From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 11 23:17:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BD14016A516 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 23:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0457143D76 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 23:17:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4BNGvxN056846; Thu, 11 May 2006 18:16:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4463C5E4.50109@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 18:16:52 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barnaby Scott References: <44639855.90102@waywood.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44639855.90102@waywood.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very slow boot (newbie) 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: Thu, 11 May 2006 23:17:06 -0000 Barnaby Scott wrote: > > The boot sequence all goes smoothly, telling me all sorts of things I > never thought I'd need to know, and frankly don't understand, until it > gets to the following line: > > Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime screensaver. > > and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes > every time. > > Can this be normal? If not, what do I do? (Words of one syllable only > please!) > Might be more good to check what goes *next*. A thing oft seen is the M-T-A can't solve its add. Check the hosts file. =============================================== Or can I actually use multi-syllable words? A common "hangup" is Sendmail, which needs to er, "find itself", and if the machine's IP isn't available from DNS or the hosts file (/etc/hosts), or *perhaps* if there's no/dumb hostname, it'll time out trying to get resolution of the IP address.... So, what does console say *after* the 5 minute wait? I've not watched a system boot for a while, having configured the splash console.... Kevin Kinsey -- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton