Questions tagged [solaris-11]
64-bit SPARC/x86 UNIX-based Operating System from Oracle
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Why are all of my ZFS snapshot directories empty?
I'm running an Oracle 11 box as a ZFS storage appliance, and I'm taking regular snapshots of the ZFS filesystems, via cron.
In the past, I know that if I wanted to grab a particular file from a ...
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Since upgrading to Solaris 11, my ARC size has consistently targeted 119MB, despite having 30GB RAM. What? Why?
I ran a NAS/SAN box on Solaris 11 Express before Solaris 11 was released. The box is an HP X1600 with an attached D2700. In all, 12x 1TB 7200 SATA disks, 12x 300GB 10k SAS disks in separate zpools. ...
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Solaris ZFS volumes: workload not hitting L2ARC
I've set up a Solaris Express 11 machine with some reasonably fast HDDs behind a RAID controller, set the device up as a zpool with compression enabled and added a mirrored log and 2 caching devices ...
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'zfs get all' returns properties for file systems with '%' (percent sign) appended
While working with zfs I saw that 'zfs get all' for some existing file systems would list properties with '%' (percent sign) added to the the name of the file system. Like so:
# zfs list
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Will a Solaris server tolerate a ZFS pool from its future?
My experience with ZFS has generally been that it just works, so I expect the answer will be, it’s not a problem — but I have a data pool which will ruin my January if it fubars, so I want to double-...
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Is it possible to boot from a passthrough LSI 2008 SAS controller under VMware ESXi?
I currently have Solaris 11 Express running on bare metal. I'd like to convert the machine to an ESXI host and run the existing os as a virtual machine.
I have ESXI setup, the virtual machine made, ...
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QEMU: Solaris 11 / Sparc64 Guest on Linux / X86-64 Host [closed]
I'm trying to run a Solaris 11 / Sparc64 guest on a Linux/x86-64 host. I've cloned the qemu project and configured/compiled it with sparc64 support (./configure --target-list="sparc64-softmmu").
I've ...
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port redirection on solaris 11
I'm trying port forwarding on solaris 11. I have a mechine behind a server that use solaris 11. I try to access that mechine from the external port, and forwarded by solaris 11 mechine to that machine ...
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Oracle Solaris 11, ipnat - rdr not working with remote destinations
I'm trying to reverse proxy traffic coming in on port 8100 at one machine to another. The receiving host is an oracle exclusive zone as is the destination machine.
On the incoming zone I have ...
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Solaris 11: Quick way to fetch and install patches after initial install
Is there a quick command that will fetch patches from the internet and install them?
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Solaris IPS: pkg dependency errors bear no relation to actual issue / how best to diagnose IPS dependency failures?
I am running Solaris 11.3 (at present from the non-contract Release repo). I have a large amount of Solaris 10 experience, but I am newer to 11 and am still working on getting confident with IPS.
My ...
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Importing an exported pool on Solaris 11 fails
Unable to import an exported pool.
Based on the info below, am I able to somehow import the pool? Or, is there a way to retrieve the data from the drive itself?
There is no corruption on either ...
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Solaris host no longer boots after pkg update: intel_iommu0 generated fault event
I've just been doing some regular maintenance on my Solaris 11 box. I issued a pkg update command to be told that I needed to update pkg. This I did, and rebooted into solaris-1.
I then issued ...
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Solaris 11: Make sunrpc listen only on localhost
There is an open port 111 (sunrpc) that I want to secure. On a fresh install of Solaris, how can I get this to only listen on localhost? This, I think, would be a cleaner way than using ipfilter, if I ...
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Solaris 10 vs Solaris 11
How would I decide which one to use?
We plan to run our own http/https webserver and also to run sendmail smtp server. We will be using ZFS for boot partition and use ZFS encryption where possible (...
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Disk not shown in Solaris 11.1 format tool
I have a Sun Fire T2000 with up-to-date firmware, running Solaris 11.1.
I have inserted two SEAGATE-ST914602SSUN146G-0400-136.73GB HDDs in bays 2 and 3.
Both drives show OK in the ALOM and are ...
