[ale] I appear to have somehow hosed up my Gentoo install

Nathan J. Underwood lists at cybertechcafe.net
Wed Aug 13 15:36:27 EDT 2003


Hmmm, disregard.  I booted back, with my CD, and set qmail not to start, and it
booted.  Back to the drawing board.

Nathan

Quoting "Nathan J. Underwood" <lists at cybertechcafe.net>:

> Everyone,
> 
>      Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later.  I got Gentoo up and
> running,
> got qmail installed (emerge -v net-mail/qmail), qmail-scanner installed
> (emerge
> -v net-mail/qmail-scanner), and spamassassin installed (emerge -v
> dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin).  I set qmail to startup automagically, set
> clamav
> (came with qmail) to startup automagically, and set SpamAssassin to startup
> automagically.  Then I rebooted.  Now, when I reboot, it hangs, with the
> following information on the screen:
> 
> * Starting metalog...
> * Mounting network filesystems...
> * Starting vcron...
> * Starting local...
> 
>      I booted back up with my boot cd, and looked around (really the only
> places
> that I know to look were /etc/fstab [in case I screwed something up in there
> with etc-update], and /boot/grub/grub.conf [same thing]), but I didn't find
> anything out of the ordinary.  Any suggestions on where I could look next?
> 
> -- 
> Nathan J. Underwood
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