[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

[Alex Lam S.L.]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Jake <jak3kaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:34 PM, "Alex Lam S.L." <alexlamsl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jake <jak3kaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:23 PM, "Alex Lam S.L." <alexlamsl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Christopher Chan
>>>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:11 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The only quirks I've read into so far is the device driver for Intel
>>>>>> AMT (which I don't use anyway), and the occasion freeze of the Gnome
>>>>>> desktop. As for the latter - how should I recover from it? My gut
>>>>>> feeling is that it is triggered by graphic updates on the desktop, and
>>>>>> Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't seem to help other than making the whole screen go
>>>>>> blank. The rest of the system (e.g. DNS server) is still functional,
>>>>>> though.
>>> See if the later Nvidia driver helps with the lockups.
>>>
>>> See: https://www.illumos.org/issues/1127
>>>
>>
>> They mentioned the driver being put into "dev-il repo" - is that not
>> the default repository when I run the Package Manager under OI-151?
>>
>>
>> Alex.
>
> Yes, the repo was updated again and it was not revved. There was a discussion in the weekly meeting about that practice and going forward someone suggested to append a build letter to the release number.
>
> If you do another pkg image-update you should get the new Nvidia driver.

So I've left the server running over the week, and today when I get
back to it, not even the keyboard (caps/num-lock) is responding - even
though all the other services (DNS, SSH, Apache, etc.) are working as
normal.

I'll do a "pkg image-update" now and see if I run into this again.


Alex.



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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> :(
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest installing KDE from the KDE repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> More pain :(
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On the OpenIndiana wiki page it seems to suggest KDE 4.6.4:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/oi/oi_151
>>>>
>>>> I will have a look and see if I can get it off the default repository tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alex.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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