[newbie] boot stops at syslog

2000-10-15 Thread John Hendrickx
I had trouble booting into Linux today. The boot just stopped at the point when the "system logger" was being loaded. This has happened once before but it went away after I rebooted with "Linux" rather than "Linux-up" in LILO. I don't think the other boot option made a difference in that case,

Re: [newbie] boot stops at syslog

2000-10-15 Thread Greg Stewart
This has happened to me a few times on a couple o machines, I fixed it by reinstalling sysklogd. Unfortunately, I haven't found the service which is causing the conflict. Re-boot the machine, and enter interactive mode during service start-up (press "I") Select "NO" for syslog this time. Login