Brian Cameron wrote: > > >> Impact: 5 dependent services are not running: >> svc:/milestone/multi-user:default >> svc:/system/intrd:default >> svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default >> svc:/system/zones:default >> svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default >> >> as you can see, the problem is due to ntp, even if the network is >> present: > > Note that GDM depends on multi-user. So, GDM will not start until > multi-user starts. You could remove this dependency from your > /var/svc/manifest/application/graphical-login/gdm.xml file if you > want. This might cause other issues, but is something you could try > if you wanted. > >> as soon as this message appears: >> Aug 31 15:08:07 delljm xntpd[654]: [ID 381522 daemon.error] couldn't >> resolve `timehost', giving up on it >> >> gdm accepts to start! so, a timeout of more than 5 minutes! > > Why is your machine looking for timehost? Perhaps you could resolve
timehost is valid when i connect my laptop at Work place. At home, or at other places, it is not valid. But defining it in /etc/hosts isn't a good idea. And at work, the firewall doesn't permit to sync with external ntp servers, due to the limitation of Sun xntpd which doesn't permit to use a port different to 23 > this problem by fixing your machine to not look this up. Or, if you > think it is a bug that multi-user is hanging waiting for this, then > this would seem to be a bug in the multi-user service, not in GDM. > > Brian >
