Re: ifplugd (or guessnet) stalls booting at "Configuring networkinterfaces ..."

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

John O'Hagan said...
> H.S. wrote
> 
> >I commented out the "auto etho0" and rebooted. The boot process stalled
> >at "starting MTA ... exim" (or some such thing) step. So, it didn't work
> >for me.
> 
> I also had this problem when I first installed sarge; in that case it was 
> fixed by reconfiguring exim4 (dpkg-reconfigure exim4) . I can't for the life 
> of me remember what  the precise option was; but it lets you prevent exim4 
> from trying to connect to the network on boot. I'm guessing that this is a 
> separate problem from your network issue, and I hope this tip fixes it for 
> you.

Worth a try is to edit the following line in

/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

dc_minimaldns='true'

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Best,
Marc