do leave a comment if you happen to be knowledgeable about the history of the changes!

Wednesday Feb 06, 2008

Solaris Express, Developer Edition 1/08 or SXDE 1/08 is out!  The Nevada build corresponding to the release is 79b.

 What is new? 

Project WebStack

Project Webstack is the most commonly used components for webservices development namely Apache,  MySQL, PHPoptimized for OpenSolaris.  You can call it SAMP!  Now bringing up this stack should take just  a few minutes. And yes, it does include the PostgreSQL db also! 

NetBeans 6.0

It includes support Ruby Projects.  Also the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL is included!

Other highlights include:

 

 - Interoperability with Microsoft's CIFS protocol.  
 - Support for virtual machines via Sun xVM hypervisor, based on technology developed by the Xen community.

 - Sun HPC ClusterTools based on the Open MPI effort.

More reasons to adapt OpenSolaris!
 

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