[wplug] Debian reboot hangs after "Deconfiguring network interfaces"

[John Harrold]

Sometime in January Eric C. Cooper assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| The networking script in /etc/init.d does "ifdown -a" right after
| printing that message, so it may be hanging trying to bring down some
| network interface.  Do you have anything unusual in your
| /etc/network/interfaces setup?
| 
| Try adding a "-v" argument to the "ifdown -a" command (line 85 in my
| version), and run the reboot command from the console, so you can see
| all the output.

Ok perhaps I should have waited 15 minutes instead of 5. It seems to be
rebooting properly now. Having the computer in another room and forgetting
about it gives one patience.

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------- 
                            | /"\                         
 john harrold               | \ / ASCII ribbon campaign   
 jmh at member.fsf.org      |  X  against HTML mail       
 the most useful idiot      | / \                         
----------------------------------------------------------
 What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, 
 and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought 
 under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of 
 liberty and democracy?
 --Gandhi
----------------------------------------------------------
  gpg --keyserver keys.indymedia.org --recv-key F65A739E
----------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://penguin.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/attachments/20050120/5501bd33/attachment.bin