Sergi Pons Freixes wrote: > I just upgraded my VPS at Linode from Squeeze to Wheezy, everything looked > find (only some issues with Dovecot), but after the reboot the system hangs > at: > ... > So, or it is something related to saslauthd (the last message printed), or > to the error seen before with libkmod. Any clue?
Since this is a remote VPS your only help on the console may be to boot single user mode and then single step through the startup. Regardless being able to boot single user mode should allow you enough access to debug and rescue your system. If it were me I would look at the order for /etc/rc2.d/S* boot time init scripts. In Wheezy that will be in increasing numerical order. All scripts at the same number are run in parallel. Due to the new parallel boot system managed by insserv the order will be unique and individualized to each system. On my system saslauthd starts very early at number 1 in parallel with all of the other S01* scripts. I would then run insserv manually with verbosity enabled to see if it is emitting any messages that would give a clue to problems. This is a normal invocation without any interesting messages. # insserv -v insserv: creating .depend.boot insserv: creating .depend.start insserv: creating .depend.stop If none of those resulted in any help then I would boot into single user mode and single step through the boot sequence. In a local system the debian-installer used in rescue mode may be of help in this process too. I don't know if that is available to you on your remote VPS. Good luck! Bob
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