Description of problem: After the last update of coreutils, 'su -' takes about 10 seconds to give root prompt after password entry. This happens trying to 'su' as another user also. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-6.10-18.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login as normal user 2.do 'su -' and enter password 3. Actual results: It takes about 10 seconds before you get the root prompt Expected results: To get the prompt almost instantly as before the update. Additional info:
I just upgraded my Thinkpad T41 from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with Yum. I, too, am experiencig this. It didn't happen in Fedora 8. Strangely enough, this only happens when I try to su - inside an X session. If I switch to a virtual terminal, su is as instantaneous as usual.
I'm seeing the same thing on latest rawhide 2008-04-11 on x86_64... my timing was 40 seconds from the time I entered password and hit enter to actual root prompt. FWIW, this was a yum upgraded system starting with F9 Beta-LIVE x86_64 as the base install.
Commenting out this line in /etc/pam.d/su makes it fast: session optional pam_xauth.so
Even running simply the command 'xauth' takes a long time and an error message is reported: [michich@leela ~]$ xauth xauth: timeout in locking authority file /var/run/gdm/auth-cookie-XXWCC29T-for-michich This message reminded me of a recent changelog entry I saw in gdm: * Wed Apr 09 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode> - 1:2.21.10-0.2008.04.08.1 - Install X auth cookies in /var/run/gdm instead of /tmp So I installed an older version of gdm from before this change (gdm-2.21.10-0.2008.04.07.3.fc9) and both xauth and gdm now work fine. Here's the test with xauth: [michich@leela ~]$ xauth Using authority file /tmp/.gdm-xauth-michich.OWJM9T xauth> Reassigning to gdm.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 442061 ***