Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Yes, I saw that in the svccfg man pages, but there are no such properties for hal when listing them in svccfg. In fact, when trying to setprop hal/use_syslog=true I get an error saying "No such property group". It seems like hal was compiled without any logging features on OpenIndiana. I only h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
Perhaps the focus should be amping up hald logging, so that if and when the problem happens you have some info to look at. The hald man page has examples on how to do this via svccfg. Steve - Original Message - Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your help! The problem is that the issues tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your help! The problem is that the issues that occur are different at different bootups. Since the beginning of this year this computer/server has been started up and shut down a bit over 200 times, where this error occurred 5 times including today. This means that th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hello, Looking at the Hald source: ( usr/src/cmd/hal/hald /hald.c) Error 95 is coming from a script, ti is just informing you that a fatal error occurred. The informative error code is the "2". This tells you that hald forked a child process, and it timed out waiting for the child process

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, I'm about to RMA my motherboard but before that I want to troubleshoot the issue further so that I can give more specific information on what's failing on the motherboard. What happens is that some hardware is failing on the motherboard which causes OI to hang during boot. So my question