system fails to boot after sendmail

[rakatar]

I hate been using my ethernet card for a while connected to my router.

Just today I needed to re-partition mt hard drive and re install fedora core-3 so I did.

I set up my ethernet connection as far as I remember the same way as before. I pinged bbc.co.uk to check it was all working fine (it was) then re booted as reccommended.

When starting up again, the sequence paused for a long time on "starting eth0", "starting NFS", "starting CUPS", then finally after a long pause on "starting sendmail"

kicks back to the screen that first loaded the kernel...

I know very little about network devices and have no idea what this problem is...

Anyone have any suggestions?

[scottmuz]

This problem has hit a lot of people.
See http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22763

The solution is to stop sendmail from running as a service.
Sendmail seems to have a bug relating to how it reads /etc/hosts.

Normally of you wait for a few minutes the system starts.
Once you're in then do (as root):
chkconfig sendmail off

[rakatar]

thanks alot.
I had to re install fedora because it just wouldnt start.

turned off sendmail now. doesnt seem to have any problems which is nice.
Wierd that it never happened all the time I was using it the same way for the last month :confused: