[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems after updating to latest Hipster

[John D Groenveld]

In message <aff84e7b-f5ce-7421-c4d1-d5c66c70e82f at willows7.myzen.co.uk>, russell writes:
>With the latest version of Hipster, system booted normally (as an aside 
>it will always boot single user) , showed the Nvidia driver message, 
>hostname and started the process of getting Lightdm. The screen goes 
>blank, a white block appears in the upper left hand corner and then the 
>systems restarts. On the second start up, the system reports vboxdrv 
>error and starts a device reconfiguration and attempts to start Lightdm, 
>blank screen, white block in the upper left hand corner and then reboot. 
>As a result of the device reconfiguration, I booted single user and 
>activated the previous BE and rebooted and it started Lightdm on the 
>second attempt.

boot single-user and svcadm disable lightdm.
Then exit to to multi-user and try running fmadm faulty to see
if it displays the stack trace for the prior panic.

You may be able to trigger the panic again by running startx.

John
groenveld at acm.org