Bug 2037 – su'ing to root as a normal user and trying to start "xfs" via the init scripts by hand did not work.

Bug 2037 - su'ing to root as a normal user and trying to start "xfs" via the init scripts by hand did not work.

Summary:	su'ing to root as a normal user and trying to start "xfs" via the init scri...

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sh-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Cristian Gafton
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Reported:	1999-04-07 11:57 EDT by Cristian Gafton
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	1999-04-07 12:57:32 EDT
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Description Cristian Gafton 1999-04-07 11:57:15 EDT

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 12:57:59 EDT

fixed in XFree86-3.3.3.1-37 and later, initscripts-4.01 and greater.

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