SRDB 81156 : svc:/system/console-login:default (Console login) will not start
Quite annoying problem, no workaround yet. Thanks to Ben van Loock for pointing this out to me.
Quite annoying problem, no workaround yet. Thanks to Ben van Loock for pointing this out to me.
Posted on April 28th, 2005 at 2:32 am. About 'SRDB 81156 : svc:/system/console-login:default (Console login) will not start'.
There’s no workaround because console-login stays offline until the sulogin shell is
exited. This is normal, and doesn’t indicate an error. Why is this a problem and
how is it annoying?
Posted on April 28th, 2005 at 12:02 pm. About 'SRDB 81156 : svc:/system/console-login:default (Console login) will not start'.
Hi Liane ! Very happy to read you (again! Your blog is a mine of info for a Solaris instructor).
What is annoying : when using JDS, after having switched to another milestone, say multi-user-server, ‘console-login’ is disabled and ’sulogin’ is started. If I then try to open a console window using good old ‘xterm -C’ or ‘xconsole’, I get the annoying message “cannot open console”. Looking closer, it happens that an ioctl(2) SRIOCSREDIR fails on the /dev/console file with EBUSY. I guess that the sulogin shell is now having exclusive access to the console. So the question is : how do I access the console now ? The answer is : kill the sulogin process. The contract for sulogin specifies that svc.startd should not restart it. The console-login service is online again afterwards.
So when you say “… until the sulogin shell is exited.”, ok but in the meantime, how do I monitor the console ?
Another situation : if when switching milestone to multi-user-server, I had a console window open then I suddenly see “Requesting system maintenance mode” login prompt in the console window. Which is surprising if you don’t know what is happening. If then a wrong password is entered, the xterm console window becomes unresponsive.
More generally, I don’t really understand why switching to a milestone other than single-user has an impact on the way my console is working.
I hope that all this makes some sense !
Jean-Christophe Van Nieuwenhoven
PS : thanks for SMF, your Blog and for passing by