su can't login

hhegab · 01-30-2004, 12:26 AM

Hi all,

I am running mandrake 9.2 now (just installed) and I had the following problem;

When I start a Konsole everything goes just fine, but when I type su and feed in my password, I get the following line running and running as a mad dog:
/usr/X11R6/X11/xserver/xprint-startup: /etc/profile.d/ssh-client.sh[6]: shopt: not found

I close the konsole and use any other terminal-silly me- and I get the same result.
I powered the computer off and tried again but I had the same luck.

While powering off, I prefer to see the messages that tells me that everything goes fine, and I have noticed he following:
1- It took such a long time to reboot the system,
2- While stopping the automount an awful red "failed" appeared instead of the lovely green "OK"
3-At the end of the "sending all processes the TERM signal took that long time and then appeared the following in green (which I think means ok)
"[su(pam_unix)[3013]: session closed for user root (ok)"

For God's sake, what is going on here? And how may I restore my ability to run the su?
Thanks a lot.

hhegab

Andrew Benton · 01-30-2004, 07:08 AM

It's difficult for us to do anything as we're not at your machine. If I was, I would take note of the line "/usr/X11R6/X11/xserver/xprint-startup: /etc/profile.d/ssh-client.sh[6]: shopt: not found" and I'd go and have a look at /etc/profile.d/ssh-client.sh and see if I could figure out what this "shopt" it's looking for is. It may just need you to create a blank text file called shopt somewhere.
The message "[su(pam_unix)[3013]: session closed for user root (ok)" seems to indicate that you did start a session as root, at least as far as pam is concerned, so I wouldn't worry about that. Your problem seems to be with Xwindows and xprint-startup.

hhegab · 01-30-2004, 10:26 AM

thanks, I shall see that and tell you the results.

hhegab

Andrew Benton · 01-30-2004, 04:19 PM

I didn't want to reboot into Mandrake before as I had Gtk-Gnutella running but I'm in Mandrake 9.1 now and for what it's worth, /etc/profile.d/ssh-client.sh looks like this

Code:

# fix hanging ssh clients on exit
if test -n "$ZSH_VERSION"; then
setopt hup
else
shopt -s huponexit
fi

I asked Google about shopt
http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/shopt.1.asp
http://www.ss64.com/bash/shopt.html
and apparently it's a command that controls the way the shell behaves. I hope some of this helps.

hhegab · 01-30-2004, 10:17 PM

I have removed the package xprint and I could get my su back again.
To say the ruth, I reinstalled the xprint package and I got the same problem. I then knew that I should be living without it.

hhegab