[ale] gpm hangs under redhat...

[lfs at eskimo.com (Andrew Newton)]

I can't speak for 4.2, but I did see this problem under 4.0.
It turned out that it had nothing to do with gpm and a lot
to do with sendmail which was getting started right after it.
Sendmail was trying to verify its host name with an unreachable
DNS or something like that.  I can't remember the exact answer,
but if you think this sounds like it, then check your sendmail
configuration and perhaps your resolv.conf.  You'll know this
is the problem if you let it sit there awhile and then sendmail
finally times out and your boot process continues.

David Ritchie wrote:
> 
> To all,
>   I was installing Redhat 4.2 on a AMD 5x86-133 clone motherboard - and after
> installation, the boot process hangs at gpm - has anyone seen this before?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave Ritchie
> der at atl.hp.com

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