On Thu, Jan 05, 2006, Simon J Mudd wrote: >I'm still trying to determine exactly what is happening but the symptoms >are as follows: > >The startup of OpenPKG 2.5's /etc/init.d/openpkg on Centos 4.2 when >starting in runlevel 3 (normal network) or 5 (graphical startup) >just hangs. There is no output or error messages. > >Running /etc/init.d/openpkg start from a shell prompt takes a couple of >seconds and when booting I gave up after a few minutes. > >The only solution I am seeing is to force a reboot, then boot in single >user mode and add an exit 0 at the start of the script, go back to >runlevel 5 and reintialise OpenPKG by hand.
The usual reason for extremely long startup times is that something that requires DNS is trying to start before it can resolve addresses. The worst offenders are normally ntp and amd. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
