Re: Root login is waiting
On Tue, 21 May 1996, Fundamental wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 1996, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
>
> > I have a problem with root login again. All other logins are fine,
> > but root login is waiting after I typed the password. Even
> > su isn't working anymore. I updtated some packages, including
> > a few from Incoming this morning, after reboot, this behaviour
> > is present. Sound familiar, a solution?
>
>
> this happened to me eactly (accept on a solaris machine - but i have a
> debian machine also)
>
> setting quotas incorrectly is what stuffed me up .. so i booted the
> machine up off the installation boot disk and hacked out the quotas ..
(clip)
There was a discussion before on linux-kernel about this---it seems like the
xconsole (and maybe other) pipes fill up and since root logins are tracked
by the system logs, the login hangs due to the 'filled pipes' (call a
plumber?)
If quota is set to verbose, it displays that [-] [\] [|] [/] rotating bar...
perhaps this clogs it faster...
I don't think this is generally curable :( perhaps fiddling with the code
that logs root logins to the logs might help... or course a security hole
could be created if one was not careful.
You can try to make your login less noisy...
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