On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 21:22 -0400, Jim Cornette 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. You could set up pam temporarily for the console login so it would not call any pam modules except of pam_permit.so. This could help to eliminate the initial delay and then try to call su with the regular pam configuration. -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list