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...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sh-utils
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 1999-04-07 15:57 UTC by Cristian Gafton
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-04-07 16:57:32 UTC
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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.
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