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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

reassign #354065 libvte4
thanks

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:17 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 01:53 +0100, Emil Nowak wrote:

> > 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.


The same behavior happens with gnome-terminal, which is based on vte, as
xfce4-terminal, so I guess the bug is un libvte4 (which provides the
gnome-pty-helper).

Maybe libvte4 maintainers could help us on this bug ?
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez
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