From: Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org>
To: whitney@math.berkeley.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:21:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010422202158.E970@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010422102234.A1093@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> <200104222138.XAA00666@kufel.dom> <200104222138.XAA00666@kufel.dom> <20010422192520.A3618@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> <200104230242.f3N2gns08877@adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <200104230242.f3N2gns08877@adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>; from whitney@math.berkeley.edu on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 19:42:49 -0700
On 2001.04.22 19:42 Wayne Whitney wrote:
> In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
>
> > Did you try nesting more than one "su -"? The first one after a boot
> > works for me - every other one fails.
>
> Same here: the first "su -" works OK, but a second nested one hangs:
>
> 8825 pts/2 S 0:00 /bin/su -
> 8826 pts/2 S 0:00 -bash
> 8854 pts/2 T 0:00 stty erase ?
> 8855 pts/0 R 0:00 ps ax
>
> "kill -CONT 8854" has no effect.
>
> > I'm on RH71 - this may be specific to this release. It's also
> > kernel-dependent, I can reboot with ac5 and the problem does not
> > happen. The kernel is compiled with the same compiler as yours.
>
> I'm RH-7.1 and kernel 2.4.4-pre6 (with the via 3.23 driver from -ac)
It looks like this may very well be a RH 7.1 interaction with the kernel,
since others are not seeing this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-22 17:22 Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher Manuel McLure
2001-04-22 21:38 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-23 2:25 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 2:42 ` Brett
2001-04-23 3:20 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 2:42 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-04-23 3:21 ` Manuel McLure [this message]
2001-04-23 5:05 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 5:17 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-23 5:27 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-04-23 9:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 15:53 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-04-26 4:34 ` Ton Hospel
2001-04-23 3:01 ` John Cavan
2001-04-23 9:56 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-23 16:03 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-04-23 16:13 ` Lukasz Trabinski
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