Bug 245925 – su and SigSegFault

Bug 245925 - su and SigSegFault

Summary:	su and SigSegFault

Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	coreutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Ondrej Vasik
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Reported:	2007-06-27 09:57 EDT by Andrzej Nakonieczny
Modified:	2008-08-04 06:43 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-08-04 06:43:30 EDT
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Description Andrzej Nakonieczny 2007-06-27 09:57:13 EDT

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 11:46:49 EDT

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 06:43:30 EDT

Too long in NEEDINFO, closing INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Feel free to reopen it in the case of more informations available.

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