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Wednesday Feb 18, 2009

This is an invitation to attend the Sun Directory Masters Events.

The goal of the Directory Masters Events is to promote the sharing of knowledge and best practices, bring together a well known global technical community, enabling sales and deployments of the Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Sun OpenDS products. The Directory Master Event are organized by the Directory Engineering team with the help from marketing and Directory product leads, and offers a unique opportunity to meet with the experts that are building the product.

Send your questions or comments to dirMasters09@sun.com

Target Audience

The Directory Masters event targets three specific audiences with one unified theme of designing, implementing and managing Directory Services solutions. All target audiences will be drawn from Sun and partner personnel (sales, service, and pro services):
. Systems engineers (sales engineers) and sales reps who finds themselves involved with large directory services projects.
. Knowledgeable pre-sales systems engineers (architects) who can benefit from an information update and who can also share their experiences with the attendees.
. Deployment personnel who can apply the knowledge and deliver Directory services solutions.

When / Where.

Event Date: April 1-2, 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

Map

Address: Sun Microsystems
Grenoble Engineering Center
180 Avenue de l'europe, Inovallee
38334 Montbonnot cedex.
France.

To answer some frequently asked questions about your hardware laptop configuration running OpenSolaris, you may use these commands in a terminal:

Memory size:

#prtconf -pv | grep Memory

Cpu clock frequency:

#kstat -m cpu_info -s current_clock_Hz

Architecture:

#isainfo -x

Friday Feb 13, 2009

The latest upgrade did not run smoothly. As usual, I ran pfexec pkg image-update, but at the end of the process, file system was full. I would have liked to be warned before. It seems OpenSolaris does not do the check for you.

After a reboot, I was redirected to the prompt GRUB>. It's not an easy experience. I had to recover the system by booting directly the OpenSolaris 2008.11 CD and enter the following commands :

  • Look for existing pools :
    • pfexec zpool list
    • pfexec zpool import
    • pfexec zpool import -f rpool
    • zfs list
    • mkdir /tmp/a
    • pfexec mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10 /tmp/a
  • Do some cleaning : # zfs destroy (beadm cannot operate if file system is full)
  • Grub maintenance : # /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

You may also pay attention to snapshot, and remove some of the snaphots. For example if you set up TimeSlider, you may have a lot of snapshots.

#zfs list -t snapshot

Also, check the .files in your home directory:

#du -sk .*

And finally, build 106 is there :

dmerle@opensolaris:~$ uname -a
SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_106 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

Leave OpenSolaris

  • #pfexec umount /tmp/a
  • #pfexec zpool export rpool

It appears that OpenSolaris build 106 is operating quite well Suspend / Resume. You can suspend @ work and resume @ home with a different network configuration, all is transparent!