From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 30 5:32:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE1E37B405 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBUDWDx03290; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:32:13 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:32:13 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Chris Johnson Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root In-Reply-To: <20011230081106.A98698@palomine.net> Message-ID: <20011230163040.A64917-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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