Bug#396241: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#396241: login: Executing su cause an "invalid pointer" error

[Frederic Schutz]

Christian Perrier wrote:

>>I almost picked an RC severity for this bug, but did not (for now) because
>>I can still login using ssh.
> 
> Thankfully you didn't as this obviously doesn't happen on all systems,
> mine first.

Yeah, I thought so, otherwise it would have been seen before.

> So, the question is: what is so special on *your* system that it
> happens there.

Nothing that I know or can think of. It is a relatively large Dell 
server, with a pure testing install with no backport (except for the 
ones I picked from unstable and which were close to entering testing 
anyway) or local packages installed.

I'll keep looking (strace, etc), but I reported the bug in case someone 
had seen this before with some configuration...

Thanks,

Frédéric