System hangs on boot at "Starting sound driver"
HI all! First of all I want to say that I am a newbie to Linux. I installed SuSE on my old Pentium II running at 233mhz with 128 mb ram. I use it as a little personal web server on my adsl internet connection. It also has IMAP running and gets my mail via fetchmail. It has been running without any problems whatsoever for months. Properly 2 months since I last rebooted it. Anyway, this morning I had a problem. I could not get into my mail (which is kept on the server via IMAP - I access it via, ehhhh, Outlook Express - embarrassing.) I logged on to my server via webmin but couldn't see what the problem was, so I decided to reboot the server. Now the server just stops at reboot. The last message on the screen is "Starting sound driver" and that is it. It just doesn't continue from there. Starting via failsafe does exactly the same. Any ideas? I can access the server via webmin but can't do much. Apache won't start, but sendmail will. SuSE 8.0 is installed via FTP download. Please send some suggestions/ideas. Hi from Denmark! Dan Eskildsen
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:52:06 +0200 Dan Eskildsen <dan@eskildsen.info> wrote:
HI all! First of all I want to say that I am a newbie to Linux. I installed SuSE on my old Pentium II running at 233mhz with 128 mb ram. I use it as a little personal web server on my adsl internet connection. It also has IMAP running and gets my mail via fetchmail.
It has been running without any problems whatsoever for months. Properly 2 months since I last rebooted it.
Anyway, this morning I had a problem. I could not get into my mail (which is kept on the server via IMAP - I access it via, ehhhh, Outlook Express - embarrassing.) I logged on to my server via webmin but couldn't see what the problem was, so I decided to reboot the server.
Now the server just stops at reboot. The last message on the screen is "Starting sound driver" and that is it. It just doesn't continue from there. Starting via failsafe does exactly the same. Any ideas?
My approach? Well you probably don't need a sound server on a web server, so boot up anyway you can and go to yast2->system->run-level-editor-> run level properties and stop alsasound from starting anywhere, even at boot. If neccessary, rename /etc/init.d/alsasound to alsasound.bak. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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