Re: System hangs at boot
Unfortunately nothing of these worked. I will try to
reinstall the system from scratch and see if I will
have the same problem. I hope I wont :)
Thanks for your help,
--- Luis R Finotti <finotti@math.ohio-state.edu>
wrote:
>
> > --- Luis R Finotti <finotti@math.ohio-state.edu>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Leo Britto wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>>I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.8 running on my laptop
> >>
> >>and I
> >>
> >>>finally got my wireless adapter to work. But
> when
> >>
> >>I
> >>
> >>>reboot it I just cant go pass the jabberd
> startup.
> >>>Earlier it was "hanging" on the MTA startup so I
> >>>apt-get remove exim4-base and got rid of it just
> >>
> >>to
> >>
> >>>find out that the problem is after it.
> >>
> >>Just an idea: if your wireless card is configure
> on
> >>start up, it might
> >>expect an internet connection. If you don't have
> >>connection (or if your
> >>router is on, but not connect to the internet),
> the
> >>system will not find
> >>a DNS server. At least for me, this makes the
> >>computer hang during the
> >>MTA start up (any problem with DNS does), but it
> >>does continue after a
> >>little while (or not so little -- two minutes,
> >>maybe). It seems to me
> >>that that might be the problem. Maybe you could
> try
> >>to make sure you
> >>have connection, disable connection on boot, or
> wait
> >>and see if the
> >>start up continues after a little while.
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>
> >>Luis
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Leo Britto wrote:
> > Can I ask how I disable the ndiwsrapper from being
> > loaded at boot time?
>
> I'm not sure, since I've never used it. You can
> check if there is any
> file in /etc/init.d/ related to it. If there is,
> you can use
> update-rc.d to remove it. (Check the man page.)
>
> > I dont know but I think this
> > might be the reason. I can boot in single user
> mode
> > and when I issue a init 2 my system hangs when it
> gets
> > to the services. I tried to disable the services
> but
> > it still hangs. I have no idea what can be the
> cause
> > of this but the only change I made was the
> introuction
> > of the correct wireless driver to ndiswrapper.
> Maybe
> > if I can disable it I can get back to boot. What
> is
> > odd is if i boot in single user mode I can load
> the
> > ndis driver and use it i/o problems. I even
> removed
> > exim4 from my system and it still doesnt work.
>
> I'm not sure removing exim4 is a good idea. It's
> part of the base
> system and used to deliver local error messages...
> (But I am not sure
> it's really that bad.)
>
> So, is ndiwsrapper a module? If so, check
> /etc/modules. You can try to
> comment it out.
>
> > I also tried the other suggestion to let it hanged
> for
> > a while. I waited for 5 minutes and nothing.
> >
> > I also tried to boot it many times w/o hope.
>
> Hmm... Did you look at /etc/network/interfaces?
> If, say eth1 is your
> wireless card, is there a "auto eth1" in it? If so,
> you can try to
> remove it, but I am not sure that that will help
> anymore...
>
> > Have any suggestions?
>
> That's all I have for now. (I'm *really* not a
> guru...) :-)
>
> HTH,
>
> Luis
>
>
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