The following summarizes the original question and the answer that
(somewhat) fixed the problem. Information follows the original
question. If anyone wants greater detail please email me and I will
send the exact text from all the emails I received.
QUESTION:
>
> Once again I have a simple question that I hope you will all
> be able to contribute to an answer.
>
> When shutting down my SS20 running solaris 2.5 I do the following.
> su
> shutdown -y -i0 -g3 (limited number of users so i keep time down)
>
> This should reboot the system into the OK prompt and allow me to
> perform the boot command (at least that is how my system is setup)
>
> Unfortunately when I do the above command the system shutsdown
> and then reboots to the solaris screen. I am not given the OK
> prompt or given a login screen. The system is unresponsive to
> any keyboard input.
>
> Anybody have any ideas on what I should check??
>
After looking over the suggestions sent to me by the following people
(see respondents below, thanks to all). I checked my /etc/initab file as well
as my /etc/rc0.d directory for strange and out of place items. I found
that there where no differences in comparison to the examples sent to
me. I then moved on and checked the environment, whiched turned
out to be the problem. The following steps where used, as suggested
by a few managers, to fix the shutdown problem which, after a shutdown
automatically rebooted avoiding the OK prompt all together.
>FROM OVIDIU FEODOROV and others:
>
>The first solution that come to my mind is to perform a Stop-A
>and check the value of auto-boot? using the
> printenv
>command
>Considering your system behaviour, probably it is 'true'.
>Change it with
>
>setenv auto-boot? false
>
>then, resume your session with
>go
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Thanks to the following for information and suggestions on
things to check:
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Ovidiu Feodorov <ovidiu@hannover.geoquest.slb.com>
Alvaro Fdez. Lago <alvaro.fdez@csgestio.cs.unicies.cesga.es>
Matthew Atkinson <amvt@bigfoot.com>
Steven Aizic <steven@yucc.yorku.ca>
Amjad Zamil <amjadz@sts.com.jo>
Heidi Burgiel <burgiel@math.uic.edu>
fciobanu@credit.erin.utoronto.ca
Terje J. Hanssen <nteknikk@monet.no>
Gerald Litteer <gll@moran.inel.gov>
Ing. Aranda Roman Roberto <william@zea.chapingo.mx>
Deya Atawneh <deya@sts.com.jo>
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