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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: su hanging
Message-ID: <8007@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 89 19:11:27 GMT
References: <17684@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 17

In article <17684@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ricks@berkeley.edu writes:
> 
> Occasionally on my DECstation 3100 (actually far too frequently),
> running UWS 2.1, 'su' will hang in 'D' after taking the password.
> It will eventually come back (after many minutes) or as soon as I
> do another 'su'.  I also find that when I have 'su's behaving like
> this, certain other commands behave this way: xterm, mail, ...

Could it be a problem with NFS mounts in root directory or search
path that have to time out, or other NFS related diseases?



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