On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:57:20PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:22:53PM -0800, James Smith wrote: > > Startup stuck on "starting openbsd secure shell server... > > i removed ssh, but now it freezes after starting up samba daemons > > this is likely some networking problem that is causing theses network > services to bomb. First, does it get "stuck" forever? how long have > you waited? I would think these things should time out eventually, but > maybe not. > > you can boot up a live cd (the installer would work too, probably) and > chroot into the install, use update-rc.d to remove the problem > services one a time til you can get a good boot. Then sort your > networking and bring the services back online. >
Without a live CD you can boot single. Networking comes up under /etc/rcS.d, whereas ssh comes up under /etc/rc2.d. Once you're in single user mode, you can cd into /etc/rc2.d and start each script in turn, skipping any that make sense to skip until you narrow down the culprits. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
