On 28/02/07, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:

I shut the server down last evening due to power surges and when I tried to bring it back up, it stops at starting sendmail. Is there a way around this?

Sendmail can take a looooong time to start in the absence of working DNS, so that's worth checking. I've also seen startup problems where the issue is with the next process/daemon to start rather than the one that appears to be holding things up, though typically that's been earlier in the boot process.

To discount Sendmail as the cause of your problems boot to single user mode then...

# chkconfig sendmail off

And restart. If the system's still having trouble booting, after Sendmail on a relatively vanilla system here I have the following services starting...

Feb 28 09:31:41 archive sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:41 archive sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:41 archive gpm: gpm startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:42 archive bacula-sd: bacula-sd startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:42 archive crond: crond startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:42 archive munin-node: Starting Munin Node: Feb 28 09:31:43 archive munin-node: ESC[60G Feb 28 09:31:43 archive munin-node: Feb 28 09:31:43 archive rc: Starting munin-node: succeeded Feb 28 09:31:43 archive bacula-fd: bacula-fd startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:43 archive bacula-dir: bacula-dir startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:43 archive anacron: anacron startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:43 archive atd: atd startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:44 archive messagebus: messagebus startup succeeded Feb 28 09:31:44 archive haldaemon: haldaemon startup succeeded

You could try chkconfig-ing those off as you go to see if one of these is the issue. Be sure to make a note of what you're disabling, and if you need to re-enable it :)

Will.