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From: zack@magus.UUCP (Zacharias_Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Workspace Error (when root logs in)
Message-ID: <203@magus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 16:05:11 GMT
References: <3454@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> <1706@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Organization: Boss Logic Inc., San Francisco
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In article <1706@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <3454@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>
>	aquesada@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Antonio Quesada Duarte) writes:
>>Workspace Error
>>Internal Error (signal 10) ocurred.
>
>>This problem only appears when i login as root.
>>Does anybody en netland knows what the problem may be?
>
>I've seen this happen on NetBoot clients where the server's
>/etc/exports file didn't permit root= access.  Note that
>adding root= access may not be advisable for security
>reasons.

This is a problem that we had on our system for a while.  There seems to be a
bug in the 2.1 Workspace.  Ultimately, we found that changing links such as
this:

	ln -s /Net/magus/LocalLibrary /LocalLibrary

To this:

	ln -s /private/Net/magus/LocalLibrary /LocalLibrary

Helped the situation immeasurably.  There are still a few strange things going
on though -- for instance, it sometimes takes a few minutes for the login
panel to appear after a boot.  I have reported this to bug_next@next.com, and
with any luck they are working on it...

-- 
Zacharias J. Beckman  |  To be "matter of fact" about the world is to
Lower Code Dweller    |  blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that,
Boss Logic Inc.       |  as the real world is strange and wonderful.
zack@bosslogic.com    |  --- Lazarus Long, by R. A. Heinlen