From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 13 13:24:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 13:24:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9799B37B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBDLOGZ12402; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:24:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.1.20001213161636.01fec1b0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:17:51 -0500 To: Andre Oppermann From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: su root hangs when logged in via SSH Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3A37E70C.3A935224@telehouse.ch> References: <5.0.1.4.1.20001213153948.01fc9df0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:15 PM 12/13/00 +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > Yeah, I had a similar problem to this in the past where syslogd was kind of > > hung, and the su was blocking waiting for I guess syslog to return. If you > > can login as root on the console, kill syslogd, restart it and see if su > > works once again. > >Nope, it does not work again. But after a couple of seconds after >restarting syslogd I've got this messages on the console: > "syslogd: timed out waiting for child" > >Another note, syslogd does not go with a normal kill, it needs a kill -9 >to make it into heaven. > >Could this be related to having a serial console? Possibly, or its trying to write something in /etc/syslog.conf thats causing it to hang. This might be totally unrelated to your problem at hand, but I did run into something like this before with the same symptons. Take a look at /etc/syslog.conf and make sure its not trying to send output where it cannot. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message