From: Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics (speakmaj@MSKCC.ORG)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2003 - 14:41:44 EDT
Further to the below (and thanks Charlie) it doesn't seem to be the all-users login script that was causing the problem - I went in via FTP and commented out the call to it. But it's obviously waiting for *something* from that service. I take it that this must be something that we've done local to here, that Unix doesn't always wait for all NFS services to be available before it logs you in, right?
Thanks
John
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From: Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
Sent: Sun 9/21/2003 2:00 PM
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
Cc: Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
Subject: login never gets to prompt, waiting for NFS3 service
Hi all
I don't know if any of you are around on a Sunday but I could use some help. Following from the issue I posted about on Friday (AdvFS strangeness on ASE, Unix 4.0E and ASE 1.5) I tried to move an in-a-strange-state ASE service from one host to the other. Of course the ASE move hung and now I can't login on either host, as root or any other user, via tty or X. Well, to be precise I can login but I never get to a shell prompt. Instead on each host I get the "NFS server xxx not responding still trying" and there it stays forever. The service in question contains the user home directories (on these systems it's "/usr/users") but I think root and other users are hanging because they are waiting for an all-users login script that's in that directory. But this is just a guess.
Any ideas how to get to a shell prompt, short of hitting the reset switch and hoping one of them will come back up?
Thanks
John
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