Tom, I discovered the bug reading cron.daily/apt reports, in the same conditions as rafalm.
Until now, I didn't pay attention to those lines (they belong to auth.log): Sep 10 11:54:31 pc07 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user fgudin by (uid=0) Sep 10 11:54:31 pc07 sudo: pam_mount(pam_mount.c:512) error trying to retrieve authtok from auth code Any command wrapped by "sudo -u another_user " segfaults, *except* when targetted at "-u root". With these two clues, I tried to disable pam_mount temporarily: bingo! The culprit is the "hooking" of pam_mount.so from /etc/pam.d/common-session, as per: "session optional pam_mount.so" Removing this entry alone works around the problem. I don't know enough about PAM to investigate any further without help, though. I guess you're also using PAM to mount the homedirs from NFS, aren't you ? -- Francis -- apt: segmentation fault [ubuntu 8.04] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234727 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
