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

Brett
2001-04-23T02:42:43Z

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Manuel McLure wrote:
>
>
> On 2001.04.22 14:38 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with "su -" on ac11/ac12. ac5 doesn't show the
> > > problem.
> > > The problem is easy to reproduce - go to a console, log in as root, do
> > an
> > > "su -" (this will succeed) and then another "su -". The second "su -"
> > > should hang - ps shows it started bash and that the bash process is
> > > sleeping. You need to "kill -9" the bash to get your prompt back.
> >

No problem here either...
Tried nesting 7 levels deep, a few times.

p75

# uname -a
Linux lapsis 2.4.3-ac12 #2 Sun Apr 22 17:41:08 EST 2001 i586 unknown

# ls /lib/libc-*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1417065 Feb 17 14:57 /lib/libc-2.2.2.so*

# gcc --version
2.95.3

# su --version
su (GNU sh-utils) 2.0j

/ Brett