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

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

"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.
> > 
> > P233MMX
> > 
> > # uname -a
> > Linux kufel 2.4.3-ac12 #2 nie kwi 22 15:32:51 CEST 2001 i586 unknown
> > 
> > # ls -l /lib/libc-*
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1060168 Nov 19 11:17 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so
> > 
> > # gcc --version
> > egcs-2.91.66
> > (kernel with the fix by Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <[e-mail]>)
> > 
> > # su --version
> > su (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
> > 
> > Maybe it is RH7 specyfic ? Or you have some compiler / hardware problem ?
> > 
> > Andrzej
> 
> Did you try nesting more than one "su -"? The first one after a boot works
> for me - every other one fails.

I've tried three levels.
But my systsem is based on RH6.x

> 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.
> 
> My libc is 2.2.2 while yours is 2.1.3 - this may be the difference.

Andrzej