Dan D Niles wrote: > > > Darren Reed wrote: >> Dan D Niles wrote: >>> I have a fresh install of Solaris 9, fully patched. When I install >>> pfil >>> (2.1.13) and reboot, my desktop doesn't work correctly. When I start a >>> terminal it opens the window but I never get the shell prompt. When I >>> exit CDE, I get a white screen and it just hangs. I can still log in >>> via ssh and the system seems mostly normal. I cannot reboot the >>> machine >>> however, so something is still wrong with the machine. >>> >> >> Why can't you reboot it? >> What happens if you try? > > It acts like it is going to shutdown, but doesn't. The display goes > white, but no messages ever appear and it never shuts down or reboots. > When pfil is not installed, the screen goes white, it says stopping > print services, followed by other messages then reboots, as it should.
If you can break to the console and force a crash dump with sync, when it is trying to shutdown, that might help me see what's wrong. >> If you can ssh in, can you do "ndd /dev/pfil qif_status"? > > After I've issued a shutdown command or just any time with pfil loaded? When you've tried to login with CDE but get frozen and can then only ssh in. Darren
