Install OpenIndiana: can't login, "^[[210z" keeps displaying

I want to try OpenIndiana so I installed it in a KVM/QEMU virtual machine using OI-hipster-minimal-20181023.iso.

I ran through the text install questions without any problem, but when I reboot, the text "^[[210z" is being written to the login screen about every one to two seconds. Also my login attempts always fail. I reinstalled it to make real sure I entered the right password.

That text looks like an ANSI escape sequence, but I wonder if it's getting entered in with my username and password. I can't type fast enough to avoid it.

I can't proceed further if I can't log in. Does anyone know how I can get logged in and how to stop the 210z's?

It seems the "^[[210z" escape sequence is generated by the Scroll lock key.

If your keyboard has this key present, you might try to depress it a couple of time and see if it stops the issue.

Originally Posted by jlliagre It seems the "^[[210z" escape sequence is generated by the Scroll lock key.

Hmmm. When I press scroll lock, it does indeed display that sequence on the login screen. But in the mean time, just to try something different, I switched the driver and reinstalled and now I can get logged in.

I originally installed the VM with the QXL driver so I could use the spice protocol, which I prefer. I've never had any such problem with it, so I'm skeptical that it was the problem. But now that I've switched to VGA and VNC, there's no escape sequences and I can log in.

The same keyboard was input to the host and to several other virtual machines. None of the others ever noticed a scroll lock input. Baffling.

Thanks for the info.

I'm using VirtualBox as virtualization layer so have no experience with Solaris on top of KVM.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!