On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tomas Mraz wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:20 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: >>> >>> Jim Cornette wrote: >>>> >>>> Tomas Mraz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> AS with Clyde, it is in gnome-terminal issuing the su - command >>>>>> I have ssh disabled. >>>>> >>>>> Can you strace the process and see where it is waiting? You will have >>>>> to >>>>> attach the strace to the su process from another root shell of course. >>>> >>>> It appears to be hanging only on the first su - instance. When I logged >>>> in one terminal by su - and logged in the second terminal with su to attach, >>>> it was fairly quick. >>>> >>>> If the attachment does not give you a clue, I'll log in a regular root >>>> console to attach. See text file attached. >>>> >>>> Jim >>>> >>> It looks like time to change the root password :-) >> >> I also didn't ask you to attach the full strace but told you that you >> should use it to find out where the process is waiting. :-) But I should >> have write a warning that the strace will contain the password so some >> testing password should be used. >> >> Also attaching a gdb to the process and printing a backtrace (especially >> with relevant -debuginfo) packages can help to find out where the >> process is waiting. >> > > Sorry for posting the whole trace, If I would have skimmed through the trace > first I would have noted the password was in it and not have carelessly > posted the info. > > Anyway, the problem seems to be an initial login as root, even at runlevel 3 > and on a vt. Later logins do not seem to have the delay. It's possible I'm on a tangent, but what settings does /etc/nsswitch.conf have for passwd/shadow/group/hosts? Specifically, I see slow validation when any of the above items contains something in addition to "files" and the corresponding addition is unavailable or slow in responding. jerry -- Some people say I have A.D.D. but they just don't understand. Oh look! A chicken! -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
