[OpenIndiana-discuss] A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

[Tony Brian Albers]

Have you tried just booting with lightdm disabled, logging in through 
the cli and running startx?

Not sure if it would work, but it's worth a shot.

/tony

Carl Brewer wrote:
> 
> I've almost finished setting up my new i5/NVIDIA 1030 server. latest pkg 
> image-update today, my WD red pros arrived at last so I could build my 
> ZFS mirror for the data store, it's all coming together.  I've turned 
> off atime on rpool and my other zpools. Rebooted, everything seems fine.
> 
> Everything works on my dining room table, rebooted, it's solid. So it's 
> time to move it into the rack in my office.
> 
> I have a HDMI and USB KVM switch I plug it into. Not really paying much 
> attention, I didn't watch the console when it booted, I don't think I 
> even had it plugged in to a monitor at the time.
> 
> Long story short, it keeps kernel panic'ing if lightdm is enabled. I can 
> boot without lightdm and it's fine. I'd like the GUI though.  The ASCII 
> console is pretty close to useless, it's slow as mud.  Inherited that 
> from SPARC I guess ... In the OId Days, when I had a Sun 3/60(!) as my 
> desktop, the ASCII console was faster. heh.  IPX, Sparc 2, no quicker. I 
> never cared, I ran X11 on them, meh ...
> 
> Things I have tried, after getting rid of the KVM switch from the 
> situation.
> 
> Connected directly to the original (previously working) monitor with the 
> originally working HDMI cable.
> 
> Replacing the 1030 with a NVIDIA 1660 GFX card I had lying around.
> 
> different HDMI cable
> 
> different monitor
> 
> HDMI/SVGA adaptor cable instead of KVM switch
> 
> No luck. I've even tried booting off the (working, or it used to!) USB 
> drive Aurelian set up for me. It won't boot lightdm up. Kernel panic. I 
> don't get it. It worked this afternoon!  Reverted back to last week's OI 
> boot environment (which worked!), nope ...
> 
> I'm stumped, short of resetting the BIOS, I can't think of anything else 
> to try to revert it back to how it was 4 hours ago when it worked on the 
> table! It's back there now, and I can log in remotely.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions for how to debug it? Or how to just get at 
> it using a VNC client - all the "set up VNC for OI" instructions I've 
> found are ancient and don't mention lightdm. If I can't have a GUI 
> console, that's ok, as long as I can get at it using VNC.
> 
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