Re: pfil locks up X on Solaris 9

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