Bug 120281
Summary: | sendmail service freeze at boot up process | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jones Lee <joneslee> |
Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Thomas Woerner <twoerner> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 2 | CC: | mattdm, maurizio.antillon, patpertusus, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-05-11 12:21:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 123268, 136451 |
Description
Jones Lee
2004-04-07 15:38:25 UTC
This seems to be a hardware or dns problem. Yes, it could be my ADSL DHCP modem fault, but if there is some problems with DNS, at least sendmail service can be abandoned and pass through. But it didn't and once it did but took 15min. This problem seems triggerable on FC2. Some system-config-* tool is leaving networking configuration in a bad state. Investigating further... Found one way to reproduce this. If your /etc/hosts contains an invalid IP address associated with your hostname, then this message appears in /var/log/maillog: Jun 23 21:22:31 ibmlaptop sendmail[16633]: My unqualified host name (ibmlaptop) unknown; sleeping for retry Then sendmail sits there forever, preventing system startup. IMHO preventing startup is unacceptable, so we have two options for this kind of situation: 1) Modify sendmail to ignore this problem - bad solution. 2) Modify our service startup script to detect this corner case, and display an error message to console as well as log file and immediately abort startup. FC3 target I see that issue too with rawhide of october 3, but sendmail doesn't sleep forever, but for a minute. My boot process is first stuck with smartd, before sendmail is launched as a daemon (smartd sends mails because of errors on disk). sendmail and sm-client also take time to start. Oct 4 09:42:24 chapelle sendmail[2782]: My unqualified host name (chapelle) unknown; sleeping for retry Oct 4 09:43:24 chapelle sendmail[2782]: unable to qualify my own domain name (chapelle) -- using short name Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match. There is a shorter timeout in newer sendmail versions. Fixed in rawhide. |