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I am running Fedora 11 and recently, it has been taking longer and longer to boot up.
The Fedora 11 Status bar creeps along ever so slowly till eventually I will receive a longin screen. I timed it at about 3 - 5 minutes from turning on the computer till I get a log in prompt.
Where would I begin to start troubleshooting this?
I am running Fedora 11 and recently, it has been taking longer and longer to boot up.
The Fedora 11 Status bar creeps along ever so slowly till eventually I will receive a longin screen. I timed it at about 3 - 5 minutes from turning on the computer till I get a log in prompt.
Where would I begin to start troubleshooting this?
First thing I'd check, would be to hit "ESC" as you get the status bar, to switch it into 'text mode' to see where it's hanging. Also, consider if you've turned new services on, upgraded anything, etc., to give you some starting point. Also, check the system logs.
And how do you turn the system off?? If you just power it off, it may be fsck'ing a drive or two manually. Did you have any network drives connected, that may not be there now?
First thing I'd check, would be to hit "ESC" as you get the status bar, to switch it into 'text mode' to see where it's hanging. Also, consider if you've turned new services on, upgraded anything, etc., to give you some starting point. Also, check the system logs.
And how do you turn the system off?? If you just power it off, it may be fsck'ing a drive or two manually. Did you have any network drives connected, that may not be there now?
It seemed that sendmail and sm-client were the culprits. When I looked at the services that were starting on bootup, these were the two that were holding up the show. I disabled them within System -> Administration -> Services and the machine boots up within 60 seconds. I don't really use sendmail, so I'll leave it as it is. Thanks for the troubleshooting tip.
It seemed that sendmail and sm-client were the culprits. When I looked at the services that were starting on bootup, these were the two that were holding up the show. I disabled them within System -> Administration -> Services and the machine boots up within 60 seconds. I don't really use sendmail, so I'll leave it as it is. Thanks for the troubleshooting tip.
No problem...glad it helped.
You may want to investigate sendmail. Could be that it's trying to barf out some messages, and can't resolve the mail server further upstream, so it's timing out.
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