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Tim wrote:
> Tonight, for no apparent reason, a problem has started cropping up when
> I 'sudo su'. The root shell will start up fine, but after the first time
> I hit a key, the shell terminates - apparently normally. A sample try
> looks like this (I begin to type "emerge", with little success):
>
> tim@(protected)
> wozniak tim # eexit
> tim@(protected) ~ $
>
> This occurs no matter how long I wait before hitting a key. Using 'su'
> without the preceding 'sudo' will let me into a normal root shell
> without the problem occurring. The problem also occurs only in Konsole,
> not at a tty. I should mention, based on this, that I'm running KDE4.
> How might I go about fixing this?
Dumb question, why are you exec'ing /sudo su/? Why not just /su/ or /su
- -/ or /sudo/ ?
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~eric
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