On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Allan 'Norm' Crain wrote:

> For some reason, whenever my SPARCstation ELC tried to do anything related to
> NetBSD's database functions (kvm_mkdb, dev_mkdb, pwd_mkdb, etc) it hangs and
> tells me that my NFS fileserver isn't responding.

It's possible that the NDBM routines are trying to apply an exclusive lock
on their data files.  Since the current NetBSD NFS server package lacks a
daemon to process file locking requests, your NFS client (which DOES have
locking routines) is calling out for help that it will never receive.

-J