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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0-RELEASE Disk Wait Hang?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 07:44:54 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <3qmfhm$9h8@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
References: <3qj3nc$b07@sundog.tiac.net>
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In article <3qj3nc$b07@sundog.tiac.net>, Pete Davis <pete@millenium.tiac.net> wrote:
>
>The machine allowed you to telnet and then after you entered your username
>and password just sat there. You could see syslog messages and stuff but the
>shell would put itself into Disk Wait mode and not work. All the drives
>appeared to be functioning. The machine had to be rebooted to work properly
>again.
An obvious question, but somebody has to ask... are any of your
filesystems (i.e., home directories) NFS-mounted?
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org