On 2008-05-07 07:28:55 +0100, Dave <foo@coo.com> said:

> Glenn wrote:
>> A colleague returned from CommunityOne today and brought an
>> OpenSolaris
>> 2008.05 Live CD back with him. So naturally, I immediately took the
>> opportunity to load it up. The machine is a Dell Optiplex 170L, which
>> I had previously loaded a recent release of S10 on. The S10 load was
>> unusable; the network device was not recognized without a config-file
>> modification (which did allow it to work), but more seriously, the
>> system would mysteriously hang (I suspected some kind of driver
>> problem
>> with the hard disk, as a recursive find would hang).
>>
>> OpenSolaris fixes those problems. The network device works without
>> any
>> manual adjustments, and I don't see any disk hangs. However, there
>> are
>> other issues:
>>
>> * xterm takes 16 seconds to start up. This is completely repeatable,
>> but also completely absurd on a 3GHz machine.
>
> I've never used a live CD for Solaris, but I believe there are more
> than one live version in existance. It might be worth showing the
> contents of /etc/release.

The version of the just released OpenSolaris live CD is "2008.05".

To debug xterm (really xterm? not gnome-terminal?) I'd run a copy under
truss to see where the slowdown is. It is almost certainly waiting for
something.

> kestrel / % svcs ssh
> STATE STIME FMRI
> online Apr_03 svc:/network/ssh:default
>
> should give you the status of the sshd deamon. Certainly on all
> solariss I've seen, this is enabled by default. ftp and telnet are not,
> but ssh yes.

It should be enabled and accessible by default too. Check
<http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd/> for more
info.

Cheers,

Chris