HPUX 11.23 stop booting

[JorgeH]

Hi, I have two hard disk with HPUX 11.23, the problem is that the boot process stop in Starting Mail Deamon. What is the cause for this problema and how I fix this.What is the problem the OS or the Hard Disk. Need help please.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

Is your bootsequence stops at sendmail there is something wrong with your networkconfig.

Boot in single user mode

Turn of send mail in

/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

Turn of NFS in

/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Reboot your server and check your networkconfig.
Is your network is OK then you can turn on the services again

[Chan 007]

Hi,
Pretty sure that it is not Harddisk problem...

Are you using sendmail,

if not stop that from /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs.
by booting the system in single user mode.

else boot the system in single user mode, and modify it time being in the mailservs file, manaull start once the server boots and debug, you will know what is the problem....

007

[S.Arunkumar]

Hi Jorge,


The better way to troubleshoot this is to boot the host in the single user mode and stop the Mail daemon.

Also do check the logs for why the daemon is failing during startup.

Regards
S.Arunkumar

[Emil Velez]

Many times this is due to hostname resolution.

try the following

nslookup `hostname`

see what comes back
does it come back properly.

Sendmail is sometimes a little particular and wants a fully qualified hostname. Example

156.153.205.209 r208s9

Make sure there is a fully qualified alias on the system

156.153.205.205 r208s9 r208s9.me.mydomain

That might do the trick..

Option 2 (always have a option 2)
if you do not use sendmail disable it in the
/etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs (I think this is the file)

and configure it to not start sendmail if you do not need that functionality

I hope this helps.. good luck

[Kent Ostby]

Jorge --

What you can do in this case is boot into single user mode with:

hpux -is

In the directory /etc/rc.config.d, you can turn off sendmail.

From single user mode, you can do an init 1 and see if that works . then init 2 then init 3 and try to step up through the various parts to see where the problem may lie.

hostname, networking, all of these are likely spots for the root cause (check /etc/hosts file as well).