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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!emory!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!News.Simplex.NL!Simplex.NL!rob From: rob@Simplex.NL (Rob Simons) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 'su' hangs after entering password Date: 3 Oct 1994 22:10:34 GMT Organization: Simplex Networking Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <36pvhd$52c@News.Simplex.NL> References: <36p9am$86q@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: simplex.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert A. Wheeler (pipes@pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu) wrote: : 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... Why rebooting ? Apparently you have root priviliges, and are able to access the machine still after the 'su' hangs, so why not just kill the non-functional 'su' in stead of rebooting ? You should wait some time to see if your get a time-out on some process, perhaps it's something which gets called when executing your .cshrc (or whatever) file that hangs ? Regards, - Rob. -- /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ /* ---------- | ----------- | rob@MacBugs.simplex.nl *\ /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\