Greets, all- I was hoping someone could help me out here. I finished LFS, and am now working through the relevant parts of BLFS. Things are going pretty smoothly, I'm fixing some mistakes I made in config files and stuff (init.t?), I was working last night, and all of a sudden "su" does not work. It hangs, hogging resources.
Here's what I know: - I completed LFS 6.4rc1, started 11/19, using LiveCD 6.3r2, first boot on 11/25 - I had gotten through BLFS ch 3, section "About Devices" before. su still working. - I have already also installed (bc-1.06, OpenSSL-0.98g, and wget-1.10.2), (libpng-1.2.29, pcre-7.6, slang-2.1.3, and nano-2.0.7), and (procmail-3.22, sendmail-8.14.3, and fcron-3.0.4), and ntp-4.2.4p0 - At this point, su still worked. - I worked through the rest of ch 3, skipping the last two sections on automount and nfs. I'll tackle those some other time if I need or want them. - I was reading ch 4, but was basically going to skip all of it, at least for now. I never installed cracklib or PAM or anything, so I didn't need to re-install the shadow package. I tried that anyway, and it didn't work. - I think it was when I was tweaking my prompt appearance, and was using su to go back and forth (with "exit", not more su), and it hung. - When it hangs, the only thing that happens is that the cursor goes to the line under the prompt and sits there. If I wait, it doesn't help. - If I ctrl-alt-2 to another terminal while it's hung, log in as root, and run "top," su is using 99.5 to 99.8 percent of my processor, and holds steady with memory use. - I can ctrl-c to kill su. - I have lots of free disk space (a possible cause I found on google). - This happens whether I am logged in as a user or as root. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help! Ian -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
