Bug 154602

Summary: if you configure postfix as "No connection", system *cannot complete booting*
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: suse-beta
Version: Beta 5   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jon Nelson 2006-03-02 04:48:57 UTC 
if you configure postfix as "No connection", system *cannot complete booting* because it stops with the postfix init script which enters a (seeming) infinite loop.
Comment 1 Martin Lasarsch 2006-03-02 13:25:01 UTC 
could you please explain what you exactly changed?
Comment 2 Jon Nelson 2006-03-02 15:17:39 UTC 
During setup/install, I set postfix up with "No connection" (the other chocies being "Permanent" and "Dial up") and went on. After reboot, I notice that when it enters runlevel 3, it hangs on starting postfix.  I switched to another VT and found that the postfix init script had issued a 'sleep' (pstree rocks).  I checked the postfix init script and searched for 'sleep', and found this:

        # waiting for qmgr
        while [ -z "$(pidof qmgr)" -a $i -gt 0 ]; do
            i=$(( $i - 1 ))
            sleep 1
        done

in the 'start' section.  Obviously, this won't ever succeed and one ends up with a system that will NOT complete booting.

I changed the configuration via yast and rebooted and it's all fine now, but it was pretty annoying, and a less technical user would be completely stumped.
Comment 3 Martin Lasarsch 2006-03-02 15:41:10 UTC 
i tried this with beta6 and it works for me. Please try with beta6 if possible (and when its released).

reopen when it's still not working for you.