Solaris

rescue of hosed solaris 10 installation?
Hi All, Today I successfully hosed my Solaris 10 x86 installation and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me unhose it... I was creating raid-1 volumes by following the instructions at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520/6manpiejm?a=view and did this successfully for three data volumes. The raid vo... 29 Mar 2005 09:35

Xcall
Can you tell me what does it mean "cross calls" (Xcall) in mpstat command, and how could I use this data analyzing bottlenecked system ? Thanks. ... 17 Mar 2005 23:45

Solaris 10 Installation: kernel parameters
Hello all, I'm trying to install Solaris 10 on my Sony Vaio SR31K Laptop from an external CD-ROM (Sony PCGA-CD51) connected via PCMCIA. This CD-ROM via PCMCIA thing seems to be a problem though: the installer fails after a few seconds with the error message <bootdev>: disk read error, sector 0 prom_pani... 16 Mar 2005 11:22

SOAP client from C, not C++
I am having a lot of trouble finding SOAP and XML tools for use from native C. It seems most every C interface/libraries I find seem to equate C with C++. I am NOT in a position to figure out C++ to just get SOAP working. Anyone have experience with non-commercial C only SOAP and XML interface libraries? ... 17 Mar 2005 02:27

NFS problems
Sometimes the nfs mount between Solaris server and clients fail. The syslog message on the client look like this: NFS getattr failed for server servername: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) The syslog message on the server says: NOTICE: nfs_server: client hostname (A.B.C.D) sent NFS request from unprivileged ... 14 Mar 2005 16:17

svcadm during autoinstall/jumpstart?
When I try to, for example, enable NIS client functionality during an autoinstall script on a Solaris 10 system, I get: + chroot /a /usr/sbin/svcadm enable network/nis/client svcadm: Couldn't bind to svc.configd. Has someone worked out a good way of enabling such things during an install? I imagine I coul... 11 Mar 2005 17:05

No space left on device
When I am using VI to edit a file, I get message "no space left on device". Is there any way to expand /var file system ? /export/home/oracle/schwarz >> df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 204M 109M 74M 60% / /devices 0K 0K ... 12 Mar 2005 13:39

Solaris 10 installation fails with "no disk found".
Hi, I ve just received my Dell 2850 with no-operating system on. I m trying to get Solaris 10 x86 on it, but fails! Please can someone help me doing this? The procedure fails by: No disks found. Check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up. Press OK to Exit. Its while Solaris cant find the disks/Raid... 12 Mar 2005 17:15

Hung process
Hi everybody, I'm having problems with a multi-threaded process that seems to hang itself randomly but repeatedly. The problem occurs only on the operating platform (SunBlade-100, Solaris 8). I've never managed to reproduce it in the development environment. Strangely enough, I've been able to restart it by usin... 10 Mar 2005 18:18

Solaris 8 EOL Date Available ??
With the recent FCS release for Solaris 10, has Sun announced a last ship (or EOL) date for Solaris 8 yet ?? --Wayne Adams --University of Michigan --wwa(a)umich.edu ... 11 Mar 2005 03:04