From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcvMJ-0001eb-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:29:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32B7FE05E8; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0AEE05E8 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so2163781pyg.25 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:29:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=n2xWnrNy54h4bpsnU7VHDgiblWcXEY64FUrWF63I8c0=; b=oZ9qU16LfnZS9l9DEqQHmIh8/BqiFHipgLaBGYWlDZUytGLd5pTetdE+6vEu+WsOCRQAxIilhTZAq+YqziUa8kaT6mJLmhpOzpWcxZD9ZKqmx/FMg5T3bVqfVZLRngamNcOMFUqPoUlGgm6HhYEn7guF4n/j+r8K2x+YbyOpfqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rzUEy0KUov6TgneAvN7mVdcecrRbyajlCsr6p6NGQex8LpR1n9laYXZwQ+d+CrPi4WlzBmiylfjgDfH48ajZ8aaYfT7If+4jbbWhuDn6GVbAOKFUOVlKXvavWuO1L1KCNJ2q8ut/tBJ/vDYrflKrXcZbW8gOXPCI5xT7vYkSFEE= Received: by 10.35.47.10 with SMTP id z10mr3960231pyj.64.1206160168803; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.101? ( [68.112.228.58]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n44sm10749777pyh.26.2008.03.21.21.29.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47E48B29.3030808@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:29:29 -0400 From: Eric Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080310) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Root shell terminates after first keystroke References: <47E479E8.5000007@pneumaticsystem.com> In-Reply-To: <47E479E8.5000007@pneumaticsystem.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: effb8f33-a29a-42ee-8dfd-ed672689672b X-Archives-Hash: c06c2f10a4b1113643cb1b26e59013df -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > Tonight, for no apparent reason, a problem has started cropping up when > I 'sudo su'. The root shell will start up fine, but after the first time > I hit a key, the shell terminates - apparently normally. A sample try > looks like this (I begin to type "emerge", with little success): > > tim@wozniak ~ $ sudo su > wozniak tim # eexit > tim@wozniak ~ $ > > This occurs no matter how long I wait before hitting a key. Using 'su' > without the preceding 'sudo' will let me into a normal root shell > without the problem occurring. The problem also occurs only in Konsole, > not at a tty. I should mention, based on this, that I'm running KDE4. > How might I go about fixing this? Dumb question, why are you exec'ing /sudo su/? Why not just /su/ or /su - -/ or /sudo/ ? - -- ~eric PGP: D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH5IspaiVxdKlBO58RAgauAJ9DzETIQaEU96MScKipdcylhwXdxQCfTzqI 78dioXd2b/IKyswemBhQlT8= =BC8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list