[OpenIndiana-discuss] fresh hipster install important tool no workee

Jonathan Adams t12nslookup at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 18:00:57 UTC 2016


Hi pkg needs a lot of memory, depending on the size of the repository that
it is updating from ... Are you sure you gave your virtual machine enough
memory?

Jon

On 25 Oct 2016 18:44, "Harry Putnam" <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Just installed hipster in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host.
>
> I used this iso: oi-hipster-gui-20160421.iso
>
> It's been disappointing.
>
> Seems that updating to latest image is not possible:
>
> A command like `pkg image-update -v'
>
> Just sets and never returns or shows any activity. But it is burning
> up all resources.
>
> If I go to a differnt xtem and try to do anything, the host stalls
> completely and no activity is possible at all.
>
> Can't run pkg publish right now to show the output here as things are
> totally stalled, but publisher is set to:
>    http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster
>
> Had a similar bad experience trying to install the vbox guest tools.
> At the end of the process it stalls with .. updating .. boot .. something?
>
> Am I wasting my time with the mentioned iso... is there a more recent
> one?
>
> Are folks generally able to get a working system straight away from
> the iso mentioned above?
>
>
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