Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info
On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:53 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Hmm. Weird. I dimly remember that tcpwrappers did something
> similar: to check the host name they sometimes tried a
> reverse host lookup, which took its time when it failed.
I've never seen or heard of anything like this -- the kernel complaining of the wrong #defines in the source code? That, to me, is massively broken. Anyway, it's all OK now; it got a new Jessie this afternoon :-)
> But perhaps I'm up the wrong alley.
Probably. I claim there were just too many wrong alleys. And certainly not worth the time to try to fix it.
> Hmmm. Sorry to be so unspecific.
No prob. Everybody's happy now. I just have some data to copy over from the old disk. At least it wasn't the hardware...
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Glenn English
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