If people are curious, 4.11.5 is working again for me.

Dan

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:40 PM, eric <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/01/2017 04:08 AM, Pau Espin Pedrol wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For reference, there's already an Arch Linux specific bug report:
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54170
>> Pau Espin Pedrol
>>
>>
>> 2017-06-01 7:11 GMT+02:00 eric <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> On 05/31/2017 10:03 PM, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 9:27 PM, eric <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I came across an issue last week on a laptop with Arch Linux and
>>>>> enlightenment from the Arch repo's.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running enlightenment 21.3 with efl 1.18.4.3 and the linux kernel
>>>>> 4.11.2-1-ARCH x86_64.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the last update I opened a terminal and used the su command and then
>>>>> updated Arch with pacman -Syu.  This did not update enlightenment or
>>>>> eff
>>>>> but
>>>>> a few other applications which I do not remember.  After a reboot I
>>>>> lost
>>>>> the
>>>>> ability to use the su command from the terminal.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can drop to a terminal using ALT-CNTR-F3 and log in as a user and use
>>>>> the
>>>>> su command.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can log in using KDE plasma and use the su command in a terminal.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just can not su while under enlightenment desktop.  In a terminal
>>>>> under
>>>>> enlightenment I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> [eric@home ~]$ su
>>>>> Password:
>>>>> su:  Authentication failure
>>>>>
>>>>> I had first thought it was a misspelling but that was not the case.  I
>>>>> also
>>>>> tried with a different user.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am guessing that a module or service is not being loaded or I
>>>>> corrupted
>>>>> something but do not know where to look.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will probably re-install Arch tomorrow as I am at a loss.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone can help I will sure appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a known bug in Linux Kernel itself. There is a patch getting
>>>> backported to the next stable release. Best solution at this time is
>>>> to just go back to Linux 4.10. No need to re-install.
>>>>
>>>> Cedric
>>>>
>>> OK,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the information.
>>>
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
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>
> Thank you,
>
> I had thought the issue was something I did until Cedric weighed in.  I
> decided to install the long term support kernel (kernel-lts) from Arch repo.
> It is version 4.9.30-1
>
> kind regards,
>
>
> Eric
>
>
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