[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] OpenSolaris 200811 nightly image of Oct.31 could not stop slider after installation on xVM virtual machine

[jan damborsky]

Hi Jason,


Jason Zhao wrote:
> I tried to install 2 virtual machines on 2 different x4200-M2 
> machines. The weird thing is both
> virtual machines could boot up correctly this time. It looks like the 
> XWindow could not start up
> occasionally on xVM as I hit last time.
>
> jan damborsky wrote:
>>> 1. Is this "console=graphic" used by "virtual console" module? 
>>> Obviously it
>>> hinder the machine from booting. Or maybe this keywords redirect 
>>> console to a kind
>>> of GUI mode which console or kmdb could not show?     
>> So there are 2 issues here:
>> In general "Happy face boot" itself shouldn't hinder machine from
>> booting unless the boot process goes into interactive mode or some
>> other type of hang occurs (As you are describing below).
>> To be honest, the underlying implementation is not known to me,
>> I will let Jan Setje-Eilers comment on this.
>>   
> I am still not sure what the "console=graphic" means. When I remove 
> the "splashimage, foreground
> and background" and leave "console=graphic" intactly, then boot the 
> kernel/OS， the monitor still
> shows nothing at all, but finally, X could start up correctly.
>
> What does mean for the "console=graphic" item? Thanks!

My understanding is that this is an integral part of "happy face boot"
and that option selects the appropriate code path in kernel to take
care of displaying moving progress bar - currently it might be thought as
"enable_happy_face_boot=true" option.
As far as I am aware of, It doesn't make sense to turn this on without
taking into account appropriate settings in GRUB.

>>  
>>> 2. Another issue here is the XWindows depends on multi-user and the 
>>> multi-user
>>> normally depends on network/service. I think if there is no DHCP or 
>>> the network/
>>> service would not start up correctly, the X/gdm service will never 
>>> start up. In the
>>> mean time, the booting process is hidden behind the "splashimage" of 
>>> GRUB.
>>> The result is users never could access to console and they might 
>>> confuse why the
>>> OS could not boot up as I hit in xVM machine this time. So it might 
>>> be good not show
>>> splashimage on GRUB when trying to boot.
>>> As following:
>>> ################################
>>> svc:/network/service:default (layered network services)
>>>   State: offline since Wed Nov 05 09:38:33 2008
>>> Reason: Start method is running.         <---- The service is 
>>> running here, not never done in a very long time(a few hours on my 
>>> xVM now)
>>>       See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4
>>>       See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M ifconfig
>>>       See: /var/svc/log/network-service: default.log
>>>  Impact: 7 dependent services are not running:
>>>                svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
>>>                svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
>>> ......
>>>                svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default:
>>> ......
>>>
>>> ################################
>>> After I manual set IP Address, the X/gdm service start correctly
>>> and the whole OS could work as expected, too.
>>>     
>>
>> On my test machine disconnected from network I have tried
>> to do first boot after the installation - DHCP timeout
>> was applied correctly and Desktop came up.
>>
>> That said, the problem you are seeing might be specific
>> to your particular environment, which is xVM in your case.
>> If the issues is reproducible, could you please file
>> bug for this in opensolaris/networking category ?
>>
>>   
> Could that possible that after the network service timeout, then the gdm
> start fail or time out, already? It looks like last time I might meet 
> with the
> issue. That is, after DHCP timeout, the gdm also could not start up 
> correctly.
>
>
> Anyway, I could not reproduce the issue in these 2 tests today, I 
> would like to file
> a bug next time when I hit it.

ok. Thanks !

Jan

>
> thanks
> Jason
>>  
>>> Thanks
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Hi Jason,
>>>>
>>>> could you please try without "happy face" (that progress bar)
>>>> in order to see, why/where the machine is hanging ?
>>>>
>>>> When in GRUB, press 'e' and using 'd' remove following lines from
>>>> GRUB menu:
>>>>
>>>> splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
>>>> foreground d25f00
>>>> background 115d93
>>>>
>>>> Also remove ",console=graphics" from kernel$ line.
>>>>
>>>> Optionally, you might add "-kvd" to the kernel$ line
>>>> in order to enable kmdb and obtain more information -
>>>> if it turns out, it is not quite obvious, why machine
>>>> hung.
>>>>
>>>> Then press 'b' in order to boot - progress bar shouldn't be there
>>>> and you could observe what's going on.
>>>>
>>>> Also, could you please attach "install_log" file ?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jason Zhao wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Forgot to mention, the build is based on snv_100a.
>>>>>
>>>>> And I installed the virtual machine on X4200 M2 with 2G RAM
>>>>> and 34G disk which is a large file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Jason
>>>>> Jason Zhao wrote:
>>>>>        
>>>>>> Hi, All
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I pulled over the 1031 nightly image from indiana-build.central.
>>>>>> And I tried to install it on xVM virtual machine through HVM mode.
>>>>>> The installation process is quite well, but after installation, 
>>>>>>           
>>>> when>> the GUI or X try to start, it shows a slider which is never 
>>>> end, and it
>>>>      
>>>>>> is to say, the GUI desktop could never start. As the screen picture
>>>>>> in attachment. So far, it is about 14 hours after installation, the
>>>>>> desktop still could not start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not sure what it try to do when GUI or X start, and I guess 
>>>>>>           
>>>> it is
>>>>      
>>>>>> trying to get DHCP address. But in our test environment, the 
>>>>>>           
>>>> machine>> could not be dispatched an IP address automatically by 
>>>> DHCP server.
>>>>      
>>>>>> On real machine, the slider process after installation is also 
>>>>>>           
>>>> quite>> long in our test environment. It is about 15 minutes in all 
>>>> on Lenovo
>>>>      
>>>>>> T61 laptop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestion, please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Great Thanks
>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>