INTEL SVR4 2.0 vt and nfs broblems

[Steve Pattinson]

In article <1991May22.133644.15672 at digiw.fi>, petri at digiw.fi (Petri Alhola) writes:
> I have been running INTEL SVR4 2.0 and havd few problems. Generaly the
.... stuff deleted

> 
> 1. I can't open new virtual terminals, newvt and X11 says "No vts available"
>    if i run vtlmgr and use <alt+ SysReq><fn> it just says beeb.
>    May be that the problem is in kernel konfiguration, waht i sould configure
>    in it. ??? .
> 
> 2. I can't mount filesystem from ISC UNIX 2.2
> 
> mount -f nfs digiw:/usr2 /usr2
> nfs mount: digiw:/usr2 server not responding: RPC: Authentication error; why = I
> nvalid client credential
> nfs mount: retrying: /usr2
> nfs mount: digiw:/usr2 server not responding: RPC: Authentication error; why = I
> nvalid client credential

I can't help you with problem number 1 Petri, but you second problem is familiar.

You probably have user "root" appearing in /etc/group >= 8 times. 9 in fact
I think is standard.  If you remove one or more occurances of user "root"
from this file so it appears no more than 8 times (I have 7), your fault will
probably go away.

If this seems like an unlikely fix, all I can say is I didn't believe 
it either :-)

Perhaps someone can explain why root has to appear in /etc/group anyway.  
After all, the root user does have superuser access, so why the need for
the group access list?

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