Hello everyone, I'm just starting out in the world of Solaris. I would like some tips for those just starting out. Where can I improve myself regarding this operating system. You need to know to have reasonable control.

I have a running T4-1 from which I can not get video output. It will sysboot and then roll into Solaris 11.4.42 where I can connect via ethernet and get a console. Works great running NFS, Apache, and Pg. Fast. (Doesn't see the internet.) I have a Pentium-3 box running OpenBSD and can connect that to the T4 with a serial cable and with *that* I can see and work with both ILOM and the OK prompt in the initial boot stuff before starting the system. I have tried setting the T4 video with:

ok setenv output-device=screen:r1024x768x24 <-- maybe I needed 16 here.

I've done

ok setenv input-device keyboard

ok setenv output-device screen

ok rest-all

and it acts like it all takes but when I reboot with the monitor now attached (and USB keyboard and mouse in rear jacks) to the T4's output the screen comes up with an error

out-of-range
H: 74.7 kh
V: 119.5 Hz

so I can't see any errors it might be giving me.

The monitor is a Daewoo F205 and works in every other old or new box I've used it on. I have only one monitor I can use for this right now. Does the T4 need to see a monitor hooked up before it will accept config changes? I use the monitor on the OBSD box to see the serial output. It can't be two places at once. What to do? Thanks.

Hi,

Proud owner of a SunBlade 2500 dual CPU and I can’t get Oracle’s site to allow me to download an OS image. At first I had massive problems even signing up for an Oracle ID (I ended up having to use Edge on Windows to get the webpage to work because Firefox, Safari and Chrome wouldn’t let me click a button).

So now I have an ID but can’t for the life of me get to a page that allows me to download the image.

I’d also like to get an x86 image of the current version so I can run it in a VM for when I don’t feel like hearing my office with the SPARC machine :)

Any thoughts?

Hi everyone,

I am also building some software using pkgsrc on Solaris 10 and find its ABIs very peculiar. Previously, I was using Solaris as a sysadmin and didn't need to compile so much... then I do not have so much experience in that.

While I’ve managed to configure most things for a 64-bit using flags like -m64, I keep running into linker errors related to ABI and ELF class mismatches. I set the proper linker and compiler flags but despite these settings, Solaris sometimes tries to use 32-bit system libraries. Or, gcc creates 32-bit .o files, and linker fails while linking with 64-bit libraries.

I suspect there might be some subtle ABI setting or configuration issue that I’m missing. My machine is Sun Blade 100, Solaris 10 01/13, it's 64-bit system.

Are there guides or HOWTOs about this? I do miss something, I think, if I read the howto it will be very useful for me.

I think all of you know that ****** Oracle closed even the knowledge base, if I google, Oracle articles (which were Sun articles) are behind the paywall.

I want to run Solaris on the R740XD server. The Solaris 11.4 HCL lists it as compatible. But my question is, do I need to have a subscription to get any updates or patches to guarantee compatibility?

Can you live migrate a zone to another illumos system? I know this can be done in Oracle Solaris. Since there is no live patching it would seem like a pretty important feature (move all zones to another system, update old system, then reverse).

Hello,

I've got a server from ebay and I would like to ask if anyone has firmware update for it?

Thanks in advance!

u/ptribble might know: We're trying to get the SVR4 packaging tools (pkgadd and friends) to work on Linux, because we actually *like* SVR4 packaging. Problem: apparently the standard Linux-y implementation of cpil coughs up a hairball about cpio, thusly:

```

freya@moana:~$ pkgadd -d FSYStest-1.0.0-linux-all.pkg

/usr/bin/cpio: premature end of file

pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed

- process </usr/bin/cpio -icdum -C 512> failed, exit code 2

pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from <FSYStest-1.0.0-linux-all.pkg>

freya@moana:~$
```

Anyone out there know what version of cpio it's expecting? We tried to build the heirloom one but that wants sys/mkdev.h which isn't in Linux, and the code is just... broken. Halp? We're trying to make our Linux boxen a little, a little, more Solaris-y

