[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#480930: running su as root gets stuck

[Nicolas François]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:20:44AM +0200, harald.dunkel at t-online.de wrote:
> Nicolas François wrote:
>>
>> Do you have some indications in syslog (/var/log/syslog,
>> /var/log/auth.log) ?
>>
>
> auth.log says:
>
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_usb.so)
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_usb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_usb.so
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: Successful su for root by root
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: + pts/3 root:root
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: pam_env(su:session): Unable to open env file: /etc/default/locale: No such file or directory
> May 13 07:16:14 pluto su[4217]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by harri(uid=0)
>
> The other log files haven't changed.
>
> Do you think its a problem with pam?

It looks like a configuration error.
It seems your configuration file mention the pam_usb module, but this
module is not installed.

Is the libpam-usb package installed (dpkg -l libpam-usb)?

-- 
Nekral