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

[Stephan Althaus]

On 3/24/23 09:50, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
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> On 24/03/2023 09:43, Marc Lobelle wrote:
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>> On 3/24/23 08:16, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
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>>>> 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 ?
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Maybe it's only because i use legacy boot or some Dell bios specific 
special case...