[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#378469: backgrounded schroot processes do not terminate

[Matthew Foulkes]

Package: schroot
Version: 0.99.3-1
Severity: minor


I use schroot to run 32-bit programs such as openoffice on an
AMD64 system. Commands such as

    $ schroot -c ia32 -p oowriter

work fine. But if the command is backgrounded

    $ schroot -c ia32 -p oowriter &

the schroot process is *not* killed when oowriter exits:

    $ jobs
    [1]+  Stopped                 schroot -c ia32 -p oowriter

It is necessary to kill these stopped processes explicitly to
get rid of them, which is a little annoying.

My schroot.conf file is:

  [ia32]
  description=Debian unstable (32 bit)
  location=/var/chroot/sid-ia32
  priority=3
  groups=users
  personality=linux32

On a separate issue, the DESCRIPTION section of the schroot man page
discusses the -d option, which does not seem to exist.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.6
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-program-options1.33. 1.33.1-4   program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.33.1          1.33.1-4   regular expression library for C++
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.1.1-8  GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1                   1.0.3-1    Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.1.1-8    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                      1.39-1     universally unique id library

schroot recommends no packages.

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