[CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>>>> The reason I think this is the problem is the post where you said you
>>>> could log in after a very long delay.  About the only thing that can
>>>> cause a very long delay is the system waiting for DNS responses on
>>>> what it thinks is a working network interface.   The next things
>>>> needed for further diagnosis would be the output of the 'ifconfig'
>>>> command after you are able to log in, and the results from 'cat
>>>> /etc/resolv.conf.   The first should show the IP address assigned by
>>>> DHCP from the router, and the second will have the DNS nameserver
>>>> address(es).
>>>       In the last post on the forum is the output of ifconfig. It closely
>>> resembles what was shown there and stated that my output should resemble
>>> the one already there in post 29 ,and it does. There was no suggestion
>>> to try cat /etc/reslov.conf. Can do that from the root login. Will wait
>>> til I get a reply from the forum. Plenty of suggestions from here and
>>> the forum and I'll keep up with both. The delay was almost an hour BTW.
>>> Thanks again. The router works perfectly fine and quickly for win 7,
>>> Ubuntu 12.2 and Mint 14.
>> The IP address looks like what you would get from a typical home
>> router, so that's probably OK.  A quick test for DNS would be the
>> 'dig' command.  If it quickly returns a screenfull of  root
>> nameservers and addresses, then DNS is not the problem.    If it
>> doesn't, then check what you have in your /etc/resolv.conf file.
>>
>      dig returned  a lot of root nameservers instantly.

OK, never mind about DNS.  And on a 2nd thought, the delays it causes
would be early in the startup where sendmail/samba, etc. start.   Not
sure why the Gnome desktop would wait for anything.   I thought all it
needed was the localhost entry in /etc/hosts to satisfy the need for a
hostname..

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com