From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Boot up hangs while mounting other file systems. Ctrl-Alt-Del starts the shutdown, but then hangs on closing down the random seed. If I use interactive startup and do not load everything from random seed to inet, the computer will boot. Otherwise, it will hang permanently. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade from 6.0 to 7 2. Boot up 3. Watch the screen for hours and hours Actual Results: The computer hangs Expected Results: The computer should boot up normally I'm running red hat 7 on an acer altos 600 server, with 2 scsi drives and dual pentium xeon processors. I upgraded mainly because our server was infected with the ramen worm, and it seemed the easiest way to upgrade everything at the same time. p.s. red hat 7 pissed me off when it overwrote all my conf files. and moved the apache document root. but hey. =)
Are you running syslogd?
yes, it is in the boot-up sequence. from what i remember i have to disable it to get the server to boot.
See bug 23482 The correct component for this bug is initscripts, of which minilogd is a part. The fix for this particuar problem is already in rawhide, but running a system without syslog is a BAD IDEA.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23482 ***
When will this be FIXED??? I am sitting with a Linux box that does not work properly, and i can do nothing about it. I am told repeatedly that I should not run Linux without syslog, but I CANT RUN LINUX WITH IT. This is my webserver. I cannot operate a web design business without a webserver. Whether the fix is in rawhide or not is not the issue. When will I be able to use the operating system I payed for??? Who were the psychopaths responsible for Red Hat 7? Excuse my anger, but how can i possibly be satisfied with a machine that has to have half it's services disabled to boot up?
It is fixed. Your statement about the fix being in rawhide is inaccurate. If you wish technical support, then you should be talking to technical support. This is our bug tracking system, not technical support, and here we fix the bugs, commit the fixes to our tree (rawhide, which is available any time you wish to download it from our public ftp servers), and then close the bug. What you are asking for in the way of service is what the technical support people do. Please contact the tech support department of Red Hat to use your 30 days of install support that came with your Red Hat Linux purchase and they will help you through all of this and get you what you need, or you can download the fixed initscripts from the rawhide ftp tree and install it yourself and be done with this problem.
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