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
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