Re: Cannot su or sudo

2001-10-25 Thread Roland McGrath
To my knowledge nobody knows what the bug in pflocal is, though people have observed it wedging before. Please do debug it if you have to interest. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Cannot su or sudo

2001-10-25 Thread Jeff Bailey
Excellent! killing pflocal was enough. It restarted again all on its own. I also notice that this caused the pile of stuck cron's to get unstuck. Is this a known problem, or should I try and figure out what pflocal thinks it's doing? On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:22:31PM -0700, James Morrison wr

Re: Cannot su or sudo

2001-10-25 Thread James Morrison
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

Cannot su or sudo

2001-10-25 Thread Jeff Bailey
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

Re: ps just hangs

2001-10-25 Thread Roland McGrath
>But there is no excuse for C-c not working in gdb. >Someone should debug gdb. > > Hmm. C-c is supposed to interrupt the program, which obviously fails > because the signal thread isn't responding. Should it interrupt GDB > instead in such a case? He's using attach in gdb. C-c should n

Re: ps just hangs

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:31:19 -0400 (EDT) > (gdb) attach 743 > Attaching to program `/usr/bin/tail', pid 743 > ^C^C Hmm. That might be gdb trying to talk to the signal thread. Definitely. But there is no excuse for C-c not worki