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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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