[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#476519: Bug#476519: su - nobody sometimes logged back out instantly

[Nicolas François]

Hello,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:23:48PM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> 
> Sometimes just after I do "su - nobody", I get instantly logged back out.
> It's like I accidentally sent a ^D to the shell.
> 
> # su - nobody
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> nobody at jidanni1:/$ logout <--------------I did not type this.

I received a similar bug report:
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/2008-May/006585.html
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/2008-May/006587.html

It was reported to appear on kernel 2.6.24.5 and 2.6.25, on i386
single processor systems.

It was reported to be OK with kernel 2.6.18, 2.6.23.16 or on x86_84 or on
multi-processor systems.

Jidanni and Sven, do you see similarities in your configuration and the
ones used by Siim (mentioned in the above links)

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Nekral