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Upgrade x (Solaris + SqueezeCenter)

Here's a quick way to upgrade one or both Solaris (tested with Nevada snv_107) and SqueezeCenter (tested with SC 7.4 24827).

  1. Remove the CPAN directory in the SC root directory
    # mv CPAN CPAN.orig
  2. Install missing CPAN modules
    # perl -MCPAN -e shell
    cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
    . . .
    cpan> reload CPAN
    cpan> install I18N::LangTags
    cpan> force install Scalar::Util
  3. Disable Encode::Detect::Detector module in Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm (line 40). The module can't be compiled for Solaris.
    # vi Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm
    . . .
    #use Encode::Detect::Detector;

Posted by: AlekZ on February 1, 2009 @ 02:40 :: 164 views :: No comments
Categories: SlimDevices,Solaris,SqueezeCenter
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What's New in OpenSolaris 2008.11

The list of new features on opensolaris.com.


Posted by: AlekZ on December 4, 2008 @ 02:19 :: 98 views :: No comments
Categories: Solaris
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Compiling Kompozer for Solaris

The first attempt to compile Kompozer for Solaris

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Posted by: AlekZ on November 19, 2008 @ 16:11 :: 235 views :: No comments
Categories: Applications,Solaris
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Jumbo frames on Solaris

For e1000g (Solaris):
Change /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf to:

MaxFrameSize=3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3;
# 0 is for normal ethernet frames.
# 1 is for upto 4k size frames.
# 2 is for upto 8k size frames.
# 3 is for upto 16k size frames.
# These are maximum frame limits, not the actual ethernet frame
# size. Your actual ethernet frame size would be determined by
# protocol stack configuration (please refer to ndd command man pages)
# For Jumbo Frame Support (9k ethernet packet)
# use 3 (upto 16k size frames)

For rge (Solaris):
Maximum MTU supported by rge is 7000.
Change /kernel/drv/rge.conf to:

default_mtu = 7000;

Then reboot.

The result:

xeon# ifconfig -a
. . .
e1000g1: flags=201000843 mtu 9000 index 2
inet 10.0.10.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.0.10.255
ether 0:18:f3:ef:2a:d1

Posted by: AlekZ on November 12, 2008 @ 01:55 :: 315 views :: No comments
Categories: Solaris
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Wine 1.1.5 for Solaris

Wine 1.1.5 is out. So are new compiling errors:

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/wine-1.1.5/dlls/cryptnet'
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -O2 -o cryptnet_main.o cryptnet_main.c
In file included from cryptnet_main.c:31:
../../include/winbase.h:1518: error: syntax error before "va_list"
../../include/winbase.h:1519: error: syntax error before "va_list"
gmake[2]: *** [cryptnet_main.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/wine-1.1.5/dlls/cryptnet'
gmake[1]: *** [cryptnet] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/wine-1.1.5/dlls'
gmake: *** [dlls] Error 2

The thing is, wine/debug.h must be included before any other win*.h headers in dlls/cryptnet/cryptnet_main.c

$ more dlls/cryptnet/cryptnet_main.c
. . .
#include "wine/debug.h"
#include "windef.h"
#include "winbase.h"
#include "winnt.h"
#include "winnls.h"
#include "wininet.h"
#include "objbase.h"
#define CERT_REVOCATION_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS
#include "wincrypt.h"
. . .

Posted by: AlekZ on September 21, 2008 @ 15:28 :: 414 views :: 2 comments
Categories: Wine
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SqueezeCenter again. Testing v7.3

SqueezeCenter 7.2 is officially out and not interesting anymore ;-) Let's have a look at version 7.3 which has a new streaming service. In this test I downloaded SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975.ZIP from here.

The first attempt to start the server (after unpacking and "chmod"-ding) gave me this error:

# ./slimserver.pl
The following modules failed to load: YAML::Syck

To download and compile them, please run: /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl YAML::Syck

Exiting..

The "built-in" build-perl-modules.pl failed to install the CPAN module:

# /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl YAML::Syck
Welcome to the Slim Devices perl module installer.

These packages are needed for SqueezeCenter to function.
You will need a C compiler (gcc), make, and perl installed.

You will need development libraries for MySQL. eg: libmysqlclient

You will need development libraries for expat. eg: libexpat1-dev

*** Ignore any warnings about AppConfig. ***

Please enter a perl binary to use (defaults to /usr/bin/perl)
This must be the same perl binary that you ran this program with –>
Please enter a directory to download files to –>
Downloads will use lwp to fetch tarballs.

Downloading YAML-Syck-0.64.tar.gz to: /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975
Something looks wrong – I couldn't read /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/YAML-Syck-0.64.tar.gz, which I just downloaded.
Uncompressing..
sh: YAML-Syck-0.64.tar.gz: cannot open
tar: blocksize = 0
Couldn't change to YAML-Syck-0.64 : No such file or directory at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 226, line 2.

So, I decided to go the old way and get rid of the supplied with SqueezeCenter CPAN directory.

# mv CPAN CPAN-orig

… update YAML::Syck just in case…

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
. . .
cpan[1]> install YAML::Syck
YAML::Syck is up to date (1.05).
#

… and start the server again …

# ./slimserver.pl
Can't locate Encode/Detect/Detector.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int /opt/csw/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/lib /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975 /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975 /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/site_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm line 40.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm line 40.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs/Namespace.pm line 30.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs/Namespace.pm line 30.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm line 81.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm line 81.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl line 146.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl line 146.

This error looks familiar. And after commenting line 40 in SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm (#use Encode::Detect::Detector; ) the server came alive and immediately updated the firmware of the Transporter to version 62.


Posted by: AlekZ on August 31, 2008 @ 01:18 :: 98 views :: No comments
Categories: SlimDevices,SqueezeCenter
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Solaris, Wine and Xorg extensions

Wine 1.1.3 is out! Let's see hot it compiles on Solaris snv_95 (Solaris 11 build 95).
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Posted by: AlekZ on August 23, 2008 @ 16:32 :: 256 views :: No comments
Categories: Solaris,Wine
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IOAT fatal failures

See I/OAT description here.

Solaris (at least snv_93 and and snv_95) panics if large amount of traffic is sent across the interface dedicated to a zone with exclusive TCP/IP stack. For example, start Firefox and forward the X traffic to the global zone.
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Posted by: AlekZ on August 14, 2008 @ 01:44 :: 491 views :: 2 comments
Categories: Solaris
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Intel I/O Acceleration Technology

http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/

Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) accelerates TCP/IP processing and reduces CPU  overhead. It scales up to eight GbE and 10 10GbE ports and supported on dual- or quad-core Xeon architecture.

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Posted by: AlekZ on @ 01:27 :: 178 views :: 1 comment
Categories: Solaris,Video
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"Completing post install setup"

If after entering username/password you see a small window (with a going back and forth blue "slider") saying:

"Completing post install setup"

most likely svc:/system/postrun/default service is not running.

Check the status:

# svcs -vx postrun

and enable it if it's disabled (for example, after a system upgrade)

# svcadm enable postrun

Related system packages:

# pkginfo | fgrep postrun
GNOME2 SUNWpostrun Delayed execution environment for procedural package scripts
GNOME2 SUNWpostrun-root Delayed execution environment for procedural package scripts – / filesystem

Posted by: AlekZ on August 5, 2008 @ 14:43 :: 124 views :: No comments
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