Running local boot scripts

Try to hit ctrl-c.
Does it continue to login?

If it does, you can post the output of the following commands:

'sudo ls -lh /etc/rc.local'
'sudo cat /etc/rc.local'

That would be helpfull to understand why it's just hanging there.

- Frode

Thank you for the response!

Yes, it does move on to the login prompt at cntrl-c (or even, I have learned, if I hit the return key). So if I enter the command 'uname -r' I see I am in the xen kernel '2.6.17-6-generic-xen0'.
The output of 'sudo ls -lh /etc/rc.local' is:
'-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 306 2006-11-25 20:50 /etc/rc.local'
With 'cat /etc/rc.local' I see why nothing happens... the script basically states "This script is executed at the end of each mutliuser runlevel. Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other value on error. In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution bits. By default this script does nothing."

I also seem to have a new problem. When I boot to the Xen kernel, I loose my network connectivity.

User confirmed that the request is solved.

Is this actually resolved? It seems that all that is happening is that Frode is simply exiting a process. I have the same issue at the moment. first time I booted in after a clean install I arrived with no Apache installed. I then reinstalled it, waited a little longer and fortunately had it installed. but how do I know there is nothing else broken? I too can ssh in etc and even exit a process. but i'm not confident that my ubuntu 7.04 server is fully functioning.

I change in /etc/event.d/tty1 xvc0 to tty1 and promt on boot console is OK.