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Bug#484593: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: su gets stuck for root -- stty getting stuck in T state



On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:03:29PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
> > Version: 2.6.25-4
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > There's an upstream bug that has started affecting me.  stty gets
> > backgrounded, and you can only kill -9 it to get your shell back.  A
> > thread titled "su gets stuck for root" is on LKML with all the
> > details, and when there's an eventual patch, it would be good to
> > include it in the debian patchset.
>
> Does this error still occur with the Lenny kernel?

It did last time I used that machine, but it's since been decomissioned.
Since this is a race condition that obviously depends strongly on timing
(it was quite a slow machine), I'm not going to say the bug is gone.
There was no more activity on that "su gets stuck for root" thread on
LKML, so I doubt it's been deliberately fixed.

-- 
TimC
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