Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:42:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:42:34 -0400 Received: from juicer03.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.79]:64708 "EHLO mailin6.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:42:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:42:41 +1000 From: Brett To: Manuel McLure cc: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher In-Reply-To: <20010422192520.A3618@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Manuel McLure wrote: > > > On 2001.04.22 14:38 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > > > > > I'm having a problem with "su -" on ac11/ac12. ac5 doesn't show the > > > problem. > > > The problem is easy to reproduce - go to a console, log in as root, do > > an > > > "su -" (this will succeed) and then another "su -". The second "su -" > > > should hang - ps shows it started bash and that the bash process is > > > sleeping. You need to "kill -9" the bash to get your prompt back. > > No problem here either... Tried nesting 7 levels deep, a few times. p75 # uname -a Linux lapsis 2.4.3-ac12 #2 Sun Apr 22 17:41:08 EST 2001 i586 unknown # ls /lib/libc-* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1417065 Feb 17 14:57 /lib/libc-2.2.2.so* # gcc --version 2.95.3 # su --version su (GNU sh-utils) 2.0j / Brett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/