A bit too late now, but sometimes it's helpful to run 'strace' or 'ltrace' on the
program in question. I've had a problem like that long time ago and the only thing
I remember about it is that it was some kind of interaction between su and X11
authentication system and it got fixed by unsetting D
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 04:42, Mike Arrison wrote:
> Run 'top' in one console while su'ing in another. See if anything major
> is taking cycles.
Nothing at all. It just seemed to idle - no change whatsoever to CPU or
memory usage.
I've now fixed this by re-emerging sys-libs/pam. Not sure what caus
Run 'top' in one console while su'ing in another. See if anything major
is taking cycles.
-Mike Arrison
On Jan 24 22:50, Greg Bolshaw wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently I have noticed that when switching to the root account from a
> standard user account, it takes around 15 seconds to provide me with
Hi
Recently I have noticed that when switching to the root account from a
standard user account, it takes around 15 seconds to provide me with a
root prompt after entering the password. This applies to gnome-terminal,
xterm and on the console. However, su'ing between user accounts is
instantaneous
