su hanging

[George Robbins]

In article <17684 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ricks at berkeley.edu writes:
> 
> Occasionally on my DECstation 3100 (actually far too frequently),
> running UWS 2.1, 'su' will hang in 'D' after taking the password.
> It will eventually come back (after many minutes) or as soon as I
> do another 'su'.  I also find that when I have 'su's behaving like
> this, certain other commands behave this way: xterm, mail, ...

Could it be a problem with NFS mounts in root directory or search
path that have to time out, or other NFS related diseases?



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