[OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

[Rainer Heilke]

To make things clear:

On 11/22/2013 1:13 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-11-22 08:05, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>>
>> On 11/21/2013 10:20 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 22.11.2013 08:02, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>>>> Greetings.
>>>>
>>>> After spending most of the day trying to get the OI 151a8 (LiveCD
>>>> Desktop) install to boot up with fixed IP addresses, I finally gave
>>>> up. The wiki is very outdated, and self-contradictory. So I googled,
>>>> and still nothing. And network-admin doesn't run without NWAM enabled.
>>>> (This system is a small home running DNS, Mediatomb, and storage
>>>> shares.and with NWAM, I have to log in to fire up the network
>>>> interfaces.) But it also acts occasionally as one of my desktops. So,
>
> Is it also the router? Or do you have an access point as the
> DHCP server? Can you assign a fixed IP address to the OI box's
> MAC address on that?
The router has nothing to do with it, and setting up a server using DHCP 
from a router is just wrong in my book. Besides which, I shouldn't have 
to use this type of kludge.
>
>>>> since a fresh install of 151a8 Desktop cannot be made into a server, I
>>>> installed the server version.
>
> Well, not technically true - the GUI version includes all the
> packages (AFAIK) of the text-only version, they are just
> preconfigured differently.
Probably ttue, but the static network configuration simply would not 
work, despite everything the manual/wiki says.
>
>>> if you are using static IP then what is problem to disable nwam, use
>>> network:physical and configure IP without automagic?
>>
>> Simple - it doesn't work. network-admin won't run, and all of the IP
>> configuration files disappear on reboot if I do it by hand.
>
> Why would you need that? Open the shell, and
> :; pfexec svcadm disable -s physical:nwam
> :; pfexec svcadm enable -r physical:default
To repeat, this did  *not* work.
>
> Also, it is possible that setting static stuff not by old-school
> files, but with "ipadm" *may* (I'm not sure) configure the statics
> for both NWAM and the default setup. Quoting from my example for
> a previously created VNIC, ipadm has to set up the interface as
> managed by this mechanism, and assign an IPv4 address:
> :; ipadm create-if vnic127001 && \
>    ipadm create-addr -T static -alocal=192.168.127.1 vnic127001/v4
ipadm constantly gave me the standard error of not being able to do it's 
job on a temporary object (I tried e1000g0/v4 , e1000g0/v4static.etc.)
>
>
>
>>>> The server version, however, is text only (of course). No Gnome. So,
>>>> how can I add it?
>>>>
>>>> Note that DNS seems a bit borked. I can
>>>> 'ping 91.194.74.133
>>>> I can
>>>> 'dig pkg.openindiana.org'
>>>> but I cannot
>>>> 'ping pkg.openindiana.org'
>>>> getting an "unknown host" error. (??) So 'pkg refresh --full' always
>>>> fails.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect this will be the last time I install fresh, rather than
>>>> doing an upgrade. :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> Your nsswitch config is missing dns for hosts and ipnods.
>>
>> Rats. I thought I replaced nsswitch.conf with nsswitch.dns.Must have
>> missed this on my nth time around. Thanks.
>
> It may have also been replaced by automagic if you haven't disabled it.
Perhaps.
>
> And look out for ipfilter automagic, unless you replace it with "custom"
> method for old-school config with /etc/ipf/* files.
Turned of ipfilter every time (typically not enabled anyway).
>
> HTH,
> //Jim
>
>
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