X11/rxvt: su fails to login and prints 'load: ...' on return

David Samms dsamms at nw-ds.com
Fri Apr 30 12:39:50 UTC 2010


This morning I pulled up three rxvt terminals and ssh into a remote 
server.  In each of the three ssh sessions I tried to su and failed with 
the following error message:

%su root
Password:load: 0.53  cmd: su 38176 [ttyin] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1556k
load: 0.53  cmd: su 38176 [ttyin] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1556k

Client is FreeBSD 8 stable (i386)
Server is FreeBSD 7.2 Release

An identical report was filed against aterm:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143786

Using a standard xterm, or XFCE Terminal I could su just fine.  Also 
typing stty status '^M' before su, as suggested by Ruslan Ermilov solved 
the problem.

-- 
David Samms
New World Data Systems
nw-ds.com



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