[OmniOS-discuss] 151018 kayak problems: utmpd / console-login

[Volker A. Brandt]

Hi Dan!


I am doing test installations of 151018 via Kayak.  This means that I
am using NO_REBOOT=1 to try out various features and verify the results.

With the stock 95eaa7e miniroot, two SMF services go into maintenance.
One is svc:/system/utmp:default complaining that the utmpd binary is
missing.  I think this has been seen before:

  https://github.com/omniti-labs/kayak/issues/10

The other one is svc:/system/console-login:default, where the start
method /lib/svc/method/console-login is missing.

So I have added these two files to the miniroot.  This makes utmp shut
up.  However, the system becomes unusable because console-login enters
an infinite loop:

  [2016/06/29-19:54:43] Install complete
  Jun 29 19:54:43 svc.startd[8]: instance svc:/system/console-login:default exited with status 127
  Jun 29 19:54:43 svc.startd[8]: instance svc:/system/console-login:default exited with status 127
    :
    :

Then I disabled both services in the SMF system repository on the
miniroot by setting the general/enabled property to false.  This works,
but now I get the standard "single user" prompt just before the
installation starts:

  Configuring devices.
  Requesting System Maintenance Mode
  (See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
  Console login service(s) cannot run

  Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): [2016/06/29-20:36:41] Forcing all interfaces into DHCP...
  [2016/06/29-20:36:41] Waiting for dhcpinfo...
  [2016/06/29-20:36:42] Waiting for dhcpinfo...
  [2016/06/29-20:36:43] Waiting for dhcpinfo...
    :
    :
  [2016/06/29-20:38:14] Updating GRUB menu for serial console.
  [2016/06/29-20:38:16] Install complete


  Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): root
  Enter root password (control-d to bypass): 
  single-user privilege assigned to root on /dev/console.
  Entering System Maintenance Mode

  Jun 29 20:39:00 su: 'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/console

The installation itself works fine.  All of this only pops up when using
NO_REBOOT=1.  Since I can log in as root at the single-user prompt, I 
can do my checks, so I have a workaround.

But it's not really the proper solution. :-)


Regards -- Volker
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Volker A. Brandt               Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris
Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH                   WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/
Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY            Email: vab at bb-c.de
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513              Schuhgröße: 46
Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt

"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead"