Re: help with debian start-up freezing
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:57:20PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:22:53PM -0800, James Smith wrote:
> > Startup stuck on "starting openbsd secure shell server...
> > i removed ssh, but now it freezes after starting up samba daemons
>
> this is likely some networking problem that is causing theses network
> services to bomb. First, does it get "stuck" forever? how long have
> you waited? I would think these things should time out eventually, but
> maybe not.
>
> you can boot up a live cd (the installer would work too, probably) and
> chroot into the install, use update-rc.d to remove the problem
> services one a time til you can get a good boot. Then sort your
> networking and bring the services back online.
>
Without a live CD you can boot single. Networking comes up under
/etc/rcS.d, whereas ssh comes up under /etc/rc2.d. Once you're in
single user mode, you can cd into /etc/rc2.d and start each script in
turn, skipping any that make sense to skip until you narrow down the
culprits.
Doug.
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