From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 28 19:12:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA02980 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 19:12:43 -0700 Received: from wc.cdrom.com (wc.cdrom.com [192.216.223.37]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA02974 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 19:12:41 -0700 Received: from winjef.somerset (slip44.hk.super.net [202.64.6.44]) by wc.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA04355 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 19:12:33 -0700 Received: (from john@localhost) by winjef.somerset (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04536; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:05:07 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:05:04 +0000 () From: John Beukema To: Julian Howard Stacey cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hanging boot In-Reply-To: <199506271250.OAA00707@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, Julian Howard Stacey wrote: > I've just seen my system appear to hang on boot > (at a similar point a friend's machine (me@freebsd.org) > did a couple of weeks ago) > it's a fresh install of 2.0.5 rel. on previously proven hardware, > > The problem is that I scattered the ether number of my master freebsd box in > too many places on the new box while installing, & now the new box > is hanging waiting for name server etc that the old box is not running. > It's currently hanging for a few minutes on each line of > add net default: gateway 134.98.91.21 > add net 224.0.0.0: gateway lion, > starting routing daemons: routed > When it finally boots the whole way, I'll fix my /etc/ files I have the same problem but I do not know how to fix my /etc files. I do not know what I did to cause root add to hang. ^C clears it and routed eventually picks up the missing routes. What is causing the problem. > > Thing is newbies may do this too, see the thing hang, & not know what the > problem is, & reset. > > Perhaps after "Automatic reboot in progress" > we should on a virgin fresh release have in /etc/rc something like: > echo "If this appears to hang, leave it for a half hour, then look > again, in case your net config is bad & needs to time out" > > Julian Stacey > Recommended , Alternate >