F12 hang on boot

[Peter Glassenbury (CSSE)]

I have just done a 'yum update' to get the latest rawhide..
then a reboot....

Had a hang for about 10 minutes. Came back to life as I
was typing this :-)

Only diagnostic messages listed...
=======
Welcome to Fedora
Press 'I' .... < Which nobody seems to be able to do :-| )
...
mdadm: no arrarys found in config file or automatically
...
iptables: Applying firewall rules:    (Interesting..firewall is off)
..
Starting rpcbind          OK
Starting system message bus:    <- Hanging . timeout and continue
                                    after 10 minutes..
=======
I couldn't get into any alternative login. Ping to hostname gave
no answer... but after the timeout I could see the /var/log/messages

It appears that It was trying to get to our ldap servers
ldap://ldapserver.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (a FQDN not an IP number)
and couldn't find it.
After a very long couple of timeouts trying,
the dbus-daemon gave up, so did automount and rpc.statd
with the same reason (no ldap server)

THEN Network manager seems to be next... and it starts the
network to allow all the above to work...

Is something in the wrong order?
Do I have to configure things differently? with IP's instead of
FQDN


Cheers
Pete
(experienced with fedora installs, Still trying to work out
which fedora feedback place I should be sending mail/problems)

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