Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Maybe. However the openpkg startup is almost the final thing done so named and the DNS _should_ be working ok. I guess if this is not something that others have seen I'll assume it's a problem of mine. Regards, Simon ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
