Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:13:55 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Barisani <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.4.2 command execution hangs and then succeded after 2 minutes....!? END! |
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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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