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opensolaris.org: Prevent accidental robotomies

We've been working through bits and pieces of opensolaris.org, looking for the troubling portions where regular human touches are currently required.

These are troubling because (a) someone forgets to touch when someone else is on vacation, sick, or whatever, and then (b) someone depending on that resource being touched gets annoyed/loses time/sends us Kafkaeque email about transforming into an automaton.

Recently, Steve pulled a little Python script together and now we can smoothly offer direct DVD downloads of Solaris Express Community Release across each incremental release. In honour of his script, a new download button:

http://opensolaris.org/sxcr_dvd should work, without problem, for the duration of Nevada. But pipe up on website-discuss if it fails.

[ T: OpenSolaris Solaris DVD Downloads ]

(2006-12-11 15:36:36.0) Permalink Comments [2]

Monday December 04, 2006

Untuning for 53

Since I bumped into a couple of problems after moving to Build 53, I thought I should make a note and save folks some time. My laptop's a reasonably standard install, but I do turn off a few more daemons, in the hope of squeezing out a few minutes' more battery life. With the new GNOME bits, you need to make sure that

$ svcs \*hal\* \*fc-cache\*
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Nov_28   svc:/application/font/fc-cache:default
online         12:27:47 svc:/system/hal:default

shows that both hal(1M) and fc-cache(1M) are running, as their functionality is required by other components. (If you don't have application/font/fc-cache enabled, you'll have trouble getting much of GNOME to run--you'll see core files, running on which pstack(1) will reveal a stack trace filled with symbols beginning with "FC"...) A couple of svcadm enable invocations will bring things back into spec.

If you haven't customized your system and you're still having similar problems, you probably want to visit desktop-discuss.

[ T: OpenSolaris Solaris GNOME HAL fc-cache ]

(2006-12-04 14:08:29.0) Permalink