Re: Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher

Manuel McLure
2001-04-23T03:22:34Z

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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