Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:29:58 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: YP/NIS timeout. Message-ID: <20030102022957.GD24622@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030101204709.GD37371@lewiz.org> References: <20021229230257.GA18301@lewiz.org> <20021230022520.GA30400@dan.emsphone.com> <20030101204709.GD37371@lewiz.org>
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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
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