Bug#354065: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#354065: xfce4-terminal: it lefts some zombie processes

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 01:53 +0100, Emil Nowak wrote:
> Package: xfce4-terminal
> Version: 0.2.4-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Sometimes after logging out from remote ssh session I have just text sayin
> "logout" and xfce4-terminal doesn't return back to local shell.
> Pressing ctrl+c doesn't help here. So I was just closing those hanged-up
> windows of xfce4-terminal.say 

Hmh, it doesnt happen here. And I don't really now if xfce4-terminal is
involved here, maybe the shell on the local part, on the remote part,
etc..

> 
> After few days I realized that I have a lot of gnome-pty-helper processes
> running. So I closed all terminals, but nothing has changed.
> So I closed my Xsession, and even without X11 running those gnome-pty-helper
> procesees were there:
> $ ps -a u |grep gnome-pty-helper
> emil     15859  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     15949  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     18056  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     20248  0.0  0.2   2952   524 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     21428  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil      5049  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb19   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil      9111  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     10720  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     14242  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     14304  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     16506  0.0  0.2   2952   648 tty2     S    Feb21   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     19443  0.0  0.2   2952   748 tty2     S    00:19   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     19815  0.0  0.3   2952   808 tty2     S    03:19   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
> emil     19915  0.0  0.2   2184   712 tty2     R+   03:39   0:00 grep gnome-pty-helper

I've observed the same behavior, and can confirm it's binded to
xfce4-terminal. 

I'll ask benny and see if I should forward the bug to Xfce bugzilla, or
forward this bug to vte.
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez
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