On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 08:14 +0200, Jan Synacek wrote: > On 05/17/2013 07:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > This is a weird bug I've seen 3 or 4 times since upgrading to F19, and > > am having trouble pinning down. > > > > Occasionally, after my session has been up for some time, runs of 'su' > > start behaving oddly. After I enter the root password, it takes a long > > time - longer than the delay that's always happened when you fat-finger > > your password, even - before it succeeds. Usually, of course, it's > > instant. But when this bug happens, I just get to sit there while it > > thinks about it for like 10-15 seconds before I eventually get a root > > prompt. > > > > This only applies to my desktop session - but it applies to any terminal > > running in the desktop. At least, it applies to gnome-terminal (even if > > closed and opened again) and xterm. But if I go to ctrl-alt-f2, login, > > and run an 'su', that still returns instantly. > > > > I've tried strace'ing su, but interestingly, I can't get it to work: > > running su via strace always seems to result in "Authentication > > failure" (which doesn't display this bug; it's only _normally_ slow, the > > same slowness that has always been the case when you fail the password). > > > > So I'm kinda stuck, really. Has anyone else seen this? Any bright ideas > > for debugging it? Thanks! > > > > Just a guess, but is your shell a subprocess of sssd? I have no idea if that > might have any influence. It doesn't look like it, no. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
