On Thursday 18 August 2005 22:52, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 02:47 am, Tony Davison wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:28, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 "Michael W. Holdeman" > > > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > > > > > My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting > > > > > > distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot > > > > > > with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to > > > > > > determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do > > > > > > the same thing... > > > > > > > > > > I should have noted, I can get it running with > > > > > softlevel=singlest don't know how to determine the problem. > > > > > > > > I had the same problem this morning after updating baselayout > > > > to 1.12.0_pre5, but the booting stopped after starting samba. > > > > Downgraded baselayout back to 1.11.13 and everything worked > > > > fine again. > > > > > > Thought that might be it, as My laptop is really booting weird > > > now after upgrading as well. It runs some init scripts twice. > > > > Over enthusiastic use of etc-update option 5 ? > > There was a thread about this a while back, basically the new > > base-layouts move some of the init scripts to /etc/conf.d and can > > screw up networking if not properly configured. > > Might be, although I use cfg-update, which I usually catch that > stuff. I got it going yest. found some config files that were empty.. > Not sure why, but everything is all ok with the desktop now. Now for > th elaptop... > I know how you feel. Just got a new baselayout 1.12.0-pre6 and it changes /etc/conf.d/net quite dramatically. I had to upgrade dhcpcd which then lost my /etc/ntp.conf. To get that back i had to re-emerge ntp, 'cos it also overwrote the example file in usr/share/.
maybe I'm getting too old for this ~arch stuff :-) -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
