Won't boot up

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
> We had some severe weather here in Baltimore, which lasted
> about 5 minutes, but it was wild. After the power failure
> was fixed (about 24 hours), I restarted my gateway box
> on my home computer network, my aging caldera 2.4 system.
> It booted, but the cable service was down, and so it
> couldn't configure itself properly against the comcast
> servers. The firewall wouldn't configure itself without
> an assigned IP. Prior to this failure, this box had been
> up for about 2 months without a problem.
>
> Well, the cable service is back on line. I was going to
> restart the network services but low and behold, this box
> was frozen, and had froze up about 8 hours after being
> rebooted following the power failure. I can reboot this box,
> but the booting stops when the "starting inetd services"
> line appears. After that, nada.
>
> Now, of interest, this box is able to function as
> a gateway/router for my other computers on my home
> network, so the other users are happy, even though the
> booting process is incomplete (I cannot telnet into it,
> for example).

that's cause telnet is usually a inetd service.  what about ssh (which you
should be using in the first place)?

What if you remove inetd from the bootup sequence?

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