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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:31:20 +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
> 
> 
> 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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