[ale] Mandriva upgrade problem

[Geoffrey]

Mark Wright wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:44:46 -0400
> Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mark Wright wrote:
>>
>>>Hey Joe!  You da man!
>>>
>>>chkconfig command got me past the mounting other file systems bug.
>>>
>>>However this upgrade is still eating my lunch.  It now stops a few
>>>lines down at "starting YP map server".
>>>
>>>I guess I can keep shutting things off till it comes up.
>>>
>>>Do you know how to get past this one?
>>
>>Most of these services will eventually time out, although that
>>doesn't necessarily apply.  How long did you wait?
>>
> 
> 
> 
> A long long time.  When it first hung I let it sit for a few hours
> while I did other stuff.  I thought it would timeout on the smb file
> system start up.  I let it sit over night once either for smb or "other
> file systems".  Don't remember which.

Okay, that's longer then a timeout will ever solve.  Have you attempted 
adding the 'set -x' to the startup scripts that are suspect?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey