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

Matthew Macumber mmacumber at atlantaastronomy.org
Wed Aug 13 17:10:23 EDT 2003


I found this guide guide on setting up Qmail on Gentoo very helpfull.

http://www.skunkworx.org/guides/QmailOnGentoo.txt

-Matthew Macumber

On August 13, 2003 03:36 pm, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> 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
> > nathan at cybertechcafe.net
> > http://www.cybertechcafe.net
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