Category Archives: Solaris

Solaris m4 broken on latest 11.3 SRU

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Thomas Gouverneur

Today I’ve had to troubleshoot an issue with sendmail where the make in the config directory would create an error message like this: # make test ! -f sendmail.cf || /usr/bin/mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.prev /usr/bin/m4 ../m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf /usr/bin/m4:sendmail.mc:../domain/solaris-generic.m4:../feature/redirect.m4:20 can’t … Continue reading →

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Solaris 11: The signature value did not match the expected value.

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

Since quite sime time now I’ve been unable to upgrade my test system to Solaris 11.1. The system was running 11.0 SRU 10.4 and for some reason, when I wanted to run ‘pkg update’, I faced this message: pkg install: … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox IPS Package for Solaris 11

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

Some time ago I had to write a script to convert currently downloadable VirtualBox Package into IPS Packages for Solaris 11. As I found the thing really useful, I decided to setup a repository to provide everyone easy access over … Continue reading →

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IPS Repository

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

I’ve recently been able to build two IPS repositories for Solaris 11, so I’m now sharing access to these here. The first repository concern some package that I’m using on a daily basis, so I’m just sharing them: http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/espix/en/catalog.shtml To … Continue reading →

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Solaris Hotplug: Manage your devices!

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

Solaris Hotplug can be used in various ways, let’s see what we can get out of it! Enable the daemon First of all, we should enable the daemon before anything else: # svcadm enable hotplug Listing devices You can list … Continue reading →

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Solaris: Tracing your application

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

Every Solaris system administrator already know the truss utility, which allow you to trace the system calls as your application is running. I recently discovered another tool which I found to be really helpful when you want to know what … Continue reading →

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Analyze System Hangs using SCAT

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

There are already a lot of Howto’s out there explaining how to use the SCAT tool to analyze some Solaris Crash-dumps; Although, I will try here to describe how to analyze a HANG of a system instead of a pure … Continue reading →

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Solaris: Too many files open

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Thomas Gouverneur

Recently, I had to diagnose an issue where the only symptom was a failure with ‘mailx’ command from time to time, which caused the following output to be mailed instead of the expected report from a cron job: Your “cron” job … Continue reading →

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SUNWjet: Add a slice 7 to a zpool’s disk

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Thomas Gouverneur

According to Oracle’s documentation, if you want to use SUNWjet to jumpstart a server with a ZFS Root pool and a slice 7 to put metadb on, you must first parition your drives and then launch the jumpstart. This is … Continue reading →

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Solaris 11 ISC DHCP: Cannot specify multiple interfaces

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Thomas Gouverneur

While trying to configure the ISC DHCP server on Solaris 11 to serve my local VLANs, I wanted to restrict its usage to only three interfaces, I then issued the following setprop command: # svccfg -s svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4 config/listen_ifnames astring: “vlan100 … Continue reading →

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