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Trying to undertand CPU info on a LDOM and it's Control Domain
I want to know the number of physical cpus and cores in a control domain and LDOM.
In this LDOM environment, I have a control domain with two LDOMs
If I do a psrinfo -p on the control domain, it ...
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Solaris 11.1 smb share pam.conf
I would like to enable an SMB share on Solaris 11.1 x64
My steps:
pkg install service/filesystem/smb
svcadm enable -r smb/server
echo "other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn" >> /...
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Emulex FC HBA not resetting
A Solaris 11 machine with an oldish Emulex HBA seems to have some problems:
# dmesg | egrep emlxs
Dec 29 15:31:10 san2 emlxs: [ID 349649 kern.info] [ 5.0608]emlxs1: NOTICE: 730: Link reset. (...
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Installing a modest ZFS system, ZFS for the boot disk
I work at a repair shop and I'm thinking of building a Solaris Express, or maybe using whatever the open version is called nowadays, ZFS based NAS out of the mountains of old pieces of hardware we've ...
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Beadm create -p on another pool - why the snapshot on the destinated pool ?
I am trying out Solaris 11.3
Realize the option of -p when using beadm that i can actually create another boot environment on another pool.
root@Unicorn6:~# beadm create -p mypool solaris-1
root@...
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ZFS Snapshots (Missing Incremental)
Assume two Zpools on Solaris 11.3. Pool A and Pool B.
Pool A contains PoolA/FileSystem1@Snap3
Pool B contains PoolB/FileSystem1@Snap1 and PoolB/FileSystem1@Snap2
Is there a way to update Pool B ...
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Solaris 11 pool growing without any apparent cause
One of my zfs pools is growing very large:
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
zonepool01 556G 535G 21.2G 96% 1.00x ONLINE -
df -h shows that the largest mount ...
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Can I limit wall clock time available for process on Solaris?
I would like (many) processes to be killed if still running after certain amount of time after execution. First I have thought that Solaris’ resource management is perfect tool for the job, as it ...
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"Upgrading" from OpenIndiana 151a to Solaris 11.1 using IPS
I wonder if it would be possible to "upgrade" from an OpenIndiana install (151a) to the current Solaris release (11.1) using the IPS.
What I have done so far:
added the "solaris" publisher using pkg ...
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Where is the arp_cleanup_interval variable in Solaris 11?
In Solaris 10 I can configure (and audit) the arp_cleanup_interval variable using the following command:
$ ndd -get /dev/arp arp_cleanup_interval
300000
In Solaris 11 (Express and Release) the same ...
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Less or more command on Solaris for paginating output
When I type "ifconfig | more" or "ifconfig | less" the output isn't paginated on Solaris (I'm used to Linux and FreeBSD). Is there a way to do this on Solaris 11?
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Gnupg library issues on Solaris 11
I have installed gnupg from the official Solaris 11 repository, but am experiencing library issues. This is the error I am getting:
ld.so.1: gpg2: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/lib/libreadline....
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LDOMs in Solaris 11 don't work
I just got a new Sun Fire T2000, installed Solaris 11 and was going to configure LDOMs. However "ldmd" can't be started and in turn ldm doesn't work.
root@solaris11:~# ldm
Failed to connect to ...
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Is it possible to remove the lock of consoles in Solaris?
I installed Solaris 11 with just consoles. Just like with Linux, you can switch between consoles using the Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 key combos. Great. Only, each time you do so, it asks you for your password.
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Moving a Solaris VM from 32 to 64-bit
If I have a VMware virtual machine running Solaris 11 Express originally installed on an old 32-bit ESXi 3.5 host, if I transfer the VM to a 64-bit ESXi 5.0 host, will Solaris upon next boot detect ...
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GDM configuration on Solaris 11?
On Solaris 10 it was located in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf but that file is missing from a standard Solaris 11 install. When I run the command slocate gdm.conf the only file I get is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/...
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pkg install: Chain was rooted in an untrusted self-signed certificate
I am trying to install GUI Environment in Oracle Solaris 11.3 but when I executed command
# pkg install solaris-desktop
I got following error
Creating Plan (Package planning: 25/362): -
pkg install: ...
