From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.01 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Description of problem: I'm no expert so I doubt I've even got the correct package but I have found that after joining a domain e.g. localhost.localdomain to myserver.mydomain and rebooting the machine without the network cable plugged in the machine hangs at the point mentioned in the URL above. I believe that it would be better to output an error message or continue booting and produce an error message later but I almost opted to install windows as I was having this problem - obviously I was the problem as I had 4 network sockets in teh back of the machine and had the cable plugged in to the wrong socket but an error message of: Could not join domain, network not found would be much better than hanging and knowing nothing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Fedora 2.Change domain to join windows network 3.Unplug Network Cable (or plug in to wrong socket on server with 4 NICs) Actual Results: Machine hangs during boot when trying to boot network services Expected Results: I would appreciate an error message so I could rectify the problem Additional info:
Sorry, but I don't understand and which exact point the boot hangs. Does it delay when starting a network interface and is this caused by another daemon? Can you please attach the bootlog?
I do not know what or where the bootlog is? Here is a copy of a post I made to a forum which explains all I know: Having successfully installed Fedora onto a number of desktop computers I decided it was time to set up a server. I have a brand new Fujitsu TX300 and I set up RAID and then Installed Fedora 4 from 4 CDs. Everything seemed to go fine and I rebooted and made some changes to the network settings and the desktop and then rebooted again. On this second reboot and subsequent reboots I get stuck at this point: Enabling Local File Sytem Quotas [OK] Enabling Swap Space [OK] It then shows details e.g. CUPS, xinted, sshd, sendmail. It stops at sendmail and then returns to the Enabling Swap Space [OK] screen and it just sits here until I force a reboot. Could it be getting stuck when setting up something like sendmail or whatever comes next? My solution to the above question was plugging in the network cable. Immediately the machine continues to boot. This is all I know - I am relatively new to linux and Red Hat so I am no expert. If you tell me where to find the bootlog I will retrieve it and post it if that will help. Cheers, jonny
This still doesn't say where exactly it hangs. Does sendmail fail to start? Check /var/log/boot.log
my boot log is empty. Maybe it is emptied after each boot? I cannot give you any more information about the boot sequence as the last thing I see is that it tries to start sendmail and then changes back to the 'Enabling Swap Space [OK] screen' so I cannot see any more messages. At this point it hangs. I think that it is probably the daemon that next starts after sendmail which hangs. I have tried this on 2 different machines and after setting the host as myserver.mydomain it hangs when booting at this point only if the network cable is not plugged in. I don't know if this gives you any more clues but obviously I am ignorant of what is happening so if you need me to do something I will need instructions. jonny
Ok, I've managed to reproduce this bug on a rawhide machine. The boot hangs everytime on sendmail. This is the only error I'm seeing in /var/log/messages root@garfield log# grep "sendmail" messages Aug 18 11:22:22 garfield sendmail[8902]: sql_select option missing Aug 18 11:22:22 garfield sendmail[8902]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Sendmail is not configured, just checked to be started at boottime. This should not cause system to hang. (sendmail-8.13.4-2.i386)
Have you removed localhost.localdomain from /etc/hosts completely?
This bug entry was in needinfo for some time. Closing due to user inactivity as "NOT A BUG".