Re: Starting portmap daemon problem...

[Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>]

Larry Gonzalez wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Eric P wrote:
> 
>>> I'm running Etch.
>>>
>>> I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on "Starting
>>> portmap daemon: portmap".
>>>
>>> After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> yes...
>   your loopback interface needs to be active:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig lo up
> 
> possibly your loopback interface is not brought up in the boot process
> until after the portmap daemon is called
> 
> you'll also find that others will hang if loopback isnt up (i.e. gnome,
> kde, etc...)
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> k l u r t

Hmm... ran the command.  I didn't notice anything different.  ifconfig shows the same before and after running 'ifconfig lo up'

# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:684259 (668.2 KiB)  TX bytes:684259 (668.2 KiB)

And boot still pauses as above.

Thanks for reponding all the same.
Eric P