Re: AIX 4.3 Hang Issue on Power-Up

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Date: 24 Oct 2003 15:06:14 -0700

Dave Weir <daveweir_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3F9969E0.80507@yahoo.com>...
> Hey all,
>
> I am experiencing quite an odd scenario where an AIX RS/6K machine
> (running AIX 4.3) does not properly come up after a power-cycle. The
> system seems to come up fine (i.e. the normal boot sequence occurs
> without a reported error), and I get the user login console, but after a
> few minutes the system just locks up.
>
> I have tried dropping the system to single-user mode, but after a while
> (again, on the order of minutes), it locks up.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has experienced something like this before. If
> so, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

Dave,

I have seen this issue before from 2 different problems that I have come
across:

1. If you have a NFS mount that is not available anymore.
2. If one of your DNS servers that you configured is not
available anymore.

Resolution:
1. Try to change the mount = true to false. So, that it does not try to
mount at startup.
2. Remove the DNS address that is not available anymore from
    /etc/resolv.conf or create and/or change the /etc/netsvc.conf
    to have this line only(if you use DNS):
    hosts=local,bind

Hope this helps.

--flossy

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