thank you marvin,

i had to let it sit for about an hour and it finally made it through the
startup step

regards,

Chua

marvin wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:08:16 GMT, Robert Chua
><RobertChua@austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>>i have a system running hp-ux 11i and it hangs (busy / wait) on "Recover
>>editor crash files" during HP-UX start-up.
>>any body know how i can fix this ?
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Chua
>>
>>
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>We have this problem with 11.0 at times.
>I opened a case with HP and they could not figure out why this was
>happening.
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>You cant move the script that does this as there are some timing
>issues involed. ONe thing I did do was the start removing the Ex*
>files from /var/tmp. This seems to help some.
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>This is an issue that was introduced at some point after a patch was
>bundle was introduced.
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>I found that the system would eventually come back but it might take
>as long as 25-30 minutes. It has something to do with timing out
>waiting from some type of network service.
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