Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:16 -0500 From: Miguel Cardenas <mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot process too slow or stops Message-ID: <200407181610.16759.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> In-Reply-To: <200407181644.i6IGix9h002679@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200407181644.i6IGix9h002679@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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> > 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... > > 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). Starting local daemons:. Updating motd. Configuring syscons: blanktime screensaver. Starting sshd. <long pause, it has transcurred about a minute and still stalled> Initial i386 initialization:. Aditional ABI support:. ... It should be the sshd or the i386 initialization, or what else could be? Regards, Miguel
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