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Rodney Sparapani | 1 Sep 22:58
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Re: Firefox 3.5.1 on Solaris 10?

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Hi John:
> 
> I have done that as far as I can tell.  I'm now trying 3.5.2 and getting 
> something similar.  Here is the output from dtrace:
> 
> godzilla ~ # dtrace -c firefox -Z -v
> 
> (Gecko:19435): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols 
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.dtrace: pid 
> 19412 has exited
> 
> Anyone have an idea?  Thanks
> 

Boy these multi-package packages are really annoying to remove and 
install.  But, I figured out how to remove them easily:

#!/bin/sh
# remove packages by reference to package file name(s)

if [ $# -eq 0 -o "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "-help" -o "$1" = "--help" ]
then
     echo "usage: rmpkg [-h|-help|--help] FILE1 [FILE2] ..."
     echo "   -h|-help|--help       print this help"
     echo "   FILE1, FILE2, ...     package filenames"
else for i in $@
     do
	if file "$i" | grep "package datastream" > /dev/null
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Michael McKnight | 2 Sep 21:59
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RBAC Practicality

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of looking into the use of RBAC within my Solaris 10 
environment.

In reading about it, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how it could be used 
to completely eliminate the need for true root access to the machine for 
a systems administrator.  It really seems to me to be a sort of 
elaborate "sudo" capability whereas RBAC is simply used to permit the 
execution of specific commands as another user.

I know there has to be more to it than that, but I'm at a loss and need 
some help.  I get that you switch to a "role" and that each role has 
commands assigned that it can execute as a specified user or UID, but 
what are the other practical benefits.

In addition, say you have 1000 servers and each server has 4 files that 
are used to manage RBAC.  Thats 4000 individual files that need to be 
managed somehow.  I must operate on the assumption that the roles across 
my servers will not be consistent (so LDAP, NIS is out).  For example, 
from an audit standpoint, I cannot have a DBA role defined on a server 
that has no DBA's.  How do you manage these files in a large-scale, 
highly-regulated environment.  Are there tools that will help with their 
management?

How do you prevent a root user from modifying the policy files?  What 
stops an admin doing maintenance from coming up in single-user mode, 
changing a file and then rebooting into multi-user mode?  Even if a sys 
admin is prevented from modifying policy, if he can come up in single 
user mode (or boot from CD and mount the OS disk), how can you control
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michilbb | 3 Sep 06:00
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replaced x86 motherboard

I had to replace my laptop x86 motherboard today(dual boot XP/Solaris 10 with Grub).  Replaced with the same
type motherboard.  Now, Solaris 10 boots to blank screen.  Looks like system is up, but video is not.  It turns
green light on display off after message 'wait for Desktop login screen....'

Compared /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig to bios and everything looks ok.

Thanks in advance.

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John Taylor | 3 Sep 14:17
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Re: replaced x86 motherboard

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM, michilbb<michilbb <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> I had to replace my laptop x86 motherboard today(dual boot XP/Solaris 10
> with Grub). Replaced with the same type motherboard. Now, Solaris 10 boots
> to blank screen. Looks like system is up, but video is not. It turns green
> light on display off after message 'wait for Desktop login screen....'
>
> Compared /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig to bios and everything looks ok.

Boot single user mode (edit grub menu, add "-s" to the kernel line)

and check out the logs in /var/dt and /var/log to see why the Xdisplay is
not coming up.  You may have to "reconfigure" your Xserver (ie
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
file) if you've made some changes.

Did you run a devfsadm after you booted the new system?  The device
paths may have re-enumerated which means your X display device
is not where Solaris thinks it is.

HTH

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Francois Dion | 3 Sep 16:32
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JDS launch menu on Opensolaris?

Apparently this is a lot more involved than I thought. I want 1 menu
in my gnome-panel. I'm running OS 2009.06, the special EEEpc version
(I couldn't get Sol 10, SXCE or OS 2009.06 installed on it). Roughly
equivalent to B111 of SXCE, but with the "take half the screen" triple
menu.

I tried using the gnome-panel from SXCE assuming it would have the
branding/layout (/usr/bin/gnome-panel and /usr/share/gnome-panel/) but
there is more to it.

Anybody knows what else is needed?

