Re: 2.6.25.3: su gets stuck for root

Harald Dunkel
2008-05-18T17:57:18Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>> If I run "su someuser" as root, then it gets stuck. No prompt. I cannot
>> interrupt it with ^C or ^Z either. /var/log/auth.log says:
>
> Is it then killable remotely, can you gdb it ?
>

Attaching to the running stty failed:

# gdb stty 26465
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
Attaching to program: /var/tmp/coreutils-6.10/coreutils-6.10/src/stty, process 26465
/tmp/buildd/gdb-6.8/gdb/linux-nat.c:988: internal-error: linux_nat_attach: Assertion `pid == GET_PID (inferior_ptid) && WIFSTOPPED (status) && WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGSTOP' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
:

I can kill it with -9, but INTR, SEGV, BUS, etc. don't interrupt
it. And if I run stty inside of the debugger (or on the command
line), then it doesn't get stuck.

I have changed stty.c to do some print statements, and changed
root's .bashrc to use it for "stty intr ^C": It gets stuck
inside tcsetattr():

printf("here we are\n");
if (tcsetattr (STDIN_FILENO, TCSADRAIN, &mode))
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", device_name);
printf("born to be kings\n");

The previous tcgetattr() to read the old terminal settings shows
no problem (AFAICS).

Replacing TCSADRAIN by 0 doesn't help.

Regards

Harri