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System startup hung on 'named ' startup; won 't continue bootup

System startup hung on 'named ' startup; won 't continue bootup

2006-05-15       - By Anthony J Placilla

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On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:26 -0400, Tim Evans wrote:
> I have an RHEL 3 Academic Server that is hung during boot-up at
> 'named'
> startup.  It's complaining about missing/malformed named.conf file.
>
> Boot will not proceed further, so other services aren't starting
> either. Can't
> log in remotely because sshd hasn't started; can't get to NFS exports
> since
> nfsd hasn't started.
>
> I'm dealing with this remotely, and don't have console access.  Is
> there a
> keystroke combination I can dictate to someone onsite to break out of
> the
> 'named' startup and continue the bootup?  Or is single-user boot the
> only
> option here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
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>
Probably the best thing to do would have someone hit the "i" key when
prompted for interactive startup.

That way you can skip loading BIND yet get all the rest of the
appropriate services up


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