[OpenIndiana-discuss] BTX halted

[Nikola M]

On 05/ 6/17 01:38 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Second, did the friend try the recent 2017.04 release of OI Hipster (out this week)?
>
> Finally, AFAIK each snapshot "release" includes the latest (at its time)  illumos-gate OS/Net "kernel" parts that work for some HW and might not work for others - especially if noone tried it before so there was nothing to fix or improve.

2017 test snapshot (not a 'release', there are no 'releases' per se) is
unbootable on ACPI v1 PC that used to boot previously. I tried both text
install and Live/GUI USB image.
Message: "No rootfs module provided, aborting" and ends up in 'ok' prompt.
(This could also be related to not booting on older amd64 machines)

Bug with loader about ACPI1 is fixed by tsoome in illumos and landed,
but even being informed on IRC, illumos used for test OI snapshot used,
illumos without a bug fix.
As I understand that OI snapshot is not final, and is there for preview.

On positive side, updating to current
osnet-incorporation at 0.5.11-2017.0.0.16382 from previous install works
and system boots.
There is still an issue with Power button present on lightdm login
screen by default, that allows unauthorized persons to restarts or shut
down machine, without previously being identified and loggeed in, that
present security issue:

Also, hostname on lightdm login screen is in the wrong uncentered place:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/8111
and lightdm login screen allows unauthorized restart and shutdown by
default:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/8167
Workaround is to put: "indicators=~a11y;~spacer;~host;~session;~clock"
in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf  , that should be default.

There are still other errors regarding ZFS pool on another drive,
somehow being read even that pool is long time zpool destroy, zdb
labelclear , and whole drive filled with dd, but that is I suppose the
other, also recently added bug, not related to boot.

I see 201704 'release notes' are out there but I think that 20150502 is
testing and not the snapshot that is considered 201704 snapshot, still
and there is the time to recompile illumos for it, remove power button
security issue and test.