From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 16:45:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297D616A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:45:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273FB43D1F for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:45:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i6IGix9h002679; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:44:59 +0300 Message-Id: <200407181644.i6IGix9h002679@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 18 Jul 04 19:45:00 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 18 Jul 04 19:44:42 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Miguel Cardenas Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:44:35 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200407160039.47606.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot process too slow or stops X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:45:02 -0000 Hi! > I have a strange problem... from time in time at boot time, when it reaches > this: > > Configuring syscons: blanktime screensaver. > > the boot process stops for a very (VERY) long time and sometimes gets stalled > there... I can interrupt the process with Ctrl-C and boot continues but it is > not a normal way to do things... > > Why could this happen and how can I fix it? it does not occur always, but > frequently... Usually this kind of behaviour indicates that something is being started and it is trying to do a DNS lookup but can't, and so it waits until the DNS lookup request times out. You should be able to find out what the culprit is by observing what is the next thing printed immediately *after* this long pause. Very often it turns out to be Sendmail trying to find a reverse record (match the host's IP to a DNS name). -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL!