[indiana-discuss] No graphical login after upgrade from b106 to b108

[Jürgen Keil]

> I also seem to have this issue.

Maybe not...

> I'm running Opensolaris inside a VMware Workstation.
> Here the error messages that I get at booting up:
> svc.startd[7]: svc:/system/hal:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/svc-hal start" failed with exit status 95.
> svc.startd[7]: system/hal:default failed fatally: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for
> details)
> 
> I already tried with deleting the xorg.conf file, that didn't help.

http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/category/X11

Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  I suspect you'll find Xorg
terminated with a core dump. This should be bug 6801386:

    Synopsis: Xorg core dumps on startup if hald not running in snv_107
    http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6801386

And this is supposed to be fixed in build 109.



Question is why hald doesn't start.  Do you use NTP ?
Could this be bug 6792302 ?
    Synopsis: hald occasionally exits on startup with status 2
    http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6792302

Check the timestamps in hal's smf service log file:

# svcs -l hal
fmri         svc:/system/hal:default
...
logfile      /var/svc/log/system-hal:default.log
...

# tail /var/svc/log/system-hal:default.log


What messages are logged?  Any error messages?
How much time passes between "executing start method..."
and hal failing?  250 seconds?  Or less than 250 seconds?
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