Dj YB wrote: >> # strace -u foo -f su - >> > > wow that was incredibly long output > > the important line was about 1023 times repeating > > [pid 24172] close(3) = 0 > [pid 24172] close(4) = 0 > [pid 24172] close(5) = -1 (EBADF) bad file descriptor > [pid 24172] close(6) = -1 (EBADF) bad file descriptor > [pid 24172] close(7) = -1 (EBADF) bad file descriptor > [pid 24172] close(8) = -1 (EBADF) bad file descriptor > ... > [pid 24172] close(1023) = -1 (EBADF) bad file descriptor > > that was before and after the password entering step. > any idea what to do next? > it seems like a filesystem problem No, that is not a significant part. This is just a new process starting and doing a "let me close every file descriptor they passed me" function. It actually closes only 3 and 4 as the others are not opened (closing them fails because they are simply not open). Your problem is somewhere else. Try to see what happens before the access denied message. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
