Re: OpenSolaris 2008.05 issues

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.

If you let the machine run idle for a few minutes what does prstat say? I wonder if there is some CPU bound process eating up your resources. Several of these things could explained by a lack of computer power, but on a 3 GHz machine that should not be an issue of course. But if there is a runaway process...

I get the message about IRQ being shared on my laptop. I've not investigated it, but I would be interested in any replies you get on this.

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.

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