Bug#641801: grub: grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 HANGS when run with root user

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:05:10PM +0300, Egon Ojamaa wrote:
> So if you log in as root and run:
> grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2
> Then fill in passwords 2 times..
> It totally hangs. I waited like 30 minutes to get the hashed password and never got it.

I can't reproduce this and will need a trace to see what's going on.
Please run:

  strace -f -o grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2.trace -s 1024 grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2

... and attach grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2.trace once you've reproduced this
bug.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]