A short guide on how to recover a broken DiskSuite mirror.
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SunRay OSD Messages. Taken from the documentation here.

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Probably your mc is compiled by Blastwave (CSW) and you are running Solaris 11. Try to download it from Ibiblio  and compile it by yourself.

Recommended configure settings:

 ./configure --enable-extcharset --enable-charset --with-samba

UTF8 is still not supported, though.

Internet/Intranet Input Method (IIIM) is a distributed Input Method solution that provides Input support for Java & X11 clients via Internet/Intranet. The related documentation can be found here.

When I upgraded from snv_83a to snv_85 I lost the ability to switch layouts. This is what I discovered:

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If you see something like:

instead of normal ASCII text, run the following command (blindly)

tput sgr

Since upgrading to s11b83a I noticed that gam_server processes eat significant amount of CPU cycles. So I decided to make some investigations.

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## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration
commands to become available (another user is administering
packages on zone <XXX>)

• Remove /tmp/.ai.pkg.zone.lock-* from all zones
• Remove /var/sadm/install/.lockfile
• Remove /var/sadm/install/.pkg.lock (<- not sure about this one)

Dtlogin GUI does not always work. If you choose another SR server the GUI might drop you back into you default one.

The easiest way is to use the following command

$  /opt/SUNWut/bin/utswitch -h new-sunray-server -r