UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am an intern at a company with an HP visualize C160 running HP-UX B.10.20. It has stopped booting to the gui and, after some coaxing, will end up at a text-based menu screen but virtually nothing can be run from there.

At first the computer ran through it's boot process then stopped at this message:

Start NFS client subsystem...........................[ ]

It alternates between busy and wait then goes ot the following message

NFS server (pid1509@/net) not responding still trying systems

It never leaves this message until I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del which brings it to a text-based login and then to a text-based menu screen.

Once I login I receive the following message repeated at least 9 times:

Warning! One or more of your selected locales are not available. Plese invoke the commands "lovale" and "locale -a" to verify your selections and the available locales.
Continuing processing using the "C" locale.

I actually proceeded to run locale and this is the message it returned:
LANG=n-compuer
LC_CTYPE=”C”
LC_COLLATE=”C”
LC_MONETARY=”C”
LC_NUMERIC=”C”
LC_TIME=”C”
LC_MESSAGES=”C”
LC_ALL=


After going through all this, I went into SAM and disable the NFS client and rebooted. Upon reaching the checklist for booting, it passed the NFS client this time but failed on the following two:

Start NCS broker daemons.................[FAIL]
Starting HP Distributed Print Services...[FAIL]

It continues to boot and almost makes it to the GUI Desktop Login screen, but it never makes it the whole way and ends up returning me

Any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated since I and everyone at my company are completely clueless about how to proceed.

Thanks!

This is most likely a problem of a remaining automount. I had the problem on my own box and fixed it by booting into single user mode (*) and then uncomment the file /etc/auto_master.

(*)single user mode:

1. Interrupt the boot process when prompted.
2. Type boot pri isl at the prompt.
3. At the ISL> prompt:, type hpux -iS

thanks but does this site allow me to get past blockers

Thank you very much for your help, but I'm extremely unfamiliar with unix so I need a little more explantion

Do I type this after I login as a user? I do not receive a prompt until I login as a user, but I just want to make sure that does not affect booting into single user mode.

How do I do that?

This has nothing to do with Unix.

You don't even boot the OS. When you turn on the machine, you are asked to "Press any key within 10 seconds to interrupt the boot process". Do it, then you get the Open Firmware prompt where you can enter boot pri isl.

You do that when the system has booted in single user mode and you are logged on as root. You can use the editor vi.

Thank you again for your help, but I'm extremely unfamiliar with unix so what do I do once I load this editor vi and how do I even load the editor VI? You've told me to uncomment the file /etc/auto_master, but I honestly don't have a clue what that means.