Recently I've noticed on a Gentoo 1.4 system I have here at work that occasionally I can no longer log into the system from the console. It also seems at affect the su command. If the system gets into this "mode" and I try to su it basically hangs, sometimes before and sometimes after prompting for a password.
I noticed this behavior recently while testing distcc from another machine where after awhile the distcc server on this box would stop responding and at the same time logins stopped working. However, just now I rebooted the machine, logged in via xdm, opened an aterm to su to root, then tried to do a 2nd su in a separate aterm and the 2nd su hung. I had no other apps running at the time, and distcc has been disabled. My PAM setup is unchanged from the default Gentoo install, other than adding "debug" to various lines in /etc/pam.d/su which seemed to make things worse. Here are the versions of the offending ebuilds (note: make.conf has ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" defined...) sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11 sys-apps/pam-login-0.10 sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r3 CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops" I've tried recompiling these and several other packages with "-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" with no success. My experience with PAM is quite limited, so any help would be very appreciated. Thanks, Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
