Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!shambhala.Berkeley.EDU!ricks From: ricks@shambhala.Berkeley.EDU (Rick L Spickelmier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: su hanging Message-ID: <17684@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 89 16:10:52 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: ricks@berkeley.edu Organization: UC Berkeley IC CAD Group Lines: 14 Occasionally on my DECstation 3100 (actually far too frequently), running UWS 2.1, 'su' will hang in 'D' after taking the password. It will eventually come back (after many minutes) or as soon as I do another 'su'. I also find that when I have 'su's behaving like this, certain other commands behave this way: xterm, mail, ... Has anybody else since this problem? Why does a second 'su' cause the first to get unstuck? Should I just trash the / and /usr file systems, reformat and reload? This is really bugging me. Rick Spickelmier UC Berkeley