Re: My machine froze after name change

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 01:58 PM 10/7/99 -0400, Joe wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Alan Mead wrote:
>
>> At 03:01 PM 10/6/99 -0400, Joe wrote:
>> >Last night I attempted to network my two computers together.  One of the
>> >things I did was I changed my notebook's name from localhost.localdomain
>> >to something else.  After I restarted my machine, many of the services
>> >froze on startup (amd, postfix, samba, sendmail).  Why do they do this and
>> >how can I fix this problem while being able to change my machine name?
>> 
>> Are they valid DNS names?  It sounds like a DNS problem.  Also, are you
>> saying that Linux now crashes on the laptop?  Because I've found that
>> time-outs look a lot like a crash.  I would give it a good long time and
>> see if maybe it comes up without all the services.  Then you can see what
>> errors have occurred.  
>
>They should not be valid DNS names.  Like I noted before, this is going to
>be a dialup network.  Eventually I want to, say, use the notebook to
>browse/telnet/whatever over the network.  The request would go to the
>desktop which then would turn on diald and become the network gateway.

Maybe DNS isn't the correct term but if your laptop cannot resolve names,
some of your services are going to have long time-outs.  Do what the other
poster suggested and keep accurate /etc/hosts files on the laptop and
desktop and make sure the network is up before you try to boot the other
services.  And like I said, Samba may have other problems.  I think you can
boot to single (linux single at the LILO: prompt) and then up the network
with /etc/rc.d/network start.  If it comes up, fine.  Otherwise fix the
networking so you can up it correctly.  Then reboot and see if most of the
services don't come up.

>(OT: It would be nice to have the system continue to boot even if one or
>more services will eventually time out.)

Yes.  You're sure they don't eventually?  I don't know if it does any good,
but I try to kill the process (^C) when it seems like it's hung.

-Alan
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