Hi Gary. I wonder if it's the introduction of audio interrupts. See http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11449 (in particular, comment 5).
HTH. Take care. --joanie On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 11:12 -0700, Gary Mills wrote: > This morning I did a Live Upgrade from snv122be to snv123be on my > AMD workstation. The reboot was uneventful except for the expected > tpm_attach messages. However, when the > svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default > service started, the system froze just as the login screen appeared. It was > unresponsive > to keyboard, mouse, or remote network traffic. Only a reset would get it > going > again. > > I was able to add an `exit' to /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm so that gdm wouldn't > start. After that, I was able to boot snv123be and log in remotely. The > machine > was perfectly usable until I ran /usr/sbin/gdm manually. Within a few > seconds, > it froze again. > > This workstation has a video card in a PCIe slot. `scanpci' shows this: > > pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0163 > nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] > > I believe the vidio card uses MSI interrupts. It all worked under snv122be.
