Hi,
I observed a strange behavior with RH 6.1. If I telnet into a box,
and try "su", it gives me the password prompt all right, but after
entering the passwd, it takes a long (about 10-30 seconds) to give me the
root shell.
The box is not loaded at all, its a P-III @ 500MHz, with 128MB
RAM, and average CPU usage is about 1-2%, mem usage is pretty low too.
Another observation is that I find the DISPLAY environment
variable set to "localhost.localdomain:0.0". I searched the /etc/profile,
/etc/bashrc, and whole of /etc/rc.d tree but nowhere is this variable set.
If I try resetting this DISPLAY, by saying "export DISPLAY=", and
then do a "su", it just dies with a segmentation fault!!!
I have observed this behavior on several RH 6.1 boxes. Any clues
why is that DISPLAY is getting set that way? And why should changing its
value cause "su" to segfault??
And most importantly, have anyone else observed this behavior with
6.1???
Regards,
Kedar.
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