On Wednesday 03 March 2004 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so far twice in around one week my system hung on shutdown. The last > message was: > > Stopping internet superserver: xinetd > > The system then is already totally irresponsive and I have to unplug > it. Very bad, as the file system isn't unmounted yet.
I have had this--in fact the main reason I went over to an ext3 file system! Finally got that going with the 2.6.2 kernel for which I was able to make an initrd. (Never worked with 2.4.22-sfx fro Knoppix.) Anyway, the original reason this was occuring was never found but the problem went away. I recently put a an IPTable based firewall, Guarddog. Has an easily understandable GUI which shorewall did not and might not flood the console and logs with zillions of messages rendering them useless. I put by email providers addresses into the "DMZ" as recommended. When the system boot up, iptables and "starting guarddog" wouild hang up looking for these addresses--needed DNS with no connection!. These could be control-C'd out. ON shutdown, the "deconfiguring internet...." hung up. Big red switch time. One IPs for these addresses went into the /etc/hosts file, everything was fine. Maybe you have something going on sporadically that puts you in such a situation? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
