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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.jaring.my!news1.jaring.my!ns.iris-card.com.my!not-for-mail From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD machine halts during bootup phase Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:45:23 +0800 Organization: Alphaque. Anytime. Anywhere. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <335EF373.59E2B600@alphaque.com> References: <01bc4c9a$642d5ba0$05c9b0cf@reality> NNTP-Posting-Host: broker.alphaque.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39668 Kurt Schafer wrote: > > One of my 2.2.1 machines always halts during the bootup phase just after it > says it's adding in the default gateway. > > Hitting a CTRL-C moves it past that phase and the machine says it's > clearing /tmp out and it then completes booting to the login prompt. you've most likely trying to resolve the name from one of your hosts in the route add process. perhaps there is no connectivity to your nameserver or the said hostname just isnt in dns or /etc/hosts. i'd start by checking that. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) +=======================----oOO--(_)--OOo----=========================+ |for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."| |done; done | +=====================================================================+ http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0x230096E9