> >
> > I've got this way cool (if I do say so myself :-) project underway
> > (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforget.net)
>
> Pretty sure Jeff means sourceforge :-) (although I kind of like
> sourceforget )
I really ought to read what I write. That was definitely one of my better
ones...
[ Before I get flamed, I got the subject from the latest freshmeat editorial
(http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/05/949813140.html) :-) ]
Said editorial contains this paragraph at the end:
> To the men in Open Source, I say: take a look at your work, at your
> projects. Are your projects well man
> It's 26 pages gzipped ascii. It's attached to this mail unless the
> list shakes it off. Some lists remove all attachments - can be a good
> policy at times...
Here's a guess:
> 0.000193 connect(6, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/dev/log"},
> 16) = 0
> 0.000378 send(6, "<83>Feb 4 0
> The strace.out was a couple of pages, the biggest number by far was
> 0.000406 read(5, "", 256) = 0
> 20.108991 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
> 20.108991 the big number...
> read(5, "", 256) doesn't sound like something comprehensible... should
> I paste more of the strace.out
> > Does the same thing happen if you su as root?
> Only when I su *to* root, not when I su from root to Sunnan.
I meant from root to root.
The reason I asked was that stracing su won't work unless you're already root
(i.e. you couldn't strace su as sunnan).
Je
> When I hit the enter key after typing in the root password, it takes
> like a minute or so. That's much slower than before.
Did you recently add any new stuff to root's .profile or anything?
Does the same thing happen if you su as root? If so, try this:
strace -r -o strace.out su
Th
> I just thought of something, If you can get it to do an autologin for
> a user in textmode, then you can use I think .profile (?) to startx
> and .xinitrc to start what is wanted.
This is a decent idea. The tricky part is the autologin bit. I think this
would involve replacing the console ge
