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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:31:06 +0930
From:      Ian <no-spam@people.net.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6
Message-ID:  <200907140931.15310.no-spam@people.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <200906282054.33434.no-spam@people.net.au>
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:54:26 Ian wrote:
> Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but on=
ly
> just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and
> has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (usi=
ng
> freebsd-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, named loads but
> the startup script hangs.
>
> If I press Ctrl+C, the system continues to boot. If I then run
> /etc/rc.d/named start, named starts, but again the script hangs. I can do
> DNS lookups while named is running, so it seems to be functioning ok.
> I tried adding various echo statements to /etc/rc.d/named and found that
> the script seems to run right through. The hang occurs where /etc/rc.subr
> echoes out "Starting named" after the named script has run and that's whe=
re
> things seem to stop! Nothing else that is started by the rc.d scripts
> hangs, so I'm guessing  /etc/rc.subr is ok.
>
> I did a diff of /etc/rc.d/named before & after the upgrade from p4 to p5
> (or p6 which has the same issue) and there are no changes to the file.
> Nothing seems to be logged anywhere that shows a problem, so I really have
> no idea what to check next.
>
> The only named entry in rc.conf is named_enable=3D"YES". Doing a
> freebsd-update rollback restores normal operation and given that bind
> actually loads 7 seems to work apart fromthe hanging script, I suspect
> there's nothing wrong with my bind configuration.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ian
> gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc

I've never really solved this problem - even running with the default=20
named.conf as a simple caching server didn't change anything.
Instead, I rolled back to 7.1p4 & then upgraded to 7.2(p2) and bind works j=
ust=20
fine.

Cheers,
=2D-=20
Ian
gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc

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