From: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Random boot lockups - Mandrake 9.1 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:42:40 +0200
On Monday 07 July 2003 12:25, C/Z M/K wrote:
>snip<
> "STARTING SYSTEM LOGGER [FAILED]" - lockup
> "STARTING NFS DAMEON [FAILED]" - lockup
> "STARTING NFS SERVER " - lockup
> "Checking for new hardware [OK]" - lockup
> "SETTING SYSTEM TIME (..other time stuff..) " - lockup
>
> every time this happens, i can still put in keystrokes, they just dont do
> anything but show up in the screen... usually i can also force a reboot by
> CTL+ALT+DEL (it switches to init runlevel 6 and reboots and does the same
> thing) Sometimes it even makes it far enough into the boot process to load
> XWindows, and i can do things as my user... but since the boot never
> completes, i can never access a console, or use "login" or "su" commands
> from within KDE.
On boot there is an instant where MDK offers interactive startup by hitting
<i>. Do that and you'll be able to take it step by step and know exactly
where it locks up.
Then next time up skip that step i.e don't activiate that particular service.
A lot of services turned on by default by Mdk aren't really needed by stand
alone machines.
If for instance you don't have a LAN of some sort with other unix/linux
flavours you want to share files with, you wont be needing a NFS server
anyway. So might as well turn it off once you've got it booted properly.
There's more there;o)
Good luck, HarM
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I tried the Interactive startup several times, and it locked up at: NTPD, Kernel Logger, Finding Module Dependancies, Starting YP Server, Starting NFS Dameon, and Starting Named. I tried skipping the YP and NFS servers, and thats when it stopped at named. Also, when I do the reboot, it -always- [FAILED] when it shuts down the YP stuff.
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