On Oct 26, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > It settled down ... we moved buildings ... everything worked fine. > > then all hell broke loose our NIS+ decided not to work properly and > we had to reboot the 'temporary' server (5.11 snv_64a) and now the > locking has gone totally to pot. > > even our trusty old Solaris 8 boxes have great trouble opening > Firefox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice2 ... > > beforehand it used to be that they just took 'forever' to open > (20-30 mins), now they don't open at all, (or seem to take 2 to 3 > days ... according to one of our engineers who left his computer on > his desk alone and openoffice opened on his screen a couple of days > after he remembers touching it). > > if you can tell me what to type i'll be happy to type it.
A simple snoop between the client/server in question would be a starting point; say after the client has remounted the server or rebooted? If this is a file locking issue, there may be hostname issue along the way that has yet to be corrected. Spencer
