Re: Appletalk Starting and Failing during Sarge Boot

[Chinook <chinook.nr@tds.net>]

PS:  If you have netatalk installed then you may also have task-howl 
(howl-tools and mdnsresponder) installed.  If you don't need netatalk 
then you probably don't need task-howl either as such is used to 
"broadcast" shares.  Get another opinion about uninstalling these 
additional packages first though, as I don't know whether they might be 
useful otherwise :-)

Lee C



Chinook wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > My girlfriend runs Sarge on Intel, and during boot, she sees the message
> > "Starting Appletalk, this may take a while" (or sth the like)
> > followed by messages about timeouts for a couple of minutes,
> > before the boot proceeds. During the rest of the boot, until
> > X starts up and she gets the login dialogue box, these timeout
> > messages continue to come out.
> >
> > What is there that we can do to stop this (she doesn't own a Mac,
> > nor does she have any interest in owning one)? It delays boot
> > quite a bit.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Mike
> If you see the message you note during bootup then you have netatalk 
> installed.  If you look in the process monitor you'll see at least the 
> daemon afpd running and maybe a few others associated with netatalk 
> for classic AppleTalk.
>
> Anyway, netatalk is not part of the stock distribution (as far as i 
> know - i had to install it) and you can just uninstall it.
>
> HTH,
> Lee C