Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:32:13 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root Message-ID: <20011230163040.A64917-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011230081106.A98698@palomine.net>
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Chris Johnson wrote: CJ> I discovered this morning that I was unable to su to root, though I had been CJ> able to last night. After I enter the password (whether it is correct or CJ> incorrect), su just hangs. This is on a FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE box. CJ> CJ> The problem seems to be that syslogd is blocking when it tries to write to CJ> /dev/console (I'm using a regular, not a serial, console). Another symptom of [snip] Can you ask the person near the console to check that first visrtual tty (alt+F1) isn't locked by ScrollLock key? AFAIR, it's rather long story with this... Also, ttyin state of syslogd tends to tell the same... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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