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

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

John O'Hagan wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 


Thanks John and Marc, I will reconfiguring exim4 a try this evening.
BTW, if exim4's inability to connect to the internet is the problem,
shouldn't exim4 timeout trying this?

regards,
->HS