Hi, Dave!
Dave Miner wrote:
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Something strange just happened to me today. I was having network
>> problems... So I did pfexec svcadm disable nwam ... and then, I decided
>> to reboot my machine before renabling it...
>>
>> Well... it never finished booting to the GDM. Without NWAM (and not
>> setting to physical), the system doesn't reach the GDM launch... and
>> logging on the console with my username and password results in no home
>> directory.
>>
>> Enabling NWAM again and GDM starts...
>>
>> Bug?
>>
>
> No, because the dependency graph for milestone/network requires one of
> the instances of network/physical to be online, and milestone/network
> in turn has many dependents. Enable either network/physical:nwam or
> network/physical:default (the latter is effectively a no-op if there
> are no /etc/hostname.* files).
Yes, I figured as much.
But this means that you can't run open solaris with networking turned
off or (through some strange occurence) disabled. That's a very bad
single point of failure.
Gilles.
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