fiesty: 'hang' during boot (firmware loading or after)

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:21:28 +0200
Lars Hallberg <lah at micropp.se> wrote:

> Thanks, the error messages is gone :-) ... But the 'hang' is still there 
> :-(, probably unrelated to wifi... Now it 'hang' directly after:
> 
>    * Activating swapfile swap...        [OK]
> /etc/rsS.d/S40ifrename: 19: /sbin/ifrename not found
>    * Configurating network interfaces...

This is probably 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/102675

which relates to recent updates inserting extra interface lines
in /etc/network/interfaces . Removing/commenting those lines and leaving
only the "lo" loopback interface lines seems to work around  this for many
people. 

Peter