This is a periodic problem I'm having, I haven't been able to pin point what is causing the problem.
Some time after logging in (a few days, a few minutes .... periodically) when i attempt to 'su' the login hangs after I enter my password. (YES I am in the wheel group!) (then a timeout message is displayed, This usually occurs in a xterm/Konsole) I then Alt-Ctrl-F1 and attempt to login to a text console as a normal user, but the same problem occurs. I can't ssh\telnet\ftp in, it hangs at the password. I can open xterms\konsoles though but only as the user logged into X. I've seen two causes on the net: (I don't use either) 1. Metalog w/ output to /dev/console(I used this but its disabled now) 2. A bad version of pam-login (i think 3.12, and i use 3.14) My only recourse thus far is when this occurs reboot, and all is well for a while! Does anyone have any idea's how to trace this problem. I'm using metalog (no relevant information there), which is very annoying as I can't be sure when the current logs will be dumped to file ... I think that my first step in tracing this is to upgrade to a better logger. Any help would be appreciated -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
