On Friday 23 June 2006 09:38, Anne Wilson wrote: > I had a shock this morning when my main workstation didn't want to boot, > using either of the two newest kernels. The boot process looked normal up > to addressing the ntp server, where it sat for a long time. It then > dropped back into vga text mode, with the last visible message being about > enabling swap space, and there it hung. > > After a few attempts I used Interactive and enabled everything except ntpd, > when it started up normally. > > Has anyone else seen anything like this? > It seems it was a case of a non-elegant falling over. When I finally got up and running I sent the above message, and since it appeared to go, I assumed all was well there. Certainly I could access everything on the LAN, and it was quite some time before I realised that, although local traffic was fine, I could not access the Internet. It's somewhat disconcerting that when ntpd failed to make the connection the whole bootup process failed. I would have wished for a failure notice then the rest of the bootup to continue. Anne
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