There are 2 new lines in the default limits.conf: * soft nproc 10 * hard nproc 10 The problem is this new limits affects EVERY user. I got problems with Samba rejecting logins because sometimes the system call setresuid32() returns EAGAIN. I guess this could affect other programs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do things as root 2. 3. Actual Results: root gets limits. For example "ulimit -u" is 10. Expected Results: root can run whatever
limits.conf is provided by pam ... what version of pam are you using ? you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to ... the default /etc/security/limits.conf file does not define anything with 0.78-r2
* sys-libs/pam Latest version available: 0.77-r6 Latest version installed: 0.77-r6 Size of downloaded files: 3,552 kB Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ Description: Pluggable Authentication Modules License: PAM I just made an emerge sync so the 0.77-r6 is the latest version on stable
so i guess you're saying that the default limits.conf file isnt an issue, but the fact that if you define a default limit in your limits.conf yourself, it'll affect the root user you still havent posted `emerge info` like you were supposed to
I did not put those lines myself. Those lines appear after an emerge sync / emerge -u world / dispatch-conf. Because of those lines some things got broken. emerge info: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1,dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 18 2005, 20:35:24)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.2.3-r5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1, 2.4.19-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr clearpasswd crypt cscope cups curl dvd emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww live mad mikmod milter mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pwdb python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl session slang speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l v4l2 xinetd xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I rechecked with 0.77-r6 .. those lines are commented by default. Either you made an mistake during merging the config files, or maybe enabled that by mistake and maybe just forgot about it.
