I'm having trouble with sudo on some systems. It is taking anywhere from 15-30 seconds to complete a sudo command or to even login to the system.
I ran an strace and can see where the delay is happening, but I'm not sure what's wrong. It seems it's waiting on a write request to /dev/log maybe? But that doesn't tell me much info, nor does it tell me why it's taking so long. Are there any strace experts out there that can explain this better?
12:08:21 munmap(0x7f5ccef9d000, 4096) = 0
12:08:21 socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 9) = 4
12:08:21 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
12:08:21 readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/usr/bin/sudo", 4096) = 13
12:08:21 sendto(4, "t\0\0\0M\4\5\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0op=PAM:accountin"..., 116, 0, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, 12) = 116
12:08:21 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 500) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
12:08:21 recvfrom(4, "$\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0b3\0\0\0\0\0\0t\0\0\0M\4\5\0\2\0\0\0"..., 8988, MSG_PEEK|MSG_DONTWAIT, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, [12]) = 36
12:08:21 recvfrom(4, "$\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0b3\0\0\0\0\0\0t\0\0\0M\4\5\0\2\0\0\0"..., 8988, MSG_DONTWAIT, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, [12]) = 36
12:08:21 close(4) = 0
12:08:21 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f5cce1de920}, NULL, 8) = 0
12:08:21 open("/var/db/sudo/matt/0", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0600) = 4
12:08:21 fcntl(4, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_CUR, start=0, len=0}) = 0
12:08:21 write(4, "\v\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\210\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0`\206\212Q\0\0\0\0"..., 40) = 40
12:08:21 close(4) = 0
12:08:21 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 4
12:08:21 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 110) = 0
12:08:21 sendto(4, "<85>May 8 12:08:21 sudo: ma"..., 95, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 95
12:08:34 close(4) = 0
12:08:34 close(3) = 0
12:08:34 munmap(0x7f5ccef9e000, 4096) = 0
12:08:34 umask(022) = 02
12:08:34 umask(02) = 022
12:08:34 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f5cce1de920}, NULL, 8) = 0
12:08:34 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f5cce1de920}, NULL, 8) = 0
12:08:34 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f5cce1de920}, NULL, 8) = 0
12:08:34 socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 9) = 3
12:08:34 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
12:08:34 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
12:08:34 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
12:08:34 readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", "/dev/pts/0"..., 31) = 10
12:08:34 lstat("/dev/pts/0", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
12:08:34 getcwd("/home/matt", 4096) = 11
