Any unix gurus out there? I have a problem.

[Inteless]

Ok here's on for ya. We have an old (I mean very old)
Sun Workstation running unix 4.1. At boot up this machine
tries to connect to a remote system, which is no longer
on-line. The local machine is "bernie6", the remote system is
"appls1". It hangs on boot up with this message:

mount: appls1:/bernie6 server not responding: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
mount: retrying /appls1

How do I get around this? This machine was running fine two days ago,
until appls1 died.

Thanks in advance.

Inteless

 

[Brian07]

Hmm... You should just be able to remove the entry from /etc/vfstab, but since you can't boot the box that makes it kinda hard. Let me do some research, even thought I'm certainly not a Unix guru....

 

[StuckMojo]

boot into single user mode and remove the offending mount entry
don't recall how to get to single user mode in SunOS tho (probably something along the lines of "init s" or "init 1&quot😉
you could also try hitting ctrl-C while its hung, on many systems, this will kill whaterver command it is trying to do, and it will continue on to the next

 

[Inteless]

<< boot into single user mode and remove the offending mount entry
don't recall how to get to single user mode in SunOS tho (probably something along the lines of &quot;init s&quot; or &quot;init 1&quot😉
you could also try hitting ctrl-C while its hung, on many systems, this will kill whaterver command it is trying to do, and it will continue on to the next >>




It worked! Ctrl-C worked! I'm booted up. Thank you.

Inteless

 

[StuckMojo]

sweet 🙂
that doesnt work in linux (redhat anyway), but it did in my old DigitalUNIX box.

glad to help.