Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > I have noticed the following condition while shutting down. > > It does not occur all the time, but it does happen frequently ( say > two times out of three) > > > > I have noticed that this occurs if my laptop has been on for a long > time and been doing heavy builds. > > > > When I do a halt as root from a terminal: > > - A lot of hard disk activity happens > > - Some windows close, others stay open , but blank out ( esp > in JDS) > > - After a couple of mins, all HDD activity stops > > - Display remains the same as in [2] > > - Hitting any key reboots the system > > - The display will be in the same state as [2] unless some > key is hit. >
From the looks of it, the boot-archive updation is causing the symptoms you mention. The boot-archive is the solaris equivalent of initrd. It gets updated when the files in the boot-archive and the "/" filesystem get out of sync (see /boot/solaris/filelist.ramdisk). The command "bootadm update-archive" is run by reboot to do this stuff. Cheers, Ananth
