# [OmniOS-discuss] bloody installer system maintenance

Jens Bauernfeind bauernfeind at ipk-gatersleben.de
Mon Apr 17 21:31:44 UTC 2017

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    Hi,

    yes, I can exit the maintenance shell or bypass it during ctrl+d to
    start the installer menu.

    Today it worked once without "requesting maintenance state", after that
    it appeared everytime.

    --
    Jens

    On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 13:09 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
    > > On Apr 16, 2017, at 7:37 PM, Jens Bauernfeind <bauernfeind at ipk-gatersleben.de> wrote:
    > >
    > > Hello,
    > >
    > > is this normal behaviour?
    > > r151021-20170405.iso
    > > Platform: VMware Workstation Player 12.5.5-5234757 on latest CentOS7
    > > OS: Solaris 11 64bit
    > > 4GB RAM
    > > 2 CPU
    > > 30GB vDisk
    >
    > I have seen this occasionally.
    >
    > > i entered the shell after that, but dont know where i have to look for
    > > log files, /var/adm seems to contain nothing useful.
    > > the service "console-login" is running, and no service is in maintenance
    > > state.
    > > further Installation is straight forward.
    >
    > By "further installation", do you mean that once you exitted the shell the installer came up?  Yeah, this happened to me in this situation as well.
    >
    > There's a race between initial-login and login:console that sometimes makes SMF enter this state.  I've not yet figured out how to deterministically reproduce it, but when I do, I can kill it.
    >
    > Dan
    >
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