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ninjaaron

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Registered: 2010-12-10

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[SOLVED] Network daemon boots slowly...

I did a search and saw some other threads about this, but I didn't see how they related to my problem, so I'm posting.  My overall boot-time is relatively quick, but the process hangs for about 10 or 12 seconds on the network boot.

It's a netbook, and the only network interface is wlan0 (besides lo, of course).  When I configured the machine at install, I only made a profile for wlan0.  I don't know if the process is slowing down because it's looking for an ethernet interface or what.  It's not connecting, which I would expect to take some time, it's just starting the service.

Is network supposed to take a while to load, or ought I configure something?

Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-08-14 06:43:24)

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Network daemon boots slowly...

Any chance you are hanging up on something that requires the network be up?  Cups? NTP? Avahi? Samba?

If so, you can background them by prefixing their entries in your DAEMONS array with an @

Can you post the output of grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf  ??

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ninjaaron

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Re: [SOLVED] Network daemon boots slowly...

It's a fresh install, so there isn't much there yet,  just this:

DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network netfs crond)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Network daemon boots slowly...

What if you background netfs ?
Did you set your hostname in /etc/rc.conf ?
Did you add your host to the /etc/hosts file ?

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ninjaaron

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Registered: 2010-12-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Network daemon boots slowly...

1. Didn't work
2. I did
3. I did

Though backgrounding netfs didn't work, it gave me an idea. I backgrounded network.  Worked. Boot to console is down to about twelve seconds now.  Course, this doesn't mean that network isn't loading slowly, it just means it's not getting in my way.  Thanks. thread solved, kinda.

Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-08-14 06:46:01)