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

[Wayne Whitney]

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