From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 21:03:47 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 53A8716A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:03:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy09.prodigy.net.mx [148.235.52.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6EB43D58 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:03:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy09 [148.235.52.29]) by smtp.prodigy.net.mx (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I12007H9FU6GR@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:03:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dup-200-64-114-86.prodigy.net.mx (du-200-64-114-86.prodigy.net.mx [200.64.114.86])(built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I12004RHFU4PS@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:03:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:16 -0500 From: Miguel Cardenas In-reply-to: <200407181644.i6IGix9h002679@lv.raad.tartu.ee> To: Toomas Aas Message-id: <200407181610.16759.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 X-imss-version: 2.5 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:99.90000 C:21 M:2 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:3 C:2 M:2 S:2 R:2 (0.5000 1.0000) References: <200407181644.i6IGix9h002679@lv.raad.tartu.ee> 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 Reply-To: mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:03:47 -0000 > > 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. Initial i386 initialization:. Aditional ABI support:. ... It should be the sshd or the i386 initialization, or what else could be? Regards, Miguel