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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:05:24 +0100
From: Pierre Rousselet <pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr>
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To: Ricardo Martins <thecrown@softhome.net>
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Subject: Re: on exit xterm  totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes)
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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


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