I have had this problem. Marcus said pflocal is messed. If you login as root, kill pflocal then restart the translator it should work again.
I think su similar to the linux su since it doesn't directly talk to the auth server yet, IIRC. --- Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I'm waiting for the other problems to recur, I've got another > fun one: > > buildd@hurd:~$ su > Password: > (Wait forever) > > ^C still works. > > buildd@hurd:~$ gdb su > GNU gdb 5.0.90-cvs (MI_OUT) > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, > and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for > details. > This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-gnu0.2"... > (no debugging symbols found)... > (gdb) run > Starting program: /usr/bin/su > Can't fetch registers from thread 3: No such thread > (gdb) info threads > Segmentation fault > buildd@hurd:~$ > > > I can't set a breakpoint on main... Perhaps my gdb is screwed up. > I'll try building a new one tommorow. > > `Oskuro' reported the same problem earlier today, so I suspect it's > probably eventually reproducable. I noticed it when the build hung > on > an sudo. > > I don't actually know what happens during an 'su' on the Hurd, so > I'm > not sure what to check after this. > > I just checked: From the console I can login as root, and I can > login > as buildd. However, I cannot su - so I don't think this is just my > ssh session that's screwed up. I'll try to leave the box in this > state for as longas I can. If it's just gdb screwing up, maybe a > new > one will tell me more. > > I'll keep you posted. > > -- > Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
