Re: System startup hung on 'named' startup; won't continue bootup
Anthony J Placilla <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:26 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: > I have an RHEL 3 Academic Server that is hung during boot-up at > 'named' > startup. It's complaining about missing/malformed named.conf file. > > Boot will not proceed further, so other services aren't starting > either. Can't > log in remotely because sshd hasn't started; can't get to NFS exports > since > nfsd hasn't started. > > I'm dealing with this remotely, and don't have console access. Is > there a > keystroke combination I can dictate to someone onsite to break out of > the > 'named' startup and continue the bootup? Or is single-user boot the > only > option here? > > Thanks. > > -- > Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court > [email protected] | Owings Mills, MD 21117 > http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 > http://www.come-here.com/News/ | > Probably the best thing to do would have someone hit the "i" key when prompted for interactive startup. That way you can skip loading BIND yet get all the rest of the appropriate services up -- Tony Placilla, RHCT [email protected] GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64 -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list