su hangs for 30 seconds

[Joachim Backes]

On 12/05/2009 01:32 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> 2009/12/5 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht<wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com>:
>>
>> As of a day or so ago "su" has started hanging for 30 seconds.  So has
>> the lock screen.  Jiggling the mouse unblanks the monitor and shows me
>> the backdrop picture but the password entry box doesn't appear for 30
>> seconds.  I don't believe I mucked with anything PAM related, but there
>> were a few yum updates in the last few days.  Is anyone else seeing
>> this?
>>
>> -wolfgang
>> --
>> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
>> If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3
>> non-overlapping WIFI channels?
>>
> I have the same problem for a couple of month (don't remember exactly
> how long it is) on my F11 (32 bit). I've asked it already on this list
> but had no response.
>

I had similar problems in the past (with sudo / not su), and the reason 
was an error in the network controls (I tried to change the hostname by 
editing /etc/sysconfig/network, but forgot all other places to edit).

Regards
-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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