In article 374968789.4117139.1499169677110@mail.yahoo.com, Chris Olson chris_e_olson@yahoo.com wrote:
My thanks to all that responded to my posting about our virtual machine CentOS 6 system start-up issue. I found the alternative boot options to be the most helpful. Interrupting the boot-up process with Alt-d or Escape allowed me to see what appears to be a quite normal string of start, install and mount activity. However, this process ends with the system hanging at the point below:
Starting ipmidetectd: ipmidetectd: No nodes configured [FAILED] Starting sendmail:
It is not clear to me whether the boot-up process is hanging due to the failed starting of ipmidetectd or sendmail, but I suspect that the ipmidetectd start up failure is the actual cause. It is not clear whether any IPMI related features were ever installed.
As another respondent said, the problem won't be ipmidetectd, as that has successfully reported [FAILED].
So the problem is sendmail hanging during start-up.
I have in the past seen sendmail take an inordinately long time to start up if it is unable to resolve or discover its hostname in DNS.
You would probably find that if you waited a couple of minutes, sendmail would eventually either start or fail, and the boot continue.
But in the meantime, check your network configuration and the contents of /etc/resolv.conf. Make sure all nameservers listed in that file do actually respond, and are able to resolve queries for the machine's full hostname and IP address.
Cheers Tony