SunFire V880 hanging on reboot
Hello,
I'm in the process of setting up a new qa/dev environment. I brought back one of our old prod boxes to use for qa/dev. It is currently running Solaris 2.6. When I boot the workstation it stops after the line that says: Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast
This is the last line displayed on the console. It never goes any further. I did a ctrl+break to get to the OK prompt and tried some reboot options there but not luck.
Any help on what I should be doing to get to the login prompt would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike H.
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Mike_H] at [2007-11-26 10:55:17]
# 1
> it stops after the
> line that says: Setting default IPv4 interface for
> multicast
It may stop there but it may be stuck on the next boot process.
I've seen this before and it was actually stuck on mounting an NFS share from a downed server. Changing the mount options to background and it blew right through.
Look over your boot steps and that will narrow it down to the culprit.
alan
# 2
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. I am very new to Solaris so please excuse my ignorance on this.
I am looking into your suggestion and found info on using the bg option to set it to background, but to be honest I'm not sure what file I should be looking for to set this option.
I'm assuming it will be in a specific file that is used during the boot process. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Mike
# 3
Look in your nsswitch.conf file under /etc. if it doesn't state that files are first, copy the /etc/nsswitch.files to /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Also in your /etc/vfstab file, comment out the lines that are trying to nfs mount the external partitions with a # in front of the line that is NFS mounting.
Do a boot/reboot -svV to see a greater detail of the boot process.
Once you come up in single user mode, you can Ctrl-D to continue.
# 5
> I am looking into your suggestion and found info on
> using the bg option to set it to background, but to
> be honest I'm not sure what file I should be looking
> for to set this option.
Sure, that was only an example. I'm not sure where your computer is getting stuck. Just because you see a line on the screen doesn't mean that that's the point where it's stuck. It could be stuck later on in the boot process. You need to know how the system boots, what files it reads and in what order to track it down.
Fortunately, http://docs.sun.com, basic admin guide lists out what is run in what order. You need to understant that in order to fix your problem.
alan
# 7
Hello,
I am able to reboot the server into single user mode and login. However, I am having problems looking at files. I am using Teraterm as my emulator on my laptop and connected through the console port on the server. When I try to view a file the display gets hosed. Is there a way around this?
Mike
# 8
mlhardwicke,I did what you suggested and found a line in the vfstab folder that was attempting to do an nfs mount to a server on a different subnet. Commented this out and it booted fine.Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions!.Mike
