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Date:      Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:16:38 -0400
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mickey Harvey <mh.unet@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: on boot starting jails hangs
Message-ID:  <20110425111638.GA41897@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim62Rjd9zW_wBW24D-9Zowv2=NozA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <BANLkTim62Rjd9zW_wBW24D-9Zowv2=NozA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 09:32:13AM -0700, Mickey Harvey wrote:
> When I boot up my host rc hangs at "starting jails:" indefinitely. If i
> Control^C during the hang boot continues as usual so I login ,run jls and
> the jail appears to have started correctly. I can login to the jail as usual
> using "jexec 1 sh". I'm using 8.2-RELEASE i386 on a VirtualBox VM. My rc is
> set up as follows:
> 
> ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_em0_alias0="10.0.2.16 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> jail_enable="YES"
> jail_list="www"
> jail_www_rootdir="/usr/local/jails/www"
> jail_www_hostname="www"
> jail_www_ip="10.0.2.16"
> jail_www_devfs_enable="YES"

It's most likely something inside the jail failing to start properly. My
money is on sendmail trying to get a reverse lookup completed.

Try disabling sendmail entirely and see if the jail starts properly.

-- WXS



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