  
 Dear All,

  I too have experienced problems this Saturday with,
I believe the Gnome package (possibly similar to 
Paul Boven).

(i) I upgraded the gnome package using /csw/pkg-get

(ii) Logged into the gnome desktop (for maybe 5 minutes)
and all seemed/appeared to be fine. 

(iii) I logged out of gnome and logged into my normal 
Sun solaris 9 CDE environment and started to use /csw/pkg-get 
to upgrade (over the network) a few more packages. 

(iv) It quite quickly became clear there was a
problem and the disk activity led would not stop 
flashing. Eventually the programme effectively stopped
and the # prompt appeared (presumably this indicates some
CSWpackage(s) was/were incorrecly removed or installed). 

(v) rebooting the computer does not fix my problem.
During the boot start up process the (non-normal) message
'fc-cache running in background' was displayed this
morning. This message occurred just before 'volume
management starting'. Does this position give any sort of clue?

(vi) The boot process does in a sense proceed 'normally' as it 
is possible to log into root (or my account) via the login prompt,
however, disk actvitiy, as judged by the disk activity led, 
increases (~ in a few seconds) to a level where operation is 
impossible and it becomes difficult for the system to respond to 
init 0 (although it eventually did).

(vii) I tried boot -s and the system appeared normal
after doing this. This may mean the problem occurs at some
later stage of the boot process. I noted that CSWopenldap appeared 
to have modified the /etc/rc(*).d scripts during my upgrades. 
Is this OK?

 I do not know if any of the above is helpful to the experts
amongst you (which I am not) but any clear guidelines would
most certainly be appreciated in addition to your responses
to Paul's (similar?) problem.

  Thanks & Regards, Jonathan Boyd (UK)
-------------------
Jonathan Boyd
Tel: +44 1865 275184
FAX: +44 1865 275253