We feel like we're starting to slam into the limits of Qemu's SPARC emulation, apparently running NIS+ as a server is a little too much for it and now uh the Solaris machine won't boot. Nice going? We just get "core dumped" from qemu

had this silly idea to create a virtualised sun.com network of SPARC Solaris hosts, mirroring (where possible) the structure of the network in, say, 2002-2003? We could probably do it, it'd all be 32-bit SPARC due to qemu lilitations but if we had network docs on how it was all layed out and how the routing infra worked and such we could probably make it happen

I need help and I'm new in Solaris

We wanted to test Solaris 9 software compiles, and well, uh, thanks, qemu, for actually working this time:

SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_118558-34 32-bit Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Configuring ATM interfaces: configuring IPv4 interfaces: le0. configuring IPv6 interfaces: le0. starting DHCP on primary interface le0 Hostname: fractalashes.lab.seatac.sun.com The system is coming up. Please wait. checking ufs filesystems /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7: is logging. Starting IPv6 neighbor discovery. Setting default IPv6 interface for multicast: add net ff00::/8: gateway fe80::a00:20ff:fe4b:6084 starting rpc services: rpcbind done. Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway fractalashes.lab.seatac.sun.com syslog service starting. volume management starting. The system is ready.

fractalashes.lab.seatac.sun.com console login: root Password: Dec 23 20:06:02 fractalashes.lab.seatac.sun.com login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Last login: Mon Dec 23 19:54:42 on console Solaris 9 9/05 HW s9s_u9wos_06b SPARC Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 25 September 2006

ifconfig -a

lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 le0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 129.145.128.170 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 129.145.128.255 ether 8:0:20:4b:60:84 lo0: flags=2000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 8252 index 1 inet6 ::1/128 le0: flags=2000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2 ether 8:0:20:4b:60:84 inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe4b:6084/10 le0:1: flags=2080841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,ADDRCONF,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2 inet6 fec0::a00:20ff:fe4b:6084/64

Well ok, no, it's not just broken on Linux, it's broken on Illumos, too. On linux at least we could run Python-3.14's ./configure and have it pass, though it couldn't tell what the compiler was, on Illumos it didn't even get that far. Impressively, impressively broken on both platforms. Once we get our T5-2 up running 11.4 we'l see if Studio 12.6 works any better on there, cause right now we can't test it on 10

Hiya, so new problem with our T5-2. It reports the SCC is "missing or invalid". Yet, if we ask the ilom to tell us about /host, it includes the host mac address and suchlike, which... is presumably data on the SCC? Anyone know how to tell if it is missing, or invalid, and would our reseating of the clock battery have caused issues?

Seriously, the last CBE was like... fuck, 3 years ago? This is just embarrassing now. We see SRUs come ut all the time, and the CBE is just like.......... nope. Fucksake, what's the cheapest Sunsolve plan that'll get us updates, do we gotta crowdfund for that for our personal machines or what?

Our SPARC T5-2 fails to boot, indicating a /SYS/MB fault. fmadm shows this. Anyone know what's broken, and what we should remove?

faultmgmtsp> fmadm faulty

Time UUID msgid Severity

2024-12-18/02:23:59 6fd7ed8c-28d5-66b6-c4ae-bc8e50dabb43 SPT-8000-DH Critical

Problem Status : open Diag Engine : fdd 1.0 System Manufacturer : Oracle Corporation Name : SPARC T5-2 Part_Number : 33940907+1+1 Serial_Number : AK00336245

System Component Firmware_Manufacturer : Oracle Corporation Firmware_Version : (ILOM)4.0.4.3,(POST)5.3.15,(OBP)4.38.17,(HV)1.15.17 Firmware_Release : (ILOM)2019.01.25,(POST)2019.01.25,(OBP)2019.01.25,(HV)2019.01.25

Suspect 1 of 1 Problem class : fault.chassis.voltage.fail Certainty : 100% Affects : /SYS/MB Status : faulted

FRU Status : faulty Location : /SYS/MB Manufacturer : Oracle Corporation Name : ASY,MB+TRAY+CPU,T5-2 Part_Number : 8200636 Revision : 02 Serial_Number : 465769T+1534UL0N26 Chassis Manufacturer : Oracle Corporation Name : SPARC T5-2 Part_Number : 33940907+1+1 Serial_Number : AK00336245 Resource Location : /SYS/MB/CM0

Description : A chassis voltage supply is operating outside of the allowable range.

