bash 3.1 and ssh troubles [SOLVED]

[cantao]

Hi Friends!

Well, that's very weird. We have a lan with several machines authenticating through LDAP and with /home mounted using NFS. Users can ssh from one machine to another.

But, since I've upgraded all machines to bash 3.1, one of the machines is causing me some headaches. It goes to 100% cpu usage whenever someone tries to login using ssh, except me! I can ssh to the troubled machine with no problems. Guess who is consuming all this power? Bash!

I've picked up another user to help me and we tried, with no success:

1. Erase .bashrc and .bash_profile, although they work ok to ssh to other machines

2. Use the /etc/skel files as a fresh start for the same files. Nothing.

3. Revert to a previous bash version. No luck.

If we press CTRL-C, we get a -bash-3.1# prompt. Nothing else. It is possible to work, but very annoying!

Everything is updated, revdep-ed, etc-updated... Don't know where to look anymore...

Thanks a lot, Cantão!

EDIT: when I try to su to another user, bash hangs also.

[cantao]

Well, very dumb thing, as usual

Some very old users had a line sourcing /etc/profile (probably from old Mandrake days). But /etc/profile sources... ~/.bashrc! So, we have an infinite loop!

Cheers, Cantão!