"su -" in terminal hangs

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:39:10AM +0200, j.halifax2 at seznam.cz wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I use FC18 box (3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64) for ssh-ing to other boxes. 
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> It was working normally without rebooting for months but now when 
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> I tried to put "su -" in the terminal, it hangs.

Does simple 'su' work?  Is the home directory for root readable?  Just a
few questions that popped into my head.

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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