From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 02:03:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004F8106566C for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 02:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEFB8FC16 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 02:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c3so1514781ana.13 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 19:03:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SSaJUl0HecKbfwk5y5Rs1iXt5jNZvfsztPA7whY56DU=; b=iauuTxciZoDlQyEsjsP0L7C1kwy20uyU39zFgEzTlTgm0/ui9sNYB2CXKKqEnfcT/G NooHppAcjAZvZkUaRPdxt21mZ32tbhuLC0FpZ13nbfbtwIuk5hlDN77Ys4dyU3LKnVm7 Cdfg+wF93cAECriViA1zjVvnVNMtnbLRewyBg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GCsccCsiWq+c2dV+XTmftY01+0HZYGMeg5nMLkaQco+SHRwQnXEfuzjuNMahRdNOpC H68o5mHsmYnemliTaIN9qpFF1toqE+NUsAzBq5OV7DUX9SgeBHn5BjcWipljaS2soNg8 c9NYztReR/PzT+hN3zmy3eCau/NNGhWzen3fU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.213.7 with SMTP id l7mr15645484ang.78.1242007424724; Sun, 10 May 2009 19:03:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4ad871310905101852s413792cdi31a57da3cb6325f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310905101903k7911f101ra4940b826a83de63@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Michel Di Croci Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 02:03:46 -0000 On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Michel Di Croci wrote: >> >> Did it hang with GENERIC? =A0If not, do a diff on your config and the >> GENERIC config, and paste it for us. > > If I remember correctly, yes but I don,t remember. Can you tell me if I > don't want to lose my actual kernel, how can I make a new kernel and inst= all > it not as principal one. > This is explained in the handbook and the manual pages. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html You want to use 'nextboot' and specify the kernel location. >> >> (On a side note, is your machine's `hostname` in /etc/hosts? =A0I've had >> a problem with sendmail hanging for some time because the hostname was >> not resolvable. =A0Just a side-thought.) > > Yes it is in. And it's not the sendmail that is slow, it's the detection = / > kernel step... not the service steps. > If you're using 7.2 (-RELEASE I assume?) and this has been happening since 7.1, it's not something that has changed recently. I don't recall seeing issues like this on this list (or stable@ for that matter). Perhaps it is a hardware problem, but I've never been good at diagnosing hardware issues. --=20 Glen Barber