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"Resource temporarily unavailable" while trying to login or su as a local user in Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat Customer Portal

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07:10 15/12/2024

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8

Issue

  • Getting the error below while trying to tướng su or to tướng login as a local user.

    su: cannot phối user id:Resource temporarily unavailable

    or

    su: failed to tướng execute /bin/bash: Resource temporarily unavailable

  • This error is also observed when logging in as a user on the console and using the SSH.

Resolution

  • Check /etc/security/limits.conf and all files in /etc/security/limits.d/ for the current setting of the nproc value
  • Extend the nproc value. This can be done in /etc/security/limits.conf or in any tệp tin in a tệp tin in /etc/security/limits.d/.

  • Example of /etc/security/limits.conf:

          -      nproc          

e.g.
testuser         -      nproc          10240

  • In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, there's a mặc định setting in /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf. Change the mặc định limit for all users or add a new limit for the affected user.

    # Default limit for number of user's processes to tướng prevent
# accidental fork bombs.
# See rhbz #432903 for reasoning.

*          soft    nproc     1024
testuser   soft    nproc     10240    <== add

Root Cause

  • The user fails to tướng log in because an EAGAIN error occurs if the user's number of executing threads has reached the nproc resource limit. Note: Despite the name, this is a limit on threads, not processes.
  • This error may occur if user's nproc limit is phối to tướng /etc/security/limits.conf.
  • In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, this error occurs even if the limit is not explicitly phối because the mặc định configuration for all users is phối in /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Check nproc and nofile in /etc/security/limits.conf for the user.

  • Log in as this user and run rẩy ulimit -u:

    $ ulimit -u
120831

  • Look at /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max:

    # mèo /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
241663

  • Look at the number of user processes(threads)

    # ps -u testuser -L | wc -l
103

  • Look at /var/log/secure:

    su: pam_keyinit(su-l:session): Unable to tướng change UID to tướng 24074 temporarily 
su: pam_keyinit(su-l:session): Unable to tướng change UID to tướng 24074 temporarily

  • Look at strace. Run strace -ttTvfo /tmp/su.strace su - testuser:

    23318 10:35:59.758440 setgid(24075)     = 0 <0.000005>
23318 10:35:59.758471 setuid(24074)     = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) <0.000018>

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