Bug 245925 - su and SigSegFault
Summary: su and SigSegFault
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 5.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-27 13:57 UTC by Andrzej Nakonieczny
Modified: 2008-08-04 10:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-08-04 10:43:30 UTC

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Description Andrzej Nakonieczny 2007-06-27 13:57:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
Sometimes when I try to change user to another (root) I got:

[user@xxx ~]$ su -
Segmentation fault
[user@xxx ~]$

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[user@xxx ~]$ rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-5Server-5.0.0.9
[user@xxx ~]$ rpm -qf /bin/su
coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5
[user@xxx ~]$


How reproducible:
I don't know - I got it 2 times, on different servers (but all are IBM HS20)
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2007-06-28 15:46:49 UTC 
The problem may very well be in a PAM module.

Can you get it to happen on demand?  If so, it would be great to try doing that
starting as root, with 'ulimit -c unlimited' set in order to get a core dump.
Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2008-08-04 10:43:30 UTC 
Too long in NEEDINFO, closing INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Feel free to reopen it in the case of more informations available.
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