Won't boot up

[Joel Hammer]

> What if you remove inetd from the bootup sequence?

I tried that, and then the bootup sequence stalled at portmap.

So, I figured it must be some service starting downstream
hanging things up.

So, I booted up with knoppix, and using sed, put an: echo
Starting (filename) in each file in init.d (including
functions, very stupid).

Turns out that the ntpd daemon was stalling, and on a
command I added to the startup file:
     rdate -s time-b.nist.gov
This command just hangs.

So, I commented this thing out, and it boots up.

This booted up fine two months ago, so, maybe something
changed at the time server.

Well, everything seems to be working fine, now.

This sounds easy writing about it, but it took me over
two hours. Going down blind alleys really takes up time.

Joel