From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 14:24:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from squeaky.noc.gate.net (squeaky.noc.gate.net [199.227.124.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2DB14FE9 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasonv@gate.net) Received: from localhost (jasonv@localhost) by squeaky.noc.gate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02999 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:24:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jasonv@gate.net) X-Authentication-Warning: squeaky.noc.gate.net: jasonv owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:24:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason X-Sender: jasonv@squeaky.noc.gate.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su problems (Even More on this) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have now also noticed that I cannot use sudo to run anything as root. The same problem also happens in Eterm, and after much investigation I have noticed that this is an Eterm specific problem, it only happens from xterm when I launch xterm from an Eterm window. Squeaky On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Jason wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:01:04 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jason > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: su problems (More on this) > > I am now at the work station and the message that I get is > > load: 0.08 cmd: su 2505 [ttyin] 0.00u 0.02s 0% 632k > > every time that I hit enter and it just keeps repeating,and I am unable to > break out of it. > > Squeaky > > > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Jason wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:04:45 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Jason > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: su problems > > > > Last night I setup xdm on my FreeBSD 3.3 workstation. I have noticed that > > when ever I try to su to root from an xterm (or Eterm) window when using X > > loaded from xdm, it does not work, it just give me a message (I forgot it > > and I am not at this workstation to recreate) saying something about the > > PID and stuff. Now if I kill X and then kill xdm and do a startx, it works > > normally. Could someone please give me an idea on what is wrong. > > > > Thanks > > > > Squeaky > > > > P.S. I am still having problems with my Sound Card at home, if anyone has > > a kernel config that works for a SoundBlaster PCI64V could you please send > > it to me. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message