Lee Packham

It seems Open Solaris 2008.5 has made an appearance on the Internet. I just installed it onto a new HDD to discover a few odd things.

The main one is lack of things in the SMF database. I had to import the Apache 2.2 manifest into SMF myself. That seems a little odd.

lpackham@opensolaris:~# svccfg
svc:> import /var/svc/manifest/network/http-apache22.xml
svc:> exit
lpackham@opensolaris:~# svcs -a | fgrep apa
disabled       10:56:04 svc:/network/http:apache22
lpackham@opensolaris:~#

Somewhat irritating – but at least it now works.

Yes it does indeed – So I did this in the end:

cd /opt/local/bin
mv ginstall ginstall.old
ln -s /usr/bin/install ginstall

Everything works for me now

Thank you avast! for breaking my Vista install.

Bit of a shame really – but it upgraded last night and rebooted as normal. I didn’t bother logging back in, went to bed.

Got back to the machine in the morning to Log In. It said Logging Off! So I tried to Log In again and when it got to the desktop, it claimed all my Recycle Bins were corrupt and they needed rebuilding. I couldn’t even run a Command Prompt. No Start Menu, Win+E didn’t work either.

So I hit hard reset and tried to log in again. Same problem.

It appears that avast was blocking access to everything on the machine. It meant I had no premissions to access anything as a logged in user. So I promptly rebooted into Safe Mode and uninstalled it.

Problem gone!

But it does highlight an important point. Just like you don’t trust Microsoft Updates (hence why companies use WSUS to handle updates), don’t trust your AV vendor either. Always test the update on a non-major machine first.

That said – why can’t I trust my AV vendor? I have done for years!

Oh well, gone to a trial of Trend. Have you tried running Vista without AV? I can’t stand the moaning