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From: schnable@cbnewsc.att.com (andrew.schnable)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX Start-up problems
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.214132.29173@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 8 Sep 90 21:41:32 GMT
References: <119357@linus.mitre.org>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <119357@linus.mitre.org>, by cws@mbunix.mitre.org (Christopher C. Wilder-Smith):
> I go through the installation procedures, login as root, add a root
> password, etc.  This works fine and I get into the A/UX system.  After I
> logout and try to log in again, I'll get the login prompt, enter root and
> the password and the system will sit for about 2 minutes.  There i ssome

I too have experinced this, and have seen references to it by someone else
on the net.  I reported this to Apple in the first 30 days of free 
telephone "help" (I use the term loosely).  They never got back to me 
with a fix.  I have found that hitting the return key a few times will usually
get you logged in (and paint the top of the screen with trash.) Someone 
else suggested typing command ".".  Have you hacked any .profiles to do 
any prompting? Someone suggested it might be hung waiting for you to type
something, but you never saw the propmt.

a.schnable@att.com