RE: Mysterious freeze while booting

2004-11-16 Thread Subhro
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Davour Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 20:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mysterious freeze while booting I have this odd behaviour from both my 5.2 and my 5.3 installations. GENERIC or my

RE: Mysterious freeze while booting

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Davour
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: When booting the console displays the usual messages like below: 1 Starting local daemons:. 2 Updating motd. 3 Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. What is strange is that after line 3 the computer suddenly stops for a long time, almost a minute, doing (as far

RE: Mysterious freeze while booting

2004-11-16 Thread Subhro
Hi, -Original Message- From: Andreas Davour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 20:58 To: Subhro Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mysterious freeze while booting snip Why would adding the hostname work? What is it that's fooling around with my hostname

RE: Mysterious freeze while booting

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Davour
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: /etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS does not work. Seems to me as if sshd is crating the seem to hang up as it can't get the box hostname resolved properly. Sshd? It shouldn't even be running! I guess I'll have to see if it is...

RE: Mysterious freeze while booting

2004-11-16 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: Andreas Davour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 21:15 To: Subhro Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mysterious freeze while booting On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: /etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS

RE: Mysterious freeze while booting

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Davour
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: /etc/hosts basically serves as a backup for cases where the DNS does not work. Seems to me as if sshd is crating the seem to hang up as it can't get the box hostname resolved properly. Sshd? It shouldn't even be running! I