[OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

Fri Oct 5 03:50:48 UTC 2012

Hi Rob,

I did not see a posting from you on the list, could it be that you are not
a subscriber?
I will forward your question on to the list.

Hello List,

Can anyone provide a suggestion for how vnc server and gdm can be enabled
on a SPARC headless server?

David Halko
http://svr4.blogspot.com/
http://netmgt.blogspot.com/
P.S. Rob is starting an X Gui wrapper for SVR4 package installers

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Rob Petty <rob.a.petty at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rob Petty <rob.a.petty at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [developer] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download
> link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD
> (without installer)
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Cc: developer at lists.illumos.org
>
>
> Hello Martin and all,
>
> I'm working with David on his SPARC systems (do not have video cards),
>
> When trying to enable GDM, we're receiving an error:
> /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found
>
> Any help with this is appreciated.
>
> - Rob
>
> (more extensive log follows)
>
> # svcs gdm
> STATE          STIME    FMRI
> maintenance    23:05:06 svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
> # svcs -L gdm
> /var/svc/log/application-graphical-login-gdm:default.log
> # cat /var/svc/log/application-graphical-login-gdm:default.log
> [ start + 135.51s Disabled. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:03:53 Enabled. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:03:55 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm
> start"). ]
> /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found
> [ Oct  3 23:03:55 Method "start" exited with status 127. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:03:56 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm
> start"). ]
> /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found
> [ Oct  3 23:03:56 Method "start" exited with status 127. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:03:56 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm
> start"). ]
> /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found
> [ Oct  3 23:03:56 Method "start" exited with status 127. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:04:30 Leaving maintenance because clear requested. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:04:30 Enabled. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:04:30 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm
> start"). ]
> /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found
> [ Oct  3 23:04:30 Method "start" exited with status 127. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:04:43 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:04:43 Disabled. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:05:06 Enabled. ]
> [ Oct  3 23:05:06 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm
> start"). ]
> /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found
> [ Oct  3 23:05:06 Method "start" exited with status 127. ]
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM, David Halko <davidhalko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good Day Martin!
> >
> > Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4
> Gig
> > RAM.
> > - it takes about 48 minutes to boot
> > - we have no video display, so we use the serial console
> > - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an
> > external VNC console
> > - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop
> > - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a
> Solaris
> > 10 V240 - very reliable
> > - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a
> > live-dvd server environment
> >
> > This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very
> > professional!
> >
> > As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a
> basic
> > installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is
> > bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look
> for
> > fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is
> > desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less & serial-less
> > installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance.
> >
> > I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release
> > management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts
> could
> > provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for
> > upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to
> pkgadd
> > -x option for a wanboot mini-root. Later, pkgadd could install against a
> ZFS
> > alternate boot environment. Perhaps zfssend from a build environment,
> named
> > by release. There is no reason this could/should not be 100% automated.
> Once
> > again, we could help here.
> >
> > Have you thought about a network boot from OpenBoot, maybe mounting some
> NFS
> > network drives from a Solaris 10 platform (until OI-SPARC is stable
> enough
> > to self-host)? We have some other V100's and V120's... This could make a
> > very nice release management environment (zfs snapshot, boot first box,
> > validate, package; zfs snapshot, boot second box, validate, package;
> keep a
> > few boxes always live) We would be willing to work on that, if we could
> get
> > a little guidance.
> >
> > I realize everything I said above is very brief, may not be 100%
> technically
> > accurate, but I think you can see that I am excited, and there are others
> > ready to dig-in and bring this forward. For storage, test systems,
> > scripting, and automation - we can find some resources. We don't do C,
> nor
> > do we do pretty, but we do functional.
> >
> > Thanks - David Halko
> > http://svr4.blogspot.com/
> > http://netmgt.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko <davidhalko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines.
> >> > Thank you for your efforts!
> >> >
> >> > Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect
> any
> >> > software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS
> under SPARC
> >> > OI since it is so buggy & a moving target.
> >> >
> >> > There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently
> >> > available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We
> also
> >> > don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to
> in
> >> > SVR4 packaging.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > David Halko
> >> > http://svr4.blogspot.com/
> >> > http://netmgt.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >> Hi David!
> >>
> >> many thanks for your nice comments and +1  :)
> >> I'm glad to get such feedback.
> >>
> >> However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff.
> >> No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early
> >> during, it would be a very long story to tell)   ...
> >>
> >> As for IPS I could not agree more with you.
> >> The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for
> anything.
> >> From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough.
> >> From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst
> >> enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!).
> >>
> >> Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours,
> >> then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the
> >> first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly
> >> it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine,
> >> how one feels as a distribution-constructor!!
> >> A year is nothing while fighting with IPS  ...
> >>
> >> See the thread "pkg-discuss] gcc install?" under:
> >>
> >>
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html
> >>
> >> p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ...
> >>
> >> tnx && rgds,
> >>
> >> %martin
> >> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD
> >>   http://www.youtube.com/user/MartUXopensolaris
> >>
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/MartUX_SPARC-OpenIndiana/357912020962940
> >>       https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig
> >>         http://www.martux.org (new page not yet online, but pretty
> soon)
> >>
> >> Forwarding David Halko's: http://svr4.blogspot.com/
>