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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Cc: david@lang.hm, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25.3: su gets stuck for root
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:38:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520203833.GA6749@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483333E8.1090200@t-online.de>

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:26:16PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> david@lang.hm wrote:
> >
> >try killing syslog and then see if you continue to have the problem. 
> >It's possible that what's happening is syslog is getting stuck and su is 
> >sitting waiting for syslog to process the log entry.
> >
> 
> No improvement: I killed syslogd, and yet stty gets stuck.
> 
> But surely it was a smart idea.

have you checked in /proc/$(pidof stty)/fd/ to see if stty is bound to
any particular file descriptor ? Maybe you'll find the source of the
blocking operation here. You can find a unix socket attached to
another process, it may be a tty, a pipe, or even a device (eg:
/dev/random when there is no entropy left). Same for "su" BTW.

Regards,
willy


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-13  6:17 2.6.25.3: su gets stuck for root Harald Dunkel
2008-05-13  6:47 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-13 17:43   ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-13 19:46     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-14  4:55       ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-14  5:46         ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-14  7:34     ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-14 17:05       ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-14 17:17         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-14 17:35           ` Alan Cox
2008-05-18 17:56             ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-18 17:51               ` Alan Cox
2008-05-20 19:01                 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-20 19:12                   ` david
2008-05-20 20:26                     ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-20 20:38                       ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-02  1:31 Joe Peterson
2008-06-02  5:12 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-06-02  5:32   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-02  5:55     ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02  8:10     ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02  9:01       ` David Newall
2008-06-02  9:20         ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 10:16           ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 10:39             ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 10:52               ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 10:57                 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 12:28                   ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 14:31                     ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 10:50             ` Alan Cox
2008-06-17 15:32               ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 15:26           ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 15:51             ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 16:03               ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-04 14:43               ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-04 15:16                 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 16:52                   ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-04 17:10                     ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 20:32                       ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-11 14:04                         ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-12 11:52                           ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14  1:49                             ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-14  7:45                               ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 17:43                                 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-14 20:34                                   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 20:52                                     ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-14 21:26                                       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 21:34                                         ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02  5:42   ` Joe Peterson

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