On 13 Dec 2009, at 20:14, Jürgen Keil wrote: >> Ah, despite the VMware UI claiming the virtual CD/DVD >> was disconnected, I see an "NECVMWar VMware IDE >> CDR10" at c4t0d0p0. > > The virtual cd/dvd is present, but no (virtual) media is > inserted in the drive ?
The UI in the vmware application's confusing, but I think your summary is correct. >> Your program prints: >> >> USCSI status: 0 >> data transferred: 4 bytes >> 000: 00 00 00 24 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a 2a > > Ok, so it seems my theory that this could be defect 6282 > is wrong; the vmware cdrom hardware is sending a valid > length (hex 24 bytes). Sorry :-( > Hmm, not sure how to find out what is causing the > fork failures... Is it possible to ssh into the opensolaris > guest (and look around with prstat or top) while hal tries > to start? I guess the machine is more or less hanging > or busy for five minutes while hald tries to start and > does not start the X11 server and the gdm login, correct? That's right. I could subvert the svc-hal script (or whatever the SMF method runs) to watch memory usage for a while, and see if that shows anything interesting. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
