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> On 02.19 Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a feature, not a bug.
> >
> > It is a bug not a feature. See threads "[Cooker] can't login to runlevel 3
> > ...please help" and my earlier post (link in the above thread).
> The problem
> > is, new initscripts (ifup) changed semantic of DOMAINNAME so now system
> > assumes it runs NIS if DOMAINNAME is set. It is set on vanilla
> 7.2 install, so
> > it now tries to contact NIS server. If it does not run (I do not
> have any NIS
> > server on standalone system), you cannot login. Other services
> timeout - that
> > accounts for 30s delay.
> >
>
> I had a similar problem rencently and the cause was one other. For some
> strange reason, the net-tools package had changed something in ipcalc
> that made the init scripts not being able to configure interface 'lo'.
> It was corrected, so grab the LATEST net-tools and initscripts.
> Mine are:
> initscripts-5.60-1mdk
Yes, this is exactly the version with the above bug :-)
> net-tools-1.58-3mdk
>
I did not update net-tools above 7.2 release, so I did not have this problem.
-andrej
