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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:13:47 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange diskless bahaviour since CVSupdate today
Message-ID:  <20010801141346.A46631@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108011322320.923-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:27:59PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108011322320.923-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:27:59PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> The terminals are all DURON based diskless systems, booting via PXE
> and isc-dhcp2. On of these termninals is my administration terminal -
> and this on differs only in one point from the others: it is mentioned
> separately in /etc/exports where I export the diskless filesystem due
> to the fact all the other terminals belong to a netgroup 'xterms'.

It might be worth checking the server log to see if mountd produced
any errors. Also, see what "showmount -e server.host.name" says.

> Luckily this one terminal boots perfectly and I can work, but all others
> boot kernel and the freeze at the point when on screen appears
> "additional TCP extensions", at this stage it should start XDM-chooser.

Try pressing Control-T on the terminal and see what program is running.
Also see what it is waiting on (That's the word in square brackets).

	David.

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