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OpenSolaris Build 134 available for download

Tuesday, March 9. 2010

Build 134 of OpenSolaris was made available in the repository yesterday evening for an update via the Update Manager. The ISOs for this release are available at the usual location.

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just installed from scracth.
Got the login screen.
Entered as the user stated during installation.
Lots of Gnome errors....desktop stale....nothing I can do...
Reboot.
Tried to login as root....no way...
???

#1 Gabriele Bulfon on 2010-03-13 15:22 (Reply)

Well ... i've checked it a minute ago with a fresh install. No error message, no problems to login. Just did a from the scratch install of osol-dev-134-x86.iso.

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2010-03-13 17:35 (Reply)

Ok, here is what I had to do, and maybe the reason.

The gnome desktop was complaining that it could not create various files in my home directory. Then freezed (and I don't know how to reset the desktop to logon, any key combination?), so I had to power off and reboot.
So I tried the xterm session with my user, and the terminal was saying it could not find my home directory, but got my bash prompt at "/".
So I found the "/home" was empty, no user home.
Checked the passwd and found "/home/gbulfon" was my non existent home.
With a df I saw the zfs volume /export/home and no /home.
Checked that "/export/home" was containing my gbulfon home with correct permissions.
Tried linking that home to /home but got a strange error (can't remember exactly, maybe zfs was complaining about an already existent volume or something).
So I just changed my passwd home to /export/home/gbulfon, exited the xterm session, and log on successfully!

Now, I discovered the system did not sense my network card.
My system is a quad core intel nVidia motherboard, nForce ethernet card.
Had to download the driver somewhere, installed and it worked like a charm

Now, I did all the installation from scratch a second time, to allocate a bigger disk partition. I got the same results, but I already knew how to solve

and now it works great.

Maybe this network problem is causing the installer to fail something?
Also: I read somewhere that if you don't specify a user name during installation, the root user is created as a normal user.
I tried the second time I installed, just to check the difference, but I found I had no way to skip username setup. Is this by choice?

Well, great, now I can experiment with zfs dedup, switched on the xvm milestone and have fun with xen virtualization

Thanx for the great blog!
Gabriele

#1.1.1 Gabriele Bulfon on 2010-03-14 10:55 (Reply)

You can't do anything in /home as long as the automounter ist active. /home is the realm of the automounter.

#1.1.1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2010-03-14 15:09 (Reply)

I understand this but, why were the automounter not mounting my home at first setup?
Should I place back my "/home/gbulfon" in passwd now that my network is fine?
Actually, when my network card was still not visible, I could not even ping
to localhost nor 127.0.0.1...wierd, isn't it?

#1.1.1.1.1 Gabriele Bulfon on 2010-03-14 17:42 (Reply)

I read this post via the twitter feed. It was interesting to see both sides of the what will be an ongoing story.

#2 Driver indirin (Homepage) on 2010-04-03 14:28 (Reply)

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