From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762984AbYETU0z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 16:26:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758367AbYETU0q (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 16:26:46 -0400 Received: from mailout05.t-online.de ([194.25.134.82]:39103 "EHLO mailout05.t-online.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757624AbYETU0p (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 16:26:45 -0400 Message-ID: <483333E8.1090200@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:26:16 +0200 From: Harald Dunkel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080503) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Alan Cox , Vegard Nossum , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.25.3: su gets stuck for root References: <4829326A.6060808@t-online.de> <19f34abd0805122347x4d9c5d03m16679d724189790e@mail.gmail.com> <4829D345.7020909@t-online.de> <19f34abd0805140034j75d97ecbw5a03c200645768cb@mail.gmail.com> <482B1BD2.8040400@t-online.de> <19f34abd0805141017g26c13e96t2e7edc23bec263d0@mail.gmail.com> <20080514183558.40178fe5@core> <48306DCA.9070108@t-online.de> <20080518185104.0a539f25@core> <48331FFF.5070300@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: Vgz6IZZZwhjuBYn-UJ-0e-leXXbRP9A9+QvvC2rq4aueFSD3l8mI-Mx5B5MIxiOQkc X-TOI-MSGID: b21fe182-419e-45df-8202-7ccb3822527f Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Regards Harri