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 wrote: > > 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'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, > > and you are > > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > > conditions. > > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for > > details. > > This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-gnu0.2"... > > (no debugging symbols found)... > > (gdb) run > > Starting program: /usr/bin/su > > Can't fetch registers from thread 3: No such thread > > (gdb) info threads > > Segmentation fault > > buildd@hurd:~$ > > > > > > I can't set a breakpoint on main... Perhaps my gdb is screwed up. > > I'll try building a new one tommorow. > > > > `Oskuro' reported the same problem earlier today, so I suspect it's > > probably eventually reproducable. I noticed it when the build hung > > on > > an sudo. > > > > I don't actually know what happens during an 'su' on the Hurd, so > > I'm > > not sure what to check after this. > > > > I just checked: From the console I can login as root, and I can > > login > > as buildd. However, I cannot su - so I don't think this is just my > > ssh session that's screwed up. I'll try to leave the box in this > > state for as longas I can. If it's just gdb screwing up, maybe a > > new > > one will tell me more. > > > > I'll keep you posted. > > > > -- > > Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bug-hurd mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd > > > ===== > James Morrison > University of Waterloo > Computer Science - Digital Hardware > 2A co-op > http://hurd.dyndns.org > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com -- Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
