[OmniOS-discuss] bloody installer system maintenance

[Jens Bauernfeind]

Hi,

yes, I can exit the maintenance shell or bypass it during ctrl+d to
start the installer menu.

Today it worked once without "requesting maintenance state", after that
it appeared everytime.

-- 
Jens

On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 13:09 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 2017, at 7:37 PM, Jens Bauernfeind <bauernfeind at ipk-gatersleben.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > is this normal behaviour?
> > r151021-20170405.iso
> > Platform: VMware Workstation Player 12.5.5-5234757 on latest CentOS7
> > OS: Solaris 11 64bit
> > 4GB RAM
> > 2 CPU
> > 30GB vDisk
> 
> I have seen this occasionally.
> 
> > i entered the shell after that, but dont know where i have to look for
> > log files, /var/adm seems to contain nothing useful.
> > the service "console-login" is running, and no service is in maintenance
> > state. 
> > further Installation is straight forward.
> 
> By "further installation", do you mean that once you exitted the shell the installer came up?  Yeah, this happened to me in this situation as well.
> 
> There's a race between initial-login and login:console that sometimes makes SMF enter this state.  I've not yet figured out how to deterministically reproduce it, but when I do, I can kill it.
> 
> Dan
> 
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