Doing 'su -' hangs on 5.7

[Kirsten]

Can anyone give me some clues as to why trying this command hangs? I can
switch to other user accounts on this box without problem. Box is
running as NIS master.

Cheers

[Horst Scheuermann]

I have the same construction, no hangs. Do You automount a dir for root
which You don't for other Users? Does LD_LIBRARY_PATH point to a
nfs-directory, which can not be mounted? What looks Your nsswitch.conf like?
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[Kirsten]

Thanks Horst for your response! The home directory for root is / but when I try
cd /home, this hangs. I know directories from another server are automounted to
/home and have tried restarting the automount daemon but keep getting the
message that /home cannot be umounted as its busy (doing fuser gives no info).

I can't do a setenv under root to see LD_LIBRARY_PATH and automount within
nsswitch.conf is set to look in files first then nis.

Really confused - why would su - root hang when its home dir is picked up
locally?

Thanks
Kirsten

[Horst Scheuermann]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kirsten wrote:

> Thanks Horst for your response! The home directory for root is / but when I try
> cd /home, this hangs. I know directories from another server are automounted to
> /home and have tried restarting the automount daemon but keep getting the
> message that /home cannot be umounted as its busy (doing fuser gives no info).
>
> I can't do a setenv under root to see LD_LIBRARY_PATH and automount within
> nsswitch.conf is set to look in files first then nis.
>

setenv is for csh not for /sbin/sh, try env

LD_LIBRARY_PATH has nothing to do with nsswitch.conf, it's the searchpath
for loadable libraries, if a directory, which's mount will hang is in this
list, any command will hang.

> Really confused - why would su - root hang when its home dir is picked up
> locally?
>

Can you get in at console? try to trace Your profiles (enter set -xv in
/etc/profile)

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