Curious problem w/ 5.2-RELEASE su

Brian Ledbetter brian at shadowcom.net
Tue Jan 20 20:34:44 PST 2004


Thank you very much for the advice - it works perfectly after running
mergemaster!  I will slink away now, and remember to RTFM first next
time.  Sorry for the noise, all!  <:)





On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:03:16AM +0800, Ganbold wrote:
> Did you run mergemaster?
> 
> I had this problem recently and when I run mergemaster everything worked 
> fine.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Ganbold
> 
> 
> At 12:19 AM 21.01.2004, you wrote:
> >Additionally, I am seeing this message in syslog:
> >
> >Jan 20 10:48:26 tokyo su: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_wheel.so found
> >
> >though /usr/lib/pam_wheel.so -> /usr/lib/pam_wheel.so.2 exists, and has
> >the same md5 hash as on the working host.  What am I missing here?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:08:43AM -0500, Brian Ledbetter wrote:
> >> I have two systems which I recently upgraded from src to
> >> 5.2-RELEASE.  (Both systems were upgraded from the same
> >> /usr/src tree)  Everything seemed to be working fine until
> >> a little while ago this morning, when I started having this
> >> problem with /usr/bin/su:
> >>
> >> $ su -
> >> su in free(): error: chunk is already free
> >> Abort trap (core dumped)
> >> $ sudo sh
> >> $ id
> >> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys),
> >> 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest)
> >> $ su -
> >> su in free(): error: chunk is already free
> >> Abort trap (core dumped)
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any idea what would be causing this?  The
> >> MD5 hash of /usr/bin/su and all linked libraries are identical
> >> between the two systems, but /usr/sbin/su works just fine on
> >> the other host.  dmesg reports nothing unusual on system startup.
> >> What can I do to fix this?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brian C. Ledbetter <brian at shadowcom.net>
> >> http://www.shadowcom.net/brian/
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