"su -" in terminal hangs

[Steven Stern]

On 08/07/2013 03:39 AM, j.halifax2 at seznam.cz wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I use FC18 box (3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64) for ssh-ing to other boxes. 
> It was working normally without rebooting for months but now when 
> I tried to put "su -" in the terminal, it hangs.
> 
> I haven't found any help in Internet.
> 
> Any idea? Please advise...

Do you get a password prompt, or does it hang before that?

See
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-enterprise-47/console-hangs-while-su'ing-890236/.
 Is 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts?

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129045  What might be in
the various .bash files in /root?  grep -i path .bash* in /root

If you CTRL-ALT-F3 to a new console, can you login as root?  That is, is
this a root problem or an su problem?

-- 
-- Steve