It is a known bug... of the new util-linux package versus kernel 2.4.3-12,
look into Bugzilla. RedHat made a real mess...
Cheers
Alfredo Ferrari
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Richard Hebert wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:39:20 -0400 (EDT)
> "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Odds are likely that somewhere somehow you're running a Bourne shell
> > script which is trying to dereference something (don't ask what) using a
> > percent sign. You see this frequently when you try to build mandrake rpms
> > on RH systems, because they have additional macro definitions which RH
> > does not supply. The RPM macros are deref'd using percent. You need to
> > tell us more and also to say set -x at the top of whatever script you are
> > running that is manifesting the problem.
>
>
> ok .. let me rephrase that.
> I just powered up the machine,it goes through the boot process.
> I have the login prompt in front of me... i type my user name ( not in gnome )
> at this point no gui's or anything is started..std prompt in the window
> I type my name my pw.
> Everything looks fine.
> I type su it prompts me for the password i type it hit enter then the warning.
> At that point nothing is running i havent done anything but login as su.
>
> I have nothing mandrake here.. i never seen this before this morning which is
>the
> first time i rebooted after the updates yesterday afternoon.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Richard Hebert wrote:
> >
> > =>ust started the comp and logged in . went ok..i then su to do some work
> > =>and got this
> > =>
> > =>password :
> > =>bash: no job control in this shell
> > =>
> > =>
> > =>What's this ? i never seen this before.
> > =>I updated the system yesterday ... is something borken in the last batch of
>updates ?
> > =>Seems there is .
> > =>
> > =>What does it mean and how do i correct it ?
> > =>
> > =>Richard
> >
> >
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