Re: Looooong reboot on Sparc

[Kit Halsted <kit_(_at_)_kithalsted_(_dot_)_com>]

At 7:45 PM -0700 8/8/01, Chris Palmer wrote:
> On 08 Aug  Kit Halsted wrote:
>
> >  I just wrote a long email to the list about assorted problems with my
> >  SPARCstation 4, but I thought I'd ask if it was a known issue before I
> >  send the long version: does reboot take forever on a 110MHz Sparc?
>
> If you're talking about the initial post-install boot, then yeah.
> Generating cryptographic keys takes a long time on those things. If
> you're talking about later boots, then no, it should be pleasingly fast
> (has been in my experience, anyway).

Okay, it's not anything as normal as crypto keys, so here's the long version:

Hello, list:

I finally got around to installing 2.9 on my SPARCstation 4. Did a 
CVS update to -stable & got to "make build". After 16 hours or so, it 
died. So did my i386 box, my old Mac, & my router. Discovered that my 
girlfriend hadn't paid the electric bill. After the power came back, 
I started the "make build" over. It ran to completion this time, I 
rebooted, & I haven't seen a daily output message since. I did "sh 
/etc/daily" last night & got a daily insecurity output, but no 
regular daily output. I diffed root's crontab against the 
corresponding file on another machine, but it was identical. 
/var/cron/log stops at about 1600 on August 4th, /var/log/daily.out 
is from 0133 the same day.

A ps -ax showed me that cron was not running, so I decided to reboot. 
I typed "reboot" & my shell wandered off into la-la land, no prompt, 
but <return> generated a new line. I ^c'ed & got the shell back, then 
tried "shutdown -r now". It appeared to log me out as it should have, 
I waited 5 minutes & tried to log back in, but got the following 
message:

NO LOGINS: System going down at 19:00

This was around 17:30. I got home around 19:00 & tried to log in 15 
minutes later. I got the same message. It seems to have rebooted 
itself at 19:20.

I tried to repeat the above; it was repeatable, down to the 19:00 
warning, aside from the fact that it rebooted at 20:30.

After restart, cron was running again so I suspect I'll get my daily 
again tonight (update: I did), but all this has me wondering how 
fscked up my system is & what to do about it. I'm also wondering 
whether the power outage is a red herring or whether it really 
screwed something up.

Thanks,
-Kit