home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!torn!skule.ecf!drill.me!ie.utoronto.ca!andy
- From: andy@ie.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun)
- Subject: trouble with 9000/720 console login w/ home dir. on an NFS partition
- Message-ID: <BttAL0.5G5@ie.utoronto.ca>
- Summary: console login fails on an 9000/720 if home dir. is on an NFS partition
- Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:39:00 GMT
- Lines: 32
-
- Hi Everyone,
-
- I have experienced this weird problem with our HP 9000/720 that I can neither
- explain nor solve:
-
- We have a 9000/720 which is mounting a shared partition, via NFS, from
- another 720. The problem is all users who have home directories on this
- NFS partition cannot login to HP VUE, neither from console nor from a 700/RX
- X terminal. However, the No-Window mode login, as well as rlogin and telnet,
- all work fine. Accounts which are on the local disk do not have this problem.
-
- I tried starting X11R4 instead of HP VUE and see if it works. Aftering
- logging on console using no-window login, I fired up x11start. The root
- window came up okay, and I could open xclock, etc., but when I tried to
- open a new window, an hpterm started up with a blank window, stayed there
- for 2 seconds, and exited automatically.
-
- I traced the processes using lastcomm and found that with HP VUE, after
- it passed vuegreet, it tried to execute something using csh and then
- it will run Xreset and terminate the session automatically.
-
- Does anyone know what is wrong? It looked like during the startup of VUE,
- some commands need to be executed by root, but root on the local machine
- doesn't have superuser access on an NFS partition and therefore it's failing.
- Any help or comment will be greatly appreciated.
-
- Andy
- --
- Andy Sun (andy@ie.utoronto.ca) 4 Taddle Creek Road, Toronto
- Computing Coordinator Ontario, Canada. M5S 1A4
- Department of Industrial Engineering Phone: (416) 978-2920
- University of Toronto Fax: (416) 978-3453
-