HPUX 11 boot problems

[Aaron Weber_1]

Help?
I'm an experienced Solaris user, but a novice with HPUX. Running on a
workstation.

During boot, I'm getting some very long startup times for various services
(SNMP - which I don't want, NFS Client - I want but don't know what the holdup
is). Is there any key-sequence to skip the current service that's being
"init'ed"? How about a key-sequence to skip remaining and goto a login prompt?

Also, and maybe more important, after an inordinate amount of time, HPUX will
finish init'ing, and will try to start CDE login...this NEVER shows up. I
tried to set the default-run-level to 3 in initab, but it still is trying to
start the CDE login on the console! What am I missing? How do I get the
run-level 3 login prompt?

Finally, after all this booting, I can ping the workstation, but can not telnet
into it. In fact, no login prompt appears when trying to connect to the telnet
port. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[Wayne Guerin_1]

Hi Arron,

It sounds like you have a network misconfiguration. Possibly a DNS/name
resolution problem. To break out of the startup try hitting the "break" key,
or try "shift, control, pipe". One of those sequences should get you a login
prompt. Then run 'hostname' to see what the system thinks it's name it. Then
run 'nslookup' against the hostname. Then run 'nslookup' against the ip
address. They should all match, upper case, spaces, dashes, etc...

[Steve White_8]

I think that you have a networking problem on the machine. Log into the server
and and type lanscan ensure that you see a card in the state of up. Then type
ifconfig lan0 or whatever card is in the up state. Verify that you have the
problem IP/address and subnet mask. Run netstat -rn and ensure that you have
the appropriate default entry to allow it to route properly. Try pinging the
card itself by using the hostname.

If none of this works ensure that you have a driver for NIC card installed.
ioscan -f |more and ensure that the hardware address of your NIC is set to
CLAIMED.

[Randy Mather]

You can turn these services OFF if you are not using them,
/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and change the 1 to 0
for nfsserver and nfsclient.
Same for /etc/rc.config.d/SNMP*
change the 1 to 0

Also, you can't resolv the host name. Also is inetd
running ? (you can ping but not telnet)