Fire V240 serial console is allways read only

From: António Vasconcelos (antonio.vasconcelos@all2it.pt)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 09:03:07 EST


Hi SunManagers,

I'm with a bit of a problem with a Sun Fire V240. It looks that for the
1st time I got myself totally locked out of a Sun.

I installed solaris 10 last month in order to test the new goodies, at
the time I had problems logging in to the ALOM (unknown admin password)
but as I had a working solaris installation I was able to reset the
password. At the time I noticed that the serial console was read-only,
everything I typed was ignored or at least not echoed. Break signal
during boot didn't work, and so on. However I got all the normal console
output.

At the time that was not a problem, so, I reseted the ALOM password and
installed Solaris 10 using the network console.

The problem is that now, I don't have ANY access to the machine.
The ALOM admin password is not working anymore, I have no idea why, I
have the login prompt but the password is refused. It is possible that I
have forgotten the password, but I don't think so, I'm 99% sure about
the password I set last month. But I digress

Last time I shut this machine down I was accessing it with ssh, but now
it looks that it's not starting up anymore, neither is telnet.
A port scan only reports

Port State Service

111/udp open sunrpc
514/udp open syslog
4045/udp open lockd
32771/udp open sometimes-rpc6
32772/udp open sometimes-rpc8

111/tcp open sunrpc
4045/tcp open lockd
32771/tcp open sometimes-rpc5

No SSH, no Telnet :-(

And the serial console is still READ-ONLY, nothing that I do there is
noticed. :-(

When I connect the power cable the ALOM looks to boot ok, with this
messages (see below):

But still, the console is read only.
I tried to remove the disks in order to stop booting, it worked and I
got the sc> prompt.
But the console was still read only!!!!

Anyone have any suggestion about what to do ?????
As it is, the only chance I see is to get a boot disc from other V240
with a working solaris and then use scadm to change the admin password,
problem is that we don't have other 240, I had to request that from our
support... :-(
But what about the console being read-only ? What could have happened ???
Is there any switch/jumper/whatever to force ttya to be the sysconsole ???

Could this be a hw problem ? The RX pin on ttya busted ???? That would
be a 1st for me, never had any problem with serial ports on Suns, and
I'm using Sun since Sun LX... :-(

any help would be very welcome...
thanks in advance.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALOM BOOTMON v1.0.0
ALOM Build Release: 037
Reset register: e0000000 EHRS ESRS LLRS

ALOM POST 1.0

Dual Port Memory Test, PASSED.

TTY External - Internal Loopback Test
TTY External - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

TTYC - Internal Loopback Test
TTYC - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

TTYD - Internal Loopback Test
TTYD - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

Memory Data Lines Test
Memory Data Lines Test, PASSED.

Memory Address Lines Test
  Slide address bits to test open address lines
  Test for shorted address lines
Memory Address Lines Test, PASSED.

Memory Parity Test
Memory Parity Test, PASSED.

Boot Sector FLASH CRC Test
Boot Sector FLASH CRC Test, PASSED.

Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake
ALOM POST 1.0
   Status = 00007fff

Returned from Boot Monitor and Handshake

Clearing Memory Cells
Memory Clean Complete

Loading the runtime image...

Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.0 (GRCSVR19)

Full VxDiag Tests

BASIC TOD TEST
  Read the TOD Clock: THU FEB 03 12:17:48 2005
  Wait, 1 - 3 seconds
  Read the TOD Clock: THU FEB 03 12:17:50 2005
BASIC TOD TEST, PASSED

ETHERNET CPU LOOPBACK TEST
  50 BYTE PACKET - a 0 in field of 1's.
  50 BYTE PACKET - a 1 in field of 0's.
  900 BYTE PACKET - pseudo-random data.
ETHERNET CPU LOOPBACK TEST, PASSED

Full VxDiag Tests - PASSED

    Status summary - Status = 7FFF

       VxDiag - - PASSED
       POST - - PASSED
       LOOPBACK - - PASSED

       I2C - - PASSED
       EPROM - - PASSED
       FRU PROM - - PASSED

       ETHERNET - - PASSED
       MAIN CRC - - PASSED
       BOOT CRC - - PASSED

       TTYD - - PASSED
       TTYC - - PASSED
       MEMORY - - PASSED
       MPC850 - - PASSED

Please login:
SC Alert: Host system has shut down.

SC Alert: Power Supply 1 AC Power Unavailable.

Serial line login timeout, returns to console stream.

Enter #. to return to ALOM.
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