[OpenBIOS] solaris 8 on sparc, webstart launcher crashing

Fri May 27 23:45:00 CEST 2011

Greetings,

  I'm unsure whether the issue I'm running into is related to
OpenBios, qemu, something buggy in this solaris distribution, or some
combination thereof.  Feel free to redirect me as appropriate.

  I'm able to install Solaris 8 (02/04) from the "Solaris 8 Software
disk 1" disk.  I see a few different behaviors depending on what I
try:

1) boot from disk0:a without any special options:

  After specifying a root password, it says "Starting Web Start
Launcher in Command Line Mode" and shortly thereafter says "The
Webstart launcher has terminated unexpectedly." with no further
details, except to say the machine will reboot after pressing enter.

2) Do the same thing, but with -v:

  The result doesn't seem predictable.  Sometimes it just hangs after
the "Starting ..." line, other times it dies with a variety of errors.
 I'll try to summarize below:

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Starting Web Start Launcher in Command Line Mode.
SIGSEGV 11 segmentation violation
    si_signo [11]: SEGV
    si_errno [0]:
    si_code [1]: SEGV_MAPPER [addr: 0x1000100

        stackpointer=EE73E578

Inconsistent thread : best efforts attempt (may fail)
"Thread-1" (TID:0x34c470, sys_thread_t:0x34c3a8, state:R, thread_t:
t at 12, threadID:0xee74098, stack_bottom:0xee740d98, stack_size:0x1fd98)
prio=5 *current thread*

[1] java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:346)
[2] java.awt.Toolkit$3.run(Toolkit.java:887)
[3] java.security.AccessController.doPriveleged(Native Method)
[4] java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:882)
[5] java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Component.java:336)
[6] com.sun.wizards.core.WizardTreeManager.createWizardPanel(WizardTreeManager.java:801)
[7] com.sun.wizards.core.WizardTreeManager.<init>(WizardTreeManager.java:265)
[8] com.sun.wizards.core.CommandLineConsole.java:78)
[9] java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)
------------------------------

Inconsistent thread : best efforts attempt (may fail)
"process reaper" (TID:0x2c4600, sys_thread_t:0x2c4538, state:R,
thread_t: t at 10, threadID:0xee7b0d98, stack_bottom:0xee7b0d98,
stack_size:0x1fd98) prio=5

[1] java.lang.UNIXProcess.waitForProcessExit(Native Method)
[2] java.lang.UNIXProcess.access$10(UNIXProcess.java:30)
[3] java.lang.UNIXProcess$3.run(UNIXProcess.java:74)
--------------------------

Inconsistent thread : best efforts attempt (may fail)
"Finalizer" (TID:0x156d80, sys_thread_t:0x156cb8, state:CW, thread_t:
t&2, threadID:0xee890d98, stack_bottom:0xee890d98, stack_size:0x1fd98)
prio=8

[1] java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(ReferenceQueue.java:145)
[2] java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(ReferenceQueue.java:167)
[3] java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerWorker$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:117)
-------------------------

Inconsistent thread : best efforts attempt (may fail)
"Reference Handler" (TID:0x155e20, sys_thread_t:0x155d58, state:CW,
thread_t: t at 6, threadID:0xee8c0d98, stack_bottom:0xee8c0d98,
stack_size:0x1fd98) prio=10

[1] java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:417)
[2] java.lang.ref.Reference$ReferenceHandler.run(Reference.java:129)
-------------------------

Inconsistent thread : best efforts attempt (may fail)
"Signal dispatcher" (TID:0x135278, sys_thread_t:0x1351b0, state:MW,
thread_t: t at 5, threadID:0xee8f0d98, stack_bottom:0xee8f0d98,
stack_size:0x1fd98) prio=10

(note the lack of stack trace here)

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Inconsistent thread : best efforts attempt (may fail)
"main" (TID:0x390d0, sys_thread_t:0x39008, state:R, thread_t: t at 1,
threadID:0x251d0, stack_bottom:0xf0000000, stack_size:0x800000) prio=5

[1] java.io.ObjectInputStream.loadClassO(Native Method)
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... after which the VM stopped responding.

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Starting Web Start Launcher in Command Line Mode.
signal fault in critical section
signal number: 11, signal code: 1,
         fault address: 0xe9ff0de8, pc: 0xef40d4a8, sp: 0xee7a2c78
libthread panic: fault in libthread critical section : dumping core
(PID: 327 LWP 10)
stacktrace:
        ef40d49c
        ef40f134
        ef408c48
        0

Abort - core dumped
The Webstart launcher has terminated unexpectedly.
(some stuff about the machine rebooting on <enter>)
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As a side-note, seemingly at random I see the following message a lot
(including during that last bit I quoted):

Assertion failed: MUTEX_HELD(&svc_thr_mutex), file ../rpc/svc_run.c, line 757

3) Boot in single-user mode

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Starting Web Start Launcher in Command Line Mode.
signal fault in critical section
signal number: 11, signal code: 1,
         fault address: 0xee82005c, pc: 0xef7c7248, sp: 0xee73e198
libthread panic: fault in libthread critical section : dumping core
(PID: 330 LWP 9)
stacktrace:
(...)

Segmentation Fault - core dumped
(terminated unexpectedly, yada yada)
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... where (...) is a huge stack trace.  I have to copy this by hand
... ya, I really hope you don't need that.  Lemme know if you do,
though.

I was able to get the exact same error & stack trace as the sig11 one
from (2) above.  Addresses were the same, only diferences were the
PID, LWP, and sp (330, 9, 0xee752c78)

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Starting Web Start Launcher in Command Line Mode.
Fri May 27 15:29:19 2011 fatal: mounting of "/vol" failed
signal fault in critical section
signal number: 11, signal code: 1,
         fault address: 0xee780de8, pc: 0xef40d4a8, sp: 0xeb1b2c78
libthread panic: fault in libthread critical section : dumping core
(PID: 330 LWP 12)
stacktrace:
       ef40d49c
       ef40f134
       ef408c48
       0
Abort - core dumped
(blahdy blah)
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For reference, I'm using a 3g qcow2 image.  I originally formatted it
as a "SUN2.9G" in the format utility, but I let it autoconfigure the
partitions.  partition '0' is root (1.18G), '1' is swap (149m), '2' is
backup (2.71g), and '7' is home (1.39g).  There's overlap in the
cylinder ranges specified and the total size between those partitions
is larger than 3g ... but, I have no idea whether that's just a
Sun-ism, or whether I need to partition manually.

I don't think it's my partitions, though.  The 'vol' directory doesn't
exist in my root before I try to get the webstart stuff to run, so I
think it's creating that directory and trying to mount an image to it.

Additionally, I'm starting qemu with:

./qemu_system_sparc -nographic -bios
/imgpath/openbios-sparc32_artyom.bin -hda
/imgpath/solaris2.8-img3.qcow2 -m 256 -net nic -net user -cdrom
/imgpath/solaris2.8/software_1of2.iso prom-env 'auto-boot?=false'
-snapshot

If anyone has a good idea, I'm all ears ... (or is it eyes?)

-Brian