Response : The system will be powered off. The chassis-wide service required LED will be illuminated.

Impact : The system is not usable until repaired. ILOM will not allow the system to be powered on until repaired.

Action : Please refer to the associated reference document at http://support.oracle.com/msg/SPT-8000-DH for the latest service procedures and policies regarding this diagnosis.

Hi, I created a 2 port channel group on a sunfrre v245 running Solaris 10. When I reboot the network goes into maintenance. I have to iifconfig aggr1 up, and it comes up. The network is still in maintenance but I have connectivity. What'd I do wrong? this is what I ran

ifconfig bge0 unplumb

ifconfig bge1 unplumb

dladm create-aggr -l active -d bge0 -d bge1 1

ifconfig aggr1 plumb

ifconfig aggr1 192.168.x.x up.

Reboot. Network wont start. The sub interface for a zone comes up though. I see an error Failed to plumb IPv4 interface(s): bge0 Failed to configure IPv4 interface(s): aggr1

Edit sys-unconfig and rebuild the network fromscratch seems to have fixed it. I still see errors on boot but, fuck it, it works.

Does anyone have / know where we can find Solaris 8 or 9 zone install flash archive files, as well as ILOM, and OBP, update files for a T5-2? For those about to say "go and look on sunsolve", we aren't made of money, in fact quite the opposite lol

Just as the title says, someone's offering a T5-2 for $425. Considering the only other offer is a V440 for thwe same price, yall think we should go for the T5-2? Hell, we could run Solaris 11 and 10 in LDOMs on that thing.

I have an old sunfire 245. I was using the serial console but someone gave me a video card for it a while ago. I was able to change the console from the serial port to the local console but I don't remember how I did it. I get output on the SC but no console output once solaris starts. Can someone tell me how to change back to the serial console?

I have not seen a Solaris or even a Unix server on the internet without a restart for over 17.5 years. I think this could be a record. Where do you think I should apply?

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Hiya, so considering they're bloody old and we're also a single blind girl on bloody SSI, what'd be the process for us, someone who doesn't have $BIGNUM money, to get hold of the Sun Fire V440, the latest OBP and ALOM firmware? We've finally got our hands on something a little faster than a Sun Blade 150, which for yall will mean faster package releases and more complex package builds, and for us will mean no more day-long mariadb builds.

We did a thing, and now nginx works with phpfpm and we can run Wordpress on the Blade 150, using all up-to-date software. No, we don't know why we are doing this either, but gods, it's the most fun we've had in years. Alsio, we finally got CMake to build and work, so taht opens up more possibilities. Tried golang, crossbuilt it and it.. didn't work. Kinda guessing that all the docs about getting Golang to work on Solaris/SPARC64 are going to target Solaris *11*, which is not what we're working with. Getting a lot better at creating SMF manifests too, OpenSSH, PostgreSQL 15.8, MariaDB, phpfpm, and DBus now all have manifests and start on boot.

I had been trying to install GNOME 3 in my Solaris UTM instance, but aside from the painfully slow response times that i get from UTM; i just can't seem to update the proper pkg source for packages, even (https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/building-open-source-software-on-oracle-solaris-114-cbe-release) was of little use to me.

So is there a official & "proper" way to get GNOME 3 without having to reinvent a wheel?

Can I run earlier SPARC versions on the Blade 1000? I was thinking of 4.1.3 (yes, that old) - failing that I have a Blade 150 as well, would that be compatible?

I know officially Solaris 8 etc.

Also Sun Oracle website shows the 1000 compatible with 11 express.... yet I thought 10 was the limit?

Many thanks.

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