Thunderbird 7.0 and engimail on OpenIndiana does not work

After the release of Thunderbird 7.0, I installed the version on my
OpenIndiana installation, but engimail fails to work, although the plugin
starts.

The debug shows the following error:

2011-09-29 11:36:06.561 [ERROR] enigmail.js: Enigmail.initialize: Error - Enigmime Service not available
2011-09-29 11:36:06.561 [DEBUG] enigmail.js: Enigmail.initialize: exception=TypeError: Components.classes[NS_IPCSERVICE_CONTRACTID] is undefined

The  screenshot is:

Switching back to thunderbird 6.0 lets engimail work.

smime signed email on Android

A colleague started to sign the emails with smime. On my Android Tablet
I'm using K9 mail for mail reading, but the signed e-mails can not be viewed.
To see this emails also, I added an app named Djigzo from the Android market. 
This can also "decrypt" the email and it can be seen on the Android device. 

VirtualBox in OpenIndiana suddenly doesn't start -> VBoxSVC core dumps

I upgraded to the latest version and switched also the sfe repository to

sfe                                   origin   online   http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe/
sfe-encumbered                        origin   online   http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered/

After some digging ( execsnoop of DTraceToolkit ) I saw, that
VirtualBox starts VBoxSVC.

I started VBoxSVC manually and after launching VirtualBox the VBoxSVC process terminates.

Here is the pstack of the core showing the relevant thread:

-----------------  lwp# 3 / thread# 3  --------------------
 00000000003c9cc5 ???????? ()
 fffffd7fff1febc5 _SUNW_Unwind_RaiseException () + 55
 fffffd7ffdda3b69 __cxa_throw () + 59
 fffffd7ff7ae2c99 _ZN3xml4FileC1ENS0_4ModeEPKcb () + 2c9
 fffffd7ff7ae8531 _ZN3xml13XmlFileParser4readERK9RTCStringRNS_8DocumentE () + b1
 00000000006acade _ZN8settings14ConfigFileBaseC2EPKN3com7Utf8StrE () + 13e
 00000000006bcdc5 _ZN8settings14MainConfigFileC1EPKN3com7Utf8StrE () + 35
 00000000006954bd _ZN10VirtualBox4initEv () + 2dd
 0000000000696a49 _ZN10VirtualBox14FinalConstructEv () + 9
 00000000006efe9d _Z21VirtualBoxConstructorP11nsISupportsRK4nsIDPPv () + 12d
 fffffd7ff6e963ce _ZN16nsGenericFactory14CreateInstanceEP11nsISupportsRK4nsIDPPv () + 24
 fffffd7ff6e57373 _ZN22nsComponentManagerImpl14CreateInstanceERK4nsIDP11nsISupportsS2_PPv () + 175
 fffffd7ff5d9a9e1 _ZN18ipcDConnectService7OnSetupEjPK13DConnectSetupj () + af
 fffffd7ff5d9a917 _ZN18ipcDConnectService17OnIncomingRequestEjPK10DConnectOpj () + 2d
 fffffd7ff5d99071 _ZN14DConnectWorker3RunEv () + 211
 fffffd7ff6e638de _ZN8nsThread4MainEPv () + 2e
 fffffd7ff6e9487a _pt_root () + 90
 fffffd7ff6e9493f _pt_iprt_root () + c
 fffffd7ff7b1374c rtThreadMain () + 2c
 fffffd7ff7b60321 _Z18rtThreadNativeMainPv () + 81
 fffffd7fff1f6e44 _thrp_setup () + bc
 fffffd7fff1f7110 _lwp_start ()

The function where the Exception is thrown is:

[ewer@solewer:~]$echo "_ZN3xml4FileC1ENS0_4ModeEPKcb" | c++filt
xml::File::File(xml::File::Mode, char const*, bool)

A truss showed that VirtualBox.xml in $HOME/.VirtualBox is attempted to open.

Before I removed the whole .VirtualBox directory, because of starting problems. Also the backup from zfs snapshot didn't solve the problem.

I found the hint for solving the problem in a Bug for VirtualBox.

Setting the Environment LD_NODIRECT=1 sovled the problem and let
VirtualBox start.

After the first start some time it also starts without the LD_NODIRECT Variable, but anytime later it fails again.

Getting engimal in thunderbird on OpenIndiana to work

Here I've given the link to the actual engimail -plugin for thunderbird 6,
to allow signing/encrypting of e-mails.

The installation of the plugin had no problems, but executing gpg was
a problem.

I installed gpg2 from the sfe repository.

But execution of gpg2 didn't find pinentry -> The executeables are in /usr/lib/.


So I linked /usr/lib/pinentry-gtk-2 and /usr/lib/pinentry-curses to /usr/bin
and signing with engimail works now.

Engimail 1.3 for Solaris x86 & Thunderbird 6.0

I have tried to compile thunderbird 6 from source, so that I can also compile
engimail.

But I failed for thundebird, because in same sources, there config said, that
the platform is not supported.

Today I found, that somebody else had more luck and compiled engimail 1.3.2

Find it here.

Now I have to configure everyhting, to get it up and running.

