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

[Manuel McLure]

On 2001.04.22 20:21 Manuel McLure wrote:
> 
> 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.

Your email made me look closer at my ps output. I also have stty waiting in
"T" state.

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