Re: Boot hangs on "Setting default IPv4 interface"

From: Michael Tosch (eedmit_at_NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se)
Date: 12/05/03 

Date: 5 Dec 2003 19:18:30 GMT

In article <3fd0d23a$1_2@newspeer2.tds.net>, Scott Fordin <sfordin@ohelp.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> We had not one but two power outages last night, during which
> my Ultra 10 went down. Now, when I try to power it up, the boot
> process hangs at the stage after it says "Setting default IPv4
> interface for multicast." I've tried powering off again,
> disconnecting the network and power cables, and then letting
> the box sit for several minutes before reconnecting the cables
> and attempting another boot.
>
> My box is an Ultra 10 running SunOS 5.8. Everything seems to
> initialize correctly, until it gets to the point where it says
> "WARNING: asppd has bee superseded; see pppd(1m). After that,
> I get two "NIS domainname is <domainname>" messages, both of
> which state the same domain name. Then the rpc services seem to
> start fine: "starting rpc services: rpcbind keyserv done." Next
> the netmask for hme0 is set correctly. Then the "Setting default
> IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway <hostname>"
> message comes, after which the system hangs.
>
> Any clues about how to fix this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott
>

Likely there is no contact with the NIS server:
no network connection, or wrong network (NIS server unreachable).
Try to ping the machine from another machine (preferable from the
NIS server). 

-- 
Michael Tosch
IT Specialist
HP Managed Services Germany
Phone +49 2407 575 313

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