Sysadmin Ramblings

On our kvm hypervisor we have several vm’s using fibre channel for storage. The hypervisor has to see all the devices, but each device has it’s own lvm so when the hypervisor boots, it tries to read all of them. Read the rest of this entry »

After installing SRSS we tried to setup a gnome kiosk session. There were no prototypes for this installed. After scouring the net we only found an example of something that didn’t work :-(. Read the rest of this entry »

We were specifically trying to get skype to work on a sunray. We got audio working by configuring kde.

If you start kcontrol Select: Sound & Multimedia Sound System Hardware We selected Full Duplex and changed the default audio location to that of AUDIODEV (/tmp/SUNWut/dev/utaudio/ut-dsp-0 Apply the changes Then restart the application with artsdsp

[user@host]: <strong>artsdsp skype</strong>

ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 753, errno = 0

volume_open: error opening /dev/mixer: No such device

After this, audio works. We still don’t have microphone working though… Other KDE applications seem to prefer this method, starting via artsdsp

After modifying gdm.conf we noticed that Xnewt would not start properly on occassion. Xnewt was not ignoring the vt[0-9] command line option sent to X to specify a virtual console on which to run. We removed this from the command line sent to Xnewt and renamed Xnewt to Xnewt.sun

pushd /usr/X11R6/bin

mv Xnewt Xnewt.sun

echo << EOF >Xnewt

#!/bin/sh

 

XFIX=`echo $@ |sed -e's/vt[0-9]*//'`

echo `date`: ARGS=$@ XFIX=$XFIX >>/var/log/Xnewt

 

exec Xnewt.sun $XFIX -fp unix/:7100

EOF

chmod 755 Xnewt

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