Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:24:05 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11 Message-ID: <44hbygw6ay.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <633585.69987.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (Unga's message of "Tue\, 16 Jun 2009 08\:11\:47 -0700 \(PDT\)") References: <633585.69987.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> writes: > If you refer that I use bash for root is the problem, there is no difference by switching root's shell to sh. > > With sh as the shell for root: > 1. Still cannot login as root from the console. Child process died error. > > 2. "su -l" doesn't work, child process died error. > > 3. su works. But the prompt is [\u@host name]# > Why it doesn't print root@host? whoami shows root. > > What is the problem you think that I should fix? any ideas? any thread related error as the child process die when in root? Another thing to check is the login files. For /bin/sh, I think that would be /etc/profile, /root/.profile, anything that ENV might be set to. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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