Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux
Situation
novell-nss fails to start because vlrpc fails to start
"ERROR: Failed starting vlrpc"
"ERROR: vlrpc terminated prematurely"
"ERROR: vlrpc terminated prematurely"
Resolution
Make sure the /var/novell/dfs directory exists, so the vlrpc process can create vlrpc in that directory.