[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

Milan Jurik milan.jurik at xylab.cz
Thu Sep 13 16:49:57 UTC 2012


Hi,

interesting you see it on T61p which is not far from my T60. What I need
it is described here:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/3150#note-5

https://www.illumos.org/issues/3150#note-9

I need to collect data to see if all cases are same.

Best regards,

Milan

Gary Gendel píše v čt 13. 09. 2012 v 10:49 -0400:
> Milan,
> 
> Please contact me directly if you need me to run some experiments or 
> collect some data.  I tried Richard Palo's workaround but it only worked 
> in the current session; a reboot brought it back and wouldn't go away 
> with a re-applied fix.
> 
> I blew a6 away, but I can put it back if you tell me what you want me to 
> try.  BTW, this is on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p.
> 
> Gary
> 
> On 9/13/12 10:40 AM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it would be nice if people affected by this are active on that issue. 
> > Currently I have only one reporting person who wrote that the problem 
> > seems to be visible only in case that hald is daemonized. Ongoing 
> > investigation. I cannot reproduce it on my system (yet).
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Milan
> >
> > On 13.09.2012 13:55, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
> >> Yes, it's the same. Production server affected... I am stick to 151a5
> >> for a while.
> >>
> >> On 07.09.2012 18:23, Richard PALO wrote:
> >>> It's possibly the same as a couple of us have suffered: 
> >>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3150
> >>>
> >>> Le 07/09/12 14:20, Dmitry Kozhinov a écrit :
> >>>> Thank you, Andrey, for pointing me into right direction.
> >>>> Now I have figured out that it does not hang, but stops at console 
> >>>> login
> >>>> prompt. GUI not loads for some reason. Graphics card is ATI Radeon 
> >>>> 9600.
> >>>> How do I inspect a boot log (if any)?
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe the reason of the glitch is that online updates not always go
> >>>> smoothly, especially when there was many incremental updates 
> >>>> already for
> >>>> given system. I remember that I already had similar problem, and fresh
> >>>> install did resolve it (cannot remember OSol or OI). Maybe I will
> >>>> reinstall the whole system at next week. Though it is a production
> >>>> server, there is not much to configure. Apache, vsftpd, and content
> >>>> files. Downtime is not critical.
> >>>>
> >>>> Though reinstall may help, it would be useful to find out what went 
> >>>> wrong.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 07.09.2012 1:03, Andrey Sokolov wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Where does OI hang? Use -v option for kernel and boot without 
> >>>>> progress
> >>>>> bar
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2012/9/6 Dmitry Kozhinov <dima at desktopfay.com>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have a quite old machine running OI: ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard,
> >>>>>> Athlon XP
> >>>>>> 1150Mhz CPU, 1GB RAM. Everything worked fine until the 151a6 
> >>>>>> update. Now
> >>>>>> the boot process hangs (progress bar is moving, no HDD activity,
> >>>>>> nothing).
> >>>>>> Previous 151a5 BE boots fine.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any advices appreciated.
> >>>>>>
> >
> >
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