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From: lray@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: hang at boot
Message-ID: <18300010@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 89 20:20:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!lray    Jun 28 15:20:00 1989


First off, forgive typos in this note. The vt100 emulator
that I'm using for vi does not work.

Long login after boot seems to be caused by a problem with
initializing some sort of cache. The system routine that hangs
is (if I recall correctly) name_$find_uid_lc.

Here is an easy way to demonstrate it:

boot your system on a ring that contains uncatalogued
diskless nodes. Immediately after logging in, do an
lcnode. The node will appear to hang.

It won't really hang, of course. After a while, the lcnode
will complete, and then future lcnodes will work
fine.

Or, if you wd/cd to something in the // directory immediately
after boot, you should see the same sort of hang.


					Leland Ray
					UIUC Civil Engineering
					(217) 333-3821