No Unix Prompt Returned

[Jim Lewis_8]

If I login to any of my nfs mounted servers, I will not get a unix prompt unless I'm logging in as "Super User" (root). It worked Friday, and Monday I cannot login. Any help would be appreciated. Servers are B180L running HP-UX 10.20.
Thank you.

[mooi-kuan]

I had the same problem last week. I have no idea why.

I was able to solve the problem by removing the nfs mount from both the server and client and re-mount the nfs back again.

[Saurabh Kapoor]

Check the shell in /etc/passwd file.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

You can see .profile of users.

[Kenneth Platz · Accepted solution]

Jim,

I've seen this problem occur mainly with the Korn Shell and NFS-mounted home directories. This usually occurs because of stale NFS locks against the shell's history file.

The easiest way to work around this is to add the following line to your $HOME/.profile:

export HISTFILE=/var/tmp/.hist-$LOGNAME

This will redirect your shell history file to a local directory which does not share the NFS locking problems. You may also wish to install a recent version of the Korn Shell and NFS patches (on both your client and your NFS server).

I hope this helps.