SUMMARY: login hanging

From: Paul Sinclair <Paul.Sinclair_at_TelesensKSCL.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:06:13 +0100

>Unable to login even as root on system after reboot.
> I can get in in single user mode but am incapable of discerning the
problem

>From our initial investigations when we had a session open and problems
were initially discovered. It was "login" that was hanging. Also any su or
rsh >was causing a problem. We have tried to disable the NIS setup and still
no better.

>Have raised a call to Compaq but I am desperate..

>Thanks in advance

>Paul Sinclair



Thanks to all who responded so soon..

We have resolved the issue ..
Was caused by corrupt NIS map files..

As we have the "+" convention at the bottom of our password file the login
process tried to look at our NIS maps and as the server bound to itself and
the maps were corrupt we had a login issue.

I have temporarily bound to another machine and this has let us boot up and
login. Will resolv the map corruption tommorrow (another day) as this is the
NIS Master


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