ddd question on fc3

[Robert Nichols]

William W. Austin wrote:
> I have 2 theoretically-identical fc3 boxen.  Same RPM's, literally the  
> same hardware, os, profiles, etc. (checked many times).
> 
> The only real differences are the IP addresses and the machine names.   
> (OK, so one has box 50 GB more disk than the other).
> 
> On day zero (immediately after the install) and ever since, ONE of the  
> machines refuses to let anybody but root run ddd (graphical debugger  
> front end to gdb).  On the other - anybody can run ddd. (And this stays  
> the same even with profile and user home directory copied from one  
> machine to the other.)  Wierd.

Are you booting the same kernel version in both boxes?  At one point
there was a kernel version that didn't allow process tracing to
work properly, but that was fixed a while ago.  See

     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144070

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