Re: 2.6.25.3: su gets stuck for root

Harald Dunkel
2008-05-14T17:05:51Z

Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> Ah, tough luck. What if you attach an strace to the already stuck
> process? Like strace -p pid. It's a long shot, but worth a try, I
> suppose.
>

As suggested I attached strace to the blocking stty. I got a
continuous flow of

:
:
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTOU (Stopped (tty output)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTOU (Stopped (tty output)) @ 0 (0) ---
:
:

I also moved back to an old version of coreutils from about
4 months ago. Same result.

Regards

Harri