On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 2:08 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: > > > So this is on a totally clean install of the newest version of Slackware? > > That's a major bug. Seems like someone else would have noticed this. Is > > there a slightly newer version where this might be fixed? > > Bill, > > I think the boot process for the 5.15.19 kernel is why it hangs at ntpd. > Just now I walked away and started cooking lunch and it eventually completed > booting. This pause is new; I acknowledge that it's probably due to the > newer kernal and no longer an issue.
This could be some type of network issue. Maybe the rc.ntpd script is expecting the network to be up but that now happens later in the bootup and so it just hangs waiting for something that is not there. Did you write the rc.ntpd script or is it part of this fresh Slackware installation? Bill