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Mike Riley | 3 Sep 20:35
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Re: replaced x86 motherboard

John Taylor wrote:
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> 
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM, michilbb<michilbb <at> yahoo.com 
> <mailto:michilbb%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > I had to replace my laptop x86 motherboard today(dual boot XP/Solaris 10
>  > with Grub). Replaced with the same type motherboard. Now, Solaris 10 
> boots
>  > to blank screen. Looks like system is up, but video is not. It turns 
> green
>  > light on display off after message 'wait for Desktop login screen....'
>  >
>  > Compared /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig to bios and everything 
> looks ok.
> 
> Boot single user mode (edit grub menu, add "-s" to the kernel line)
> 
> and check out the logs in /var/dt and /var/log to see why the Xdisplay is
> not coming up. You may have to "reconfigure" your Xserver (ie
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file) if you've made some changes.
> 
> Did you run a devfsadm after you booted the new system? The device
> paths may have re-enumerated which means your X display device
> is not where Solaris thinks it is.

We have seen on laptops that "identical" models of laptops are often 
anything but.  Companies will change the hardware so that even some of the
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Patch Nag | 4 Sep 03:35

New Solaris Patches available at riddleware.com 20090903

141415-10    SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch

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Mike Riley | 4 Sep 03:36
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Live Upgrade Wierdness

I think I saw this once before, but I forget how I got around it.

I just did a Live Upgrade from snv_111 to snv_121 on one of my systems. 
When it reboots snv_111 always outputs a message saying the "bootadm 
upgrade-archive" had a "-e" argument, which is invalid (according to the 
man pages, too).

When I do a manual update-archive it works just fine.  If I boot into the 
failsafe archive it mentions that the archive for both BEs is out of date 
and asks if I would like to update them.  This also says it goes fine.

The problem is that when I boot the GRUB menu presented only lists the BE 
for slice 0.  Slice 4 is not shown at all.

Doing a bootadm list-menu shows a menu with both slices and that is also 
what I see if I look at menu.lst now, but I had to manually create that at 
one point - so I am not sure if it was created from my last luactivate or not.

Any suggestions as to how I can get this to work correctly so I get the 
right menu in place when I boot?

I am trying to upgrade to snv_121 to get that fix for the dual display 
issue I ran into before that was fixed in 118.  It doesn't seem to have 
any nasty bugs in it like 118 and 119 did.

Mike

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michilbb | 4 Sep 04:02
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Re: replaced x86 motherboard

--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, John Taylor <jbt.oldemail@...> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM, michilbb<michilbb@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I had to replace my laptop x86 motherboard today(dual boot XP/Solaris 10
> > with Grub). Replaced with the same type motherboard. Now, Solaris 10 boots
> > to blank screen. Looks like system is up, but video is not. It turns green
> > light on display off after message 'wait for Desktop login screen....'
> >
> > Compared /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig to bios and everything looks ok.
> 
> Boot single user mode (edit grub menu, add "-s" to the kernel line)
> 
> and check out the logs in /var/dt and /var/log to see why the Xdisplay is
> not coming up.  You may have to "reconfigure" your Xserver (ie
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file) if you've made some changes.
> 
> Did you run a devfsadm after you booted the new system?  The device
> paths may have re-enumerated which means your X display device
> is not where Solaris thinks it is.
> 
> HTH
>

I booted with the -s option and tried to run the devfsadm command and I get a message saying that the file
system is read only.

I thought that maybe I should run kdmconfig, but same deal, says file system is read only as above.
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John Taylor | 4 Sep 12:38
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Re: Re: replaced x86 motherboard

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:02 PM, michilbb<michilbb <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, John Taylor <jbt.oldemail@...> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM, michilbb<michilbb@...> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I had to replace my laptop x86 motherboard today(dual boot XP/Solaris 10
>> > with Grub). Replaced with the same type motherboard. Now, Solaris 10
>> > boots
>> > to blank screen. Looks like system is up, but video is not. It turns
>> > green
>> > light on display off after message 'wait for Desktop login screen....'
>> >
>> > Compared /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig to bios and everything looks
>> > ok.
>>
>> Boot single user mode (edit grub menu, add "-s" to the kernel line)
>>
>> and check out the logs in /var/dt and /var/log to see why the Xdisplay is
>> not coming up. You may have to "reconfigure" your Xserver (ie
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> file) if you've made some changes.
>>
>> Did you run a devfsadm after you booted the new system? The device
>> paths may have re-enumerated which means your X display device
>> is not where Solaris thinks it is.
>>
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