Mysterious freeze while booting

[Andreas Davour]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote:

> When booting the console displays the usual messages like below:
>
> 1> Starting local daemons:.
> 2> Updating motd.
> 3> Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime.
>
> What is strange is that after line 3 the computer suddenly stops for a
> long time, almost a minute, doing (as far as I know) nothing!
>
> Add your system hostname to /etc/hosts. Alternatively ensure that DNS
> resolves properly on your box. If you just want to skip the whole thing,
> then press Ctrl+C when the box hangs up.... or seems to hang up.

I have added my hostname, and it didn't change anything. Maybe my DNS 
name is something else than what I think. I'll look into it.

Why would adding the hostname work? What is it that's fooling around 
with my hostname at this point in the boot process?

/andreas

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