On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Jean-Pierre André < [email protected]> wrote:
> Jean-Pierre André wrote: > >> ken mays via oi-dev wrote: >> >>> On that note, be aware of prior notice on AMD64 Athlon 64-based >>> computers and the use of software from: >>> >> >> I have such a computer, which I intended to upgrade to 2017.04 >> >> Is booting on a live-usb a valid test for presence/absence of >> further problems ahead ? (IOW is the problem in the new loader or >> in the kernel ?) >> > > As nobody told whether the issue lies within the new loader or > in the kernel, and bug #8169 pointed at an issue in the loader, > I tried updating the current installation with the grub loader > kept in place (BE_HAS_GRUB=true in /etc/default/be). > > After the update, I can only boot into the new BE in single user > mode. Two kinds of errors are displayed : > > 1) svc:/system/metainit: default: > method "lib/svc/method/svc-metainit" > failed with exit status 127 > (shown three times then transitioned to maintenance). > This one is documented as resulting from an incorrect deprecation of a service. It is fixed with svccfg delete metainit. > > 2) APIC Error interrupt on CPU 1. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 80 > This second error is traditional on this computer and is > normally avoided by the boot option "acpi-user-options=0x2" > which was in place. > > Are these the errors which I was warned against ? > > Have they something to do with bug #8169 ? > > Do they mean I am kicked out, or is there a way to update > to the latest state before the bug was created ? > Only install media is affected as the bug was fixed the day after the release: https://www.illumos.org/issues/8119 > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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