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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!yale!yale!pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu!pipes From: pipes@pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 'su' hangs after entering password Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:51:50 GMT Organization: MGH, Boston Lines: 14 Sender: pipes@pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu Message-ID: <36p9am$86q@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu I'm running a 486dx/33 with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 + XFree 2.?. Once in a great while an attempt to get superuser (su) hangs after entering the password. The ps entry looks like this: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 8491 0.0 3.6 192 516 p0 I<U+ 10:11AM 0:00.17 su The 'w' list looks normal, with an ordinary load average for the running processes. Can anyone shed some light on this? Rebooting via the reset button generally works, but I don't (obviously) like to do this...