could it be some byzantine disk failure keeping your zpools from importing?
try deleting /etc/zfs/zfs.cache in single user and rebooting. if that boots u likely have a storage problem Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken <stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > following the discussion we've had lately around upgrading installations, > I've done so for a few 151a8 servers. While most of them were absolutely > noiseless, one has failed. After doing 'pkg update', the machine rebooted as > expected but then repeatedly got stuck on startup. While the server seemed to > boot as always, I didn't receive a login prompt. The screen would accept key > presses, the network stack would respond to ICMP messages, but neiter did I > get a login prompt on the console nor via SSH. Going to single user mode on > boot would work but moving on towards multi user (using Ctrl-D) would get me > back into stuck state. Nothing in the logs, nothing unusual on screen, just > silence. > > Thanks to this being OpenIndiana, I simply reverted back to the previous boot > environment and everything was fine again. > > Any idea what might have happened or where to look? > > Cheers > Stefan > > ________________________________ > Acando GmbH, Millerntorplatz 1, 20359 Hamburg, Germany | Geschäftsführer: > Guido Ahle | Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 76048 | Ust.Ident-Nr.:DE208833022 > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
