Re: SIGALRM ignored

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Dick <dm@chello.nl> writes:

> Philippe Troin <phil <at> fifi.org> writes:
> > Look at the display manager.  I know that wdm used to not clean up its
> > signals before starting a user session.
> 
> I've found the error, the signal was blocked in sshd and I was restarting sshd
> from a ssh session, I also disabled some pam modules (which I suspect the block
> came from). Restarting sshd from a console did the trick.

Daemons like ssh should clean-up their signal masks on start-up.
Maybe you should file a bug against ssh?

> I don't know how to thank you ;-)

Then don't :-)

Phil.