[oi-dev] Boot hangs.

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

Hi, everyone.  I have a little problem.  Our primary server hung on something last night, and I don’t know what.  I could not get into it, even with ssh.  So, maybe I did something stupid, but I powered the machine off.  Now it will not boot.

Editing the GRUB menu options, removing the console line and adding “-v -m verbose” to the kernel line gave me the following output, after a very long time.  (Several minutes, which is long for this machine.)

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Jul 4 11:51:59 svc.startd[10]: svc:/system/boot-archive:default: Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 27.
Jul 4 11:51:59 svc.startd[10]: svc:/system/boot-archive:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/boot-archive" failed due to signal KILL.
timed out. Killing contract 27.

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It kicked me into a maintenance boot prompt.

svcs -xv

[...] <snip>

svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default (removable media management)
State: unitialized since July 4, 2014 11:48:58 AM MDT
Reason: Restarter svc:/network/inetd:default is not running.
See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-5H
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M rpc.smserverd
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running:
svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/system/zones:default

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Since it referred to the removable media management, I unplugged the IDE cables from the CD Rom and the Floppy drive, disabled the IDE controller in the BIOS, and tried booting again.  Same thing.

I tried booting into a previous boot environment.  Same thing.


Could anyone please tell me what I should do next?  If so, I would GREATLY appreciate it.

Peter, hieromonk