On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:34 AM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote: >> Just needed some help, in case somebody can guide me. I had a fully >> functional SXDE running in a multiboot laptop. This laptop has an Intel >> High Definition Audio, for which there is support only in OSS ver 4 and >> beyond. I did a pkgadd of the binary from opensound currently marked >> as stable, and did an osstest immediately after installation. I did get >> sound from the speakers. I was quite happy with the output in terms >> of quality. >> >> I rebooted the system (as recommended), and Lo ! I started getting >> error messages on the re-boot. Scrolled past too fast to appreciate >> the details. It went on to the gdm bootup process and I got the log-in >> screen. I have only two users on the box, self and root, and I cannot >> log-in as either. After entering authentications details it recurses back >> to the login screen. Unlike linux, I cannot go to a console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, >> and investigate. Stuck ! I cannot do a normal shutdown, only power down ! > > You should be able to do a normal shutdown just by pressing the > power button once. Solaris will detect that and do a graceful shutdown. >
Thanks Moinak. This is actually what happened. I did press the "power" buttin, and solaris did a regular shutdown. What I meant by the term "normal shutdown" was software controlled shutdown. >> >> I could boot into the "failsafe" option, but then, that leads me to a >> root prompt, with the full system mounted at /a. I cannot replicate >> the error which is causing the boot failure. Probably this is some >> kind of IRQ conflict (I cannot imagine anything else which can go >> wrong after OSS install). >> >> How do I proceed from here ? > > You need to boot into Single-user mode. in GRUB screen select the > boot entry and press 'e'. Now select the "kernel ..." line, scroll to the > end and add ' -s'. Press ENTER and 'b' to boot. > > You will get down to your familiar single-user console login prompt. > You can also see what errors are being spewed on the screen. > Thats a solid clue. Thanks. Will get at this when I get back home from work. Will come back with the results of this exercise. Googling around I came across this reference. It seems I am not alone with this type of problem ... We need to find the issue. Is it the kernel ? Is it an OSS issue ? Or is it gnome ? http://de.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=58624&tstart=0 My wifi has gone kaput after this episode, and nwam is not being able to churn out its "auto-magic" ! Bish
