[afnog] FreeBSD incomplete boot problem

Mohamadi ZONGO mzongo at zcp.bf
Tue May 25 18:06:11 EAT 2004


I fall in this kind of situation with FreeBSD at boot time also, but my problem
was  DNS related : server not reachable or down.
May be one services are waiting for name resolution in order to complete his
starting process!

(Sorry, don't speek english very well!)
Mohamadi ZONGO

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Selon antonio at nambu.uem.mz:

> It wouldn't be a problem if the services already started, but since 
> only postfix starts and none of the rc.d scripts start then you have 
> to go physically to the server and press ctrl-c for the rest to load, 
> that's what I am trying to avoid so that everytime the machine is 
> rebooted due to several reasons like power outages, I need to go 
> physically there and press ctrl-c.
> 
> 
> 
> On 25 May 2004 at 13:25, David Ziggy Lubowa wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I have had a similar issue with FreeBSD 4.8 before , this was due to
> > some daemons taking some time to start e.g squid, Postfix but if you
> > happen to go to another box and try to actually connect to say port 25
> > , you would find the process is already running and the port is
> > actually operational at that point, so i usually assumed it was just a
> > slight stall on the console screen which needed you to hit the Ctrl-C
> > combination for your own satisfaction that all processes are up and
> > running.
> > 
> > 
> > ma 2 cents
> > 
> > ** i assume that is what you also experiencing
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > David Ziggy Lubowa
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 May 2004 10:47:47 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote
> > > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:44:07AM +0200, antonio at nambu.uem.mz
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have a FreeBSD 5.0 which always stops during boot when it is
> > > > supposed to load the rc scripts which are located at
> > > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d, has anyone seen this problem before? I just
> > > > can't figure out what the system is doing or waiting for, it just
> > > > stops there and won't finish the boot process until you give it a
> > > > Ctrl-C, at which time it will successfully finish booting and
> > > > loads all the rc services.
> > > 
> > > 	Hi Antonio,
> > > 
> > > 	What does it say on the console screen at this point ?
> > > 
> > > 	Mvh,
> > > 	Phil
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