* On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:54:27PM +1000, Charles Myers wrote: > Hi, recently upgrading to dapper, I'm having issues with 'hald' on > boot.. (i think its hardware application layer? device or similar)... It > stalls on boot, I need to comment out smbfs entries in /etc/fstab for it > not to be causing issues. But this isnt great as I need those mounts > for normal operation. Has anyone had issues with this? Any help would be > greatly appreciated... Thanks... >
I don't know about hald, but the usual solution for mounts causing hangs on boot is to use the automounter (vi /etc/auto*). Of course, this might just postphone the hang till when you try to access smbfs :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse." (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
