Re: OpenSolaris 2008.05 issues

On 2008-05-07 07:28:55 +0100, Dave <foo@xxxxxxx> said:

Glenn wrote:
A colleague returned from CommunityOne today and brought an
OpenSolaris
2008.05 Live CD back with him. So naturally, I immediately took the
opportunity to load it up. The machine is a Dell Optiplex 170L, which
I had previously loaded a recent release of S10 on. The S10 load was
unusable; the network device was not recognized without a config-file
modification (which did allow it to work), but more seriously, the
system would mysteriously hang (I suspected some kind of driver
problem
with the hard disk, as a recursive find would hang).

OpenSolaris fixes those problems. The network device works without
any
manual adjustments, and I don't see any disk hangs. However, there
are
other issues:

* xterm takes 16 seconds to start up. This is completely repeatable,
but also completely absurd on a 3GHz machine.

I've never used a live CD for Solaris, but I believe there are more than one live version in existance. It might be worth showing the contents of /etc/release.

The version of the just released OpenSolaris live CD is "2008.05".

To debug xterm (really xterm? not gnome-terminal?) I'd run a copy under truss to see where the slowdown is. It is almost certainly waiting for something.

kestrel / % svcs ssh
STATE STIME FMRI
online Apr_03 svc:/network/ssh:default

should give you the status of the sshd deamon. Certainly on all solariss I've seen, this is enabled by default. ftp and telnet are not, but ssh yes.

It should be enabled and accessible by default too. Check <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd/> for more info.

Cheers,

Chris

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