-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > Tonight, for no apparent reason, a problem has started cropping up when > I 'sudo su'. The root shell will start up fine, but after the first time > I hit a key, the shell terminates - apparently normally. A sample try > looks like this (I begin to type "emerge", with little success): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo su > wozniak tim # eexit > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > This occurs no matter how long I wait before hitting a key. Using 'su' > without the preceding 'sudo' will let me into a normal root shell > without the problem occurring. The problem also occurs only in Konsole, > not at a tty. I should mention, based on this, that I'm running KDE4. > How might I go about fixing this? Dumb question, why are you exec'ing /sudo su/? Why not just /su/ or /su - -/ or /sudo/ ?
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