[lug] Hanging during initialization...

[John Starkey]

> I don't run Debian but I think this universal (Linux-wise) <Here are
> my questions:<Is there any way to keep the scripts in rc2.d from
> running?
> They are symlinks to /etc/rc.d/init.d -- you can delete them. Ofcourse
> you should check first. If not you can just move them out of the dir.
>
> <Can I force it into single user mode?  Will that help?
>
> At the lilo prompt type: linux 1
>  <Is there a way for me to re-mount the read-only filesystem so I can
> make the changes needed?
>
> init 1 should take care of that. Again, I'm RedHat, not Debian and I
> think the run-levels are different. init -s may be a better way to go.
> But I've never used it.
>  <Once I did get past this block, though, the next question would be
> "Why did xfs hang?"
>
> This is an on-going problem. I've had it myself and several other
> people on the list and elsewhere have. The only confirmed cause I've
> seen so far had something to do with name resolution.
>
> Could you drop the HTML from your email? Makes it hard to not be in
> the quote when you're typing. I think NN is considering anything
> between the body tags to be a quote, and obviously I'm typing between
> the body tags.
>
> John