I rebuilt the kernel and it fixed the problem.
Gautam
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Gautam Das wrote:
> We just applied a SunOS Patch to sun4c machine.
>
> Patch-ID# 101558-09
> Keywords: security libc international
> Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.3_U1: international libc jumbo patch
>
> As a result su broke. su just hangs - see trace below. Trace shows a
> problem with buffer space shortage. Is this a kernel parameter that can
> be tuned?
>
> Everything else seems to be working fine.
>
> The machine is running SunOS 4.1.3. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Gautam
>
> su process trace --
>
> ioctl (3, 0x8024540a, 0xf7fff604) = 0
> write (2, "\n", 1) = 1
> sigblock (0x2) = 0
> sigvec (2, 0xf7fff628, 0) = 0
> sigvec (2, 0xf7fff594, 0) = 0
> sigsetmask (0) = 0x2
> close (3) = 0
> getuid () = 1644
> ioctl (0, 0x40125401, 0xf7fff48c) = 0
> fstat (0, 0xf7fff540) = 0
> open ("/dev/", 04, 036734760020) = 3
> fstat (3, 0xf7fff460) = 0
> fcntl (3, 02, 0x1) = 0
> getdents (3, 0x6f50, 8192) = 8184
> getdents (3, 0x6f50, 8192) = 2056
> stat ("/dev/ttyr8", 0xf7fff500) = 0
> close (3) = 0
> open ("/etc/ttytab", 0, 0666) = 3
> ioctl (3, 0x40125401, 0xf7fff3ac) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for
> device)
> fstat (3, 0xf7fff420) = 0
> read (3, "#\n# @(#)ttytab 1.7 92/06/23 SMI\n".., 8192) = 8192
> close (3) = 0
> open ("/etc/utmp", 0, 036736414510) = 3
> lseek (3, 2160, 0) = 2160
> read (3, "".., 36) = 36
> close (3) = 0
> socket (1, 2, 0) = 3
> fcntl (3, 02, 0x1) = 0
> gettimeofday (0xf7ffed38, 0) = 0
> sendto (3, "<37>May 12 15:41:48 su: 'su gaut".., 72, 0, 0x9a88, 16) = -1
> ENOBUFS (No buffer space available)
> vfork () =
>
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> Gautam
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