From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 18:30:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3F037B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D17143EB2 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h022TxfL099134; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:29:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:29:58 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: lewiz , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: YP/NIS timeout. Message-ID: <20030102022957.GD24622@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021229230257.GA18301@lewiz.org> <20021230022520.GA30400@dan.emsphone.com> <20030101204709.GD37371@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030101204709.GD37371@lewiz.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: > At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get > nothing for a while until: > > yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > > This message gets repeated a few times but I can do pretty much > nothing with my machine. > > Even as I log in as a local user (say root) I get past entering my > password, at which point I get the same message. I can't understand > why this happens. > Update here: I've just sat and watched it a bit longer. I only get > one repetition of this message with root, after which it allows me to > login as per usual. Still, this seems odd because root has nothing > to do with the YP/NIS configuration, does it? Hit ^T during the pause and find out what program is hanging. You probably have a command in your shell's startup script that is trying to resolve an NIS username. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message