[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some questions about OpenIndiana

[Albert Lee]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I ditched it and install OpenIndiana "stable" 134+ ; after
> navigating through a web page in Russian wanting me to install some
> internet plugins then  staring at the screen for almost 5 hours for
> the download to complete . I finally got it installed.
>

That's not an OpenIndiana release.

>
> I tried to compile Samba 3.5.6 myself... Oh boy.... gcc wouldn't
> install (SUNWgcc package or something like that); broken dependency on
> lint..

That shouldn't be possible with the normal packaging system. Can you
reproduce the steps you used?

>
> Except that the default svcs config for samba, wouldn't start it
> properly, it seemed to be using paths that did exist in OpenSolaris 10
> (like /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd when it's now nstalled in /usr/sbin). I could
> manually start it by using smbd -D from the command line .
> Only to realise that for some reasons, that version of samba couldn't
> join or samba domain (macos 10.6.5 server). Very weird, as I had no
> problem making my own compiled version of samba 3.5.6 join the domain.
> Not sure how the OI version was compiled  to make it fail join our samba domain
>

I would appreciate if you could file bugs further describing these problems.

> Then I restarted the box, and I hit that bug:
> http://www.illumos.org/issues/487
>
> e.g. when I restart, ldap fail to initialise and that box isn't
> accessible anymore. Have to reboot in single-user mode, disable the
> ldap pam module , continue booting, re-enable pam ldap module.
>

Looking into this issue, it doesn't appear to be straightforward.

-Albert