[OpenIndiana-discuss] No login prompt when updating 151a8 -> 151a9

[Stefan Müller-Wilken]

Just to make sure: deleting the cache in one boot environment may not hurt other environments, right? Wouldn't want to risk my running installation. I would be surprised if it were storage errors. At least I scrub regularly and without any errors...

Cheers
 Stefan

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Von: Jason Matthews [jason at broken.net]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2014 17:32
An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Cc:  Discussion list for OpenIndiana ‎[openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org]‎
Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No login prompt when updating 151a8 ->       151a9

could it be some byzantine disk failure keeping your zpools from importing?

try deleting /etc/zfs/zfs.cache in single user and rebooting. if that boots u likely have a storage problem

Sent from Jasons' hand held

On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken <stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> following the discussion we've had lately around upgrading installations, I've done so for a few 151a8 servers. While most of them were absolutely noiseless, one has failed. After doing 'pkg update', the machine rebooted as expected but then repeatedly got stuck on startup. While the server seemed to boot as always, I didn't receive a login prompt. The screen would accept key presses, the network stack would respond to ICMP messages, but neiter did I get a login prompt on the console nor via SSH. Going to single user mode on boot would work but moving on towards multi user (using Ctrl-D) would get me back into stuck state. Nothing in the logs, nothing unusual on screen, just silence.
>
> Thanks to this being OpenIndiana, I simply reverted back to the previous boot environment and everything was fine again.
>
> Any idea what might have happened or where to look?
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
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