On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote: > 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: [...]>>> >>> 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.
This is a graceful software controlled shutdown. Pressing the power button generates an ACPI event that eventually results in a button-press event signalled via /dev/power_button. /dev/power_button is monitored by /usr/lib/power/powerd which then sends SIGPWR to init. Init starts the shutdown chain reaction by signaling SMF startd in turn. > >>> >>> 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" ! Could be an OSS issue. Regards, Moinak. > > Bish > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