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ZFS Send Script works when run manually but not in Cron (Already tried common solutions)
Script on sending end is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
#Variables
bigdata=vid-zfs-live/bigdata
today=`gdate +%m-%d-%y`
yesterday=`gdate -d'yesterday' +%m-%d-%y`
#Actions
zfs snapshot -r "$bigdata"@"$...
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Solaris 11.1 Install Error (USB)
I'm trying to install Solaris 11.1 on a Supermicro SYS-1027GR-TR2 from the LiveDVD. It is not on Oracle's HCL but it is on Supermicro's Solaris 11.1 supported list.
At the beginning of LiveDVD boot, ...
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Solaris 11 /proc permission denied
I have a Solaris 11.1 server running an Oracle database. I want to read the environment of a running oracle process, as the oracle user, like this:
$ id
uid=100(oracle) gid=100(oinstall)
$ ps -...
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Running a command as the root "role" in Solaris 11?
Ok, so we have a product which runs a daemon as root, which can communicate over TCP sockets and read / write files. This works fine in Solaris 10, but when we ported it across to Solaris 11, a load ...
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Received SSH2_MSG_CHANNEL_FAILURE for nonexistent channel 257
I have the same problem with MobaXterm versions 21.x, 22.x and 23.x when connecting to one specific solaris 11.1 SPARC T4 server/LDOM/zone.
Authenticating with public key "Imported-Openssh-Key&...
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zfs send to NAS with PIGZ compression slowness
The following command that I use to backup used to take 5 minutes to complete and since last week it is taking around 25 minutes. This is after restarting a switch stack the server is connected to. ...
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Archive Mail send through sendmail service from outlook
I have sendmail running on linux host with email alias group, from outlook I am sending mail through this sendmail server.
Am looking for an option to archive all outgoing mails using this sendmail ...
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Adding a driver from a p5p package during Solaris 11.4 installation
I'm trying to install Solaris x86 11.4 on a machine that requires an additional driver to access its drives. The driver is provided in a p5p-package and I have tried adding the driver before starting ...
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Solaris 11.4, zfs_xcopy parameters
Can anybody explain new parameters appeared in oracle solaris 11.4?
zfs_write_throttle_xcopy_scale
zfs_xcopy_allowed_pct_over
zfs_xcopy_bloom_entries
zfs_xcopy_hard_limit_factor
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mount a windows folder in solaris 11.3
I want to check a folder which is placed in a windows server by my Oracle RDBMS12C. therefore based on my research first I need to mount the windows folder in solaris 11.3. we are using spark server.
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memory Stuck in Solaris can't free memory
I am Working On Solaris 11, Now facing problem related to memory
As my root is reached to 90%, I have deleted the audit file from /var/share/audit which is of 8 GB after deleting the file,server ...
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Config file of smb in Solaris 11.2
I have a server which is running solaris 11.2. I can login by root, and the smbd service is running in the server, but I cannot detect the place where the samba config file is. Do you know how to find ...
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Intel 10Gbps NIC not working within Solaris 11
I'm working within Solaris 11.1 on hardware that is on the Solaris 11 HCL. My Intel X520-DA2 is failing to initialize.
Jun 14 03:11:32 ATM-Front-End-1 ixgbe: [ID 611667 kern.warning] WARNING: ...
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Solaris 11.1 AI client: HTTP connection times out
I am trying to install a client off the current 11.1 automated installation (AI) image. I have not modified any manifests and just run the default config after "installadm create-service" which should ...
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Can Solaris 11 boot from one disk but load the OS from another?
I'm trying to convert my bare metal Solaris 11 Express box into a virtual machine but I can't get it to boot.
I've already asked Is it possible to boot from a passthrough LSI 2008 SAS controller ...
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Problems installing Oracle Database 11 on solaris 11.3
i'm trying to install Oracle Database on Solaris 11.3 and i'm getting the following error:
INFO: /usr/ccs/bin/make -f /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk relink ...
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solaris 11 express hosting vm's
I have been trying to wrap my head around this one. I have not seen a decent yes/no or how answer yet.
I have a solaris 11 zfs server I want to host 2 or 3 vm's on it and have them use a loop network ...
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