system hangs on reboot when initialising eth0..help?

Hi,

When I reboot (/sbin/shutdown -r now) my i586 Linux box, it hangs (no
response from keyboard at all, num lock does nothing).

If I /sbin/shutdown -h then reset it, it works. It hangs on Setting up
network interfaces:
lo done
eth0 <hangs here>

The NIC for eth0 is a Realtek 8139C, static IP, connected onward to my
ADSL modem.

I found a pretty accurate description of the same problem from 2002, if
you do a Google Groups search for this message ID:
<atk49l$jvm$(E-Mail Removed)>

Can anyone offer any help towards this? Thanks :-)

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Steev

>
> When I reboot (/sbin/shutdown -r now) my i586 Linux box, it hangs (no
> response from keyboard at all, num lock does nothing).
>
> If I /sbin/shutdown -h then reset it, it works. It hangs on Setting up
> network interfaces:
> lo done
> eth0 <hangs here>

What do your logs show (/var/log/messages etc)?

In article <jukzc.17$0z6.14@fed1read07>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
| > When I reboot (/sbin/shutdown -r now) my i586 Linux box, it hangs (no
| > response from keyboard at all, num lock does nothing).
| >
| > If I /sbin/shutdown -h then reset it, it works. It hangs on Setting up
| > network interfaces:
| > lo done
| > eth0 <hangs here>
|
| What do your logs show (/var/log/messages etc)?

Jun 13 20:25:06 arthur init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jun 13 20:25:14 arthur su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root,
service su
Jun 13 20:25:16 arthur kdm[1785]: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe)
Jun 13 20:25:18 arthur xinetd[30225]: Exiting...
Jun 13 20:25:19 arthur smpppd[1623]: terminating on signal 15
Jun 13 20:25:20 arthur SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules unloaded.
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur sshd[8127]: Received signal 15; terminating.
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: shutting down
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: stopping command channel on
127.0.0.1#953
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: stopping command channel on ::1#953
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: no longer listening on ::#53
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: no longer listening on 192.168.1.2#
53
Jun 13 20:25:21 arthur named[20466]: no longer listening on 192.168.10.1
#53
Jun 13 20:25:22 arthur named[20464]: exiting
Jun 13 20:25:23 arthur nmbd[26103]: [2004/06/13 20:25:23, 0]
nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(59)
Jun 13 20:25:23 arthur nmbd[26103]: Got SIGTERM: going down...
Jun 13 20:25:26 arthur kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial deregistering
driver Generic
Jun 13 20:25:26 arthur kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver serial
Jun 13 20:25:26 arthur kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Jun 13 20:25:26 arthur kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Jun 13 20:25:27 arthur exiting on signal 15
Jun 13 20:39:26 arthur syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jun 13 20:39:30 arthur /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[758]: loaded HCD: usb-uhci

That's all that seems to be in /var/log/messages, the hang happens after
it stops logging and before it started again. What other files should I
look in? I'm relatively new to Linux. :-)

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Steve

Steven Davies wrote:

> If I /sbin/shutdown -h then reset it, it works.**It*hangs*on*Setting*up*
> network interfaces:
> ********lo********done
> ********eth0********<hangs here>
>
> The NIC for eth0 is a Realtek 8139C, static IP, connected onward to my
> ADSL modem.

.... and your ISP has issued you a static IP address, right?
..
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