su problem

[Sami Halabi]

Hi,
/var/log/messages - no new logs

%id sody2
uid=1002(sody2) gid=1002(sody2) groups=1002(sody2),0(wheel)
%

i did top on one session and followed it after I issued "su -"
the only new process issued is "su" and it stays there even after I supply
the password...

This is really strange, it never happend to me in earlier releases....

even "su sody2" worked, but stopped after a while...

Help me please...

Sami

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:05 PM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 03:47:07PM +0300, Sami Halabi wrote:
> > %su -
> > Password:
> > load: 0.00  cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 0.91r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k
> > load: 0.00  cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 3.99r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k
> > ...
> > load: 0.00  cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 8.35r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k
> > load: 0.00  cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 8.53r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k
> > ...
>
> Well, that wasn't as helpful as it might have been, then -- though it
> does clearly indicate that the process isn't waiting on (say) keyboard
> input.
>
> Have you checked messages (e.g., /var/log/messages)?
>
> Also, while you're logged in as your primary account, the output of "id
> sody2" may be useful.
>
> The other thing that comes to mind is that it may be useful for you to
> login (as "sody") twice (i.e., from 2 different xterms, or using a
> "terminal mux" program such as tmux(1) (in ports; sysutils/tmux) so from
> one session, you can try "su sody2" and from the other, you can issue
> commands such as "top" or "ps lwt ttydcd" to see what processes are
> running on the (apparently stalled) session.
>
> It's also possible that there's something wrong with the login shell
> initialization scripts used for sody2.  The above commands may help
> identify that case.
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill                              david at catwhisker.org
> Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil.
>
> See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
>



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Sami Halabi
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