console-login cannot run because you already have a sulogin running since you're in single-user mode (Maintenance mode). Same thing happens if you boot in milestone none, smf will spawn a sulogin and console-login won't be able to come online later on. It isn't an issue though.
-- Renaud Ashutosh Tripathi wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Have been banging my head against this for past couple hours, > have been googling around on opensolaris.org and over the > whole web and what not. > > Basically my system boot keeps running into: > > Requesting System Maintenance Mode > (See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.) > Console login service(s) cannot run > > Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): > > I keep logging in and checking things like /var/svc/logs, > which looks very clean. Doing svcadm enable console-login > which runs fine too. But i never seem to be able to get > past SMF's console service. > > Tried running /lib/svc/method/console-login start > "by hand" which, understandbly gets stuck waiting for > console (from where i am typing that command, via a > sulogin shell), so obviously it is not gonna be able to > grab the console. But it does prove that there is no > problem with console-login service itself. > > So, why does SMF keeps insisting that > "Console login service(s) cannot run"? > > I have tried things like booting with "-m milestone=none" and > hoping that i can successfully boot into multi-user mode after > that. Tried booting into single user mode, no luck, still keep > running into "Console login service(s) cannot run" with no > helpful error messages to indicate exactly WHY can they > not run? > > At this point i would typically reinstall, but that would set me > back a couple days and i am running already behind. > > I am probably missing something very obvious here. Can't seem > to find what that is. > > In utter frustration i even saved the manifest for console-login.xml > then DELETED the service and re-added it... Still no help... > > Any clues? > > Thanks, > -ashu > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
