Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:24 -0500 Received: from jive.SoftHome.net ([66.54.152.27]:9100 "EHLO softhome.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE1A042.7030806@softhome.net> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 19:19:30 +0000 From: Ricardo Martins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes) In-Reply-To: <3BE1777F.30705@softhome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> 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 ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/