NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Troubleshooting NFS Services
Common Problems with NIS+
Chapter 8326
If a Replica Update Fails
❏ The master server might be busy, or another replica might be
performing an update. The update is usually rescheduled
automatically and retried later.
❏ The server might be out of child processes to allocate. See “If You
Receive an “Unable to Fork” Message” on page 322.
❏ A read-only process might have been requested to dump.
Usually, problems with replica updates solve themselves. Check the
system log on the replica server and the master server for more
information.
If You Receive an “Illegal Object Type” Message
❏ You may have attempted to create a table with no searchable
columns. See “To Create an NIS+ Table” on page 254.
❏ A database operation may have returned the error code
DB_BADOBJECT. Type man 3N nis_db for a list of error codes and
their meanings.
❏ You may have tried to add or modify an object with a length of zero.
❏ You may have tried to perform an NIS+ directory operation on an
object that was not a directory.
❏ You may have tried to link an NIS+ directory to a LINK object.
❏ You may have specified an NIS+ object that was not a group in the
nisgrpadm command or in another NIS+ group operation.
❏ You may have tried to perform an NIS+ table operation on an object
that was not a table.