[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 text installer: unable to login?

[Stefan Müller-Wilken]

Hi Cal,

text installer will lead to text login prompts after reboot. You can switch on graphical interface but that's not the default. The requirement to use ESC+<#> instead of function keys might come from the terminal emulation. You can change the terminal type before switching into colored ncurses mode with "sun-terminal" being the default. Function keys do work for Virtual Box, by the way, so that can't be a fundamental problem.

As for the account problems: root will never work as a login name in multi user mode under OpenIndiana for security reasons. Anyway, the function key issue could hint at general keyboard mapping problems (at least at initial configuration time). Have you tried typing both the user name _and_ password in clear text, i.e. in the user name field, to make sure you end up with the right characters in the password field? Sometimes the mapping of standard (y vs. z is always worth a look in Germany) or special characters (,;.# etc.) can give you a hard time, making it a good idea to check designated contents of password fields in clear text first.

If that does not bring success, then you should boot to single user and try logging in as root from there...

Cheers
 Stefan
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Von: Cal Sawyer [cal-s at blue-bolt.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2014 12:57
An: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Betreff: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 text installer: unable to login?

New here ...

Installing 151a8 on ESXi to have a look at OI ahead of possibly
deploying on a very large archive server.

Install went fine (aside from requiring ESC+2 to move through config
pages?).  On reboot, i only encountered a text login prompt.  I could
not log in as root or the user configured during installation.

ssh was running but also refused login (with failures reported to the
test console in ESXi OI guest)

Attempted installing 3 times (subsequent installs correctly used F-keys
to page, btw).  Same result each time.

Going to try the LiveCD installer instead, but thought this might be a
known issue with the text installer?

Also: Should the end result of a text install/reboot result in a
graphical login screen or text?

- cal

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