DHCP server won't start at boot; starts fine afterwards

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Tim Wunder (Lists) <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> Interesting problem that I'm not sure how to address:
> When I boot my Fedora 11 box, dhcpd fails to start (it tries, but
> instead of [OK] during bootup, the boot screen displays [FAILED].
>
> The interesting thing is that once the computer is booted, I can login
> as root and perform a 'service dhcpd start' and dhcpd starts right up
> with no error messages.
>

My guess would be sequencing. The NICs are slow to start. Something in
the hal-udev-etc. combination is running too early. Try putting a
delay in the dhcpd script.


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