On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Andrea Barisani wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
> > Could you use strace and check what the apps are doing during these 2
> > minutes?
> >
> > Perhaps it's a variation of the nis hang:
> > 2.4 doesn't forword udp error messages to the user space app, and thus a
> > nis query to a nonexistant nis server blocks until the udp packets time
> > out.
> >
Ok!
I've removed all nis reference in /etc/nsswitch.conf and now there are no
more hangs...I have to admit, learning that thew execution process of tar
is somehow related to nis,portmap is a little weird :) (but that's part of
the fun isn't it?).
Thanks again for the help
Bye
P.S.
Does anyone think that this kind of problem must be documentated in
the kernel documentation?
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