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

Wayne Whitney (whitney@math.berkeley.edu)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:42:49 -0700


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)

Cheers, Wayne
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