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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:20:56 -0700
From: Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org>
To: Brett <brett@macfeegles.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher
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On 2001.04.22 19:42 Brett wrote:
> 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
> 

In my case:

# su --version
su (GNU sh-utils) 2.0

# bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.04.21(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

# uname -a
Linux ulthar 2.4.3-ac12 #3 Sat Apr 21 23:15:08 PDT 2001 i686 unknown

# ls -l /lib/libc-*        
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root      1236396 Apr  6 14:58 /lib/libc-2.2.2.so

# kgcc --version
egcs-2.91.66


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