Re: HMC upgrade: Stuck at "localhost login:"

Hello Rob,

Am 07.06.2021 um 15:22 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

Just sitting at that login screen can take up to an hour?

It's the same as with IBM i. The machine can be busy in the background, while a calm login screen blinks his cursor at you.

You can use hypervisor functions to look if there's activity on CPU or disk.

Even booting a vHMC can take a long time. Thanks to that incredible inefficient Java-blob by IBM eating RAM and CPU in the background like mad.

Five hours later and I'm still staring at the same screen!

That's really long! One of the reasons I'm not too happy with those closed "black boxes". Gimme root and I'll see what's going on. ;-)

Oh, why didn't I have the vm guy do a snap shot right before starting?!?

Because you mistakenly trusted technology? ;-)

:wq! PoC