i apologise if this has been discussed, i couldn't locate any posts.
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i have a fresh slackware install, with kernel 2.4.5, and when i try to su, it spits out this error msg:

kud0ze@london:/etc$ su
Segmentation fault
kud0ze@london:/etc$

i've gotten a lot of hits on google searching for 'su and segmentation fault', but none regard my situation.

has anyone seen this before?

tia
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kud0ze

If su seg faults, that's scary... 'su' is part of the Sh-utils-2.0 package, which can be found under on the CD under package group A. Or, you can download it from sourceforge, and then install it with pkgtool.

Honestly, if that doesn't go way after re-installing sh-utils, something is really wonky. Like re-install wonky.

Cheers,

Finegan

fantastic information. i appreciate the reply, even though in a brain-dead moment i posted in the wrong forum. this snmp crap going on is running me ragged!

i'll give it a go straight away.

unrelated -- how do you like fbsd? i'm d/l it right now for my other box.

thanks again
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kud0ze

Installing BSD is like installing Slackware... aside from that I'm beginning to get a Unix mailaise... all of the things about non-Slackware/Debian distros that piss me off are not there either... so aside from the funky names for eth devices and the fact that its an entirely different kernel, its still the same X-windows, same Kde, just loks a little different. FreeBSD, if you ever want to use it for something hardcore has a much faster tcp/ip stack and is pretty secure by default, although still a nudge or two back from OpenBSD, which could deflect a 7mm round.

Cheers,

Finegan

this snmp crap? did I miss something?

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html

every 2k server on the network was wide open, thanks to insight mgr and some shoddy confuration by whoever *was* doing it at the time... net engineering uses it mostly (openview), but apparently nobody knew how it got enabled on all the 2k desktops.

there is some pretty cool tools floating about now, though.

cheers
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kud0ze

no love on sh_utils ... reinstalling.

ty anyway
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kud0ze