Solaris

I meant in terms of not being where you wanted to be. Indeed the difference is huge if it could mean paying a visit to a machine room. My bad.

Very strange. All of those things should have taken you to single user mode. I will try to recreate this scenario.

But no-one has said you should use init 5...

This is weird.
just tried dropping to the OBP with init 0

then gone for

Code:

ok> boot -m milestone=single-user

I've now got a constantly scrolling console that says something like
Requesting System Maintenance mode
Console Login Services () cannot run
svc.startd: could not exec() sulogin: No such file or directory

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Is that helpful? Jim said init 0 was power the box off (which it isn't) I was merely correcting him saying init 5 is power the box off. It's got nothing to do with my issue.

About as helpful as arguing the toss about something no-one has actually advised you to do...

tbh we'd sort of moved on from that and it was you that brought it back up.
But thanks for your valuable input anyway, much appreciated.

What do you know about the constant loop trying to get to single-user mode?

Indeed. I (not quickly enough) removed the post you replied to. I wrongly thought you were misreading "init s" as "init 5".

no problem fella

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Looks like sulogin has been disabled.... I've enabled it ;0)

Many thanks for the help.

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Thanks for the update. I've updated the thread title.