Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!grr 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? -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)