Re: System hangs at SMB.. during boot

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 03:37 PM 9/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>We have a strange problem. System has been working. The customer did a
>shutdown and now it will not boot. The customer says it stops at loading SMB
>and just sets there. Any idea what we can do by phone to help her?

Just a thought:  Has she waited a good long time?  I've had SMB take a
while when it wasn't happy.  She should take a look at the logs.  Also,
examine what starts after SMB just to make sure it's really SMB.  As a last
resort, I try to kill (control-C) the process if it doesn't start...  I'm
probably just being superstitious.

Anyway, if it's mundged then someone is going to need to start in single
mode and unmundge it.

-Alan


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