Package: bash
Version: 4.4-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Tried to login on server or "su -" but got only
-su: xmalloc: cannot allocate 800000008 bytes (1626112 bytes allocated)
so login isn't possible as root anymore. When running just "su" eg. bash not as
login shell it first works.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
1. Flushed .bash_history of user root - login works. But now no execution of
any command is possible, ends with the xmalloc error.
2. run bash not as login-shell. Now all is working.
3. tried as normal user. There is no problem.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Root user may just use other shell like dash as login shell
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Expect that root-user may use bash as login-shell
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 9.6
ii dash 0.5.8-2.3
ii debianutils 4.8
ii libc6 2.24-3
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160917-1
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn bash-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
