Further updates: Just updated to snv_107 and retried 'uadmin 3 22', the behaviour has changed now, most likely due to the updated nvidia driver.
I no longer get a black screen, but a blinking cursor. System is actually up and responds to an ssh client, so I started poking around. dmesg shows nothing interesting. /var/log/Xorg.0.log however has this: """ (WW) Got some events (II) PM Event received: System Suspend Request (WW) Got SUSPENDED (WW) Got some events (II) PM Event received: Normal Resume System (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to bind EVO notify context DMA (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000cd1c, 0x0000cd2c) (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000cd1c, 0x0000cd2c) (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to map CURSOR PIO for CRTC 0 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to enter VT (mode initialization failed) Backtrace: 0: /usr/X11/bin/amd64/Xorg'xorg_backtrace+0x32 [0x4a8232] 1: /usr/X11/bin/amd64/Xorg'xf86SigHandler+0x41 [0x4d1fb1] 2: /lib/amd64/libc.so.1'__sighndlr+0x6 [0xfffffd7fff2cad26] 3: /lib/amd64/libc.so.1'call_user_handler+0x2a7 [0xfffffd7fff2bdeef] 4: /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/nvidia_drv.so'0x2c6ae9 [0xfffffd7ffaec6ae9] 5: [0x20] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000cd1c, 0x0000d4f4) (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000cd1c, 0x0000d4f4) (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000cd1c, 0x0000d504) (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000cd1c, 0x0000d504) """ Looks like the system came back fine, except X seg faulted ... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org