From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 4 01:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26768 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.mel.aone.net.au (mail.mel.aone.net.au [203.12.176.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26763 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ca121096@mail01.mel.aone.net.au) From: ca121096@mail01.mel.aone.net.au Received: from sys1 (d45-1.cpe.Melbourne.aone.net.au [203.12.184.45]) by mail.mel.aone.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA08074; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:54:54 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199811040954.UAA08074@mail.mel.aone.net.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:54:21 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: su hangs CC: In-reply-to: <199811022130.PAA03114@Mars.mcs.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm getting a strange behavior - > > On running 'su', the process never prints anything to the display, it > simply hangs, eating a little CPU time every now and again. ^C breaks > out just fine, but no 'su'. The following shows up via 'ps -U root'; > I'm another 'wheel' user at this point. > > 11208 p3 S<+ 0:00.20 su > > I'm running the current -STABLE, and the only notable thing I've done > since it last worked has been to leave X11R6 running back home before > trying to get in remotely. > sure you're not running kerberos? try su -K Marcus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message