named won't start

[Kurt Boyack]

On 4/23/05, Lorenzo Thurman <lorenzo at thethurmans.com> wrote:
> I'm running Bind 9 on Gentoo Linux and just upgraded fron 9.2.2 to
> 9.2.5 and now named refuses to start. My log only shows two lines:
> Apr 23 09:02:55 [named] starting BIND 9.2.5 -u named -n 1
> Apr 23 09:02:55 [named] using 1 CPU
>=20
> I get no errors either in the logs or from the init script. I ran
> strace and here is the output. I hope someone can help me make sense of
> it. At some points, this line repeats a gazillion times:
>=20

Will named start if you run it from the command line? If so, then
there's probably something wrong with your startup script. Try turning
on named debugging rather than using strace. Try adding "-d 3" (or
some other number) to the named command line.