> On Friday 19 Nov 2004 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thanks: Tried that. Actually, hitting Escape after login does not do > > anything (strange, I also thought it should do something). Tried disabling > > services, disabling harddrake does not help. I tried disabling sshd too, > > because every time a boot I get the following noise on my auth.log: > > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but try this. Get to > the > lilo screen, hit enter to start loading. After about 2 seconds on my box > there is a blink, and hitting Esc at that point lets you see the text > messages. > > Alternatively, I think I have seen a setting in kdecontrol that allows you to > set whether a background displays during bootup. If you turn that off it > will be easier to see. HTH > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels >
Once more thank you for your answers (for all who contributed). I do appreciate them, but I have not been able solve this. Let me try to be more clearer what the problem seems to be: I have the verbose mode on (or I think so) by default. I see lots of stuff rolling through the screen when I boot (Like "Starting Shorewall: [OK]"). It is only when this finishes (after getting the time from the remote server via internet) things hang. The sequence of events varies a little from boot to boot but here is what happens: 1. The blue screen with mandrake logo and an hourglass comes up 2. Sometimes I also get the login screen quickly, sometimes don't. If I do get the login screen I can login, but then everything hangs (with the blue screen with mandrake logo and hourglass). 3. When I don't get to the login screen I just see the same screen (with hourglass). 4. After a random amount of time (at most five minutes it seems) everything moves and is back to normal (i.e. I can login). 5. As I said, I can login to TTY, the second TTY-login will proceed immeaditely to CLI. What I have tried now is: 1. playing with /etc/hosts 2. Disabling hardrake. 3. Disabling sshd (because strange comment on the auth.log about sshd). This has not made any difference. I wonder whether I should just let it be, since otherwise everything is working and I really have no reason to boot the machine ever. It is just the feeling that something is not right that bothers me. Any suggestions welcome! Saku
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