Re: knfs server hosed in 2.1.127-pre3

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:26:28 -0800 (PST)

> > >
> > > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > >
> > > > Gents,
> > > >
> > > > As of pre-3, the symptoms are:
> > > >
> > > > - rpc.knfsd hangs for 3-5 minutes at startup.
> >
> > You might look for problems with gethostbyname.
>
> What does this have to do with the kernel? AFAIK, gethostbyname() is a
> C-library call, correct? I've not changed the runtime libs at all and, as
> I reported, reverting back to pre-2 fixes the problem. Now, I DO use NIS
> for name resolution, so is it possible something has hosed NIS operation?
>
> Hmm. I'll check that in isolation and get back to the list.
>

You can run it by hand and use strace to see what it is doing.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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