From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 18:28:41 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 0C1C216A410 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 18:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bds@waywood.co.uk) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net (lon-mail-1.gradwell.net [193.111.201.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A45543D46 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 18:28:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bds@waywood.co.uk) Received: from 84-12-167-7.dyn.gotadsl.co.uk ([84.12.167.7] helo=[192.168.1.4] country=GB ident=bds^pop3#waywood$co&uk) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.217) id 44662556.7fce.31 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 19:28:38 +0100 (envelope-sender ) Message-ID: <44662536.4080700@waywood.co.uk> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:28:06 +0100 From: Barnaby Scott User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44639855.90102@waywood.co.uk> <4463C5E4.50109@daleco.biz> <4463D2EC.1020100@waywood.co.uk> <20060512125648.GG5531@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <4464A7E5.7060000@waywood.co.uk> <20060512175626.GD34035@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20060512175626.GD34035@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:28:41 -0000 Many thanks to all who have helped me on this one - I won't post a message in response to every suggestion, but they have all helped - thank you! It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: hostname="frankbruno" ifconfig_re0="DHCP" keymap="uk.iso" linux_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" saver="logo" usbd_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NONE" (Someone asked what was in this file). The last line that I have just added does cure the problem. But... ...it does not cure the problem for me if I decide that I do want sendmail! I could cross that bridge when I come to it, but I would prefer to gain some insight here if anyone can bear any more on this topic. Adding 127.0.0.1 frankbruno to /etc/hosts did not cure the problem. Could that be because the lookup that causes the delay is a reverse one? If so, it would be trying to find a name for 192.168.0.4 (I think that's the one I have been getting recently) which is still not in hosts. I would rather not mess with the IP allocation if possible - having it automatic is much more useful and means I cannot create condradictory records in different places. Looking in /var/run/dmesg.boot turned up nothing obvious to me at least, booting in Safe Mode made no difference, and verbose logging turned up nothing. However, I did discover a tip posted a couple of years ago, and that was to press ^T when the boot stalled. God knows what this does, but it turned up the following response: load: 0.85 cmd:sendmail 454 [kqread] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1912k I thinks that answers all the things that were suggested - can anyone see a way of reinstating sendmail without the stalled boot process, and without having to reserve specific IP addresses for each computer? Barnaby Scott