[SunHELP] reboot hang problem

Thu Oct 24 14:37:51 CDT 2002

I don't think the init has started at this point.

                       "Sheldon T.                                                                                                      
                       Hall"             To:     <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>, <swangchuk at nyse.com>                                            
                       <shel at cmhcsy      cc:                                                                                            
                       s.com>            Subject:     Re: [SunHELP] reboot hang problem                                                 

                       10/24/2002                                                                                                       
                       03:24 PM                                                                                                         

----- Original Message -----
From: <swangchuk at nyse.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] reboot hang problem

> Hello,
>
> I've a server E-220R running Solaris 8 and Oracle 9i with disks mirrored
> through Disksuite.
> When I reboot the server, it hangs. Even after 10-15 minutes, I cannot
ping
> the server. But when I console in
> through our terminal server on the serial port, the reboot continues
> immediately. Here's the message I see
> ******************************************
> configuring IPv4 interfaces: hme0.
> Hostname: iddsorap01
> The system is coming up.  Please wait.
> checking ufs filesystems
> /dev/md/rdsk/d5: is clean.
> /dev/md/rdsk/d4: is stable.
> and so on and the server comes up fine without any problem. I used a
> different port on the terminal server and still the same.
> It seems to be related to the network card but when the system comes up I
> don't see any problems.
>
> Here's a part of the "messages" log
> ********************************************
> Oct 24 14:07:22 iddsorap01 ebus: [ID 521012 kern.info] se0 at ebus0:
offset
> 14,400000
> Oct 24 14:07:22 iddsorap01 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] se0 is
> /pci at 1f,4000/ebus at 1/se at 14,400000
> Oct 24 14:24:12 iddsorap01 unix: [ID 987524 kern.info] cpu0:
> SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 0 impl 0x11 ver 0xa0 clock 450 MHz)
> Oct 24 14:24:19 iddsorap01 hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : PCI IO
> 2.0 (Rev Id = c1) Found
> Oct 24 14:24:19 iddsorap01 pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device:
> network at 1,1, hme0
> *******************************************
> You will notice that there is a gap in time from 14:07 to 14:24, that was
> time when I consoled in through the serial port.
>
> Has anyone come across such a problem? What could be the reason for this?
> I'm unable to perform scheduled reboot due to the hang problem.
> Please help.

The fisrt thing that comes to mind is that some start-up process is waiting
for console input.  Is it possible that one of the start-up scripts has
been
modified, and is looking for input?

-Shel

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