On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
Ok, been reading this thread way too long and am getting more confused.
Why not start at the bottom and work your way up?
1.) Turn off all unnecessary services (especially Shorewall)
2.) Change the default runlevel in the /etc/inittab to 3 instead of 5
(this gives you a console login)
3.) Double check your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 for
any anomalies or misconfigurations
I'll assume that you're obtaining an IP address with DHCP, ya? You might
want to use more than two DNS servers in your /etc/resolv.conf -
especially one that is a backbone or primary DNS NOT related to your ISP
or provider (I use two for Australia and one from Asia)
Reboot - watch - and once you login to the console, run dmesg and look
for any aberrations there.
If all goes well, and you login nicely, run "startx" to fire up your
default XWindows default GUI; are there any further problems? If not,
then you can go back to your /etc/inittab and change the runlevel back
to 5 from 3 so that you have a graphical login session.
All in all from what I'm gathering here, something is hosed in either
your overall networking or in the KDE (if that's your default)
configuration...
Ok - that's my shot in the dark...
--
stephen kuhn
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