[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot hangs after configuring devices (last notice is of pseudo devices

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 24/03/2023 09:43, Marc Lobelle wrote:
> 
> On 3/24/23 08:16, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>
>>> On 24. Mar 2023, at 07:58, Stephan Althaus 
>>> <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/22/23 20:56, Richard Lowe wrote:
>>>> The challenge of answering that is you often don't know the answer
>>>> until you see it
>>>>
>>>> The ::stacks command will give you asummarized view of every kernel
>>>> thread's stack
>>>> the ::cpuinfo -v command will show you what the CPUs are doing now (or
>>>> were doing, before you got into kmdb).
>>>>
>>>> Both or either might have a smoking gun of some kind, but it's hard to
>>>> predict what it might look like.
>>>>
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>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> In one of my earlier update-tests i had a problem with the first 
>>> OI-nvidia-525 version in cooperation with Virtualbox,
>>> so i had the idea to test this:
>>>
>>> I uninstalled 'userland-incorporation' and 'entire' as prerequisite 
>>> to  install nvidia version 515,
>>> now it boots!
>>>
>>> So, nvidia in the most recent version 525 stopped the boot process. (?)
>>>
>>> i checked with NVidia Solaris Driver Archive that my chipset (Quadro 
>>> M1200) is on the supported list for this version:
>>> https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/199661/en-us/
>>>
>>>
>>> How/Why should the display driver be able to interrupt the boot 
>>> process ?
>>> How/Why should the display driver be able to interrupt the boot 
>>> process without further notice?
>>>
>> That is something one can work out with debugger. But, this is binary 
>> only driver? Built *for Oracle Solaris 11.4*? With API interfaces 
>> changed inside Oracle Solaris? This means, the question is not “if” 
>> but “when” - it is only question of time when such drivers become 
>> unusable for us. Without gfx driver development, the desktop variant 
>> of illumos is dead end.
> 
> without desktop, it would unfortunately mean the dead of illumos. If 
> Oracle solaris drivers become unusable shouldn't illumos move to another 
> driver interface that is maintained ?
> 

Maybe we wait until the cause for the problem is known before
declaring everything dead ?