Ubuntu
sendmail package

Slow boot, stalls on "tarting Mail Transport Agent: sendmail."

Bug #76238 reported by scarolan
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Bug Description

I turned off the 'quiet' parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst to try narrow down the problem. The boot messages just fly by until it reaches "Starting Basic Networking" where it stalls for over a minute. This did not happen on Dapper, it only started popping up after I upgraded to Edgy. If you need extra logfile output, etc. let me know.

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Ben T (bentucci523) wrote :

I think this falls under upstart, though, I am not totally sure.

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scarolan (scarolan) wrote :

An upstart bug indeed!

If this bug is caused by the computer looking for a network connection at boot, is there a way to turn this off? I never establish a connection until AFTER I'm logged in, via Gnome Network Manager / wifi. I don't want my laptop trying to get online until I'm already logged in.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Nothing to do with upstart, just a bug in the ordinary networking bootup

Attach /var/log/boot

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Also attach /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/iftab

Changed in netbase:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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scarolan (scarolan) wrote :

Here's /var/log/boot

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scarolan (scarolan) wrote :

/etc/network/interfaces

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scarolan (scarolan) wrote : /etc/iftab

Ok, not to be paranoid but I'm changing the mac addresses to protect the innocent:

cat /etc/iftab
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.
# See iftab(5) for syntax.

eth0 mac 13:37:h4:xx:0r:00 arp 1
ath0 mac w0:0t:L0:LW:TF:BB arp 1

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scarolan (scarolan) wrote : Updated /var/log/boot

Ok, so I installed sasl2-bin and still am experiencing a delay of 60 seconds or so at boot time. Here is the updated /var/log/boot - it seems to be hanging up on sendmail.

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scarolan (scarolan) wrote : Problem solved - sendmail-bin was the culprit

Ok, so I dug a little deeper and found that there are two packages for sendmail, sendmail and sendmail-bin. I didn't realize that sendmail-bin was installed. After uninstalling it the boot proceeds as normal. Just curious though, why are there two packages?

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: Slow boot, stalls on "Starting Basic Networking"

According to your boot log; it's not stalling there at all, but at "Starting sendmail"!

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Tom Womack (tom-womack) wrote :

I have the stall on 'starting sendmail' too; there's a message about being unable to create a temporary file for a here document on a read-only filesystem.

I suspect some package installs sendmail, rather than 'some MTA', and the sendmail package isn't well-fitted to the ubuntu boot sequence.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for sendmail (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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