On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:54:26 Ian wrote: > Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but only > just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and > has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (using > freebsd-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, named loads but > the startup script hangs. > > If I press Ctrl+C, the system continues to boot. If I then run > /etc/rc.d/named start, named starts, but again the script hangs. I can do > DNS lookups while named is running, so it seems to be functioning ok. > I tried adding various echo statements to /etc/rc.d/named and found that > the script seems to run right through. The hang occurs where /etc/rc.subr > echoes out "Starting named" after the named script has run and that's where > things seem to stop! Nothing else that is started by the rc.d scripts > hangs, so I'm guessing /etc/rc.subr is ok. > > I did a diff of /etc/rc.d/named before & after the upgrade from p4 to p5 > (or p6 which has the same issue) and there are no changes to the file. > Nothing seems to be logged anywhere that shows a problem, so I really have > no idea what to check next. > > The only named entry in rc.conf is named_enable="YES". Doing a > freebsd-update rollback restores normal operation and given that bind > actually loads 7 seems to work apart fromthe hanging script, I suspect > there's nothing wrong with my bind configuration. > > Any suggestions? > > Cheers, > -- > Ian > gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
I've never really solved this problem - even running with the default named.conf as a simple caching server didn't change anything. Instead, I rolled back to 7.1p4 & then upgraded to 7.2(p2) and bind works just fine. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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