VirtualBox running in OpenIndiana using a vnic routed with Crossbow

OpenIndiana supports by the Crossbow-Project virtual Networkinterfaces and
a virtual Switch.

Now I've changed the configuration of the VirtualBox Instance to use such a vnic
connected to a etherswitch.

ewer@solewer:~$ dladm show-etherstub
LINK
vswitch1
ewer@solewer:~$ dladm show-vnic
LINK         OVER         SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE         VID
vnic1        vswitch1     0      2:8:20:55:9e:bf   random              0
vnicvsop0    vswitch1     0      2:8:20:7b:84:43   random              0
vnicwinxp2   vswitch1     0      2:8:20:48:d2:6d   random              0

The vnic1 is used in the global zone of the machine, where routing is activated

ewer@solewer:~$ routeadm
              Configuration   Current              Current
                     Option   Configuration        System State
---------------------------------------------------------------
               IPv4 routing   enabled              enabled
               IPv6 routing   disabled             disabled
            IPv4 forwarding   enabled              enabled
            IPv6 forwarding   disabled             disabled

           Routing services   "route:default ripng:default"

Routing daemons:

                      STATE   FMRI
                   disabled   svc:/network/routing/ripng:default
                   disabled   svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing:ipv4
                   disabled   svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing:ipv6
                   disabled   svc:/network/routing/rdisc:default
                     online   svc:/network/routing/route:default
                     online   svc:/network/routing/ndp:default

For the vnic1 a static address object is created, to have the interface always
up and running:

ewer@solewer:~$ ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
vnic1/v4          static   ok           192.168.1.1/24
e1000g0/_a        static   ok           10.0.50.58/8
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128

In VirtualBox the Interace is selected and operated in Bridged Mode.
The important thing is to set the MAC-Address to the same value as the
interface itself has.

ewer@solewer:~$ dladm show-vnic vnicwinxp2
LINK         OVER         SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE         VID
vnicwinxp2   vswitch1     0      2:8:20:48:d2:6d   random              0

oterhwise the network connection will not work. Got the hint from here.

Additionally I have ipnat active, to map the outgoing traffic to the server interface ip address.

ewer@solewer:~$ cat /etc/ipf/ipnat.conf
map e1000g0  192.168.1.0/24 -> 0/32

ewer@solewer:~$ svcs ipfilter
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online          9:08:16 svc:/network/ipfilter:default

Update OpenIndiana on 12.09.2011

The OpenIndiana pkg repository got two frequently updates.

Both didn't have any problem. They created each a new bootenvironment

Here the log from the first update:

root@solewer:~# pkg install package/pkg
                Packages to update:     1
           Create boot environment:    No
DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
Completed                                  1/1     124/124      0.7/0.7

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Update Phase                                 240/240

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Package State Update Phase                       2/2
Package Cache Update Phase                       1/1
Image State Update Phase                         2/2

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Reading Existing Index                           8/8
Indexing Packages                                1/1
root@solewer:~# pkg update
                Packages to update:  1145
           Create boot environment:   Yes
DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
Completed                              1145/1145 19518/19518  601.2/601.2

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Removal Phase                              6183/6183
Install Phase                              7285/7285
Update Phase                             30378/30378

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Package State Update Phase                 2290/2290
Package Cache Update Phase                 1145/1145
Image State Update Phase                         2/2

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Reading Existing Index                           8/8
Indexing Packages                          1145/1145
Indexing Packages                          1145/1145
Optimizing Index...

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Indexing Packages                          1319/1319

A clone of OI151-6 exists and has been updated and activated.
On the next boot the Boot Environment OI151-7 will be mounted on '/'.
Reboot when ready to switch to this updated BE.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: Please review release notes posted at:

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a+Release+Notes
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The qemu-kvm still does not work for me:

[ewer@solewer:~]$pfexec qemu-kvm -hda /virtual/qemu.img -cdrom /virtual/debian.0.2.1-i386-netinst.iso  -boot d -localtime -no-hpet
kvm: unhandled exit 80000021
kvm_run returned -22

KVM / QEMU on OpenIndiana 151a fails

I attempted to use KVM from OpenIndiana running Build 151a.

After installing the packages, the kvm module is missing, even after reboot.
I had to modload kvm from the directory /usr/kernel/drv/amd64

First it failed, because the /dev/kvm device was missing. I did an
devfsadm, which seemd to create the device.

But starting qemu-kvm still fails with a looping

root@solewer:/usr/kernel/drv/amd64# qemu-kvm -cdrom /virtual/xpimg.iso  -boot d /virtual/aa.img 2>&1 | more
KVM internal error. Suberror: 2
extra data[0]: 80000008
extra data[1]: 80000b08

Even just starting without options fails:

root@solewer:/usr/kernel/drv/amd64# qemu-kvm -monitor stdio
QEMU 0.14.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) kvm: unhandled exit 80000021
kvm_run returned -22

(qemu) info kvm
kvm support: enabled

Update:
After rebooting the day after, VirtualBox failed to start and locks the
whole computer.
After modunload -i <number of kvm module>, VirtualBox starts again.