On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Andrea Barisani wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> > Could you use strace and check what the apps are doing during these 2
> > minutes?
> > 
> > Perhaps it's a variation of the nis hang:
> > 2.4 doesn't forword udp error messages to the user space app, and thus a
> > nis query to a nonexistant nis server blocks until the udp packets time
> > out.
> > 

Ok!

I've removed all nis reference in /etc/nsswitch.conf and now there are no
more hangs...I have to admit, learning that thew execution process of tar
is somehow related to nis,portmap is a little weird :) (but that's part of
the fun isn't it?).

Thanks again for the help

Bye

P.S. 
Does anyone think that this kind of problem must be documentated in
the kernel documentation?

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