Bug 2037

Summary: su'ing to root as a normal user and trying to start "xfs" via the init scripts by hand did not work.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
Component: sh-utilsAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Version: 6.0CC: davem, notting, pbrown
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Description Cristian Gafton 1999-04-07 15:57:15 UTC 
Very simple, I logged in as 'davem' and tried to run
X which failed because of problem #4.  So I ran "su"
to become root and start it by hand.  It printed out
"starting xfs: " message but the colored "OK" on the right
side never happened, in fact it just printed a newline and
gave me my root shell prompt back.

Logging in on another VC freshly as root allowed it to
work.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-04-07 16:57:59 UTC 
fixed in XFree86-3.3.3.1-37 and later, initscripts-4.01 and greater.