From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 00:13:04 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 4AC1C16A401 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:13:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bds@waywood.co.uk) Received: from lon-mail-3.gradwell.net (lon-mail-3.gradwell.net [193.111.201.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9674044016 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:13:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bds@waywood.co.uk) Received: from [84.12.167.94] ([84.12.167.94] helo=[192.168.1.4] country=GB ident=bds#pop3&waywood#co$uk) by lon-mail-3.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.217) id 4463d30a.126fc.c9; Fri, 12 May 2006 01:12:58 +0100 (envelope-sender ) Message-ID: <4463D2EC.1020100@waywood.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 01:12:28 +0100 From: Barnaby Scott User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey References: <44639855.90102@waywood.co.uk> <4463C5E4.50109@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4463C5E4.50109@daleco.biz> 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: Fri, 12 May 2006 00:13:04 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > 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 > Thanks for your reply. It didn't occur to me to look at the next line - I thought it must still be doing the Configuring syscons thing! Anyway, the next line is: Initial i386 initialization:. Armed with this knowledge, I just found this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-April/043478.html (although I don't know where the rest of the thread went). However it doesn't leave me much the wiser! The hostname is mentioned earlier in the sequence, so presumably the OS is already aware of that, and as for DNS server, what DNS server? Barnaby Scott