Re: Cannot su or sudo

[Jeff Bailey]

Excellent!  killing pflocal was enough.  It restarted again all on its
own.

I also notice that this caused the pile of stuck cron's to get
unstuck.

Is this a known problem, or should I try and figure out what pflocal
thinks it's doing?

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:22:31PM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
> 
>  I have had this problem.  Marcus said pflocal is messed.  If you 
> login as root, kill pflocal then restart the translator it should
> work 
> again.
> 
>  I think su similar to the linux su since it doesn't directly talk
> to the auth server yet, IIRC.
> 
> --- Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> wrote:
> > While I'm waiting for the other problems to recur, I've got another
> > fun one:
> > 
> > buildd@hurd:~$ su
> > Password:
> > (Wait forever)
> > 
> > ^C still works.
> > 
> > buildd@hurd:~$ gdb su
> > GNU gdb 5.0.90-cvs (MI_OUT)
> > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
> > and you are
> > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> > conditions.
> > Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
> > details.
> > This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-gnu0.2"...
> > (no debugging symbols found)...
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/bin/su 
> > Can't fetch registers from thread 3: No such thread
> > (gdb) info threads
> > Segmentation fault
> > buildd@hurd:~$ 
> > 
> > 
> > I can't set a breakpoint on main...  Perhaps my gdb is screwed up.
> > I'll try building a new one tommorow.
> > 
> > `Oskuro' reported the same problem earlier today, so I suspect it's
> > probably eventually reproducable.  I noticed it when the build hung
> > on
> > an sudo.
> > 
> > I don't actually know what happens during an 'su' on the Hurd, so
> > I'm
> > not sure what to check after this.
> > 
> > I just checked: From the console I can login as root, and I can
> > login
> > as buildd.  However, I cannot su - so I don't think this is just my
> > ssh session that's screwed up.  I'll try to leave the box in this
> > state for as longas I can.  If it's just gdb screwing up, maybe a
> > new
> > one will tell me more.
> > 
> > I'll keep you posted.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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