X hangs during NIS/NFS login

Hello,

We've setup NIS/NFS to automount our home directories, and provide 
centralized passwords. The entire system runs on RHEL v3, and works 
fine for text-only logins. However; when we login using the GUI, the 
password is accepted, and then the system hangs with the familiar 
x-shaped cursor. The "Red Hat" screen doesn't even appear.

I've tried mounting the directories manually, and the same happens, so 
I don't believe the automounter is at fault. I've tried a few 
combinations of NFS options, but am continuing to investigate more. 
However, if I copy the home directory to the local machine, everything 
loads fine.

I've poked through the XFree86 logs, but don't see anything too scary. 
I am; however, seeing messages of the form "lockd: Server XXX not 
responding, still trying". But I can see the files in both mounted 
directories.

Any other ideas? I am posting my results in bug #102402, which was 
initially opened for Red Hat 9, but the symptoms are nearly the same.

Thanks for any other ideas,

Norman

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Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790


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