From: Pierre Rousselet <pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr>
To: Ricardo Martins <thecrown@softhome.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes)
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:31:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE1A308.7030400@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BE1777F.30705@softhome.net> <3BE1A042.7030806@softhome.net>
Ricardo Martins wrote:
> >> Procedure
> >> In X windows (version 4.1.0 compiled from the sources) when writing
> >> "exit" in xterm to close the terminal emulator, the window freezes, and
> >> from that moment on, every process becomes "unkillable", including
> xterm
> >> and X (ps also freezes), and there's no way to shutdown GNU/Linux in a
> >> sane way (must hit reset or poweroff).
>
>
> >I can see the problem here with 2.4.13. I don't know if it's kernel
> >related, I'm used using rxvt, never xterm.
>
> >It looks like xterm takes the terminal where you started X from.
>
> >Are you using devfs ?
>
>
> >Pierre
>
>
> Pierre, yes, i'm using devfs that seems to be the problem, do you know
> how to fix it ?
Is it devfs or xterm which needs to be fixed ? I would
suggest to switch to rxvt which works fine with/without devfs.
Pierre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-01 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-01 16:25 on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes) Ricardo Martins
2001-11-01 19:05 ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-11-01 19:19 ` Ricardo Martins
2001-11-01 19:31 ` Pierre Rousselet [this message]
2001-11-01 19:44 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-01 20:00 ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-11-01 20:06 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-01 20:13 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-11-01 20:35 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-01 20:40 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-01 21:34 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-02 3:41 ` David Ford
2001-11-01 20:42 ` Brian Gerst
2001-11-09 1:17 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-11-01 19:47 ` Ricardo Martins
2001-11-01 19:58 ` Per Lidén
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2001-11-02 6:16 Chris Rankin
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