On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On an oldish machine (Dell PowerEdge SC1420, *not being used > as a server), boot messages look fairly unremarkable, till one saying > "Starting cobbler daemon: SERVING!" -- which is called OK -- after > which booting stops. > > The machine can be ssh'd into, and I've done a yum update or > two, without helping it to boot. > > What is to be done? > How about, as root, chkconfig cobblerd off The next time it boots, cobbler won't start, so the error won't occur. I assume you can turn off the daemon if you can run a yum update. It that isn't true, you might have to poke around in the configuration for cobbler to turn it off. Run rpm -q --filesbypkg cobbler to find where all the files are. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines