[SUMMARY]: login never gets to prompt, waiting for NFS3 service

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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:40:47 -0400
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

Thanks Chris and others; this must be because we had references to an
NFS service in /etc/profile or a user's individual .profile. Bad idea.

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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