Re: YP/NIS timeout.
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:29:58PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get nothing for a while until: yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out Hit ^T during the pause and find out what program is hanging. You probably have a command in your shell's startup script that is trying to resolve an NIS username. ^T shows: load: 1.28 cmd: login 45573 [nanslp] 0.00u 0.04s 0% 1016k I couldn't find anything about nanslp (locate shows nothing but I eventually tracked it down to sys/kern/kern_time.c, where it shows up: sys/kern/kern_time.c: error = tsleep(nanowait, PWAIT | PCATCH, nanslp, Hence, it has something to do with the nanosleep(2) syscall. Other than this, I don't know what it's doing. Maybe you are correct that the shell is trying to do some stuff but I could find nothing like this in /etc/profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login or any of the user's personal copies. -lewiz. -- If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg14154/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: YP/NIS timeout.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:25:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 29), lewiz said: I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is unavailable) but this seems impossible. Any ideas on this matter? Make sure the local user is above the + in your passwd file and you should be okay. Define unable to login. Do you simply get login incorrect for all attempts, or are you able to log in but something else happens? At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get nothing for a while until: yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out This message gets repeated a few times but I can do pretty much nothing with my machine. Even as I log in as a local user (say root) I get past entering my password, at which point I get the same message. I can't understand why this happens. Update here: I've just sat and watched it a bit longer. I only get one repetition of this message with root, after which it allows me to login as per usual. Still, this seems odd because root has nothing to do with the YP/NIS configuration, does it? You might want to consider setting up a couple NIS slave servers if your master is unreliable. I agree :) I'm trying to do this with a laptop though. I want it so if I disconnect from my network that I can just log in as an alternate user (in my case I have lewiz2 setup, which is essentially a local mirror of the YP/NIS user lewiz). This way I can use a synchronization tool (unison and rsync) to ensure both accounts are up-to-date when I return. Many thanks for your reply. Happy New Year, -lewiz. -- As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13918/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: YP/NIS timeout.
In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get nothing for a while until: yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out This message gets repeated a few times but I can do pretty much nothing with my machine. Even as I log in as a local user (say root) I get past entering my password, at which point I get the same message. I can't understand why this happens. Update here: I've just sat and watched it a bit longer. I only get one repetition of this message with root, after which it allows me to login as per usual. Still, this seems odd because root has nothing to do with the YP/NIS configuration, does it? Hit ^T during the pause and find out what program is hanging. You probably have a command in your shell's startup script that is trying to resolve an NIS username. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
YP/NIS timeout.
Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is unavailable) but this seems impossible. Any ideas on this matter? -lewiz. -- The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. -- Bill Gates --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg13625/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: YP/NIS timeout.
In the last episode (Dec 29), lewiz said: I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is unavailable) but this seems impossible. Any ideas on this matter? Make sure the local user is above the + in your passwd file and you should be okay. Define unable to login. Do you simply get login incorrect for all attempts, or are you able to log in but something else happens? You might want to consider setting up a couple NIS slave servers if your master is unreliable. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
